1 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,600 Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,480 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,680 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,720 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:47,880 Come on, if you know these last couple weeks topic, can you 10 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,480 shout it out with me? Come on, shout it out with me. 11 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:58,960 Help my you can be seated. Help my unbelief. 12 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:00,960 Can I do a quick review? Real quick? 13 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:04,400 Quick review. Quick review, No Amen. 14 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:07,840 Quick review, really quickly. If you remember something that 15 00:01:07,840 --> 00:01:10,720 I'm about to read, just say Amen. 16 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:17,080 There will always be the cycle of blessing and breaking thorns 17 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:22,520 and triumph in the ministry of perfecting sons and daughters. 18 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:25,200 Amen. There's always going to be this 19 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,920 tension we have to live in between blessing and breaking 20 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:35,480 thorns and triumph in the ministry of perfecting or 21 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:40,080 maturing. Sons and daughters, remember 22 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,720 this scripture, John 629. Jesus replied. 23 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:47,280 This is the work, say somebody say this is the work that God 24 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:49,720 asked. Of you, this is the ministry, 25 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:55,440 this is the purpose, This is why it is all happening. 26 00:01:55,680 --> 00:02:01,040 It is that you and I do what you and I do what. 27 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,880 This is the work. This is why God does what He 28 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,160 does. This is why God allows. 29 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,600 What He allows is that God's goodness should. 30 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:16,800 Lead to greater belief that he is the one that he is on the 31 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:21,160 throne, that he is a lot. Your life, the work that God is 32 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:28,680 doing in your life should speak to people that God is good and 33 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:34,880 he's alive so that not only you believe but they believe. 34 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,040 Got that. Got that. 35 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:45,680 Say only believe Mark 530. 6 says do not be afraid, only keep 36 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:50,120 on believing in me. Watch this and in my power. 37 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,960 Yeah, I know some of you say you believe in God, but do you 38 00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:59,320 believe in this power or have you just accepted it is what it 39 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,120 is? Have you just accepted you was 40 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,120 born in the poverty or your relationship is just going to be 41 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,120 what it's going to be? Or or, or I just got a potty 42 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,960 mouth or, or or my kid just going to be sick or I'm just 43 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:18,120 going to be sick or my marriage is just going to be dusty or do 44 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:23,600 you believe? In the power that if he woke up, 45 00:03:23,760 --> 00:03:25,600 woke you up this morning, watch this. 46 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:30,480 Somebody, somebody get this. If he woke you up this morning, 47 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,680 his power is invested in your life. 48 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:39,080 Come on, somebody say I'm here so he must about to do 49 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:44,160 something. Somebody say keep on believing, 50 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:47,880 keep on believing. Watch this, remember this. 51 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,960 Have mercy on us and help us. This has been our foundational 52 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:56,720 scripture. Have mercy on us and help us if 53 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,480 you can. If you can. 54 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:02,680 I just see Jesus how I would have responded. 55 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,840 Like what? What you mean if I can? 56 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:15,680 Jesus asked. He said anything is possible. 57 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,320 Somebody tell me what anything mean? 58 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,959 Anything. Somebody say everything, right? 59 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:25,040 Anything is everything and everything is anything and 60 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:30,560 anything is always. Watch that Anything just ain't 61 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,720 anything. If it's anything, it's anything 62 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,840 always. It ain't just anything two days 63 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:42,280 a week. When God say any, maybe yo 64 00:04:42,280 --> 00:04:45,800 anything is a couple days a week, but God's anything is 65 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,160 24/7. God's anything is past, present 66 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:52,600 and future. So when God say anything, he 67 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,520 means always. Somebody say anything? 68 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:57,800 Always. Somebody say always anything. 69 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,520 Watch this. Anything is possible if a person 70 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,840 believes so. Anything is always and always. 71 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:12,360 Is anything to whoever believes always in anything he says he 72 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:18,440 could do? Watch this. 73 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,960 Watch this. Anything is always and always is 74 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,960 anything. To whom ever believes anything 75 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:33,960 he can do always. Yeah. 76 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:41,360 See, See, he goes on and he says I do believe, but help my 77 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:42,720 unbelief. Here's what he's saying. 78 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,200 He is saying that I believe you, but not always. 79 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:50,040 I believe you, but not in anything. 80 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,520 Am I helping somebody this morning? 81 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,240 Am I helping somebody? I don't. 82 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:59,240 I I believe, but I need you to help me in the areas I don't 83 00:05:59,240 --> 00:06:01,240 believe. And what we've learned over the 84 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:05,000 last few weeks is you need to stop acting so Christian and act 85 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,280 like your faith work in every area of your life. 86 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:09,880 Stop acting like you believe in everything. 87 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:12,440 No, no, no, no. There's some things you believe 88 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,520 in more than you do others. And sometimes some of the stuff 89 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:21,560 we believe in is crazy compared to what we choose not to 90 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:27,160 believe. Look, if, if, if somebody can 91 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:34,160 build an airplane and then and God can put that brain in 92 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:42,800 somebody, then my marriage can be fixed, right? 93 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:47,800 Because the idea of the plane is gravity ain't having its way. 94 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:51,440 How can I preach to somebody that's warning the God, God, 95 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,160 Revelation, spirit of Revelation right now, gravity ain't having 96 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,000 his way. So if gravity ain't going to 97 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,080 have its way on the airplane, why should it have its way in 98 00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:01,440 your marriage? Why should it have its way in 99 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:05,280 your health? Why should it have its way in 100 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:07,480 your mindset? See, there's some things, watch 101 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:08,760 this. There's some things you don't 102 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,120 even believe for you just put it on God and be like God. 103 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,200 Go ahead, you, you could do it. Watch this. 104 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:17,800 Here's how we put it. God, if you want it to work, let 105 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:19,680 it work. That ain't even proper praying. 106 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,840 Mary says if it be if, if, if it's your word. 107 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,160 In other words, if your words say it can work, guess what, it 108 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:33,640 can work. Anything is possible always. 109 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:38,360 But the question is, do you believe always and do you 110 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,760 believe in anything he say He could do? 111 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:48,120 See the power of the belief is not I'm just believing because 112 00:07:48,120 --> 00:07:50,520 there's a lot of worldly things we all believe in. 113 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:55,480 Like we don't even question it. We don't question who the chef 114 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,520 is in the back. We don't question who the pilot 115 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,480 is in the front. Some of y'all watch this. 116 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,400 You don't really have no high requirements for who you date. 117 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:13,440 They need to be killed. You not really put no pressure 118 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:15,640 on them to find out the deep deep things. 119 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:19,680 And then you surprised when it come out later after you didn't 120 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:23,360 have sex or after you married. Why are you surprised? 121 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,920 How you going to be mad that they didn't volunteer 122 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:31,200 information you just believed. Watch this, watch this. 123 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,880 You ready? Some of y'all believe in 124 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:38,400 people's potential more than you believe in God's evidence. 125 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,120 Can I come to this side? Can I come to this side? 126 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:48,320 Can I come to this side? That's two chips in a bowl of 127 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:53,360 dip right there. You believe in that, that you 128 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:58,000 believe in that boy's potential more than you believe in Jesus. 129 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:04,160 Evidence. That's somebody say that's crazy 130 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,040 right there. That's that emoji when the 131 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:12,320 brains blew out. Think about what you put your 132 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:18,040 belief in, right? Belief carries power, Belief 133 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,000 carries energy. And look at where you're 134 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:26,960 spending your energy, right? Like, like, like, like you ain't 135 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:33,560 prove nothing to me, got my guy. My girl, you ain't prove nothing 136 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:37,840 to me. And then you mad when a job want 137 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,440 to do a background check you don't really want no job. 138 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,560 They doing their job. What if you applied that 139 00:09:45,560 --> 00:09:48,600 principle to your life? How far would you be and how 140 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,800 less hurt would you be if you did background checks, right? 