1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Church Podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,680 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:38,320 Let's get into it. Happy Mother's Day. 9 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:41,240 Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers that are streaming my 10 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:43,760 Mama, especially Happy Mama's day. 11 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:49,040 Nana, I love you and thank you so much for Yeah. 12 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:57,840 And to all the mothers I was I was sharing in the back that 13 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:01,920 it's AI think Mother's Day. Well, I mean, I think all 14 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:06,320 holidays and days we celebrate rather Christmas, Easter, a 15 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:11,040 birthday or whatever. It's always bittersweet, right? 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:16,840 Because somebody in here is not able to celebrate their mother 17 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:23,040 in person because they passed away or someone in here doesn't 18 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,080 have a good relationship with their mother. 19 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:32,040 On the flip side, some some people in here have absolutely 20 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:36,440 been disrespectful today Mama. And so on the flip side, you, 21 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:41,760 you aren't appreciative for the mother that is living, let alone 22 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:47,880 to have people in a room where some people wish they had a 23 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:54,800 mother to argue with alive. But one thing that I do know is 24 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,680 none of us would be here without a mother. 25 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,960 Nothing, no one can replace a mother. 26 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:10,759 I pray for myself as a son and as a husband that we learn to 27 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:15,960 appreciate mothers more while they're living. 28 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,520 Even husbands learning how to appreciate the mother in your 29 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:24,560 wife. Amen. 30 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:29,320 I'm glad my I'm glad my wife. Mothers. 31 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,640 Yeah. And one thing I know when I met 32 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:40,880 you guys, Pastor Julia is I was like, she going to be if she 33 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:45,480 ain't cool to me, she going to be real good to my kids and our 34 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,280 kids are going to have a fun mom. 35 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:49,800 And I think that's what they have. 36 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:58,520 It's weird because I was I'm feeling a first of all, I'm, I 37 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:03,600 think I'm carrying a word for today, but I also feel that 38 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:09,560 there are single moms in here. There are Watch this. 39 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:17,320 There are moms who lost children and you disqualify yourself as a 40 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:23,720 mom or Mother's Day for you. You have children, but you can't 41 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:29,560 help but to think about the abortion or the miscarriage. 42 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,160 You can't help to think about those things, but it's Mother's 43 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:37,800 Day for you as well. And I just want to pause and and 44 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,880 not just make it just another day. 45 00:03:39,880 --> 00:03:46,520 But you are appreciated. You're appreciated for carrying 46 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:52,720 a a child for several months, for several years. 47 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:56,800 You are valued. You can't take away mother. 48 00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:00,400 If you have a womb, you, you are a mother. 49 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:09,000 And I think we have minimized mom to just someone who has a 50 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:12,960 child and they're currently mothering. 51 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:18,440 But mothers are more than just having a biological child. 52 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:22,800 Mothers pray for other people's children. 53 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,400 Mothers take care of other people's children. 54 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:29,680 Right. Your kids come to my house, they 55 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:32,160 going to be mothered by Pastor Julia. 56 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,400 And so we got to understand that there's nothing like a mom. 57 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:46,600 So Adam didn't just need a woman, he needed a mom for the 58 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:50,000 children that he was called to have. 59 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:55,240 And so let's make sure we don't get so familiar with our 60 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,240 parents, our mothers, that we don't say thank you. 61 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:02,640 Some of you might haven't even called your Mama today because 62 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,040 you don't have a good relationship. 63 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:07,760 What I will tell you this, do not let your mother leave this 64 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:13,040 earth without saying thank you. I didn't say have a great 65 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:16,200 relationship and be buddies. Say thank you. 66 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,240 I don't have to be your friend to be grateful for you. 67 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:26,040 And what God asked of us is to be grateful because our moms 68 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:28,800 watch. This was a gift to us. 69 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:32,440 How and why? Because they were asked by God 70 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:36,400 to carry you and then deliver you. 71 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,200 And they were the vehicle to get you here. 72 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:45,040 They could have threw you away. They could have did all kinds 73 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,560 of. Things, but they got you here. 74 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,440 And even if you're not able to tell your mother thank you 75 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:56,160 because she's not here just on earth, period, you could still 76 00:05:56,160 --> 00:06:00,880 be thankful for your mom even if you're not able to say thank 77 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,120 you. But I believe in eternal life. 78 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,720 So even if you said thank you mom now, and she's not in earth, 79 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,280 promise you, she hears you. She probably hears you better 80 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:11,880 than your neighbor can hear you say it. 81 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,480 And so can we one more time just give God thanks for giving us 82 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:22,280 all of mom rather. Thank you, Lord. 83 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:32,880 Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. 84 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:42,360 Aside from moms, there's I believe there's a few special 85 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,520 people in here that's with us today. 86 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:48,680 This might be your first. This could be your last time 87 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:50,080 here. But you're here. 88 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,160 If it's your first time here at Lovequest, can you just wave 89 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,400 your hand at me real quick, just so I could say hello? 90 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,520 We got one right here. We got one right here. 91 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:03,440 Come on, Lovequest. Yeah, we got one right here. 92 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:07,960 Welcome, Welcome. Welcome. 93 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:08,920 Welcome. Welcome. 94 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:09,960 Welcome. Welcome. 95 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:10,960 Welcome. Welcome. 96 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:11,960 Welcome. Welcome. 97 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:12,960 Welcome. Welcome. 98 00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:15,520 Welcome. Welcome. 99 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,640 You are always welcome here. I hope something is said today 100 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:25,440 that encourages you as you go, whether you come back or not. 101 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:27,360 Just know you always have a home here. 102 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,920 You always have love here. And this is the Father's house. 103 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:35,120 This is God's house. And so there's a seat for you. 104 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:40,520 I don't know if you got your pastry or coffee drink yet. 105 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:42,800 You, you, you did. If they didn't give you that 106 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,360 voucher yet, you we need to get it to you because our Cafe is 107 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:57,880 one of the best cafes period. And so enjoy yourself today. 108 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:04,520 You are loved, you are seen, you are heard and I pray that you 109 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:11,280 hear something today. Father, we thank you today for 110 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:19,320 your precious word. We thank you for Jesus Christ. 111 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:25,800 Lord, here we believe that Jesus Christ, the Son of man, he is 112 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:30,160 the only begotten Son. He is the first fruit of all 113 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:34,000 your children. He is the Redeemer of our souls. 114 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:36,679 And we just pause and say thank you. 115 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:46,240 He had a mother named Mary that as crazy as it sounded, she 116 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:48,680 accepted the task of carrying the Savior. 117 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,080 Lord, you've asked moms to do some pretty radical things and 118 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:00,640 we just thank you. Thank you for putting Mary in 119 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,480 this earth. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for 120 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:11,600 assisting her in carrying and to labor, and not only to labor but 121 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,760 also stewarding our Savior. So thank you, Father, as your 122 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,200 word goes forth, we come against any error, Holy Spirit, we yield 123 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,000 to you. Quicken our spirits, correct us, 124 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:30,960 expose, build us, equip us, excite us, prepare us, push us. 125 00:09:31,920 --> 00:09:36,560 We are here today all sons and daughters saying Father we are 126 00:09:36,560 --> 00:09:41,640 ready. Father speak today Holy Spirit 127 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:47,280 have your way in Jesus name, Amen. 128 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:54,600 Now, last week I said I was starting off a series. 129 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,040 I think, I said. That and it was what? 130 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:01,320 Anybody remember what that was? I'm waiting. 131 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:02,640 I know you guys were all listening. 132 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:04,560 You guys got all A's this week on it. 133 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:06,640 Look at your notes. That's what you take them for. 134 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:12,160 It's OK Crush for Glory, Press for time. 135 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,480 I have decided that will be a series. 136 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,640 I don't know if I've ever done this before, but I don't care. 137 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:19,560 I don't I don't know if anybody else has ever done that. 138 00:10:19,560 --> 00:10:21,560 I don't really care if they've done it, but we're going to do 139 00:10:21,560 --> 00:10:23,200 it. And today I'm going to kick off 140 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:28,320 a series as well as so we are going to be doing 2 series 141 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:32,080 simultaneously. We probably trade off for those 142 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,120 that know. Today is my family's last day 143 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:41,560 here for a few weeks as we are going to take some time away to 144 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,320 reflect and refresh and hear what God has to say for this 145 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:50,240 church for the next 5 to 10 years. 146 00:10:50,680 --> 00:10:55,920 We came to Canada 10 years ago. We thought it was one thing then 147 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:01,120 God gave us vision for Love Quest and we have been really 148 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,080 pushing. We have really been doing our 149 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:07,920 best to obey God and. I I'll. 150 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:11,080 I'll. Be, you know, my mother is my 151 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,680 biggest encourager aside from my wife. 152 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:17,800 And after every sermon, for the most part, on a Sunday, she'll 153 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,120 send me a text. If it's good, if the message is 154 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,680 good and it blesses her, she will text. 155 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:26,440 But our family came here by faith. 