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hallelujah family i am so excited to be

with you all you know today in the

united states we’re celebrating

thanksgiving on this particular day you

might watch this on a different day but

we’re celebrating thanksgiving and all

around the world for me this is a

reminder because we recognize that we

are a global movement and so

thanksgiving the whole essence of it is

really about just having this

moment where you can just remind

yourself the things that everything that

has happened in the year that you are

thankful for you see so many times in

life we get so consumed by the negative

right it’s the same thing that happens

have you ever had a moment where maybe

you posted a comment or you were

watching someone’s comment or you’re

watching a post or something on social

media

and all you saw was that one negative

comment and just disregarded all the

positive things that were said you see

that is why the beauty of just having a

moment to just say god

thank you and i encourage that this is

something you actually do every single

day before you get into the busyness of

life and the business of your day that

you take a moment to have a salah with

god and just to reflect and say lord i

thank you lord you’ve been so good to me

you’ve woke me up this very morning with

air in my lungs lord you have a purpose

for my life lord your promise to me is

still active god thank you even right

now just put thank you lord in the

comments just do that for me it’s a

beautiful thing and so like today and

every every other day right we are going

to be giving god thanks and my message

today is really a message that reminds

us even more gives us more reasons to

just say god thank you this is what it

means to be a child of god this is what

it means to know that lord that you are

with me my message for those taking

notes is winning against all odds

winning against all odds this is the

beauty this is the joy that we have in

christ and i want you to just go with me

to one of my favorite scriptures it’s in

ecclesiastes 9 11

and it says this

i returned and saw under the sun

that the race is not to the swift

not the battle to the strong nor bread

to the wise nor riches to men of

understanding nor favor to men of skill

but

time and chance happens to them all this

is so powerful i want to tell you a

story

so a couple years ago

i remember i had this desire and you

might hear it you might laugh but this

is real life for me right i love to sing

right i love it i i sing everything i

sing words when i’m in the grocery store

if i’m looking for plantain chips i

might start singing you know talking

about how i’m looking for plantain chips

it’s something i enjoy and one moment i

was like god i really love this you know

i would actually like to just you know

be the one who can be loud and confident

right because you can be loud and

singing and confident when you have a

voice that sounds like an angel okay but

for me it just sounds like i don’t know

it’s not what you want to hear

so one day

i was like there were two artists one of

them included whitney houston

i said lord they’re not here with us

okay and i don’t think heaven needs the

beauty of their voices we need it on

earth i was like god can you just mix

the two of them and send it to me you

know i grew up watching powerpuff girls

and if anyone is a pop-up girl fan from

your childhood the way they were made

these these girls who were like

superheroes they there was this

combination it’s like sugar spice and

everything nice and then comes the pop

of girls and so i said god

maybe you forgot one ingredient before

you sent me on earth maybe you just i

was in a hurry you know and you forgot

to just give me this angelic singing

voice but i was like god anything is

possible

you can send me a combination of whitney

houston and this other artist that i

admire and i was really praying about

this so i wake up in the morning after

my prayer time and i will go to the bath

when i’m taking the shower i’ll start

singing and i’m singing to test if you

know it it’s there if it’s activated

and so one day to make matters worse

i was at a conference i was actually was

this big crusade and i was backstage i

was on the stage so but not where people

you could visibly see like the people

the worship team that was singing and

this man walks up to me to give me a

prophetic word and he said i was looking

at you and the lord said you’ve been

desiring to sing and he’s going to give

you that voice i wanted to jump shout

scream do the hula hoop because i said

god you are really a god of

possibilities right and in my mind i’m

like this man could not know this that

god is truly gonna answer this prayer

and give me this voice that i’m looking

for

then one particular day a friend of mine

invited me for this bible study

and the bible study was like women who

are very you know seasoned

in age and they host this beautiful

bible study and on the way to the bible

study i remember the lord i heard him so

clearly saying to me what you’ve been

asking for i’m going to give it to you

today he said all you have to do is

serve with it

and i was like oh that’s easy i said i

would sing loud and proud for the people

