Breaking Ground - Ebenezer Quaye

hey family I'm pastor Tori I'm pastor Sarah and listen you're getting ready to hear an incredible word for the Lord I believe it's gonna bless you I believe it's gonna be timely do me a favor share the message if it moves you share the message and then also you have an opportunity to be a part of not only helping to spread this message but to be a part of our outreaches we're doing a lot of practical things to be a blessing to someone so feel free if God so loves you to use the information here in the video support what we're doing for being a blessing not such a speaking spiritually we're being blessed to people practical we love you getting to this message I'll change your life well family welcome to activate LA I'm pastor ebenezer my god it has been quite a bit of time since I've been able to address you I've got some some fresh Gray's in my beard that probably weren't there before the last time I saw all of you and I just want you to take some time right now while we're settling in just put some love down in the comments we're at a moment in our world where we just could use some love so drop a couple of hearts down in the comments right now let's let our comment board light up with love right now love for your brother love for your sister love for your neighbor love for the Lord and love for yourself go ahead and drop them drop them in there right now right now right now right now I'm glad we're able to set the atmosphere in that way Heavenly Father we thank you that you've anointed this moment that father you have said that there is something in the hearts of your people something that is crying out there is a need that your people had when they decided to take the time and the space to come together in this way in this time in this arena father God we know that you provide for all of our needs above and beyond what we could possibly ask for or imagine so I say right now for the full needs of the heart may they be at rest right now may this word before your people right now may it be uncut and raw from heaven right now and father I thank you for allowing me to be used empty me out Oh God empty me out and just fill me with what your people needs and I will pour it out and pour it out until I'm empty and you fill me up and I'll pour out some more we bless you and we honor your name and Jesus name we pray amen amen I'm gonna jump right into our scripture for today the title for today's message is breaking ground move the title almost made me want to just start preaching already but I'm gonna get into this word we are in Isaiah 61 and 11 the New King James reads for as the earth brings forth its bud as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all nations I love it when God puts an expectation on creation I love it because that means creation has to respond and the time that we are in right now is showing that there is an expectation on creation to grow there is an expectation on creation to bring forth what God has placed on the inside of it as I was reading this verse I couldn't help but notice the incredible difference in terms of the relationship that that the rest of creation has with God versus humanity come with me when God speaks a word into creation it must come to pass I think this is part of the reason why we look at the Stars and we are so and we are marveled we're just overwhelmed by the glorious beauty of the Stars and the planets and nature I'm realizing now the reason that we are so enamored with it it's because God spoke it and it happened God spoke it and it happened God said let there be light and there was light light did not question the source of the word there was light as this verse says as the earth brings forth its bud as the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth when it is time for a seed to grow when God has placed a seed in its proper environment and the nutrients are available the environment is ready for it too and it is its season to grow it has no choice but to grow it is compelled to grow and so all of creation the Sun the Moon the Stars galaxies solar system the universe all have this incredible relationship with God whereas when he speaks the obedience is not in question the Sun does not decide that it's going to just not burn bright today the Sun burns as bright as it ever will every single day the Sun the stars don't decide relocate themselves because God put them in very specific places and yet humanity has a little bit of a different relationship with God our relationship with God is a little different because God can speak a word to us and we have this thing that separates us from all of creation it makes things very complicated for us it's called free will so God can speak a word into our lives God can say this must be so this is who I've called for you to be this is what I've called for you to do this is why I have placed you on this earth this is this is your moment this is your time open your mouth go forth and speak and we actually have the option to not speak the word that God places on the inside of us will only go forth according to the obedience that is in our hearts and this separates us from all of creation this obedience I'm understanding now is why we can behold nature and be jealous of its beauty but I do not believe that nature be holds humanity and is jealous of us because all nature has to do is obey and yet we have this free will which gives us the opportunity to say I know what God said to me I know who God has created for me to be I know what God is telling me to do I know the season and the times I know what is happening and yet I can actually decide not to do it and I harp on this specific obedience because I believe right now we are in a time where God is calling for things from this earth it he's calling for