We Had To Break Up (Rewind)

welcome hi yes happy sunday happy sunday and uh happy holidays yeah welcome guys yeah i really hope you all had a wonderful christmas yes um we had a great christmas i think it was very 20 2020. this is a university a unique year right and um i'm just grateful for uh the gift of salvation for my family my health my strength for sure and it looks like the lord is going to allow us to cross over into a new year so for that i'm grateful amen i am too i'm absolutely grateful yeah and i'm excited for for what's to come even though we know once again 2020 has been real 2020 yeah um but we're we're still hopeful for 2021 you know and we have a lot of plans even though people made plans in 2020 those things didn't happen and a lot of has has happened a lot of tragedy a lot of heartache yeah just a lot god has still been faithful and we know that he's gonna forever be faithful to us going in to 2021 yeah and so we have a lot of plans we're we're excited about you know we're believing that god's gonna let us and allow us to to uh to let it come to pass or he's gonna let it come to pass and we're gonna see the fruition of everything that we're really uh believing god for and everything that we're planning so we're excited yeah and you know uh before we kind of just like let you guys know about um just some of the things that are coming in the 2021 calendar year i am personally just me personally i'm in a place where i stand in awe of god hey man um i think we should always be there um just being open honest and transparent i've tried to be as transparent as authentic as organic as i could possibly be throughout this year and i stated for anybody who has just followed along with the ministry that um this is not something that i originally desired this this this method of having um services on thursday and then now of course sunday nights at 6 00 p.m i just want a sunday morning right traditionally traditional that that is all i wanted and i did not believe that god would use a thursday night i don't know why i don't know what's wrong with me i don't know why um i personally i don't know if you've ever done this but i put a capsule on what i think god could do and just being transparent and honest even as a spiritual leader and as a pastor i have learned this year that all things are possible listen it's one thing to quote it man i'm serious it's one thing to quote it it's another thing to experience it oh for sure right like it's one thing to say that god brings you out of the fire without smelling like smoke it's another thing to actually be in a fire place and see the fourth man in the fire with you and i think sometimes god allows us to not just quote the word but actually experience the word yes yes and so um for us just what god has done in the 2020 calendar year the grace the mercy and um just allowed you know vision blessings allowing us to meet you allowing um somehow god allowed the width of this to come across your timeline uh to come across to come across your thread for you to get a notification for somebody to tell you um about the ministry and just allowing us to come into your home allowing us to come through your phone your ipad your tablet and to give you spiritual nutrition each and every week twice a week i'm just thankful for the opportunity to serve and god has personally blown my mind and i want to encourage somebody watching us on tonight that your yes is tied to somebody else's transformation i don't know who that's for your yes is tied to somebody else's transformation you defeating whatever fight that you're in right now whatever goliath that you're facing right now that you defeated because of the people coming behind you and i know just you being here right now is just the evidence of if you give god your yes it's never about you that's right god never favors a person for a person he always favors them for people and my wife and i are just honored to serve you and uh i needed to have this experience with god like i said i'm just being transparent i needed to have this experience with god i needed to have disappointment i needed to be frustrated and that's what i'm gonna talk about more on uh new year's eve message on thursday sometimes frustration is divine and i needed for god to allow me to have this this encounter with him that jerry you control nothing you can control nothing but if you just allow me if you just allow me to be the one that you look to if you look to me not to your bank account not to your platform but if you could just really really trust me yeah i'm gonna blow your mind yeah so yeah yeah 2020 definitely taught me that um the impossible and unthinkable can happen yeah i mean when you think about the world shutting down the nation shutting down and yeah you really see that god is in complete control absolutely and you have to completely depend on him for everything like you cannot place your trust in anything other than the most high god period and i know not that i did not trust god before not that i hadn't gone through trials or tribulations before um but this year's is like i don't think anybody has ever seen anything like this and and in their lifetime you know i mean i know and a lot of things have happened throughout time and history but this was this was definitely unique absolutely i'll just say that um and god is still yet faithful and so i've i've definitely learned that hey anything is possible don't don't don't put me in a box um and you you just need to be ready yeah for anything like seriously like don't because you never know what's gonna come in season you need to be ready you need to make sure that you are faithful to me faithful to my word faithful to what i've called you to do because everything can fail you but me and i'm the only one that can that's going to be there for you in the midst of whatever situation you go through and that's like that's like a lifelong lesson that i think every single believer needs to have you don't know what life is gonna throw you you don't know what um things you're gonna go through but as long as god is your source come on as long as god is your everything she's preaching as long as god is the head of your life and you are being led by his spirit and by his word you are gonna be okay yeah you're gonna be okay and god is god has shown himself completely faithful to us and i'm i'm grateful yeah and so that's why we can have confidence like not knowing what is going to happen in 2021 we can make plans we have plans we're believing that god's gonna uh allow those plans to come to pass but yet and still god has the plan god has the final say and the final plan and we're just god in the miss everything we're going to plan but we're going to trust you yeah you write your purpose in permanent mark right right right but you better write those