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you’ve been thinking this is not enough
gifting this is not enough talent it’s
not enough money it’s not enough i don’t
have enough and jesus is whispering in
your ear tonight
when you say i am not enough
it makes you pray harder
it makes you seek harder
it makes you ask for more grace
yeah it sucks
but this is going to be sanctifying
yeah it’s hard
but somehow healing’s coming out of this
it’s time to get up step up step out in
faith take a risk do what god has called
you to do become who god has called you
to become don’t listen to the naysayers
don’t let fear doubt or negativity keep
you here trap it’s time to cross over
it’s time to break camp it’s time to
advance and go in and possess the
promises of god
[Music]
i was 17 years old i laid down and went
to sleep
and while i was sleeping i dreamed
i was reading a verse that i didn’t know
existed at the time
god was saying to a young man before i
formed thee in the belly i knew thee
or i ordained thee and i sanctified thee
to be a prophet
to the nations
and when i woke that morning i just took
my bible
with with childlike faith and just
let it fall open
and it fell open on jeremiah
and he said before i formed thee
in the belly
i knew thee
and i ordained thee
and i sanctified thee
to be a prophet unto the nations
and all of a sudden i remembered all the
stories my mother told me about when i
was born i was born with a veil over my
face and then one of the neighbors came
down and said look the lord has given
you a prophet
and mama said a prophet she said yeah he
has a veil over his face thin membrane
born over some babies faces i was one of
them
that membrane
the old folk said was a sign you were a
prophet but i didn’t know i was a
prophet so i was a wild crazy foolish
ignorant rambunctious
kid
who got into everything and anything all
the time driving people crazy and i was
having a good time doing my own thing
until god came along and messed it all
up by bringing this stuff again about me
being a preacher
and
i ran
from my calling i purposely got drunk
and went wild and got high and partied
and did everything i could to convince
him to go away
get one of them people with the little
dollies on their head and the long
skirts on and the no makeup who pray all
day and talk in tongues all the time and
leave me alone because i am not one of
them i’m crazy i’m ignorant i’m wow i’m
uncoof i will embarrass you i will
disgrace you please don’t call me this
is not going to be good for you and it’s
not going to be good for me and we
should not do this together
but god didn’t ask me to vote
he asked me to obey
and after several years of running and
after several years of going in clubs
and sitting on bar stools where one
drunk would lean over to me and say
funny man i had the craziest dream about
you
i i dreamed you was preaching in this
church
and i got up and ran out of the club
and i felt like david if i make my bed
in hell thou art there and if i take the
wings of the morning and ascend to the
uttermost parts of the earth are there
and i’m not going to be able to outrun
this and i couldn’t understand
that god wouldn’t let me go
i couldn’t understand why god picked me
if i get to heaven and we’re only
allowed one question a piece i simply
want to know
why did you call me
a boy from the heels of west virginia
the son of a janitor and a school
teacher
why did you call me and i had lots of
excuses
like moses i i had a speech impediment
you you can’t call me
you can’t you can’t call me i didn’t
stutter but i had a list i can’t be a
speaker because i have a list
but all of us have areas where we feel
inadequate
and if you don’t
you’re disqualified
because humility is framed from feeling
inadequate
when you say i am not enough
it makes you pray harder
it makes you seek harder
it makes you ask for more grace
beware of all the people who tell you
they are enough
it’s a sure sign
that you’re dealing with a fraud
because the questions the world is
asking
are too complicated for you to answer
with a degree
the problems people are having now
require divine intervention
and you have to have somebody who has
heard from god
not from themselves
so it doesn’t matter in my weakness he’s
made strong
in in my weakness his strength is
validated
so he chooses fragile
broken limited people so you won’t be
confused where the ointment comes from
you know that the glory that we have is
not of ourselves but christ jesus the
lord that has given us glory and it’s
him coming out of us it’s not our talent
coming out of it it’s not our skill
coming out of it it is him coming out
both to do and to will according to his
own good pleasure
that’s the facts
and what makes god all the more real is
recognizing that he can work with such
poor material
that he could that he can be so
masterful as michelangelo
to paint the sistine chapel with a
broken brush
and i am the brush
and you are the brush and you are the
brush you are the brush
and he chooses broken brushes so that
there will be no
glory to the brush
only to the artist
when
the master
the master bittner
plans to transplant you
arguing will not stop it
he will not let you go
until he’s moved you to the place that
he has prepared for you
and you for it
and placing you in that place
you begin to grow
and you will know you’re in the place
when like joseph
your branches reach over walls
when god plants you
your branches reach over every
denominational
racial
generational
wall that ever stood
and i believe he wanted you to hear this
at this moment
in your life
jerry and i my husband and i we’ve been
married nearly 20 years now i can’t
believe that and we have three sons that
we are raising they are giant
they are giants y’all
my 15 year old is six foot two inches
tall his 14 year old brother is six foot
two inches tall um their nine-year-old
brother is coming up right after them
they are some big boys and one of the
things i do for these boys in fact you
should know that my full-time job is
feeding the boys that is my full
time job i am trying to figure out any
which way i can differently to cook
chicken for dinner every single night
just like y’all that’s exactly what i’m
doing
so we just do sports and everything with
the boys they’re growing up so quick so
one of the things that i have done since
my oldest was five i started when he was
five um i went to uh ross dress for lest
in the back hand corner left hand side
there is a one row that has books and
journals and those sorts of things i
went and i grabbed um three journals
hardback journals they were just little
