1 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,600 Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,480 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,720 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,760 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:53,280 The wind blowing. When the wind blows it, it does 10 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:59,280 bring dust and it brings things that weren't there, but also the 11 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:04,959 wind uncovers stuff. So while we are expecting a wind 12 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:11,280 of blessing in that wind, we are also going to find ourselves 13 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:16,400 only left with what God has approved. 14 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,200 And so while we are expecting, while it's go time, while it is 15 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,800 harvest time and all these amazing things. 16 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:37,120 Jubilee, I I can't really get out of my spirit for the last 17 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:44,240 almost two years that we need to be standing as if we're standing 18 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:48,480 on holy ground and really actually believe that we should 19 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,800 have approached this year with fear and trembling. 20 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,680 We should have approached this year not in fear of the devil or 21 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:03,200 fear of of man or fear of failure, but in the fear of 22 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:07,280 trembling, of cautious caution to the wind. 23 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:15,760 Like God has been speaking for a while and he has been alerting 24 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:18,800 our church, right? We heard about what happened in 25 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,680 Minneapolis and May God bless that church and those families. 26 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:28,800 We also seen few weeks back similar thing happened in 27 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:36,120 Seattle. And the worst thing is when the 28 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:40,600 wind blows, we become like, where'd that come from? 29 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:48,600 It's like or a, a tornado or hurricane warning and you 30 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:53,000 sitting there after the hurricane, like where did that 31 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:56,520 come from? Well, you heard the sirens, you 32 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:00,360 heard the bells, you, you even saw your neighbors running in 33 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:06,800 the house getting rooted. And then you came out and you 34 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,160 and everything got beat up. It's not about the purging. 35 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:16,160 It's don't be surprised with what you're left with. 36 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:22,480 I'm going to say it again. Don't be surprised with what you 37 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:26,000 left with. Similar word was spoken by the 38 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:27,320 prophetess when she came in here. 39 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:32,400 She said don't be surprised who make it and who don't. 40 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:40,720 I am super excited to know for a fact that I'm going to make it, 41 00:03:40,840 --> 00:03:43,520 that I'm going to be standing not this is past. 42 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:46,720 I'm going to make it to heaven. That's been dealt with like 43 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,360 that's been decided. I'm talking about I'm actually 44 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:54,320 going to stand and be able to handle the winds and avoid the 45 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:57,920 distractions and like a really good distraction. 46 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:01,000 Watch this. A really good distraction should 47 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:05,440 have you for a while. Like a good distraction. 48 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:08,000 It's not a distraction if you expose it immediately. 49 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:12,520 That's a temptation. It, it tempted you, but you know 50 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:14,520 what I'm saying? But like when you when, when you 51 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:16,920 pull up the it's like here it is here. 52 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:18,880 Here's a good distract. Here's here's a good one. 53 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,959 If you ever been I'm, I'm not the only one who's been to a 54 00:04:21,959 --> 00:04:25,360 club or been in a, in a place, a party, whatever. 55 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,640 And then I'm dancing with somebody and then the lights 56 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,680 come on at the end of the night and I'm like, whoa, buddy, why 57 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,240 you why you didn't give me an opportunity to to walk out 58 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:38,440 before the lights came on? Because this whole last hour I 59 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:41,280 thought I was dancing with something that was amazing and 60 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:43,360 beautiful. And then the lights came on and 61 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:48,160 like, what the heck? And that's probably because she 62 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:50,640 or whatever was turned around half the time. 63 00:04:50,640 --> 00:04:54,120 If you ever been to a club, like a real club, like you get what 64 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,920 I'm saying? I guess I'm the only one. 65 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:01,560 I I'm glad I could tell my testimony. 66 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,080 So some of y'all still bound but that's OK. 67 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:07,920 And then the lights come on and you like whoa. 68 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,240 But by this time you probably gave this person your phone 69 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:20,560 number during that dance and now you do you wish you can go in 70 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,200 their pocket and now it's in their phone. 71 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:28,800 You got to take their phone and but somebody say it's too late 72 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,960 now. Now you got to deal with them 73 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,200 calling. And so when the wind blows, 74 00:05:35,280 --> 00:05:40,760 there will be time of blessing. But also blessing is exposure. 75 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,200 When the Lord just exposed you, somebody say that's a blessing. 76 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:56,720 And so the perfecting, the why of the perfecting is because the 77 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:03,520 wind's about to blow. Strong wind, strong, strong, 78 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:08,240 strong wind like you've never felt before. 79 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:14,480 So much happening at one time. It's going to have your head 80 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:17,840 spinning, right? I leave a beautiful wedding the 81 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:20,680 other day, go straight to the airport. 82 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:34,800 So much happening at one time. And then me and the boys, we 83 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:45,080 slept for two hours last night and get to crazy LAX and we just 84 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,760 landed about 55 minutes ago, hour ago. 85 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:52,920 So I got my airplane clothes on. So don't mind me. 86 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:54,400 Be like, what's going on with PT? 87 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,360 Do we need to pray for them? Absolutely not. 88 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:04,560 Absolutely not. 12 o'clock 12:00 But I wrestled, right? 89 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:09,560 EJ was ready. We see people don't understand 90 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,040 like this happens in the world. You think about people, they 91 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,360 they go, they go on tour or they do business. 92 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,880 People commute to France from San Francisco. 93 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:19,880 Hey, babe, I'll be right back. I'm going to go do business. 94 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,120 We got a deal to do. We got a meeting in France. 95 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:24,880 Well, you can zoom. No, we need to be in person 96 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:28,480 because I got to seal this deal, right? 97 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:36,920 Call this call your post is your post my promise. 98 00:07:36,920 --> 00:07:39,400 The blood of my promise pumps at my post. 99 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:48,320 So I got to look at OK, I might not be here for these days in 100 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:50,200 these days. OK, well, I got to be I got to 101 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:54,000 be here. I know my understand this isn't 102 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:58,680 this isn't about convenience. This isn't about sleep. 103 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,880 This isn't about what I feel like, it's about what God needs 104 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:10,080 you. But only the perfected live on 105 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:16,800 call, right? The the immature, the elementary 106 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,560 need call backs and wait a minute. 