The power of change begins with one, which is why God effects change with the power of one. As believers, we are the ones who are in hell’s view, as the enemy seeks to distract us from accomplishing God’s goals. The ones are world-changers whose most significant power is the power of choice. We are no greater than the choices we make; therefore, we must be vigilant, as there will be a fight to perform the change God has called us to implement. Take courage, for fighting in the spirit is essential, for our strength is developed through resistance. God is going to give us a moment, and we must walk in power to grasp the moment.
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you know what I’m gonna do I’ve only
received the offering right now but I’m
gonna put it on hold and I’m gonna go
right until the word of god cuz I’m kind
of excited about what the Lord gave me
and and I’m just gonna jump into it and
so uh shoes and beacons just just chill
for a minute you don’t have to go into
the offering right now I’m gonna go into
the Word of God and then we’ll receive
the offering after the word he said all
right today we’re going to look at a
couple of passages of Scripture I want
to go first to Genesis 25 19 through 34
in the NIV and I’m gonna be reading out
of the NIV and I want you to put to
stand on your feet for just a moment so
that I can let you eavesdrop of this
conversation that the Lord and I are
having about grasping the moment yeah
about grasping the moment again it’s
Genesis chapter 25 19 through 34 if
you’re watching online get your Bible
join me and be a part of this experience
this because there’s a reason that God
has you online this morning streaming to
hear the word of God because there is a
moment that you have to grasp if you
don’t grasp it
it won’t happen are you hearing what I’m
saying to you
now it begins on this wise this is the
account of the family line of Abraham’s
son Isaac Abraham became the father of
Isaac and Isaac was 40 years old when he
married Rebecca daughter of Beth ul the
aramean from padam Aram and sister of
laman their error maeín Isaac prayed to
the Lord on behalf of his wife because
she
was childless the Lord answered his
prayer and his wife Rebecca became
pregnant the babies just each other
within her they fought they wrestled
they rolled around they kicked within
her and she said why is this happening
to me so she went to inquire the Lord
and the Lord said to her two nations are
in your womb two nations are in your
womb and two people from within you will
be separated one people will be stronger
than the other and the older will serve
the younger now that’s important the
older will serve the younger when the
time came for her to give birth there
were twin boys in her womb – a twin boys
– boys in her womb the first to come out
was Wren and his whole body was like a
hairy garment so they named him Esau can
you imagine baby come out all hairy and
they named him he so after this his
brother came out with his hand grasping
Esau’s heel not that’s what got me when
his brother came out with his hand
grasping Esau’s heel so he was named
Jacob I think was 60 years old when
Rebecca gave birth to them honey that
ought to make you nervous
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hallelujah glory to God without CVS and
the boys grew up you’re getting later
don’t worry about it at the book the
boys grew up all the men got it the boys
grew up and Esau became a skillful
hunter the boys grew up and Esau became
a skillful hunter a man of the open
country while Jacob was content to stay
at home among the tents Isaac who had a
taste for wild game loved Esau but
Rebekah loved Jacob once when Jacob was
cooking some stew Esau came in from the
open country famished he said to Jacob
quick let me have some of that red stew
I’m famished that is why he was called
Edom Jacob replied first sell me your
birthright look I’m about to die Esau
said what good is the birthright to me
but Jacob swear to me first
but Jacob said swear to me first so he
swore an oath to him selling his
birthright to Jacob then Jacob gave Esau
some bread and some lentil stew he ate
and drank and then got up and left
so I saw despised his birthright go back
to verse 20 says after this his brother
came out with his hand grasping Esau’s
heel I want to talk to you about
grasping the moment father in the name
of Jesus I pray that the word would be
vain flesh while it’s being preached
allow me to flow freely and the gift
that you’ve given me and share openly
the conversation that you’ve shared in
me through me to them allow Oh God the
Holy Spirit to take the message that has
germinated inside of me and let it be
meat and sustenance to the souls of the
people both here and online give birth
this morning give birth in this place in
the name of Jesus we pray
somebody shout a man you may be seated
in the presence of God on your way down
just say grass the moment you know
there’s there’s so much to be said here
because this particular chapter deals
with the lineage and the order they
first came out of Abraham it mentions
what came out of Abraham three major
three of the biggest most pronounced
religions in this world claimed to have
come out of Abraham whether you’re
talking about Islam or whether you’re
talking about Christianity or whether
you’re talking about Judaism they all
trace back to Abraham I was standing at
the Wailing Wall and I was thinking
about the the commonality and the
centricity of our faith intersects at
Abraham from that point forward it