little um with the little spine spiral
spines nothing real fancy 4.99 i picked
one for each boy i’ve had it ever since
my oldest was five and at that age i
started to record a journal for them i
do not write in it every week or every
month or even um you know just on a
regular basis it’s just when something
happens i don’t want to forget or they
say something that’s really interesting
or i see the hand the handiwork the
fingerprints of god in their life in
some way i kind of write it down
my goal is to have a collection of
writings and thoughts and and love
letters really to my boys about their
life that i hand over to them when
they’re you know mature enough to
appreciate it or better yet i might just
hand it over to their wives and say girl
this is what you’re getting yourself
into right here
and because my oldest will be 16
next month i was looking through his
journal and came across a story from
when he was five
i read it with fond memories
because it was the the little journal
entry i put in there about him losing
his first tooth
he had wiggled that tooth
and wiggled it he couldn’t wait for it
to come out
and the reason he couldn’t wait for it
to come out is because we had told him
that when your tooth comes out the tooth
fairy will come
she will come and she will replace the
tooth with a treasure
so he could not wait
finally the tooth came out and that is
my boy still to this day that that has
never been eager to go to sleep but that
night
he dove into bed at bedtime he could not
wait he put the tooth underneath the
pillow he laid his head down and he was
he was trying to go to sleep but every
three to five seconds he would look
under the pillow
to see if anything had happened
finally he did fall asleep
we let some time pass and then about
three o’clock in the morning or so the
six foot two 250 pound tooth fairy that
i sleep next to every night he got up he
went upstairs and he replaced the tooth
for a treasure
in the morning i knew in jackson and at
the time we just had jackson and jerry
jr
i knew when they got up i knew i could
hear it i could hear the excitement the
squeals i could hear the stomps on the
floor i could hear the eagerness and
enthusiasm because the tooth fairy had
come and left the treasure they bounded
down the stairs into the room jackson’s
fists were both clenched closed he ran
up to me and said bomb the tooth fairy
came she left me a treasure
i said buddy let me see what she left
you
opened up one hand and it was a package
of gummy bears which was a big deal at
the time because that was his favorite
snack he opened up the other hand and it
was five dollars
[Applause]
now i don’t know what happened when
y’all were growing up but
i grew up in the days of dimes and
nickels
can the church say amen
so you know i’m trying to be excited for
the boy
[Applause]
really i’m annoyed about this whole five
dollar situation and my husband can see
that i am troubled
and you know if mama ain’t happy
nobody’s happy
after jackson left the room jerry came
over to me and he said priscilla don’t
worry
he said do you remember that last month
was jackson’s fifth birthday
he said do you remember that we had all
of the family over still to this day we
do that when one of the boys has a
birthday we invite the whole clan over
grandparents and cousins and aunts and
uncles everybody comes to celebrate he
said do you remember they all came most
of them had cards and then those cards
were five dollar bills he said do you
remember we took all those five dollar
bills and we put them in a birthday
drawer in the kitchen he said this
morning at 3am i went right inside that
birthday drawer
dave ramsey would be so proud of us
that’s good financial stewardship right
there is what that is
[Applause]
so that morning
really what i had witnessed
was my little boy getting excited about
treasure
that actually already belonged to him
treasure that he already had he just
didn’t know it
i came to tell somebody that there is
treasure
hidden in these earthen vessels
i came to tell you that by god’s spirit
there is gift and there is power that
has been entrusted to you that is
available to you available to me as
daughters of the most high king
you need to know that even if you do not
believe what the scriptures declare to
be true about your treasure if you don’t
believe that you’ve been forgiven or
that you already have the victory or
that the enemy is already underneath
your feet that there is no condemnation
for those of us who are in christ jesus
or that you have been made competent by
the spirit of god
i came to tell you that even if you
don’t believe it the enemy does
he knows who you are what ashamed it
would be for him to know and us not to
so it’s time for us to open up the
drawer and start pulling out the
treasure the treasure we’ve been
ignoring the treasure we’ve been calling
insignificant the thing that we’ve said
is not enough not valuable lord if i
could just be like her lord if i could
just be like that if i could just have a
bit more of that if i weren’t me then
lord i’d be enough he says uh-uh you
have enough you just haven’t opened up
the drawer
pull out the treasure
there is a story in scripture that is
going to be very familiar to you it’s
the one that the lord has been using in
my own life to remind me about how
he will compel me and he will compel us
to open up the drawer and reach in and
pull out the treasure and see what it’s
like when he uses what he has already
entrusted to us
luke chapter nine verse one
and two
says this
and he called that’s jesus he called
somebody say he called
he called the twelve together and he
gave somebody say he gave he gave them
power
and he gave them authority
over all demons and to heal all diseases
verse two and then he sent somebody say
he sent
he sent them
called them
he gave him treasure
and then he sent them out
verse 10 says and then when they
returned to him they gave an account to
him of everything they had done
and taking them with him he withdrew by
himself to a hill called bethsaida
the multitudes were aware of this verse
11 says so they followed jesus because
you know wherever jesus went a crowd was
sure to follow they weren’t quite sure
he was the messiah but what they didn’t
know was that when this man showed up
blind people could see
what they knew is that when jesus showed
up the lame could walk and the death
could hear the dead were being raised so
wherever jesus was they came
the crowd followed and welcoming the
multitude jesus began speaking to them
about the kingdom of god and curing
those who were in need of healing verse
12.