steps in pencil amen so um we just want to personally thank all of you uh thank all of you for just constantly encouraging us rather if it's a comment oh yeah a letter message yes we got letters this year letters messages emails um your giving has been tremendous when you give when you plant your seed see first of all i believe that this is good ground and when you plant your seeds it allows it to grow to produce fruit and like i stated all the time like i always state when god blesses me it's for me to bless you yeah well god blesses you is for you to bless them right y'all remember i did that like early in the year when god blesses you it's for you to bless them all right last time one two three let's go yeah oh my gosh so let's say y'all lost y'all taking like a huge l all right everybody let's try this when god blesses me it's for me to bless you when god blesses you it's for you to bless them again again last time god blesses me is for me to bless you and when god blesses you is for you to bless them that sounds like a flow doesn't it i wonder if we were to try that god blesses me it's for me to bless you what god blesses you is for you to bless them it's for you to bless them it's for you to bless them it's for you to bless them that sounds like a flow doesn't it try that but god blesses me me is for you to bless them i was just trying to convey when god blesses me is for me to bless you yeah and when god blesses you is for you to bless them amen so everybody who has been participating in our end of the year giving we want to say thank you um not just for us but just allowing us to co-labor with you to do a great work in the earth for god right we're just trying to be billboards and we we always try to be open honest transparent and authentic we learning with you right we're in this journey with you you sure are and that's why i stated god has shown me another dimension of who he is in the 2020 calendar year and he showed me that you really um to a certain extent try to control things and jerry you can't control nothing no you can't control nothing so i could say for me i'm going into the 2021 calendar year hands off the wheel everything growth belongs to you yeah um difficulty you knew they were coming difficult situations you knew they were coming yeah i can't control anything right and actually that has given me a piece that has given me a piece i don't know what's coming in 2021 but i do know who holds 2021 yes and so i live by this statement i know i'm not but i know i am amen y'all catch that i know i'm not but i know i am i am there are a lot of things that i know i'm not right but i know i am and in him he makes my weaknesses strong and in him i could do all things to christ who strengthens me in him he makes your weaknesses strong in him you can do all things to christ jesus who strengthens you amen so there are a lot of opportunities that um we're really going to launch starting uh next sunday lord willing the first sunday of the new year this is the last sunday of 2020 but next sunday is the first sunday of the new year oh my god yes 2021 kicking off a brand new series called world changer dad listen when i tell y'all in study time i'm like man world changing world changing we want it to be said of us these are those who turned the world upside down yeah and so uh january um the first sunday in january we're starting a brand new series called world changer and um we're gonna introduce you guys to a ton of different groups that you guys could join right um from we're working on a master class she knows the word if you're a woman watching this that you really want to grow in depth in the word my mom is going to spearhead that she's a spiritual locomotive oh my gosh um dictionary and faculty and completed that exact love all of them all of them encyclopedia thesaurus all of it like she's gonna learn how to she knows it all you're gonna learn how to exegete scripture you're gonna learn hermeneutics you're gonna learn stuff that you didn't even know was in the bible right who wrote it why they wrote it um a wealth and wealth of of the knowledge of the word and also um just finished a community for men called return of kings um we're gonna have a children's church um virtual meet where you could have your children learn bible verses and bible stories hey bud and girls yes what time it is it's scripture time philippians 4 13. i can do all things [Music] [Applause] we're gonna have marriage enrichment every second monday of the month um singles turn up the last friday of the month it's just gonna be crazy we're gonna do our best that when you log on you're not just getting the word but you're getting a community hey man getting a community i don't care if you're watching us in london i don't care if you're in australia i don't care if you're in new york if you're in houston hopefully lord willing when the doors open will be there but we want to the best of our capability this is something i was conveying to um our media ministry we want to the best of our capability to make it feel like everybody who's watching you're in the house amen i want you to feel even though it's virtual we want to even though it's virtual we want it personal so there are going to be a lot of different groups that you can connect with um midday prayer on uh every other wednesday it's just going to be awesome we just have a lot of things planned on thursday night my wife is leading worship she's gonna kill it uh for the glory of the lord and i am doing a message entitled you can't go with me i was gonna do that today but i was like i really don't know how to follow up with that guy i really don't i feel like this is a new year's um ending message you can't go with me there's certain things that must stay in the 2020 calendar year i don't want this bitterness to come over into i really don't want this porn addiction to come over to 2021. i really don't want this loneliness to come over with me into 2021 attitudes fear these toxic relationships there are some things that we leave in 2020 and that's what i want to address on um thursday night yeah we're going to have you know some giveaways um worship is going to be awesome the word is going to be awesome you need to be there i mean it's it's you know i i know we're gonna we're not gonna be at midnight so you're not gonna bring in the new year with us but this is just what you're gonna need right before you go into that new year so make sure you tune in yeah make sure that you are are there you you have um your devices ready yeah um because it's gonna be an awesome experience and it's gonna definitely prepare you and get you in the right mind frame for for 2021. yeah so you should be excited we're excited it's gonna be awesome and most importantly god's gonna get the glory absolutely absolutely and uh tonight was tonight's