Provoked To Purpose - Bishop T.D. Jakes

[Music] first samuel chapter 1 verse 4 4-15 and if you're able to stand please do so as we go into the word of god i know it's been a while now but i'm still just so glad to have real people to preach to after preaching to chairs and empty seats for two years glory to god i don't care to put mannequins in i'm just happy to see you amen when we go into the word today on this special day a commemorative holiday that that is a natural holiday it's not a biblical holiday but it's an important day where we appreciate mothers and recognize that they are in part the source from which we come that god has invited them into the creative process with him that he incubates his destiny in the wounds of women what a tremendous responsibility that god would trust you with what's next that he would set it off with you and you will never see the completion so don't be frustrated if it doesn't look like what you want it to look like right now because you will not see the completion of all that god is going to do through your offspring come on say man somebody we come into a situation where god is about to turn things around and he's going to turn him around in a mighty way but the people through whom he's going to turn it around are oblivious to the fact that the change is going to come through them because often god grooms greatness in obscurity and you don't even know that you're chosen in fact they think they are ordinary but god is about to do something extraordinary in their lives a gentleman i'm preaching already it's not like you come born into the world with a stamp on your head that says i'm getting ready to do something amazing in your life in fact you can live half of your life or even most of your life and not know that the next turn is going to revolutionize your entire life and because you don't know it sometimes you can be complacent and i'm going to spend a lot of time dealing with complacency because we don't recognize that god is going to do something extraordinary in our lives because this family is an ordinary family according to the times that they lived in and they're fairly affluent i don't know i don't want to be presumptuous and say rich but they were well enough off to be able to travel and to go and to worship god and to travel a distance and the the very fact that elkanah has two wives is a sign of being prosperous will make you broke i have not gotten to the point that i can afford to have two so i'm still working on el cana i have not gotten there yet but he has two wives hannah and penina he is not otherwise mentioned in the scriptures as being particularly significant and hannah often gets all of the spotlight because hannah doesn't know who she is yet she's a grown woman who doesn't know who she is yet she does not recognize who she is but god uses the other wife as a catalyst of conversion so when we read it let's read it carefully because there's a couple of things i want to note whenever the day came for el cana to sacrifice he would give portions of the meat to his wife benina and to all her sons and daughters but but but to hannah he gave a double portion because he loved her and the lord had closed not for your available family he does not want her to appear before the lord empty-handed think about that for a minute so he gives her a double portion because he loves her to make as if she has what she does not because the lord had closed hannah's womb her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her pay close attention to that word provoked she kept provoking her in order to irritate her this went on year after year whenever hannah went up to the house of the lord her rival provoked her till she wept and would not she was fine until penina provoked her her husband alcana would say to her hannah why are you weeping why don't you eat what why are you down-hearted don't i mean more to you than ten sons once when they had finished eating once when they had finished eating and drinking in shallow hannah stood up somebody say hannah stood up oh now eli the priest was sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the lord's house in her deep anguish hannah prayed to the lord weeping bitterly and she made a vow saying lord almighty if you will only look on your servant's misery and remember me and not forget your servant but give her a son then i will give him to the lord for all the days of his life and no razor will ever be used on his head as she kept on praying to the lord eli observed her mouth thought she was crazy hannah was praying in her heart and her lips were moving but her voice was not hurt he thought she was drunk and senator how long are you going to stay drunk put away your wine isn't it funny how people will be presumptuous you see it all the time on facebook and instagram and people will just make presumptions about you as if they actually knew what they were talking about she said not so my lord hannah replied i am a woman who is deeply troubled i have not been drinking wine or beer i was pouring out my soul i was pouring out my soul to the lord leave me alone leave me alone get out of my face what i want you to see i'm going to summarize in my title provoked to purpose provoked to purpose you would think that purpose just happened but purpose doesn't just happen they went years just going through routine until she was provoked to per she was irritated but then she got provoked when she got provoked that was the turning of the tide provoked is not a good feeling it is an uncomfortable irritating feeling it is a scary annoying feeling her husband tries to comfort her he is unable to comfort her he is unable to resolve the issue there are some irritants that should not be fixed [Applause] there are some irritants that are not satanic the spirit of the living god as i speak today i pray that the word would be made flesh in the lives of the people who hear it that transformation would occur in such a supernatural way that an illumination would occur in such a way that somebody doesn't even realize they think that whatever they're going through is what they're going through but they don't understand that what they're going through is is right in online and in level with what you're about to do next in their lives they don't even know they're extraordinary they think they're ordinary they think their situation is just something that they have to deal with and they don't know that in order to change the situation they have to be provoked not provoke to impress other people not provoke to prove something to other people but provoked to to break away from complacency