156 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:35,160 We brought our children here at I think it was 9, No 10, 10-8 157 00:11:35,160 --> 00:11:37,520 and one or nine, seven and one, one of those. 158 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,360 And I realized that our family planted the church. 159 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:48,960 Our family endured, our children endured the persecution of their 160 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,840 parents. Our our families carried the 161 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,640 weight our families had to get adjusted to. 162 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:59,280 So it's not just me neither sabbatical, but what I it's my 163 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:04,440 children, it's my wife, and it's also you need a sabbatical from 164 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:08,960 me. If I'm going to keep leading, 165 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:16,760 then you need to miss us. You need to value the leaders 166 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,080 that God sends you. And what I understand is 167 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:21,520 presence is important, but absence is also. 168 00:12:22,560 --> 00:12:25,880 And I think we often don't understand that familiarity 169 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,760 isn't necessarily bad, but it it it does stunt growth. 170 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,000 And so as we go away, you get a break from us. 171 00:12:33,480 --> 00:12:36,440 If you've been tired of hearing from us, you won't hear from us. 172 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:38,600 We're going to have a sabbatical. 173 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,240 I used to always think that sabbaticals were for burnout and 174 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,360 depression and anxiety or Are you ready to quit ministry? 175 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,240 But I actually was thinking about this last night. 176 00:12:49,240 --> 00:12:53,920 Troy is I think we need to learn how to take sabbaticals while 177 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,040 we're winning. It's like, don't do what Jordan 178 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:01,720 did. Don't put that wizard's uniform 179 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,240 on. You know what I'm saying? 180 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:09,240 Don't like you like and I really feel like love Quest. 181 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,520 I really feel like I am taking the break in the midst of 182 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,480 victory so. Thank you. 183 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:20,000 For your pushing and your pressing and allowing God to 184 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,040 crush you and enduring wins and the waves. 185 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,600 So I'm not, we're not taking a break because we're defeated. 186 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:30,000 We're actually taking a break because we need to rest from 187 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:36,120 winning. Yeah, and we couldn't win 188 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,400 without you. So give your neighbor a hand and 189 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:46,800 say thank you. And so we will the people, the 190 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:51,240 reason I mention that is because the people that will be speaking 191 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:55,360 to you will be speaking from either one of those topics, the 192 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,920 one that I'm about to present to you today and, and, and the one 193 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:03,640 that we launched last week and, and today, I'm just going to get 194 00:14:03,640 --> 00:14:07,360 straight into the title and it is called the labor. 195 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:13,520 Room groaning for glory. The the labor room. 196 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:22,080 The labour room. The reason? 197 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:25,600 Why we are going to preach 2 messages at the same time is 198 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,000 because if you remember last week we talked about crushing 199 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,800 and pressing often can happen at the same time. 200 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,800 Stretching right and marking. There are seasons that seem so 201 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,640 intense and that's only because there is a double taking place. 202 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,480 And you can believe for double fruit, you can believe for 203 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:46,720 double, double, but you also got to understand that there is a 204 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,320 double pressure. There's a double. 205 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,800 Seed sown and and so it makes sense. 206 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,320 It just dawned on me. It makes sense to be speaking 207 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,360 because both of these messages are very relevant. 208 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,800 To this moment last week, we talked about the crushing, we 209 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:06,600 talked about the pressing, we talked about how oil does not 210 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:12,680 come without pressure, wine does not come without crushing, and 211 00:15:12,680 --> 00:15:15,440 purpose does not come without process. 212 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:20,840 We establish this truth right here that God will allow 213 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:26,320 pressure when He's intending on producing something precious. 214 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,960 I don't know about you, but I've had my years of producing trash. 215 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,920 I've had my years of producing things that I only get tired of 216 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:43,720 once it's produced. I've had my my years of chasing 217 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:47,080 vain desires and dreams. But when? 218 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:49,960 God gets a hold of you, and He allows. 219 00:15:49,960 --> 00:15:53,040 Pressure. He is intending on producing 220 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,560 something precious, something of value. 221 00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:01,320 Watch this and something that will keep producing fruit beyond 222 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:05,840 your lifetime. This week we moved from crushing 223 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:09,760 floor into the labor room. Somebody say go with me into the 224 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:14,320 labor room because some of you thought that the pressure meant 225 00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:19,200 something was ending. But I believe there had to be a 226 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:22,200 dying for there to be a birthing. 227 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:30,280 Have you ever noticed nobody celebrates contractions in the 228 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:35,160 moment? No, nobody celebrates 229 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:39,120 contractions. In the moment, nobody celebrates 230 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:41,840 contractions. In the moment, nobody enjoys 231 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:46,160 labor pains. Nobody claps during pressure. 232 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,520 But unlike everybody else, every mother understands something 233 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:59,880 powerful about labor pains. They understand that you do not 234 00:16:59,880 --> 00:17:06,520 push when something is dying. You push when something is ready 235 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,720 to live. And I know for some people in 236 00:17:11,720 --> 00:17:18,359 this room, naturally pregnancy for you, you have some people 237 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:25,560 that have pushed out death. It's a real thing and what I 238 00:17:25,560 --> 00:17:31,520 would like to be a sensitive in this, in understanding when I'm 239 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:35,680 saying you only push out life, I understand the natural reality 240 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:40,000 of some mothers and some fathers and some parents in this world 241 00:17:40,240 --> 00:17:43,880 you have also pushed. Out an end. 242 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,160 But prophetically speaking, what I do want you to hear from me 243 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,560 today is I'm not minimizing anybody story. 244 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:57,200 But prophetically, Paul says creation is groaning because 245 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,000 heaven still intends life to come. 246 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:05,240 Forth So prophetically speaking, I don't care what has died I 247 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,400 don't what I don't care what seems to feel like death Paul 248 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:12,640 says that the the. Pressure the crushing. 249 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,280 The the discomfort, the death, the groaning. 250 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:22,720 It is because God is intending to birth something and He. 251 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:28,840 Is bent on making it come forth. What God placed in you still has 252 00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:33,920 purpose. Yeah, the story is not over. 253 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:38,440 Heaven is still birthing sons and daughters in the earth. 254 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:42,080 Hallelujah and I believe. Spiritually, many people in this 255 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:46,440 room have been feeling unusual pressure, unusual tension, 256 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:51,120 unusual stretching, unusual warfare, and unusual emotional 257 00:18:51,120 --> 00:18:53,320 weight. If nobody in this room has hit 258 00:18:53,320 --> 00:18:57,760 any one of those for sure I have been in an unusual season. 259 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,080 Nope, not awkward. Unusual. 260 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,840 I'm talking about one of the most unusual seasons in my life. 261 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,720 Me and my wife are in agreement about this. 262 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,920 If we have not agreed about anything in 2026, we have agreed 263 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:17,160 that this pressure and this crushing and this warfare is 264 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:21,400 unusual. And if I'm still alive, if I'm 265 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,280 still kicking, if I still got strength, if I'm still 266 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:28,120 preaching, if I'm still on my post, if I still can laugh, then 267 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:30,960 no matter the pressure, no matter the crushing, no matter 268 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:35,280 the unusuality that it is, something must be on the brinks 269 00:19:35,280 --> 00:19:39,480 of breaking through. It, ain't it it? 270 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:44,800 Watch this because you didn't understand the process. 271 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:49,240 You thought it was over. You thought it was falling 272 00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,960 apart, but heaven sent a different message today. 273 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:54,560 It is not falling apart, it is falling together. 274 00:19:57,960 --> 00:20:00,920 Yes, Doug, it is falling together. 275 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,360 Have you ever heard it's falling together? 276 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:09,600 It is working together for what? Good, but not just good. 277 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:12,240 It is working together for my good. 278 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:13,600 Somebody say my? Good. 279 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,280 You are not falling apart, Danny. 280 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:26,720 You. Are just in labor see a lot of 281 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:30,640 times that like I wasn't I, I was close I, I was at the labor 282 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,760 room, but I wasn't my like my my wife was good and there was some 283 00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:35,320 complications and things going on. 284 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:39,520 But but, but, but when a woman is in labor, actually in the 285 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,040 table, on the table, it could feel like they in the table, 286 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:48,400 like they don't look like they got it all together. 287 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:50,360 They look like they've fallen apart. 288 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:54,520 OK. And I am not in that position, 289 00:20:54,520 --> 00:21:03,640 nor do I desire to be, but I can only imagine going through some 290 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:06,800 of the most excruciating pain that I've ever been in. 291 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:11,280 But I am about to see the most beautiful thing that I've ever 292 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:12,760 seen. Watch this. 293 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:15,320 I'm not just about to see it. I'm about to hold it. 294 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:19,200 Watch this, watch this, Troy. I'm not just about to hold it. 295 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:20,760 I'm about to take it home with me. 296 00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:25,720 Right, God is not giving me something just to take home. 297 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:28,880 He's giving me something to nurture and not to just nurture 298 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:32,840 it, but to raise it up so that it can produce fruit as well. 299 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,320 When I look at my sons and my daughter, I look at something 300 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,400 that started in me that went into mom's womb. 301 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,000 She have she delivered it. They came home with us. 302 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,520 We fed them. Then we we we argue. 