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hey family i’m pt pastor toray roberts
i’m the lead pastor of the potter’s
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hallelujah well god bless you family
it’s time to
get into the word i’m excited about this
word
uh this is not a deep profound message
but i believe it’s gonna be just what
you
need in this moment the season that
we’re in and so i want us to just jump
right into it
i want to draw your attention to a
passage of scripture it is
um it’s a well-known passage if you’ve
been a part of our movement for any
length of time
you have heard me quote this i believe
in this scripture
and and i just want to read it and then
we’ll move forward it’s in jeremiah
chapter 29
and verse 11. i’ll be reading out of the
new international version of this
and it goes for i know the plans i have
for you declares the lord
plans to prosper you and not to harm you
plans to give you a future
and a hope such a powerful passage of
scripture
i want to point out some things quickly
we’re going to pray and then we’ll get
into the message i want to point out
very quickly
what god is not saying in jeremiah 29
11. he’s not saying i
want to bring things into your life
because we look at that and it says he
says for i know the plans i have for you
plans to prosper you and not to harm you
to give you a future and a hope
and sometimes we get excited we’re like
yes the range rover
i want to prosper you or yes you know
the the the book deal or
yes the role or yes the new job and
granted god will allow those things to
happen to you
but that’s not really what he’s talking
about right there in fact
the context of jeremiah 29 11 is god is
building up a people who are getting
ready to go into captivity
and he’s basically saying that the
trouble that that i’m
allowing you to go into is actually
going to
prosper you so he’s not saying prosper
you in the sense that he brings things
into your life although god will do
those things in fact
i don’t even think that god has to do it
i think it’s who you become that
attracts it
to be honest with you and the truth of
the matter is you can work hard and
bring things into your life
if that weren’t the case but what god is
saying is
i want to prosper you
i want to practice what he’s saying for
i know the plans that i have for you
plans to
prosper you look at how many times he
says you
god says for i know the plans i have for
you
declares the lord plans to prosper you
and not to harm you plans to give
you a future and the hope
so this is actually about what god wants
to do
to you what he wants to do in you
and i want to talk today about building
you
building you and uh and it’s interesting
really quickly i’m going to pray but i
just want to say something really
quickly while we’re on that passage
when he talks about building that word
prosper the root word there for prosper
that was translated prosper you
was safe and and i think that somebody
needs to know maybe it’s you who are
watching maybe it’s you are listening
but somebody needs to know
that even if you’re in this process
of god prospering you it’s safe
it may not feel safe sometimes god puts
you in situations that are uncomfortable
sometimes god puts you in situations
that are not you know because for us i’m
not talking about like dangerous
dangerous like you know sometimes
he’ll send you into environments
overseas or whatever or
or you know you might have a ministry to
the streets where there is real danger
around
and and i’ll say to that point the
safest place to
any of us can ever be is in the will of
god no matter where the will of god
sends you
you know but sometimes safe for us is
comfortable
we associate being comfortable with us
being safe
i know where this is coming from i know
where this provision is coming from
i know this person but oftentimes god
will move you into places that are
unfamiliar
and you have to recognize that if it’s
god and if it’s perfect
purpose it’s safe and so i just wanted
to point that out
all right let’s let’s pray let’s get
into this because we got a lot to talk
about today
i’m going to be professor i’m be the
teacher to ray today
i’m not going to preach now i’m not
going to do any of that i’m just going
to teach
and you don’t believe me if you don’t
believe me just put in the feed i don’t
believe you pc i don’t
we’re gonna fix that we’re gonna fix
that uh but let’s pray
god thank you so much
for your rich and radical love
for each of us it’s rich i thank you for
all who are watching god literally
from all around the world
all those who are listening right now
god and we want to touch from you you
know what we need to hear
you know what we need to know you know
what we need to understand
and so spirit of the living god breathe
on us
may all of us come out of this moment
better
wiser stronger in jesus name
amen amen so again i want to talk to you
today about
about building you and i was thinking
this morning
about how it’s really by nothing other
than the grace of god that i was able to
build
a big global church like our church
reaches
millions of people in in over 100
nations close to 200 nations it’s just
crazy
and the reason why it’s a miracle i know
it’s by god’s grace is because i didn’t
set out to do it
like seriously i had no uh
desire you know i wanted to do two
things the two things that were
important to me
was to pursue my purp my personal
calling my personal purpose
you know and to build big people i
learned i had a mentor
early on as i was being shaped as a
pastor who said
don’t build big buildings
build big people and i didn’t understand
that because he had a big building
you know what i mean he had in fact he
had several buildings but he meant that
he wasn’t being
ingenuity and now i understand because
if you build big people you’ll have big
things
and so with that way of thinking i
learned
that through building big people like
really being focused on building big
people including myself
that god could build a big life on top
of me and on top of others
and so it was never about hey go build
something
right and you’re gonna do that we’re
builders so we’re gonna build things but
it was never about that
it was always about build big people
because if you build big people god can
do big things
you know in fact when he was talking to
peter
and he made that promise to peter he
said on you i will build
my church ooh i didn’t even know that i
didn’t catch him when i studied
look at what he said he tells peter he
says
upon you i’ll build my church
in other words if you don’t become who
you need to be
he can’t build on you and the very gates
of hell
this is revelation right here in front
of everybody right
he says if if i get you together right
and he calls him rock
if i build you if you become something
then you will be so reliable that i can
build my very
church on you so much so
that the gates of hell themselves cannot
and will not prevail against you see i
can’t give you
that i can make you that
and so what what troubles me oftentimes
is i see
so many people trying to build their
career
and be build their romance story and
you know and even build quote unquote
their ministry
and build all this and how many times
are you hearing people encourage you you
need to build get out there hustle go
get it build some builds and build some
who’s telling you to build you
and in the very passage of scripture
that we all claim all these blessings on
is god
saying i am not going to give you
something i’m going to make you
something
yeah and sometimes that making
happens through difficult situations
and so and so if you’re taking notes i
want you to write this thought down
the bedrock for building you
is belief i’m gonna say it again
the bedrock for building you
is belief belief belief belief is