we get to the church i didn’t really

know what god meant

we got to the bible study

and like i said it’s seasoned people

right so some of the worship leaders

were running late and they had like a

cassette player or something a tape

player some of you may not know that but

you know but they had this whole tape

player

and she was like hey guys you know some

people are running late but if there are

any worshipers in the crowd that would

like to lead us in worship please come

to the front

and my heart sank i said oh oh no oh no

no no no no and i realized that i’ve

been asking god for this voice really

just for my own purposes right it was

never about serving but here is the

funny thing

there was a time and there was an

opportunity that god made available to

me

regardless of the fact that i was not

born with skill or talent when it came

to singing but there was a time and a

chance available for me to walk in an

open door that god said you want it this

is the door to get it and i you know

just walked away threw away the key

but this is the beauty family

you see in this scripture we’re learning

that time and chance

happens to every single person

this scripture has so much weight

because first of all the book of

ecclesiastes is believed to be written

by the king solomon and there are many

reasons why because even when you’re

reading the book in the first chapter he

the writer identifies himself as the son

of king of david king of jerusalem he

talks about how he has acquired so much

wisdom and so there’s so many evidence

that points to the fact that king

solomon is the writer and it’s

incredible to know this because king

solomon was a man that god encountered

in a dream and god said to him what is

it that you want anything i would give

it to you and then solomon did not ask

for anything that was self-promoting he

said you know what lord give me a wise

and discerning heart that i would judge

your people properly god was so moved he

said you know what you didn’t ask for

the lives of your enemies you didn’t ask

for riches i would give you what you

asked for and so much more but here is

the thing god said concerning solomon

that there will there would be no one

like you there was no there was no one

like you before you and no one would

arise like you even after you when it

came to his wisdom and this was wisdom

that came from god

and so in the wisdom that came from god

and in everything that solomon had

experienced about life he tells us this

that because you have let’s let’s even

look at this right he says first of all

the race is not to the swift he said

it’s not because you’re fast

it’s not because you have all the right

connections it’s not because you have

all the right relationships that you

have the advantage in life he says now

battle to the strong he’s like hey i

know you look strong in everything you

go to the gym you work out five times a

day but your strength is not what will

give you the advantage then he says no

bread to the wise and in all of this

solomon is highlighting the strength of

man he’s like it is not your wisdom that

would give you the advantage in life i

know you went to some of the best

schools i know every you are just like

oh my gosh an honor student but that is

not what gives you the advantage then he

says this nor riches to men of

understanding nor favor to men of skill

he’s like hey i know you understand how

the moving culture but that’s not what’s

going to give you the advantage i know

that you have this skill but that’s not

what’s going to give you the advantage

solomon reveals the justice system of

god he says time and chance happens to

everybody

the beauty of this is because first of

all we see the goodness of god in this

statement

because we live in a broken world that

can only be made whole through jesus

and in a broken world with broken people

unless they have come into an encounter

with the lord to open themselves up to

his holiness which is his wholeness

broken people break other people

and so many of us we have very colorful

backgrounds

we’ve experienced things very

differently

maybe you were raised in a single parent

home maybe you were raised in the foster

care system maybe you were abused even

by the ones that were supposed to

protect you your story may look very

different but in this scripture solomon

reveals the justice system of god

he says it’s not because

it worked out so well life looks so

great for this person a that you start

comparing yourself and you feel defeated

because you just think that god this

dream you’ve put in my heart it’s not

going to work it’s not going to happen i

don’t have what it takes and god says i

don’t i’m not i’m not weighing it by

that

but for every single person

there will be a time and there will be

an opportunity that can radically change

your life

when i began to think about this

i thought about

colonel sanders

right in college kfc took me through a

lot of you know broke days

[Laughter]

you buy a bucket of chicken and you’re

good to go right

but i thought about colonel sanders

in the united states for example

the average age that people retire is

62.

colonel sanders started kfc kentucky

fried chicken at the age of

65.