gonna be a message uh entitled we had to break up i'm not talking about just relationships i'm talking about when any time you follow jesus it is always followed by a breakup yeah and so i want to be intentional with this message and then on thursday to get us to understand that when we make up our mind to level up when we make up our mind to be sold out for real when we make up our mind to follow jesus it is always going to be followed by a breakup when our relationship with god changes our relationship with sin changes yeah and until we really understand that jesus comes in our life and hands out eviction notices we're limited in the amount of oil power and freedom that we can walk in so this was a message that uh i did i believe like in april or march and uh i think it's gonna greatly bless your life and after the message we're gonna come back give you some more information and let's get to the message if you would um first samuel first samuel chapter 16 i'm gonna do a little hopscotch i'm gonna read verse one and then i'm gonna hop down to verses six and seven first samuel chapter 16 verse one is where we're going to start it says now the lord said to samuel how long will you mourn for saul seeing i have rejected him from reigning over israel fill your horn with oil and go i am sending you to jesse the bephamite for i have provided myself a king among his sons now let's hop down to verse six hop down in verse six it says so it was when they came that he looked at elap and said surely the lord's anointed is before him but the lord said to samuel ah don't look at his appearance or his physical stature because i have refused him for the lord does not see as man sees is there anybody thankful for that that god does not see you how man sees you for the lord does not see as man sees for man looks at the outward appearance but the lord looks at the heart father i thank you that you bless this moment you bless your word anoint my lips to be the pa system of heaven oh god we are in high expectation for what you have to say to us encourage us convict us inspire us motivate us shape us chisel us so that we can be the kingdom representatives that you have called us to be and everybody who agrees with that prayer would you drop in all caps in the room amen amen amen amen a verse of concern our clause of consideration lives and takes residence and is chilling in verse one of our foundational texts where our biblical narrative asked us asked us this important and imperative question that i would like to orbit around for the time that we have together on tonight and that question is how long how long how long will you mourn over saul how long will you be bitter how long will you blame them how long will you be angry how long will you be insecure how long will you hold on to that relationship that you will constantly keep justifying but it's causing you to drift further and further away from devotion and further and further away from prayer how long how long will you hide that secret sin how long will you cling on to that addiction church family i firmly feel for the part 15 of this try me series i have a question that i want you to ask yourself and that is how long how long for part 15 of this try me series this statement that i'm about to articulate to you might be a shock to others but just a reminder and confirmation to others and that statement is if you did not know it if you are a christ follower it always comes with the breakup always comes with the breakup somebody just came in the room so let me repeat it and break it down to the lowest common denominator if you claim to be a christian if you claim to be one who is a follower of the way if you claim to be a believer and you are living a life that is led by the spirit and yielded to the spirit's unctions if you claim to be a fight a christ follower it is always followed by a breakup when your relationship with god changes your relationship with sin changes when your relationship with sin changes your relationship with god changes everything changes everything changes the way you view people changes what you attracted to changes your preference changes the things that you were silent on changes because we cannot be a fearful church and then expect to be a voice for a fearless generation everything changes and life change terrifies hell life change terrifies hell that's confirmation for somebody watching this message that you've been having hit after hit and trial after trial and blow after blow and you're wondering what in the world is going on that is just hell is nervous and the enemy's trying to see do i still have a grip on their emotions do i still have a grip on their mind do i still have a grip on their flesh or am i terrified because i'm thinking hell just lost one change change change it comes with change closeness comes with further close comes with further the closer i get to purpose the further i get from meaningless the further i get from distraction the closer i get to focus everything changes everything changes everything changes the problem then becomes when we're saying you know what i don't want to break up with this and i'm cool with jesus being my side chick i'm cool with jesus being my side chick nobody really knows that we're together but i still want benefits and privileges from you see i i think we should talk around this thought from this subject for part 15 of this try me series for the time that we have together i would like to speak from this topic we had to break up yeah we had to break up can i get somebody to drop this comment in the room it's over boo boo it's it's over it's over we had to break up why not try moving on i'll be moving on try moving on we had to break up and all i'm attempting to articulate to you is anybody who claims to follow christ it will always be shadowed by a breakup it will always be shadowed by a breakup per adventure could this be the reason why our world has this unrest could it be that this is the reason there's so much tension in the world and specifically in our nation in america it's because there is a group of people who claim to be with jesus but they haven't broke up with injustice that they can't they claim to be with jesus but they haven't broke up with racism they claim to be with jesus but they haven't broke up with the mindset that everybody deserves equality and not just that particular issue there's a lot of us who claim to be with jesus but we haven't broke up with that porn yeah we haven't broke up with that vibrator i'm coming all down your street yeah we haven't broke up with that secret addiction we haven't broke up we're getting faded and getting drunk we haven't broke up we're being silent and speaking up for each other we haven't broke up with certain things and we're wondering where is the power of god and i believe god