things from his people and the one thing that will keep us from bring fourth that which God has called from the inside of us is our obedience and this is hard because our obedience is our greatest strength our freewill is our greatest strength and at the same time it can be the source of our greatest weakness I can't get this obedience and this this this difference in the relationship between all of creation and God and humanity I can't get that difference out of my mind because right now I'm realizing that when God wants to birth something new when God wants to change when God wants to cause forth bring forth growth God breaks ground from within God breaks ground from below the seed is below the ground and it comes forth as the garden causes things that are sown in it to spring forth when God wants to enact change in all the rest of creation it starts from within in Psalms 139 it speaks of how when we were created we were created in the innermost parts the deep innermost parts of the earth when God wants to effect a change it starts from within when God wants to effect a change in your life it starts from within when God wants to engage you so that you can change your thinking because once you change your thinking you will change your speech and when you change your speech you will change your actions and when you change your actions you can change the world when God wants to engage us in that way like the rest of creation it should start from within but this free will this free will means God has to engage us differently than he engages the rest of creation this free will means he can't just pull forth from what's within because we have this thing called OBD that we wrestle with day-to-day decision to decision thought to thought and so what when God wants to change humanity as much as it would be convenient it as is hmm it would be in order if all he did was just shift things on the inside and everything just went forth but that's not how it happens when God wants to break ground unlike the seeds which come out with God he has to show us something outside of us and cause us to look in and this makes matters very complicated for us because this means God has to set things around us in such a way he has to enact change around us in such a way that it forces us to look inside and the reason that we have to look inside is because what we see around us is new and we don't have insight for what is happening around us but we do have insight on what's happening on the inside of us we have insight we have intimacy with the God who created us so when we see what's happening around us God has them at times make things so extreme that we have no choice but to stop trusting our vision for what we see and start trusting the vision for what he's placed on the inside of us and this is the time that we are in now family we are seeing things in this world we have never seen before I never thought there would be a day I would have to leave my house with a mask covering half of my face and it was not Halloween I never thought that there would be a day in my lifetime where I would be ordered to stay at home for my own safety family do not let the speed of the new cycle fool you these are unprecedented times and these unprecedented times call for unprecedented vision this unprecedented vision comes from us taking our vision and turning it in word and saying God what are you doing on the inside of me you see right now in this season God is breaking ground on our hearts I don't want you to miss this you see when we break ground when human beings to speak of breaking ground if we have a property and we want to build something the big ceremony is we break ground and we have to break ground from the outside we have to break the ground from the top and reach to the surface God is used to working from within the surface and radiating out so in order for him to communicate with us effectively so that we can actually honestly see him he now has to reach us by changing things around us and it's very easy to say right now we'll this signals that there needs to be a change in our government this signals there needs to be a change in our economy and this signals there needs to be a change in social norms there needs to be a change in our communication there are so many areas that we could easily look to and say this is why this is happening because we need to change that and all of them are right but at the root at the foundation at the core of the season that we are in right now God is breaking ground on our hearts this is a season right now where we have to look on the inside of us and say father how is my heart operating in this season and when we and when I speak of the heart being moved and being changed I mean specifically in terms of the condition the state of your heart because if our hearts are not ready to be moved by God at any given moment we cannot possibly expect for the change that we are crying out for for the growth that the earth and this world is desperately crying out for that change will not be a lasting change until the parts of our hearts that are not yielded that are not pliable that are not still in the hands of God to be moved when he sees fit until our hearts are completely in that state the change we so desperately take and cry out for the change that we tweet and retweet for the change that we forward and forward and petition and petition and demonstrate for that change will not last it will last as long as the current media cycle will allow it to and once the media cycle moves on to the next thing we will unfortunately revert back to where we were before it so this is my hunger this is my burn for this afternoon is understanding God in this season is breaking ground on hearts he's gonna shift minds believe it he's going to shift how the world