so the day starts to come to a close and
the twelve come to jesus and say now
jesus you’re gonna have to send this
multitude away they’ve got to go into
the surrounding villages and countryside
and find lodging they’ve got to get
something to eat jesus come on now here
we’re in a desolate place
verse 13 jesus said to them
uh-uh
you give them something to eat
they said jesus we have no more than
five loaves and two fish unless perhaps
you let us go and buy food for all these
people because you know we’re not enough
as we are right now
there were about five thousand men
scholars say the reason why luke
specifies men is because there were
women and children too so there were
probably about 15 000 hungry people that
day
jesus said have them recline to eat in
groups of about 50 each so they did so
had them all reclined and then he took
the five loaves and the two fish
and looking up to heaven he blessed them
and then he broke them
and he kept giving them to the disciples
to set before the multitude and verse 17
says they all ate
they were all satisfied and just so you
know how satisfied they were they went
by and picked up all the leftovers
because there was overflow
in this story we meet a hungry multitude
a multitude that is placing a demand
they have a need there is a lack that
needs to be filled and most of the time
when this proportion of the scriptures
is looked into the multitude is who we
concentrate on the five loaves and the
two fish and how they were satisfied
with it but just for a few moments
tonight i want to talk to you about the
12 disciples
those who walked with jesus and talked
with jesus those who were in close
communion with jesus those who would
come out on a friday night to be in the
presence of jesus amongst the people of
jesus i want to talk to the disciples of
jesus
the disciples on this occasion had been
called to jesus by jesus they were
having a conversation with each other
jesus entrusted them with power and
authority and then he sent them out
i love that this gospel is one of the
synoptic gospels the synoptic gospels
are those that tell there are three of
them matthew mark and luke these three
tell some of the similar stories in a
similar tone in a similar way so that
we’re able to get more layers to the
story i love the gospels in that way
they give us layers
just like if someone were to offer you a
chocolate cake but they gave you options
you could have a one layer chocolate
cake or a seven layer chocolate cake
which one you gonna choose
seven every single time because the more
layers there are
the more rich and delectable the
experience becomes mark chapter six is a
layer of chocolate cake for us it tells
us that this is the experience when
jesus called the disciples to himself
and then he sent them out in pairs do
you remember two by two into the
neighboring towns and communities they
were supposed to teach and preach and
perform miracles that would authenticate
the deity of jesus christ mark chapter
six our layer of chocolate cake
tells us that they expended themselves
y’all they were busy from sun up to
sundown they were about the task of
doing what it was that jesus had
assigned to them they wanted to be
diligent about it so much so that when
they came back to jesus they gave an
account to him and jesus recognized
their exhaustion
he saw that they were tired in fact
jesus himself commented that they didn’t
even have time to eat because they had
been so busy
they were depleted and they were tired
and they came back to jesus and they
gave him an account
for how they’d handled the assignment
that he had entrusted to them
if you’re a believer in jesus christ
you got an assignment
and don’t let anybody tell you that your
assignment isn’t ministry just because
it happens to be in a corporate setting
mother of small children who’s chosen to
stay home with those kids don’t let
anybody tell you that a ministry
every single time you make that chicken
for dinner and you set it on that table
and you teach those kids a bible verse
before bedtime don’t let anybody tell
you that that ain’t ministry
corporate woman when you sit around that
boardroom table and you’re the only one
that has a set of ideals that lines up
with the truth of scripture at a table
with those who are thinking and acting
and planning in a way that is left of
god’s word don’t let anybody tell you
that you around that boardroom ain’t
ministry that’s ministry
high school student college student
you’re the only student that stands for
truth when your professor says this is
the way it is and you say no that’s not
the way it is don’t let anybody tell you
as the light on that college campus that
you are not in
ministry every single one of us has an
assignment and the day is coming
when we’re gonna have to give an account
and here’s the
thing you don’t know when that day is
my 38 year old cousin
38
four small children
the day is coming and you don’t know the
day or the hour
neither do i when we’re gonna have to
stand before him and give an account for
how we handled what he had entrusted to
us i’m asking you tonight how are you
handling your assignment
because young women if you think that
you’re young because of your age listen
to me if you’re 20 but you only have
until 30 you’re pretty old
if you’re 50 and you’re gonna live until
100 then you’re pretty young
age is just a number my friend and you
and i cannot qualify young or old
baseball based on our our birth date
it’s based on our death date and since
we don’t know when that day is
that i implore you sisters by the
mercies of god to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling by which you have
been called
cause listen i don’t know about y’all
but when i see him face to face i’m
looking for a well done
i’m looking for well done
when i see him he will not ask me how
many instagram followers i had
he will not wonder whether or not folks
liked my post he will not be interested
in whether or not my selfies were
perfectly lit he will ask me
did i know his son
and then i will give an account
so the disciples they come and they give
an account to jesus i wondered if there
was a recipe for effective ministry
because if these guys were willing to
come and look jesus in his face and give
an account i figured there might be a
recipe for us for effective ministry i’m
interested anybody interested
there are three ingredients to the
recipe
luke chapter nine verse one it says he
called them
he
called them
and his calling superseded any personal
ambition that they had
they laid down whatever they were going
to do because they heard the call of god
beckoning them to do something else
the beautiful thing about that entire
picture is that all of the glory of god
the father
all of the glory of heaven was packaged
in human flesh jesus wanted so much god
the father wanted so much to make sure
that he could speak and so that humanity
could hear that he left his throne in
glory
put on flesh so that the disciples could
hear his call and in the same way he has
given us the holy spirit so that each
and every one of us have the privilege
to hear the calling of god on our lives
the conviction the unction the pressing
the fire that is shut up in your bones
sending you in a particular direction
heed the call of god on your lives
then they were not just called i love so
much that before he skips to the third
ingredient in the recipe sending them i
love that before we get to the third one
there’s that second one he did not just
call but then he gave them power and
authority it means that what he was
calling them to do he was simultaneously
equipping them with supernatural power
to be able to pull it off so it’s good
news for anybody in the room that you
feel like you’ve got a dream that is way
over your head you’ve been called to do
something you don’t have the money for
you don’t have the time for you don’t
have the patience for you don’t have the
gifting for you don’t have the talent
for you don’t have the connections for
the good thing and the great thing about