and the story goes that he started you

know he he borrowed some money he fried

some chicken he sewed the door the door

and next thing a couple years later at

88 years old he was a billionaire

and an age that everything was working

against him

and an age where his friends are

retiring they’re like hey when are you

gonna just you know

chill out and just maybe watch after the

grandkids

colonel sanders i don’t i mean i don’t

i’ve never met the man but i can only

imagine what was going on in his heart

that there was a dream in his heart that

he knew that god you gave me a promise

you gave me a word and whether he

identified it as christ or not every

single human being your spirit came from

god

so even when you don’t know him he knows

how to speak to you he knows how to get

to you that’s why many people when they

come into relationship with christ they

begin to realize oh my gosh i recognize

that the hand of god has been with me my

whole life i just didn’t know that was

him

but there are certain things that make

you understand that no there was

something else at work for a man at 65

to start a business

for a man at 65 to bet on himself it was

not just about him betting on himself

there was a word over his life there was

a promise that he was connected to

and then recently i read about the

amazing wilma rudolph

her story fascinated me because in the

1960s she was the first african american

to be known as the fastest woman in the

world and not even just limited to her

race she was even the first american to

win three gold medals in one single

olympic

in one single olympic game

and this is the crazy thing about her

story

because wilma rudolph actually suffered

from scarlet fever

measles she survived infantile paralysis

before up until the age of nine she had

to wear a leg brace when i read her

story i was like we got to talk about

this

because the odds were against her life i

mean everything connected to her past

said that this is not supposed to be

your future

but against all odds

now we read about the victory connected

to her story

let’s not even go too far our pastors

our pastors model what it means

to win against all odds

if i use our my spiritual father our

pastor pt for example

growing up in the inner city

being a victim of a drive-by shooting in

his teenage years

but look at everything that god has

produced through him today

time

and chance happens to us all

i think about my mother

i think about a woman in her 20s

who lost her husband at the hands of an

assassination

and then assassination attempts towards

the family

and despite everything in a country that

didn’t really support women’s rights at

the time

despite everything there was a moment

and there were consecutive moments that

in her obedience to what god had showed

her it changed everything

time and chance

that it doesn’t matter where you come

from it doesn’t matter your story it

doesn’t matter the fact that you might

feel like god why do you want me to

start this channel i only have five

people following me

who am i talking to

you might feel like god what is the

point of doing this you want me to write

a book i don’t have an audience for the

book but the lord said just do what i’ve

called you to do because there will be a

time and there will be an opportunity

that i will use to launch this all i

need for you is to be obedient

when i even think about my story

it is really the evidence

of timing

and the opportunity that god put before

me and if i was not obedient to his

instruction then i would not have

experienced the fruit on the other side

it’s not about your past

it’s about recognizing that god is just

and his word to you and his promises to

you that he is not a man to lie to you

that he is not a man to be limited in

his abilities

that when he gave you a promise when he

gave you that word he said no

despite all the odds you are going to

experience victory because there will be

a season that will come

and there will be an opportunity before

you and it would open a door as long as

you give into it with obedience

you see there are three key thoughts

that i want to share with you as it

comes to being the person who partners

with seasons with the seasons that god

creates in front of you to partner with

a season there are three key thoughts i

want to share with you and the first

thing is to believe

in god’s promises

i know sometimes that sounds easier said

than done

but for some of you i want you to even

write this down right now to understand

that belief

is actually deliverance

you see when i was in prayer for you

the lord kept showing me even some

people just in the posture of praying

and your your request to the lord was

god break me out of this cycle

break me out of this negative cycle i

keep finding myself in a cycle that is

keeping me in this place of stagnancy

break me out of it and then the lord

just whispered that message that belief

would be their deliverance

because the moment you start to believe

indeed that you are who god says you are

your decisions will break the patterns

that created the cycles in the first

place

because when you think about the cycles

you fall into there is a pattern

that leads you into that

there is a way that leads you right back

into it and it’s the unbelief

of what god has already showed you

concerning yourself

because you see for example i remember

there was a time that i thought that i

was struggling with discipline in my

life

i thought there was a particular area

that the lord was speaking to me and i

was like god i’m just trying to get more

disciplined in this place

and the lord says stephanie you’re not

struggling with

in discipline you’re struggling with