303 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:47,520 With them sometime. Weird. 304 00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:50,320 You didn't know how to talk, you couldn't see when you came out, 305 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,360 but all of a sudden you have formulated words. 306 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,400 You want to talk back, but you are growing into something that 307 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:00,080 I can take my hands off of. You are going to produce fruit 308 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:01,880 in your life that's going to benefit me. 309 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,760 Grandchildren, grandchildren going to have children and God 310 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:08,080 always will birth something through you. 311 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:14,280 That keeps on birthing. You are not falling apart. 312 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:21,920 You are in labor. Your prayer life is shifting. 313 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:30,600 Your capacity is shifting. Your family is shifting. 314 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:36,200 Your ministry is shifting. Yeah, I say Hallelujah. 315 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:37,920 Amen. For me, my family. 316 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:41,160 All my cousins, all my aunties, everybody. 317 00:22:41,480 --> 00:22:47,760 Something is shifting. Your mindset is shifting. 318 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:51,680 I know mine is. Your mindset is shifting. 319 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,160 A part of taking a break is so you can steward the shift. 320 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:01,080 I'm not losing no fruit no more. I am not walking backwards. 321 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,800 I'm not taking step backward. I am going to get to where God 322 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:11,680 has called me to get in. This lifetime, the Father, watch 323 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:16,080 this. Your future is shifting. 324 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:23,640 There's some places that you're going to show up to, and you're 325 00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:27,680 going to be so surprised of the fruit that is waiting for you. 326 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:34,240 Keep going because God is preparing to reveal sons and 327 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:38,880 daughters in this hour. Romans 8 says this. 328 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:46,360 We know that the whole creation has been groaning, as in the 329 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:55,320 pains of childbirth, right up. To the present time it says, not 330 00:23:55,320 --> 00:24:01,920 only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruit of the 331 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:09,600 Spirit grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption. 332 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,320 To sonship, the redemption of our bodies. 333 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:17,480 There is something within our make up as children of God that 334 00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,680 knows this ain't it, this is not it. 335 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:23,960 Where my marriage is, this ain't it. 336 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,360 Where my children is, this is not it. 337 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,880 Where I'm at in this world, this is not it. 338 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:34,280 There is something within me that says this is not it. 339 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:38,560 Paul is writing to believers living under pressure in this 340 00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:43,920 time they they not at a festival where they just eaten watermelon 341 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,600 and fresh squeezed. Juice and and and and sourdough 342 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,280 toast and and and. What are they not now? 343 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,960 This is not a merry time. These are a people under great 344 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,800 pressure. They are they, they are. 345 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,920 They are in a town. They are in a place called Rome 346 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:06,160 that is full of hostility, cultures dark. 347 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:13,320 Times are shifting. Heavens are moving. 348 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:18,480 Persecution is real. Watch this and Paul reframes 349 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:27,080 suffering. Paul reframes suffering. 350 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,800 He says this creation is not dying. 351 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:37,480 Creation is laboring. Creation is not dying. 352 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:44,240 Creation, watch this is waiting. Creation is not dying, Watch 353 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,000 this. Creation is in anticipation. 354 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:58,320 Creation is groaning for glory. Watch this word groaning, 355 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,640 groaning, internal tension, anybody? 356 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,560 I got like 5 people. I don't care if it's been like 357 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:09,720 10 years, the last 10 years, internal tension. 358 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,040 What I do know is you might have been going through something for 359 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,520 the last 10 years, but there's been an intensity. 360 00:26:14,520 --> 00:26:15,920 There's almost been like the fire. 361 00:26:15,920 --> 00:26:17,760 Watch this. The furnace has been turned up. 362 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,280 Groaning internal tension and watch this because you have 363 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,520 matured to the point where you can. 364 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,400 Handle the heat a little more. It don't mean the heat ain't 365 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,800 been turnt up. Watch this. 366 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,480 I don't get it twisted because you, because you can handle it, 367 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:34,240 don't mean it ain't getting hotter. 368 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,280 That is the point. It is getting hotter. 369 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,560 But watch this. You ain't fainting it yet, you 370 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:41,920 are maturing. You ain't quit yet. 371 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,760 You are maturing. You ain't cussed them out yet at 372 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,440 least. Today you are transforming 373 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,760 groaning. Groaning means deep yearning. 374 00:26:52,760 --> 00:26:57,160 There's a deep yearning. You know when you so mad at 375 00:26:57,160 --> 00:27:01,280 somebody and you got the cuss words ready on your tongue? 376 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:10,080 Like like watching like any anybody in here got anger issues 377 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,080 yes, you don't even got to answer if some of y'all got 378 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:17,760 anger issues yes, you do right, but you ever you you ever get so 379 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:23,080 mad that you just I've never done that in my life. 380 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:27,320 I just see people do it all the time right. 381 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,440 You do something you can't even get the words out. 382 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:33,880 You like little kids do it sometime Mike sometime Mike will 383 00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,840 be like anybody got a kid that do that? 384 00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,560 Sometime they shake. They self mad. 385 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,360 They they so mad they shake. I'm like you doing way too much. 386 00:27:45,360 --> 00:27:56,160 You done Are you are you done like OK, but in their mind it's 387 00:27:56,160 --> 00:28:01,880 something so big and God's just like you done, you done biting 388 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,480 your lip off you you done popping veins. 389 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,040 Are you done throwing a fit? Are you done throwing a tantrum? 390 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:15,080 Because once you finish, I still have the same request from you, 391 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,120 right? It's like no matter how many 392 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:22,080 fits you throw, I'm still your daddy. 393 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:23,840 Like God, you still going to be like that? 394 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,640 Can you pay for this? Can you pay for this field trip 395 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:28,600 for me? And I should be like. 396 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,960 I think that's what we going to do now when our kids ask for 397 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:41,440 something. Groaning is just a deep 398 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,600 yearning. It's something I can't express 399 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,680 even on, even though I think I have the words. 400 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:50,720 Watch this. Words is a form of expression, 401 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:56,040 but it doesn't always express what I'm trying to say. 402 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:06,400 Groaning is spiritual travail. Groaning is pressure that cannot 403 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:11,760 fully be articulated. I don't know. 404 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,240 This season that kind of. I just can't describe it. 405 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,840 I can't. You know, when you just sometime 406 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,840 I just can't. I just shut up When I pray. 407 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,040 Just sometime I say, Terence, shut up. 408 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,280 You don't even, you don't even know what you're talking about 409 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:26,280 right now. You don't know what to say. 410 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:32,160 You just Babble into God. And then I'll shut up and God be 411 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,160 like, thank you. Because I'm just talking. 412 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,320 I'm not God is doing something that doesn't require speaking. 413 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:46,200 It requires pushing. And you've been doing you, 414 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,520 you've, you've been, you've been doing a lot of talking in this 415 00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:50,640 season. And what's required is pushing. 416 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,280 He also says that creation eagerly waits. 417 00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,080 This is a this is a this is a good one right here. 418 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,320 Watch this. When it says creation eagerly 419 00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:05,880 waits, it is saying that creation has a strained, 420 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:13,920 strained expectation. It is strained like I'm popping, 421 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,720 but I'm I'm I'm on tip. That's why I bought 1 version 422 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,000 says I'm on standard. Creation is on tip toes. 423 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:25,280 I am strained. I I am doing everything I can to 424 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,920 express how desperate I am to step into this next dimension. 425 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,040 Creation eagerly waits. Watch this. 426 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:38,360 It has the meaning of a neck stretched. 427 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:43,880 You ever see nosy people? You ever see a nosy person with 428 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:45,040 a short neck? They they. 429 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:46,320 They're just like like you can't. 430 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,640 They almost lean all the way over into your business. 431 00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:01,360 Yeah, net stretched forward. That there is something drawing 432 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,920 you forward. There is something wooing 433 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,760 creation. There is something drawing you 434 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,440 to something greater. There is something that is 435 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,400 drawing you to something greater. 436 00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,560 That's why watch this. You cannot explain why you won't 437 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,880 give up. It ain't because you strong. 438 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,520 It's because there is something deep within you. 439 00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:29,640 Have you ever just kept showing up? 440 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,240 You like, I don't even know why I got how I got here, why I got 441 00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,360 here, why I came back. I don't know why I stepped in 442 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:36,720 this meeting. I don't know why I'm talking to 443 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,040 you again. I don't know why I'm back at 444 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,640 this church. I don't know why I went to this 445 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,240 job again. But there is something that 446 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,920 won't let you quit because there is something great on the 447 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:49,440 horizon and God is saying I have to step in. 448 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:54,640 I'm the one being wooing you next. 449 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:59,080 Stretch Forward, says laborers with birth pangs. 