107 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,800 Let me pray about it. Let me No, no, no. 108 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:26,640 The perfected live on call, the perfected adjust schedules for 109 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:33,559 call. And then you have people EJ 110 00:08:33,559 --> 00:08:35,720 ready. Try call EJ up here right now. 111 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:39,400 Are you ready? I'm like, no, I got to answer 112 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,240 the call. You're always answering the 113 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:44,120 call. It's not a one time deal. 114 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:54,560 You carry your cross vaguely. And so let's see what happens 115 00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:58,800 this morning. The wind blows where it wills, 116 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,760 And though you hear its sound, yet you neither know where it 117 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,680 comes from nor where it is going. 118 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:14,000 Say nobody knows, right? The wind blows where it wills, 119 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:20,480 it does what it want to do. And though you hear its sound, 120 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:26,040 yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is 121 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,040 going. We, we have been getting a word 122 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:35,720 from the wind. Though you hear it sound, you 123 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:37,280 don't know when it's going to come. 124 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,040 We've been talking about harvest time. 125 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:40,680 We've been talking. That's the thing about faith. 126 00:09:40,680 --> 00:09:42,720 You could be declaring some for 10 years. 127 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:46,880 And people you think you crazy and they like, OK, we'll see. 128 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,320 It ain't came yet. They don't see the fruit 129 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:53,480 underground, they only looking for above ground fruit. 130 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:55,360 Write that down. There is a such thing as 131 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:56,760 underground fruit. Amen. 132 00:09:57,400 --> 00:10:04,720 Now look, you have to be faithful over the word of the 133 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:09,720 wind. I read it. 134 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:14,880 The wind blows where it wills, and though you hear its sound, 135 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,240 yet you neither know where it comes from nor where it is 136 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,040 going. So it is with everyone who is 137 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:28,360 born of the Spirit, right? A meteorologist thank God for 138 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:34,520 their education, but but they don't necessarily know when that 139 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:38,040 wind bout to blow. But the moment they get 140 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:44,520 indication and they see evidence, they begin to alert 141 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:50,840 everybody because everybody needs a fair shot at getting 142 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:56,840 what ready right You on an airplane, they say keep your 143 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:58,880 seat belt on. Why? 144 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:05,520 For unexpected what turbulence See, keep your seat belt on. 145 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:10,320 How many times have you seen believers us in this room 146 00:11:10,560 --> 00:11:14,800 disobey that we just walking around the plane. 147 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,800 We don't we put our headphones on while they going through 148 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,120 instructions. Then the day your plane end up 149 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:23,920 in the water, you like what they say, you looking at your 150 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:27,120 neighbor and you like looking at what they doing and it's like 151 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,280 no, no, no, you should have brought your own or you should 152 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:31,000 have listened to the instructions yourself. 153 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:35,160 Yeah, you should have took notes yourself. 154 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:40,240 Even your wife notes can't help you or your husband's or your 155 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:45,280 friends. Somebody say Numa. 156 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:48,080 So when we're talking about the wind, we're talking about the 157 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,920 breath or wind, the spirit or life force, the vital force or 158 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,680 breath of life that gives rise to consciousness. 159 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,280 Sensation and thought we went over this on Wednesday if you 160 00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:02,880 weren't here it's on it's on YouTube. 161 00:12:02,880 --> 00:12:06,640 You can go watch it. We won't spend time here, but 162 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,120 when he's talking about this wind blowing, you also can see 163 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:18,000 this word in Genesis 1 or Genesis 2 and Genesis 2 says 164 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,960 this then the Lord God form somebody say form. 165 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:26,720 He formed man from the dust of of the ground and breathe into 166 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:30,040 his nostrils the breath or spirit of life. 167 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:35,040 And man became a living being who breathed into US God 168 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:42,720 himself, life himself, victory himself, strength himself, peace 169 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:51,080 himself, courage himself, Wisdom himself blew his life into us, 170 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:56,760 but he formed us. He formed this vessel out of the 171 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,960 what dust? Don't underestimate the dust in 172 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:03,840 your life, What God can do with the dust in your life, what God 173 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,920 can do with the dust in your life, what God can do with the 174 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,600 dirt in your life, what God can do with what you would walk 175 00:13:11,600 --> 00:13:16,680 over. When God breathes on something, 176 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:20,800 it don't matter how long it's been dead. 177 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,720 It don't matter how long it's been counted out. 178 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:28,280 Once God get to blow in, it's up from there. 179 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:34,680 Somebody say it's up from there. I feel a staring spirit in here 180 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:36,560 this morning. A staring spirit. 181 00:13:36,560 --> 00:13:43,360 Amen formed mean it implies A deliberate shaping and molding 182 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:48,520 process like a Potter rather than creation from nothing. 183 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:54,040 We went over this last week. God is not looking for a new 184 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,440 thing from you. He is looking to form you out of 185 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,440 what has already been and what is already happening in your 186 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,040 life. You. 187 00:14:07,040 --> 00:14:13,520 Need to move to a new city? You need a new partner, You need 188 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:18,200 new opportunities. God don't need nothing new to do 189 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:26,000 what he said he will do. And so he formed. 190 00:14:28,280 --> 00:14:32,840 And as we talk about the perfecting of the Saints, the 191 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:37,640 perfecting of the Saints, the perfecting of the Saints, we are 192 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:44,920 talking about a life that is hit by the purging and molding hands 193 00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:50,720 of the Father. Not a punishing God, not a 194 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:53,320 judging God. What you're going through is not 195 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,360 God judging you because you sinned. 196 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,320 You'll sin already move God's hand. 197 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,320 He don't, you'll sin. Don't move him like that. 198 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,040 Can I anybody, anybody hear what I'm saying? 199 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:10,560 Your sin, your sin has moved God's hand once and for all 200 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,440 through a man named Jesus Christ. 201 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,560 His blood has cleansed it once and for all. 202 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,240 So you sin and don't move God. They don't rush God or slow God 203 00:15:19,240 --> 00:15:23,480 down. Your sin is not forcing God's 204 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:27,800 hand at all. Your sin is forcing you to have 205 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:32,280 to make some decisions quicker than you expected to, or your 206 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:37,440 sin is inconveniencing you. It's not inconveniencing God at 207 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:42,080 all. God can be no more inconvenience 208 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,520 than giving His only begotten Son because we messed up. 209 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,160 Genesis 1. Watch this. 210 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,640 The earth was completely formless. 