belief

because if you believe what i said about

you then you would know that you will

have confidence in the outcome if you do

what i’ve shown you to do

the reality is that you don’t believe

what i’ve shown you and so you are not

moving in the manner that you should if

you did

you see if my belief would actually

reveal will be revealed in my behavior

my behavior shows what i believe

and so i was like wrestling with god and

my god man give me the grace give me the

grace to be more disciplined in this

area and the lord just whispered to me

you’re not struggling

you don’t have a discipline problem

you have a belief problem

and i need you to choose

to believe the words that i’ve spoken

towards you

because when we talk about time and

chance there will always be these

moments

and you will have to make a decision and

that decision is connected to obedience

what has god placed in your heart

and what are the opportunities in front

of you to move forward in that area

and sometimes you just have to look at

every opposing thing and say god

i choose to look at your word above all

else

and i know for some of him i still feel

like man but how do i get to this place

of belief god how help me you know there

was a man who said to the lord jesus he

said lord i believe but help my unbelief

that it is possible to have both belief

and doubt working at the same time and i

began to wonder how is this possible and

here is what the lord showed me

that to get to the place of belief you

have to pursue wholeness

and this is why

in matthew 13

jesus is telling a given a parable every

time i see parables in the scriptures i

just think about story time with jesus

right but jesus is given a parable about

a farmer

and he talks about this farmer who went

out to sow seeds on different types of

ground

he says the farmer you know threw some

seeds on rocky or stony ground and it

was a ground that didn’t have much soil

so by the time so even though like yes

the you know the plants sprung up really

quick but the moment the sun that the

sun came out it withered as fast as it

came up because it didn’t have any roots

to it

i mean that in itself is a whole message

but that’s not my message but i keep

sensing like somebody even needs to hear

that

because one thing that you would know

about god

is that process would always precede

success

that the success that comes from god

would not come in a way that is this

overnight thing that just happened

processed will always precede success

this is not in my notes at all but i

believe that someone actually needs to

hear this

because maybe you’re in this place and

you’re just like god i just feel like

man i’ve been in the wilderness for such

a long time and god says i’m actually

trying to give you roots

and this is connected to my message

actually i’m thinking about it this is

happening in real time

because at the end of the day god wants

to give you roots because god is more

for you than you are for yourself that

when the situation and the opportunities

presented before you you would not

wither away

when opposition comes when difficulties

come you will not wither away you will

not be so quick to say god maybe this is

not what i wanted i quit because at the

end of the day there is a burden there

is responsibilities connected on the

other side of what you call the blessing

that you’ve been waiting for but when

that blessing is given to you now you

are a steward

and being a steward means taking

responsibilities and sometimes that

could feel like a burden but when you

have roots in god you begin to see it

properly

and so maybe god is you’re in a process

because god does not want you to be the

one that has little soil

and that yeah you don’t want to just

spring up so quickly and then the moment

opposition comes you wither just as fast

as you sprung up

but in matthew 13 because like i said

that is not my message but in matthew 13

jesus is highlighting these different

ways these different areas that the

farmer was throwing seeds

so first he says yes he threw it on

stony ground

then jesus highlights that the farmer

threw some seeds and then the where

there were thorns and the thorns grew up

and choked the plant

and then the farmer threw seeds on

healthy soil and on the ones on healthy

salt some of them reaped 30-fold 60-fold

100-fold but here is what i want to

focus on was the place where there were

thorns

because where there were thorns jesus

equated this he he explained that the

thorns represented the worries of life

the anxiety the distractions of life

and you see what is interesting is that

everywhere that the farmer threw a seed

jesus explained that that represented

the hearts of men and women

and the seeds were the word of god

when i’m saying pursue wholeness

as a way to get to the place of belief

because when you’re looking at life

through the lens of pain through the

lens of brokenness to the lens of the

things that hurt you the people that

betrayed you these are the thorns that

raise up quickly and choke out the

promises of god when he says

he gives you a word about your future

your past comes rushing in and it begins

to choke it up your trauma comes rushing

in and it begins to choke it up it says

no that cannot be you

any voice that begins to speak to you

against the word of god

are the thorns

that are raised up to choke that word

and so sometimes you’re just like but

god how is it that i have faith but i

also struggle with doubt and i have this

but i’m also dealing with unbelief

pursue wholeness

and for some of you that might look like

going into therapy for them to dig

things out of you

that might look like going on the