141 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,040 There's people that go to this church. 142 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:55,760 You ain't even looked at the website. 143 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:58,880 I can go to our website and let me tell you, you're going to 144 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,720 find everything you need to know about this church. 145 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,960 I promise you. Because when we made this, when 146 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,880 I made all the information, I wanted to make sure before 147 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,120 anybody came and wasted their time, they knew everything we 148 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,600 believed. We didn't just put a cool vision 149 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,960 up there for you. Go look at what we believe. 150 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:21,520 Do a background check. Some of you have investigated 151 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:30,360 Jesus and it's still not enough. OK, I got to move on. 152 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,160 I got to move on. Say I believe but help my 153 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:36,760 unbelief. Oh, this is going to be a good 154 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,000 day. Why you didn't repeat that. 155 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,760 Amen. God, watch this. 156 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,360 This is what we've been saying. This is a few things. 157 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:50,560 I I I've revised a few things that I've been saying God this 158 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:52,800 is all he's saying help my unbelief. 159 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:02,520 God I believe, but there's some areas my belief is just a mess 160 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:06,160 and I struggle believing. Can can I get a Hey man, if 161 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:08,200 that's not you. If that's not you though, if 162 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,360 that's not this is me talking OK, but I know some of y'all in 163 00:11:11,360 --> 00:11:17,040 here talking. I don't got it all together and 164 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:21,240 I am tired of acting like I do. When are some of y'all going to 165 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:23,080 get tired of acting like you got it together? 166 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,480 Do you got anybody in your life you could talk to and say my 167 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:32,240 faith is struggling? Watch this. 168 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,560 To be honest, sometimes it's easier to just let me be than 169 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:42,520 ask me to believe. You know when God just come up 170 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:45,440 on you and just ask you to do something you like for real God, 171 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,440 like I don't have you ever told have you ever told God in your 172 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:50,840 spirit? I don't feel like it. 173 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:55,120 All right, watch this whenever the pastor or a leader that's 174 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:57,920 represents the Lord asks you to do something and you say I don't 175 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,080 feel like it. Guess what, if they were doing 176 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,600 the work of the Lord, you told God you didn't feel like it. 177 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:09,680 Were you ever in your heart God, God challenged you on something. 178 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:12,080 He brought a situation in your life and you like, I don't feel 179 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:16,520 like believing if it worked at work, God, God brought you a job 180 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,920 opportunity and you like, well, if it's mine is mine, but I 181 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:20,480 don't feel like going to the interview today. 182 00:12:28,410 --> 00:12:31,970 He he be then to ask me to believe. 183 00:12:32,650 --> 00:12:34,970 And that's how I feel sometime like I just want to be. 184 00:12:35,850 --> 00:12:38,290 I'm be trying to just want to be like I don't want to believe for 185 00:12:38,290 --> 00:12:39,490 that. I don't want to believe for 186 00:12:39,490 --> 00:12:41,250 this. I don't, I don't want to have to 187 00:12:41,410 --> 00:12:45,330 see because belief takes accountability and 188 00:12:45,330 --> 00:12:49,280 responsibility and effort and it takes patience and endurance. 189 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,680 I, I, I can't afford. There's too many things in my 190 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:56,200 life I cannot afford to stop believing. 191 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:02,640 Because the day I stop believing is the day the enemy gains a few 192 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:07,240 more yards in my watch. This not in my life, but in my 193 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,640 progress. Right there there. 194 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,720 Look, anytime you choose to believe, there's always 195 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:16,280 progress. Watch this. 196 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,400 Progress happens underground first. 197 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:23,880 Progress happens in the invisible realm first. 198 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,560 So I'm here to encourage somebody. 199 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:31,000 If you believe in it, don't matter what you can or cannot 200 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:37,040 see. All right, I got to keep going. 201 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,280 Just because my faith is weak does not give me a license to be 202 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:48,320 emotionally irresponsible. Like today, I don't feel like 203 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,200 believing. So you know you're going to get 204 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,120 this work. Mess with me today if you want 205 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,360 to, right? Watch this. 206 00:13:55,560 --> 00:14:00,160 Do you understand that belief in faith, your attitude has a lot 207 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:01,920 to do with belief and faith working. 208 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,560 Because the entire Kingdom, every principle in the Kingdom, 209 00:14:10,280 --> 00:14:15,240 is birthed out of love. So watch this. 210 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,600 The fruit of the spirit is love. There's no plural there. 211 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,920 And then every other fruit comes out of the fruit of love. 212 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,240 So here it is the way. Watch this. 213 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:33,520 Love is the fuel to my endurance or my long-suffering. 214 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,840 This is why while you're waiting, the enemy wants you to 215 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,920 get offended. Watch because offense sucks the 216 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:45,920 fuel out of your in your, your, your, your long-suffering. 217 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,320 OK, OK, keep it going. Just because my faith is weak 218 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:53,080 does not give me the a license to be emotionally irresponsible. 219 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:55,040 Watch this. Today's goal. 220 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,960 Today's goal is to get my and your faith fired up. 221 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:02,160 Say fired up. Another word for fired up is 222 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,200 activated. Somebody say activated. 223 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:09,720 Today's goal is to get my faith fired up, to get my faith 224 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:16,320 flowing down and to get my faith flourishing wide right. 225 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,560 I I want river faith, not well faith. 226 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:23,440 I, I want river faith. I want faith that impacts people 227 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,040 around me. I want faith that goes into 228 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:29,000 nations that I'm not even my feet not even in right now, 229 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:32,000 right? I want my faith to impact 230 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,160 generations. So today's goal is to get my 231 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:38,040 faith fired up, flowing down and flourishing wide. 232 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,120 You with me. All right, let's pray this 233 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:44,240 prayer. Lord, help me believe in every 234 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:49,240 area. May I never get weary in the 235 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:54,920 well doing of believing. Watch this. 236 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:58,760 Belief comes by choice. Faith comes by hearing they're 237 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:03,560 heads and tails of the same coin, right? 238 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,600 Faith. Faith puts the legs, it puts the 239 00:16:06,600 --> 00:16:08,480 work, it puts the action to my belief. 240 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,600 Watch this. I can believe. 241 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:19,440 I can believe laying down. I can't really have faith laying 242 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:23,440 down. I got to actually do something 243 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:26,680 about what I believe. You believe in Jesus. 244 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:29,040 Everybody would say not everybody but a lot of you would 245 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:32,320 say yeah, OK, what you doing about that belief in Jesus? 246 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,240 Are you doing what he asks you to do? 247 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,120 And if you not, the question is do you believe them? 248 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,840 The reason why I forgive my spouse is because I believe what 249 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:45,840 Jesus say, not because I believe what her say. 250 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:50,480 You get what I'm saying. See, some of y'all only do God 251 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:52,920 things if people are acting godly. 252 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,840 No, no, no, I do God things because God do God things to me. 253 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:03,480 So I'm forgiving you because he forgave me, not because you're 254 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,160 forgivable. All right, I'm just trying to 255 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:08,760 help some bitter person in here today. 256 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,680 Hallelujah. Lord help me believe in every 257 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,040 area. May I never, ever, ever get 258 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:16,680 weary in the well doing of believing. 259 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:19,640 Hallelujah. Watch this. 260 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,520 Here's the thought today. Here's the thought today. 261 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,280 Don't, don't, don't brush. The last couple weeks we've been 262 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,640 talking about this unbelief. Last Wednesday we talked about 263 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,400 huh, yeah, Abraham and Sarah. Whoa, it was so good. 264 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:36,960 And Wednesday we going to pick back up on Abraham and Sarah, 265 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:40,240 but I got kind of arrested by this other story that was 266 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:44,120 similar. OK, as we're talking about our 267 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:51,160 unbelief, let's look at God patterns and how he responds to 268 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:55,760 certain actions. There's some consistency from 269 00:17:55,760 --> 00:18:01,920 old to new and how God responds and relates to his children and 270 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,680 how his children should relate to him. 271 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:10,600 Watch this as the wind blows and as the oil pours in this season 272 00:18:11,120 --> 00:18:18,200 and as the power surges. Remember this, the oil is 273 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:25,520 cheapened. Next slide, the oil is cheapened 274 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:30,720 and power is short circuited where preference and fear is 275 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:36,720 elevated. We got to get out of this 276 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,760 preferential Christian. Oh, I, I go to one church and I 277 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,840 respond this way because they more like me. 278 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,200 And then I come to this church and I kind of struggle 279 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,040 responding because I didn't grow up like that or right. 