Worth the Wait | Pastor Travis Greene | Forward City Church

hey family this is pastor travis i'm pastor jackie hi i'm so glad you guys have decided to hang out with us at our online campus checking out this week's message it is dynamic be sure you like comment subscribe and hit the bell icon to stay up with all the newest updates right here in forward city yeah hey listen grab your notepad it's about to go down get ready for your life to be changed forever your past is going your future is waiting let's move forward together yo we are back for another sunday hustle free i hope you all excited man like i literally cannot believe christmas has come and gone that was so fast like 2020 although a lot happened this year that was i can't believe christmas was already here did y'all enjoy christmas chris was amazing in the green household and i tell my sons every year that i am santa um so i don't know how many kids are watching but for my kids i'm santa claus and they had a good christmas and we enjoyed it and it has come and it has gone i'm gonna tell you something man this year a lot has happened in 2020 um there's been a pandemic there's just been a lot of chaos there's been a lot happening i'm gonna tell you one of the most chaotic things of 2020 for me this is my personal testimony one of the most chaotic things of 2020 was the release of the new generation xbox now i i love xbox look at me and judge me if you want to but i love video games a lot of y'all don't know this i've been anointed um to to not just preach and sing but i've also been highly anointed in the area of nba 2k now i know there are people watching all over the world and maybe you don't know what nba 2k it is a virtual video game that is such uh is so real that it looks like you're watching tv and anyone who's ever come over we have many witnesses here who've been slain in nba 2k they can they can witness about it but this new xbox like i wanted it uh so bad but it was sold out right and i made this this horrible decision uh thanksgiving week uh we went to my in-laws and of course uh you already guessed it my brother-in-law norman has the new xbox and he has a ps5 he just got all this stuff so he brought that smile so i'm gonna test it out and i i made this poor choice of testing it out um and this is the greatest game system known to mankind i kid you not no lag no load literally when you pick your your players for your team there are people who care about this baby when you pick yo cause you look at me like no one they care when you pick the players for your team they go immediately from the lineup to starting to get jump ball that fast no load i said oh my god this is incredible this is the greatest thing i've ever experienced in my life now i have to confess my wife thinks that i have a problem she do she loved me a lot but she thinks that i have this problem with patience and she think that whenever i make up my mind i'm gonna get something she said i already know you're gonna get it ain't none but a matter of time if you see an ad and you'll be like if i make this certain face right it's like you're going to get that i know you don't get it but i have proven her incorrect in this season i have not purchased the xbox i'm going to tell you why i haven't purchased the xbox because the only way to get my hand on the xbox is i have to be willing to pay 60 percent more of its value that is insane like i i mean it's already expensive but i don't buy it for its regular price but they're like if you really want it you're gonna pay all this much more just to have it out of time and i was just thinking about what god has been up to in my life personally i'm not preaching to you i'm preaching to myself but i wonder how many times i lack contentment because although i felt good about a season it was disturbed by my exposure of someone else's harvest so so so you know how it is maybe it's not an xbox for you but we'll just use xbox xbox name could be shanica or daryl and you're like ooh this xbox is fine i just gotta have this xbox i just gotta get my hands on this xbox and there's nothing wrong with having an xbox but it is something wrong with having the xbox out of season because what you don't know although it is just momentary pleasure for you with that xbox the cost of having it out of timing far outweighs if you wait on it i just have never experienced anything like this you know you know the grass isn't greener on the other side that's green where it's water but you see something else and you're like you know what i just never had anything this is new i feel like that will complete me i just feel like i lacked that if i had that it would change my world if i had that job it would change me if i had that car it would change if i had that boot it'll change if i could just get my hands on the xbox i was thinking about this how often we jump ship we jump ship because i'm gonna tell y'all something i'm gonna come fast i'm gonna confess can i confess are we here now i might as well i wasn't the greatest boyfriend in the world now i've only dated one woman i dated my wife there's a few girls right now you're a lie they're typing in their facebook you a lie you're a cheat and a true vein i've