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happy sunday family i’m so excited to be
with you this morning you know i send
greetings from our pastors pastor terry
roberts and pastor sarah jakes roberts
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hallelujah you see i’m so excited for
this message
because it was a message that the lord
gave me even before i started to prepare
and even before we dive into it i just
want us to pray
heavenly father we thank you
we can never have
um get to a place where we have enough
of you
and so lord god we are just so excited
to dive into you even deeper lord
we pray that you will take over this
moment
that holy spirit that we are in
partnership with you
not just for the word to be delivered
but for the world to be received
and so lord god have your way
we thank you for this day and we thank
you for the fruit of this word in jesus
mighty name amen
family i want you to just for as you’re
taking notes i’m not going to guess if
you’re taking those i believe you’re
taking notes
but as you’re taking notes we’re going
to read jeremiah 6 10.
and normally like i love the new king
james version
but i saw this in the message
translation and it just captured my
heart
and so jeremiah 6 10 it says this
i’ve got something to say
is anybody listening
i’ve have a warning to post will anyone
know this
it’s hopeless
their ears are stuffed with wax
death as a post blind as a bat it’s
hopeless
they’ve tuned out god
they don’t want to hear from me
you see another translation that part
they don’t want to hear from me it
actually says they have no delight in my
words
now as you’re taking notes my message
for today is is anyone listening
is anybody listening
you see i don’t know about you but have
you ever
maybe you’ve been
or you have experienced
having a conversation with someone and
they’re tuned out
and you only recognize they’re tuned out
by how they respond
i have a friend a dear friend of mine
anytime she says to me man that’s crazy
just like that i said girl you’re tuned
out
because what i’m saying is not even
crazy it’s quite emotional
but i’ve been that person and i’ve
received it as well
when someone is having a conversation
with us and we’re just busy maybe we we
we’re distracted by our a text message
or we’re on instagram or on social media
or we’re just so like lost in thought
about something that we are we’re not
present in that moment and when it’s
time for us to respond we just go to our
default setting wow
man that’s crazy i don’t know what what
your default setting is when someone is
having a deep conversation with you and
youtube now then you’re not tuning out
because it was intentional but in the
moment you were so much con you were so
consumed with your stuff that you were
not present for what they were saying
you see when we think about moments like
this i wonder you know is this what we
also do with the lord
right
and this could even sound for someone
listening you’re like look i’m not
trying to tune god out matter of fact
i’m trying to hear
what he’s saying what do you mean i’m
tuning him out with i feel like he’s not
even talking to me
you see i had a vision the lord gave me
this vision and
in the vision it was the word death
and when i saw that word death the word
d was
um was in a red font it was like there
was a there was a highlight with that
word and i’m gonna circle back on why
this was so important to this message
but the lord began to show me this
like when he showed me that then he
began to speak to me about why he’s
showing it to me and what i understood
is that there are many
that you you feel this sense of urgency
you feel this burden on your heart that
there is something the holy spirit wants
to reveal to you there is something the
lord wants to reveal to you maybe that’s
not how you have described what is
happening but you there is there is
you’re not you’re you feel restless you
feel as though where you are it’s
nothing about you know not not being
where you are but you know that there is
something that is about to happen that
needs to happen because of where your
life is heading
there is a word that you need
and as i saw as i saw this sense of
urgency that is happening within god’s
people i recognize that on the other
side of it
is to listen to the voice of god
it is to listen to what god wants to say
in this moment but you see something
i’ve recognized about the lord
is that based on the weight of what he
wants to tell you
he has to break you out of your routine
out of your norm
because
as humans we are creatures of habit
the moment something holy becomes a
routine
it becomes ordinary to us
have you thought about the israelites
i mean can you imagine manna from heaven
food from heaven just showed up you know
nothing of such has ever happened before
then
they did they were in the wilderness and
they’re complaining like man how are we
gonna eat and moses is like you know
what god got us there’s gonna be mana
food just gonna fall from the sky and
feed us that is wow that is supernatural
if we saw food coming down from the sky
in perfect condition we would be like oh
my god if matter of fact we will say
jesus is coming tomorrow
that this is so holy i don’t even want
to eat it matter of fact i just want to
stare at it
but when it became a routine for them
when every day manna every day food fell
from heaven every single day they
started to treat it as ordinary
all of a sudden the people who were once
grateful
that god in his supernatural ability
was able to provide food in a way that
is not possible by man
they began to vent
they began to complain that you know
what it’s better we go back to egypt
where we were in bondage
it is better we go back to the place we
cried out from that god save us
because now that we have encountered god
and it has become a routine now we are
treating it as ordinary
looking for the next thing
and so god recognizes that we are
creatures of habit
even though what brought us to this