powerful and talk about
belief is both the material
as well as the building blocks to
building yourself
belief oh we’re going to get into it
today belief belief
you are only as good as what you believe
you can never go further than what you
believe
you can never do we we are comprised of
and we live through the power
of what we believe you are made up of
what you believe
your composition right now that creates
your disposition
is all about what you are believing
that’s why the bible talks about by
faith this by faith that bite all these
things
what are you somebody saying by belief
all these
things all these these great things that
men and women of god did
they didn’t do because they had skill
they did because they had belief belief
opens
up all of the resources of god there’s
things that god wants to do for us that
he can’t do because we haven’t released
them because we don’t believe
belief is everything what you believe
is what holds everything together in
your life or
is the reason why things fall apart
what you believe this is why there will
always be i feel the holy ghost on this
there will
always be a war over your belief
there will always be a war over what you
believe
as a man thinks so
is he wow that’s heavy
shouldn’t it be as a man thinks that’s
what he’ll get or as a man
thinks you know that’s what he will
attract and all the i mean all those
things are true but it doesn’t say that
it says as a man thinks so he is in
other words my reality
my potential my everything all comes
down
not to my skill but to my belief
because if i believe it i feel the holy
ghost i feel like i’m tapping into
something
if i believe right the skill will come
supernaturally if it doesn’t come
naturally
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if i believe it right i i was in i
remember
uh you know we have a farsi speaking
church in woodland hills california it’s
one
and it’s all farsi speaking it’s amazing
and and pastor iman
and and binazz they they they run they
we planted this church
and i remember i was having a meeting
with with a a leader who was going to be
a part of that church and he was from
iran
and i don’t know farsi at all right and
we they sat down they brought us
together
and iman and binaz and nazi were there
to kind of interpret
you know to to interpret uh english and
farsi
to one another so we can communicate
because we’re getting ready to do
something for god and i sat down there
and he starts speaking in farsi and i
start writing
because even though i’ve never learned
farsi
i understood what he was saying in the
conversation
i didn’t even need them to translate
they didn’t even translate
i said i was like and then i wrote it
down
and i turned it around and like what in
the world just happened
that’s how powerful belief is belief
will allow you to tap into abilities
and resources that you didn’t even know
you existed because you are
more than what you think you’re more
than what you think i feel the holy
spirit
there’s a passage of scripture in in
psalm
verse 8 and 4 and it is a powerful
passage of scripture
and and the writer says what is man that
you are
mindful of him and the son of man that
you visit him so first of all
he is watch this because a lot of times
we we people teach us that
that if we believe in ourselves too much
we’re arrogant no no no
look at what this says it says what is
man that you are mindful and first of
all it’s like whoa
what is man it’s not this self-degrading
thing the self-degrading thing it’s not
that
he’s saying man what is man that you’re
mindful of him
what is men the son of man that you
visit him watch this and he says that
you make him lower than now
o king james and even new king james
messed this up it says you make him
lower than
elohim if you study that hebrew word
that was translated to angels where it
says it makes you
lower than the angels
that’s not the word study it that word
is literally
elohim you make him lower you make him
fact
a little lower than elohim
and i don’t know i guess maybe the
translators didn’t they weren’t ready
for that
they’re like we’re going we’re not gonna
do that we just know we don’t want to be
blasphemous we’re not gonna mess with
that
you know we’re just we’re gonna put the
angels in there no tell the truth
that’s not angels that’s elohim you made
him lower
than elohim just a little lower
that’s what he’s saying what is man
that’s why he’s like who am i
and that’s why you cannot
leave this planet you cannot leave this
dimension
until you’re able to scratch the surface
concerning the question who am i yeah
because you wouldn’t be here taking up
air
knowing jesus growing in the things of
god
the way that you’re growing in the
things of god if there was not
more to you than you think and
every morning you ought to get in the
mirror and look in the mirror and stare
at yourself
and say what am i
who am i why am i breathing right now
why am i breathing in these times
in these crazy times why am i
alive i am a solution i
am here to fill some sort of void that
only
i can feel and if i don’t get my head in
the game
if i don’t believe right i will be
robbed of that reality
just put it in the feed right there help
my unbelief help my unbelief
help my unbelief what did i get that
from where did you get that from
professor toray
it was a vulnerable moment that the
disciples of jesus were having
it’s a vulnerable moment where they had
seen miracles
and and god was calling them and the
lord was calling them to step into
moving miracles
and they were like i believe helped my
unbelief i believe
that’s not my issue i do believe on a
certain level
i feel the spirit so strong i do believe
on a certain level
but they also recognize that it wasn’t
the belief that there was was their
issue
it was their unbelief that was
contaminating
them being built up in god
help my uh man i gotta just let me flow
man let me maybe i’ll be profit terrain
too
but just just let me flow it’s not it’s
not
that you don’t have faith but there is
and i don’t know who i’m talking to but
but there’s a a dimension of unbelief
connected to a certain thing
so you can have belief in one thing and
you can whoa you got that down you ain’t
got to worry about that i got that down
but over here
i’ve got unbelief and and
and the issue is it’s time for me to
face that giant
that i’m afraid of and that’s what the
disciples were saying they were like i
believe but
but help my unbelief because wherever i
have unbelief i am stuck
i cannot prosper i cannot grow i feel
the holy ghost
i cannot prosper i cannot grow in the
place where i am
stuck by unbelief because unbelief
immobilizes me
belief mobilizes me when i believe
that something is so i move toward it
because it’s there
when i believe that something is is so i
live in it right it’s who i am belief
i believe are my batteries
that keep me charged and functioning and
moving when i don’t have belief it’s
like having something that has no
battery or the batteries run out it
can’t do what it’s supposed to do
my my cell phone when it the battery is
charged will do
what it’s supposed to do and it does all
kind of things and i’m still
learning about things that it does i
didn’t even know and then there are
updates right come on because we get
updates we get upgrades in the spirit
and it gets updates and all that kind of
stuff and now i can do new things but
that same
wonderful glorious tool is
nothing to me can do nothing for me when
that little battery drains out
and it’s the most frustrating thing why
because i know that it can do so much
more than give me a black screen
and that’s how unbelief is it’s our
battery it’s our juice it’s it’s what
allows us to function
right and so i want to talk about
as it relates to building you i want to