only dated one girl but i wasn't i'm gonna be honest i wasn't the best boyfriend in the world i wasn't prince charming i didn't have all the right things to say there was people better than me i wasn't the best thing in the world but for many of many it's just that sounds a lot but for some of the girls that i kicked it with it wasn't that i was the best in the world it was just that i was the best they have had [Music] i was still broken but i wasn't as broken as the last one i was still trifling but i wasn't trifling that's him and so sometimes and i'm preaching to my single people sometimes you would jump ship from one dysfunctional relationship to another one that's still dysfunctional it's just a little better than what you left it's just better than what you had and if i could just have this if i could just have how much is enough just a little more if i could just have this then it'll fix something in me but i realize that god is not after just supplying you with something better than what you've had god wants to provide you with the best that he has for you i'm gonna say that again i'ma say that again god isn't just after daisy getting you the best you've ever had he's trying to get you something that is the best that he has for you quit settling for your best and wait on his best i'm gonna preach a message that's over the next 15 minutes simply call worth the wait i need you to tell three people it's worth the wait it's worth it it's worth the wait it's worth the wait luke chapter two i've been enjoying this series hustle free because what we've been doing is taking different vantage points uh looking at the nativity story that most of us are extremely familiar with but i've just been seeing things that i never really thought about before luke chapter 2 verse 25. if you have it say amen i'm wearing a robe next sunday i'm sick of this y'all to new school and i'm changing my voice when i preach in luke chapter two the bible says now there was a man in jerusalem called simeon you know people mispronounced words called simeon who was righteous and devout he was waiting for the consolation of israel and the holy spirit was on him it had been revealed to him by the holy spirit that he would not die before he had seen the lord's messiah did you hear what i just said you didn't you're too busy laughing simeon was before the lord praying serving worshiping and it had been revealed to him he got a revelation watch this that he would not die before he had seen the lord's messiah now this ain't for everybody i told y'all there are some things in the bible that are literal but a lot of them i like to take and just apply to my life this ain't for everybody but this is a promise just for a few people i don't know who need to hear this but i felt like on this sunday december 27th i needed to tell somebody that you will not die before you see it i just need to tell a few people that what you've been waiting on what you've been praying for the loved one that god told you he was going to save come on you're going to see it for my prayer warriors that's been praying and a revival for this generation you're gonna see it i just need somebody to type that i'm gonna see it i'm gonna see it you're gonna see the breakthrough you're gonna see the healing you're gonna see the victory you're gonna see the promise you will see it a couple of weeks ago i preached a message that i enjoyed um because god was preaching to me before he preached anybody else called the fragrance of grace and and i was talking about if you have not watched it yet or listen please go back but but i told you all about my wife and i how we have these back-to-back big uh big days that pop off every year it's just back to back-to-back birthday uh anniversary christmas my birthday it's just boom boom boom boom boom so we made a treaty years ago hey we're not gonna we're not gonna uh just wait for these big moments to to show you know our value to each other and there there are many people who live their lives attempting to demonstrate value and big moment i call them big moment people these are big moment people you know who you are the shoe fit put it on here's a big moment a health crisis you waited until you had to give a co-pay and sit across from somebody to tell you what you've always known hey you might want to stop eating honey buns and pig feet every day big moment you waited to make an adjustment in a big moment and it shouldn't take a health scare to convince you here's another one here's another one an affair right it's a big moment but the truth is there's been warning signs flashing for several years that something isn't right but you waited for the big moment to even consider counseling big moment people big moment people uh here's another one the pandemic right so you've been you've been chasing you know your ambitions and going around trying to make things happening and forgetting about your first ministry at home and then it took a big moment to shake you and shift you back and then this series of hustle free when we've been taking a different look at the nativity story there are a lot of big moment people in the story there are a lot of name brands there are a lot of rock stars that