280 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:53,720 We have preferences, therefore we're asking God or a church for 281 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,320 preferential treatment. And the oil is cheapened and 282 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:03,560 power is short circuited where preference and fear watch this 283 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,520 is elevated. I'm not saying preference is not 284 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:12,120 experienced in your heart or fear is not in your heart, but 285 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:16,520 where you elevated, where you elevate your fear, where you 286 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,720 elevate your insecurities and where you elevate your 287 00:19:19,720 --> 00:19:23,280 preference. The oil on your life is 288 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:27,520 cheapened and the power is short circuited. 289 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:30,880 Watch this y'all remember to say you, if you got this, just in 290 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:32,840 general, you got this so we can move on. 291 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:39,160 OK, here we go. Let's pick up here about this 292 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,200 time next year. Elijah said you will hold a sun 293 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:46,440 in your arms. Watch her response. 294 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:54,760 No my Lord, she objected. You should shoot him my woman. 295 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:59,320 Now mind you, in the 1st 7 verses, Elijah just comes from 296 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:06,320 this this this powerful miracle that had to do with flour. 297 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:10,640 And some oil, right? And then we keep he he Then God 298 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,680 tells him to go on. And we have that. 299 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:19,280 We have this encounter where we see Elijah doing his God thing 300 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:27,040 and this woman, this Shudamite woman and her husband in the way 301 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:33,520 of something they didn't ever think would happen, ever think 302 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:38,680 they need it or ever thought God saw them fit to carry it. 303 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,160 Watch this. He says about this time next 304 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,800 year Elijah said you will hold a son. 305 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,880 Somebody say hold a son in your arms. 306 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:49,440 He get into the mama's heart right here. 307 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:52,080 You going to hold a son in your arms? 308 00:20:52,240 --> 00:21:01,200 She shouts out no, she objected. Please man of God, don't mislead 309 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,720 your servant. Watch this. 310 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:08,720 This isn't Once again we saw we saw Sarah laugh right? 311 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:11,600 We see Mary and how she respond about getting pregnant with 312 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,720 Jesus. Here's the shoot of mine woman. 313 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:21,480 She is not rejecting Jesus but her hope has been deferred. 314 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,040 Watch this. And she has found comfort and 315 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:30,680 peace after her hope has been deferred for so long. 316 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,480 So what she's saying here, don't mislead me. 317 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:42,080 Do not make me believe for this. Do not stir up my faith, Andrew. 318 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:45,240 Do not ask me. She understands. 319 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:49,360 For this promise to come to pass, she has to activate her 320 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:56,880 faith so she realizes this is the impossible and she knows the 321 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,160 scripture, although it ain't written yet that anybody that 322 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,800 believes right. She understands belief is the 323 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:11,600 requirement for the impossible and she like I'm good Sir, watch 324 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:14,240 this. Don't mislead your servant, but 325 00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,520 the woman I love how I just went from her to but the woman became 326 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:24,520 pregnant. Hey, when God ready to move, he 327 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:30,560 ready to move, OK? But the woman became pregnant 328 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:35,080 and the next year about that same time she gave birth to her 329 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:41,120 son just as Elijah had told her. Be careful ignoring what the man 330 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:44,080 of God tells you going to happen and when it happens you 331 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:48,640 surprised. God tells us this part is 332 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:53,080 important. Just as Elijah told her, just as 333 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:57,440 the messenger of God told her, just as the man of God warned 334 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,040 her. Watch this, whether you want it 335 00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:04,120 or not. If God said it's coming, it's 336 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:08,200 coming, whether you like it or not. 337 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,920 If God said it's coming, get over it and get ready. 338 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,560 Watch this. You got to learn to learn how to 339 00:23:19,560 --> 00:23:22,400 carry the burden as much as you want to carry the blessing. 340 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:25,920 Watch this and if you really understood God, you would 341 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,760 understand every burden he gives you is the blessing. 342 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,880 None of his blessing comes without a burden. 343 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:37,160 That's why he says, take my yoke upon you, right? 344 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,000 My yoke is easy. My burden is what lie. 345 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,880 Your burden is heavy. The stuff you worried about and 346 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,240 caring about and getting into is heavy. 347 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:49,680 Watch this Watch this. I love this. 348 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,080 I love this. Watch this. 349 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,440 This is my intro because we go from verse 17 all the way to 350 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,120 verse 2817 to 2817 to 28. Watch this. 351 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:00,120 She said, did I ask you for a son? 352 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:03,200 She got a low attitude right now. 353 00:24:03,200 --> 00:24:05,760 She got a low attitude. Somebody say rightful Lisa, 354 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,080 right? It's not just she had a baby, 355 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:12,440 but she had a son. And in that time, what a son 356 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,080 meant that came with even greater responsibility. 357 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:19,240 But the but the fact that God brought her a son meant that God 358 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,920 had some generational plans for the bloodline. 359 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:32,760 Did I ask you for a son, Sir? She said, my Lord, she wasn't 360 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,600 talking to Jesus, she was talking to Elijah. 361 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,800 She said, did I ask you for a son, my Lord? 362 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:53,920 She said did not tell you. Don't raise my hopes on if you 363 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,760 can live through this moment while you're believing, you will 364 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,920 see it on the other side. Watch this. 365 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:08,080 It's not belief until you reach the point of hopelessness. 366 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,720 But keep on believing. There comes a time in your 367 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,200 belief where you're going to have to make a decision to keep 368 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:22,360 believing. It's not believe in boom 369 00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:25,920 promise. No, it's believe all hell break 370 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,440 out. Believe it get worse sometime 371 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,280 believe right the help walk out on you. 372 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,320 Believe however long it takes it, however it looks. 373 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:42,520 Believe. Don't don't raise my hopes. 374 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,360 See you see this. Help my unbelief. 375 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:49,480 Don't raise my hopes like I've been good. 376 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:53,080 I've been, I've been good. Watch, watch this. 377 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:57,600 I've learned how to go without blank. 378 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:02,800 But what if you've just got settled in learning how to live 379 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,880 without? Then God brings it to you. 380 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:11,520 Are you ready for that? Might that be the whole idea 381 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:18,080 that you discover God wanted for you versus it's your desire? 382 00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:26,160 I need to know what God want. Don't raise my hopes, Lord, 383 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,880 watch this. You may not like what God's 384 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,320 doing now, but keep believing you'll like what's next. 385 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:37,400 Him I talk to anybody this morning. 386 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,520 You may not like what God's doing now, but keep believing 387 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:46,520 you'll love what's next. Faith isn't finished when things 388 00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,840 die. Faith is proven in the waiting 389 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:52,240 and the returning. Come on, talk to me, somebody. 390 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:55,440 Faith isn't finished when things die. 391 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,760 Faith is proven in the waiting. Faith is proven in the 392 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,840 returning. Somebody say father help my 393 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,040 unbelief. Watch this. 394 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,240 Now we're going to start and bring some context. 395 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:20,880 One day Elijah went to shoot him and a well to do woman was there 396 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,120 who urged him to stay for a meal. 397 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:28,040 Watch this. Elijah leaves a woman of poverty 398 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,880 and now he here. Here's something about to happen 399 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:34,400 with a woman of wealth. Because God provides on every 400 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:37,280 level, right? One woman, she just needs, she 401 00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,120 just needed some provision for a few things in her household. 