talk about
three things three beliefs
and if you nurture these three beliefs
in three areas
you’re gonna build a you
that i believe is greater than you can
ever imagine because there’s more to you
than you think just put it right there
in the feed
there’s more to me there’s more to me
there’s more
come on there’s more there’s more
there’s more to me there’s more to me
there’s more i keep saying it because
somebody needs to hear it
and believe it and know it there’s more
to me there’s more
to me there’s somebody in you and you
were kind of at the end of your rope and
you feel
stuck right and you’re frustrated for
some reason and i hear god saying
there’s more to
you there’s more to you but i want you
to put it in the feed i want you to
speak it i want you to tell the whole
world
there’s more to me there’s more there’s
more there’s
more to me i’m just getting started
there’s
more to me if that’s your word just put
it right there there’s more to me and i
want you to say it out loud
putting it in the feed is cute but i
want you to open your mouth and say it
like you believe it
say it like you don’t have an ounce of
unbelief in your spirit there is more to
me there’s more
to me there’s more there’s more there’s
more come on do it in fact take about
five seconds
stop what you’re doing and give god a
shout of
glory for the more that he’s gonna bring
you into
it’s true there’s more to you there’s
more to you and he loves you and he’s
into you and i’m trying to go through my
notes and stuff like that
but god wanted you to know because he’s
gonna break something he’s gonna break
something
because somebody spoke a word curse over
you and maybe you even spoke a word
curse over yourself and you said this is
all i got or or this is all i can do or
this is as far as i can go
and you’re even seeing other people
moving and doing in the things that god
told you you can do what i hear
god’s saying i’m going to break
something today i’m gonna break
something off of your mind you know what
i’m gonna break
i’m gonna break your unbelief today
you came here to get the unbelief broken
up in your life and that’s what’s
getting ready to happen
if that’s your word say i’m claiming
that pt i’m claiming it
right now because it’s going to happen
it’s going to happen by your belief
it’s going to happen by your belief i
promise you i feel the spirit of god
i feel the spirit of god everybody that
god dealt with
all of his servants everybody that he
moved through he had to work on their
unbelief
oh god i feel the lord he had to work on
abraham’s unbelief he had to work on
sarah’s unbelief he had to work on
gideon’s unbelief
he had to work on esther’s unbelief and
once he worked out
their unbelief they begin to shake the
world i believe i’m talking to some
world shakers right now and god is
getting ready
to deal with your unbelief because he’s
going to build you and you’re going to
build great things
unto his glory and it’s going to affect
your children and it’s going to affect
your children’s children i see your
children blessed
i see your grandchildren blessed i see
your great great friends
children blessed i feel god up in this
place
hallelujah he is for you
he is for you i i just want i got to be
prophet to rey i got my notes and
but i just want to flow he is for you
and he’s going to break something
that is going to happen by your belief
so there are three areas that as it
relates to building us because i just
see people
i see people and it just troubles me
because i see good people with good
intentions
building watch this their life but not
building themselves
and they’re after it and they’re on the
right rat wheel
and they’re just running and they’re
like hamsters on the wheel when they’re
in the rat race and it’s just
you know and it’s just going and it’s
just gone and just going and i get it
and i get the hustle and i get the grind
but what about you
what would it profit a man if he gains
the whole world watch this
and loses his soul that greek word
literally means himself
what will it profit a man if all
that he is can only be measured by
what’s outside of him
you know what it will crush you
that’s why god said again back to peter
he said upon you
peter rock built up strong i’mma build
my church i’mma build
and the gates of hell will not prevail
in other words you won’t collapse under
the weight
of the heaviest thing in the universe
it’s heavy because of the weight of the
glory of god that’s the church
and he’s saying i can build it on you
and guess what peter went through some
stuff
he went through some stuff peter denied
peter you know jumped out of a boat
naked i won’t get into that
but he did it peter was cussing by the
fire
with sitting with the enemies he was you
know disloyal all that kind of stuff
but when god got finished with peter
i could catch you see peter standing on
the day of pentecost preaching man
powerfully the same one who was afraid
and he had 3 000
potentially enemies because they were
talking some other stuff they weren’t
talking to
you know they were talking to some some
new revelation potentially to be stoned
because the same people who stoned and
killed jesus
were in that crowd and he boldly the
same one who denied
jesus for for fear of retaliation or
association with jesus
stands up boldly and preaches under a
cloud anointing and 3 000 and a mega
church was sprung up overnight
right there on the spot and it never
stopped
it’s because god built them i don’t want
you to
yes i want you to to to move forward
towards everything that god has called
you to move toward
yes i do i want you to work hard and you
will but please
please please please don’t forget to
build you
build you first
it’s about sequence and prioritization
so i’m going to give you three things
three
three beliefs that i believe that all of
us have to nurture in order
to build the best us
and the best and the best the bar for
best continues
to rise it’s crazy you want to get to a
place
where you’re looking at you
and the world is looking at the fruit of
you
i need to say that better i didn’t say
that better and he said it better he
said it better
you want to get to a place where where
you have been working on you
and everybody’s marveling at what you
did but if they only knew
that you only did what you did because
you became who you became
you know what i’m saying like like like
like being something that’s
where you want to live i just i just i’m
trying to move on but i just i just
that’s where you you want you want that
thing you you want that thing
all right so those three things those
three things those three areas of belief
that we all
must nurture this one is somewhat
elementary but i’m gonna say it anyway
uh the first one is is belief in god
like like like belief in god you might
be saying pastor i i got that
i got that and i understand that but not
everyone does
and the way that you you flow the way
that you live your life will determine
if you
really really believe god and and um
i was there’s just some scriptures that
were coming to me when i was thinking
about this
um and i’ll get to them in just a second
but i think that
like building your relationship with god
like building that
i think that’s vital like like working
on it not just
you know not just a one-time little
thing and you know i’m saving i’m going
to heaven
but but really nurturing that
relationship building it
you know for me i think that they’re
pretty much like three
areas that that make up my relationship
with god three areas three things if you
write these out you can write down for
one
it starts for me with reverence
like i have a deep respect for god
the bible calls it the fear of the lord
right and that word fear means the awe
of god and i know that you know
sometimes we can get a little turnt