our god is that he does not call people
who are already equipped he calls you
and then for the people that say yes he
equips them with what they need for the
calling
entrusted them with power and authority
and can i tell you why this is important
this is important because in order to
accompl and accomplish supernatural
tasks
you have to have supernatural capacity
in other words you can be the most
talented person in the world but if you
go in your own strength and power
you still won’t be able to accomplish
the god calling on your life it requires
what it is that only god himself can
give to you to accomplish the task oh
the enemy hopes you will go in your own
power
he hopes you will think you are flashy
enough and savvy enough and talented
enough and impressive enough so that you
will no longer lean on god instead of
leaning to your own understanding
but it is not by power and it is not by
might it is by the spirit of god
and some trust in horses other folks
trust in chariots but not us we trust in
the name of the lord our god
so he called them and then he entrusted
them he gave them some treasure and then
he
sent them
he’s the one who did the sending
resist the urge to send yourself
to do something that it is not yet time
for
because just as important as our calling
is that is equally as important as the
timing is
in which that calling is outworked in
our lives and if you go too soon you
might if you if you give birth too soon
to that which god is trying to produce
through you you might abort
what it is that he’s trying to
accomplish in you
the spiritual backbone the fortification
that he was trying to establish in you
so that you could handle the spotlight
when it hit you because listen that
spotlight that you may be craving if it
hits you and you have no character it
will burn you to a crisp
so he called them
he entrusted them he sent them out and
they returned to him and gave an account
they were tired
the disciples had been given it
everything they had
and i know there are some of you in the
room and you would admit that you
haven’t done it perfectly but man you’ve
sure been purposeful
you’ve been intentional about this
marriage you’ve been giving it
everything you’ve got
you’ve been intentional about that
teenager you’ve been giving that kid
everything you’ve got this
toddler that has this specific vent or
this specific issue that you’ve been
doing everything you can going to see
every expert that you can reading
everything that you can to be the best
that you can as a mother single mother
you’ve been giving it everything that
you’ve got working the jobs that you’ve
got to work to keep food on the table
you’ve been giving that business that
ministry that endeavor everything that
you have and you the disciples are tired
the good news about jesus is that when
the disciples come to him tired he does
not say
go away from me and get yourself
together
come back and then i can use you
he says
come away with
me
in other words listen
the cure for your exhaustion
is intimacy with jesus
that’s the cure y’all
i’m saying i agree take the holiday take
the vacation tell them you need a little
sabbatical you got to step back for just
a little bit you need a little margin in
your life take the holiday but don’t
take a holiday from jesus
don’t take the sabbatical from your
relationship with the lord prayer
shouldn’t exit your schedule because
these are your rest days you still need
to be the deer that pants after the
water your soul has still got to be
replenished and can only be replenished
when you have intimacy with him
and you’re trying to figure out lord
you told me that i was gonna be
replenished you told me that i was gonna
refresh you told me that you had
something that you wanted to give to me
why would you take me here to this place
where i’m being pressed down by a
multitude of issues and concerns and
frustrations there’s something
overwhelming me that is bigger than what
i feel like i have the capacity to
handle why would you bring me here this
tells us that the story of the feeding
of the five thousand is not just about
the five thousand
it’s also about the disciples it’s not
just about the multitude getting fed
it’s about the disciples being fed
physically spiritually emotionally and
it tells us that the five loaves and the
two fish are the gift to the multitude
but it’s the multitude
that’s the gift to the disciples
because the multitude
is what’s going to make them
have to finally open up their drawer
pull out the treasure that they would
have otherwise ignored
place it in the hands of a multiplying
master who’s going to show them what it
looks like when he takes their little
bit and makes it a lot
there is no replenishing
like watching god multiply your loaves
and fish
i came to tell somebody who’s got a
multitude pressing on you
in your marriage or in your finances or
in your health or in your parenting or
in your singleness that thing is
weighing down on you that means that
there is a drawer waiting to be opened
that means there’s some treasure waiting
to be unveiled
and when you take it out finally when
you stop ignoring it when you stop
circumventing it when you stop acting
like god hasn’t given you everything you
need when you will finally recognize
this little bit this little gifting this
little talent this little time this
little money this little dream this
little vision that this is all i need if
i’ll just pull it out
and entrust it to the hands of a
multiply master
can i just show you real quick what the
disciples did
just real quick because i think it’s
interesting because it’s so us
they said to jesus in verse 12 send the
multitude away
[Applause]
and here’s the thing that’s so us see we
don’t just
say it
we pray it
[Applause]
we pray away what we don’t even
recognize is the gift he has given us
to press us into opening up our drawer
so if you pray for your multitude to be
taken away and in god’s sovereignty he
has left it in your life
that means there’s a drawer there’s a
drawer stop start looking for a drawer
if there’s a multitude that means
there’s loaves and fish somewhere in
your life that is supposed to be
entrusted into the hands of god so we
pray away did you realize in verse 12
they are wishing away what in verse 11
jesus welcomed
welcomed what they’re wishing away
so the disciples say
get get this multitude away
they don’t even know they’re praying
away their miracle
everybody wants to see the red sea
divide but nobody wants to be the one
that comes face to face with a red sea
everybody wants to see the walls of
jericho come tumbling down but nobody
wants to be the one who has to walk
around those walls in obedience to god
to trust him to shout prior to seeing
one brick fall
if there is a multitude that means there
is a miracle
so praise the multitude or they ask for
the multitude to go away and jesus he
doesn’t go for that so when he doesn’t
they he doesn’t go for that the
disciples have another solution this is
us too
send the multitude away jesus says
and they say
well send us away then
you see it
they said send us to the surrounding
towns and villages so that we can go and
buy more accumulate more get more
because as we are is not sufficient
so send us somewhere else so we can get
better and be better suited to this
multitude because as we are is not
enough it has always been the tactic of
the enemy to get us to think that we are
not enough as we currently are that what
we currently have is not sufficient for
the task that is before us but if the
lord has allowed that multitude into
your experience that means that as you
currently are with the entrusted
treasure the power the authority that he
has given to you you’ve got everything
you need if you just pull out what he
already has entrusted to you
in fact in mark chapter six our layer of
chocolate cake we find out that he says
to the disciples
well what do you have
he asked them that question
he says what do you have and then he
doesn’t even give him a chance to answer
he just immediately responds and says
go and look