is working he already has but do not miss in all of the shifting that's happening on the inside of us let us not fall into the trap that humanity continues to fall into which is trusting our eyes and what we see outside more than what's happening on the inside of us because when all of the change has shifted and all of it has ended if we're still the same person we were but for everything that took place then the change was for naught I will not be the same person I was pre-pandemic that I was that I am post pandemic I cannot be the same person that I was I can't even use the phrase pre civil unrest there is no pre civil unrest that civil unrest as we call it has been there since centuries old it's just finally been put a light has finally been put on it for all of us to see but in this recent instance of it where it is so blatant that no one can miss it I can't afford to say the same person that I was before it and during it and I will speak forward there will be an after it I can't be the same person which means I have to look on the inside of me and say God what parts of my heart are not responding to you and that's my challenge for all of us father what parts of my heart are not responding to your word what part of your heart cannot be moved by what God is saying what part of your heart is so fixed on the previous vision of how the world should be that when God brings forth such dramatic change that that position refuses to be moved what part of the heart is so stuck that even this can't change how you view an interaction there are people right now before this pandemic hit I used to love hearing people say I don't like hugs I don't I don't I don't hug people I don't don't really do that's sort of I don't I don't like it when people touch me you know and what was really interesting about that is the idea that there is always a hub to say no to that you could be in a social environment someone was gonna try to hug you and you just had to figure out a way to say no pre-baked into that is the idea that that opportunity was always going to be there then social distancing happens a pandemic happens and all of a sudden the human contact that you had a problem with that made you so uncomfortable suddenly be crave it change has to start from constantly looking at our hearts and specifically not allowing our hearts to be hard I want to actually look for example and what happens when your heart remains hard when God shows you supernatural signs and wonders and your heart still remains hard I can the best example that the word gives us is Pharaoh in Egypt I would read through all of it but it is rather lengthy here's homework for you here's homework for you chapters 5 through 14 in Exodus just start at 5 read through 14 matter-of-fact hit up Deuteronomy Leviticus numbers first Kings say keep going until the end I guarantee you'll want to read it again but for now chapters 5 through 14 and Exodus this is the the specific story behind this is this is where God's people had to be let go of the hardest heart in the Bible was Pharaoh you know it was the hardest heart in a Bible because God hardened it himself there were many hard hearts in the Bible but this was the only one that God hardened himself and I believe I could never understand why of all the things to do to Pharaoh why harden his heart his heart was already hard as it was and then I finally understood God was teaching us something God kept hardening Pharaoh's heart no matter what happened no matter what he saw he refused or his tell to allow his heart to change quick backdrop Moses shows up and says let my people go worship let's understand something what Moses was asking for was for Pharaoh to allow God's people to go worship God Pharaoh's response and you can see this at chapter 5 he says who's gonna do the work this cannot be missed see when you have a hard heart you will miss the clues that a shift is coming Moses gave him Clues Moses said I need to do this his God's people need to do this and Pharaoh's response Moses shows up with a spiritual request Pharaoh responds with an economic answer Pharaoh's response in an in effect was wait a minute we have an economy we have an economy that is built on the oppression of people and now you want me to let these people go worship go worship a God that I don't worship and this work will not get done if the work does not get done there is no currency exchange no currency exchange no profit no profit no Palace no Palace no comfortable living no comfortable living no kingship no legacy in essence there was a shift in the economy coming because the economy had been built on the oppression of God's people and Moses was showing up to say listen you need to do this because the change is coming whether you like it or not and Pharaoh because his heart was hard this is the first instance this was before God even reached on the inside of him and started to move his heart he said I can't allow for that because I'm comfortable with the way the economy is right now I benefit from how become the economy works right now I understand that your people are oppressed and they're tired and they're sick of the injustice that's taking place right now but this economy works for me in the way that it is so I'm so sorry but your people have to keep working and in fact that I got to work harder I don't think I need to draw tool to draw too much into the parallel but there was an economic shift coming and Pharaoh decided that the convenience of what he had already known far outweighed the change that was coming so his heart remains hard and let's look at what exactly it was that Pharaoh saw right now what we see in this world is unprecedented this is what Pharaoh saw I'll list the plagues very quickly he saw water turned to blood he saw frogs swarm his entire nation