and we make fear about you know being
afraid that god’s gonna you know and
i got a little bit of that not a whole
lot of that you know because he loves me
but but you know you know it i i don’t
want i don’t want to get on his bad side
you know what i mean but but really what
it’s more about is
about a deep reverence a deep uh i
respect god
and let me tell you something the fear
of the lord will go a long way i know
drug dealers i don’t know them i know of
drug dealers or people who former drug
dealers
okay can you watch i don’t know guilt my
association but but but
but i i’ve been i’ve been connected with
people
who didn’t have the most uh uh
righteous lifestyle but they feared god
they had a deep red they couldn’t quote
no scripture they couldn’t do none of
that stuff they couldn’t they
couldn’t tell you no worship song they
don’t know hillsong no they never heard
of travis screen
nothing ain’t got none of that going on
right maverick city and none of that
stuff
right but but they have this respect for
god
and god protects them that there’s
something about
and you can find people in the scripture
there was one guy in the book of acts i
believe his name was cornelius
and and he feared god you know he said
he gave alms he took care of the poor
and he feared god
it didn’t say that he was a religious
man at all i just said that he had a
reverence for god and god blessed him
it says that his works literally went to
heaven and came to
it is send it to heaven and so so for me
it starts with like a real
like deep respect for god i don’t think
that we should step into our day without
taking a minute
and praying and saying god give us this
day our daily bread
you know i taught on the model prayer i
believe but i just i reverenced
god so much i almost believe it’s
arrogant
to step into a day that you and i have
never stepped into before
needing the grace of god in that day the
provision of god in that day the
protection of god anything can happen
driving over here right pulling up your
phone someone
people we had a whole community of
people who were sleeping in their their
condominium in florida
and many can’t be found and of course
we’re praying for them and trying to
figure out a way to help those who can’t
rebound
you know as a result of that thing but
what i’m saying is it is arrogance to
get in your car and say i’m gonna get
there there ain’t gonna be no trouble
people
die every single day and so
so respect for god and reverence for god
and and honoring the fact that god
you know walks with us daily for me is
hey lord give me this day my daily bread
i don’t want to get too far into this
day
with this this this mentality that i
don’t need you i respect god so for me
as it relates to my belief in god my
relationship with god how i build in god
is one reverence to its trust i trust
god like it ain’t nobody’s business and
let me tell you why trusting god is so
important there’s a passage of scripture
that talks about
um trusting in man brings a snare
right but he who trusts in god is safe
in other words here’s the thing
if you don’t trust god you’re going to
trust something
you will trust something you will trust
the celebration or the provision of man
you will trust yourself you’re going to
trust something we were wired
to trust something right and and and the
the fear of man that’s what it says the
fear of man
brings a snare but he who trusts in god
will be saved the fear of man brings a
snare why because if you put too much on
man
man’s gonna find a way to put too much
on you
right anything that that you
you give too much of yourself of your
worship to
is going to control you it’s going to
rule you so so it’s built on
respect reverence is built on trust and
then for me it’s built on service
right so my relationship with god and
see if you think about all those touch
points reverence
trust and service you got a relationship
with god
right i i revere you right i i i honor
you daily
okay i trust you i put my trust in you
i’m very careful if i might just pause
for a moment
i i am very careful
to make certain that i don’t begin
to trust in the things
that i once trusted god to bring to me
i need to say that again let me say it
again this is very important
because what happens is it god it puts
god in a very tricky situation
because i trust god to produce things in
my life
and then when the god who i trusted and
consequently
produced those things or gave me the
resource to produce those things
when those things show up now we’re
trusting in
it and not god
so the predicament that god it puts god
in is god
i want to bless you but i don’t want to
lose you
because some can’t i i’m digressing but
this is obviously for somebody
it’s it’s i’m very careful
about what i’m trusting in i do like
trust tax
am i trusting in my my revenues am i
trusting in my family
am i trusting in my spouse am i trusting
it all these other things are important
because these things are blessing but
watch this you’re not supposed to trust
in the blessing
you’re supposed to trust in the in the
blesser
are you tracking with me and so i do
trust texts
all the time there’s certain times where
you know um
there’s certain states where it’s legal
um
to bear you know the
the second amendment is going strong and
uh
and and is completely legit and legal to
to bear
bear arms and uh and so
uh i have arms and uh and legs
torso i got what you need you know
and but but sometimes god you know he’ll
he’ll check me say are you trusting me
or
those things you know and i have to be
real about if you study some of the
kings in scripture can i be professor
torreira
if you study some of the kings and strip
scripture
they didn’t do crazy things what got
them in trouble is they stopped trusting
in god
they got to a certain place in
prosperity they got
to a certain place in influence and and
instead of calling on god for help when
they got into trouble they were calling
other kings
and so it puts god in predicament i want
to bless you
i want to prosper you but will you trust
me or will you start trusting it i want
it to somebody watching me right now
and the reason why you’re frustrated is
because you put your trust in a thing
and here is the thing the thing can’t
help you
there’s no i i watch this it’s a created
thing
why would you trade off trusting the
creator
for the created thing but it happens to
us all the time and so
if we are reverent
if we are filled with trust as it
relates to our relationship with god i’m
talking about how we build ourselves
right
and if we serve and i’m going to talk
about serving in just a second
that keeps the relationship fresh now
what i
love about serving is the promises
that go along with serving it’s a trip
like
like somehow you can get to a place
where being called
a servant uh is almost like a derogatory
thing right
that’s my servant over there you know
but let me tell you something
jesus was a servant he said i’m the
chief he said
the one you’ve heard of before those who
will be great
must serve greatly what i love about
being
a servant of god is the assurance
the assurances that go along with being
a servant of god let’s talk about it
real quick
like for me being a servant when you’re
a servant
you get insight oh i feel the holy ghost
like like even on a practical level like
like like i’ve got
you know a great team of people that
that that serve the vision
uh some are on staff where they’re paid
salaries some are not
you know but but we’re all together
we’re building and we’re serving
together
and there are things that they know and
they get to experience
that the average bear does not they have
access to things that not everybody has
access to because they serve their way
into this place of insights i i love
that there’s a passage of scripture