moment that we are in right now in your
life
what brought you to this stage that god
has set before you right now in your
life was holy
but when holy becomes your routine
it starts to feel ordinary so god has to
break you out of your norm god has to
break you out of your patterns
to get a word to you
you see the word of god is so critical
it is so vital
because the word of god it is the
creative force of god
when we think about it the bible says in
john 1 1 in the beginning was the word
and the word was with god and the word
was god all things were made through the
word
everything that is seen was made through
and for the word
when we talk about the book of genesis
when we think about the creation of
light for example
when god said let there be light
and then the scripture says and there
was light
and that word let there be light was
when god was literally saying light
revealed yourself
and this is something that has stunned a
lot of scientists because they’re like
there’s no way
that light could be trapped in darkness
because darkness is merely the absence
of light so how could it be that light
was trapped in darkness but it’s not
that light was trapped in darkness light
was trapped in the word of god
when he released the word he released
light
you see the word of god releases it
creates it manifests
and so when you want to see change
happen
the word is what gets us pregnant for
what god wants to birth
the word is when a word comes to you it
is almost like heaven is coming in you
it’s you there’s a oneness with you and
what god wants to do in the world that
you become pregnant with the kingdom
that wants to be manifested on earth
and so the word is everything
so when we start to sense that there is
something god wants to do there is
something god wants to say and this
could feel interesting right you could
be wondering like but if god is speaking
to you that he wants to say something
why didn’t he just say it
it just sounds quite ironic right
but then you think about a man named
moses
moses was a man who literally the lord
would say to him moses there is
something i want to tell you moses i
want to give you the ten commandments in
order for me to do this i want you to
come up to mount sinai
and when you meet me there i would give
this to you there were at least in the
bible it’s at least recorded eight times
when moses had to go up to the mountain
to meet with the lord this was not no
easy journey um that mountain is known
to be at least a three-hour hike uphill
it costs something to moses to do that
but you’ll be wondering but why is it
that moses heard the voice of god
telling him i need you to come up to the
mountain
to actually access something deeper in
me
because right where you are god could be
telling you there’s something i need to
share with you but it’s so weighty that
if your environment is not equipped for
what i want to tell you you will do
nothing with this you will not perceive
what i’m saying i will be speaking but
you’re not listening
and in order to get your attention i
need you to break out of your routine
and i want to talk to you today
about some key areas that we don’t even
recognize that cause spiritual deafness
you see there are many ways that the
lord speaks to us
i mean the general way you could be
reading your bible and the lord is
literally speaking to you from the word
right
but there are ways the lord also speaks
to us through our senses
right for some people you might you
might recognize that you know you you
sense god’s word through your emotions
right when you have shared emotions with
god concerning a decision
that’s what many of us call i don’t have
peace about this when some you’re about
to do something there you’re like oh i
don’t feel peace on this i feel i
actually feel agitated i feel angry
about this decision i’m about to make
because you are sensing god’s emotion
concerning what that could do in your
life
and then there’s some decisions you’re
like oh my gosh i feel the peace of the
lord in this and it could make
absolutely no sense to you but you feel
the peace of the lord so you can sense
god’s word through your emotions you can
sense god’s word through your sights
that’s when you see visions or you have
dreams you can sense god’s words through
your inner knower right that’s when you
have this conviction of something that
you must do and you have the faith to do
it
right i mean a great example are the
disciples
many of them followed jesus without any
any full understanding of what they were
about to get themselves into there was
just this conviction that that gave them
the faith to know if i walk away from my
business i’ll be fine he is the one i
must follow
so god can communicate to you through
your inner know where god could
communicate to you through your inner
ear
where you begin to sense and hear the
holy spirit speak to you about the
things concerning your life and it will
always be things that will call you
higher it will be things that will
challenge you to be more christ-like
so there are many ways that god speaks
to us but all of this seems to not
bring clarity
into your now
and for some of you you know you’re
you’re you’re even going further you’re
like god i want to be more sensitive
you’re worshiping you’re praying you’re
fasting and it still feels like you’re
not receiving clarity this burden is not
lifting off of you this understanding of
a sense of urgency is not shaking off of
you and you’re wondering god is it that
you just don’t want to speak to me but
why do i feel this way
and that’s what i want to speak into
today
you see when we talk about deafness
spiritual deafness
it really points to the inability to
receive what the holy spirit is trying
to communicate
and when i talked to you earlier about
that word d being highlighted the lord
began to show me different things that
causes us to be deaf to his voice
and the first in family
this is this would sound very common but
if we we don’t always apply it in the
way we say it but it’s distraction