he saw lice covering the land I suppose nasty bugs all over the land he saw wild animals taking over civilization animals were coming in from the wild and taking over civilization he saw pestilence he saw disease he saw boils on the bodies of his people and himself fiery hail I want to stop real quick on the fiery hail understand that hail is little droplets of frozen water basically slow pieces of ice so you have fire inside of hail fire inside of ice you have two elements that don't normally play together being used by God to bring forth justice do not be surprised when God takes elements that do not normally mix when God takes elements that do not normally art that are normally associated with each other and all of a sudden because God has a purpose because God has a plan and because the justice for his people must stand in this moment he will take whatever elements he feels he needs because he created every single element that is on this earth he will use whatever he needs to use to enact justice and that whatever includes whatever is on the inside of you whether it be fire or ice he will combine them both and his work will be done fiery hail which I cannot get over he watched locusts eat all the crops he watched a darkness so thick he couldn't leave the house a pandemic so thick you can't leave the house a virus so thick they say you can't leave the house and then his firstborn son dies and the firstborn sons in his entire kingdom die and they die loud by loud I mean the entire kingdom was wailing because everybody woke up and their firstborn sons were dead let us understand the significance of firstborn sons dying firstborn sons represent legacy and succession everything is passed on in that civilization to the firstborn son so when this plague shows up God is basically saying the things that have happened in this civilization the way the world has been working the way this economy has been working the way the oppression of my people has worked up until this point will not be passed on to the next generation God showed Pharaoh all of this and at the end of the day his heart was so hard that even after his firstborn son died in his house not in battle but in his house the hate on the inside of him was so great he still chased God's people down anyway that's the danger of a hard heart that's the danger of a heart where God shows you miracles signs and wonders because a hard heart leaves you blind to what God is trying to show you a hard heart means I will not move no matter what and this is why God hardened Pharaoh's heart because he was trying to show the generations to come that a hard heart is the most dangerous thing on the inside of you when God is trying to make a change and a transformation when the budding bond the budding of what God has placed on the earth is ready to break the surface and spring forth when the budding that is happening on the inside of us right now with all of the conversations taking place between different races so that we can all come together and represent the people as God called us to represent him when that change starts to happen on the inside of us the only thing that can stop it is a hard heart the only thing that can stop it is convenience I don't want to leave that out never mind the fact that Pharaoh had such hatred in his heart that he still chased down God's people even after seeing what a hard heart could do to him the worst thing the hardest thing is Pharaoh wanted to keep things the way that they were a hard heart makes you desperate to go back to normal Pharaoh wanted to go back to normal because Pharaoh could not fathom what his civilization was going to do without this economy working the way it did rather than get in a room with trusted wisdom and counsel and say hey guys we need a new economy we need to base our economy on something else because we believe scene 10 instances of the God who we previously did not believe in killing us we need a new approach they said no let's go back and get the people back because we want to go back to normal the most dangerous thing about a hard heart is a hard heart will keep you wanting to go back to normal because a hard heart says God is showing me changes imminent but I don't want it I want what I want the way I want it because it's comfortable to me even if it is not best for me I still want it anyway that's a hard heart that's why that phrase getting back to normal just gets under my skin because family after what you've seen there is no normal let's be very clear about that my generation has forsaken nor there is no normal when the next time you are in public and you see somebody without a mask on and they sneeze you will remember it's not normal anymore because there was a time where you would have just said bless you and been on about your business and now the first thing you're thinking is Kovac Kovac Kovac Kovac Kovac oh my god Kovac Kovac Kovac there is no normal normal is a symptom of a hard heart it's a heart that says no matter how much the world is going to change I refuse to change with it the crazy part about how God exposes that the the danger of a hard heart is he does not just use an oppressor he uses the oppressed because the children of Israel had their own hard heartedness they had been given the freedom that they so desperately craved and asked for they were in the wilderness they had just watched God move in a supernatural way he parted us see he turned a sea solid they walked under past this sea they then turned around they saw the enemies that they had escaped and this sea became liquid all over again and drowned every single one of the people of the of the civilization that was coming for them drowned them all and drowned them just as God said he would do he said turn around you will never see these people again and he