in proverbs 25 and 14 i don’t know psalm
25 and 14
it says the secrets of the lord are with
those who fear him
and he will show them his covenant oh
god
see god will show you things there’s
another path of scripture i’m moving
through this quickly
but um where it was when um
god was getting ready to destroy destroy
sodom and gomorrah and god comes to
abraham
and or the angel sends the angels down
and and the angels have a dialogue with
god
and and the angel said should we uh
conceal this thing
from that we’re getting ready to do from
abraham you’ve got to study says in
genesis
it’s in genesis okay think somewhere
around
just in genesis um but
there was a question should we hide this
thing that we’re getting ready to do
from abraham and god was like no
because he’s faithful he’s a faithful
servant and he will lead
his family after me and so abraham now
has insight
and he’s i feel the spirit he’s able to
pivot and get his whole family out of a
situation
and out of trouble and out of harm’s way
why because he was a servant
servants get insight right i want to
know before stuff happens
the prophetic comes to servants insight
even as it relates to insight with
business do this
don’t do this well this looks great on
paper yeah
but in your gut it looks terrible it
feels terrible don’t do this right
i feel the lord i don’t know who this is
for god’s trying to move you
from from believer from
churchgoer from christian if that’s what
you call yourself
to a servant because a servant sir
is next level a servant gets to hang out
in the master’s house
a servant gets to to drive the master’s
car
a servant gets to go in the master’s
closet they’re they’re cleaning
but they’re in there feeling all that
fine get put it on every once in a while
let me
and dream a little bit no no servants
i’m telling you and you can be i’m a
king and i’m a servant
i’m both king and servant and i believe
that believers are supposed to be king
queen and servant in fact it is your
servanthood
that positions your crown squarely on
your head and watch this
because you serve god he put that crown
on your head
no man can take it off your head i feel
that i feel that
a crown but we got to keep going we got
to keep going i’m digressing but
i told you this is what this is what
we’re working with today
they get insight servants get protection
you know that scripture that we quote
uh in isaiah 54 and 17 it says no weapon
that is formed against you shall prosper
we stop right there
but it finishes it says this is the
inheritance
of the servants of the lord
so because i know i’m a servant so you
got people claiming that promise are you
a servant
are you god’s servant right i serve god
right
which means that i can really boldly say
no weapon formed against me she’ll
probably put that gun away
put that knife away put that in it won’t
process you might pull it out
it doesn’t say no weapons before when i
was 16 years old a weapon was formed and
fired at me
but it didn’t prosper right and so but
this is the
inheritance of the serpents the servants
of god
right we have insight we have protection
and for me i just like the fact that
knowing that god hears my prayers
i’m not like this fair weather prayer i
just get in trouble and that’s when i
pray now listen it used to be like that
and god came through
but but like when i pray now i’ll be
like hey hey it’s me
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hey lord it’s uh you know the one you
really love
it’s me no no sometimes it’s really like
that
like there’ll be i’ll have people that i
know that’ll be in really
like tough spots and tough situations
and and they’d be struggling with
something and i’m like god now like
like i i need to solid on this like i
know that they’re crazy
and i know that they deserve everything
that they’re getting right now because
of you know how they just have turned
their back on you but god
god like i need i need this solid
like and i’ve seen that happen i heard
there’s a guy who
did the crime you know and got arrested
and uh and he was in jail like and all
the evidence was against him all that
was in court
and i just went to god like yo god
like i know that you know he was wrong
i said but i just think he’s a good kid
and lord i just believe
that that if you give him this testimony
you know he’s going to turn his life
around
just a few months got out some crazy
technicality
he gets out of jail and he turned his
life around
and so and i just i’m just crazy enough
to believe it’s because i’m like
hey god it’s me
you ain’t got to tell nobody you know
what i mean but this
is what servants have it’s access
it’s it’s it’s believing in god i know
we have to move on but believing in god
doesn’t work against you it’s not some
uh limiting sort of consciousness
that puts you in a box and makes you
a guilt written restricted
shamed being who lied to you
no it’s just the opposite i’ve got the
creator
of heaven and earth and all of the
universes
on my side he is with me and for me this
is where life begins
because here is another thing i’m
created in god’s image
which means that if i don’t have belief
in god
i haven’t even begun to unpack who i am
because i am of the essence of god so to
not know god is to not know me
you understand what i’m saying it
doesn’t work against you that the enemy
has done a phenomenal job
of making it seem like no just don’t
trust god trust yourself trust this
trust the universe that’s all
no i trust god who made the universe
everything that is in the universe that
is assigned to me who put it there
the one who created it all so i can’t
get to me
without going through god
i was created in the image of god
right and in his likeness which means
that in order to see me
i need to see god
because when i see god god reflects back
to me
who i am like nobody or nothing else can
do
i was formed and created in his image
believing in god doesn’t work against me
it works for me
and that’s why that is the first thing
that you and i have to nurture if we’re
going to build ourselves we have to
nurture
our belief in god the second thing is we
have to nurture
our belief in ourselves
in ourselves i believe that
that that building when you talk about
building you you and i
have to grow in the area of self-love
and self-belief when when jesus was
asked what the greatest commandment was
you know what you know what he said he
said love the lord your god with all
your heart with all your mind with all
your soul with all your strength that’s
what jesus says right
love god with all of that stuff and then
he says love your neighbor
as you love yourself so jesus
was is the biggest promoter of self-love
and when you think about self-hatred
what does that come from as i talked
about a few weeks ago when we talk about
the four levels of spiritual warfare if
you hate yourself you got to know
that there is an intruder involved
somewhere because when did you become
anti-you
how did you get to be against yourself
so self-hatred doesn’t even come from
you
it comes from outside of you and so
and so he says he says you know love
your neighbor as you love yourself in
other words my relationship my external
relationships will be born
out of how i treat and take care of and
ultimately
believe in me and one of the things that
i’ve learned is that god can do
very little with you if you don’t
believe in yourself
that’s true i’m saying again yeah
god can do very little with you if you
don’t believe in yourself that’s why he
starts
working on abraham sarah
esther david gideon all these people
started work jeremiah
all these great people struggle with
believing in themselves
oh god i feel the lord yeah
all these great jeremiah god said listen
to this beautiful listen to this
dialogue that god has with jeremiah in
jeremiah chapter 1.