because it is not good for us to be too complacent prepare our hearts to receive your word in jesus name we pray amen you may be seated in the presence of god yeah get ready get ready get ready you can be complacent and not know it you don't always have the benefit of having someone in your ear raising you developing you coming from a culture an environment a family culture or environment that lends itself to causing you to believe that there is something exceptional that god has planned for your life and if you're not careful most of us settle it is easy to settle if i take this glass and i pour sand in it and put a spoon in it and stir it up i have to work to settle it to stir it up but i have to do nothing for it to settle when i when i take the spoon out left to its own devices it settles and when we settle we often settle into a place of complacency now complacency is defined like this it is a feeling of quiet pleasure or security often while unaware of some potential danger or defect or the like self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction with an existing situation or condition just satisfied just dissatisfied and in and of itself that doesn't sound bad to be satisfied what makes it bad is when we are satisfied with less than what god has for us and it it is easy to become satisfied with less than what god has for us because we don't always know what god has for us and we don't always understand what it takes to really revolutionize our lives and come to a place where we really go after what god has it is difficult now to distinguish between like peace and faith and things that we're taught in church and complacency how do you determine the difference between peace which is also a calm and a subtle and a relaxation and complacency so let's distinguish it by saying there's a difference between trusting god after you have done all you can do as opposed to complacency is the assumption that you can invest less effort and still maintain more responsibility you get to the point in your mind that you don't think that you really have to give your best because you're in now it let me break it down where you can get it good it's the difference between the dating you and the married you you're in now it's the difference between your first month on the job and your 10th year on the job complacency complacency begins to occur when we no longer put our full effort into becoming what god wants us to be we are living in a world that creates two polarized ideologies follow me i want you to think with me a little while we're going to have church in a minute but i want you to think for a little while the world the world has two polarizing ideologies that i want to deal with one is a deep feeling of inadequacy on one hand you got people who feel inadequate this is a voice that says your best is not enough and maybe you're not enough they live with an inferiority complex an insecurity nothing they do is ever applauded within it it doesn't mean that it's not applauded outwardly but but inwardly you never clap for you you never appreciate your accomplishment you're off to the next battle you're off to the next thing and when you look back at it there's always something wrong with it and you can always see what's wrong with it and you can never see what's right with it you have been conditioned to see yourself from a position of inferiority often we seek affirmation from others it makes you hungry for affirmation you're starving for affirmation see when you clap for yourself you don't desperately need somebody else to clap for you this is important it's ruining our relationships because we don't often marry because we we want companionship we we sometimes marry because we want affirmation [Laughter] so we assign to our spouse the job of clapping and as long as they clap we're good but the spouse eventually gets tired of clapping into the life of someone who's leaking if you've ever tried that no matter how much you clap for them they never hold on to your clapping these are the people that keep asking you do you love me you asked me that yesterday yeah yeah do you think i'm pretty i told you monday is pretty this is just tuesday it it it leaked out already do you think i'm smart yes i think you're smart and then i don't know i feel dumb the reason it's leaking is because you are pouring into them things that they don't agree with [Applause] i'm not just talking about so much just believing in in oneself i'm not even talking about believing in god i'm talking about allowing positivity to be internalized when it is due when it is really due i mean when you've really done the work and you've done a good job to take a moment and i have to i have to work on this in my own life to take a moment to take in good moments sometimes i'm so busy going on to the next thing that i don't take time to just see law the word see law in psalms is a musical term that means to pause and just breathe in and just take that in and really allow that to soak into you what you've been able to accomplish am i talking good this morning [Applause] if if you don't internalize it don't assign me the job of telling you what you ought to be telling yourself i'm not talking about pumping yourself up when it's not good i'm not talking about lying to yourself when it's not good i'm talking about applauding yourself when it is good clap for yourself some of y'all even felt funny doing that you just felt funny knowing that you're not used to clapping for yourself but god shows us how to do this in the book of genesis the bible says that god stepped out on nothing and said let there be something and let there be light and there was light and and the evening and the morning was the first day and guess what no angels no choir no spouse no friends no person came along nobody started dancing no praise team came along and said god clap for himself he said and it was good and it was good it doesn't have to be finished to be good it it it doesn't have to be finished to be good god said i got some more to do tomorrow but that that i've already done that was good that was good right there and see some of you wait too late to clap you're not gonna clap till it's finished but you gotta clap behind every accomplishment and celebrate every step the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord and he delighteth in the way and every time you take a stop you need to clap for that step because at least i'm further than where i was i may not be where i'm going but i'm further than where i was am i talking to anybody this morning and so you need to praise god for baby steps praise god for