now when we say the word distraction it
sometimes gives this negative you know
idea
and because it comes with this negative
connotation we don’t recognize it in the
most practical ways you’re like oh my
gosh i don’t want to be distracted
because we think that being distracted
well some of us think that being
distracted means that we’re entertaining
the wrong things
but destruction sleeping is anything
that takes you away from giving
something your full attention
and so you can be distracted by a job
you can be distracted by a relationship
and in the context of listening to the
voice of god what i mean by this is that
you can be so overwhelmed by the good
things happening in your life that you
don’t recognize that you’re just living
in the default of your day-to-day
there’s so much going on that you’re
just like i just gotta i’m just living
in the routine of my day-to-day that you
have not taken the time to actually just
sit and say god
what is it that you might be trying to
communicate to me oh not even trying
because god is always speaking but what
is it that i’m not perceiving because my
mind is focused on everything else
around me
you see as the lord was teaching me this
he was also speaking to me
because the lord showed me that
stephanie there’s also something i need
to tell you and i i don’t i just don’t
need you know the time that you give me
in the morning first of all the beauty
about god is that you could talk to god
at any time anywhere
but intentional communion when you want
to receive from god that is different
moses could speak to god anytime
anywhere but when god needed to give
moses something weighty he said meet me
in mount sinai
because there’s something i need to give
you
i i know you can declare you can speak
and yeah you would hear me say a few
things but when there is something of
weight there is something monumental
that will transform how you lead how you
do life i need you to meet me
and meeting me means you need to remove
yourself from anything that is a baggage
in this moment
what does that look like in your life
i’ll tell you in my life
you see when the lord says stephanie
i don’t just need a few hours what i’m
about to tell you is going to bring a
shift in your life
i need your day
and he showed me because
i mostly work from home so at home i
have a routine right that’s the tr i
have a routine about my day there’s a
time i know the wake up to be in prayer
to spend time with the lord but i’m
already programmed to think about okay i
have several things i’m working on so by
this time i’m gonna do this diet this
time i’m gonna do that so when i’m in my
house
even though this is a home that i pray
and i worship but my home reminds me of
my patterns
and the lord showed me stephanie but for
what i want to say to you i need you to
get out of your home so you know what i
did i got online i started looking for
hotels that i’m just gonna go and it’s
gonna be me and the lord
and the beauty is of this is that this
is not it’s not like oh my gosh every
day of your life you need to live like
this isolated island no
there are moments
where something monumental is about to
happen in your life
and god needs you to come up
he needs you to come out and up
come out of your routine and come up to
meet with me
because what i’m about to tell you in
this one setting could impact the next
five years of your life could impact the
next seven years of your life we’re
gonna talk every single day but there is
something i need to download to you
and it’s waiting
and it’s not something you can just
easily you know just be like and while
i’m in journaling lord what what is that
oh boom got it good
when you think about moses there are
times that moses will be on the mountain
40 days to receive just two things
two tablets of stone
that had commandments on it but forty
days to receive that
and it will cost you something i’m not
saying you know how to find this in your
comfort sometimes and costing you
something could even be a day away
that you just need a day that you
silence yourself from work you silence
yourself from everything and say god
it’s me and you right now
what is it that you want to download to
me about the next whatever years of my
life
because for many of you where you are
right now
was connected to a vision
and instructions that the lord gave you
there were instructions that the lord
gave me that brought me to this moment
there were there were words that the
lord that it came from a place of
consecration with god
and what does god need you to consecrate
yourself for
about where he’s propelling you to
you see at the start of this year i’m
holding on to this so dearly the lord
began to speak to me about 2022 being a
year we embrace the shift
and the shift will come in many ways
a shift in your authority a shift in
your
responsibilities a shift in your
identity but all of this is revealed and
released through the word
you see some of you even where you are
right now you’re in a city you’re in a
country and you keep sensing that god is
about to shake you out of it
but it’s not just for you to move into
another city into another state into
another country every time you’re going
into a new territory you need to know
your assignment for the territory
if not what is in that territory that is
against you coming could destroy you
you just don’t go places that is why
even in the scriptures when paul was
going into uh but peter was going into a
southern territory
the holy spirit
didn’t allow him
it the bible actually says that the holy
spirit
forbade him from going into this into
that region
that the holy spirit did not allow him
because peter i know you know we out
here
spreading the gospel everywhere but this
territory is not for you
that somebody else is assigned to this
place
you’re in a place in your life and
you’re feeling that god is about to
shift things we already see it in
culture
society is already shifting i mean we
thought we were getting into a new
normal and all of a sudden you know