god says before i formed you in the
belly i knew you
and i ordained you and and and i set you
apart
and i made you and i’m going to make you
a prophet to the nations i endanger you
i sanctified you
i will make your profit to the nations
right i would be like yes lord i receive
it
and i would have fallen out like in
church you know
you know what jeremiah does he says
behold i cannot speak
i am a child i cannot speak every
great person will have to overcome
unbelief in self now he goes on to do
great things
right get in we talked about him briefly
last week
same thing you might god comes him you
mighty man of battle we’re about to
kick butt and take names for god’s glory
and gideon’s like
who me i am of the least of the tribes
of israel
and i’m the least in all the tribes
we all will have to not just get our
belief in god together
but our belief in self can we talk about
a little further can we go deeper
he can only do only very little he can
he can see see when we don’t believe in
ourselves if we believe in god i know
people
who believe in god but don’t believe in
themselves and they always stay at a
certain level
they’re going to heaven they’re
wonderful human beings
but they don’t believe that that god can
do
what he says he can do in their life
they don’t believe in them
i believe in me let me tell you
something you know i ride motorcycles
and people are always saying ooh be
careful
and i get that they love me there’s
nothing wrong with it but and i tell
them oftentimes
oh don’t worry i love me you ain’t gonna
tell me to be careful trust me i
love torrey roberts
i’m gonna take care you know what i mean
i listen and there’s nothing wrong with
that
it’s not arrogance i straight up love me
and i’ma take care of me and so so i get
it
so we have to do that and god can’t do
anything
for you if you don’t believe right about
you
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you are who he says you are
ain’t nothing you can do about it you
can’t even you you can’t even cancel
that
you’ll just be living in a lie but you
can’t cancel who you are
and you have to make up your mind belief
is a decision
you got to make up your mind and say god
if you said it
i believe it i don’t care if everything
around me
looks completely different looks the
exact opposite of what you said
i believe i am the me that you call me
so what is god calling you what has god
called you and is it consistent with
what you call yourself
i was talking to my son the other day
and he is uh
you know extremely talented in a lot of
ways i really believe the same way i
believe about you
that that whatever god has anointed you
to do you can do
and i truly believe i believe in that
philippians 4 13 i can do
all things through christ who
strengthens me which strengthens me i i
believe that
and uh and we had a meeting in one of
the areas of his gifts
last night i brought him in on a meeting
uh with with uh
some people that are very successful in
that space uh
and uh and they you know he played some
of his stuff and they were
they were uh really impressed because it
is really good not that old
yeah my boys it was good no it’s like
really really good actually
you know and uh because i would i don’t
i don’t give compliments if it’s not the
truth
you know i word it differently oh man
you’re really on to something there
yeah you you really keep going you know
that watch out for the keep going
because keep going sometimes be a
low-key keep going don’t stop here
don’t stop just keep it
but um i’m sorry i digress but but the
point that i’m making
is it it was great that they
enjoyed it you know particularly the
people of their caliber
uh in the space they enjoyed it but but
we were talking today and
and you know i told him i said listen
and this is a word for somebody
you have to allow outside
compliments watch this to be
confirmation not affirmation
it’s about what you say to you first
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that matters i’ma say it again
let outside compliments be confirmation
not affirmation you’ve got to love
yourself so much
and believe in yourself so much and
speak to yourself so much
that by the time somebody recognizes
what you already knew
it ain’t nothing but confirmation baby
are you tracking with me
that’s that’s how it has to be
confirmation when he was he was a child
actor
and we used to go into to auditions i
talk about this in one of my books i
think it’s wholeness
but we used to go into auditions and you
know he’s young you know he started
acting when he was three
and he’s young and and so he was going
into these auditions and i’m like now
listen son come here i looked him right
in his eye
i said listen listen isaiah i said you
don’t need
anything from this room i said you’re
blessed
you’re beautiful you’re talented i said
what god has for you is for you
and if this part is for you great if
it’s not
it’s a waste of time and we want to get
out there as soon as possible
right i said so so you don’t need
anything from the room i said you’re
there
to give to the room i feel that
oh god i feel that for somebody i don’t
know who this is for let me be prophet
terry again for a minute we’re almost
done
i don’t know who this is for but you are
going to have to come
to a place where you accept you
where you accept you
and not allow who you are
your value you’ve heard this before but
i want to take it deeper your value
uh you’re special to be predicated
by what’s outside of you because watch
this
most of the people that are praising
people were late to the party about
their special anyway
that’s right
they’re saying where did you come from
i’ve been me all my life yeah
that’s right and so and so i’m not going
to
uh allow someone whose eyes
have been blinded to me
to define me because either you see me
or you don’t jesus told the disciples he
said listen
he said when you go into a city when you
go into a house
he said let your peace come upon it in
other words release something
you’re not there to get something you’re
there to release something
right he says release it he says if that
place is not worthy
then let your peace come right back to
you and you step
into a worthy place what is a place that
is worthy
a place that is worthy is a place that
recognizes i feel the spirit
of god you are trying to get affirmation
and validation from places and people
and groups that are not worthy if god
has not opened their eyes
to your special then you need to take
your piece back you need to take your
confidence back
you need to take your faith back you
need to take your vision back you take
your
dream back and you need to move on and
find a people
a place a person a community that
recognizes what god is placing you i
feel it because for
every place that rejected you there’s
another place that’s going to accept you
i don’t know who in the world i am
talking to today
but i believe liberty is coming to your
house if that’s your word
put it right there in the thief i hear
you pt i hear you pt
oh god i feel it let me tell you
something can i testify and
we gotta land this plane cause i’m way
over time you know but let me tell you
something
i ain’t gonna lie when i first started