402 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:44,080 Watch this. This woman got everything and 403 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:45,680 thinks she don't need nothing else. 404 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:49,200 Watch this. Who urged him to stay for a 405 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,280 meal? So whenever he came by, he 406 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,280 stopped there to eat. He stopped there to eat. 407 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,120 He stopped there to eat. God will always provide for his 408 00:27:58,120 --> 00:27:59,000 servants. Watch this. 409 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:02,360 She was wealthy, she was influential, and she was well 410 00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:05,480 respected. She was wealthy, she was 411 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:07,560 influential and she was well respected. 412 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,440 She had folks, she had resources, she had power. 413 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:16,200 She had no needs. So she thought, she said to her 414 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:20,560 husband, I know that this man who often comes our way is a 415 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,920 holy man. Say she had discernment, she 416 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,560 recognized the holy man and she recognized good ground. 417 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,080 She recognized good ground. So she said let's make a small 418 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,440 room on the roof. So let's make a small room on 419 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:40,040 the roof and put it, put in a bed and a table, a chair and a 420 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,360 lamp for him. You see this, you see this, you 421 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,040 see this. She goes to her husband. 422 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:48,160 She says this man comes here pretty often and he passes 423 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:49,960 through. He's a man of God. 424 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:52,640 I understand. Watch this that in the ancient 425 00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:55,920 Israel hospitality that providing a room for someone 426 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:01,160 with sacred duty, it expressed covenant, it expressed loyalty 427 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,160 and reverence towards God's messages. 428 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,560 Watch this, it expressed covenant. 429 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:11,880 So when she made room for the man of God, she entered covenant 430 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,920 with the man of God. This is very important. 431 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,360 She didn't just say, oh, that's my past. 432 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:20,880 No, no, no, no. She created space for him. 433 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:28,280 So she entered covenant. She created room in her life for 434 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:34,720 the man of God to rest and it expressed covenant. 435 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:40,960 Somebody say covenant, watch it. Then he can stay here or stay 436 00:29:40,960 --> 00:29:45,120 there whenever he comes to US. Watch this say whatever there it 437 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:48,840 is say always. So she didn't just make pull him 438 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,440 out a little cushion for the night. 439 00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:57,200 She made a room for his call. You got to get this. 440 00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,400 You got to get this. You got to get this. 441 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:04,960 Say, watch this, watch this, say see when God gives you an 442 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:09,000 opportunity to sew for a future need. 443 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,560 All she doing is being generous and she like we going to create 444 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:21,400 a room. Watch this. 445 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:26,400 One day when Elijah came he went up to his room and lay down 446 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,560 there. She built Elijah room. 447 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,360 Watch this. This is very important principle 448 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,040 that you need to get for today when you make a room. 449 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:36,640 And when she made a room for the man of God, it signified long 450 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:43,000 term commitment, not an overnight stay and honor towards 451 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:46,080 God's presence. She understood she wasn't making 452 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,720 room merely for a man, she was making room for a man who 453 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:56,560 carried God's presence, but it signified long term commitment. 454 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:00,760 So we see these two words, commitment and covenant. 455 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,640 Watch this. Some of y'all don't realize how 456 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,400 much you need your pastors beyond Sunday. 457 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:15,680 Whatever church you go to, watch this verse 12. 458 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:21,720 He said to his servant Ghazi, call the shooter Mike. 459 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,800 So he called her and she stood before him. 460 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:30,520 Elijah said to him, tell her you have gone to all this trouble 461 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,320 for us. Watch this. 462 00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,120 She's pulling on the anointing. Are you here? 463 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:39,040 She's pulling on the anointing. Now the man of God says, man, 464 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:40,840 you've been so generous. Watch this. 465 00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,800 Now what can we do for you? Now? 466 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,680 She's calling, causing the man of God to go within himself and 467 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,840 pull on his resources, which come from the Lord. 468 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:58,480 Come on, come on. Can we speak on behalf to the 469 00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,920 King, On your behalf to the king or the commander? 470 00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:04,360 This is very important to you guys of the army. 471 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,720 He's trying to figure out a way to bless her, because watch 472 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,360 this. She has everything. 473 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:13,000 So. So what can we do for you when 474 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:20,680 you don't need nothing? So you think, watch this, she 475 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,880 replied. I have a home among my people, 476 00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:25,000 my own people. Watch this. 477 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,680 She has an opportunity to be upgraded. 478 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,880 She has no need for upgrade, so she thinks. 479 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:35,880 But watch her humility, she said, I don't need anything. 480 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:41,600 I'm good where I'm at. I have a home among my people. 481 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,640 I'm well liked, influential. I'm well loved. 482 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:51,600 I have purpose. OK, she says this May I 483 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,480 paraphrase. I'm good, I'm content. 484 00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,480 Follow me. I'm good. 485 00:32:57,960 --> 00:33:02,480 I'm content. I'm good, I'm content, Watch 486 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,520 this. The moment God brought me not 487 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,160 just a pastor, but a man and woman of God in my life that was 488 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,720 custom for who I was. I realized I wasn't as good as I 489 00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:15,720 thought because clearly God put somebody on a mission to pull 490 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,320 something out of me. I have no need or have no clue 491 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,440 that I need watch this. She says I'm good, I'm content. 492 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:28,920 Why she says this? I have nothing else I'm 493 00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:33,640 believing for. Be careful the day you stop 494 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,000 believing. Not only be careful what you 495 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,480 believe in for, but be careful the day you arrive and you like 496 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:48,240 I'm good, got my job, got my, got my spouse, got my car 497 00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:51,600 financially free, got my church home, like I'm good. 498 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,560 The work of God is to believe. So let get watch this. 499 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:07,560 When you stop believing, expect some work to come since your 500 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:11,719 belief is unemployed. God about to God, God is about 501 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:16,920 to employ your unbelief. OK, watch this faith without 502 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:18,400 works. In other words, faith without a 503 00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:26,880 job is dead. OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK, OK watch 504 00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:28,600 this verse 14. What? 505 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,760 What can be done for her? What can be done for her? 506 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:36,080 Elijah asked. See, she ain't got no needs, 507 00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:39,159 Geheza said. She has no son. 508 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,679 She has no son and her husband is old. 509 00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:50,639 What's this? God? 510 00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:53,440 I know it's inconvenient, but God just trying to bless you. 511 00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:57,720 God trying to bring you something you gave up on. 512 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,600 What's this? She has no son and her husband 513 00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,560 is old. Then Elisha said, call her. 514 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:11,920 So he called her and she stood in the doorway. 515 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:17,800 And then we picked up on about this time next year and she 516 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,520 said, no, no, no, no, no, no. Don't play with me. 517 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:22,120 You. You see, when it was about all 518 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,240 that she had in her comfort, she was like, I'm good. 519 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:26,920 I just want to be a blessing to you. 520 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:28,720 I just want to serve. I'm good. 521 00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:37,120 Man of God struck a nerve, fear got stirred up, anxiety got 522 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:45,160 stirred up. She said do not mislead your 523 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:46,640 serving. And we read before where she 524 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,240 said don't give my hopes up. Watch this. 525 00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:52,440 Here we go. What do you do when you're good 526 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:56,160 with what you have and where you are? 527 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,080 And God says wait, but there's more. 528 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,320 What? What do you do? 529 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,800 Watch this. And you don't get to choose the 530 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,400 blessing. Watch this. 531 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,240 What do you do when the God you say you trust disrupts the 532 00:36:15,240 --> 00:36:22,760 rhythm you proud you built? Can I talk to you today, this 533 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,440 good Sunday shining morning before it start raining? 534 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:33,720 What do you do when the gods you say you trust disrupt the rhythm 535 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:43,480 you proud you built? Chica BA Bakashi, watch this. 536 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:50,000 What if the disruption you're avoiding is the deliverance 537 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:58,280 you've been awaiting? Oh, man, what if the disruption 538 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:03,600 you're avoiding is the deliverance you've been 539 00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:07,480 awaiting? Second Kings 40, I mean, Second 540 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,960 Kings 420, says after the servant had lifted him up and 541 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,120 carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap. 542 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,320 And we'll get to that in a second. 