domestic flights are having
international flight fee energy right
culture is shifting again
but god is about to shift us and you
need if you’re sensing what i’m saying
because i know as you’re listening to
this message
that god ordained for you to hear this
because as he showed this to me it also
hit me
there are times where you just need to
remove yourself from distractions
and say god it’s me and you
my day is free my day is clear the same
way you have vacation to rest
you have a vacation to sit with the lord
and say god speak to me about the
decisions i’m about to make concerning
my life in this season
speak to me about the decisions i’m
about to make concerning the next few
years of my life
because even i’ll give you an example
there was this project that came in
and when i saw the project i was so
excited i was like oh my gosh it’s about
to be amazing everything about it looked
great on paper and i was just whoo can’t
wait to jump in
and every time i want to respond
i’m hearing god tell me no
that stephanie i you are not going to do
this and i’m just like but you know i
mean like wow this is great guy this is
amazing and he’s like no no not at all
this is actually i’m deviating a little
bit but it will it will connect
but he was like you’re not going to do
this and i’m like god but why and he
says stephanie this is actually going to
be a distraction and a hindrance you see
our pastor has a book coming out balance
if you don’t have it pre-order it but in
the book there’s a chapter when he talks
about the power of no
right that it when when you make
yourself available to everything you
could actually hinder yourself from the
bigger things that god has for you
and the lord said to me stephanie you’re
not going to take this because if you
take this
when what i have for you opens up you
will not be available to it
and the reason actually i’m giving this
example is because there are certain
things that you must have a sensitivity
to
with the lord to know god what does this
look like what what is the vision what
is the objective what is the what what
is the the the purpose of this season in
my life right now
i need to see this next five years the
way you see it lord he wants to say
something to you but he needs you to
listen
and it may cost you something family
but you have to recognize what god says
to you in your mourning prayer that
maybe there’s something that is heavier
that he needs to tell you and those 10
minutes you allocate for him is not
going to do it
right now number two is desire
now desire is a beautiful thing right
the desire is supposed to be this
beautiful thing because desire speaks to
expectation desire speaks to faith you
know there are two scriptures i noted
here that even just to share with you um
as you’re taking notes psalms 37 4 says
this delight yourself in delight
yourself also in the lord and he shall
give you the desires of your heart that
when we delight ourselves in god he
begins to put within us the things that
we ought to desire and then psalms 145
19 says this he will fulfill the desire
of those who fear him
he will he also will hear their cry and
save them you see first of all not only
would god give you a desire but he would
even fulfill
that desire what does this mean family
that desires also speak to god’s purpose
for you
it speaks to the plans that god has for
you
and he wants you to also desire that
thing that’s why he gives you what to
desire because he’s giving you a sneak
peak in what he has for your future
he’s giving you a sneak peek of the
promises he has stored up for you and he
needs you to come in agreement with him
because the bible says can two walk
together except they agree so when god
wants to do a new thing in your life you
begin to notice it by the desires you
start to have
the desires that just came like you’re
like wait i was not even thinking about
this all of a sudden now i have this
draw towards this thing god has given
you a sneak peek but first it says as
you delight yourself in the lord he
gives you the desires of your heart
because there are also worldly desires
right and worldly desires is not like a
bad thing or whatever but it just speaks
to a very selfish intent but now the
reason i’m sharing this is that for many
of us
we come into this place where you know
what we are filled with desires that the
lord has put in our heart
but all of a sudden we start to worship
it and not the giver
we start to be so fixated on the desire
and not the one through which it comes
from
and when the lord began to talk to me
about this whole essence of desire
there’s a scripture write this down in
philippians 3 19 it talks about a people
whose appetite became their god
it says and their appetite was their god
that in one moment the lord is like oh
my gosh i have this beautiful promise
for you
and the next moment you are worshiping
the promise
over the promiser
how many times do we do that
how many times because this is the whole
essence of disappointment this is where
disappointment comes from
and it comes from that because not only
do we begin to worship the promise we
put a timeline on the promise as though
we are the originators
of this promise
and we say oh my gosh i desire this you
know what i’m gonna put a date on it
not recognizing that even the desire is
already god showing you what is yours
but to trust in his timing
and to trust in what he’s doing and why
i’m saying this to you because you see
at the end of this message
i believe that the holy spirit is going
to search our hearts
and to begin to reveal and uproot what
are the things that could be
causing spiritual deafness and the thing
that god wants to say could it be that
it is a desire because you see family
anything that you meditate on
anything that you’re fixated on is
worship
and so when all you’re fixated on is
this desire you begin to worship it
and when you worship it the voice of
your desire is what begins to lead your
life it becomes amplified and the voice