preaching in the
denominational environment that i was
preaching in
i’ll be honest with you i wasn’t
accepted really
because i was different and i loved this
denomination i thank god
i got my roots there but i wasn’t a
hooper
and that custom they hoop and that’s
wonderful
to each his own there’s nothing wrong
with it but they hoop
and and some of you you non blacks don’t
know what i’m talking about
but you you you’ve heard it you’ve heard
it before but it’s
and it’s beautiful when the organ comes
in it’s really a one it’s a beautiful
thing it makes sense if you understand
that
i didn’t have that i’m from corporate
you did not hoop
in corporate america i gave speeches i
gave
talks i closed deals i did that i did
not hope
i didn’t have the hoop so i didn’t learn
the hoop i didn’t know and i tried it
once i’ll be honest with you i don’t
know
i tried to hoop and i couldn’t i sounded
like an old beat up car
look at your hook it was terrible
and because that’s what they were used
to
i was different and you know what i did
i took my old different self
and i started a different church
yes yes yes and i went to a different
area
and i went to a different city same
person went to a different environment
and god rocked
the church that he planted me in god
just it was just
crazy what god did and my voice that
voice that i didn’t like that that hope
and style that i didn’t have and i felt
like it wasn’t nothing
it went all around the world touching
people
and saving people what if i would have
said well
i guess i need to hoop because there’s
some of you and you wouldn’t understand
what i was saying if i hoped you’d be
mad you wouldn’t be watching right now
if i was
some of you wouldn’t that’s wonderful
what i am saying is you
have got to be you and there will always
be a people
there will always be a place there will
always be an opportunity
for you just
the way that god made you
you got to believe in yourself i’m going
to say this we got to move on we’ve got
to move on got to move on i’ll keep
saying this
one of the biggest mistakes i’ve made in
the last five years
is not believing in myself your pastor
not believing in myself and sometimes
it just and i’ll tell you
the breakdown to believing in myself
happened
when i began to question myself
oh god i feel it i started questioning
myself
am i enough i never felt that
but it was an attack on
who i am i said it before there will
always be a war
on your belief
somebody is getting ready to start
believing
in themselves again in your uniqueness
i started trying okay where do i fit in
how do i do
right and see when you compromise
anytime you compromise
you start giving pieces of yourself away
oh god and what is compromise you
compromise
when you stop being you to try to fit
into something
oh i feel the holy ghost you stop being
you
there you you compromise in negotiations
but you do not compromise when it comes
to identity that’s right
oh that’s a word for somebody that’s a
word that’s a word it’s a word that’s a
word
you compromise in marriage oh i i i i
you wanted pink i wanted
burgundy we compromise
sacrifices is a word we use in church
you know and so i have to sacrifice
yeah you sacrifice everything but you
you can sacrifice money you can even
sacrifice time
but what you can’t sacrifice is you
because when you sacrifice you you’ve
crossed the line
watch out for any relationship any
situation that makes you
want to sacrifice or makes a demand
that you sacrifice you watch out for any
job or
any business opportunity any
entertainment opportunity
any relationship anything that tries to
say
you know you just got to sacrifice yes
everything but me
i’m not sacrificing toray i’ll sacrifice
money
i’ll sacrifice time why because those
things
i can well i can’t get time back but
those things don’t have anything to do
with me
what i cannot i’m trying to build me
i’m trying to know me discover me
evolve me i can’t become
if i am compromised if i’m giving away
pieces of me trying to please you
no no no no no no no no no
are you tracking with me very very very
very important so so so we build
ourselves by
by our belief we talked about this a
belief in god
belief in self and then the last thing
and this is easy and we’re done we’re
done
belief in what you and god can do
i’m together thinking i’m done i’m done
i was just thinking about
all the moments where god says put some
speck on my name
maybe he didn’t say that but i remember
remember when when god was talking to
sarah
her name was sarai at the time because
sarah would answer right
i gotta sarah oh but
he was he was telling her that she was
gonna have
a child and she laughed you remember
that
she laughed and the guy said are you
laughing at me she said i didn’t laugh
he said not
look i would know you laughed
and then he said something powerful he
says god says
he speaks he starts speaking in third
person he says is there anything
too hard for the lord
for the lord for the lord with abraham
with abraham when abraham was struggling
about the promise
and he was ready to just he’s ready to
quit
god takes abraham outside and he says
abraham come come
i know you’re struggling with believing
and whether or not i can do what i say
i’m going to do but
let’s let’s do something real quick i
want you to go outside i want you to
look at all those stars
he said can you count them tell me if
you can count them
and he tells them ultimately that that
the number of your descendants will be
more plenteous than the stars but the
point that he was making was he was
taking him watch this outside of his
environment
because your environment shapes your
belief wow
he takes them come on out of there come
on come on out the house because you
need to see you you’re forgetting
who i am right now if we all loaded up
jumped in the van
drove to the beach right now our
perspective would shift
if we just stood there if i had the same
message the same conversation we’re all
having right now if all of you watching
online
listening to the podcast if we all just
wrote down all thousands of ideas we
just we just rolled down
to the beach right now and i had the
same message
some of you would just whoa
it would take it to a whole nother level
so god takes abraham out
he says let me pull you out of your
environment oh god i feel
i’m trying to stop because i’m way over
time
but but who who is god who am i talking
to that god is trying to pull you out of
an environment of limiting belief
who who am i talking to because
sometimes the reason why you can’t see
is not because of you
it’s because of the toxicity the
toxicity of unbelief it’s because of the
toxicity
of unbelief that’s around you
and sometimes you got to shift sometimes
it’s temporary sometimes you just got to
step away for a minute
because sometimes god calls you to work
in crazy environments i get it i know
all about that
but sometimes for you for your sake you
got to come out of it
get you some air where are your altars
that remind you of who god is and what
he’s done
mine is a rock in malibu mine is a
mountain near my home
mine is i have things that remind me
when i need to see god
afresh i go and i find something