sabbatical with the holy spirit because

he is also known as the counselor

but you want to give yourself time to go

into the presence of god and say lord

how do you help me deal with my heart i

don’t know what’s in here and i don’t

want to let what may have gotten into me

cause me from being from cause me from

being a limitation to myself concerning

my future

you see one thing that happened to me

i’m going to be very overall with you

today i remember one day i was literally

in prayer

and i was praying about some things that

i just found myself struggling with

and the lord said to me stephanie you

need emotional accountability

and i felt like that was just very

random i said who got what who got time

for this right i said lord i have you

what was this thing about emotional

accountability

and he said you need emotional

accountability

and he said i’m gonna send you help this

was the lord speaking

that day a couple hours later

a pastor who i

just strongly admire and who’s also a

therapist reached out to me

and she was like stephanie how is your

heart

i said

i don’t like this question

it makes me want to think

and i sent her a response right

and she said no that sounded like it

came from your head how is your heart

and when we

that message took us on the whole

journey

and i opened up to her and i said

literally this morning the lord said to

me you need emotional accountability

there’s some things that you need to

heal from there’s some things you need

to process properly and

even though you can hide behind me

you might actually use me to be to it’s

almost like a shield in protecting the

areas that you don’t want people to see

and that is why i am such an advocate

even when it comes to therapy

because in our relationship with god it

can only go as deep as our

vulnerabilities

and when you are you know when you start

believing your own hype and you’re like

no i’m okay this is not a problem you

know i’m good

and like god we don’t have issues in

this area

then you can actually be deceiving

yourself that’s why the bible talks

about how the heart is deceit is

deceitful above all

that who can know it

but then the bible also says out of the

abundance of the heart the mouth speaks

that’s why there are people who are

trained to hear what you’re saying

and they can fill in the gaps by what

you are not saying

they they’re trained to understand your

emotional well-being by the things you

choose to say and by things you choose

to not say

and so if you have to talk to somebody

if you’ve experienced things in your

past that that put you in this place

that you just you have this negative

narrative over your life

then choose to start opening up pursue

wholeness

say that god i desire wholeness above

ego i desire wholeness above pride i

desire wholeness above looking right i

desire wholeness above looking like i

just i’m you know i just woke up and i

woke up like this no you did not

but god i desire wholeness at every with

whatever it takes i desire this if i

need to open up to someone if i need an

accountability partner if i need to

maybe even forgive someone in my life

maybe there is this offense that i’ve

been holding on to and it’s eating me up

from the inside out because i’ve not let

something go then maybe i need to talk

to a pastor i need to get involved in a

community group whatever it takes

pursue

wholeness recently during our one

meet-up our pastor

talked about seeing life through the

lens of jesus

and how that changes everything

and that’s what happens when we are

whole

when we are holding christ we begin to

see life through the lens of jesus

we begin to see life that oh my gosh

this is actually beautiful yes i am who

you say i am oh that project oh that’s

not going to defeat me oh i have what it

takes to get it done because i have you

lord

but if there’s anything in your life in

your hearts from your past trauma that

you know you have to heal from don’t

delay it one more day one more second

it’s as easy as even having an

accountability partner

just to say hey i want i want i want you

to even hold my destiny accountable

not just an accountability partner for

random things

talk to them about the promises and the

visions that god has given you about

your life

and say i want you to hold me

accountable to my purpose i want you to

hold me accountable to my healing i want

you to hold me accountable to my desires

in life

that if this is who i i’m saying that

god has shown me to be whenever i’m

functioning out of this

call me out

whenever i’m accepting below what god

has shown me is available to me call me

out on it

and you have to choose to accept

humility

you have to choose to allow people in

your life that can sharpen you

the bible talks about iron sharpens iron

you have to choose to have

men and women in your life that can be

the iron that will sharpen you

and as a result you sharpen them because

your transformation it becomes

contagious

everybody starts desiring to grow and

keep growing pursue wholeness and that

would uproot doubt and it would uproot

the things that would cause you to see

life through the lens of brokenness and

pain and trauma and so when the word of

god comes to you there are no thorns to

choke it out

you become a healthy soil

that you can say god i believe in what

you’re saying

and when you open the door in front of

me

i’m going to move with boldness and i’m

going to move in confidence because i

know that you are with me

and the third thing i want you to

understand

is that time is an expression of god’s

mercy

what do i mean by this

you see one of the reasons right that

even satan cannot be forgiven

is that he was judged