is saying listen if i'm coming into your life i want you to know i come with a breakup somebody say break up break up i come with the breakup i need you to break up with your laziness when it comes to your spiritual disciplines how long and how many more days will you allow to pass by with you not addressing the fact that you have allowed your bible and prayer closet to be a dust collector jesus is saying i come with the break up i'm your new babe and i'm not cool with you staying in contact with your ex i'm your new babe and i'm not cool with you staying in contact with your ex idols now if you're watching this message and if you were with somebody you wouldn't like it if they the person that you're with if they were in still contact with their ex still sleeping with their ex going on dates with their ex liking the pictures on ig from an ex you wouldn't like it so how much more do you think jesus how much more do you think jesus feels he's like listen i'm your new bae and i come with a breakup and i don't want you to stay in contact with your ex stop staying in contact with stuff that you asked me to save you from i come with the breakup i come at the breakup i come at the breakup samuel i know that saul was your boy yeah saul was a dude he was your bro but i'm over that and i need you to move on i'm not saying that it's not going to be difficult i am saying that it's necessary i'm not saying that this doesn't hurt but i need you to move on how long will you cry over that which i have rejected how long will you cry over that relationship that my hand is not on how long will you cry over a place that i'm not at i need you to move on because if you don't move on you won't be able to hear my forward instruction because you're remaining in form of reflection did y'all hear what i just said you won't be able to hear my forward instruction because you're remaining in former reflection i need you to move on i need you to move on don't marinate on it don't revisit it don't think about it and don't try to lie to yourself and be like oh maybe they changed maybe it's different i feel god is like no the very reason why i end it is still there the reason i brought you out is still there the reason i change your circle it's still there trust me i understand that it's difficult but i have greater for you and i understand it's okay for you to fight for somebody who loves you but it's a problem if you're fighting for someone to love you i come at the breakup i come at the breakup i come at the breakup jesus wrecks your plans when he sees that your plans will wreck you i come with the breakup i come at the breakup i come at the breakup you can't have me and have them i come with the breakup i come at the breakup and i'm trying to get us to understand i'm trying to get us to understand that a lot of us we are mislabeling the beckoning of the holy spirit as moody see like man i just feel some type of way i'm just in this mood i'm just in this funk you know i i just feel frustrated i just feel irritated that you know there's just something that's not feeling right in my soul in my body that's not gas not gas that's not what you ate last night that is the beckoning of the holy spirit please listen because this is one of the lowest taught on the radar discussions on how to identify god's voice it's when there is a tension on the inside of your soul that is the beckoning of the holy spirit saying let it go let it go i know it hurts but let it go i know that this is all you've ever known but let it go i know that this is scary but let it go because it's better for you to move forward than for you to stay stuck in the place and never experience the promises the dreams and the abundance that god has for you let it go let it go let it go i come with the break up let it go please hear me you didn't lose what god had for you you lost what was blocking what god has for you i didn't say that again you didn't lose what god had for you you lost what was blocking what god has for you and ladies and gentlemen brothers and sisters and everybody under the sound of my voice i feel as though my assignment my task the mandate that has been given to me on tonight for the time that we have together it's the best of my capability to assist to convince and persuade a people that you've been here for too long you've been here for too long you've been here for too long how long will you lay in this doubt how long will you lay in this bitterness how long will you lay in this substance abuse how long would you lay in depression how long will you lay here some of us some of us have been so lazy that we are getting spiritual bed sores [Music] spiritual bed sores you know what a bedsore is it's when you laid in a place for so long that you begin to bruise you begin to bruise and what if i told you the pain that you're feeling is not due to a devil the pain that you're feeling is not due to a demon but the pain that you're feeling is due to you not moving the pain that you're feeling is due to you not letting this go the pain that you're feeling is due to you not moving on but ever so often heaven sends a woman of god ever so often heaven sends a man of god that has some anointing on them that takes on the embodiment of a nurse and i'm busting through your retina display on tonight and i'm pushing you and say you know what you've laid here for too long and i don't want you to bruise god has better god has more he wants to take you to a new dimension he wants to take you to another realm he wants you to go from glory to glory he wants to take you to a different platform he wants to give you peace he wants to give you wholeness he wants to give you soundness but you gotta stop laying in this place it's time for you to move it's time for you to move because many times when we lay in this depression see i don't even think we if we allow god to be the person that rearranges things you'll see things from a different perspective i want you to see this word depression okay just just the word depression if we could just put depression on the screen i want you to see something because if god comes in your life and you really allow him to change you if you really allow him to break up some things that you used to have in your life right here you see depression but god says you know what if you allow me to come into your life and change some things around and rearrange i don't see depression i see i press on y'all missed it y'all missed it if you allow god to come in your life you'll see that the very thing that have you depressed is the very thing that god is using to press you to press on and i don't know who this is for but god is saying press on i know it hurt but that is not the title of your life that is just a chapter in your life but for you to experience this new dimension of grace for you to experience