that we're all familiar with but they're also some unsung heroes you know some big moment people i mean no problem with them but the rock stars of the story mary and joseph they're rock stars come on man these people they're in a hall of fame the shepherds they rock stars you ain't gonna see your christmas play without the shepherd somebody gonna have on a bedroom sheet coming up acting like i said you done seen them the wise men the wise men are a big moment rock stars they all stars they superstars the big moment wise me no thinking about this i was thinking about even the wise men i talked about them a little bit a couple weeks ago but these wise men they're they're amazing men they traveled far to see jesus they brought gifts to jesus and i got mad respect for the wise men they're they're great and and they even they didn't even sell them out they didn't report back to herod man if i saw the wise man i'm giving them doubt they rock stars they they they brought him gold they brought him fragrance but let's let's face it the wise men aren't big moment people they showed up in the big moment it's cool i mean it's all good and honestly most of us are big moment people let's let's just be real about it you know most of us are people who we don't mind showing up in big moments but for me i have figured out in my life and this is just my own testimony that what god is calling me to i don't just need big moment people in my corner i need this is why i like to call my wife ride or die i need consistent people i need people who will show up when i win and show up when i lose i need people to show up when i get it right and still show up when i get it wrong come on i need people who are just consistent who are just down people that show up when i need them to and when i don't even know that i need them to here's the danger of keeping big moment people around you is that they only shop for big moments they only they only scroll for moments that are worthy of a double click they show up for your birthday but they're missing the day after and so you got to be connected to people especially listen to me before you get married if you're not married make sure you get connected to people who value you as much on november the 25th as december the 25th make sure that you hook up with somebody who see you on january the 14th and not just february the 14th thank you for my card and my candy but i need you to be consistent in my life i don't just need big moment people i need people who will show up do me a favor tell somebody be aware of the big moment people beware of the big moment people and and the the wise men they're a big moment people but there is an unsung hero in this story that i love he impressed me y'all more than the wise man because he didn't just show up in the big moment this man name is simeon simeon is not a a big moment kind of guy he's a guy who wasn't really in a rush because he waited every day on jesus to show up simeon here we go had a word that was worth the wait i don't need everybody give me five people and a goldfish and i say i got a word on the inside of me that is worth waiting on that's the people i came to talk to today the people who are carrying a word that's worth the wait i thought about this and it's so true that although mary carried jesus in the natural simeon was carrying the word in the spirit whenever god is ready to do something supernatural in the earth i need y'all to hear what i'm telling you there are people who would carry it in the natural but there always has to be people some prayer warriors some intercessors some people that have flipped their plate upside down and they get off facebook for two weeks some people that are turn away from themselves to face god that are willing and able to birth it in the spiritual here is the truth of the matter i had a dream people like martin luther king people i had a dream even since i was a kid i knew i was called to great things and god qualified me he he equipped me i started carrying gifts at a young age i was a prodigy i was playing keyboard at the age of nine back there playing praise oh lord everybody i had gifts i was carrying the gift in the natural but i had to have a mama who would carry it in the spirit you wouldn't know my name you wouldn't know my songs you wouldn't even know my gifts if god didn't have somebody that was on their face in the bedroom that was birthing it in the spiritual realm god gave me a vision called forward city church and he gave me a gift y'all i ain't gonna lie he gave me a gift to communicate he gave me a gift to be able to hear his word but we wouldn't have this building don't fool yourself we wouldn't have people showing up if he didn't give me a woman a rib that'll stand next to me and say baby why are you carrying that i'ma birth this thing in the spiritual realm i'll be the one to get up and pray i'll be the one to turn my plate upside down i gotta is there anybody in this generation that ain't as concerned about your name being called simian you ain't got to put me on the front page i don't have to be a rock star i don't have to be name-brand i don't have to be known i just want to help burn something in the spiritual name