divides into a lot of different
dispersed ideologies and concepts but we
agree on Abraham so I want you to
understand that whenever God gets ever
ever gets ready to do anything he does
it with the power of one so I want to
talk about the power of one because you
were one and everything starts not with
the board not with the committee not
with the vote everything starts with one
the power of change begins with one
whether it is one Nelson Mandela
or whether it is one woman who decides
to sit out on a bus or whether it is one
person that decides we should be able to
fly or whether it is one person that
invents a telephone it starts with one
one person you have to decide first of
all this morning if you’re going to be
the one or are you going to be the
person who’s always waiting the only
some one God creates all men from one
man
it starts with one the power of one sub
I shot one the whole the LORD thy God is
one and beside him there is no other God
goes to break it he says there’s never
been a God before me and there’d never
be a God after me I alone alone alone I
all one alone or one I owe one am God so
when God got ready to make something in
his image he created one man and out of
that one man though he has three parts
like God out of that one man all of the
creation came out a 1 and the destinies
of those creations began with one
somebody say I’m the one you don’t sound
like you the one I’m I’m the one that’s
what’s wrong now this if I’m tired to be
in the wood I’m the one that has to work
and I’m the one that has to go get the
groceries and I’m the one they gotta pay
the bills and I’m the one that’s gotta
cook and I’m the one who’s gotta wash
dishes and I’m the one who got to take
the kids to school I’m the one it
stuffed with you’re the one
somebody said I’m the one
you’ve got to understand that you’re the
one so that you will stop being
intimidated by other people and their
gifts and their talents and their
destiny you have to understand I’m the
one if you don’t want to say you’re the
one you won’t understand why you’re
being attacked like you’re being
attacked
whenever the enemy knows that the one is
coming he always sets traps to stop them
from succeeding because they’re the one
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he always sends out somebody to destroy
them they are always on the hit list
because he’ll knows that he is the one I
want to talk to some people that have
been up on the crazy attack attack that
makes no sense
attack the blindsided you attack that
came out of nowhere
attack on another level that doesn’t
even line up with your situation I want
you to understand what the enemy
understands about you is that you are
the one and for him whom much is given
much is required and so the tech starts
out talking about Abraham because
Abraham is the one and Abraham had to
move out from his country and away from
his kindred because he was the one so he
was a misfit because he was the one so
he think it’s his fame with his kinfolks
because he was the one so he had to live
in isolation and separation because he
was the one so he probably was lonely
because he was the one and it took a
long time for it to materialize his
significance because he was the one and
so he was traveling nomadically as a
misfit from place to place
never fitting in with any group no group
would take him because he was the one
and so I’m talking to some people who
have always been a little isolated never
been accepted never been a part of the
crowd he’s always
that’s because you are I’m the one you
probably not gonna like me because I’m
the one I’m a little strange I’m the one
I don’t fit in I don’t say yes what I
mean though I don’t say no when I mean
here’s I don’t scratch what I’m not
itching I don’t roll over without a
fight cuz I am the one I understand that
I am the one and I am willing to be
controversial because I am the one when
you are the one you are supposed to be
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touching every time I change the world
I’m gonna change the world I want you to
know I’m gonna change the world I’m
gonna change the world
I’m gonna change the world I’m not gonna
leave it like I found it I’m gonna
change the world
I refuse to be born and die and leave no
sign that I was here I am the one I will
not just breathe air and drink water and
eat food and not changed anything I’m
gonna change something
somebody somewhere somehow some kind of
way I’m gonna make a dip of mark a
scratch or scrape because I am the one
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so you hear them say give me the power
because I’m the one yeah yeah yeah
glorify me with the glory that I had
with you before the foundations of the
world give me the power to do what you
had in mind when you created me because
I am the one don’t let me get distracted
in pettiness and small-mindedness and
fighting things that make no difference
because I don’t recognize my own
significance I am the one so I don’t
have to win you because I am the one and
you don’t have to like me because I am
the one and you don’t have to support me
because I am the one and I already
understand that I got to leave my
country and my kindred and walk by
myself because I am the one someone
talked about the power of one
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some of us stopped begging for people to
come into agreement with you so you
stopped doing polls and census and
trying to get everybody to come into
consensus with your vision so that you
won’t need nobody to save men with your