450 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:02,240 Labor with birth pangs have direction. 451 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,160 Laborers with birth pain has purpose. 452 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,680 It has outcome. Watch this. 453 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,640 Birth pains are different than hunger pains. 454 00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:20,040 Watch this what I'm talking about. 455 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:22,440 I can go to sleep on an empty belly. 456 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:25,880 I can't go to sleep on birth pains. 457 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,920 This that season where you haven't been sleeping 458 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:34,240 consistently at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, watch and it 459 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,160 get mixed for those that like just got bad sleep and habits 460 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,960 period. It's been getting mixed up in 461 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,240 that you just like, man, I just can't sleep or it's been the 462 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,200 food I've been or I've been traveling. 463 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,680 No, no, no, no, no. There is something in you in 464 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,520 this season, and part of the reason you're restless is 465 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:53,320 because there's something deep within you that God is trying to 466 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:55,120 get your attention. He is wooing you. 467 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,880 He will not let you settle down because He is about to settle 468 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:05,920 it. Birth pains is different than 469 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,760 soreness pains. Watch this. 470 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,240 I can deal with a sore. I can deal with soreness. 471 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:19,880 Soreness eventually leaves, but birthing pains don't leave till 472 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,480 you what give birth. It's got to come out. 473 00:33:28,420 --> 00:33:32,460 Watch this. Labor pains have an attached 474 00:33:32,500 --> 00:33:38,920 promise. I'm not going through this for 475 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,640 no reason. There is a watch this every 476 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,200 couple. Every you get that you get that 477 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:50,240 watch this due date. Now our faith will be a lot 478 00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:57,720 stronger if God gave us a due date, but Paul says be not 479 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:02,280 weary. In well doing for in due season 480 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:10,639 if you what faint not. Some of you would. 481 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:13,440 Faint if you knew the date because the due date would have 482 00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:17,120 been 15 years, you know, like, OK, God. 483 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:20,560 Well, that must not be God. It can't be God if it's. 15 484 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,000 years from now. Some of you think you would 485 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:30,400 endure if you knew the date. I I believe that most of us 486 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,320 would. Faint if we had the information. 487 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:45,080 Faith protects you too. Something labor with birth pain 488 00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,440 says something is coming to an end. 489 00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:58,640 Something is being evicted. Yeah, I'm having these birth 490 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:00,880 pains because something got to go. 491 00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:04,720 Something got to go. Birth pangs. 492 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:09,120 I watch this. It is also pains of preparation. 493 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:14,040 Have you ever looked at pain as preparation? 494 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:25,920 I want to give you 3 pressure. Points, pain points, whatever 495 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,640 you want to call it, but three pressure points. 496 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:34,080 Number one, you ready? Pressure is not always an 497 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:41,040 attack. Some pressure is warfare, Watch 498 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,800 this. But some pressure is transition. 499 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,040 Stop reading my notes, Michael. Stop reading my notes, Michael. 500 00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,120 Take your home. Take your home. 501 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:48,480 I got to hide my notes from Mike. 502 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:58,040 I got to do it this way, Mike. Over here like hey net going 503 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:06,760 forward. You know, help me to see me. 504 00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:13,080 Hey, man. Pressure is not always an 505 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:17,440 attack. Some pressure is warfare, but 506 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:20,720 some pressure is simply transition. 507 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:26,240 I am being opposed because I am making progress. 508 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:33,120 Come on guys, stop thinking that progress is only able in a 509 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:37,760 sinless life or in a mistake free life. 510 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:41,160 No no no no no, watch this. The devil wants you to think 511 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,520 This is why you free from condemnation, so you can realize 512 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:49,360 progress is possible even when I make mistakes right? 513 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:54,640 Some pressure is warfare, but some pressure is simply 514 00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:59,360 transition. Don't mistake contractions for 515 00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:03,520 contradiction, because contractions don't mean the 516 00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:10,800 promise died delivery, it means that delivery what has begun. 517 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:16,320 Contractions mean delivery has begun, and what feels like 518 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,760 destruction may actually be divine disruption. 519 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:25,240 You think you feeling contractions and you think it's 520 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:28,320 a contradiction to promise no there. 521 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:34,320 Is no promise without contractions, because 522 00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,080 contractions are the fruit of construction. 523 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:47,640 Something has been being has been getting built within those 524 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:54,640 something's been developing in there and now contractions say 525 00:37:54,640 --> 00:38:00,720 we ready. I'm trying to help somebody who 526 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:05,160 has endured and like last week, you are willing to say enough is 527 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:06,800 enough. The time is now. 528 00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:11,080 Watch this. I I am about to I am going to 529 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,800 reap for this contraction, but I'm also going to reap from the 530 00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:20,560 season of construction. Nine months. 531 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:25,000 It can truck watch this nine months of construction and you 532 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,720 think I'm not going to push? Tell me what Mama get to the 533 00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:33,680 last trimester and it's due season and she's sitting there 534 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,120 like, Nah, I'm good water broke. They're like, let's go to the 535 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,320 movies. Nah, water break. 536 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:41,440 I remember the water you was watch this. 537 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,000 You you know when it's around due season because you got that 538 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,800 bag ready to go. You got that bag ready to go. 539 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,760 You turn husbands turn into public service people. 540 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,120 They, we, the ambulance, we the fire department, we everything. 541 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,280 Watch this. The seat is back ready for her 542 00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,680 to get in. Everything is ready. 543 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,680 The car seat is in the back. For when you leave. 544 00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:09,320 You are prepared. No, no, no. 545 00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:12,360 What I remember, we was sitting, she was crisscross applesauce. 546 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,240 We was on the floor in that little studio. 547 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:22,720 I remember. She's like, Terence, watch this. 548 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:24,320 Here's the frustration. You, you all, you all. 549 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:27,240 You also get these. We mentioned it last week. 550 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:30,640 You get these false alarms. How many people? 551 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,640 This is this is a part of the birth pain. 552 00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,400 It's false alarms you, you ever get in that relationship, you 553 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,880 ever get in that friendship, you ever have people sit down with 554 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:45,560 you and promise you all kind of stuff and then and then you like 555 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:46,960 where they go. I thought they was going to call 556 00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,520 me back. Why did we do that photo shoot? 557 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:53,360 Why did we do this? Why did we do that? 558 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,760 I thought this was the friend. I thought this was the business 559 00:39:55,760 --> 00:40:04,080 opportunity. False alarms only so the doctor 560 00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:09,680 can say, Yep, you're not ready, go home, watch this, watch this. 561 00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:15,800 You have not stretched to the capacity to give delivery. 562 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,880 Watch this So although you're in pain, you're still safe. 563 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,480 Wait a minute, dog did that. I I know the baby is ready to 564 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,280 come out. He like no. 565 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:41,120 But you don't have the capacity to deliver because contractions 566 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:45,760 are the fruit of construction and God is disturbing what can 567 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,000 no longer contain the next dimension. 568 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:56,800 Do you understand when a baby is in the womb, they breathe in in 569 00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:03,120 water, they come out, they choking on water, they just 570 00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:08,320 enter the new dimension. What what what birth is saying 571 00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,400 is I actually grew out of that dimension. 572 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,640 Come on, somebody, I'm here to tell somebody the reason why 573 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,720 you've been in pain because you're growing out of the 574 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,560 dimension you used to be. You're growing out of 575 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:22,400 relationships, you're growing out of even your own mindset. 576 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,200 You're growing out of insecurities. 577 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,560 You're growing out of things that you've been praying to come 578 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,960 out of. So don't get mad that that 579 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,000 you're in the pain you're in. It's only because you're being 580 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,480 pushed into the new dimension. You can no longer stay in there. 581 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,400 God is disturbing what can no longer contain the next 582 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,080 dimension. What feels like pressure or 583 00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,480 crushing may actually be progress. 584 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,760 It may be progress. God's making arrangements for 585 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,480 arrival. Come on, somebody. 586 00:41:55,040 --> 00:41:57,520 God is making arrangements for arrival. 587 00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:59,120 Watch this. And you've been? 588 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:05,960 Distanced for disruption, Yeah, that's why some of the 589 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,000 separation has happened in relationships. 