if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray seek my face turn from their wicked ways then i will hear from heaven i heal their land and forgive their sins god is looking for somebody he's looking for isaac that'll lay yourself down on the altar and say don't you slay me come on here yet will i slay me for your glory do what you got to do in my life but i got to help burn something in the supernatural realm if i got any carriers of the glory i need you to take yourself 15 seconds lift your hand lift your voice and praise them like you know you called the burps up i said praying them like you know you're called to birth something i'm called a person i'm sorry i can't go there with you i'm sorry i can't watch that with you i'm sorry i can't drink that with you i'm carrying something that's greater than me i'm carrying i'm expecting oh my god i'm respecting revival i'm respecting breakthrough somebody in my family here gotta be on their faces somebody in my classroom gotta be on their face if somebody in this church got to be on their face if i never get a record deal if i never write a book if they never called my name i got a person in the spiritual realm i got a birthday in the spiritual realm i'm called to carry stuff in the natural mary you carry the baby i'ma carry this thing in prayer and i'm a birth everything that god told me and guess what i can't leave until i see it i'm gonna give you 20 more seconds to start working some things to push with your worship what's with your praise i gotta get this out of me i'm carrying a revival i'm carrying fire remember [Music] [Music] i gotta keep pushing i can't forfeit i can't have an abortion i can't miscarry here i gotta burp this if it takes me 20 years i'm a person if it takes me 40 years i'm some of y'all been carrying yourself for 50 years if i'll be a prophet of god you will see it before you leave here he puts it in prayer keep pushing in prayer i feel the presence of god i tell you to jump in the river open up your mouth and burp something speak those things that are not i know that word first it in your house my children will be saved my children's children will be saved my grandparents will be saved my uncle will be saved and i'mma call their name until i see it i'mma call their name until i see it i'mma call that name till i see it right and live again the trombone they drive bones in my family they drop bones in my generation they drive bones on my job they drop holes in my neighborhood they drop on down live again somebody burst right now push or with just labor pains that's all you've been feeling you you've been carrying it's just labor pains but if you keep pushing as you keep pushing you will see it you will behold i do a new thing shall it not bring forth carry it carry it carry it carry it carry it carry it your back hurt but carry it carry it carry it you can't trust your appetite but carry it you you've been feeling nauseous but carry it carry it carry it don't stop carrying and don't stop pushing because simeon you were called birthed in the spirit we need some spiritual midwives we need we need some some spiritual carriers and i'm i'm afraid this generation has we've lost our our place in prayer because everybody want to show that they got something every everybody just want to show everybody want a baby reveal on instagram a baby shower look at what i got look at what i did daddy are you proud of me now i'm showing you that i got something and god says i need some people watch this simian that may not be seen in the natural realm but you famous in the spiritual realm every demon know your name every angel know you exist heaven rise when you start calling on jesus you're a general in the spiritual realm and there's some people that god is calling for you to carry not just naturally nothing supernatural has transpired in the earth without somebody some simian pushing in the spiritual realm one thing i love about simeon is that he didn't just wait for the moment he waited on the moment there's a difference between waiting for the moment and waiting on the moment those who wait for the moment are often late when the moment arrives those who wait on the moment are the ones who actually usher the moment in this is what the church needs y'all it needs more people who won't just wait for god but who will actually wait on god they need more people who are willing to be waiters let's say i'm not just waiting for something i've been called to wait on you i've been called to serve you watch this i'm not just waiting on something to be delivered to me but god i want to be involved and i want to host you and deliver something to you do you hear what i'm telling you i want to be the one oh my god that would be on my face that will host your presence that way that will wait on you i was thinking about this church building and i'm telling y'all i'm so excited man and we've been planning but i'm gonna tell you as much as i pray about the plans i pray about the people who will feel it i think the biggest tragedy of this whole thing would be that we feel this place with bougie people talking about believers that they want to wait for a guy when when when they when they sing my favorite song i'll join in