543 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,800 Until noon. He sat on her lap and then he 544 00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,160 died. Watch, watch this. 545 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:23,280 She had time to hold the promise. 546 00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:27,400 She had time to fall in love with the promise. 547 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,920 Then he died. And you see, when God blesses 548 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:35,240 you with something, be careful how tight you hold it because 549 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:36,920 there's a day you're going to have to lay it down. 550 00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,520 Watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this. 551 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,640 What do you do? Here it is, EJ. 552 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,600 What do you do when Ephesians 320 turns into Proverbs 1312? 553 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:51,320 Ephesians 320 is exceeding abundantly above all that we can 554 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:57,200 ask, hope, think, or imagine. Proverbs 1312 is hope Deferred 555 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,920 makes the harp sick. What happened when the exceeding 556 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,280 abundantly above all that we can ask for, think for desire, for 557 00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:09,560 it comes in our life. And then that same promise is 558 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,840 the very thing that causes my hope to be deferred. 559 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,400 When promises die, emotions take the will. 560 00:38:19,240 --> 00:38:22,760 Emotions will always attempt to lead our faith when promise and 561 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:28,080 clarity tarries. Verse 17. 562 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:30,360 But the woman became pregnant. We got that. 563 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,000 Verse 18 Here we go. The child grew and one day he 564 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,640 went out to his father who was with the Reapers. 565 00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:39,520 Watch this. He was out there with his 566 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,200 father, big enough to work. He said to his father, My head, 567 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,720 my head, my head, my head. His father told the servant, 568 00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:53,640 Carry him to his Mama. He just got a headache or he was 569 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,800 like that boy, just he just, he just he performing, he don't 570 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:02,360 want to work. What's this? 571 00:39:02,720 --> 00:39:08,360 Carry him to his Mama after the servant had lifted him up and 572 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:09,280 carried him. Watch this. 573 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:11,040 Oh, I just saw this. I just saw this. 574 00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,080 But I also can see how the father was like this. 575 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:20,800 Her problem. She the one got a word from from 576 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,720 from the man of God, like we both was good. 577 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:25,120 I'm old, you see, they said he old. 578 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:26,160 He old. I'm old. 579 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:31,280 I ain't got time for all this. So send it back to her, right. 580 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:33,240 Be careful who you get in covenant with. 581 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:38,440 Can they handle the unexpected blessings of your life right? 582 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,280 Watch this. My mom, my, my wife met me in 583 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,440 the club. I wasn't talking about preaching 584 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,640 pastor in Canada or nothing. Amen. 585 00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,200 Praise God, he, he is good. He works all things together. 586 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:52,400 But guess what? This was not in the the picture. 587 00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:56,720 But thank God that there's something in her that can handle 588 00:39:56,720 --> 00:40:00,040 the unexpected blessing. Watch it. 589 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:05,040 He says the boy sat on her lap until noon and then he died. 590 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:08,320 She went up and laid him. Watch this. 591 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:12,280 She went up and laid him on the bed. 592 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,880 Watch this of the man of God. Remember long term commitment 593 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:20,320 covenant. This is almost like when when 594 00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:26,000 Peter lent his boat to Jesus for a season. 595 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,720 You might be sewing, not knowing the very thing you sewing is the 596 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:35,720 bed for your miracle. She she went up and she laid him 597 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:39,800 on the bed of the man of God. Then watch this, she shut the 598 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:46,640 door on the devil, watch this, watch this. 599 00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,560 Then shut the door. And when I watch this, Denny, 600 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,720 watch this. She put the dead thing in the 601 00:40:53,720 --> 00:40:57,520 room and shut the door and walked away. 602 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,360 It's going to be exciting. It's going to be exciting. 603 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,040 It's going to be exciting. Then shut the door and went out. 604 00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:09,280 Watch this, Watch this, Watch this, watch this. 605 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,880 She didn't allow frustration and disappointment to bury her 606 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:14,720 promise. She just laid it down. 607 00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:19,920 Watch it. She did not bury the promise. 608 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,160 She just laid it down. Somebody say lay it down. 609 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,680 Watch this. She didn't prepare for a 610 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,320 memorial. She prepared for a miracle. 611 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:31,280 I'm trying to help somebody in here. 612 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,600 She prepared for a miracle way too often. 613 00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:36,320 Soon as it don't go right for you. 614 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,160 You have a memorial because you had a bad day. 615 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,720 Well, how did I have a memorial, Pastor? 616 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:44,920 With what came out of your mouth, you cursed it. 617 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,320 You buried it instead of speaking life to the dry bones. 618 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,240 You get what I'm saying? She did not have. 619 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,800 She did not prepare for a memorial. 620 00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:59,840 She prepared for a miracle. Here it is now my belief got to 621 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:06,360 work. Unbelief can say it's over, but 622 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,120 your actions can say not today. Some somebody just say not 623 00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,240 today. Watch this. 624 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,920 She put the dead thing in the same place the promise was first 625 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:21,680 spoken. See on I'm coming for you today, 626 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,560 girl. She put the dead thing in the 627 00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,040 same place the promise was first spoken. 628 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,440 Watch this. She took the dead thing back to 629 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:38,680 the Word. Watch this. 2nd Corinthians 10. 630 00:42:39,840 --> 00:42:44,400 Take every word, everything that comes against the word of God. 631 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:52,680 Carry it captive. Watch this right. 632 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,440 She put the dead thing in the same place the promise was first 633 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,000 spoken. This is why we Stewart the 634 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:03,840 prophetic word here. It's because no matter how weary 635 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:08,640 we may feel, the word keeps us going, right? 636 00:43:08,640 --> 00:43:12,280 The the, the spoken word of God is the defibrillator to a weary 637 00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,680 heart, right? It don't matter if it takes four 638 00:43:15,680 --> 00:43:17,080 years for the building next year. 639 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,400 If God said it, it's coming to pass. 640 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:25,240 Come on, it's coming to pass. Watch this. 641 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,960 Faith isn't pretending it didn't die. 642 00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,320 It's just decided to lay it where it can live. 643 00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:35,440 Am I talking to somebody? Whoa. 644 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,480 Faith is not pretending it didn't die. 645 00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,080 You're right. It's not going my way. 646 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,080 You're right. I'm broke. 647 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,080 And you, you right. I lost my mind. 648 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:45,600 You right. I am grieving. 649 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:46,480 You right. You right. 650 00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:47,280 You right. You right. 651 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,200 But I will not lay it in the grave. 652 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:57,280 I will lay it where it can live. Somebody say put it back where 653 00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:02,720 he spoke it. She goes on. 654 00:44:02,720 --> 00:44:06,120 She called her husband and said please send me one of the 655 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:11,440 servants and a donkey so I can go to the man of God quickly and 656 00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:13,280 return. Look, where's she going? 657 00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,600 She was like you didn't came in my life. 658 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:17,880 I'm not just laying you in the prophet's room. 659 00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,560 I'm going back watch this. I'm going back to the place 660 00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:26,360 faith originated right? Because I didn't ask for this 661 00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:30,240 anyway. So let me go get the man of God. 662 00:44:30,240 --> 00:44:32,280 Watch this. This is why you got a partner. 663 00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:36,160 You need purpose partners. Some of y'all ain't got nobody 664 00:44:36,160 --> 00:44:40,400 in your phone except the pastor and I don't even know how you 665 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:44,760 got his phone number to call when you get in trouble. 666 00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:52,000 Like you don't need your best friend if your best friend ain't 667 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:56,080 best friends with God. Because what I'm trying to 668 00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:59,680 believe for right now goes beyond our relationship. 669 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:03,000 And if I don't get the man of God or the word of God, then our 670 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:04,760 relationship, you might lose a friend. 671 00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:10,280 We got too many convenient friends. 672 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:18,040 Then we got covenant friends. Watch this. 673 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:22,520 Why go to him today? Why watch her husband? 