progress praise god for improvement celebrate within yourself and not be afraid to look yourself in the mirror and say you did that well you did that real well you'll never be able to determine who you need in your life until you feel your own void you'll choose somebody out of your pain and then when you get well you don't want them [Applause] i call it marrying your nurse you you're attracted to them because you're sick and they're good at making you feel better but then when you get better you have no purpose for them in your life and all of a sudden you say you've outgrown them no you haven't outgrown them you just built a world around your affliction on the other extreme but equally as dangerous but the antithesis of inferiority is the assumption that what god has given to you requires nothing of you you don't put anything into it you just received it you got it you think it ought to be there anything you add to your life requires your attention if you have a goldfish you have to feed it if you get a cute little puppy you got to walk it you got to take it out you got to clean it you got to take it to the vet if you buy a car you're going to need oil if you buy a car you're going to need gas anything you add to your life is going to require more of you stop adding more than you're willing to maintain say this word with me no some of you have said yes so much because you assume that you are collecting whatnots to keep on a shelf but in reality you keep saying yes and not really taking care of what you already got you keep adding more and more and more and more to your life and then somewhere on some therapist couch you say i'm overwhelmed and i'm nervous and i got anxiety and i guess you do to him whom much is given much is required this grandiose mentality that you have has led you to a place of utter frustration you underestimate what greatness cost i'm gonna say that again you underestimate what greatness costs this is a dangerous thing you don't seek to keep up advance your skills study or work out you don't seek to maintain the relationship keep it spicy and interesting you think i got that unlocked you do not have that unlocked you have come on come on come on you never you never have it unlocked you don't have your husband on lock you don't have your wife on luck you don't have your career unlocked you don't have your child on luck you don't have your mama on life you don't ever have anything online that's why you got to celebrate people while you have them you have to love them while you've got them you got to pour into them while they're there you don't have it on luck somebody is after your job right now somebody's after your spouse right now somebody's after your house right now somebody's after your position right now never fall into complacency and think that you are so wonderful that you're just being there is all that's required no no no no complacency will not do it you have got to put some grind in it some sweat into it some work into it that's why you don't need too many hits because every it you take on is gonna take something from you it's gonna give something to you but it's gonna take something from you and there may not be enough of you to handle all the places you said yes to and you've got to be able to evaluate am i a pints am i a pint-sized container with a gallon-sized appetite complacency expects reward without sacrifice you want to be rewarded as if you were doing more than you're really doing they take people places and things for granted that's all it means you just take them for granted you just think they'll always be there and often blame anyone past president or future to avoid taking responsibility for outcomes you'll even blame god you'll even blame god god didn't come through i paid my tithes i gave my offers and they said god was going to give me a double portion and god didn't come through he did come through you spent it [Applause] y'all not gonna like me today and it's mother's day the message might not be good but the dinner after this is gonna blow your mind it's gonna be a great dinner after this come on somebody you don't understand god gets blamed for everything that we didn't do ourselves god didn't do it you can't sit back apathetically and differently put it on autopilot and expect god to do everything in your life it does not work it is a lackadaisical attitude it is a naivety that we take for granted and assume that we are just so wonderful and we are just so special and we are just so great and we're just so grandiose that that'll be glad that i showed up for work this morning no i'm not glad that you showed up what did you get done and it starts in our childhood you just wonderful you just gorgeous you just special you just wanna and you think you're so wonderful that you don't have to work that's wrong you're not that wonderful we're not that amazed by you we're not that caught up with you that you could be derelict of your responsibilities and now you want to be celebrated [Applause] it is difficult to celebrate a mother that didn't mother it is difficult to celebrate a man as the head of a household and he's not there and he doesn't provide and he doesn't do it he doesn't work but i'm the man it is how i'm glad you told me because these bills ain't saying nothing stop taking trophies for races you didn't run stop taking trophies for races you didn't rock write that down and put it on the line put it in your head stop taking trophies for races you didn't run stop comparing yourself to other people other couples other careers other jobs because if you don't put that work in you don't get that result you can't say to your wife i want you to treat me like sister jake's teres bishop jakes you you don't act like bishop jake you didn't do what bishop jakes did you didn't serve like bishop jakes did you you didn't stand by me you didn't go through the fire with me you don't get that just because you in the building you got to put some work into that complacency complacency i'm gonna mess with you this morning complacency needs the frustration the bible said comparing yourself with one another is not wise [Applause] oh i'm gonna get to you if i don't make you happy i'm gonna make you good and mad one way or the other i'm gonna get a good i'm gonna get some kind of reaction out of you complacency expects reward without sacrifice then it creates a lukewarm nauseating attitude in god god said i wish you were either hot or cold but because you are lukewarm complacent people are lukewarm people i spew you out of my mouth there's nothing worse than a lukewarm employee maybe there is somewhere so lukewarm