did it God made a promise and he did it he showed them supernatural signs and wonders he did everything that he said he was going to do yet here there on the wilderness and for lack of better words they need a snack hungry this is all in Exodus 5 to 14 chapters 5 through 14 they get hungry and what do they do they start to murmur and complain that's another one a hardened heart murmurs and complaints in the midst of the solution a hardened heart murmurs and complains about what used to be because they are in the midst of what is about to happen and they're not used what they don't want to allow the convenience of knowing what's about knowing where they were they don't want to let that convenience go so here comes the murmuring in complaining they were free and literally said I wish I could go back send us back why did we come to this wilderness to die at least when we were oppressed we had food they could have just asked God for food but the first thing they did because just as Pharaoh's heart was hardened just as the oppressors heart was hardened the oppressed heart was hardened as well and conditioned you see this hard-heartedness touches both sides of the conversation this reaches both sides of the aisle and so this is why we need to deal with this right now because we can't allow hard-heartedness to get into our conversations and abruptly stop where they were supposed to go and abruptly cancel all the progress that has been made the one thing that links both the oppressor and the oppressed was their hard hearts and their hard hearts led them to the exact same conclusion and I say this and I mean this from my heart this is for my leaders I don't care which side of this conversation that is unfolding right now that we are having if your heart is hard do yourself do me do the people who are going to follow you of if you know that there is a hardness in your heart towards those who are communicating with do us all a favor sit down just sit down I say this because if you look in the word Pharaoh's heart was hardened the people's heart were hardened and those very people who complained and murmured and were so hard-hearted that they could not see the future that God had for them the same hard-heartedness inhabited them both and they were both brought to an abrupt abrupt end hard hardness will lead you to destruction it's not a black or white thing it's not a yellow a green thing it's not a tall or short thing it's not even an oppressed or opressing thing it is simply what condition is my heart in and can God move it no matter which part of the conversation we are having and when I say conversation specifically in this nation throughout all of the nations we are having the conversation of race let's just put this out there there's no reason for me to beat around the bush we are speaking specifically about addressing how we all think differently about how we should interact with each other if there's any hardness of heart on any side of the conversation God is not for it oppressor or oppressed God is not for it tall or short God is not for it in Proverbs it says the the heart of the King is in the hand of God and he can turn it whichever way he seeks for my leaders if you want to work and you want to work in a way where God is effective in how you lead the authority that he has given you means he had he has to be able to have access to your heart to hardened it as he pleases or soften it as he pleases which means if he causes your heart to be hardened in such a way where you have to deal with body that is outside of the way you normally deal with them so be it if you normally have a hard heart and you are abrasive and God says I need you to not deal with someone in that way in this moment mid-conversation mid-sentence as a leader with the authority that God has given you in that moment it is up to you to say fine okay God I'm gonna handle this your way so this hard-heartedness that we are after is because at the end of the day my heart needs to be pliable enough for God to break forth and do that which he needs to do from within I love my free will I love the free will of humanity matter of fact in the comments I want you to drop that in there right now free will free will free will free will free will free will free will you have free will you are allowed to make sound choices you have that authority mm you have that authority I need to speak to somebody about that right now the world would have you believe because of the multitude and the difference of who we are there are some who have more authority than others let me tell you something God sees us all the same you have authority the authority on the inside of you to change this entire world is on the inside of you it is yours you have that authority you have that authority drop it in there right now I have that authority I have that authority I have that authority I have they have that authority you have the free will to take the hardened parts of your heart at any given time and say father I place my heart in your hands turn it however you see fit if you want me to harden my heart I will harden it if you want me to soften my heart I will suffered it I have it I have the authority I have the authority I have the authority do not be fooled and think that the change that needs to take place in the hearts of all humanity rests on a few people it is not rest in the White House it is not just resting in are in organizations it rests on the inside of each and every one of us the place that Authority in us it just becomes a question of am I willing to let God change the state of my heart when he wants to I have one more passage in scripture I want to leave I want to read and I think it speaks to eventually where we need to get to there is a reason that God is breaking ground on our hearts