674 00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:23,840 Watch her husband watch her husband. 675 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,160 She trying to do things decently and in order. 676 00:45:27,920 --> 00:45:33,720 She say why go to him today? Today is the best day to 677 00:45:33,720 --> 00:45:38,520 believe. He says it's not the new moon or 678 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:40,760 the Sabbath. Somebody say so. 679 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:43,880 She said watch what she say. Watch what she say. 680 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,640 That's all right. She said watch this. 681 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:51,000 You got to tell when people speak out to you, Nicole, this 682 00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:53,680 is your new words today. That's all right. 683 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,080 I don't even know why I told you that's OK. 684 00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:59,200 You, you, you would not understand because God, that's 685 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:02,080 my I repent for sharing with you what God said with me. 686 00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,920 Can you, can you just repent today for sharing with people 687 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,560 that can't handle the spoken word of God? 688 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:15,600 Come on, Father, I repent today for sharing the Word of God with 689 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:20,240 immature ears. Not ready ears say that's all 690 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:21,600 right, that's all right, that's all right. 691 00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,160 Watch this. I might not never share nothing 692 00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,720 else with you again. That's all right. 693 00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:32,560 Watch this. When the blessing you didn't 694 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:38,480 want or ask for dies, can you still fight for it to live? 695 00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:43,520 That's a question. Watch this because this is the 696 00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:47,440 moment where she could say, I didn't ask for this in the first 697 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,160 place. So now I can get I'm, I'm 698 00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,840 grieving because I fell in love with this little boy, but now I 699 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:56,800 can get back to how life was. Watch this. 700 00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:03,520 Now I can go back to Egypt. Egypt had provision in it. 701 00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:07,960 Egypt was comfortable. It got comfortable, but God 702 00:47:07,960 --> 00:47:10,080 said, no, no, no, no, you need to go through this wilderness. 703 00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:14,320 So let me set you free so you can go into what your unrenewed 704 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:22,360 mind will will see as bondage. Watch this, watch this. 705 00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:26,360 Because they thought freedom was just getting out of Egypt. 706 00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,240 You think if you get delivered tonight, that's freedom. 707 00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:39,560 The Bible says if the truth sets you free not a worship night 708 00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,560 after that demon go guess what you got to get that truth. 709 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:57,360 TRUUUF watch this. When the blessing you didn't 710 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,240 want or ask for dies, can you still fight for it to live? 711 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:06,240 Because watch this because now the promise is an assignment. 712 00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,480 You thought it was a son. God gave you an assignment. 713 00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,320 I don't know who watching right now, but maybe you should 714 00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:22,520 realize that burden right now that you carry in is an 715 00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:27,200 assignment because now the promise is an assignment. 716 00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:29,920 God, he's licked. He's licked like that. 717 00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,560 Now watch this. Now you got something to believe 718 00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:37,240 for you didn't even know you needed this assignment. 719 00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:42,200 You didn't even know you needed this 4. 720 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:46,920 Years to wait for that building. Watch this If I never had that 721 00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:50,480 assignment, I would not be perfected like I am. 722 00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,720 Watch this. One translation says she said it 723 00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:02,320 is well. Another translation said it will 724 00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,680 be all right. Say she talking crazy right now. 725 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:07,440 Somebody say her son is dead right now. 726 00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:11,480 Watch this. Although her heart was failing, 727 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:17,000 her tongue was facing. Although her, her heart was 728 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,280 failing her. Her tongue was faithing. 729 00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,840 Her heart was failing, but her tongue was faithing. 730 00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:26,000 Her heart was failing, but her tongue was faithing. 731 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,640 Her heart was failing, but her tongue was faithing. 732 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,280 Watch this. She wasn't in denial. 733 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,160 She was declaring and decreeing under duress. 734 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,160 Sometimes your tongue has to lead your heart back to faith. 735 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:43,400 Can I help? Can I help you believe? 736 00:49:57,240 --> 00:50:00,640 Like you need some people to deny to, to to say you tripping, 737 00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:02,480 right? I like it. 738 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:06,120 Is it faith if everybody around you is like, let's go. 739 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:09,240 Oh, absolutely it's going to happen. 740 00:50:09,240 --> 00:50:11,560 No, I I need to hear somebody doubt me. 741 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,320 Right. A good faith check is when 742 00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,240 people say you crazy for believing that. 743 00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:17,680 If I was you, I wouldn't do that. 744 00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,760 Say thank you for confirmation. Watch this. 745 00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,760 You can't always trust your mood, but you can tame your 746 00:50:25,760 --> 00:50:29,960 mouth. Come on, come on. 747 00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,800 You can't always trust your mood, but you can tame your 748 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,760 mouth. Tell yourself, tame your mouth. 749 00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,480 Tame your mouth, Right. She Moody right now. 750 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:43,440 Wouldn't you be? I go from being cool, having a 751 00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,760 kid. The kid sits on my lap with a 752 00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,400 headache. I'm I'm, I'm. 753 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,920 I'm rocking him. And then he dies on me. 754 00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:55,120 What I'm going through all kinds of feelings now I go to my 755 00:50:55,120 --> 00:50:58,680 husband and tell him to prepare me a ride, call a Uber. 756 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:02,920 He like not right now. I'm like, boy, please, I got to 757 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:05,520 go right because it's urgent. Watch this. 758 00:51:05,680 --> 00:51:09,040 Be careful when the enemy gets you in conversations when you 759 00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:15,080 should be prophesying. Be careful when the enemy trying 760 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,800 to get you in conversations and explain. 761 00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:19,520 This ain't the season to explain yourself. 762 00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,320 This is a prophetic season right now. 763 00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,920 This is a prophetic season. Watch this. 764 00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:31,320 So she set out and came to the man of God at Mount Carmel. 765 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:35,080 When she, when he saw her in the distance, the man of God said to 766 00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,800 his servant, he's like, look, look, look, there's the shooter 767 00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,000 Mike. So clearly he went on. 768 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,960 He went on, did his thing and then she ran and found him. 769 00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:46,080 He said, look, look there she go run to meet her and ask her, are 770 00:51:46,080 --> 00:51:49,040 you all right? Is, is your husband all right? 771 00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,040 Is your child all right? He like something's going on. 772 00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:52,880 Is she all right? Right. 773 00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,840 Is she all right? Everything is all right, she 774 00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:58,720 said to Kahezai. She she. 775 00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,600 I ain't come for you, Kahezai. Thanks for caring. 776 00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,000 I'm good. She like I'm good. 777 00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,040 I could just see her right now. He just like, is everything OK? 778 00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,160 And she like, yeah, I'm good. And she just keeps on pushing. 779 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,960 Watch this. When she reached the man of God, 780 00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:15,360 though, she took hold of his feet. 781 00:52:15,360 --> 00:52:16,960 Sound like the woman with the issue of blood. 782 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:21,160 When she saw the man of God, she came fully surrendered and 783 00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,120 humbled because she knew he was packing something for her. 784 00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,640 She took hold of his feet. Gaheizai came over. 785 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,040 Watch this. Remember, the room represented 786 00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,800 commitment and covenant. Watch this. 787 00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,840 She didn't know she was going to need this moment. 788 00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:39,560 She thought she was being generous. 789 00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:45,800 She took hold of his feet. Gaheizai came over to push her 790 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,040 away. Come on them boys are always 791 00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:50,240 hating that, that sound like Jesus disciples. 792 00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,200 But the man of God said leave her alone. 793 00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:55,520 That sound like Jesus. Elijah was the type of Christ. 794 00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,320 Elijah was the type of Christ. Watch this, leave her alone. 795 00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,840 She is in bitter distress. This is very important. 796 00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,960 This is very important, but the Lord has hidden it from me and 797 00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,840 has not told me why. Sometimes you believe you, you 798 00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:17,160 want a word, but God is hiding that word from the messenger so 799 00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:20,840 he can reveal it to you. Because what he gots to say got 800 00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:25,640 to come from his mouth directly in you, right? 801 00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:30,200 Some of this stuff is you, you you have to seek his face. 802 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:34,520 And so the man of God says, I don't know what's going on. 803 00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,000 Why, Wait a minute, you God told you I'm about to have a child, 804 00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,320 but he ain't going to tell you I lost my child? 