211 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:56,840 Somebody say formless. Somebody say formless, some of 212 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:00,160 us have been in a life where it seems like our life is not 213 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,440 taking shape. We're bringing all this stuff 214 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,000 together, right? You're just doing things, trying 215 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,800 things, taking opportunities. You know what God said? 216 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,280 Maybe you don't know what God said, you forgot what he said, 217 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,120 but there seem like your life is not taking shape. 218 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:15,280 Have you ever heard of that statement? 219 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:17,320 Things aren't taking shape or things are starting to take 220 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:18,920 shape. You've heard of that before? 221 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:21,840 Just like 3 people. Hey, man, OK, The earth was 222 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:26,400 completely formless and empty. Anybody ever felt empty before? 223 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:29,440 Went through an empty season, Felt like nothing was happening. 224 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,720 Felt felt like you were in a season that meant nothing. 225 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,720 Anybody ever been? OK, let me help you. 226 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:39,360 One thing there is not one season you've been through that 227 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:43,280 does not matter to God, OK? Number one, there is not one 228 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:48,120 season that you've been through that God is not trying to use. 229 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:53,840 Not one season, not one season in your life. 230 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:55,840 This is a part of the perfecting. 231 00:16:55,840 --> 00:16:59,520 God is not just trying to mature you so you could just make 232 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:02,720 disciples. No, he's trying to mature you in 233 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:05,800 the perfecting. He's taking what tried to kill 234 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:09,599 you and he's you see that he's taking the ingredients of your 235 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:14,119 failure, partnering them with your successes, partnering your 236 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:17,640 your misunderstandings, your, your frustrations, your 237 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:21,359 mistakes, your Boo boos. And he is trying to partner them 238 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:23,760 with your successes, your achievements. 239 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:27,280 He's trying to take your ignorance with your knowledge. 240 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:29,880 He's trying to bring it all together, molding. 241 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,360 He's forming something out of the negative things in your 242 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:37,840 life. But if you refuse the forming, 243 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:42,120 you also have went through things in vain. 244 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:49,120 So why you going to go through all you've been through and then 245 00:17:49,120 --> 00:17:51,240 tell God to keep his hands off of you? 246 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:55,880 You tripping, look at your neighbors say you really 247 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:01,960 tripping. You really tripping, right? 248 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:04,960 Why are you going to put all the cake ingredients in the bowl and 249 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,000 don't mix it up? And then why are you going to 250 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:09,960 mix it up and don't put it in the oven? 251 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:12,080 And then why are you going to put it in the oven? 252 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:13,680 Don't pull it out. And then why are you going to 253 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,080 pull it out and not slice it? And why are you going to slice 254 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,280 it and don't share it? And then why are you not going 255 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:22,920 to share it and then testify about how good it is? 256 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,600 You see the process, God trying to get you all the way to 257 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:35,240 testimony like that was that was good. 258 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:38,800 We kicked some devils, but we overcame something. 259 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,320 It ain't so bad what I went through now because I have 260 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:44,200 gotten to the victory side of it. 261 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:49,800 Trying to get to the testimony part. 262 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,600 I could talk about I've been in the club, That's the testimony 263 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:55,960 part, but I couldn't talk about I've been in the club when I was 264 00:18:55,960 --> 00:18:58,200 in the club because the club was kicking my butt. 265 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:02,080 The weed was kicking my butt. The the sex outside of marriage 266 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:06,000 was kicking my butt, The alcohol was kicking my mud, the swearing 267 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:10,000 was kicking my butt, The sneaky spirit was kicking my butt, The 268 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,240 lion was kicking my butt. I couldn't testify because then 269 00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:16,040 I would be a what? Hippocrate. 270 00:19:23,360 --> 00:19:28,040 But when you when you see God start, when you feel that 271 00:19:28,040 --> 00:19:34,680 tension between your lifestyle, you feel you feel you dying and 272 00:19:34,680 --> 00:19:38,040 you still it listen, you still wrestling for you to stay alive. 273 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,440 You got all kind of reasons and excuses of why it's OK to be 274 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:47,800 stinky, bad mouthed and attitudy. 275 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,320 You got to because you're fighting and you've been 276 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:53,280 exposed. God has put you around people 277 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:57,880 and put you in places where now it it's not getting tolerated. 278 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,920 There's a space for it, but you can't stay there. 279 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:06,720 And one of the greatest places you can be find yourself is when 280 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,400 you are around a people that won't let you stay there. 281 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:14,160 Or won't let you get away with that man, the day you are around 282 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,600 people that support you being out of alignment, support you 283 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:22,720 not having accountable support, you being sneaky that day. 284 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,040 That is a dangerous place. Because if you're found there 285 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,480 when the wind blows you and your little homies, your support 286 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,520 group is going to get blew away. And guess who going to be 287 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,360 standing there? The people who who ain't going 288 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,640 to tell you I told you, but the ones who God put in your life. 289 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,120 To say this is where it all stops and as long as you want to 290 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:46,680 throw a tantrum, right? You come to a point, but I'm not 291 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,000 I'm not I'm not I'm not giving in to my kid throwing a tantrum. 292 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,000 I I remember my mom when she had spanked me, but then they'd come 293 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,160 a point. But she like when you done. 294 00:20:57,000 --> 00:20:58,800 I still be your mom. I'll be right here. 295 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:02,480 And then after a while, know where the kid won't. 296 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:04,800 They want you to come argue with them, pull them through the 297 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:08,160 store, pick them up, and then they come a point where they 298 00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:12,160 like right here. Here it is, is is God going to 299 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:18,280 let you cry yourself to sleep? And it ain't nothing worse like 300 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:22,440 crying yourself to sleep and then waking up like what 301 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:27,680 happened to me, exhausted muscles is you like what 302 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:30,680 happened last night. That demon got in you. 303 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:34,480 That's what happened last night. I threw tantrums like he like I 304 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:36,720 was like the kid in the Bible. He's like Lord. 305 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:38,600 He keep throwing himself on the fire. 306 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:40,480 I used to just throw myself around. 