he said it like that
go and look
he said it like you would tell your kid
if the month i mean the week after
christmas they came to you and said mom
i’m bored
you would say
well what do you have
and then before you gave them a chance
to respond because you could already
tell that the response they was going to
give you was going to get them in
trouble
so you didn’t even give them a chance
you just say you would say to them
go and look
because if you’ll just look you’ll see
that the thing you’re complaining about
is something you already have access to
if you will go and look moses you will
see that everything you need to do what
i’ve called you to do it’s in your hand
it’s that rod that common rod that has
always been right beside you but now i’m
gonna infuse it with my power if i can
just get you to go and look moses pick
the stick up put it over the red sea you
will see that it will make the red sea
divide like a solid wall go and look
david yes goliath is right there but if
you’ll go look down by the stream i’ve
already provided five smooth stones that
will be everything you need to take that
giant down go and look spend all of the
energy that you’re spending complaining
spend that energy going to look for what
god has already given us access to
so they pulled it out
all right jesus you’re gonna do
something with this
they say okay
here you go
and they put it in his hands
everything changes
when you put your five and two in the
hands of jesus
everything changes when you stop
speaking negatively about it and just
trust it into the hands of g when you
just take that little dream that that he
has entrusted to you and you give it
back to him and you say don’t look like
much right now but i’m putting it in
your hands and the great thing about our
god verse 16 says is that he took
the meager gifts of man
he didn’t look at their little bit and
say come back when you’ve got more uh
a holy divine almighty powerful god a
god who does not need us or our loaves
and fish when man gave it to him
he received it
and looking up to heaven
he blessed it
y’all you don’t need more you just need
god’s blessing on what you’ve already
got
you don’t need more you just need god’s
blessing on your five and two girl
that’s all you need
you know what his blessing is it’s his
favor
y’all favor is what makes the scales
balance over in your favor
favor is what makes things a little bit
unfair on your behalf favor is what
opens doors that nobody can shut favor
is what puts you in positions that
nobody can take away favor is what sets
you before kings and queens the favor of
god is what you want on your life on
your five and two looking up to heaven
he blessed it then he broke it and he
kept giving it
to the disciples
and it kept going and it kept going and
the 12 didn’t understand how the little
bit they had they had in the beginning
had become so much
and their entire multitude
the whole burden was satisfied
and when everybody was satisfied
oh somebody say satisfied
oh victoria i wish we had time tonight
girl
satisfied
this is not some you know happy meal
sort of situation here
this is not a number one on the burger
king drive-thru this is sunday afternoon
i’m talking about old school sunday
where your mom started to cook on
saturday night and the yeast rolls were
rising and the macaroni and cheese was
bubbling and the sweet potatoes were all
gooey on the stove and and every the
sweet tea was going the roast you know
she started the roast on 200
the night before and let it simmer all
night long y’all are getting hungry
aren’t you i know listen
do you remember how when you came home
from church the next day you ate that
and the only thing you could do after
that was
that’s all you could do that’s why jesus
said go ahead and have the people
recline
have them get in a posture
of expectation
that i’m getting ready to do exceedingly
abundantly
above and beyond anything that they can
ask or think
satisfied sunday afternoon kind of
satisfied
that’s what he does
and they were so satisfied y’all don’t
even sit down just stay standing listen
they were so satisfied this is how you
know how good the meal was
there was leftovers
they started going around picking up the
leftovers y’all and guess what
there were 12 baskets full
one basket
for each disciple
to take home
as an overflow of the grace and the
blessing of god
i want to pray for any of you who are in
this room and you’ve got a multitude
weighing on you
you gotta i mean that thing is burdening
you down and you’ve never considered the
fact
that you’ve already got what you need
you’ve been thinking this is not enough
gifting this is not enough talent it’s
not enough money it’s not enough time i
don’t have enough and jesus is
whispering in your ear tonight
you got enough
just give it to me i’m gonna multiply it
i’m gonna blow your mind with what i’m
gonna do if you just trust it to me
anybody got a specific multitude
that you need prayer in regards to just
go ahead and raise your hand we’re gonna
pray right now
in jesus name victoria will you come up
with me please just as a pastor in this
house would you just be
present in this moment so we can pray
over god’s people lord
right now we entrust every single woman
who has her hand raised in particular we
entrust every single one under the sound
of our voice lord to your love and care
we thank you that you are sovereign over
their lives father we thank you that
there is nothing that is in our
experience right now that is not first
passed through your fingers and since we
know you are good and that you are kind
and that your mercy endures forever then
father we
believe that if you’ve allowed this
multitude there’s something in this
multitude we don’t want to miss and so
father i pray right now that you would
change our perspective so we can see in
this multitude what you have for us
don’t let us miss it for anything in the
world lord
and then father i’m gonna pray over our
five and two i ask right now in jesus
name whatever the five loaves and the
two fish are that you have entrusted to
every single woman i pray that you would
give a holy courage and a holy boldness
that would compel us to open up the
drawer and pull it out and entrust it to
your hands father god i do pray that if
this multitude has anything to do with
the enemy lord if the enemy has assigned
an attack on any woman or her family i
pray that his attack would be canceled
in jesus name and by his blood that has
been shed on calvary
but lord if this multitude is of you
then right now in jesus name i thank you
for it in our lives come on and thank
him for it
i thank you for it
and then father
we’re gonna go ahead and get in a
posture of abundance we’re gonna start
living and praying and acting like
people who believe that you are the god
of ephesians 3 20 and 21.
you can do above all that we ask or
think in jesus name
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it says leaving the crowds behind
see when you’re going to not be
impressive
that means you’re going to have to
divorce your identity from the crowd
leaving
the crowds
behind
i need to give you this point because
some of you won’t be able to make it
past this moment if i don’t give it to
you if you’re going to dwell in the deep
your boat is not built for everybody
leaving the crowds what did i say
behind
the bible says distinctly that other
boats followed
but it said that the boat that jesus had
started them out on
everybody was not able
to get on that boat i bet there was a
lot of people in the crowd that wanted
to get on the boat when jesus said hey
i got a mission for us let’s go to the
other side and literally they said they
moved out
leaving the crowd behind i keep saying
leaving the crowd behind because i
believe that god is asking some of you
to do that very thing if you’re going to
dwell in the deep leave
the crowd behind
who
is on your boat who’s weighing you down
everybody’s not going to the deep with
you
and you will delay your destination
trying to bring a committee to what god
called you to