of the lord is dull
because you’re driven by your want
have you ever met someone who is so
driven by this goal that they will
compromise even their own integrity to
go after it because it is the voice of
their desire that is driving their life
the voice of their desire is making
their decisions
i was watching this documentary um and
the there’s even a show about it on net
on hulu the dropout
if you haven’t seen it it is
man that’s crazy
[Laughter]
because when you watch this
you see how someone’s desire
blinded her from everything going on
around her that it seems that she began
to believe her own lies
it blinded her from just her integrity
was
just out the window just compromised
i was i mean i was stunned
she built a company that was valued to
be a billion-dollar company on a fraud
her desire what she desired was good
but she was so blinded by that desire
she began to lie
she began to manipulate it was i mean
it’s it’s crazy
[Laughter]
but you see when you’re so fixated on
the desire that desire becomes your god
you’re not looking at it like it’s a god
but it is the observer that can tell you
what is your god
that is why that scripture in
philippians could say and their appetite
became their god
the people did not say it was not in
first person they didn’t say our
appetites are our god but the one
observing you
would know who you worship
when god looks at your life
does he see the one who is
sold out in worship to him
or does he see the one who is in worship
to desires
in worship to the things that he already
has for you
but these are the moments where we have
to
be honest with ourselves
and if i’m speaking to you
and maybe it could be a desire for
marriage a desire for children
whatever that desire is it could be a
desire for a business
whatever it is
if it has consumed you
to the point that it is now in the place
of your god
that it is the voice of that desire that
is making the decisions for you
the reason that you’re the way that the
if you look at the past decisions maybe
just look at the past three decisions
that were life-changing what led those
decisions was it the desire
or was it the holy spirit
and if i’m speaking to you then all i
ask
is that you lay that before the lord
laying it before the lord does not mean
to give up on it no
it doesn’t even mean to kill it
you see when we talk about abraham we
know many of you are familiar with the
story about abraham and isaac and we use
that as an example many times to say you
know what just
kill it on the altar
but when abraham was you know willing to
sacrifice his son isaac
abraham was not letting isaac go
he had a trust in god to know that even
if i kill my son
that god has the power to resurrect him
abraham knew that the promise is mine
so even if this is required of me now
i’m not letting him go
i know the god i serve can resurrect him
the same way he resurrected sarah’s womb
and so when i say
give it to god i’m not saying give up on
the desire give up on the dream give up
on what god put in your heart i’m saying
give up on your timeline
give up on your way
your your vision give up on the way you
believe it would manifest give up on the
way your plans
because the bible says god’s ways are
not our ways
give up on your ways
and surrender
to how god wants to execute a thing
you see sometimes god will put a desire
in your heart for something that could
actually happen in 20 years and the only
reason he put it in your heart young
is for you to always know what is yours
but the enemy confuses it and makes it
look like god is just kind of is trying
to toy with your emotions no god is
saying hey be confident
don’t act like the popper when you own
the home
don’t lose yourself because you’re after
something that is already yours
you will have the keys when it’s time
so god will put desires in your heart
early so you know how to handle yourself
that you don’t cheapen yourself for what
is already yours
when satan was in the garden of eden and
he was trying to you know the whole
deception for them to eat of the tree
satan was trying to deceive them with
something that was already theirs
he says oh when you eat of this
certainly you would you know you would
know like god and you would know the the
difference and all that stuff you would
know good and evil the knowledge of good
and evil you would be like god and eve
is like wow this has the ability to make
me wise and they
they lost sight of the fact that you are
already
created in his image
you already had access
to the wisdom of god
but it was about the timing
and so family
if there is a desire that has taken over
you
just give it back to the lord
and say god i trust your ways
i trust your timeline i trust what you
want to do i i need to give this back to
you because it has taken such a hold in
my heart that i cannot hear what you’re
saying now
i can’t even hear what you’re saying
that would even help me manifest this
very desire
right family and now the third thing is
this honor now this one was so
intriguing to me you see i i don’t know
maybe many of you might be aware of this
but
when we think about you know
earthly royalty right i’m sure the one
of the first people you think about
would be queen elizabeth ii
and
with in you know in in the uk
there are do’s and don’ts in how you
approach the queen
there’s a way you must call her there’s
a there’s a language for how you
approach it there’s these things that
you say and one of the things that even
intrigued me is even in the don’ts right
you cannot walk you know to walk with
your back turned towards her
they consider it rude i mean there’s all
this etiquette in how you must approach
the queen
now this is earthly royalty
now let’s talk about our etiquette
when we approach the lord now like i
said the beauty about god is that he’s
everywhere so you can talk to him
driving
you know in the you know drive through
in your house
cooking feeding the baby you could talk
to him anywhere but like i said you’re
talking and you’re you can even you know