307 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,600 It was dangerous. My mom had my mom pulled over on 308 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:51,920 the freeway a few times. I remember my Mama pulled she if 309 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:56,200 you watch him, I remember it is it was traumatizing for me, but 310 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,840 I'm sure it was traumatizing for her trying to drive down the 311 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:04,720 highway and this kid is back there just like acting a fool 312 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,280 screaming. She pulled over on the side of 313 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:13,400 the freeway, got out the car, hopped in the back seat. 314 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,440 Like boy, if you don't shit your ass. 315 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:27,440 Right, because it comes a point, it comes a point where God got 316 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,080 to get in the back seat because now you're a danger to others. 317 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:38,520 Right when when God have to strong arm you, it's no longer 318 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:42,240 about who you being hurt, you hurting yourself, you're now 319 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,400 dangering others with your decision making. 320 00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,000 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 321 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:59,240 The earth was completely formless and empty, with nothing 322 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,040 but darkness draped over the deep. 323 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,440 God's Spirit hovered over the face of the waters. 324 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:09,680 Want you to see this? Formless, empty, nothing but 325 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,760 darkness. God's spirit hovered over the 326 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,160 face of the waters. God's what? 327 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,480 Spirits say. Uh oh, Something about to 328 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,840 happen. He's hovering. 329 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:21,680 He's hovering, right? Right. 330 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,080 Not many believers see when God's hovering, when the spirit 331 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,240 is hovering, right? When he's hovering, he's getting 332 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:31,000 ready to move. He's he's nesting. 333 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:35,480 He's, he's resting, OK, He's hovering. 334 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:41,000 Watch this over darkness and emptiness and formlessness. 335 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,320 Watch this. And then God announced, God 336 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,560 announced, God announced, right? Remember of the scripture we 337 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:54,640 read, and you, although you hear it sound, you do not know where 338 00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:58,480 and when it's coming, right? And then God announced sound. 339 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,040 Somebody say sound. Then God spoke. 340 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:07,720 Let there be light. There is no refreshing without 341 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:12,400 light first coming on. There there is no promise 342 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:17,240 without light first coming on when God is about to move. 343 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:23,280 There is a heightened there is there is a Clarion call 344 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,880 happening. There is a heightened. 345 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:29,720 He sends his prophets to make announcements because he trying 346 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:33,200 to get your lights on. He's trying to make you aware of 347 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:40,640 his coming. Let there be lights and light 348 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:48,520 burst forth, or when I see God announced, I see His Word and 349 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,000 His Spirit, and then light burst. 350 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,600 There is no bursting without breath. 351 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:02,320 You see the Spirit of God, you see the Word of God, and then 352 00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:07,680 you see Him move. You see, you see Jesus here. 353 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:12,960 Where's Jesus? In the beginning was the Word, 354 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:16,640 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 355 00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,640 Then it goes down and said he was the light. 356 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:26,160 We see right here, we see Father, we see Son, we see Holy 357 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:31,760 Ghost. So God's heightened word, the 358 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:37,440 Father's heightened touch in the midst of darkness, gross 359 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:42,200 darkness. And then God says. 360 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:47,320 I'm trying to get you ready man, and I got to break you down. 361 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,760 I got to allow you to be broken down like this. 362 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:54,280 Watch this. Listen, if if you read verse one 363 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:58,840 it said and God created and then the next verse said it was 364 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,680 formless. God don't make nothing empty. 365 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:04,480 He don't make nothing formless. He don't make nothing. 366 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,200 He said God created and a lot of people, a lot of theologians 367 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,320 will say or argue between verse one and verse 2, just like 368 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,200 between one verse and another verse. 369 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,760 Jesus popped from 3013 to 30. We saw that last week. 370 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,240 So between verse one and verse 2, this is where the enemy fell 371 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,480 and a third of the angels, this is where he fell. 372 00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,960 However you slice it from verse one, God created. 373 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Then in verse 2, formless dark. Then in verse 3, God speaks. 374 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:47,240 He's speaking. Watch this. 375 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:55,760 When complaining begins, contending stops, somebody say 376 00:26:55,760 --> 00:27:01,360 that's a waste of breath. You can't complain and fight at 377 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:05,640 the same time. You're complaining is fuel for 378 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:14,720 the enemy's plans. Try your hardest moving forward 379 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:20,160 to complain less in your life when you when complaining begins 380 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,160 contending stops. You see that? 381 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:26,200 Let's say that together when containing Yeah, my my bad, my 382 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:26,920 bad. One more time. 383 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:36,400 I I I messed up, I messed up 123 go when complaining begins. 384 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,000 Watch this. Complaining is a leader. 385 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:46,520 If you are not careful, complaining number one will 386 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:51,040 change your perspective. It will take it from it will 387 00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,680 cause you to see something good, and when you complaining about 388 00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,040 it, it'll turn into something against you. 389 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,840 Complaining leads people away from truth. 390 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:08,840 Watch this. Complaining leads people away 391 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:14,760 from the power of God. Complaining and murmuring is so 392 00:28:14,760 --> 00:28:18,720 bad it robs generations from seeing the promise. 393 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,280 That's one thing we, we, we, we know how to do. 394 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:32,280 We know how to complain. Watch this. 395 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:40,320 So we're moving into, right, that the breadth part of this 396 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,520 message is really a prophetic release. 397 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:46,000 That that happened last week is really just giving you a why 398 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:49,680 behind the equipping, a why behind the equipping. 399 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,240 When complaining begins, watch this. 400 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:59,040 Contending stops. In other words, in order to be 401 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,480 perfected, your part is contending. 402 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:10,480 Your part is contending. We said this two years ago. 403 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,160 However long the hardest part of your year was going to be the 404 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:15,920 what? See, we remember that, but how 405 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:21,440 many people it? What's crazy is all of us have a 406 00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:25,600 different perspective of our life and how we doing. 407 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:35,240 This is why we need others. Not everybody, but just a few 408 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:39,040 others to have another take on our life. 409 00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:44,200 If I got the only take, or if I've surrounded my people. 