because we have desires and we have agendas and they have been set in our hearts for any number of reasons it was how I was raised I'm a product of my environment we have any number of reasons for why there are areas and I say this in all of our hearts we all have areas at our heart that our hearts are hardened and set on but in this time now more than any other time we have to say God softened my heart change the texture of my heart I'm putting it in your hands before I speak my heart is in your hands and I feel that for somebody there are some of us who just we speak before we think we speak before knowing the true condition of our hearts and if this is the time where you are that person and you are called to lead an organization called to lead a group you are called to lead a very specific grouping of humanity you have your assignment do not take your assignment and cast away the effectiveness of the leader God made you to be just because you weren't willing to take five seconds and say God how do you want me to feel about this I want to go to Ezekiel 36 and 26 this is where we will land the plane God breaks our hearts he breaks ground on our hearts he finds those areas that are hardened towards him that are hardened towards his word that are hardened towards his purpose that are hardened towards who he needs for us to be and when he breaks that ground much like the sapling that breaks ground from within says in Ezekiel 20s 36 and 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh this is important this is not just flowery language the reason that this is specifically worded in this way is because flesh and stone have some very specific characteristics a heart of flesh is alive a heart of stone is not that sounds very simple but when we allow parts of our hearts to resemble stones what is happening is we've taken that which is organic and living and relegated to a status of not living a heart of flesh a heart that God can move is a heart that sustains life the heart that you have on the inside of you was designed to sustain life the heart that God has given you for the issues that keep you up at night for the issues that bring tears out of your eyes and get you frustrated and angry that heart that cries out for justice for people that's a living heart God is saying I will take the parts of your heart that are still hard and I will remove them and I will replace them with that which is living and organic a heart of flesh sustains life it not only sustains our lives it sustains the lives of those around us and a heart of stone can't do that a heart of flesh can be governed by the spirit and a heart of stone cannot stones have very interesting properties because the people of God used stones to commemorate what God did for them cause stones have help they were called ibanez or stones that is my namesake but these stones were places where people would put monuments and say this is what God did for me catch this did for me when we allow parts of our hearts to be to have a heart of stone the hardness of the heart says this is what God did for me and I will not move forward and allow him to do for me because I cannot see or believe that there is more to be done for me our hearts were never meant to be monuments stone our hearts were meant to be living organic flesh which means it grows it sustains life and not only is the living heart aware of what God has done for you it is an expectation of what God is about to do for you while fully aware in the experience of what he is doing for you now a heart of flesh is present and a heart of stone is past I can't have a God did it for me heart and change the world that I'm called the change I can't have a God did it for me heart and lead the people that I'm called to lead I can't have a God did it for me heart and raise the kids that I'm called to raise we have to have hearts of living flesh which are alive so this season let God if there's one thing I can leave you with family you need to hear this let God break ground on your heart get that in the comments right now God break ground God break ground God break ground God break ground break ground break ground on my heart break ground on my heart find the parts of my heart that are hardened whether I am oppressed or an oppressor find the parts in my heart right now that are hardened because I can't have the life generation changing conversations that God is calling me to if my heart is hard very quickly I want to look at the first part of my first verse again and it spoke of the garden causing things to grow being sown that were sown into it and for it to spring forth says the law of the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all nations now this springing forth speaks of saplings I don't want anyone to miss this what a springing forth right now is not fruit a lot of change is happening a lot of progress is happening racism is being addressed social injustice generational oppression of people is being addressed I said addressed an essay was solved said addressed these are saplings and I don't want anyone confused and seeing saplings you see the saplings you see the little pieces of green popping out of the ground and you say yes this is a harvest those are saplings that's just the beginning and the seasons have to evolve and happen so that those saplings eventually grow support on branches and those branches bring forth leaves and those leaves bring forth fruit and that fruit then becomes harvest do not confuse all that you see right now for harvest says the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth from all nations we were called in this moment right now to let righteousness and praise spring forth from all of us the praise is the acknowledgment of the unmistakable power of God working right now but it's the righteousness