you guys are in dialogue everywhere
but when those there are intentional
moments of communion
you have to look at what is your
etiquette
before the lord
are you coming into the presence of god
you have your phone in one hand you’re
on instagram why you have worship music
on
so with your words you’re just
worshiping the lord with your eyes
you’re looking on instagram you’re
looking at oh this what what is
happening here
what is your how do you honor the
moments when god says come up here
there’s something i want to tell you
how do you honor the moments when you’re
like god i just want to be before you
right now i there’s something i need to
hear from you are you bringing in the
things that are actually dishonorable to
that moment
because then your attention is
everywhere and then again it brings in
distraction
but how do we honor the moments that we
create intentional space
to commune with god
how do we honor those times
how do we set the tone how do we set the
atmosphere
because i like there are things that
i remember the lord has allowed me to
see
even on a spiritual front
and
it really blew my mind
i remember this was a couple years ago i
was in college
and we were having um the church i was
going to we were having like this youth
meeting
and in the youth meeting there was
worship there was all kinds of things um
taking place and then all of a sudden
you know the lord opens my eyes and i
see like you know around the team there
were like these angels around everyone
and all of a sudden like the they were
the youth you know they were doing their
own thing like we are in worship and you
know praise and i’m so i i’m seeing this
and people are like on their phones and
they’re chatting with each other they’re
like you know talking everybody’s ear
you know somebody’s talking about who
likes who whatever
and the whole time
what was
really a burden to my heart is that
there was there were things that the
angels had to give
but there was a posture required for
them to release it
and so while everyone was doing their
own thing and and just having a party i
literally i’m seeing how the angels are
there and they leave with the very
things they came to deposit
what is your etiquette before god
because even body language speaks a lot
right i mean right in in in culture you
have people who have like i mean a job
in studying body language to tell you if
you are lying or saying the truth
so even if body language speaks a lot
all i’m trying to explain to you is that
what is your posture before god
when you come before god and you’re you
have the intention to say god i want to
receive from you
what is your posture in that moment
what are the things that you’re allowing
to just take you distract you and just
bring this honor into it i mean i’m not
i’m not even
i’m talking about things that are also
being highlighted to me
because again we could get caught up in
routine
right there are times that i i’ve been
guilty of you know coming before the
lord in prayer and i have my laptop with
me just in case an email i was waiting
for came in
and then when it comes in oh hallelujah
you just turn around and start replying
to the email
terrible this is not it’s nothing funny
right and again i’m i’m talking about
these key critical times
right
just the way you think about it in a
relationship there are times where
you’re you’re hanging out with your
person
in a crowd
at home people are around you guys are
just hanging out but there are times
when you want intimacy right where it’s
just you and them and in that moment you
just you want their their attention you
want them to you want the focus to be
about this moment that’s what i’m
talking about i’m not talking about the
the you know the random moments where we
get to talk to god at any point but i’m
talking about the moments of
intentionality
the moments that you’re cultivating
intimacy the moments where you’re like
god i need you to speak to me what is
your posture in those moments
right you know i’m thinking about
um just a dear friend lisa brevere
and we were filming um a segment
together for tbn called better together
and she shared a story that i love so
much she talked about when she was
having kids you know
there were moments where she just wanted
to like she could sense that there was
things that god wants to say to her
and obviously with kids
you know your your time is different you
know they wake up every two hours
and you can’t really you’re losing sleep
all kinds of things but then she says to
the lord and she’s like i would do
anything i would lose sleep to hear from
you now
when i’m saying this all i’m saying is
that it will always cost you something
for transformation transformation cost
something right she’s like god i would
lose sleep because i’m sensing there’s
something you’re you’re trying to do
here
and all of a sudden she started waking
up every day just a few minutes after
two she would wake up by herself so the
first few days she’s like it’s probably
i’m i’m going back to bed when it
happened you know
you know just day after day day after
day she’s like wait this is the lord the
holy spirit is actually i just said to
him lord i will lose sleep
and he’s like all right now all right
i’ma wake you up
and so she got up and then she sat with
the lord where at the time where you
know the babies are sleeping all of that
and all of a sudden the holy spirit
began to download to her and she brought
out her journal and she started writing
and the things he began to say to her
were things that were so key about the
shift that was coming into their lives
what am i saying family wherever you are
if you’re sensing this burden
upon you if you’re sensing this
restlessness if you sense that there is
something that god urgently needs to
tell you
that will shape the next couple years of
your life
you gotta break out of your pattern
bring honor into those moments
don’t make excuses and just say
oh you know this is happening or that is
happening i need to be on my phone i