410 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:51,000 If I'm surrounded by people who agree with my take or if you're 411 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,280 not careful. Watch this. 412 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:58,400 You have gathered around you, contending words for your life. 413 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:03,120 You got a group of people you really love and they're advising 414 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:04,560 you one way. And you got a group of people 415 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,600 you really love and they're advising you one way. 416 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:12,320 And if you're not in the right place or if your desires are too 417 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:21,320 strong, you're going to lead towards the support and 418 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:27,720 complaining will assist in you leading towards fleshly 419 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:35,400 decisions, right? I won't. 420 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:36,600 I won't work there. I won't work there. 421 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,480 I won't there. I won't watch this. 422 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:42,400 Say my name. Say my name, say my name. 423 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,920 Come on. Come on, Grace, help me out. 424 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,880 I saw you starting to sing it. What's the other part? 425 00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:48,440 All right. Yo, you singing it, girl? 426 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:49,480 All right. Say my name. 427 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,960 Say my name. Somebody say say my name. 428 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:51,880 Say my name. Say my name. 429 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,040 Say my name, say my name. All right. 430 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,040 She she got she put her neck into her. 431 00:30:56,040 --> 00:30:57,760 She didn't forgot all about worship. 432 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,640 Say my name, say my name, say my name. 433 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:06,160 Everybody say that 123. Yeah, some of you guys are 434 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,640 saying that suspiciously like like what is he having me say 435 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:10,760 this for? Right. 436 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,600 And if you're new here, you might think this is like a a 437 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,040 cult chant or something we do here at Lovequest. 438 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,680 This is not a a chant that we do say my name, say my name, say my 439 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,840 name. Now one would read this and 440 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:27,680 think that this is me rightness and I'm about to tell you that 441 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:33,920 Jesus is it's all about the name of Jesus and it is and Jesus is 442 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,320 telling you today to just focus on his name. 443 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:39,120 And when doubt comes and negativity comes and when you 444 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,520 want to complain, say my wife, say my name. 445 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,840 That's that's kind of what did we can work it that way, but 446 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:47,720 that's not what this is today. That is not what this is today. 447 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:52,040 We're going to look at a man that we've seen over history and 448 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:56,120 we're going to see what perfecting could look like in a 449 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,160 moment or a season. During the night, Jacob arose, 450 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,480 woke up his two wives. OK, that's a part of his 451 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:05,720 problem. He got two of them. 452 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,800 Hey, that's the part of it. You got two of them. 453 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:15,200 Say one too many. Now, now, now, some might ask 454 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:18,600 why, but he has a second wife because he was tricked into his 455 00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:24,520 first wife, right? That brother worked 14 years for 456 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:28,360 the 1 he wanted, right? That that's a whole nother 457 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:33,480 sermon for some of you. That brother was perfected, 458 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:42,040 right, because he had a promise. And then some people will take 459 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,040 the Leah because you just want one. 460 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:50,840 You just want something. So you take Leah and that's and 461 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,920 then you mad that that he pulled, he pulled that patch off 462 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,360 one day. You saw one eye. 463 00:32:55,360 --> 00:33:03,040 You like I ain't want nobody with one eye Yeah, but that that 464 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:11,800 that one I don't get revealed till I After I do that that one 465 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,160 glaring thing you got to look at all the rest of your life. 466 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:30,400 His two maidservants and eleven sons and had them cross the Ford 467 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:35,520 of Dabak River. He sent them across along with 468 00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:38,880 everything he had. He sent this he sent them away, 469 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,560 say sent them away, say time for some alone time. 470 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:52,120 And Jacob was left all alone. Then suddenly out of nowhere, 471 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,000 the wind right there, there's a certain like, why? 472 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,800 Why couldn't the wind come when I was my, I had my 2 wives, you 473 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,400 know what I'm saying? I had, I had my peoples around 474 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,320 me. I had, I had my support group 475 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:07,800 around me left all alone. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a man 476 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,760 appeared and wrestled with him until Daybreak. 477 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:16,480 Some say this is like like a human man, part man, part 478 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:20,639 amazing, part man, part Angel. Some people say no, this was 479 00:34:20,639 --> 00:34:23,239 God, but no, it couldn't be God because there ain't nobody going 480 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:25,639 to wrestle. You know how strong God is. 481 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:29,120 And some people say this was literally a man. 482 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:36,800 This is an angelic presence. This was a present sent by God 483 00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:40,560 rather a man in the flesh. However you want to slice it, 484 00:34:40,560 --> 00:34:48,520 this was a divine appointment to send Jacob into a wrestling 485 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:51,600 match that would change his life. 486 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:57,440 Mind you, prior to this, Jacob has had dreams. 487 00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:01,640 He has had words spoken over him and his bloodline. 488 00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:07,040 So he is not just wrestling because he did something wrong. 489 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,120 He is not written. No, he is wrestling for a word 490 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,160 that was spoken over his life. Look, I don't care how cute you 491 00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,320 are, you not worth losing the word that was spoken on my life. 492 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,880 Right, friends, business partners, all these one question 493 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:36,400 you got to discern the answer to is are you called to contend 494 00:35:36,400 --> 00:35:40,640 with me for what God has said about my bloodline? 495 00:35:43,720 --> 00:35:45,200 Right. You, you, you, you picking 496 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:52,200 wrestling partners? Yeah. 497 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:00,560 Suddenly, out of nowhere, a man appeared and wrestled with him 498 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,640 until Daybreak. Somebody say until say. 499 00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:09,360 The wrestling got a deadline. When the man saw that he was not 500 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,480 winning. Who's the man that's not 501 00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:14,800 winning? No, it ain't. 502 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:18,000 Come on, read the word. Read the word. 503 00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:22,560 That was a good try though, When the man saw that he was not 504 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:28,400 winning. This was the assignment that was 505 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:33,880 sent to perfect this man, Jacob the man, the angelic force. 506 00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:38,600 The Angel saw he was not winning. 507 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:47,000 He struck Jacob's hip and knocked it out of joint, leaving 508 00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,840 it wrenched as he continued to wrestle with him. 509 00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:59,880 So no matter what beating you take, you're required to keep 510 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:09,080 wrestling. The The fact that I'm being 511 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:15,160 attacked can be a direct result from my ground. 