who i've called you to be you have to break up with that you have to break up with that i can get the whole church to shout if i begin to say god is about to walk you into a season where there's nothing but open doors everybody go hey thank you lord god is about to send you to an area where there's nothing but open doors but then if i say god is about to send you into a season of closed doors i'll hear nothing but crickets and i said it before many times i believe we're mislabeling it perhaps it's not a closed door it is a dressing room can i get everybody in the room just say dressing room yeah perhaps it's a dressing room i want you to see this when you and i get saved we have all of these garments right all these garments now god you're coming into this dressing room he has this white cloak for you because he doesn't see you by what you've done he doesn't see you by your past he doesn't see you by your failures this is what it looks like when you accept the lord you got all this guilt you got all this shame you got all this stuff you're dealing with and god saying give it to me we're going to close the door nothing's going to pop off because believe it or not god does not get glory out of embarrassing you god doesn't want you to fail publicly but he doesn't mind if you fail privately because this is between me and you i'm putting you in a dressing room this is not a closed door this is a dressing room and you know why i'm putting you in this dressing room because you have a whole lot of jacob on right now but i know i've called you to be israel you have a whole lot of abram on you but i've called you to be abraham you have a whole lot of simon on you you bad you'll cut somebody's ear off but i've called you to be peter and so i have to close the door so you could take that layer off you're like god i got so much shame so much i went through he said okay give me that i'll take a shame but god you don't know i've had an abortion i've been a strip i used to sell drugs god i've shot at people before i have a horrible story i understand give me give me your horrible story give me your history and i'll tell you his story y'all missed it give me your history and let me tell you about his story about how he died for that all your screw-ups have been hung up god but he's got so much fear i don't know i don't know if i can really trust that you're gonna be a provider i'm facing so much he says okay i haven't given that spirit just get that to me say okay god what am i supposed to do about what my mama did what am i supposed to do about all the pain and the childhood trauma because like we said a few weeks ago i believe trauma is hell's attempt to put a bookmark on your story and god if i be honest i haven't been able to read on based on what happened in that season in my life when i was 12 when i was 13 when my uncle took me down in the basement and said it's tickle time but it really touched me inappropriately god how am i supposed to get over that how am i supposed to forgive him he says i understand it hurt give me all your childhood trauma give it all to me give it all to me god i'm lonely and so i keep making decisions that are detrimental for my purpose because you said that you're going to be there for me but i don't feel your presence i really feel alone many times okay i understand give me a loneliness i have a new garment that i want you to wear then when it comes to a particular garment somebody say uh oh there's always this one thing that we don't want to give up there's always now we want to put on a clean slate we want to put this on but it's like man i love my money though i love my money i you know god [Music] god ain't through with me yet you understand you know i love my money lord i i can't i can't do it i'm sorry i uh you've been awesome and you've been great but i love my money and maybe this is not money this could be your lust god i understand you awesome and all but i uh i really can't let this go and so this is the crazy thing samuel is in this place and god asked him this question he says how long will you mourn over saul and this makes me begin to think maybe you're really not waiting on god maybe god is like i'm waiting for you to take that off because you are not coming out this room until you take this off because there's a new wardrobe i want you to put on there's something else i want you to point out here's the thing god loves us so much that he'll be patient he's like okay i'll wait you like that jacket go ahead wear it go ahead pose in it but you ain't going nowhere you're not gonna live on under an open heaven you're not gonna experience my abundance you're not gonna experience next level blessings you're not gonna get any revelation you're not gonna get any understanding you're gonna constantly be in situations where you're deceived by people because you keep on wearing something i said you gotta break up with it you got to break up with it and here's the thing that i want us to understand whenever you're about to level up that also requires for you to update your standards see and it's the dangerous thing there are a lot of people who they came to christ with all of this baggage and there's one thing that they don't want to let go and here's the problem but all their friends are still wearing all of these outfits and anytime it's time to change who you are that often requires for you to change who you're with because all your friends are dressed in this but god is saying i need you to be dressed in this but you like god i love this and he's okay as long as you love this you can't put on this you can't put on this and then we'll mistake it let's move this away for a second we'll mistake it and then we'll say jerry i feel stuck i feel like i'm in this just stuck season man and i i don't know what's wrong i feel like i'm hearing from god you know i just don't feel his presence anymore i i just feel stuck and i believe the lord gave me um an acronym for stuck anytime you feel stuck could it be because you're still trying ungodly connections knowingly god that's good could it be the reason you stuck is because you still trying ungodly connections knowing that god wants you to put on a new outfit so are you really stuck are you really stuck is it that god is not really answering your prayers or is it i'm not really being obedient i'm not really being obedient and here's the crazy thing later on i'm getting ahead of myself in this text samuel goes up to jesse's house and the first thing he says when he sees elip is wow this is the lord's anointed and i'm like man how is this dude who hears from god about to pick really wrong how is a real man of god about to be really wrong could it be he didn't heal right and when you don't heal right you can't undress right you can't undress right so a lot of us are in the season of our lives