need to do this i need to do that no
bring honor into those moments whatever
is a sacrifice on your level
but break out of whatever is your
routine right now
right and lastly family disappointment
disappointment you see disappointment
it is what it is right when you have an
expectation and it did not happen we get
disappointed
and
we’ve heard i’m sure you’ve we all know
this right we know that at the end of
the day
whatever is happening to us
is not happening against us but it’s
happening for us and even when we have
an expectation it didn’t work out it
reveals that something about our
expectation wasn’t in alignment with the
lord but there was something the lord
showed me to tell you
because
disappointment is it’s the emotion of
disappointment can be very disheartening
whether it’s in a relationship
we know we know all this stuff we know
that you know what god you protected me
you kept me this rejection is protection
we know that but then you we are still
overwhelmed by the emotional pain the
emotional trauma the hurt and all of
that and the lord said i should tell you
this
your life
is bigger than that one event
your life is bigger than that one moment
there is so much more to your life
than that piece
of your story
you gotta move on
i get it
you were maybe in the wrong relationship
maybe things didn’t pan out the way you
wanted
there were you you thought you heard
from the lord you thought something was
an instruction and you moved on it your
life
is still
bigger
than that
one
moment
you have to move on
and whatever it takes to move on
if you need to go into therapy to move
on you do that but you have to move on
because when disappointment is left
unchecked it hardens your heart
and your when your heart is contaminated
in that way
you cannot it blocks your ability to
hear from the lord
you see i’ll give you an example because
this appointment is connected to so many
things unforgiveness all of that is all
coming from a place of hurt
there was a time that
to my surprise you know because i
thought that was the forgiveness queen
right
but there was something that hurt me in
a way that i didn’t let it go
immediately
you know because
it wasn’t just the hurt it was the
disappointment
and
there was a day that i was praying about
something i was asking the lord and i
was like lord i need you to speak to me
concerning this something else a
separate matter i need you to speak to
me concerning this you know i want you
to just as i’m going to bed lord i want
you to just speak to me my dream i said
this is time for you know just
this is a moment where you just pour
yourself out i’m going to bed i’m
resting and you’re speaking okay the
best of both worlds
but i was like god i need you to speak
to me and you know what i had a dream
about a very vivid dream that seemed to
go on for days
it was about the unforgiveness
god was showing me what i needed to let
go
and why is that the thing he showed me
when i’m asking him for something else
because that is blocking my heart
that has caused a blockage in my ability
to truly hear him because you see the
bible there are few words that describe
god
when it when it when it speaks to the
the essence of who god is right we know
god is the word
right but another word that describes
him is that god is love
and what he is and what he embodies is
how things flow through
so you cannot have a hardened heart
and the essence of god flows through you
your heart cannot be hardened and the
one that is love you can receive from
and so whatever disappointed you
whatever hurt you whatever wronged you
your life is still
bigger than that moment
allow it to teach you
because at the end of the day we are
students of everything
let the moment let let it teach you no
failure is ever wasted
no disappointment is ever wasted let it
teach you
but let it go now that one you can kill
math you can kill barry and forget the
burial ground
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because at the end of the day there’s so
much more to you and god wants to reveal
that more to you
but you got to let it go
you see my assignment today
was to simply reveal the areas
that
where where this that could cause us to
come into a place of spiritual deafness
it was to expose it and bring it to the
light
and this is the moment
when the holy spirit begins to partner
with you
you see david would say things like i
love david so much he’s someone i admire
so greatly in the bible because i i love
when i read his prayers i love when i
read the words of his worship and david
will say search my heart oh god
if there is anything offensive in me
search me
and show me the way to everlasting life
these were the words of david david
would say things like look i don’t know
what could be clogging me in this moment
i don’t know what could be causing a
blockage in me in this moment so god
search my heart
if there is anything offensive
show me the way to everlasting life
i believe in this moment the holy spirit
is searching your hearts
and he is bringing to the surface what
could have been causing a blockage
that while you felt like god you’re not
even speaking to me i have all these
things i want to ask you
not realizing it’s not that he wasn’t
speaking but we were not listening
and not that we were not listening
because we want to tune god out
but we had all these things that by
default we were tuning god out
and so as the holy spirit searches you
it’s not about shame
it’s not about guilt it’s about truth
it’s for god to establish his truth in
you
and so what if you have been moving in
disappointment
release it
open your heart and say god i was hurt
that
wounded me
i gave x y and z blah blah blah whatever
it is let the lord know
and let him show you
that what’s ahead is still bigger
that what’s ahead is still much brother
he said
my i love my evil name
is in kirika
and that name is always a reminder to me
because what that name means is that the
future is greater
it’s always a reminder to me that it