in a realm outside of time

he was judged in an eternal now

his judgment came from a realm that time

does not exist or function the same way

that it does on earth

and so when his judgment happened

it is executed now

it is executed in that very moment and

what i’m trying to explain to you is

that where there is time there is mercy

that’s why the bible in the book of

lamentations it says to us i believe it

might be 3 22 but if it’s not then i’m

going to take a line from my pastor read

the whole bible and you find it but

there’s a scripture that tells us

that god’s mercies are new every morning

because wherever we have time we have

mercy

and why am i saying this because while i

prayed for you

i could see that there’s some people

that just feel like god in my brokenness

i feel like i’ve sabotaged the things

and the doors that you opened before me

i sabotaged the relationships that maybe

something beautiful could have come out

of it i sabotaged the jobs that could

have been amazing god i’ve sabotaged the

things that i thought would be a

blessing

and maybe you’re you’re down on yourself

because you’re just like god i’ve messed

up already

i’ve messed up i’m too deep in this

thing i don’t know how i’m going to

recover

time is an expression of god’s mercy

did you know that just saying god have

mercy on me

there’s a song in culture where they’re

like lord have mercy right and we always

sing in it and the rest of the song is

not really in the scriptures or words in

the bible but

lord have mercy on me

is a powerful prayer

because you’re literally saying god

if i’ve ever stood in my own way

if i’ve ever been the limitation on my

life god have mercy restore to me the

time

restore to me the opportunities restore

to me the doors lord god that would be

an open door for me to be everything

that you say i am

you see the bible says this that times

and seasons belong to the lord

and so it doesn’t matter what you feel

like you may have lost

nothing is wasted in god

he uses even the seasons where you feel

like man god i i think i sabotaged that

moment that is why we have this

beautiful promise that god works all

things together

for those who are called according to

his purpose

he knows how to work everything together

the moment you recognize that god

i i see what i have heard i’ve seen

where i have missed the mark but lord

have mercy on me david understood this

he said surely goodness and mercy

follows me all the days of my life

and that’s why david no matter his

shortcomings

he understood this in god no matter

where he fell short he knew

that lord have mercy on me and restore

unto me

see david was a wild man there was a

story about david

where he you know he looked at this girl

one day

and he was just like yeah i want her

right

and her husband was part was a man in

his army

david had a set up where the man got

killed so he could sleep with the her oh

well actually you know let me rewind he

slept with the woman

she got pregnant

then he’s like oh my gosh she’s pregnant

he tried to have her husband sleep with

her to cover it up like you know maury

wasn’t there in that time for them to

try to figure out who was the father

right and so david is like oh my gosh i

cannot be the father and he’s like man

let me set it up so he’s trying to have

her her husband come back and sleep with

her but the man he had such integrity

you need to read this story it’s going

to bless your life he had such integrity

and he he comes home he’s like no i’m

not sleeping my wife you know this is

the time of battle that’s what david

should have been he should have had a

posture of focus the man was so focused

that he did not even sleep with his own

wife

david is like you know flabbergasted

he’s like oh my gosh i they would know

that i am the father

david has a set up for the man to be

killed the man gets killed he takes he

no takes in the woman now as a wife but

all the while he forgot that god is

watching

that god is looking at this whole scene

one scene two and he god is like you

know what cut

this right here we’re about to cut it

and in the judgment of god he did not

allow that child to live because of the

manner in which that child came from

there’s a whole story to that but even

in that story it’s not it has nothing to

do with you know god being evil know

that

how the child came into the world was

not it there was just a lot of mess

attached to it and god said no this

child would not live in god’s judgment

because of the circumstances surrounding

it

but david did not let that defeat him

david understood i am not my mistake

david understood i messed up in this

area but i am not my mistake lord have

mercy on me

and that is why the same woman

that received god’s judgment

was the same woman that god restored and

her child solomon became king that ruled

after reigned after david

that is called restoration

can you imagine what it was like

for solomon’s mother

lost her husband

lost the child

but all of a sudden she is restored

has a son named solomon and amongst all

of david’s children

he is the one chosen by god

to reign as king

you are not your mistake

you are not defined by your past

you are not defined by your trauma

you are not defined by what keeps you up

anxious at night you are not defined by

your pain you are not defined by your

fear you are not defined by the words

that were spoken against you you were

not defined by the negative things that

happened to you that gave you a wrong a

flawed perception of life you were not

any of these things

if you knew better than you would have

done better

give yourself a break

allow the mercy of god and the goodness

of god to come into your life