you know what i'm not i just don't really feel it today no i don't i'm not crazy about the person's voice i don't like the one who's leading this song all i hear this ooh i feel i feel something in this moment come on i i i i will i'll sing now i'll i'll lift my hands and and oh oh here's one i'll get my phone out and i'll capture the moment instead of being one of the ones who create the moment yeah yeah these are people whose participation is driven by their emotions and not their expectation but there's a difference between them and those who wait on the moment waiters those who serve the atmosphere these are they who say regardless of who's on the instrument regardless of if it's a slow baptism or if it's a fast pentecostal song regardless of of my my my posture and my praise is not ruled by my preference i didn't you know i didn't really come come come here looking for fire i brought the fire with me oh man that's all i want this church to be packed with waiters people who say you know what i didn't i didn't just come here to get something i brought something do you what i'm telling you i brought something i brought something to him i came here to serve him god how may i help you god may i take your order what it is that you want today god how do you do you want me to lift my hands right now do you want me to spin right now do you want me to get on my face it's not i didn't come to this restaurant just to receive something thank you for paying my bill god thank you for giving me this meal but god i want to be the one who served you i want i want to be the one who walk in that's why that's why the bible says i will enter his gate for thanksgiving in my heart i will enter his courts with praise can i tell you something this is a bomb we've been taught wrong we've been taught to wait for god check the mailbox open over go to church you know just the more busy you are wait for him he gonna do something if you just wait for him improper teacher no one really taught us to wait on him there's a special blessing for those who wait on him david showed up to the battlefield as a delivery boy he said brother i just i just brought a meal i'm here to serve and right before his eyes the giant aka the door escorted him to his future there was a boy who came and he just had two fish and five loaves of bread and he didn't just the disciples were waiting for jesus to do something they said i guess you're gonna tell everybody to go to eat i mean you what you what are you gonna do i ain't got nothing i can't really participate but the boy it took a boy with not much to say i ain't here to just wait for something i don't here to wait on you i'm going to deliver to you what i hold in my hand oh my god that god if you can use anything you can use me i want to wait on you not just at church but even at home well i'm getting ready oh man that's who the body of christ need people who are waiting on god and birthing things in your room not just waiting for a church atmosphere you are the atmosphere do you hear what i'm telling you you are called to create the moment do you hear what i'm telling you you should be creating a moment even in your room as you're getting dressed i'm waiting on you god i'm hosting i'm driving to church and my kid's screaming in the backseat but i'm still hosting your presence because i have an expectation that's not driven by my predicament or my emotions my expectation is driven by the fact that i am a waiter i'm someone who hosts you because i have a word on the inside of me that's worth it oh wait while i'm while i'm waiting for god to show up i'm also choosing to wait on them i don't just want to be patient and sit around and well no no no no no i want to participate with it because when i'm waiting for him i'm looking for something to be delivered to me but when i'm waiting on them i'm the one who's saying god here i am and i'm delivering something to you here's my worship take joy in it make it your dwelling place i want to put a smile on your face i present my life to you i present my heart to you all that i am it's for you i'm i'm here to host you i'm here to worship you i'm here to bring you something and this is what god told me to tell you he said travis tell them don't allow i want you to hear me disappointment to shake you out of posture don't allow disappointment god i'm angry god it didn't go the way i want it you'll be disappointed the most when you just simply wait for him oh my god oh my god we go home when i when i'm just sitting here with my legs cross and i'm just waiting for him to show up guy you haven't showed up yet in my marriage [Music] you haven't shown up yet and sent me anybody you've seen me living right for you you've seen me i've been i've been celibate you still ain't giving me nobody i'm waiting for you i'm waiting for you to show up and heal me like you told me you would i'm waiting for you i'm waiting for you to make this dream happen guy you see me carrying this dream and i'm i'm waiting for you to show up god says the miracle happened when you shift from waiting for me to waiting on me [Music] because then when i'm waiting on him man a true waiter don't have threes attached to it i take joy of this whether