that I want to talk about because we have this word confused we think righteousness is AK right the root word for this word righteousness as it is used it's justice this is a time and a season for the acknowledgement of who God is and for justice to spring forth from within his people creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons and daughters of God and this time right now is creation groaning and eagerly awaiting and this is the revealing of the sons and the daughters of God not of one specific color not a one specific race not of one specific nationality all the sons and daughters of God are being revealed right now creation will yield what God has put seed in it to do which is praise and righteousness I love their praise and righteousness are just the saplings because praise and righteousness is just the beginning this is not the fruit that's for somebody I know you want to stop tweeting cuz you're tired this is not the fruit I know you're tired of sending those messages on Instagram this is not the fruit do not stop do not be confused this is not time to go get my barrel and my my my bowl and come collect the harvest from the fields oh no no no no we have just begun the labor [Music] but we have to remember that it starts with his praise and at the end of the day the root of it what everything will have what everything will stand on that his last thing will be this righteousness which is the justice and this justice is the revealing of everyone as a family all the children of God us being able to look at each other and say I'm a child of God you're a child of God - you look different from me but we're child we're children of the same father you came from a different neighborhood from me but what it's still siblings in the eyes of the Father we're still siblings in the eyes of the Father I'm passionate about this because I know what the fruit looks like this is the fruit let me give you an example of the fruit now I have to speak to you I am a pastor I'm a husband I'm a father right now I need to speak to you as I also am as well which is a black man in 2020 this is the fruit for me the fruit is when my son does not have to have a conversation with his son that is different from the conversation someone else who looks different from me has to have with their son the fruit is when the next generation looks at what is happening now and it is so foreign to them someone has to actually teach them about it it is not even a part of their consciousness to know that people have been treated differently and have been oppressed because of the color of their skin or their race or economic background they will not even know they will have no consciousness of this when I see two kids and they're here the word race and all they do is tie up their shoes and get in a sprint position it's fruit that means the hardness of the heart has finally yielded to the flesh state that God called for our hearts to be in and it means praise and righteousness has indeed butted forth and broken out as God intended in other words it means we finally get to join all the rest of creation in obedience in the supernatural obedience of God's order for things I get to kick it with the trees trees just grow they don't ask questions they just grow trees aren't saying my my believes are brown your leaves are orange your fruit is green mine's is purple we don't share the same Sun trees is grow and at the end of the day family with hearts that can be moved and shaped by God we will get there family thank you for allowing me to share my heart and my prayer is that we will all continue to allow God to work on our hearts let God break ground on your heart in this season if you find your heart set on something leave room for God to move it and shift it because that's what real kings and queens do do not miss the last piece look out for convenience the reason Pharoah at the end of the day could not move his heart to where it needed to be was because it was convenient his surroundings were convenient everything he had was convenient and he did not want to be inconvenienced enough to allow the hand of God to be at work in his life and ultimately he led the people who followed them followed him to the to their own destruction and I don't want anybody led to destruction because we hardened our hearts and allowed convenience to rule over growth immaturity I pray this blessed you I pray this blessed you I pray that there are hearts being moved and changed right now and I'm with you I got hard hearts in my heart to believe it yes this pastor is standing before you and telling you my heart is not perfectly flesh I got things in my heart that are being revealed to me on a daily basis that I didn't realize my heart was hardened and set on it's bigger than the news headlines that we see it's all about the heart work that's taking place on the inside of us my encouragement for you let God break ground on your heart let God show you the fullness of the heart that he gave you there's more on the inside of you there's more compassion on the inside of you there's more love on the inside of you there is more care for Humanity on the inside of you there is a love for the creation that God has given you on the inside of you there's more love for you on the inside of you because as to love yourself then you love your neighbor as you love God you love yourself there is so much more love on the inside of humanity than that which we show that you have no idea but all you have to do is let God break ground on your heart I pray you talk about it and I pray that you do more bless you family we'll see you on Sunday

Channel: ONE | A Potter's House Church

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Length: 56min 26sec (3386 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 02 2020