manager is worse a lukewarm ceo lukewarm people are nauseating luke warm you're not hot you're not cold you're indifferent lukewarm doesn't change the temperature in my mouth almost you you the only one got it in the whole church lukewarm doesn't change the temperature in my mouth if you're coming and going doesn't change the temperature that i had without you [Applause] oh lord i can see him get mad now you have to be courageous enough to ask yourself a question am i a lukewarm person am i a lukewarm daughter am i a lukewarm son am i my mother used to say all the time to us do something that makes folk miss you what would they not have if you're not there if you can't point to several significant things i'm talking to you if you can't figure out whether this message is for you or not if you can't answer that question what do you bring to the table and what do you keep bringing to the table and how are you advancing what you're bringing to the table and how do you avoid being complacent all these years hannah has settled into a routine and elkanah has enabled her by making it as if she had what she did not have because he loved her some people love us to our own detriment they give us compliments and this is what's unfair in a relationship because a lot of time when somebody ends up leaving you you're shocked because they just bought your rosie the day before but you didn't earn them they just gave them to you because they're supposed to it's february 14th he was supposed to give you rosie brought you roses don't mean i'm happy means i got a calendar don't want me it happens all the time [Applause] it does not mean a thing if you cannot point to how you change the temperature when i take you in you are lukewarm what do i lose if you leave it's like somebody getting ready to leave your company and they want to exit meeting with you for what go go god bless see you later have a nice life god it's fine we couldn't tell you was here anyway [Applause] see and people of faith are really good at this because it is so easy to give god our job i'm walking by faith i just believe god's gonna handle it i'm just believing god my career his own lot i'm just believing god i played the angels of the lord and care about them i plead the blood you plead the blood all you want to all over your house but the blood ain't gonna make breakfast the blood ain't gonna cook dinner the blood ain't gonna make happiness the blood ain't gonna have sex the blood ain't gonna do anything you plead the blood into all the walls of painted red in your house you can anoint your children until they are greasy as kfc but that does not take the place of mothering your child there is something required of you you have to put some work into it stop having babies you're not gonna take care of and that ain't just for the women that's for the men too stop having babies you ain't gonna take care of don't run up to him and tell him i want you to be my baby daddy no i want you to get some diapers i want you to bring some groceries in this house i want you to at least pay half of this rent i want you to add some wisdom and some love and attention and time give them a job description that goes along with the baby god put adam and eve in the garden he set him up in the garden he made everything right he put a system in place he put a system in place he brought them into a a system that had irrigation he brought them into a system that was beautiful he brought them into a system that was fruitful and then told them to teal it to work it to garden it the fact that god gives you something doesn't absorb you of the responsibility of working it type on the line work that thing you got to work that thing if you go if you're going to turn your job into a career you got to work that thing if you're going to turn around and break the curse off of your family you're going to have to work that thing if you're going to lose weight you got to work that thing glory to god that's why i'm fat today you got to work that thing you got to work that day it's not going to come i keep waiting on a pill i'm waiting on an injection i'm waiting on a drug i ended up with a treadmill [Applause] maybe someday they're gonna come up with something that we can just inject and come out here with biceps and triceps until then you got lifting weights are you hearing what i'm saying to you some people live their whole lives complacent and you might get by with it until god's purpose watch this this is it until god's purpose is compromised by your complacency you can live your whole life being complacent and you might be married to an enabler who makes it legal for you to be complacent because they give you a double portion because they love you but that love is also enabling you not to be your best self i have learned sometimes when somebody crying let them cry don't fix everything for everybody don't create a false reality that makes them feel good about some they need to feel bad about they need to feel bad about it because when you start getting in the way of what god has purposed for your life then god has to send something to provoke you somebody holler provoke me [Applause] don't let me spend my whole life living beneath my purpose leaving beneath my potential living beneath what i could be living beneath where i ought to be going i know i'm preaching to you because deep down inside there's a voice down inside of you that suspects that there is more that god has for you than what you are experiencing right now or you wouldn't even be listening at me it is that haunting nagging suspicion that there's something else you don't even know what it is you don't even know how to get it but there's a nagging suspicion that you were put here on this planet to do more than what you're doing right now and i came to irritate you i came to get on your nerves i came to stir you up i came to holla in your ear i came to get you frustrated go ahead and cry you need to cry it's going to take some tears to break the yoke of complacency that's been hanging over your life i don't know who i'm talking to but if you hear this word and you know it's for you give god five seconds of crazy praise [Applause] [Applause] i'm getting ready to stir this thing up baby i'm getting ready to stir this thing up in here i'm getting ready to stir this thing up if i stir you up on sunday it's gonna change your monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday i'm getting ready to stir you up until you stop settling for bad credit suddenly for being miserable at all settling for not accomplishing what god created you to do the devil is a lie i rebuke