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do you know where i would be right now
if i waited for everybody that i thought
was supposed to be with me to come with
me on this journey
do you know how many people would still
be wandering and drifting if i needed
the cosine of everybody else when i
already had the cosine of heaven
your boat
is not built
for everybody
and the most spiritual thing that you
may do this year
because you’re going to the deep
is delete them
i’m not talking about if you see them
out you don’t you don’t say hello and be
cordial and i’m not talking about cancel
culture i’m talking about concentrated
culture
do you know that if you are distracted
you cannot reach your destiny in
adequate time and so what god is telling
you right now is i don’t want you to be
in to cancel culture i need you to be in
concentrated culture do you know when a
horse a thoroughbred runs in the indy uh
not indy 500 what do they call it the
preakness or the um um what is it called
the kentucky derby those horses are
worth millions and millions and millions
of dollars they have a 15 piece of
equipment that they put on their eyes to
allow the peripheral vision to be cut
off so that they can be concentrated on
their lane and the finish line
and i believe that in this year god is
asking us to be concentrated on our lane
and the finish line and that means
that everybody
can’t get on the boat
and go
to the deep
well what i do pastor mike
i thought
i thought bobo name was gonna come with
me
i thought tremaine was gonna be able to
make this trip
i already got a ring
i already got a ring i bought a ring
already pastor mike
are you asking me to get on this boat
and go alone
are you asking me
to actually
wait on you
hello hello hello
anybody out there anybody out there
i will trust you i don’t trust you i
would trust you
this sucks this sucks this sucks
eenie meenie miney mo catch a tiger by
his toe
miss mary mac man
all dressed in black
purified
very fine
i want to be concerned
you came from heaven to earth
to show
me something
cause the deep
feels stupid
the deep doesn’t have friends
the deep is calling me to be separate
consecrated
refined
sanctified
see these are
these are words in the bible that we
skip over
like these are when we talk about the
blessings we talk about all that but
then when he says that
he will be the one
to take us
through every storm of life
can i ask you a question
have you ever been in a storm before
when you were waiting on god doing the
thing he asked you to do
and then out of nowhere a storm happens
can i ask you this question how many
people can we be honest we’re hot at
this church humble opening transparency
how many people in some area of your
life are in a storm right now come on
hands lifted all over the world
you’re in a storm right now
what happens
when mark 437 comes up
that i left the crowd
i decided to go to the deep
and this should be easy now because you
are with me right
and look what verse 37 is the whole
point of this message
but soon
a fierce
storm came up
no that’s desperate no no no no no no no
that’s not possible
it’s not possible
that i obeyed god
it’s not possible
that the season was just calm
that’s not possible
that i trusted god i gave him the crazy
faith offering i keep showing up
and then jesus is the one that told me
to go to the other side
he is the one that told me to move to
tulsa
he’s the one that told me to go to that
school
he’s the one that told me
and then
under jesus’s instructions
a fierce
storm
came
has your
life ever
looked
like
a storm
because right now
in many of your lives
that’s what it feels like and that’s
what it sounds like
it sounds
and feels
like how am i out here
and how i’m going to do what god asked
me to do
and what is going on in my life and i’m
out here and it’s dark now and i’m out
here and there’s nobody helping me
and i’m out here and i don’t hear a word
from god
what are you saying to me pastor mike
something you need to know if you’re
gonna dwell in the deep is the anchor
does not excuse the storm
this is the lie that so many churches
and people have told you for years and
i’m gonna shoot it to you straight you
can have jesus and have a storm
it’s better to see it coming than to
allow yourself to be fooled and then
walk away the storm is coming whether
you have jesus or not
your marriage will be tested whether you
pray in tongues or not
your children will have to be taught
whether you fast or not i feel god right
now
you will have
a challenge that you’re gonna have to
believe god for
whether you read the word every day or
not
i’m going to keep the storm going
because this is what many of your whole
last year look like
and what we try to do
is get down and make a better situation
for ourselves
let me roll my way into another
another school
let me roll my way into a better
relationship
let me roll my way
let me roll my way
into a new church
you’ve been to 42 churches
and the storm has not subsided
it might mean because god’s trying to
teach you something in the storm
i need to be even more transparent with
you because i feel like many people have
never done this for you so i’m going to
do it for you jesus does not excuse the
storm
but can i tell you jesus
usually escorts you into the storm
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god i thought hold on god i thought you
was doing something i thought you was
hold on no no no no i’m in the middle
hold on no i’m in the middle
how do i get out of
i’m your anchor
trust and know
that i am god
be still
and wait on me
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god
i can’t
i can’t see daylight
i don’t understand
why you didn’t just tell me to stay on
the shore
because god said the blessings in the
deep
can i prove it to you
jesus after he was baptized in water
what ended up happening
is that
god came down and said this is my son
and who i’m well pleased
and then guess what happened
he was led by the holy spirit
into
the wilderness
he was escorted by god
some of y’all been calling your storm a
devastation
and god said that this is just the
destination
that i have to create in you or i feel
this thing the character the stamina the
wherewithal the stick to additiveness
that you need to be everything i’ve
called jesus
[Applause]
[Music]
and right now
i bet on day
21 jesus
was like yo is the storm over yet
and i bet
on day 31 he said is the storm over yet
and some of you
have been living in this place in your
life
is the storm over yet
is the storm going to subside
and for some reason
god doesn’t take you out of the storm
he sustains you in the middle of it
i’m trying to show you a practical
example of what having an anchor does
and can i tell you something if you’re
going to dwell in the deep listen and
write this point down the deep is not
for devastation
it’s for preparation
the darkest and deepest places of my
life
have prepared me for the greatest
victories of my life
i remember when me and natalie had good
credit
and we were in a place to be able to buy
our first home
and it was sunny sky everywhere
and we got hooked up with a bad
contractor
and what ended up happening is we found
ourselves in the smack dab middle of a
storm
and for three
years
my credit went down
we were drained of tens of thousands of
dollars nobody knew pastor mike i didn’t
have no books i didn’t have no nothing i
felt like every day god was letting the
storm continue to pound on my life and i
was like god why i’m praying i’m fasting
i’m giving i’m serving the youth i’m
serving bishop
and god said this is not a place of
devastation
this is a place of preparation
it was in those moments that i learned
the tools and the trades that i needed
to be able to purchase the spirit bank
event center that we sit in right now
he knew that if i went through the storm
in a season where it was inconsequential
that he would sustain me and i would
come out better and at the other side it
would be the very thing i needed
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to reach purpose