we're like man i just i want to fill his presence and god said i'm ready for you to feel my presence but how long will you justify this garment that i'm telling you to take off how many more messages must you hear how many more try me series and try me sermons or whatever sermons that you're binging how many more messages will you hear until this begins to it you so much until this begins to get so uncomfortable that you have no choice but to take it off god is saying listen i want to take you higher but you got to take this off you got to get rid of this because i need you to put on a new wardrobe now before we put this on my wife and i were on a cruise a few years ago and when we were on this cruise there was this block of ice just this regular chunk of ice and then this artist came out and he spent some time chiseling on this ice but it started off as just a block of ice i want you guys to see this just a regular old block of ice nothing special about it nothing unique about it it was just a block of ice and so i'm sitting there just looking at this dude i wonder what he's going to do with it and he begins to chisel away and he just spends some time chiseling and then after about 30 minutes he took a block of ice and turned into an ice sculpture i'm sitting here like wow how did this man create something so beautiful from just a block of ice and i believe the holy spirit was revealing to me the beauty was there the whole time they just had to surrender with being chiseled what's on the inside of you it's been there the whole time there's just extra layers of ice that god's saying listen if you allow me to chisel that everything that you've been called to be everything that i'm trying to do in your life every single place that i want to take you i could do it but you gotta allow me to chisel you and i don't know who i'm speaking to but i feel i'm coming for somebody's life right now god is saying when when when when when will you allow me to chisel you you've been crying every night you've been complaining for years about what you don't like and i'm telling you i don't have you in a closed door season i have you in a dressing room season but you got to take off the garment you got to take off the garment because there's something else that i want you to wear there's something else that i want to put on your life you have to break something off your bloodline girl you have to break something off your bloodline dude there's something i need you to put on there's holiness i need you to put on there's understanding that i need you to put on there's purity that i need you to put on because i gotta send you to a generation i gotta sing you to a people i gotta sing you to a community i gotta send you to a to a government i got to send you to a place where you can represent me and i have a new wardrobe i want to put on you but are you willing to give all this stuff up of your past and say god i'm done with it i'm done with it i'm done with it i'm done with it and whatever you want to do in my life however you need to chisel me however you need me to be whatever you need to do god i'm willing to do it everything that is not you god take it and everything that is you god i want it that's the place where god wants us to get to and i firmly believe that god is talking to somebody on the night and he's saying when are you gonna allow for me to chisel you so i believe there's this travel paradigm that there's this travel paradigm naturally and then also in our world there's this travel system every time i go to an airport i see the same language departure layover arrival departure layover and arrival and it's the same thing with our faith with god we have a departure season you know what your departure season is that's your dressing room that's the season where god is getting you to take everything off that doesn't look like him that's the season where all the pain of your past god is getting you to take that off that's your departure season and believe it or not there are some people who never depart because they never want to get naked they never want to hang all their past up so they never could depart and then here's the crazy thing after you depart sometimes you have a layover anybody ever had a layover i've had a layover one time for six hours layover this is the season a lot of us don't like because this one you gotta wait but if you really break down what the layer layover is for number one is for you to connect maybe god has you in the place that you're in right now because there's some people he needs you to connect with there are some people who have influence he needs you to connect with because of where you're going number two layovers are when people who started with you people who started with you they not going with you and a lot of times we get hurt because we think the very people who departed are also going to be the people who arrive but no we're switching flights this is how far they can go with you for this journey and i said it before a lot of us we have to be like an out of service elevator to people when they come in our lives and they push our buttons you don't have to go to the floor that they demanded i'm out of order to your request i don't have to go to the floor of anger i don't have to go to the floor of clapping back i don't have to go to the floor of being petty i don't have to go to the floor of lust i'm out of service to you god has pre-programmed for you to go to the top everybody watching this god has pre-programmed for you to go to the top what we have to do is when people get off on four floor on the fourth floor don't press door open let them go let that door close somebody say close don't you just sit there and be holding it with a door let the door close you know why because if you keep level five people with you the level 20 people that god has for you to the level 20 people that's coming into your life if you keep level five level six level seven level eight level line level ten if you keep all these levels by the time you get to this level there's no space for the people that god has to come into your life because you're holding on to stuff that god is saying break up you got to break up a level six you got to break up a level seven you got to break up a level eight i know they've been there since level one but they're not going to be conducive for you at level 20. god is the author of your story and he can see right now who you're with in chapter 7 is going to be hurtful for your chapter 20. so i have to remove them right now i have to remove them right now so when a door closes let it close and another thing about elevators they have a weight capacity they have a weight capacity if you keep holding on to too much you ain't going nowhere maybe this is why your life feels so weighty maybe this is why you feel like