the spirit of settling right now complacency has got to go in the mighty name of jesus somebody help me break this yoke i'm gonna ride it until i break it i'm gonna ride until it falls apart i'm gonna ride until it collapses on the floor somebody shout unto god [Applause] fist bump three people and tell them something is about to happen something's about to happen something's about summer something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen something's about to happen i thought i was just gonna get a nice little mother's day message no i'm about to get a revolution i'm about to have a resurrection i'm about to have an awakening i'm about to get stirred up something's about to happen in my life i can't hear you church give him a pray [Applause] you see that i'm gonna go a little further [Applause] if i had any hair it'd be standing up on the top of my head because i think there's something else inside of you i think there's more inside of you i think god created you for a purpose i don't think you're a mistake i don't think you're an accident i don't care what the circumstances of your birth were i think you have been designed and created by god and that you ought to be an asset to the world you are to change the world in some way you ought to make a difference in the world even if it's a little difference you're supposed to make some kind of difference in the world [Applause] forbes uh women actually enforcedwomen.com wrote a very interesting article about complacency for women in careers and i was reading the article and talked about complacency will ruin your career and they said some things i want to share with you though the article was written to career women it's really genderless truth it applies to ministry marriage uh any aspirational accomplishment that you might have in your life all of it is true they gave five warning signs of complacency and i want to share them with you number one you are complacent when you are no longer striving to do your best in every area now if that stretches you too much drop some areas i'd rather have less areas and do more than more areas and do less in the country we used to say it like this you can be a mile wide and an inch deep so you spread yourself so thin that you're ineffective at everything if you know you can only handle three things only take on three things because if you're not you're complacent when you're number one no longer striving to do your best to bring the best your best mind your best self to really be present where you are visionaries have a challenge with this because visionaries always have a tendency to live in where they're going at the expense of where you are so when you get to where you're going you have lost where you are oh oh that's good visionaries these i'm not talking to evil people i'm talking to good people visionaries you're so consumed with your goal and your vision and your future and what's next that you are negating starving underutilizing unavailable for your now you can't neglect now and earn next number two you're operating off of an old playbook you must remain a lifelong learner what was best 20 years ago is not best now when i learned to type we had a typewriter you all don't know what i'm talking about we didn't have a laptop we had a type typewriter it was a manual typewriter it made noise you had to depress every key if you could type 90 90 words a minute on an old typewriter you ought to be doing 150 on a laptop because them things you almost had to crank them and spin it to them come on yeah you know what yeah some of you are living in a laptop world but you've got a manual typewriter effort i'ma drive home that number two it's important i'm not finished with it yet you need to understand giving somebody what they used to need doesn't work you have a tendency to have to to not really grow you you're not doing anything to grow it was good 20 years ago it was enough 20 years ago complacency assumes that what was enough is enough how do i fix that ask seek knock read get magazines keep enhancing yourself developing yourself you cannot be a doctor and not take any more classes once you get your uh uh your degree i'm a doctor i'm through with it you i i leave them because they'll still be giving you linemen and stuff like that you come come on you take some linemen for that you'll be all right no linemen do they still make litter man you have to keep enhancing yourself which means you have to be comfortably uncomfortable you have to be comfortable with being uncomfortable to be living on the edge where you got to keep assuming that i need to know more i need to grow i need to go further let me hit number three let me hit number three you aren't seeking to take advantage of new opportunities you're not seeking to take advantage of new opportunity i like to call this remaining in a state of growth and challenge just as much as you need rest and no one has to tell you to lay down you need new challenges to keep you engaged i shouldn't have to tell you you're tired you need to go to bed nobody has to tell you to go go to bed i shouldn't have to tell you to get up in the morning i shouldn't have to tell you that you need to keep reading keep growing keep learning keep steady keep praying keep worshipping keep talking to god you can't wait till sunday morning to have a voice you know why it's so hard on y'all to lead people into worship they wait for sunday morning to worship god there are people in this room that haven't worshipped god all week and there you are supposed to in 15 or 20 minutes compensate for a life that hadn't worshipped god all week long and you are giving them a grade on the worship service we came to worship we didn't come to raise the dead we didn't come to raise the dead [Applause] just like you have sense sensitivities inside of you that let you know when you're tired or let you know when you're hungry you need to sharpen your sensitivity to let you know when you need to learn grow enhance accessorize develop come to the next level are you with me number four you aren't maintaining or building your contacts and relationships that are current that are the currency of growth you have no more growth then you have relationships [Music] and you you know i just i don't i can't like to keep this like it is then don't grow and be complacent and take the risk of missing your destiny you need to keep it fresh you need to keep it fresh you need to keep it fresh you need to be on the cutting edge you need to walk up on stages to challenge you that make you nervous walk in the rooms where you don't know exactly what to say you need to walk