590 00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,080 That's why God has asked. You to walk away from that thing 591 00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:13,240 you really loved and you like I'm not done with it, he said, 592 00:42:13,240 --> 00:42:17,760 but I'm done with it. Did you did you realize you was 593 00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,480 in the covenant? So when God is done with it, you 594 00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:22,840 should be done with it. And that's some of our problem. 595 00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:24,880 We still entertain the stuff he done with. 596 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,440 So we're in delay because we not done. 597 00:42:33,720 --> 00:42:38,400 We're in delay because. We're not done. 598 00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:41,120 But the enemy told you you were overwhelmed. 599 00:42:41,120 --> 00:42:42,800 The enemy told you you're overwhelmed. 600 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,720 You put them words in your mouth in this lassie. 601 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,680 I'm so overwhelmed. Some of you even went to the 602 00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,880 doctors to let them tell you what's wrong with you. 603 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:52,520 Doctor, I'm having all these symptoms I think I need. 604 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:55,000 I think I'm having anxiety. I think I'm depressed. 605 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,840 And then they prescribe you some medicine and that medicine has 606 00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:00,840 side effects and, and now you worse and you gain weight and 607 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:03,440 you, you, you, you have different side effects that you 608 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:05,040 can't handle. And now you're in this 609 00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:09,280 whirlwind. You told the wrong person what 610 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:14,160 you was going through. Enemy told you you're 611 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,080 overwhelmed. You're you're you're breaking. 612 00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,840 Some of us right now could look back into a season where we can 613 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,560 say when I turned that corner, where I'm at now is the fruit of 614 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:28,360 the decision I made a year ago. I don't I don't know about you, 615 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,440 but there's things that I've been in and I'm like, Dang, I 616 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:34,920 know OK, sometimes you got you don't know you made the wrong 617 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,600 decision till three years later. Watch this. 618 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:43,760 But we serve a. God, that can make up time, 619 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,040 right? He don't really make up time. 620 00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:53,480 He just put you ahead. He restores. 621 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:57,160 He don't make up time. He gives you brand new no, no, 622 00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,440 you what loss he don't need no, no, no, no, we don't need to go 623 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,760 to the hand me down store. We don't need to go to. 624 00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:05,280 What thrifty we don't need What's the what's your what's 625 00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:06,720 your favorite? What's your favorite store 626 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:08,440 thrift shop? What's your what's your favorite 627 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:09,760 thrift shop? What's your favorite thrift 628 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:10,960 shop? Some of y'all scared to say I 629 00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:13,080 love thrifting. Value Village. 630 00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:15,840 He don't need Value Village. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 631 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:16,800 no, No. He can. 632 00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:19,920 When God he is not he, he, he can make it all up. 633 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:24,280 I love thrifty. You are breaking. 634 00:44:24,720 --> 00:44:26,920 The enemy is like you breaking down this end. 635 00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,560 I don't know about you, but I'm not. 636 00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:32,280 I know I'm not by myself. Even as a pastor, as a fasting 637 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,920 man, a praying man, a man that loves, a man that tries to obey 638 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:38,680 God in every step of the way. Yeah, I've had thoughts of 639 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,440 death. Yeah. 640 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,280 I've stayed up late at night thinking about if this was the 641 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:48,040 last day. Yeah, I've had some anxiety. 642 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:52,320 Yeah. Don't think because people are 643 00:44:52,320 --> 00:44:56,520 up here that they no, no, no, no, some folks that's ready to 644 00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:58,600 commit suicide is preaching you sermons. 645 00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:12,880 The enemy, these voices, how it feels, the scripture reframes 646 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,320 the lie. Watch this. 647 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:18,720 I really pray this bless some of you. 648 00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:37,720 You are dilating for destiny. You are dilating for destiny. 649 00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:44,200 No, no, the reason why you got sent back home is so God can 650 00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:50,760 increase capacity. God's making arrangements for 651 00:45:50,760 --> 00:46:10,370 your arrival. Nobody, nobody .2 Here we go. 652 00:46:11,690 --> 00:46:16,690 You don't push at the start of pregnancy. 653 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,800 I didn't have three of them. I ain't never seen my wife. 654 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,960 First month. Pushing. 655 00:46:33,520 --> 00:46:38,040 You don't push in the beginning. Yeah. 656 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:40,840 You don't have contractions in the beginning. 657 00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:43,480 You. You excited in the beginning. 658 00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:44,760 You. Like who are we going to keep it 659 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,440 in the oven? We ain't going to tell nobody. 660 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:49,560 We ain't going to tell nobody till after three months. 661 00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:55,120 We ain't going to tell nobody. But you always tell somebody and 662 00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,560 then you tell them. Don't tell nobody. 663 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:01,840 Keep a secret for me. We pregnant. 664 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:09,360 Right what what if somebody just told you they was they was a 665 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,760 month and a half pregnant? No, we don't do month and a 666 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,200 half. We do like. 258 weeks pregnant. 667 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,920 I'm 258 weeks pregnant but what have you is this like I'm six 668 00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,880 week pregnant and she walking around like this? 669 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,200 Oh. No, no, no, don't start getting 670 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,640 dramatic yet, OK? Like don't push the drama. 671 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:33,280 Yet, like slow down, OK, you can still go to work or you can 672 00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,320 still go to the gym. Like we ain't there yet. 673 00:47:41,680 --> 00:47:44,760 Nobody pushes in the first month. 674 00:47:46,640 --> 00:47:50,560 Watch this. Pushing happens when deliveries. 675 00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:54,840 Near. I'm trying to really encourage 676 00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,160 somebody right now to understand the reason. 677 00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:01,320 It's been a stretch, A crush, a. Push is because delivery is 678 00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,080 near. Somebody say delivery is near. 679 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:10,080 Yeah, delivery is near. That should excite a few of you. 680 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:16,800 Pushing only increase because the time of delivery is upon us. 681 00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:22,440 Somebody say time is upon us. Come on, Somebody say, I think 682 00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:26,280 we in due season. Yeah, the pushing, the 683 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:30,800 stretching, the crushing has increased because time for 684 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:35,320 delivery is upon us. You're coming out of that 685 00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:37,560 depression. You're coming out of that 686 00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:41,000 anxiety. You're coming out of oppression. 687 00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:46,480 Time is upon us. Watch this. 688 00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:50,840 Bless somebody. Hell does not fight empty people 689 00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:58,920 this hard. Hell does not fight empty people 690 00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:03,200 this hard. I don't care what you think of 691 00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,360 yourself any crazy how you can doubt yourself but you still get 692 00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:10,560 attacked that cause the devil don't doubt you. 693 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:20,560 The devil don't doubt you. He doesn't fight empty people 694 00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:24,880 this hard. I, I mean, he's just been, he 695 00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:27,480 didn't, he didn't just put his foot on my neck. 696 00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:32,240 He he, he has put his both. Hands around my neck. 697 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:36,280 He wouldn't he? He not just attacking me, 698 00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:40,520 attacking my family, attacking my friends, he attacking 699 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:46,960 finances, he attacking, but he he's attacking because he might 700 00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:48,920 be. Aware of something that you just 701 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:53,840 will not pay attention to? Maybe you're stronger than you 702 00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:59,520 really think you are. Maybe you are that interruption 703 00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:03,840 in your bloodline. Maybe you are wiser than you 704 00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:06,480 really thought. Maybe you didn't get the 705 00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:11,400 diploma, but maybe you are the entrepreneur, the pioneer that 706 00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:16,160 he has called you to be. Hell does not fight empty people 707 00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:20,480 this hard. Like you doing all of that to 708 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,880 stop little old me. OK, I'm going to stop calling 709 00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,520 myself little old me cuz clear watch this. 710 00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,520 This ain't just the devil, this is all the hell trying to stop 711 00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,000 me. There's attacks on the left, 712 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:37,440 attacks on the right, attacks in front of me, attacks behind me, 713 00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:40,640 attacks in the daytime, attacks in the night, when I go to 714 00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:44,960 sleep, when I wake up, in family and friends, at church, at the 715 00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,320 gym. It don't matter that you are 716 00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:52,280 trying to Take Me Out for a reason and I can't help but to 717 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,920 begin to believe that. There's something that God is 718 00:50:55,920 --> 00:51:04,160 trying to push out of me that the world needs, not just my 719 00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:14,640 bloodline, but the world needs. The church is entering a labor 720 00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:17,880 room season. We are not just gathering 721 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,520 crowds, but watch this, we are not just gathering crowds in the 722 00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,840 season. We are birthing disciples. 723 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,000 We are birthing leaders. We are birthing prayer warriors. 724 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:29,760 Man, I met with the prayer team yesterday. 725 00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:31,800 I'm like. Look at the team. 726 00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:34,080 It's growing. It's it's, it's that I'm 727 00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:37,280 listening to people's prayer lives grow people praying the 728 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,960 word people, man, you get Vanessa up here, man, I've I've 729 00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:43,040 walked with Vanessa and I'm like, girl, go on ahead. 730 00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:52,920 She she has stepped in. I have seen people in here with 731 00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:56,920 the enemy having their hand be around your neck and I'm see, I 732 00:51:56,920 --> 00:51:59,600 can see Vanessa, your affect has changed. 733 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,160 You, you're, you're a brand new woman. 734 00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:04,600 You're a bald, wet. You're you. 735 00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:13,400 You are unstoppable. You're healthier, you're whole 736 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,680 and you're, you're free. You're strong. 