maybe you need to rename your storm
yeah it sucks
but this is going to be sanctifying
yeah it’s hard
but somehow healing’s coming out of this
john 16 33 said i have told you these
things so that in me you may have peace
in this world you will have trouble can
i say it a different way in this world
you will have a storm
but take heart
i your anchor have over pumped somebody
better help me shout in the place today
if you know that our anchor has overcome
the world
so dear brothers and sisters james one
verse two and four
when troubles or storms of any kind
oh that means i can have a storm in my
marriage any kind of storm
a storm of insecurity any kind of storm
a storm of financial poverty any kind of
storm dear brothers and sisters when
storms or troubles of any kind come your
way uh-oh you want to reframe it
consider it an opportunity
for great joy hold on
is my storm a joyful situation according
to the word of god my storm should bring
me joy because if i know when your faith
is tested
your endurance has a chance to grow
so let me admonish you like james let it
grow
for when your endurance is fully
developed
you will be perfect
and complete
needing
nothing
what i started saying to myself
in the midst of the storm
because what happened is
sometimes you think like i got used to
the storm
and then the lights go dark
and then the stuff that used to be very
very clear and that you could see
then it gets it gets a lot darker yeah
yeah turn all of this off
turn this
yeah yeah cause cause what you think is
that now i’ve learned how to deal in the
storm
and now i’ve learned how to communicate
and and work in the storm
but then
it gets darker
and then come on keep going
like then
all i see and hear is the voice of the
enemy
and i see how they’re doing good
and i see their marriage succeeding
and this little light of mine is not
shining
and then mark 437 said high waves
were breaking into the boat
and it began to fill with water
so the storm got more intense
and the lightning started to go
and the things started to begin to be
more and i’m about to lose my house and
my family doesn’t want to invite me
places anymore and things are starting
to rock and starting to reel and things
are not looking brighter but it’s
looking darker and i don’t know what’s
happening where is jesus
have you ever said where
is
jesus
look what verse 38 tells us jesus was
doing
give me a little light on myself
jesus
was at the back of the boat
with his head on a cushion
no
jesus was sleeping
this greatest storm of my life is
happening
and
jesus had a flintstone pillow
and took residence
i i i need you to see this
in the midst of a shaky situation
y’all know when the storm is happening
nothing’s sure
where’s jesus
no
matthew mark luke and john matthew mark
luke and john
holy holy holy yeah that’s gonna be a
hit that’s gonna be a hit
what happens
when jesus has decided
to sleep
what happens
when jesus has decided to sleep
in the midst of your storm
do you still trust him
will you still wait on him
and people are saying yeah right now
but there’s a lot
that goes into
trusting a god who seems idle
when your situation
is so dark
the disciples woke him up shouting
teacher
don’t you care
that we’re going to drown
don’t you care
that everything around me is shaking
and jesus wakes up
is this what y’all woke me up for
who told you to go to the other side
y’all missed it
is this what you woke me up for the
storm
that when i told you we were going to
the other side
i’m the god of all knowing
so i knew there would be a storm and i
decided to sleep in it
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second timothy chapter 1 verse 7
it says for god gave
us a spirit not of fear but of power
love and of self-control our fears are
the cages that hold us back if we’re
talking about the lions we’re in that
cage well the bottom line is i think for
many of us
we are caged in by our fear if god has
not
sent us a spirit of fear and fear is so
rampant on the earth do the math guess
who sent it and if you were the devil
and you wanted to and immobilize
the body of christ what would you send
you would send a spirit of fear you
would send the very thing that god did
not send in order to take christians out
and so what we need to do is stop being
scaredy cats
god hasn’t given us a spirit of fear
there’s a reason why god tells us this
is not from me god doesn’t want us
locked in caged and trapped like those
islands like those lions at taronga zoo
that’s not what god wants for our life
so many of us are just
paralyzed by our fears rather than
living the abundant life that jesus
christ has called us to live we are
paralyzed by the fear of what other
people think that would be one of the
biggest ones
and you know what ultimately it really
doesn’t matter what other people thinks
what does god think
if i would not be doing anything i’m
doing today if i cared what other people
think my family thinks i’m crazy in case
you wonder what they think not my one my
husband and my kids but my family of
origin
because you know what if i tried to
please them there would be no a21 there
would be no propel there would be no
television program because i would be
the good greek girl sitting at home
cooking baklava right now breeding many
more children well not anymore because i
can’t but back in the day okay
but you know what not that there’s
anything wrong with that but that wasn’t
the only thing god had called me to do
and so many of us we settle because our
mom might not be happy or our father
might not be happy or the teacher might
not be happy or our friends how many of
our destinies have we put on hold in
order to impress our friends and to stay
down where we are fear that i’m not good
enough
so many of us just think we’re not good
look let me put you out of your misery
to do what god has called you to do
you’re not good enough you feel good i’m
not good enough
you know what god has called us to is a
supernatural destiny
you cannot fulfill a supernatural
destiny with natural ability so your
best natural ability is not good enough
to do what god has called you to do the
gap between what god has called you to
do and where you are is here and there
will always be the gap it’s called the
god gap and so i need god that’s the
faith gap that’s where god takes me into
doing what i can’t do but that’s where
his strength is made perfect in my
weakness that’s the grace gap do you
think i could run 15 a 21 officers in 11
countries around the world no no do you
think i could be putting traffickers in
jail or rescuing no
do you think i’d be running propelled
women around the world no i don’t have
the ability it is all outside of my
skill set i’ve never been trained in
television i’ve never been trained in
that kind of community this is all
outside of my skills if god does not
show up i’m toast
so let me put you out of your misery
you’re not good enough okay so that
settles that in case you think i’m not
good enough
fear of failure that is a really big one
what if i fail
well what if you succeed
and what if you fail get back a failure
is highly overrated
what are we all so scared of failing for
big deal
big deal get back up and have another go
you know with fear of danger or harm
well i already talked to you in session
one that you can’t avoid it if it’s
going to happen it’s going to happen at
the end of the day you can take checks
and balances but i get on a plane nearly
every day i cannot i’m not the pilot and
i’m not i have to trust that the person
that is putting the gas in and that the
person that’s checking the tires and the
persons that’s checking the little
screws that hopefully keep the wings
attached one hopes you know all of those
things at the end of the day i’m gonna
have to let go and trust god
so if i was thinking about fear and
danger all the time i would not travel i
could not do if i was always worried
about what about my kids what about now
i do all my due diligence there is never
an excuse for not doing due diligence
but you have got to have faith to step