into spaces where you have to pray and say oh god i'm going in here now okay i'm getting ready to make this presentation if you don't go with me lord i'm not gonna be able to get this done i need your help lord i need your help lord i'm getting ready to do this i'm out of my element i'm out of my comfort zone lord i know god scare me again jesus here we go we're walking into this door come on who am i talking to i'm talking to somebody if you're if all your contacts are old contacts you don't have no contacts relationships are indicators they are indicators of the currency of growth [Music] all you have is the same old friends you had when you was drinking at the strip club and those are the only people who you can be friend it means you haven't changed you haven't grown you haven't developed your new friends ought to make your own friends uncomfortable if ain't nobody said to you recently you thank you so much you ain't growing see that's a real compliment when people walk up to you out of your old life and say you thank you so much they're really complimenting you they're saying that you're growing they're saying that you're entering into another level of life stop getting mad at that that's a compliment it's a sign that you're growing oh my god i feel the holy ghost talking to somebody in this room right now you know you're not complacent when you walk in the rooms and they're talking about what you used to think was funny and now you think it's silly you used to think they were fun and now they're boring you can laugh a few minutes and then you want to go when you get through talking about old times you don't have nothing to talk about because everything that's on your head is not on their mind that is a sign you are growing to the next level come on talk to me somebody you're not supposed to get along with everybody everybody's not supposed to like it stop dumbing down who you are so you can fit in with where you left i'm gonna break it down until you get it give me number five i'm gonna come on through this number five you don't risk sharing your opinion or ideas these these these people drive me crazy whatever you say they agree with it they never add nothing to the conversation they won't risk being wrong so they just parakeet your ideas they don't risk sharing your opinion or your ideas as a sign that you are complacent fear has got you locked in have an opinion even if they don't do it have an opinion open your mouth and speak it you wait on others to be assertive while you just go along to get along without taking the risk of offering your contribution whether it is used or not you will never be able to evaluate whether you are growing or not because you're playing it safe you're hiding adam get out from behind them fig leaves and let me see what's really going on here you're hiding you're hiding your silence is a cover-up because you are afraid to take risks you cannot be a leader and not take risks you cannot be a leader and not get on people's nerves everybody's not supposed to like you if you're gonna be a frontliner stop crying about people hating on you they supposed to hate on you if you are a leader they are going to hate on you that's part of the job requirement [Applause] hannah is trying to settle in to something that is beneath her she has everything a woman could want she has a well-to-do husband who loves her she has an environment that allows her to do pretty much whatever she pleases she's sitting good she's doing really good she cares he cares about her everything would be fine if it wasn't for penina but nina comes into her life as a ministry write this down the ministry of penina i want you to identify peninas in your life there are people that god sends in your life solely to get on your nerves they are there to save you from mediocrity they are there to provoke you to jealousy they are there to show off that god has something more and if you're not careful you will acquiesce into becoming their hater rather than to allow them to become your stimulator either you're going to be a hater or you're going to be stimulated but god says penina and all of her kids and all of their jelly and peanut butter stained jaws as a sign to you that what they said about you isn't true there is more possible for you in your life god thank you for penina thank you for penina thank you for penina in the face of all the obstacles and the challenges god you sent penina are you hearing what i'm saying to you hannah didn't realize watch this that her purpose was hidden behind her problem her problem was that she was barren her purpose was hidden behind her problem whenever god this is please get this if you don't get anything else whenever god has a great purpose in your life he will put a great problem in front of it why are you writing that down write this out find your giant [Music] when you find your giant you'll find your kingdom there wouldn't have been a goliath in david's life goliath was the greatest thing that could have ever happened to david david would still be taking care of sheep if it wasn't for goliath goliath is the gateway to the next dimension whenever god is getting ready to take you into a new zone there will always be a big problem standing in its way the big problem is a sign that as soon as you get over this you're gonna step it did you see that you're gonna you're gonna step into you you're about to step into a brand new dimension stop shrinking back from goliath stop shrinking back from penina it's a sign that god has something else for you so cry if you want to fuss if you want to but when you get through crying and fussing now it's time to fight now it's time to fight personal testimony quick personal testimony the first time i got ready to speak in front of what i call a big crowd which was about 120 people that was big don't laugh till you tried the letter you tried 120 people with three rows of church mothers on the front row all dressed in white i came up in a church where being spiritual meant looking evil and the more anointed you are you squinted your eyes and looked hateful and the more hateful you looked the more holy they thought you were and i had to go past all them church mothers and go stand up in front of them and preach and here was here was my problem in order to preach i needed a mic i don't really need one i probably could have hollered and covered the room but and my hands would shake so bad and then when i knew my hands were shaking and they could see it they would shake worse and i thought i cannot speak in front of people because my hands shake now my my purpose is on the other side the thing