doesn’t matter the disappointments you
may have experienced what’s ahead is
still greater
your life the fact that you still have
breath means that god is not done with
you on this earth
there is still many things that you are
yet to discover about you
and about what you have been called to
give to the earth
and god said it is still on chorus
so let that go
if you have been cool you know just
clogged by a desire
release the
timeline be in purpose with god
work towards it but stop putting this
pressure of timeline
a good friend of mine major has this
saying
move at the pace of grace
i love it so much because grace is god’s
empowerment
and essentially what he means is that
move as you are empowered
so don’t try to go outside of what god
has empowered you to do in the now
because that’s when compromise begins to
set in
manipulation begins to set in offense
begins to set in move at the pace of
grace
whether you have been distracted and god
is saying hey son hey daughter
i just need a day with you
or maybe i just need a couple hours with
you
or maybe i just need one hour with you
whatever it is
whatever would break you out of your
current routine
because god has seen that this which was
holy has not be been treated as ordinary
whatever will break you out of your
routine break out of it
so that god can allow you to break out
the kingdom through you
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whatever it is family
i want you to know that you are not in
this by yourself
that the holy spirit would empower you
and the holy spirit would open up your
channels
that you can receive
what’s needed in this moment in this
season of your life
and so i want to pray with you and maybe
you’re tuning in and you’re like
i haven’t really figured this you know
jesus then now you know a friend of mine
sent me the link they told me to hey
like you know check out this message
or maybe i’ve been you know dating the
idea of being a believer
it is one of the best decisions actually
not one it is the best decision that you
ever make
and we’re not paid to say that you know
it’s not like there is some kind of
supernatural bank account that we are
advertising that every time we do this
commercial give your life to jesus the
best decision you’ve ever made that
money shows up somewhere in the
supernatural account
it’s not that it’s our testimony
right sometimes it could seem like man
you know
is this a lot required no
it’s not it’s it’s the beauty of
relationship is the beauty of freedom
is the beauty of god bringing you into
your highest true self
the version of you that he saw before he
placed you in your mother’s womb
so if you have been dating this idea of
knowing the lord
why don’t you also surrender your ways
and just say lord here i am
here i am i actually want to tap into
this fully god i want to know you and
you see for some of you you’re just
feeling this this fire on your chest you
feel like something is burning you on
your chest and it is the lord saying hey
i’m knocking let me in
give me a try let me show you who i
really am
it’s not just what the people said about
me you’re going to experience me for
yourself you see i sense that for some
of you listening
that the lord is just reminding me of
the samaritan woman right
when she encountered the lord read the
stories in the book of john very
powerful when she encountered the lord
she goes and she’s sharing her testimony
and telling other people you must meet
this man who told me everything i’ve
ever done
and many ran to see him she was like
this is the christ we have been waiting
for
and so because of her testimony they
were intrigued
they said let us go see this man let us
meet this man that you’re saying is the
christ but then the scriptures later
tell us
that it is not because we came because
we heard her testimony
but now we believe because of his words
you see you might be drawn because
you’re hearing things about the lord
from other people’s testimonies
but when you open up your heart to jesus
you will realize that your roots will be
developed because of his personal
relationship with you
when you begin to encounter a love like
no other
the love of jesus is unfailing it is
relentless it is not the way the world
loves jesus truly loves without
conditions he says wherever you are i
love you
whatever you have in your hand it
doesn’t matter i love you you may be
high right now but i love you and let me
introduce you into who you are
that is what jesus that’s how jesus
moves he doesn’t look at you the bible
says that he did not come to condemn the
world but he came that the world might
be saved
jesus is not looking at you and
condemning you jesus is not looking at
you wondering how dare you how could you
he is not like that jesus is looking at
you with all your mess he says look at
my child look at my beautiful child oh
how i just love that daughter how i love
my son
and all his waiting is let me in
he might challenge you but it’s for your
good
he might discipline you but it’s for
your good
and so family if you’re saying yes to
jesus i want you to just put in the chat
right now
here i am
and as you say here i am you’re going to
see a qr code on the screen i want you
to give us your information so we can
contact you
it is the best decision you would ever
make
and you see family we’re gonna pray in
this moment
and we’re just gonna pray for the holy
spirit to perfect what he already
started
and so heavenly father we thank you
we are at your mercy oh god
and i thank you lord jesus that none of
what has been spoken
could have fruit if not for your power
if not for your enablement if not for
your partnership oh god and so lord i
pray that you will come upon your people
in such a beautiful way
that you will come upon your people lord
god not only are you revealing the areas
lord that require change but that you
will give them the empowerment
to change
and so lord jesus we thank you
have your way
in jesus mighty name
amen
amen family i’m just so grateful for
today