you have so much weight you're holding on to stuff that you're supposed to break up with a level two three four five why is god coming so hard like this there's some stuff god saying hey you can't go to that level with that i know that's all you've ever known but you can't go with that you have to leave that behind and then the third part arrival that's your aha moment that's your this is why moment and some people never have it they never embraced the aha moment because they never let god remove it they never broke up with it so they never really experienced the layover and here's the thing about layovers you best stay by the gate you got to stay by the gate if they say this is the last call flowers last call fly if you're not at that gate and you weigh down a chili's trying to get you some of them egg rolls because you were hungry if you out of position if you out of position when they call for you to board you will miss your flight and then now your layover turns into a stay over because you're out of position gotta say hey i understand it don't seem like stuff is bordering your life right now stay by my feet i understand it seems like stuff's not popping off in your life the way that you want it to pop off stay by my feet i understand you haven't got the understanding and you haven't got the clarity yet that you want to get just stay by my feet so that when i call your name you can board your flight departure layover and arrival so how how how do we get stuck how do we get stuck point number one i firmly believe is because we haven't mourned right we haven't mourned right samuel is a prophet of god samuel is a prophet of god israel wanted a king god never wanted for his people to have a king he wanted to be their only king but they wanted to be like the nations around them so god gave them what they asked for because i believe sometimes god gives us what we ask for so that the next time he says no you won't question him he gave him what they asked for god gave him an assignment i need you to execute judgment on this town he doesn't do it he keeps some of the stuff from himself samuel rose up on the scene he's still hearing goats and he still hears cows and he's like okay what are you doing bro and saul began to be like calm down man listen uh i'm gonna sacrifice all this for the lord and then samuel asked him this question some of us heard this before is not obedience better than sacrifice god tells saul because he didn't obey me tell samuel because he didn't obey me i'm gonna strip the kingdom from him and give it to somebody better so this mess samuel up samuel the crime aboard this is my dude i understand how did he listen i tried to help him he's crying and god's like hey man uh how long you gonna mourn over that how long you gonna cry over him i rejected him bro i already have another king and i need you to go see some of us this is a word for you you crying over a fool you crying over a joke and god's like i got a king girl you you crying over this girl's i got a queen and this always isn't relationally a lot of us were in foolish places but god is going to give you a kingdom upgrade and you're like how long are you going to continue to cry over that don't you understand i got better for you it says you go feel your hormone oil and you go to jesse's house i have a king amongst his sons and so he gets to jesse's house and look at this verse six he gets to jesse's house and it says so it was when they came that he looked at elephant and said surely the lord's anointed is before him but the lord said to samuel hold on wait a minute don't look at his appearance and i'm like hold on bro hold on you're a prophet man he's not like these prophet liars that were here today this dude was about to give a prophet he was about to prophely he was about to anoint the wrong king and i'm like how does a man of god how does one who hears from god about to pick wrong until i begin to do a little research maybe he didn't mourn right because saul was 6'4 broad swole 200 plus he looked like a king ela is tall 6'4 broad look like a king i want you to see this when you don't allow god to heal you you'll keep going back and picking what you used to have god lee i hope you all have seen this look he was used to this and god said hey i'm no longer there i need you to move on so a lot of us you've moved on for the situation but you haven't moved on from the pain and when you don't move on when you don't heal right you won't pick right so you are going to keep dating the same dude that has got a different name you're going to keep on entertaining the same type of depression just a different name the same type of addiction just different name because when you don't heal right you can't pick right and so i believe in that moment samuel was picking his history because pain blind him from seeing god's destiny what he went through hurt him so much that he wasn't able to see you picking the same king and i know who this is for but i wonder are you picking the same thing but expecting different results gotta heal right and because he didn't heal right he was about to pick the wrong one and i'm just trying to encourage somebody maybe the reason you're stuck it's not always because you're still trying to ungodly connections knowingly sometimes you stuck because you haven't healed you haven't healed and so you keep picking your pain because you have a trauma bond and you're used to the pain you're used it's possible for you to get so used to this function that you choose dysfunction and you think what is functional is actually dysfunctional but no you just learn how to function with a disc okay we have it mourn right point number two sometimes the reason we're stuck is because we haven't released we haven't released there's something that god is saying hey i need you to let this go so that you could go i want you to see a snapshot real quick of the story with jonah right god gave jonah some instructions just says hey i need you to go to nineveh he doesn't want to go to nineveh because those people were like bullies to his people and so i want you to catch this he gets on this boat he's heading to joppa let's hop down to verse nine jonah chapter one verse nine all this stuff has happened this storm is going on they're like man what's going on they confront jonah and jonah says um i'm a hebrew and i worship the lord the god of heaven who made the sea and the dry land this terrified them and they asked what have you done what have you done they knew he was running away from the lord because he had already told himself sidebar anytime you're hanging or dating with somebody who's running from god you're harboring a fugitive so whatever they experience you're going to experience because you're trying to harbor somebody who's running that's for free i don't know who that's for the sea