that annoys you the thing that irritates you the thing that scares you the thing that frustrates you is the very sign that god has something on the other side of it for you somebody haul a leap over it questions jumped up in my head i'm gonna give them to you real quick question jump up in my why did god choose a barren woman to birth the prophet why did god choose a barren woman to birth the prophet why didn't he just give samuel to benina she it was easy for her to have babies god never does what's easy he does what's divine god never does what's easy he does what's divine it's always going to be complicated why did god choose a barren woman to birth a prophet why did god use a boy to kill goliath why did god send a backslider to preach to nineveh why did god use a century-old man to have isaac why did god use a virgin to birth jesus why did jesus tell a man whose hand was withered stretch forth your hand who tells a blind man to go wash in a pool he couldn't see how to get to y'all don't hear what i'm saying too who stands in front of a tomb and tells a dead man to come forth that's how you know it's god whenever it's hard it's god whenever it's difficult it's god whenever it goes against the grain it's god whenever it frustrates you it's god penina was in her life to get on her nerves penina was there to provoke hannah for the first time in all of those years hannah got the bible says hannah stood up somebody shout hannah stood up i came to tell everybody in this room this is the hour this is the time this is the moment for you to stand up and say i'm through crying i threw through being depressed i'm through being frustrated whatever it takes to break this yoke in my life i'm going to break this yoke in my life this is your hour this is your moment that's why god has you here that's why god gave me this word on mother's day when he knew you would show up so that you could get this word your barren days are behind you your birthing days are before you your bearing days are behind you your birthing days are before you god is about to do a new thing in your life because you're provoked to slap somebody and tell them i'm provoked elbow somebody tell them i'm provoked i'm provoked i'm running out of time i'm running out of energy i'm running out of strength if it's ever gonna happen in my life it's gonna have to happen right now i want all the provoked people in this room to open your mouth and make sudden [Applause] [Applause] yell jump scream let the devil know i know god has something else for me i know god has more for me i no longer believe the lie that i gotta die baron the devil is alive i won't be buried in my home i won't be buried in my business i won't be buried in my life i won't be buried with my children the devil is alive i'm about to birth a miracle i'm about to birth a promise i'm about to birth a building i'm about to birth a book i'm about the birth of business i feel the labor i feel the contractions i feel the groaning i'm about to deliver this is mother's day this is the day we go into labor this is the day we give birth this is the day that we push shove your neighbor and say push push push push what the bible says when zion travails oh i need my might when zion travails the bible says with zion travails sons and daughters shall be born prevail is labored i'm going into labor i'm going into work if i have to stagger to the altar if i have to scream if i have to go scared if i have to go with my hands shaken if i have to go with my knees knocking i will go into labor when zion travails sons and daughters shall be born look at somebody say i'm about to be a mother i'm gonna birth a barbershop i'm gonna birth an accounting firm i'm a birth a law degree i'm a birth a miracle i'm a birth of prophet i'm a birth of promise i need 30 seconds of crazy ridiculous supernatural first question mind renewing praise praise him praise him praise him what they told you you couldn't do is alive from the pits of hell greater is he that is in you than he that's in the world make a joyful noise unto the lord i refuse to live and die and not find out who i am what i can be what i can have what i can do i am officially provoked i need a thousand people in this room that i provoked towards your purpose to go into a crazy praise and receive this word [Applause] i can't believe that some of you are still standing there with your teeth in your mouth when the bible is clear what hannah did in church affected what happened in her womb if you don't do it in here you can't break it out there but if you do it in here it's going to break out there and the bible said because she got drunk in the house of the lord something broke in her house if you want to break it in your house break it in the potter's house make some noise here i'm gonna break it into here i'm gonna break it in here until i look like a drunk and then i look like i'm crazy but i got a curse to break i got a giant kill i got a panini in my life i'm gonna break it this morning i can't hear you but if you want to break up your bareness you need to break it in the spirit if you break it in the spirit it'll break in the flesh if you break it into the spirit it'll break it if you break it in the spirit it'll break in the flesh somebody ought to break it break that bad down break that depression break that fear let's break it right now in the name of jesus in the name of jesus is it's breaking it's breaking it's breaking and breaking break it break break you gotta and break it in the name of jesus it's [Music] ranking yes [Music] i'm a pregnant in this spirit by faith i want you to declare this by faith whether you're online or in the building i want you to declare it by faith nudge somebody and tell them i feel a breakthrough i feel a breakthrough something just broke something just broke something just broke i've been complacent i've been laid back but today it's over i'm gonna get everything that god has for me yes yes [Music] i'm just about finished this is what i want you to understand what hannah did in church affected what happened at home the bible says when she got back home and lay with elkanah for the first time after years and years of believing what she couldn't do it we are going to make that thing happen [Music] the enemy has lulled you into complacency as if it were impossible but god sent a word provoked to purpose [Music] the baby hannah had changed all of history [Music] we don't read about nana penina's kids change it jack my love my lord cause that which comes easy changes nothing [Applause] [Music] [Applause] that which comes easy changes nothing that that she sweated and