805 00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,680 The Lord, watch this. If the Lord told him what 806 00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:52,800 happened, she would not have had to seek him out. 807 00:53:56,640 --> 00:53:59,400 The mystery produced the pursuit. 808 00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:06,360 That's the word He said. I don't hide it from you to to. 809 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:11,440 I hide it to reveal it. Watch this. 810 00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,280 She gets into the man of God's presence. 811 00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:18,200 Remember, it's a type of Christ in in the shadow, a shadow in 812 00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:19,520 type of Christ. Watch this. 813 00:54:19,720 --> 00:54:22,760 In his presence, you can push past the barriers of your pain. 814 00:54:23,400 --> 00:54:27,080 Rafa can carry your pain, but not if you want to coddle your 815 00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:31,360 pain. He can carry your pain, but not 816 00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:32,880 if you want to coddle it. Watch this. 817 00:54:33,040 --> 00:54:36,520 Faith is faith. Facades crumble in the face of 818 00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,160 heartbreak. So you can, you can, you can 819 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:44,320 hide all you want to, but when that heartbreak come, the true 820 00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:48,480 you watch this and the undealt with you and the unrenewed mind 821 00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:52,000 of you will be revealed. And some of you are walking in a 822 00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:57,760 season and you are a hot mess because for a while you've been 823 00:54:57,760 --> 00:54:59,320 acting like you got it all together. 824 00:54:59,320 --> 00:55:03,200 Because that thing or that he or that she was in your life Now 825 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:07,480 your life is a wreck because the thing then died. 826 00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:14,160 But the Bible says when you find me, you'll find you. 827 00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:21,440 Did I ask you for a son? My Lord, remember that she said 828 00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:25,960 I didn't ask for this pain. Didn't I tell you don't raise my 829 00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,840 hopes? Elijah said to Geheza. 830 00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:35,400 I tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand 831 00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:38,080 and run. Got all that little extra robe? 832 00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,520 Tuck it, brother. It's urgent right now. 833 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:44,200 Watch this. Some of y'all want a miracle, 834 00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:48,800 but you just chilling. Some of y'all want to change 835 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,480 marriage, but you just chilling about it. 836 00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,680 You're not hungry, you don't want to change. 837 00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,240 You throw up some little old prayers and you just like God if 838 00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:56,600 you want it to work. What do you mean? 839 00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,560 It's his will. He don't got to say nothing else 840 00:55:58,560 --> 00:55:59,760 to you. He don't need to promise you 841 00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,600 nothing. You just throw your little 842 00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,440 prayers up. You won't come to prayer on the 843 00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,200 weekend. You don't come to midweek 844 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:06,880 service. You're not doing the extra stuff 845 00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:11,800 that that that says I'm hungry. And so sometimes God got to put 846 00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:15,640 something in your life or take some out your life that will 847 00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,560 produce urgency because you're just chilling about your 848 00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:25,380 salvation. Tuck your cloak. 849 00:56:26,060 --> 00:56:31,040 Don't greet anyone you meet. Watch this When I'm believing 850 00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,040 for a miracle, my conversations decrease. 851 00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,520 Not everybody can have my time when I'm believing. 852 00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:42,360 And if anyone greets you, do not answer. 853 00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:44,720 What does he say? That's not of God. 854 00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:47,200 What are you talking about? My son is dead. 855 00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,800 I don't got time to talk about what you want to talk about. 856 00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:53,520 And if I leak out my pain to you, you might not handle it. 857 00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:57,200 So I need to hold on to my pain and turn it into faith and hope 858 00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,240 and belief. And if I share it, I'm going to 859 00:56:59,240 --> 00:57:01,680 share it to somebody that's going to ignite my son back to 860 00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,840 life and ignite my hope back to life. 861 00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:07,920 So he says, lay my staff, my staff on the boy's face. 862 00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:11,760 But the child's mother said, as surely as the Lord lives as you 863 00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:15,360 live, I will not leave. So he got up and followed her. 864 00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:20,640 The Hazai went on ahead and laid the staff on the boy's face, but 865 00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:25,960 there was no sound or response. He put the staff, he took the 866 00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,520 man of God's staff, put it on his face, but there was no life. 867 00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:33,520 So geheza, I went back to meet Elijah. 868 00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:46,540 And for you, your dream catcher won't work. 869 00:57:47,100 --> 00:57:49,500 It's going to come a time where them rocks ain't going ain't 870 00:57:49,500 --> 00:57:51,540 going to talk back to you. And if they do, they're going to 871 00:57:51,540 --> 00:57:54,420 speak confusion. There's we're in a season where 872 00:57:54,420 --> 00:57:57,700 only the presence of God will be the authenticated power that 873 00:57:57,700 --> 00:58:02,320 works. The staff is symbolic authority 874 00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:05,080 and it didn't work. The staff was a form of 875 00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,080 godliness. Them crystals is a form of 876 00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:10,360 godliness. You know, genealogy is a form. 877 00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:11,960 It ain't it ain't the real thing. 878 00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:19,000 So Gehazai went up, went ahead and laid the staff on the boy's 879 00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:20,880 face. But there was an Gehazai met 880 00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:21,720 him. He won't awake. 881 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:23,760 The staff represents symbolic authority. 882 00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,400 And when Elijah reached the house, say when Elijah reached 883 00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:30,560 the house, remember type of Christ foreshadowing the 884 00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:32,440 presence of God is now in the place. 885 00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:35,520 There was the boy lying dead on his couch. 886 00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:40,160 He went in and he shut the door on the two of them. 887 00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,440 Not even the Mama was in there, not even his servant. 888 00:58:43,760 --> 00:58:48,720 And he prayed to the Lord, he shut the door. 889 00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,640 Make sure all the doors are closed. 890 00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:59,120 When you're believing for something, watch it. 891 00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:04,960 He got on the bed and he laid on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to 892 00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:09,400 eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on 893 00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:15,320 him, the boy's body grew warm. Come on, Lord Spirit of 894 00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,600 Revelation, you like? Oh, that's weird. 895 00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:21,040 He laying on the boy. You are missing the prophetic 896 00:59:21,040 --> 00:59:23,760 implications here. This is a shadow and a type. 897 00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:25,320 Watch. Watch this. 898 00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:30,320 Elijah turned away and walked back and forth in the room, and 899 00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:33,680 then got on the bed and stretched out on him once more. 900 00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:36,560 The boy sneezed 7 times. Somebody say it's finished. 901 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:42,440 Whatever the spirit of death had to come out of that boy 7 times 902 00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:47,640 means completion and opened his eyes. 903 00:59:49,200 --> 00:59:54,320 The Presence which is actual authority and actual anointing. 904 00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:59,200 We can only experience the life of Christ to the degree we are 905 00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:01,640 willing to live in contact with Him. 906 01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,080 Watch this. If you let him over shadow you 907 01:00:07,480 --> 01:00:13,640 alive, you go. Elijah was overshadowing the 908 01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,560 boy. What presence is overshadowing 909 01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:19,080 you? Fear, anxiety, worry. 910 01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:22,680 Mammon, what's overshadowing you? 911 01:00:25,840 --> 01:00:29,960 You would say this, if I never had the son, I wouldn't have 912 01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:35,360 ever had this problem that that sounds about right, but watch 913 01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:38,760 this. But if I never had the son, I 914 01:00:38,760 --> 01:00:40,440 wouldn't have ever known the father. 915 01:00:46,380 --> 01:00:51,140 The problem I tried to avoid led me to the promise that filled a 916 01:00:51,140 --> 01:00:54,760 void. I didn't know I was trying to 917 01:00:54,760 --> 01:01:00,480 replace my belief with comforts and God had better plans. 918 01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:05,000 I didn't know I was trying to replace my belief with hopes God 919 01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:09,280 had better plans that came in the form of greater pain. 920 01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:15,560 I was replacing my comfort or my, my, my, my, my belief with 921 01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:19,080 comfort and that's what a lot of us are doing. 922 01:01:19,080 --> 01:01:20,920 If I get a job, I don't got to believe for this. 923 01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,000 If I get more money, I don't got to believe for that. 924 01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:27,360 If I get a house, and that's the problem with this region, some 925 01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,400 places in this region you don't want for nothing. 926 01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,360 Vancouver, you like I got this money. 927 01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:32,840 I don't. I don't. 928 01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:34,840 What I really need God for church. 929 01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:44,520 Faith isn't the absence of unbelief, it's the presence of a 930 01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,800 decisive dedication to move on God's Word despite unbelief. 931 01:01:49,240 --> 01:01:52,800 You can cry and kick on the way to your miracle, but don't stop 932 01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:55,440 believing. Somebody say don't stop 933 01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,000 believing. Watch this her relationship. 934 01:01:59,000 --> 01:02:04,520 She went from reliance to reverence to relationship. 935 01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,840 Unbelief, who may this bless your soul? 936 01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:15,880 Unbelief may write a few chapters, but God has pinned the 937 01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:19,040 end of the story. Come on, lift your hands up 938 01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:24,640 right where you are. God will always restore the 939 01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:31,080 seeds He plant. Unbelief may have written a few 940 01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:39,200 chapters in your life, but God has pinned the last chapter. 