512 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:24,000 I'm gaining because I'm experiencing a moment, a pain. 513 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,160 It does not mean that I have lost ground. 514 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:34,280 What I'm experiencing could be a direct result from my victory, 515 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,480 right? This is what you got to 516 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:41,280 understand is that most of the devil shots are cheap shots. 517 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,960 It is because he is already defeated and he wants to strike 518 00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:51,560 you with such a blow that you think it's no way, no, no how, 519 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,880 no way in hell I'm going to be able to come out of this. 520 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:02,200 But you went in it out of it. You went in it victorious. 521 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,280 You went in it with wisdom to get out. 522 00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:10,080 You went in it to to taste and experience the victory that has 523 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:14,560 already been won. He struck Jacob's hip, leaving 524 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:18,960 it wrenched as he continued to wrestle with him. 525 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,640 Here's what the vision, the the, the picture I'm getting, it is 526 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,960 say Jacob kept wrestling with him. 527 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:31,280 But I believe the way this is written is Jacob kept wrestling 528 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,760 with him because the Angel kept wrestling with him. 529 00:38:36,840 --> 00:38:39,240 What do I mean by that? Jacob just got his. 530 00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:49,080 I want to tend to this. I want to tend to my pain. 531 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,200 But you keep wrestling with me though. 532 00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:58,880 So what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask you to get off me. 533 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,840 I'm going to complain, I'm going to pouch, I'm going to cry. 534 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,040 I'm going to try to tend to this or I'm going to learn how to 535 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:09,480 play hurt. So devil you want to keep 536 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,680 messing with me and my family, then I don't care what I'm going 537 00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:13,600 through. I'm just going to keep 538 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,480 wrestling. As long as you messing with me. 539 00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,760 As long as this little demon keep poking his head, I'm going 540 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,280 to keep wrestling. If if the devil got assignment, 541 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,840 I got anointing. Yeah, I got anointing for every 542 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,480 assignment. It don't matter what's going on. 543 00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:30,880 And way too many people. All the enemy got to do is step 544 00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:42,440 on your baby toe and you out. The man asked him, Watch this, 545 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:48,920 what is your name? And in shock of realization, 546 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:59,240 whispering, he said Jacob Supplanter, Schemer, Trickster. 547 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:04,560 Slendler, you remember he wandered his brother. 548 00:40:04,720 --> 00:40:06,560 You're you're you're you see, you're what? 549 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,360 What's this? Jacob? 550 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,360 This is a test. What's your name? 551 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:19,640 What's your name? It's so many believers still 552 00:40:20,800 --> 00:40:32,640 would answer guilty. Shane behind Linder. 553 00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:34,880 I mean Borrower. Sorry. 554 00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:42,200 My name is beneath My name is not good enough. 555 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:51,480 My name is poverty. My name is lonely and rather it 556 00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,880 comes out of your mouth. Look, look, look at the choices 557 00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:55,640 you make. You speak to what you think Your 558 00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:01,800 name is My. My name is impatient. 559 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:03,440 My name. My name is broke. 560 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:04,840 My, My. My name is what? 561 00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:08,880 My name is trauma. My name is drama. 562 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,480 Watch what he says. He says your name shall be 563 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:15,600 called no more. Jacob. 564 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:19,160 What? What am I? 565 00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:21,960 The point of perfecting is to change everything. 566 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:30,480 The point of perfecting is to realign, I promise. 567 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:38,080 But Israel, look what his name is, contender with God. 568 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,880 For you have contended and have power with God. 569 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,600 And one translation says you have wrestled with God and with 570 00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:50,120 man. You wrestled with God, you 571 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,400 wrestled with God. God called you to go through the 572 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,360 wilderness and you wrestled Abraham. 573 00:41:56,360 --> 00:42:00,520 Go, go, go, go kill your son. And then he says, now I know 574 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:04,200 because no matter what, Abraham wrestled with his flesh. 575 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,520 Nope, I'm not going to kill my son. 576 00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,760 That don't even make sense. Abraham had very logical reasons 577 00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:18,280 to not go through, but he wrestled against his flesh, and 578 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,200 he said God's word will have the last sake. 579 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:27,920 What did God say? For you have contended and have 580 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:32,480 power with God and with men, and you have prevailed. 581 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:36,800 Then Jacob asked him, Tell me, I pray you. 582 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:42,480 What in contrast is your name? Since I'm since since you want 583 00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:44,000 to know my name, what's your name? 584 00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,080 Since we just wrestled, what's your name? 585 00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:51,480 But he said, Why is it that you ask my name? 586 00:42:52,600 --> 00:43:00,480 The Angel of God declared a blessing on Jacob there, and 587 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:07,400 Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, the face of God 588 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,880 perfecting. Should lead you to the face of 589 00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:21,640 God, not to complain it. It is so that we can see 590 00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:29,000 clearer, so we can have better views saying for I have seen 591 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,800 God's face, seen God face to face. 592 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,640 Wait a minute. No, I just wrestled. 593 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:40,040 I just came out of a season that almost killed me. 594 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,560 I just came through a valley. Look what Jacob said. 595 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:55,200 I just seen the face of God. Oh, you mean to tell me that 596 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:59,240 what I went through was to reveal God's faith? 597 00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:06,800 Not a watch this, not a worship song, not merely quoting a 598 00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:11,920 scripture. It was me hanging in there and 599 00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:14,360 seeing that God was everything that he said. 600 00:44:15,240 --> 00:44:18,840 And then he showed his face to me because I showed my faith in 601 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:23,000 him. See, here's the true question. 602 00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:28,600 Yeah, it's hard. And instead of complaining, the 603 00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,200 question that you need to answer. 604 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:35,720 But is it worth seeing God's face the the the Father that 605 00:44:35,720 --> 00:44:37,720 saved you? Is it worth seeing his face? 606 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:44,760 I know you want to see his hand saying, for I have seen God face 607 00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:48,800 to face and my life is spared and not snatched away. 608 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:58,280 Perfecting requires some wrestling with yourself and not 609 00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:00,440 many people. We want to expedite this 610 00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:02,480 process. We want to get this part of the 611 00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:08,160 season over with quick and you know how people are self or not 612 00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:09,960 self ordained. What is it called when somebody 613 00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,880 self-proclaimed? Whatever. 