prayed and crawled and cried for changed everything and the lord told me this sunday to preach this word that you have a purpose [Music] and that the purpose is on the other side of what they say you can't do [Applause] what they say you can't have what they say you can't be and you've been laying on this side of your dreams and god is about to shift you to this side of your dream now let me let me check how many people it resonates with you that you have a penina situation [Applause] benina is your best friend [Applause] she provokes you to show up for the fight my god your best friend is not your best friend your best friend is a person who keeps flaunting in front of your face what they know is hard for you to do they are god's commercial it wouldn't irritate you if you couldn't change it my lord [Applause] the reason it irks you the reason you're frustrated by it is because you're called to it everybody saw goliath but nobody reacted to goliath like david did my lord david said i can't believe this uncircumcised philistine y'all mean this is what you're up against oh no that he would come up against the armies of israel but wait a minute david you ain't even in the army he said that's why i can do it [Music] that's why i can do it because i didn't drink the kool-aid i came from somewhere else i have another spirit and i'm telling you you're gonna learn today oh yeah you're gonna learn today [Music] you're gonna learn today can you imagine how shocked penina looked when when hannah started putting on weight [Applause] and all of a sudden penina has to redefine how she sees hannah people are going to have to redefine [Applause] wish i had some faith let me talk to the folk online people are going to have to redefine how they see you because they want you to remain complacent [Applause] and stay in your place nobody who changed the world stayed in their place nobody who changed the world stayed in their place from george washington to martin luther nobody stayed in their place to rosa parks nobody stayed in their place to nelson mandela nobody's paid in their place you can't change the world and stay in your place the kingdom suffers violence and the violence take it by force who's ready to take it by [Applause] force today i want to pray with you that something that i said today got you so stirred that you won't settle i want to pray that the gift of god that is laying dormant in you would be stirred up that it would be stirred up and that you won't let it settle [Applause] the whole purpose we come to church we don't come to church to praise the lord you should be doing that all week [Applause] we come to church to have our faith stirred up so that we don't settle for less than what god has ordered for us to accomplish i'm not competing with your success i'm not competing against you i'm competing against what god has ordained for me have all the babies you want you can't have mine you can't have mine look at somebody say you can't have mine i'm the man for the job you're the woman for the job and somewhere along the way you lapsed into complacency content with less than what god has ordained for you it's not just about business not just about money it might be about relationships it might be about callings on your life there's something else god wants for you and you know it i almost call this message so there's more for you how many know there's more for you [Applause] there's more for you four words there's more for you there's more for you that's why you're here that's why you're watching that nagging haunting frustrating feeling that irritating feeling that there's more for you something is missing i'm not saying you're not saved not saying you don't love god but in your life there's you were put here to do something else and you know it and the clock is ticking and the clock is ticking once god opened up hannah's womb it was open [Music] and samuel was just the beginning of many more to come this is your launch date and i know it's in the natural it's mother's day but you don't have to be a woman to be a mother there are men in this room that are about to burst something in this stage in your life don't y'all get quiet on me because we birth first anyway [Applause] we birth you [Applause] [Music] the bible said eve was brought out of adam so the first birth came from a man brother why have you stopped birthing and building and become complacent [Music] you lost your roar get your roar back man get your rod back just because your wife is birthing doesn't mean you've been replaced god wants to do something in you if this message is speaking to you by your head i want to pray for you you're online by your head i want to pray for you this is a water-breaking sermon it is meant to cause you to go into birth it is meant to break the bondage of complacency it is meant to stir you up to make you hungry to get on your nerves to irritate you i'm not gonna die till i see who i am i'm not gonna die till i see what i can do if hannah would have died before she gave birth it would have changed the entire remaining bible [Music] samuel anointed kings samuel changed structures samuel was god's man samuel anointed david samuel set him aside out of david came jesus everything was predicated on this barren woman breaking beyond her barrenness in many ways she is the mother of the movement and god chose a barren woman god chooses the most unlikely people to do the most amazing stuff lift your hands you're the one father right now every raised hand every open heart we got a giant we got a withered arm we speak with a lisp we better when we talk but you chose the foolishness of this world to confound the wise what you're about to do in that person with their hands raised right now is crazy it's antithetical to what everybody thinks about them you sent me to stir them up this morning and i did my best holy spirit finish the job if you have to have them walk in the floor at 3 o'clock in the morning finish them off i pray that they would never be the same again i pray that chains would break off of their mind and offer their spirit i pray that they would have the faith to believe that a poor boy born in a raggedy house on the side of the hill in the mountains of west virginia could shape nations i pray that they would not allow their past to destroy their future i pray that they would stop rehearsing the history and start walking into their destiny i pray that they would be provoked to purpose in jesus name amen if you receive it praise him in your own way [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 84min 15sec (5055 seconds)

Published: Sun May 08 2022