you tip me or not those are the weirdest you want whether you even recognize my efforts i'm not doing this to get something from you god i'm doing this because you're worth it [Music] you're worth it samia samuel didn't even know his name was going to be in the bible he said i'm not leaving this posture of waiting on god because i have a word that's worth carrying so god i'm going to serve you and i know this ain't in the bible i'm gonna take this liberty i just feel like he was chosen because there was something about simeon even though we don't know much about him but i believe he had something about him that said even if i see it or not you're worth me serving that was the three hebrew boys that said man we know you're able but even if you don't i'm not showing up for the results man i'm showing up because you're worth it you're worth it you're worth it take a moment i'm really i'm telling y'all man i really believe that miracles are waiting for you to wait on him can we just take a moment all over the world would you just lift your hands nothing dramatic just a shift you're like you're like you're like in the right place but you just need to take one step to the right you know what i mean like it ain't even a big adjustment it ain't no big 360. it's just an alignment oh man i really feel like god is saying hey hey can we can we just align our motives just so you're right you're there you're doing the right thing but your reason for doing it it's just a little off and if you stay doing it for the reason you're doing it you will have to live under the cloud of disappointment for the rest of your life that's not how i created you we never read about joseph complaining ever because he wasn't just waiting for something he was waiting on something i thought my waiting i don't mind waiting i don't mind waiting on the lawn i don't mind waiting i don't mind waiting i don't mind waiting on the lord i know breakthrough is coming by faith i see a miracle my god made me a promise and it won't stop now somebody lift it up i know breakthrough is coming come on my friend i see a miracle my god my god made me a promise that it won't stop now come on everybody say i get your face back come on get back in the delivery the room hey obey it's worth the wait it's worth the wait it's worth the wait one more time you are called to deliver you are called watch me cassius to deliver and it's time for us to get back to the delivery room place of birthday to push some things in the spiritual realm come on somebody wave somebody wave and say god you can use me you can i'm down for it man i'm down for it i want to be used by you however you want whenever you want wherever you want god i thank you for this moment with the hundreds that are watching all over the world and being reminded in this moment they're called to carry they're called not to just wait for something but to wait on you what an honor what a privilege hey if you're watching and you're far from them and you don't know man you're just lost you don't know where you are you don't know why you're doing what you're doing there is a god who has enough grace to find you man he is a god who will rescue you he's not intimidated by your circumstance as a matter of fact he's drawn to your weakness because it's an opportunity for his amazing grace to show up and be displayed in your life if that's you i want to give you a moment to receive him right now as your lord and your savior hey i had amazing privilege a few days ago of leading one of my cousins uh who's been struggling with some things i had amazing privilege of leading them in this prayer to christ and i'm telling you man it's it's the beginning it's the beginning of a beautiful journey will that be rough day sure would it be a hard time sure but can i tell you something you'll never be alone there's a god who is for you and a god who is with you hey let's pray together repeat after me lord jesus i receive you now as my lord and my savior thank you for dying on the cross for my sins thank you for getting up so i don't have to stay down i am shifting into a posture of a delivery man i'm called to deliver i'm called to serve i'm called to wait on you it's my privilege in jesus name amen hey if you prayed that prayer for the first time please let us know about it we want to reach out to you god is doing a new thing i pray you have the greatest christmas ever merry merry christmas to you i love you so much i can't wait to see you to worship with you again new years is a few days away and we're going to get a popping i love you god bless you come on let's worship him now let's go hey family we hope that something that you heard really bless your life and we want to hear all about it be sure you follow us on all our social media that's at forward city hey if you want to partner with us by giving the link is below but before we leave we would love to pray together with you god we thank you for our friends watching right now we pray that your blessings will be all around them use them for your glory move them forward in every area of their life in jesus name amen we love you see you soon love you

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Published: Sun Dec 27 2020