out and say god i’m trusting you to fill
the gap that i can’t feel and we would
do a whole lot more for jesus if we
actually trusted him in that gap fear of
the unknown well the fact is if we’re
walking in faith we’re always walking
into the unknown the bible says of
abraham that he went forth i love this
part not knowing where he went
to a land that he would recognize when
he got there
when was the last time you didn’t know
where you were going we are so fearful
i’ve got to have it all mapped out
here’s my five-year plan here’s my
10-year plan this is where it works out
i’m going to have this much money i’m
going to do this you have a box for
everything you have an app for
everything
what happens if the app breaks
the fact is you know i don’t even live
that kind of life and i run major global
organizations
i have a basic trust in god fact i do
all due diligence i do a basic plan but
i’m like father this is yours
i don’t really know where people go
where you go i don’t know but i get up
every day and i say jesus i don’t know
where you’re going today but i’m coming
wherever you’re going that’s that’s my
bottom line if you’re wondering that’s
about the extent i’m going wherever he’s
going and so that means don’t box me too
much is she just rescuing the victims of
traffic yes and is she helping women yes
and is she doing tell yes and he should
teach the bible yes the answer is yes
wherever
you’re not going to fit me in a box
because i’m not here to fit into your
box i’m here to obey jesus as he walks
forward and so that’s what we need to do
with our lives and so everything that i
have done
everything has been out of my comfort
zone just so that you know anything that
is bearing fruit that remains
has got the touch of god on it it’s not
what i’ve been able to do you know when
i went to church in in when i was 21 you
know for a greek orthodox girl to walk
into a protestant church
and to then give my life to christ and
continue to walk on route that was i was
ostracized people my family members did
not speak to me for three years i was
not included in anything you know what
it was a step of faith to go i didn’t
see this in my future i didn’t know what
was ahead i couldn’t see 30 years in
advance i could just see that my family
wasn’t talking to me that my friends
ridiculed me because they thought you’re
the loser how’d you become a christian
where’d your brain go you know that’s
what kind of happened and now we look at
it 30 years later and go wow
but i didn’t know what was here when i
started but i had jesus there and that’s
who i was following and jesus brought me
here that’s how it goes into the future
as well i left my job to go into
ministry i was in a very high paying
lucrative job to go into ministry where
i wasn’t paid barely for seven years it
didn’t make any sense but it took risk
because that’s what god called me to do
you know when i started the youth center
i didn’t know anything about youth
ministry and had to trust god to grow
when i was a youth evangelist filling
arenas talking to thousands of young
people about jesus no one trained me i
didn’t know what i was doing when we
started a 21 there wasn’t a course i
went to how to grow a global
anti-trafficking organization when we
started propel women i didn’t go and
read a textbook on how to run a movement
for women who lead and to help women
internalize the leadership identity you
know everything i think about when i got
married with my broken past of abuse
and abandonment there was a huge faith
risk to trust god
that this was the next step for me
i never thought i would have children
because i didn’t want that i was so
broken
so then when i really felt the lord say
okay and then he gives me two daughters
i can’t tell you what a risk of faith
that was for me
to think i i don’t want my kids screwed
up in any way
so the fact is to become who god wants
you to become to do what god’s called
you to do it’s always going to take risk
personally emotionally relationally
financially physically in every realm of
life some of you are so caged
by fear
that you’re not going to step into that
relationship because your parents got
divorced or because there was some
brokenness
and what you’ve done is you’ve allowed
that to trap you you haven’t given your
heart you won’t trust serving in church
because somewhere along the line maybe
someone hurt you or abused your trust
somewhere along the line it is amazing
how we have just become like those lions
caged in by our fear what if what if
what if how about you replace what you
do not know about the future with what
you do know about jesus
and you know that your god is good you
know that your god does good and you
know that your god will work all things
together
for good so why don’t you trust the
goodness of god versus what you don’t
know about the future the world is
cray-cray there is no bow here is red
alert it’s just going to get
increasingly cray-cray so why don’t you
put all your eggs in the basket of jesus
and trust jesus who is good and who does
good step out of the boat take a risk of
faith and do the thing that god has
called you to do i have discovered that
what is impossible with man is possible
with god i’ve discovered that our god is
able to do exceedingly abundantly above
and beyond anything that you could ever
ask hope or think i know that my eyes
have not yet seen nor my ears heard nor
has it entered into my heart the things
that god has for me i know that with my
god i can advance against a troop and i
can climb any wall i know that i can do
all things through christ jesus who
strengthens me i do not have to bow down
to fear self-doubt
will kill more dreams
than anything ever will
self-doubt will kill more dreams than
failure ever will you know what you’re
going to have to press through your
limitation you’re going to have to work
with what you’ve got you’re going to
start where you are you need tenacity we
need courage we need resilience we need
patience we need boldness we need to
take risks i love this scripture in
deuteronomy chapter 31 verse 6 to 8 the
lord said to joshua be strong and
courageous do not fear or be in dread of
them for it is the lord your god who
goes with you he will not leave you or
forsake you then moses summoned joshua
and said to him in the sight of all
israel be strong and courageous for you
shall go with his people into the land
that the lord has sworn to their fathers
to give them and you shall put them in
possession of it it is the lord who goes
before you he will be with you he will
never leave you he will never forsake
you i said it twice because it’s worthy
of being said twice god will never leave
you god will never forsake you it is god
that is calling you to cross over it’s
time to get up step up step out in faith
take a risk do what god has called you
to do become who god has called you to
become don’t listen to the naysayers
don’t let fear doubt or negativity keep
you here trapped it’s time to cross over
it’s time to break camp it’s time to
advance and go in and possess the
promises of god for your generation in
jesus name in jesus name amen amen come
on let me pray for you
so father i
thank you
i thank you that you are a faithful god
that has called us to
live an adventurous daring
purpose-driven passionate life full of
risk and full of faith and full of hope
thank you god that you’ve not called us
to attain domesticated boring religious
existence but you’ve called us to a wild
glorious
unpredictable
faith-filled adventure and we thank you
that you’ve promised to never leave us
or forsake us thank you that you are
with us
in every situation give people the
strength and courage just like you said
to joshua the strength and courage to do
the thing that you’ve called them to do
in jesus name amen amen amen at tbn our
mission is to use every available means
to reach as many individuals and
families as possible with the
life-changing gospel of jesus christ
thank you for helping make
the gospel of grace go around the world
without you we couldn’t do it god bless
you