737 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,640 You're watch this man, I'm telling you. 738 00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,560 And there's people that when you just keep going, they don't 739 00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:27,760 matter. Cry, curl up, but show up, keep 740 00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:31,160 going, keep coming. And once you get your prayer 741 00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:34,600 life right, and once you start barking back at the dogs of 742 00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,760 hell, and once you start fighting back and once you start 743 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,200 standing, that's what he's afraid of. 744 00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:44,760 I am giving birth in this season. 745 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:50,160 We're we're birthing healed families in this season. 746 00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:53,040 We, I don't, I don't care who show up, who don't show up. 747 00:52:53,240 --> 00:52:57,200 But what I do know is God has not put this oil on me to waste 748 00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:01,320 my time on people that don't want to go deeper and wider and 749 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,200 higher in the things of God. This is a Kingdom church. 750 00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,840 God is calling his church and the gates of hell shall not 751 00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,000 prevail. The Kingdom suffers violence and 752 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,680 the violence and take it by force. 753 00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:18,920 It's not no religious ordeal. Souls are dying, families are 754 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,280 dying, kids are without their parents. 755 00:53:21,440 --> 00:53:26,000 And there is a church rising up that know how to pray, that got 756 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:31,000 a backbone, that know how to rejoice in the midst of sorrow. 757 00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:36,560 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're birthing awakened sons and 758 00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:43,160 daughters that know how to hear. That know how to discern that's 759 00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:55,040 not easily offended Olympian. Saints, elite Saints, not just 760 00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,000 religious, go to church. No, no, no, no. 761 00:53:58,040 --> 00:53:59,920 These little hell, man. No, no. 762 00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:06,600 No, no, Jesus Christ lives. He shed blood for me, He gave 763 00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:10,840 his life for me, and then he had the nerves to get up for me. 764 00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,480 We are birthing revival carriers, yeah. 765 00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:23,880 We're birthing revival carriers. We're birthing Kingdom builders. 766 00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:29,520 This isn't a cosmetic church, this is an Apostolic labor that 767 00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:35,400 we're in God. Yes, God is commanding in this 768 00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,480 season. Put them back how I found them. 769 00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:47,440 Watch this. Joel 225 says, and I will 770 00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:53,760 restore or replace for you the years that dot dot dot, I don't 771 00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,280 know who I'm talking to, but you fill in the blank. 772 00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,480 The years that you mess with my relationship, the years that you 773 00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,960 mess with my father's health, the years that you took my Mama 774 00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,360 from cancer. The years that whatever it may 775 00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:10,520 be for you, God says I will restore and I, I will replace. 776 00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:17,720 For you. For keyword, for you, for you 777 00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:22,440 for for I wish I had ink in my finger for you. 778 00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:31,680 Not the moment, the years, the years, your insecurities. 779 00:55:31,680 --> 00:55:39,600 Stole from you. Because one of the things God 780 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:44,400 does in a labor. Room is he restores what was 781 00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:50,360 lost in previous seasons there's a. 782 00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,800 Time to die and a time to live, right? 783 00:55:53,240 --> 00:55:56,160 There's a time for death and there's a time for life, right? 784 00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,440 There's a time to mourn and there's also a time to 785 00:55:59,440 --> 00:56:01,480 celebrate. And I just would like to believe 786 00:56:01,480 --> 00:56:04,160 that we're in a. Season where God is about to put 787 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:08,800 celebration on overflow. It it's not just going to be by 788 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:13,040 faith celebration. God's about to give us actual 789 00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,520 evidence. Folks ain't going to ask you why 790 00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:18,880 you praising them. They're going to be like, I see 791 00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:25,600 why you praising God. I see why you waited. 792 00:56:25,600 --> 00:56:29,520 I see why you didn't faint. I see why you keep showing up. 793 00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:35,320 Somebody shout out, I see. With hell stolen seasons, God 794 00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:42,720 restores in moments. I I can't. 795 00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:45,760 Imagine it but all the pain the mother goes through soon as they 796 00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:50,360 hold that baby I I could only imagine they forget that that 797 00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:53,120 they all open up and they they they just vulnerable. 798 00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:55,040 They they can't feel their back or nothing. 799 00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:59,920 They just see this baby and they like, oh, I mean I'll. 800 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:03,760 I don't know if anybody made that noise, but just whatever. 801 00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:09,920 All right? What hell stolen? 802 00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:13,400 Seasons. God restores in moments. 803 00:57:13,680 --> 00:57:16,280 Some of you are about to recover years. 804 00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,080 So now here. Some of you are about to recover 805 00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,520 years. Some of you are about to recover 806 00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:24,960 focus. Some of you are about to recover 807 00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:27,760 your fire, your vigor, your fervor. 808 00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:30,400 Some of you are about to recover your vision. 809 00:57:30,560 --> 00:57:32,680 Some of you are about to recover your dreams. 810 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,920 Some of you are about to recover your joy. 811 00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,400 Some of you are about to recover your authority. 812 00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:39,800 Some of you are about to recover your prayer life. 813 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,440 Some of you are about to recover your purpose. 814 00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,720 You are about to recover. We aren't just getting new, we 815 00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:51,640 are getting recovery. Watch this. 816 00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,560 And this is a season where it ain't happening gradually. 817 00:57:54,680 --> 00:58:00,080 It's happening suddenly. It's happening suddenly. 818 00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:08,200 It's happening suddenly. The process weeping may endure 819 00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:13,120 for a night, but in the morning joy comes suddenly it is going 820 00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:17,480 to come up on us. And then the third pressure 821 00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:22,280 point is labor requires whoa, participation. 822 00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:27,480 Can I help you? Before we close, labor requires 823 00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:33,280 participation. Watch this Participation Watch 824 00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:40,160 this Doctors assist in the labor, midwives what they guide 825 00:58:40,400 --> 00:58:45,520 in the labor Watch this But the mothers still got a what push 826 00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:56,560 participation. Heaven will partner with you, 827 00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,720 but heaven will not push for you. 828 00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:02,840 I don't know if that's good news or bad news for some people. 829 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:06,000 Watch this. This is why we got push 830 00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:10,360 partners. Right, watch this in the labor 831 00:59:10,360 --> 00:59:11,800 room. I I don't mean to come down 832 00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:15,360 anybody row, but everybody can't come in the labor room. 833 00:59:16,280 --> 00:59:18,560 The the wife be the wife be picking. 834 00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:20,480 And choosing who could come in there. 835 00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,520 And some folks you don't even want your Mama in the labor room 836 00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:25,920 for show. Not your in laws. 837 00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,080 You don't want nobody in the labor room. 838 00:59:28,760 --> 00:59:33,040 Some of you don't even want your spouse in the room and I feel 839 00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:37,200 you because watch this you do not want to compromise what you 840 00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:42,360 about to push out. You need whoever's in that room 841 00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:46,320 got to help me do one thing push and stay focused on what 842 00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:48,960 pushing. I don't care how tired I am, I 843 00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:52,320 need to what put. My wife pushed for it felt like 844 00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:56,920 months. It was 18 hours, it was almost 845 00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,480 like 2 days. They they put the epidural. 846 00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:05,560 She had two. 22222. Things that phrased her up two, 847 01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:10,440 she had epidural, then she had a spinal one. 848 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,560 The first one didn't take. I was like, man, it came out her 849 01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:18,280 back. I was like, I'm scared of her. 850 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:27,400 She, she over here just. Pushing she like I'm like, who 851 01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:32,680 is this woman? And I remember she was, she was 852 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,800 pushing and pushing and then, well, guess what? 853 01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:41,080 And you rest because you can't push no more. 854 01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:45,120 And then the. Doctor come on and watch this. 855 01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:49,720 You push so much that poop come like the stuff come out. 856 01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,800 So don't be mad when in a push season stuff get messy and 857 01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:55,880 stinky. Has anybody experienced 858 01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:59,480 messiness in this season? Like you was trying to do what 859 01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:01,640 God told you and somehow it just got messy. 860 01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,400 You like, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but we got to get this thing out 861 01:01:05,400 --> 01:01:09,680 in this season. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. 862 01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,240 You. Hey, I have made some mistakes 863 01:01:12,240 --> 01:01:18,480 in this season trying to obey God, but but immature trying to 864 01:01:18,520 --> 01:01:20,960 obey God. You thought you heard him and 865 01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:22,560 you made a mistake. Watch this. 866 01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,480 Peter got out the boat trying to obey God. 867 01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:30,000 Stop giving him a hard time for sinking because he sank. 868 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:36,040 It was not a sign he lost faith. He sank in obedience. 869 01:01:37,040 --> 01:01:40,680 So learn how to see when people are trying and they may have 870 01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:44,160 missed God to you. But God says, yeah, yeah, Now I 871 01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:50,680 know I could trust the one that was sinking, pursuing me versus 872 01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,960 someone that is critiquing but disobeying me. 873 01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:59,520 At least I got out the boat where you at. 874 01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:03,960 At least I know him a little bit more because he the one that 875 01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:08,480 carried me back in the boat. So you can watch me walk with 876 01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:14,080 Jesus or we can walk with Jesus together, but it's going to get 877 01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:16,760 messy when you're pushing with all your might. 878 01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:18,920 Stuff is going to come out of your mouth. 879 01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:22,240 Say sorry, keep it pushing. You are free from. 880 01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:25,120 Condemnation. But the reason why it has gotten 881 01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:28,000 messy is because you are pushing harder than you ever have. 882 01:02:30,440 --> 01:02:32,080 Watch this. Something's got messy because 883 01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:44,240 you chose not to say something. Somebody say push, heaven will 884 01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:50,040 not push for you. But Romans 826 says that the 885 01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:53,720 Holy Spirit does not replace. Watch this. 886 01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,320 It does not say he replaces our participation. 