and say lord

time and chance will happen for me

time and chance time there will be a

time there will be an opportunity that

you’re going to open the door for me

and so in this in the in in the meantime

i should have called this message in the

meantime no

but in the meantime

i’m gonna pursue wholeness

i’m gonna keep a record of your promises

to me because they will be fulfilled i’m

gonna have destiny accountability

partners

i’m gonna know that lord god every

single day that i wake up

that your mercies are made new that

morning

that i am a candidate for your mercy and

i am a recipient of your mercy

that lord you would you would restore

the years that my ignorance kept me from

things

you would restore the years that pain

kept me from things you would restore

the years that trauma kept me from

things this is the god we serve like i

said god is more is for you more than

you are for yourself

and so when he takes you through a

process

it is so that when you encounter these

divine moments

in life

that your obedience becomes a launching

pad for you

that you would have roots

you see i want you to understand for

some of you you have to even recognize

that there is purpose in healing

you might feel like you’re in a season

and all you’re working on is yourself

and you might be watching people and

it’s like everyone seems like they’re

just flying past you they’re just moving

at high speed and you’re just over there

working on yourself

and you might be feeling like god man i

wish i knew this when i was i was seven

who knows anything at seven right we’re

just looking for some candy right in

good times with some cartoons

oh you’re like god man i wish i knew

this when i was in my teens i wish i

knew this in my 20s in my 30s in my 40s

in my 50s

your journey is different and it’s

unique

everyone has a unique journey in life

so stop you know having a pity party

with what what could have should have

all that stuff would have

and recognize that in the now

you are a recipient of god’s mercy

and for this we give god praise

and we say god thank you

you are so good

and so if you know that i’ve been

speaking to you

just put in the comments

lord have mercy

lord have mercy

lord have mercy lord have mercy i’m

telling you to write that down so you

recognize that whenever you feel

like god ah i don’t think i have what it

takes lord have mercy lord i receive

your mercy lord you are a merciful god

lord your goodness follows me all the

days of my life your goodness and your

mercy every single morning i have mercy

available to me

now this does not mean to be foolish now

but this means to recognize i am not my

mistake

and maybe you need to say that out loud

and if that is you i want you to write

that in the comments i am not my mistake

i am not my trauma whatever that thing

is

that you feel like has put a limitation

on your life i want you to write that

down boldly i am not blank write it down

i am not the abuse i am not the things

that i went through whatever that is put

it in the comment

because time and chance is going to find

you

and it’s going to be so beautiful what

god does through your life

but in the meantime

let him work in your life

let him build you

you the person

god cares about you

never think that god is more invested in

what you do than in who you are

it is because of who you are that you’re

able to move and build according to his

word

you see you have to remember there was a

time

when

mary and martha they were sisters

jesus comes into their home

and jesus is having a conversation he’s

talking his teaching story time with

jesus

i’m sure that it was the disciples that

are around him

and these were you know at the time it

was just men

mary is like look i am going to sit at

the feet of jesus and receive his wisdom

his wisdom that would shape my life

mary goes down and she sits with jesus

martha is cooking in the kitchen she’s

doing a good thing jesus is in your

household you want to make sure wow my

lord is he fed you know does he is he

hungry you know what what does he need

you want to present something before the

lord

martha is cooking and she you know finds

out that mary is sitting at the feet of

jesus she comes in and she’s just like

she’s upset she’s like mary what are you

doing right you should be in the kitchen

cooking

and jesus is like

martha you know chill out now

mary has chosen the better portion

that what mary is doing is actually what

you should model what was jesus actually

speaking to in this moment he said i am

more concerned about you

than what you do for me

i want mary to be close she needs to

hear these words because the word of god

says at the entrance of the word gives

light

every word that we hear from our lord it

lights us up

it transforms us it brings us closer and

closer and closer to the version of us

that he has called

and so you might feel like god i’m not

you know i want to just move quickly and

fast and i want to do all these things

and i want to build for you but if

you’re in a season where god is focused

on building you allow him

he’s giving you roots

so that when his word comes upon you

when the season comes upon you when the

is presented before you that you will

take off

and you would encounter several seasons

like this throughout your lifetime

and so i want to pray with you

you know what maybe you’re listening to

this message and you’re just like first

of all i want to know the lord that you

speak of

that i want to know the lord that you

have this confidence in

i want to know the lord that is lord

over times and seasons i want to know

the lord that can forgive me in the way

that you spoke you see jesus’s love is