941 01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:49,600 Faith, lift your hands, does not deny death. 942 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:54,560 It defies its finality. Come on. 943 01:02:56,000 --> 01:02:58,640 And even for you, if you have something that you need to come 944 01:02:58,640 --> 01:03:03,680 alive right now, you can stand to your feet, you can bow, you 945 01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,720 can do whatever it is. But faith doesn't deny death. 946 01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:13,800 It defies its finality. It defies its finality. 947 01:03:19,250 --> 01:03:22,250 If he said it, I don't care if it's dormant right now. 948 01:03:22,970 --> 01:03:26,810 Prepare yourself. And for some of you, you've been 949 01:03:26,810 --> 01:03:29,370 in this season where it feels like nothing is moving. 950 01:03:30,410 --> 01:03:33,970 But what if I told you your transformation is the thing 951 01:03:33,970 --> 01:03:35,850 that's moving in your life? Come on. 952 01:03:37,730 --> 01:03:42,120 So when the promise shows up. And when he breathes on it and 953 01:03:42,120 --> 01:03:48,080 we going to get to it in the next experience, this young boy 954 01:03:48,080 --> 01:03:53,080 is brought back to life. Don't be mad because you. 955 01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:58,040 Tasted it and then it went dead. The question is when it 956 01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:01,480 resurrects, Are you ready for it? 957 01:04:03,160 --> 01:04:06,320 Because maybe watch this. Maybe God brought it into your 958 01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:12,520 life to show you it's yours. To tell you what he can do. 959 01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:17,800 But the moment it died, maybe God is saying you not as ready 960 01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:20,000 as you thought. I'm not taking it. 961 01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:24,920 I'm preparing you to steward it. So whoever I'm talking to, I 962 01:04:24,920 --> 01:04:28,520 speak to your spirit. Now, whatever God has promised 963 01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:32,240 you, if it has been life, if it has been healing, if it has been 964 01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:36,320 your family restored, if it has been great provision, if it has 965 01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:40,520 been freedom from mental illness, whatever it may be, if 966 01:04:40,520 --> 01:04:47,200 you heard God say it, I don't care if you have not saw it, my 967 01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:51,840 words for you today is get ready because it's about to resurrect. 968 01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:59,880 Come on, get ready because it's about to resurrect it. 969 01:04:59,880 --> 01:05:03,280 It might be. It might be a business. 970 01:05:03,520 --> 01:05:06,160 Get ready, it's about to resurrect. 971 01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:11,160 It might be a strategy. Watch this. 972 01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:18,160 It might be a book. You may have lost the child. 973 01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:22,200 I don't know what it is, but do not faint. 974 01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:27,800 It's about to resurrect. It may be a career that 975 01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:37,480 seemingly died, but get ready, it's about to resurrect if you 976 01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:42,000 get that phone call today. Have you done the work to handle 977 01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:48,520 that $1,000,000 contract? Have you done the work to handle 978 01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:53,560 that Boaz that God is going to reveal you to? 979 01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,880 Can you handle that family that God's about to restore? 980 01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,400 Can you handle that husband that's about to be on fire for 981 01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:07,280 Jesus while you've been complaining? 982 01:06:07,280 --> 01:06:09,280 Can you handle their transformation? 983 01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:12,880 Come on, lift your voice. Is this about to resurrect? 984 01:06:13,560 --> 01:06:17,640 It's about to resurrect you at home, it's about to resurrect. 985 01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:20,760 Come on, your hope is about to resurrect. 986 01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:22,360 Your faith is about to resurrect. 987 01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:25,000 Come on, your joy is about to resurrect. 988 01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:28,520 The calling on your life is about to resurrect. 989 01:06:29,240 --> 01:06:31,760 Watch this. The opportunities are about to 990 01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,880 resurrect. The money is about to resurrect. 991 01:06:37,120 --> 01:06:38,880 The healing is about to resurrect. 992 01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:41,000 The wholeness is about to resurrect. 993 01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:45,360 Your relationship with your children is about to resurrect. 994 01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:48,760 The relationship with your spouse is about to resurrect. 995 01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,040 Come on. God's not done with you yet. 996 01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:56,000 God is not done with you yet. God is not done with your 997 01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,600 business. He just has some things to 998 01:06:58,600 --> 01:07:02,080 handle inside of you because you are His business. 999 01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:08,680 So get ready for Him to stir up ideas for the business that you 1000 01:07:08,680 --> 01:07:17,240 was ready to lay down. It's about to resurrect. 1001 01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:25,480 This is why you got to be careful. 1002 01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:36,840 Rushing into your Ishmael. Though the vision may tarry, it 1003 01:07:36,840 --> 01:07:39,280 will come to pass at its appointed time. 1004 01:07:44,080 --> 01:07:45,880 Come on the. Career is about to resurrect. 1005 01:07:49,040 --> 01:07:51,720 May you be impregnated with faith that it's about to 1006 01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:55,560 resurrect. And there are some things that 1007 01:07:55,640 --> 01:08:02,480 watch this will stay in the tomb, but I hear in this hour 1008 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:04,840 God is calling Lazarus back out of the tomb. 1009 01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:12,360 Come on, what's your Lazarus? What's your Lazarus? 1010 01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:22,080 What's your Lazarus? It's about to resurrect in Jesus 1011 01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:25,920 name. Let it be. 1012 01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,520 Watch this. There's some relationships 1013 01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:38,000 that's about to resurrect. Let it be this time you get in 1014 01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:41,520 that relationship. Be who God's called you to be in 1015 01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:46,200 that relationship because it's about to resurrect and maybe 1016 01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:48,040 you're in a season where the thing just died. 1017 01:08:49,600 --> 01:08:55,439 Let it be in Jesus name. In Jesus name, Come on, say I 1018 01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:57,760 received it three times and give God some praise. 1019 01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:00,399 I'll receive it. I'll receive it, I'll receive 1020 01:09:00,399 --> 01:09:01,800 it. Come on, give God some praise. 1021 01:09:03,399 --> 01:09:10,840 Give God some praise. Come on, give God some praise. 1022 01:09:12,359 --> 01:09:14,960 It's about to resurrect. Come on, it's about to 1023 01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:17,240 resurrect. I'm speaking that over myself. 1024 01:09:18,399 --> 01:09:22,720 T it's about to resurrect. Julia, if you watching it's 1025 01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:26,279 about to resurrect. Richmond family. 1026 01:09:26,279 --> 01:09:28,160 If you watching it's about to resurrect. 1027 01:09:29,399 --> 01:09:34,439 Yes, it's about to resurrect. Come on, speak into it. 1028 01:09:35,160 --> 01:09:37,040 That career is about to resurrect. 1029 01:09:37,720 --> 01:09:39,960 That opportunity is about to resurrect. 1030 01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:44,319 Father is about to resurrect. Love quest is about to 1031 01:09:44,319 --> 01:09:46,920 resurrect. The building is about to 1032 01:09:46,920 --> 01:09:50,040 resurrect. It's about to resurrect. 1033 01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:54,720 It's about to resurrect. It's about to resurrect. 1034 01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:04,880 It's about to resurrect. It's about to resurrect. 1035 01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:09,080 It's about to resurrect. Your relationship with your 1036 01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:11,160 parents is about to resurrect. Come on. 1037 01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,240 Your health is about to resurrect. 1038 01:10:13,240 --> 01:10:16,040 Maybe, maybe you healthy, but you got a sick parent. 1039 01:10:16,320 --> 01:10:20,040 I dare you to declare over your father or over your mother's 1040 01:10:20,040 --> 01:10:22,000 health. It's about to resurrect. 1041 01:10:23,240 --> 01:10:25,160 Your health is about to resurrect. 1042 01:10:25,560 --> 01:10:27,720 Your sanity is about to resurrect. 1043 01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:36,720 It's about to resurrect. It's about to resurrect. 1044 01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,520 Look, look, look, look. All the generous people. 1045 01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:45,720 You know where to give. If you want to give, you can 1046 01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:47,120 give. You know where in a Remnant 1047 01:10:47,120 --> 01:10:49,920 campaign, Watch this. The building is about to 1048 01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:51,680 resurrect. There's people who gave up on 1049 01:10:51,680 --> 01:10:55,240 this community, but this community is about to resurrect. 1050 01:11:01,360 --> 01:11:05,240 Watch this man I felt a couple weeks ago I I felt I felt I was 1051 01:11:05,240 --> 01:11:09,960 at the end of my rope, but man, I went to a man of God and there 1052 01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:12,600 was some impartation that took place and I'm here to announce 1053 01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:17,840 to myself that the anointing on my life has resurrected. 1054 01:11:18,560 --> 01:11:23,080 Watch this and it's greater. Watch this. 1055 01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:27,040 Nothing that God resurrects comes back the. 1056 01:11:27,040 --> 01:11:31,160 Same. So get ready for greater, 1057 01:11:31,760 --> 01:11:36,240 greater strength. Come on, greater anointing. 1058 01:11:37,440 --> 01:11:42,440 Come on. Greater wisdom, greater ideas, 1059 01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:47,320 greater opportunities. It's about to resurrect and it's 1060 01:11:47,360 --> 01:11:53,920 going to be greater. Watch this. 1061 01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:57,920 It's time to go. I don't want to give you no 1062 01:11:57,920 --> 01:12:00,280 announcements. No, I don't want to give you no 1063 01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:01,920 announcements. If you want to know what's going 1064 01:12:01,920 --> 01:12:03,880 on, we got an information table out there in the tent. 1065 01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:07,240 You can follow us on Instagram. But I feel like for some people 1066 01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,680 there's a praise in them and I'm not about to do this little 1067 01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:12,080 administration stuff. I'm going to leave you with 1068 01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:13,160 this. Watch this. 1069 01:12:13,320 --> 01:12:17,280 We are out of time, but God is not out of resurrection power. 1070 01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,440 Until next time. Thank you to all you first time 1071 01:12:20,440 --> 01:12:25,200 attendees, but until next time, get your love fixed, man, 1072 01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:28,080 because it's about to resurrect and it's coming back greater. 1073 01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:30,400 Somebody shout out it's about to resurrect. 1074 01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,040 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 1075 01:12:36,040 --> 01:12:39,400 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 1076 01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:41,600 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 1077 01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:45,680 That's love quest Intl church. We out here for real. 1078 01:12:45,760 --> 01:12:48,040 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 1079 01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:51,240 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 1080 01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:53,560 need to find us. But until next time, you know 1081 01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:55,760 the drill. You know the motto, get your 1082 01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:57,960 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.