887 01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:03,160 It said He comes alongside our burden and when we can't pray, 888 01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:07,040 he prays through US. He prays, watch this. 889 01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,160 He prays through our burden, watch this. 890 01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,720 We have to have something to articulate to not to be able to. 891 01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:19,080 We have to have something to articulate in order to not be 892 01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:23,000 able to articulate it. I'll say that again. 893 01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:29,040 You have to have something to articulate in order to not be 894 01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:32,360 able to articulate it. So what? 895 01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:34,600 The Holy Spirit prays through us. 896 01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:38,880 Is what we have to say but can't say it. 897 01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:43,160 Don't think because you can't open your mouth. 898 01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:50,680 You don't got a prayer in you sometime Danny, or sometime, so 899 01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:53,640 sometime whoever you was laid on that pillow and all you could do 900 01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:56,680 is cry and you didn't know the Holy Spirit. 901 01:03:56,680 --> 01:04:01,440 Used your groaning, your tears, your frustration, and you've 902 01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:04,080 been more mad at yourself because you couldn't articulate 903 01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:07,200 yourself. But you do not know that the 904 01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:12,160 intercessor Holy Spirit has took that burden to the Lord for you. 905 01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,320 Real prayer is not casual conversation. 906 01:04:17,320 --> 01:04:22,720 Real prayer is labor. Some prayers are soft, but there 907 01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:26,640 are seasons where prayer turns into travail, where your Spirit 908 01:04:26,640 --> 01:04:29,040 says. I cannot stay here anymore. 909 01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:33,160 My family must shift. My children must be saved, this 910 01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,400 city must encounter God, and this region must awaken. 911 01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:38,880 I'm looking for some Saints that will stop coming to church. 912 01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:40,800 We. Just a little casual and 913 01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:47,360 actually have a burden. Because there are dimensions 914 01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:51,760 that only open to people willing to push. 915 01:04:54,000 --> 01:04:57,280 If you don't know how to push, you won't see nothing open for 916 01:04:57,280 --> 01:05:01,800 you. Stuff getting handed to you is 917 01:05:01,800 --> 01:05:04,000 not necessarily things opening for you. 918 01:05:07,200 --> 01:05:10,240 Here's what I do know. Daniel prayed one day and 919 01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:14,960 haven't responded immediately. But manifestation took time 920 01:05:17,680 --> 01:05:21,040 because there was resistance. Here it is. 921 01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:27,720 Delay is not denial. You're just in labor and the 922 01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:31,520 danger is here. People, people leave the labor 923 01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:38,960 room too soon. As we come to this close, I want 924 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:47,160 to encourage somebody that you may have left the labor room too 925 01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:51,840 soon, but there's an open door for you to enter back in today 926 01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,320 because you notice you've left the labor room, but you still 927 01:05:55,760 --> 01:06:01,240 have birth pains. You stop praying too soon. 928 01:06:01,240 --> 01:06:04,080 You stop believing too soon. You stop declaring too soon. 929 01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:07,400 You stop standing too stone and watch this. 930 01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:11,000 Those people aboard what was closest to breakthrough. 931 01:06:16,500 --> 01:06:20,020 There are some things in your life that look like they died in 932 01:06:20,020 --> 01:06:22,740 your hands. Can y'all close with me? 933 01:06:23,340 --> 01:06:26,540 There are some things in your life that look like they're died 934 01:06:26,540 --> 01:06:30,140 in your hands. They died on your clock. 935 01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,160 They're things that you tried. You've hurt people. 936 01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:37,720 You've let people down. You've started businesses and 937 01:06:37,720 --> 01:06:40,280 things. Things seemingly died. 938 01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:44,400 Relationships seemingly were destroyed. 939 01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:49,000 Opportunities were seemingly blown. 940 01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:55,040 You whip me. Dreams are seemingly over you. 941 01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:58,800 You think you messed it up. And promises and vision and fire 942 01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:02,320 and prayer and hope. But I'm here to encourage a few 943 01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,720 people because you kept trusting God. 944 01:07:04,720 --> 01:07:06,840 You like I didn't really trust God up here. 945 01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:09,520 Watch this. You kept showing up. 946 01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:15,520 You kept showing up. Some of you, you kept asking the 947 01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:18,240 questions. Some of you, you kept showing up 948 01:07:18,240 --> 01:07:20,080 and letting them talk about you. Watch this. 949 01:07:20,080 --> 01:07:23,240 You chose to keep loving. You kept trying. 950 01:07:23,240 --> 01:07:27,240 You kept forgiving. You didn't. 951 01:07:27,240 --> 01:07:29,000 You didn't manipulate. You might have. 952 01:07:29,000 --> 01:07:33,000 Gave up on it, but you didn't stay to try and force it. 953 01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:38,000 And I think sometime what you don't realize is what you call 954 01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:43,480 quitting was God forcing a forfeit. 955 01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,560 No, no, no, because you would have stayed and tried to 956 01:07:48,560 --> 01:07:52,280 manipulate it and force something and actually kill it. 957 01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:57,840 You have to die to it. You having to die to something. 958 01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:00,440 Is different than you killing something. 959 01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:10,240 And there's some things that I'm here to tell you today because 960 01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:13,040 you didn't give up, because you kept you kept showing up. 961 01:08:13,040 --> 01:08:15,000 Watch this. And because you kept praying 962 01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:17,880 about it. Some things people don't even 963 01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:21,560 know you still pray about. It's the thing that you don't, 964 01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:24,240 you know, you tired of asking people to stand in agreement 965 01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:27,720 with you for. Watch this. 966 01:08:30,720 --> 01:08:35,000 OK, I'm here to tell you one thing that God is about to 967 01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:40,520 revisit what seemed to die in your hands. 968 01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:48,760 Second Kings four, there was a woman, it says she went up and 969 01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:55,399 laid him, her son on the bed of the womb of the of the man of 970 01:08:55,399 --> 01:08:59,600 the man of God. She shut the door up on him and 971 01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:03,560 the Bible says she went out. I want you to notice something, 972 01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:07,520 guys. Her son died, but this is the 973 01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:12,240 same son that came by word. Watch this guys. 974 01:09:13,359 --> 01:09:18,439 She refused to bury her son. She laid them down. 975 01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:23,920 She didn't bury her son. She laid them down. 976 01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:28,479 She shut the door, put him on the same bed, left him in the 977 01:09:28,479 --> 01:09:32,120 same room that the Word brought him to life. 978 01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:37,319 Watch this. She did not bury her son because 979 01:09:37,319 --> 01:09:42,640 her son represented a promise. She laid it in the room, 980 01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:46,319 connected him to the Word. Because Faith knows where to 981 01:09:46,319 --> 01:09:51,399 lay. What cannot, it cannot revive. 982 01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:56,400 Faith knows how to lay things down that it cannot bring back 983 01:09:56,400 --> 01:09:59,120 to life. You thought you quit. 984 01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,880 What if I told you it took you faith? 985 01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:08,680 To lay it down what if I told you it actually was faith it 986 01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:12,240 took to walk away what if I. Told you it was actually faith 987 01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:17,200 to not call them back and let things be. 988 01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:20,800 What if I told you it was faith to not bring it up, you thought. 989 01:10:20,800 --> 01:10:23,960 You can convince them there's people in your family, in your 990 01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:27,400 friends circle that watch this you like I. 991 01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:30,680 Know I got a word for them. I want to share a scripture with 992 01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:32,680 them. I want to bring them to church. 993 01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,040 I want to invite them. But you stopped inviting them 994 01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:36,480 and you like, I'm giving up on them. 995 01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:39,840 What if I told you what you think is giving up on your 996 01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,320 family member is you actually laying it down? 997 01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:51,400 Because sometimes it takes more faith to let it go then the hold 998 01:10:51,400 --> 01:11:01,960 on for it and hope it through. She laid it down, she said. 999 01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:06,720 If God gave it, if God spoke it, God can. 1000 01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:15,000 Breathe on it again. God is about to send a fresh 1001 01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:21,600 wind by His Spirit into places that looked lifeless. 1002 01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:28,840 A lot of times before God blows his wind of promise, the enemy 1003 01:11:28,840 --> 01:11:34,520 gets an alert and he sends a wind of discouragement and it's 1004 01:11:34,520 --> 01:11:37,000 strong. It's meant to take you out. 1005 01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:41,880 It's meant to take you out of. Position for the second wind 1006 01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:51,520 that's coming God is about to send a fresh wind by his Spirit 1007 01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:57,600 into places that looked lifeless and so you have a word to stand 1008 01:11:57,600 --> 01:12:03,280 on Ezekiel 37. Nine come from the four winds O. 1009 01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:07,840 Breath and breathe on the slain that. 1010 01:12:07,840 --> 01:12:11,240 They may live. Lift your hands right where you 1011 01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:19,560 are. You may not fully see it yet, 1012 01:12:20,480 --> 01:12:24,280 you you may not even experience the kicking anymore. 1013 01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:27,560 And you like, what am I pushing for? 1014 01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:31,000 I don't feel life, I don't, I don't experience life. 1015 01:12:31,600 --> 01:12:33,360 I don't have nothing to hold on to. 1016 01:12:33,360 --> 01:12:37,280 But God says there is kicking. There there is. 1017 01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:41,400 Kicking. Some of you may say my hope was 1018 01:12:41,400 --> 01:12:46,400 deferred, but there is kicking and God says He is about to 1019 01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:50,000 breathe. He is about to send a wind into 1020 01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:54,720 the very place that you thought represented death. 1021 01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,640 And there are some things that are about to be restored in your 1022 01:12:58,640 --> 01:13:00,160 life. There are some things that are 1023 01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:02,000 about to be raised again in your life. 1024 01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:04,880 But I promise you, they're coming back stronger, they're 1025 01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:08,080 coming back wiser, they're coming back more beautiful. 1026 01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:09,760 You're going to be a better steward. 1027 01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:12,960 You're going to be more mature. You're not going to idolize it 1028 01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:15,920 anymore. God is about to blow a wind in 1029 01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:17,680 your marriage. He's about to blow a wind in 1030 01:13:17,680 --> 01:13:20,880 your finances. He is about to do a suddenly 1031 01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:26,880 just push. Just push. 1032 01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:31,120 And I don't know who you are in here, but if you have felt like 1033 01:13:31,120 --> 01:13:33,080 God has been speaking to your womb. 1034 01:13:33,080 --> 01:13:38,640 Today, stand to your feet and begin to pray with me and pray 1035 01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:42,480 with your neighbor and just open your mouth, just lift your 1036 01:13:42,480 --> 01:13:44,600 hands. Right where you. 1037 01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:52,600 Are and you can lift your. Voice instruments are went. 1038 01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:56,440 They produce wind. But right now we are in the 1039 01:13:56,440 --> 01:14:01,200 labour room and I promise you, whatever it is, you will see it 1040 01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:05,240 before this year is over. You will see it before this year 1041 01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,600 is over. You will see your progress. 