614 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,680 Some some of us in here are self-proclaimed. 615 00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:19,520 Ready. Yeah. 616 00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:23,920 Go and write that one down. Have I proclaimed to myself I'm 617 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:30,120 ready for blank. I remember a long time ago I 618 00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:31,680 thought I was ready for marriage. 619 00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:32,960 No. Where'd she go? 620 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,440 Left with a tattoo. Left with a With a? 621 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:36,920 With a. Bruise on my chest. 622 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:43,120 What how many things have you gotten into because you was 623 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:46,800 like, I'm ready, I'm ready for ministry, I'm ready to lead, I'm 624 00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,160 ready to be the example. I'm ready to say follow me. 625 00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:51,680 I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready. 626 00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:54,920 And then you get in and then you like, oh, that was 627 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:56,960 self-proclaimed. I left God out of that one. 628 00:45:59,240 --> 00:46:01,560 And the unfortunate part is God's like, cool, you think 629 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:02,560 you're ready. Go for it. 630 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:06,240 I'll be here after you throw your tantrum. 631 00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:14,600 Watch this. And he passed Pineal or Pineal. 632 00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:20,400 The sun rose upon him, and he was limping because of his 633 00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:22,160 thigh. Wait a minute. 634 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:23,960 I went through all that. You ain't going to take the limp 635 00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,680 away. You ain't going to take the 636 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,240 scars away. For what? 637 00:46:30,280 --> 00:46:31,840 Right now he going to go back. Can you and me? 638 00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,720 He going to go back and they're going to be like, what happened 639 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:40,880 to you, Jacob? What happened to who that went 640 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,720 over some of y'all here right? He going to go back to his 641 00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:45,400 friends and his family with a lip. 642 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:51,720 He didn't come, he didn't leave them with a lip right Sometime 643 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:54,080 God need to pull you away from stuff. 644 00:46:55,600 --> 00:47:01,200 So when you return, you going to return for those people who 645 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,760 worried about returning, you going to return. 646 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:12,040 But when you return, you going to have a scar, you're going to 647 00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,920 have a limp, you're going to have a testimony. 648 00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,160 You're going to have new strength. 649 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:25,400 I may come out limping, but I'm going to come out lush. 650 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,720 I'm going to come out lush. I'm the part of the perfecting 651 00:47:30,720 --> 00:47:36,320 is to bring me to a state of fruitfulness that I never run 652 00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:39,600 out. James One, let it have. 653 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,520 It's perfect work. So in the end you lack nothing, 654 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,280 right? Jacob's like I've been wrestling 655 00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:53,080 this long. I'm not letting go like hear 656 00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:55,920 that. He's like I'm going to get 657 00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:00,760 something out of my fight. I didn't make it through all of 658 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:05,760 this just to come here and just let go, man. 659 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:10,080 Do you know what God has promised me and my family long 660 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:13,280 time ago? And I've seen seeds of it and 661 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:17,160 some fruit of it. But it's OK when you actually 662 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:24,120 realize this ain't that, it this manner, this ain't that. 663 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,120 It's OK. That's not being entitled, 664 00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:32,880 that's not being selfish, that's not being ungrateful to know. 665 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:42,120 And some of you need to know when this ain't that, you know, 666 00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,160 when it's that. But here's the thing. 667 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:52,000 Sometimes you may think, you know, because it kind of looked 668 00:48:52,000 --> 00:48:54,560 like it, kind of feel like it, kind of smell like it. 669 00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,760 But Jacob's like, no, we're going to keep wrestling. 670 00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,960 Some of y'all need to tap in and realize that all that you've 671 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:15,280 been through finish the fight in. 672 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,840 OK, you came here and I tell Troy, Troy and his family moved 673 00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:21,040 here all the way from all the way. 674 00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:27,000 I'm like you. What'd you come out with? 675 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:32,200 Will you come out here, bro? Not to anybody that moved here 676 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:35,200 or made some moves in your life to be here. 677 00:49:35,720 --> 00:49:37,120 You quit jobs. You, you. 678 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,240 You left school. You for what? 679 00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:46,360 To be regular, to say yes and no to regular stuff like the enemy 680 00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:50,280 would love for you to lay down a sacrifice but don't reap from it 681 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,560 because you want to be regular and normal. 682 00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:56,840 You make you sowed an abnormal seed but you only expecting a 683 00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:58,320 normal harvest. What's wrong with you? 684 00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:04,600 You gave up all of that and I didn't move to Canada and leave 685 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:09,920 everything that I know from the sun to family to friends to 686 00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,840 opportunities, to just come here and be regular. 687 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:17,560 You got to be crazy. Think about it. 688 00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:22,240 Some of y'all gave up some stuff and you're about to you're about 689 00:50:22,240 --> 00:50:24,560 to just let go and settle for mana. 690 00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:29,200 You're just like Lord, just provide for this regular need. 691 00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:36,600 He's like go to work. Just provide for this regular 692 00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,800 need. No, no, let me listen. 693 00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,920 Sometimes you got to have this attitude when, when a when, when 694 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:48,800 a when a harvest show up, you got to be able to look at it and 695 00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,040 be like that. Don't that don't match the seed. 696 00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:58,200 A few people got that, that that don't match what I've sown. 697 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:02,200 No, I take it, I'm blessed, I'm grateful, but that ain't it. 698 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,120 That ain't it. Somebody, just a couple people 699 00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,440 say that's not it because some people don't even feel like, 700 00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,080 some people think you like ungrateful when you say that, 701 00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,760 but you're really not. You're really not that. 702 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,160 That's not it. Like Jesus made all kind of 703 00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:22,360 sacrifices, but he knew the cross was the sacrifice, right? 704 00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,040 The woman came for some crumbs, but she, she came, she's like, 705 00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,160 I'll take the crumbs, but that ain't what I came for. 706 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:28,960 I came for my daughter to be healed. 