so irresistible

because it meets you wherever you are

to

to bring you it to the place

that he knows you to be

jesus’s love comes without judgment

because he when he looks at you he sees

the truth concerning you he can he knows

how to remove the layers of the pain and

the mistakes that you have made that is

why one of my favorite scriptures is

when it talks about the even the

darkness is not dark to you

that even my darkness

lord it’s not dark to you

that you can see what i feel like are my

lowest moments and you can see through

it and you see light because you’re

looking at me

and maybe you feel like god i’m just in

a mess i mean this i mean this rut and

god is like your darkness

is not dark to me

i love you

i’m for you

i’m more for you than you are for

yourself i’m more for you than your

biggest cheerleader a hype man or woman

i’m for you

and if you want to fully open your heart

to jesus

because

even as i say pursue wholeness that is a

space

that your barriers to pursue in

wholeness is your relationship with

jesus

because you don’t want to make yourself

available to any spiritual hype that

culture presents

for you as a fast track to healing

because culture is presenting so many

alternatives that actually expose you to

more danger than good

and so if you’re in that place and

you’re like god i want to be made whole

you need relationship with him because

he becomes your the parameters in which

you discover true wholeness

because he alone

is whole

he is the essence of wholeness

we find it in him

not outside of him

that is why god says be holy for i am

holy

come into my holiness come into my

wholeness don’t follow the hype of what

culture might present to you

culture will tell you do this do that do

this it will help you conquer your fears

let jesus be the parameters in which you

guide your life and you discover true

wholeness because there are many things

out there and i’m saying this not from

just watching what people are talking

about i’m saying this from what i know

there are many things out there that

look the part

but it is not the part there are many

things out there that you might expose

yourself to and it does more damage than

good i’m saying from experience there

are people that i have

i’ve walked through deliverance with and

it was because they opened up themselves

to things that they thought were good

outside of the lord let jesus be the

parameters that you pursue wholeness

through

don’t be so desperate that you you start

searching in in weird things and you’re

like okay maybe this is a fast track no

true wholeness comes from the lord

and if you want to receive him into your

life

you can just write in the comment here i

am

here i am lord

here i am

and you’re going to see a text a qr code

in the screen and there’s going to be a

number that you can text and we’re going

to follow up with you and catch up with

you and just really guide you through

the salvation process because life with

jesus is the best thing ever

you know

this would be a saying like you know

what’s bad and sliced bread i i don’t

know where that came from honestly and

maybe i’m digressing

because i don’t know maybe i’m not a fan

of sliced bread but jesus is really

everything you know what’s better than

honey jesus right what’s better than

fruit snacks jesus right what’s better

than your favorite thing i don’t know

jesus

but i want us to pray in this moment one

for you saying yes to him

that lord i’m here and i want to have a

relationship with you

and two i want to pray that lord

have mercy

have mercy on our lives

wherever we have been our own limitation

lord we receive we are recipients of

your mercy we receive it

because that breaks off every lie every

shame every guilt the mercy of god is

what sets you loose from the chains of

shame and guilt because you recognize

that

every single day that i have breath in

my body

god is saying there is more that i still

want to do with you

and i can

did you get that

and he can

you are not that too damaged that god

cannot use you you are not to damage

that god wants to throw you away that

will never be the case with you and god

and so let’s pray

heavenly father we thank you

we thank you for your sons and daughters

that are saying yes to you

we thank you lord god for what this

moment represents in their life and what

heaven how heaven is rejoicing even

right now

cheering them on and welcoming them to

the kingdom of god

lord we recognize

that when you died on the cross when you

gave your life on the cross it wasn’t

even you that died because lord god it

was sin that died everything that could

keep us captive anything that could keep

us bound you killed it on the cross

and when you were raised up from death

when you conquered death itself

you raised us up with you

as an example and as a testament that we

are more than overcomers

lord we love you

come into our hearts come into our lives

be the peace that guards our hearts and

our minds

guide us oh god we we say yes to your

invitation to wholeness

that lord however you want to work in us

reveal it to us

and make a way for us

lord i thank you that time and chance

happens to us all anyone who’s been

counting themselves out that they would

know that you are a just god

that they would know that there would

always be moments in life

that would present an open door for them

to be everything that you’ve called them

to be in this life

and i thank you lord jesus for your

mercy

your mercy that meets us every single

day

you are such a good

such a good god

and we love you

and we cherish you and we adore you

and we say yes to you over and over and

over again have your way in jesus name