1042 01:14:07,800 --> 01:14:10,040 You will watch this. God is going to put you in 1043 01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:13,040 positions that will expose your growth. 1044 01:14:14,760 --> 01:14:17,760 God is going to put you in positions that is going to 1045 01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:26,080 expose your maturity. Yeah, maturity is coming. 1046 01:14:26,080 --> 01:14:29,440 Strength is coming. There are monetary things that 1047 01:14:29,440 --> 01:14:31,920 are coming before this year is over. 1048 01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:34,360 Everything is shifting in your life. 1049 01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:37,360 Everything is shifting in your life. 1050 01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:47,200 It has to shift in your life. Yeah, you got to push. 1051 01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,520 You believe in for health, you might need to change your diet. 1052 01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:52,520 Changing your diet is you pushing. 1053 01:14:53,280 --> 01:14:57,600 Going to the gym is US pushing. Whatever it is, Heaven will not 1054 01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:00,240 go to the gym. Heaven will not grocery shop for 1055 01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,360 you. Whatever it may be, Heaven will 1056 01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:05,520 not apologize for you. Heaven will not forgive for you. 1057 01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:08,040 You got to push where you got to push. 1058 01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:11,560 The manifestation will be progressive. 1059 01:15:13,120 --> 01:15:15,360 The manifestation will be progressive. 1060 01:15:17,480 --> 01:15:20,960 Don't. Walk out of here today doing 1061 01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:27,880 nothing but believing it's done. You might go home to the same 1062 01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:30,120 home. You might go home to people with 1063 01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:33,600 the same attitude and that when somebody you walk in that house, 1064 01:15:33,600 --> 01:15:36,200 if somebody give you attitude, just say I believe it's done. 1065 01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:45,840 Do do not waver anymore. Do do not lose hope anymore. 1066 01:15:47,480 --> 01:15:51,320 Stand firm. I'll say it three more times. 1067 01:15:51,520 --> 01:15:59,360 Stand firm, stand firm, stand firm. 1068 01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:02,920 He said it. He will do it now. 1069 01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:10,160 All you got to do is push. All you got to do is show up. 1070 01:16:10,640 --> 01:16:14,640 All you got to do is be still. All you got to do is keep your 1071 01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:17,200 confession. All you got to do is keep 1072 01:16:17,200 --> 01:16:19,760 declaring. All you got to do is keep 1073 01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,840 showing up. All you got to do is speak life. 1074 01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:37,570 Speak, live, speak, live. The bones are already dry. 1075 01:16:37,570 --> 01:16:49,450 Speak, live, speak, live, speak, live, speak, live. 1076 01:16:51,650 --> 01:16:55,210 What's failure to man could be progress to God. 1077 01:16:56,680 --> 01:17:04,200 Keep pushing. The conversation may get heated 1078 01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:05,920 when you get home, but guess what? 1079 01:17:05,920 --> 01:17:10,080 You're having a conversation. Have the conversation. 1080 01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:15,160 Sit in the tension. It's changing. 1081 01:17:15,160 --> 01:17:17,640 I promise you it's changing. You got to keep going. 1082 01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:20,720 You got to keep doing the reps You got to keep putting in the 1083 01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:22,120 reps. I don't care how many shots you 1084 01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:25,000 miss. Do the reps A miss is a Rep. 1085 01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:32,920 I don't care how heavy it is if you lift it halfway up, halfway 1086 01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:38,200 is a wrap. And here it is, here it is, here 1087 01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:42,600 it is. Here it is here it is here it is 1088 01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:51,080 someone in this room. Your push has been hindered by 1089 01:17:51,080 --> 01:18:00,200 comparison. You've experienced fatigue 1090 01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:04,600 because you can't keep up to the image of someone else. 1091 01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:12,240 You may enter a season where God keep says keep your eyes on me 1092 01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:14,520 and you and what I told you about you. 1093 01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:23,000 If comparison is a weak spot, do everything you got to do to 1094 01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:27,520 remove whatever you're comparing yourself to from in front of 1095 01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:34,560 you. Have mentors, have goals, have 1096 01:18:34,560 --> 01:18:41,980 vision boards. Don't compare your husband to 1097 01:18:41,980 --> 01:18:44,100 another husband. Don't compare your wife to 1098 01:18:44,100 --> 01:18:48,780 another wife. Don't compare your business to 1099 01:18:48,780 --> 01:18:50,900 where it's at today to somebody else's. 1100 01:18:52,180 --> 01:18:54,300 Don't compare your family to another family. 1101 01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,160 Don't compare your art to another person's art. 1102 01:18:59,960 --> 01:19:04,440 In this season, kick comparison out the labor room. 1103 01:19:08,480 --> 01:19:11,760 Watch this cause ain't nobody in the hospital birthing the baby 1104 01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:16,240 you birthing. Pull, Pull the curtains back. 1105 01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:19,560 Close the door. Come on. 1106 01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:22,200 Ain't nobody pursing the baby. That's you. 1107 01:19:22,520 --> 01:19:25,240 I've been carrying this baby around for nine months. 1108 01:19:25,440 --> 01:19:28,600 You aren't allowed in this room. This is my baby. 1109 01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:31,360 This is my push. This is my time. 1110 01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:41,680 So whoever God has called in your life to help, to be the 1111 01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:45,800 doctor, to be the midwife, to be the nurses, you better identify 1112 01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:49,280 them and identify them clearly in this season while you're 1113 01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:53,720 pushing, you got to leave some people in the waiting room 1114 01:19:56,840 --> 01:20:00,920 because after the labor room, guys, it's the recovery room. 1115 01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:05,800 So some people just need to know you gave birth and send them 1116 01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:12,960 home. We got to get the baby out the 1117 01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:16,640 womb. We got to take the baby's vital 1118 01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:20,560 signs. We got to get the baby home. 1119 01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:23,760 And then it's time to nurture it. 1120 01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:29,640 So it can grow what you're giving birth to in this season. 1121 01:20:30,440 --> 01:20:32,040 Watch this. It's not your dream. 1122 01:20:33,200 --> 01:20:36,680 It's his dream for you. It's bigger than you. 1123 01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:41,360 One last time all. Over the room, just lift your 1124 01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:54,600 hands. Yeah, it's been hard. 1125 01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:01,080 It's been tough. Listen, your pastor have cried 1126 01:21:01,080 --> 01:21:05,120 with you. I've had my tears. 1127 01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:09,120 I have had my moments considering quitting. 1128 01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:13,600 Me and my wife have had our arguments. 1129 01:21:20,200 --> 01:21:22,000 I'm telling you guys, it's just worth it. 1130 01:21:23,880 --> 01:21:31,280 God is faithful and you will see the fruit of your labor. 1131 01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:33,480 You will see the fruit of your push. 1132 01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:37,720 You will see the fruit of your diligence. 1133 01:21:39,240 --> 01:21:41,320 I want to say thank you for showing up again. 1134 01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:48,120 There's not one person in this room that has not quit for a 1135 01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:54,920 moment, but you showed up. Now God's about to show out. 1136 01:22:03,750 --> 01:22:07,150 It's it's been taking long because he's, he's, you're being 1137 01:22:07,150 --> 01:22:12,110 transformed. It's been dark because you've 1138 01:22:12,110 --> 01:22:17,110 been growing wings. You're about to fly. 1139 01:22:18,830 --> 01:22:21,910 You're about to get to levels you've never seen before. 1140 01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:41,240 Enjoy the labor so you can value the baby. 1141 01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:48,480 Don't take. The process for granted. 1142 01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:03,680 Because if the. Only way to the promised land 1143 01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:08,840 was the wilderness. Let's walk through it again. 1144 01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:18,520 See, the Lord in the season has been getting out of you the 1145 01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:21,960 inkling of desire to even take the shorter route. 1146 01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:27,600 You have. You now have wilderness 1147 01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:32,760 capacity. You now have Lion's den. 1148 01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:36,600 Capacity You can. Write a sermon in the lion's den 1149 01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:39,120 You can. Fall asleep in the fiery 1150 01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,920 furnace. You now have greater capacity. 1151 01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:46,560 You're not a chump no more. Watch this. 1152 01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:50,880 Your marriage has been under great attack because there's a 1153 01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:55,800 marriage ministry in you. You get to the other side of 1154 01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:57,600 this. You're going to look across the 1155 01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:00,240 table to marriages that are ready to give up and you are 1156 01:24:00,240 --> 01:24:03,480 going to have a oil on your marriage that is going to 1157 01:24:03,480 --> 01:24:05,760 preserve marriages because you fought. 1158 01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:08,680 And you fought, and you fought, and you fought and you fought. 1159 01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:24,200 We will see it. We will hear the testimony, no 1160 01:24:24,200 --> 01:24:42,900 doubt, No doubt, no doubt. I believe God for you. 1161 01:24:43,900 --> 01:24:48,180 I believe God with you. This last thing for somebody, 1162 01:24:48,180 --> 01:24:56,620 some, a few of you get out of your own head, get out of your 1163 01:24:56,620 --> 01:25:02,780 own head, get out of overthinking. 1164 01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:13,120 It just was what it was. It is what it is. 1165 01:25:13,320 --> 01:25:16,360 You may not ever get answers. Get out of your head. 1166 01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:23,520 They they may never like you. They may never understand you. 1167 01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:39,200 Get out of your head. The Lord stands at your heart 1168 01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:42,160 today, all of us, and he's knocking. 1169 01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:53,080 He wants to come in that labor room with you and we going to 1170 01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:58,440 push together. We're going to believe together. 1171 01:25:58,440 --> 01:26:06,040 We're going to stand together. We going to be transformed 1172 01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:13,400 together. There's so many people moving in 1173 01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:19,880 apartments and condos around us that are coming with pain and 1174 01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:25,760 suffering and they're going to run into a people who decided to 1175 01:26:25,760 --> 01:26:35,160 stay in the labor room and push until something shifted before 1176 01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:41,400 this year is out. You will see. 1177 01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:52,600 What I'm talking about? If you believe, if you stand 1178 01:26:52,600 --> 01:27:01,440 with me, if you know God is faithful, can we just take 60 1179 01:27:01,440 --> 01:27:06,600 seconds and just give, give our God just one last praise with a 1180 01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:10,480 clap and with a with a shout? Come on, Lord, we thank you. 1181 01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:15,720 Lord, we honor you. Come on, Lord, we bless your 1182 01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:18,240 name. Lord you are. 1183 01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:21,080 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 1184 01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:24,440 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 1185 01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:26,640 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 1186 01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:30,680 That's love quest Intl church. We out here for real. 1187 01:27:30,800 --> 01:27:33,080 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 1188 01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:36,280 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 1189 01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:39,000 need to find us. But until next time, you know 1190 01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:41,200 the drill. You know the motto, get your 1191 01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:43,480 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.