707 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,360 Some of y'all like, oh, I got crumbs out the hands of Jesus 708 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,840 and you like OK. And Jesus like OK, bye. 709 00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:37,520 You got crumbs and you're over here dead. 710 00:51:37,520 --> 00:51:42,680 I got crumbs from Jesus. I got crumbs from Jesus knowing 711 00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:49,400 Jesus is like wow and now you out there selling Jesus as the 712 00:51:49,400 --> 00:51:56,720 crumb provider and you got folks that don't follow Jesus and got 713 00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:58,760 what crumbs what you showing them? 714 00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:07,320 Some of you have come through too much to get ready to get 715 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:14,080 rooted in crumbs. See, the thing about crumbs is 716 00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:17,640 when you fall in love with crumbs, you just keep collecting 717 00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,920 crumbs. Trying to get a loaf do. 718 00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,920 You know how long it takes for? You know how many crumbs you 719 00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:29,400 need to get a loaf of bread? You falling in love with crumbs? 720 00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:32,960 You settling. That's what impatience will have 721 00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,440 you do. I just seen it. 722 00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,280 I will tell y'all right now. This building has a lot of 723 00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:42,320 purpose in our life. You you had, if you weren't here 724 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,800 a few years ago and, and and saw the vision about the epicenter, 725 00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:49,480 like here's what it is. God gave us the vision and then 726 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:51,840 he gave blessed us with a building and we can be like, 727 00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:54,720 well, the vision you gave us, Sir, this is not it. 728 00:52:55,000 --> 00:53:00,560 Now look, the vision he gave us, we might not be the people, but 729 00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,760 it don't mean like like the next generation needs me to confess 730 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,560 what God said. I got to keep that dream, that 731 00:53:08,560 --> 00:53:10,960 promise alive for the next generation. 732 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:12,720 Now I think I'm going to see the epicenter. 733 00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:15,960 I'm going to see it. I'm going to see it in the land. 734 00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:20,680 I'm going to see that thing. But when we get this building 735 00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,680 over here and this building and all of them together, I'm still 736 00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:30,200 like, that ain't it? And I'm very grateful for for 737 00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:39,200 here she goodbye settling for them crumbs. 738 00:53:41,240 --> 00:53:43,200 This was not just any wrestling match. 739 00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,280 God is perfecting the work of the ministry. 740 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:52,760 Watch this, which is the work of the harvest, which is the work 741 00:53:52,760 --> 00:54:00,080 of your birthright. The work of the ministry, it's 742 00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:06,880 the wind Souls make disciples. It's the ministry of 743 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:10,640 reconciliation. God bringing his sons and 744 00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:14,040 daughters home, reconnecting them to their birthright, 745 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,200 reconnecting that. That's the work of the ministry. 746 00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:20,760 The work of the ministry is the work of God's harvest. 747 00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:32,800 But what you're contending for is not just any wrestle. 748 00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,440 Next experience, we're going to look at a different character 749 00:54:38,720 --> 00:54:43,240 and we're going to look at Peter and it's perfecting. 750 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:51,320 We see Jacob with a wrestle of perfection and then you just see 751 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:59,800 Peter dare to be perfected. There's a wrestle and then Peter 752 00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:06,240 dares to be perfected And, and, and and the way I see it is I 753 00:55:06,240 --> 00:55:08,520 think Peter had water in his mouth. 754 00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:12,960 I think Peter was panicking. I think, I think Peter, Peter 755 00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:17,240 was splicy splashing. And I need you to understand. 756 00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:22,360 I heard this the other day and I've heard it a few times but 757 00:55:23,760 --> 00:55:27,400 I've had a couple people that didn't have their glasses on and 758 00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,720 they say what not. I don't know why when I can't 759 00:55:29,720 --> 00:55:40,840 see, I can't hear and I want to take a closer look at Peter and 760 00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:47,040 what got him out the boat was his hearing and he asked to hear 761 00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:55,040 because he couldn't what see. And when he got out the boat, we 762 00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,560 look at he kept he took his eyes off of Jesus. 763 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:04,440 He couldn't see him. He stopped listening and I want 764 00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:10,000 to look at what, what, what what would have kept him hearing. 765 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:15,720 He he didn't just he. What got Jesus talking was Peter 766 00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:23,480 talking. And I like that I wrote it like 767 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:26,200 this. Peter took his eyes off the 768 00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,720 voice of Jesus. A. 769 00:56:33,350 --> 00:56:40,150 Lot of you misunderstand the word because you don't know 770 00:56:40,150 --> 00:56:51,750 God's voice and this is where the enemy gets us is we got way 771 00:56:51,750 --> 00:56:53,270 too many. Voices in our lives. 772 00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,080 The Bible says in Job or is the second crime, I forget what it 773 00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:04,360 is, but God said what you doing here, talking to the enemy, 774 00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,120 talking to the devil, talking to Satan, what you doing up here? 775 00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:16,400 He showed up amongst other angels and God said what you 776 00:57:16,400 --> 00:57:19,480 doing here? He showed up in the midst of 777 00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:27,240 other voices and when you have aligned yourself with the voices 778 00:57:27,320 --> 00:57:29,880 or the few voices that God has put in your life, here's what 779 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:33,280 you got to be aware of other voices getting loud. 780 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,960 You should not put everybody's voice on the same volume. 781 00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,360 You, you got to be a good engineer of the sound in your 782 00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:50,920 life. You got to learn how to mix the 783 00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:57,600 voices. I just want to take a look at 784 00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:05,920 Peter and how he was perfected. Father, we thank you for your 785 00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:09,280 word. We thank you for your 786 00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:12,200 perfecting. We thank you for your hand to 787 00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:18,240 mold us, to keep us. We thank you for your love. 788 00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:25,040 Thank you for your relentless love. 789 00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:35,840 Lord God, you are good and your mercy endures forever. 790 00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,600 Lord, I thank you that we will be a people that's not caught 791 00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:42,640 off guard. We are a people that as your 792 00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:46,360 wind blows, Father, we will discover that there is fruit 793 00:58:46,360 --> 00:58:50,640 remaining. But Lord, do what you have to 794 00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,400 do. Blow on what you have to blow 795 00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:57,640 on, so that everything that is left in our life is pleasing to 796 00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:06,960 Your sight. Holy Spirit, lead us and guide 797 00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:12,480 us in this hour. We need Your presence, we need 798 00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:17,160 your wisdom, we need Your guidance, we need your leading. 799 00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:23,000 For You are good, You are faithful, You are a comforter, 800 00:59:23,840 --> 00:59:26,960 you are standby, you are teacher, you are intercessor, 801 00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:36,160 you are peace, you are joy. Lord, thank you, we will forever 802 00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:39,040 give you the praise in Jesus name Amen. 803 00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:41,760 If you've got anything, just give God a praise one time. 804 00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:46,400 Come on, y'all can do better than that. 805 00:59:46,400 --> 01:00:03,120 Come on, give God some praise. Thank you so much for tuning in 806 01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:05,560 to this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 807 01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:09,160 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 808 01:00:09,160 --> 01:00:12,360 platforms. That's love Quest Intl church. 809 01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,800 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 810 01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:17,760 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. 811 01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,280 You can find us anywhere you need to find us. 812 01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:23,360 But until next time, you know the drill, you know the motto. 813 01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,200 Get your love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.