and when i get there i believe again i
believe that me plus
god i believe in what me and god can
accomplish
is there anything too hard
for the lord oh god i want to pray for
you
i feel like god wants to adjust your
eyes
he wants to adjust your sight and he
wants to touch your heart
i feel it so strongly i feel like god
wants to build you
he wants to build you and he’s going to
build you by building your belief
you are what you believe oh god
and you can only and you can’t move past
we can’t get around unbelief wouldn’t it
be something that you can’t buy belief
would it be something you hit the belief
lotto you know what i mean there’s a
little scratcher oh yes
no no but it’s easier than you think
because at the end of the day it’s a
decision
it is it is you just make up your mind i
choose you got people to choose to
believe
crazy stuff right and it’s their reality
you know what i mean the sky is
green look at that green sky it’s blue
but whatever but they believe it
they believe it and then some scientific
person leave a comment that’s fine god
bless you
it’s about a point it’s a point that i’m
making you know what i mean because this
guy is actually clear
isn’t that interesting it’s not really
but anyway that’s all anyway
that digress you see me but the point
that i’m making is that
and what i’m saying is that god’s going
to shift something you’re going to share
something in your sight
belief is everything wow and it is a
decision
and once you make it and you stick to it
because belief is always going to be
pushed up against it’s always going to
be challenged
there’s always going to be an
opportunity the enemy is right there
waiting
to snatch up your belief and you know
what you do you double down
when an enemy comes and he brings it out
double down
on what you believe if god spoke it
is trustworthy you could take it to the
bank i want to wrap this thing up family
and i want to wrap it up by praying for
you
i know that the world tells us to build
just build this and build that but if
you don’t build you
it’s in vain psalm 127 and 1 is one of
my favorite passages it says
except the lord build the house they
labor in vain
that build it unless the lord keeps the
city the watchman is waiting in vain
something to that effect you want god to
build you
to build you up i believe that the
answer to some of the things that you
might be struggling with or some of the
things that
you perceive as lack in your life has to
do with you
not prioritizing building you you’re too
busy
i i see you you you’re
too busy trying to build everything but
you
you’re too busy helping and it’s good to
be
a helper it’s good to be a servant but
but you’ve got to know
when let me i’ll put it to you this way
when helping you begins to hurt me
i stop helping you because god wouldn’t
call me
to help you if it hurts me are you
tracking with me
you have to have boundaries and you have
to set boundaries and you have to love
yourself enough
not to give yourself away
trying to please somebody else and
typically a lot of times there’s some
brokenness in there
because sometimes people need to be
needed it’s almost like a drug it’s
codependency
i need to i need you to need me
you know and so to keep you need me i do
more for you
at the expense of me and we’re not going
to do that but i want to pray for you
and i want you to build you it’s it’s
it’s the summer
yeah well i don’t know when you’re
watching this but i preach this in the
summer
and um and it’s a good opportunity to
take time for you
and pray and really think about where
you are
in belief believe in god
nurture it it’s fun it’s it’s
actually fun it’s wonderful when you
don’t see him as this dictator
with his thumb on you trying to squash
you but but
but your partner one who loves you who
gets you better than you get yourself
and who can handle you god can handle
you he can handle
every aspect of you and then nurturing
belief in yourself
you can do all things to christ who
strengthens you you are
more than what you think and your
uniqueness and your special
they used to laugh at my voice when i
was a little when i was a little boy
they said you sound like michael jackson
you know what i mean and the same voice
going around the world changing lives
that same same voice it’d be the same
it’d be
it’d be the same let me say it
for all my hood people it be the same
thing
that you despise that god uses
in your life you got to see it right
right and you got to believe in what you
and god can do together
because you plus god will always be the
majority i want to pray for you
if you are watching this right now and
you say i’m ready
i’m ready to open up my heart to god i’m
ready to
to believe in god i you know i haven’t
really
you know reverenced the lord or
you know i just i’ve been away and i
need to come back home
i need to you said so many things pt
that just
that just hit me in the chest and i need
to i need to come back home i need to
open up i need to
i want to discover who i truly am i want
that insurance you talked about
that servants have i used to serve but
man i got distracted whatever your
testimony is
if you’re coming home i just want you to
put it right there in the feed i’m
coming home
whether you’re coming home for the first
time right because in god is home
and that’s where it all started god is
our origin he is
alpha and omega and he’s everything in
between
and so if you say i’m coming home i want
to come home i want to come back home
however you were to just put it right
there in the feed
we’re praying for you we are for you let
me tell you something i embraced
god you know 21 years ago 21
yeah 2000 21 years ago and i have never
looked back and i’m telling you like
it’s almost like finding the fountain of
youth there’s been so much restoration
there’s been so many things that that i
couldn’t have dreamed for i
literally i’m living a dream
i’m living a dream literally because
it doesn’t make sense to have this much
grace and this much favor
but it was always mine i just needed my
eyes open
i needed to connect with the god who
made me
and that’s going to be your testimony so
if that’s you just say i’m coming home
i’m coming home
and i want to pray for you father thank
you for this
this conversation that we’ve had and i
pray god that um
that the seeds that you’ve sown today
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will produce much fruit god you never
told me to build a big ministry
you never told me to build a big church
but now nearly 600
000 subscribers on youtube over 100
million views
god you you never said do any of that
you just said
be big be a big person and build big
people
and here we are father i pray there
there’s some right now that think that
the way
to the top is grind
well that might be the way to the top
but it’s not the way to stay
it’s not the way to endure it’s not the
way to become
and so father i pray that there would be
just a paradigm
shift and that we would build ourselves
that we would seek first your kingdom
that we would seek
ways to grow in you and when we do that
god we would open our eyes and literally
see
that our life changed the world we thank
you
we love you in jesus name we pray
amen