was getting rougher and rougher so they asked him what shall we do to make the sea calm down for us pick me up and throw me into the sea john's like i'd rather die than obey pick me up in the sea pick me up and throw me into the sea he replied and it will become calm and i know that it is my fault that this great storm has come upon you instead the men did their best to roll back to land but they could not for the sea grew even wilder than before what if you're going through something because you have a jonah on your boat you have a jonah in your life this is not even your storm and you don't have to get away from a storm that's not yours you don't have to get away from a storm that's not yours and these people were stuck because of who was on board when jonah was on board there was a storm when jonah was overboard there was peace when jonah was on board there was a storm when jonah was overboard there's peace who have you let board your life that's stealing your peace and maybe that's the reason you're stuck or you could be scared to let them go but i want to encourage you your destiny is never tied to who left your destiny is never tied to who left and sometimes just like these sailors and if you really break down the story the bible says they begin to throw their cargo overboard the stuff that they needed to keep him what are you throwing overboard to keep what god is saying that has to go overboard because i'm trying to take you to another dimension last point we haven't discovered or remembered our assignment maybe this is why you're stuck because you haven't discovered and you don't remember your assignment samuel how long will you mourn over saul seeing i have rejected him as king i need you to fill your horn with oil and go to jesse's house if you know anything we talked about this with oil this is anointing i'm singing this text god is saying look bro there's a level of anointing that you'll never have until you move on and i don't know who this is for there's a level of oil god wants to pour on you but you'll never be able to receive it if you don't move on and not just that it was his job to anoint the next king you will never never be able to be an effective oil carrier if you don't move on you're so hurt by what they did it was messed up it was painful but you have oil on your life to break some things and you have oil on your life to pour on somebody and until you break up with this you'll never arrive into that it is not god's will that you stay in departure he wants you to arrive i want you to consider what is god calling for you to break up with it's not always a person sometimes it is it's not always a person but if you're watching this i believe the spirit of god is saying hey i come with breakups i come with breakups and the only way you're gonna go there is you gotta break up what's here so god we bless you we understand that you're not cool with being a side chick you want total commitment total faithfulness total obedience so that we could be surrendered to you because you have what's best for our lives god help us to trust you because you're not cool with us staying in contact with our ex god we ask that you give us the strength to embrace the dress in roman take off whatever garment take off whatever fear take off whatever depression take off anxiety take off the stress so that we can put on your glory help us to put on the garment of praise help us to understand that worship focuses and shifts our focus to the problem solver versus the problem and whatever it is in our life we have to end so that our spiritual life can begin give us the strength so that we could be your vessels and your representatives in jesus name what a word what a word i come with the breakup listen you come with the book you gotta break things up you gotta be you some things can't stay yeah you have to be willing to let some things go and that's what exactly you know that thing that was so appropriate for what's to come on thursday night yeah so guys thank you once again for watching and tuning in thank you for watching and and and continue to support this ministry we we love you guys we really really do yeah i pray for everybody everybody i'm like listen lord listen allah whoever's watching this message rather live or replay to get blessed yeah and um we just love you guys so much it is my desire and it is my wife's desire to constantly give you spiritual nutrition yes um my job as a spiritual leader is to cause you to enter into maturity i think one of the detriments for the church especially western hemisphere christianity as is we have made being spiritually immature cool we have allowed it to be something that is normal well you know god ain't doing me yet that is so good there's still this this permission slit for us to be spiritually immature right to be on milk to be honest like we're satisfied right it's like we're satisfied to just maintain this um baby basic monday you know toddler christianity christianity where where god god definitely calls us um to deeper yeah to you know to mature and to grow up and and you know leave those childish things behind and and and press towards what god wants us to do like we can't stay in the same place like if you are in the same place mentally emotionally spiritually then you should do some reevaluation you should do some introspection like you should be growing yeah you should be more mature you and you should want to you shouldn't be satisfied with staying the same i know i'm not like i don't want to be the same i want i want to grow and if i see like hey you you haven't grown in this area then i'm not happy with that and i need to i need to step it up i need to change and that's my job my job is if you are at that place i'm pushing you right each week i'm pushing you you know i'll come for your lace front your edges and your esophagus i'm pushing you i'm pushing you i'm pushing you because they come for your throat i want to push you because i understand that one of the strategies of the enemy is to keep us immature amen that's right he wants to keep us immature he never wants us to operate with maturity because there's a there's a level of supernatural spiritual strength right that you possess when you grow up and that is why we're here amen help you grow amen to help you mature so we love you all uh thank you so much for watching on the night and please set your alarm for december 31st 2020 yes at 7 30 p.m don't miss it it's gonna be cray cray giveaways worship word and give you guys a challenge of charge and by the grace of god we're gonna cross over into a new calendar year if you still want to participate with us and our end of the year given you can do so all information is below we love you all so much have an absolutely 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Published: Sun Dec 27 2020