preach because you already know that you
got heaven save a man the power1 one
person starts a company one cup one
person starts a ministry one person
opens up a home for unwed mother one
person has a vision to decrease domestic
valve one woman decides I should have
the right to vote one one I am the one
you are one thought away from all your
needs being met you’re one one person
with one thought can turn the world
upside down
one person with one thought what one one
person thought one person thought one
person thought I’m gonna make this phone
I’m gonna make this phone so small it’ll
fit in his [ __ ] and I’m gonna make
him able to communicate with all kinds
of people all over the world and one
person decide well let’s put the app set
head and one person said we’ll put it
out on the world walkway about one
person said we’re gonna call we’re gonna
measure their gigabyte so one person 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 1 that’s why the devil wants
to keep your mind on all kinds of things
that don’t make any sense
because one person has one factory that
has one idea that could change the world
in fact I gotta get off this point I’m
spend too much time on it
but let me tell you some God didn’t
promise you but one he said if you bring
the tithes and offerings in the
storehouse that there might be meat in
my house he said prove me now herewith
if I will not open up the windows of
heaven and pour you out a blessing one
blessing will do you the rest of your
life God said I can grant it you one
time and you’ll spend the rest of your
life trying to harvest what I did and
one moment in your life I could make you
pregnant with everything at one time I
will pour you out a blessing that you
will not have room enough to receive he
said I come dip with me I’m gonna give
you more than you expected
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so the one abraham has one son isaac and
isaac marries one woman named Rebecca
and as he marries Rebecca and Rebecca
cannot conceive children and I thought
to myself in that funny because his mama
couldn’t either and isn’t it funny how
they say you end up marrying your mama
some version of your mother I don’t know
what that means to you you pray about it
is up to you but I can see all the men
thinking about it well but it makes
sense because your mother is your first
introduction to femininity she defines
to you good or bad what a woman is
rightly or wrongly she affects her
choices and out of the Barren womb of
Sarah came Isaac and he ends up married
to a barren wound because he came from a
very boy and he has experience with this
problem because now he’s got to fight
his daddy’s devil
so he’s married to this one woman who
cannot produce a child and and he prays
and they pray together and she is with
child
but he strange pregnancy strange she is
the first woman in the Bible that we
clearly understand point to the power of
two because she is pregnant with twins
and she says why am i us I don’t look
like the other pregnant women in the
village I have something going on in my
stomach I got two so we’re talking about
the power – we went from the power of 1
to the power to the texicans from the
power of 1 to the power of 2 God why am
I in such inner turmoil and then God
explains to her God says two things he
said there are two people in you there
are two people in youth there are two
distinct people in you now there there
are two types of twins
there are fraternal twins and identical
twins fraternal twins are twins where
two different sperm cells touch two
different eggs and produce two different
people they share the same room so they
are born simultaneously but they are
distinctive individually because they
grew in the same womb breathe the same
air but they don’t look like twins but
they are twins because they were two of
them they don’t look alike but they came
out with the same birthday because they
are fraternal they have a fraternity but
they have an individuality
they are fraternal twins identical twins
aren’t much different because identical
twins are where one sperm cell and egg
cells split so they got the same knows
that they got to say my eyes and they
have the same chin and they got the same
look cuz it really was one person that
split so they talk alike and they often
dress alike and they say the same things
at the same time because they are one
identical twins identical twins Rebecca
is not pregnant with identical twins if
she is not pregnant with our difficult
worth she is pregnant with fraternal
twins two distinctly different people
sharing the same space the power of two
now the power of two is a great thing
when they’re in agreement Jesus says if
two of you agree as touching anything on
earth it shall be done and if she had
two people inside of her that were in
agreement it would be a peaceful
pregnancy
but the problem with Rebecca is the two
distinct individual people that she has
inside of her has two completely
different personalities and they are
already fighting for territory in the
world so there’s a war going on in her
belly and it’s funny because god said to
her you got two people inside of you and
then god says if this shows you how far
God sees she’s pregnant so he sees
people while she’s pregnant so God does
count pregnant as people
I don’t go there
God does count pregnant as people he
says you had two people in you why does
God count pregnant as people because
face call scenes that are not as though
they were because God is not bound by
time he doesn’t wait for you to be born
to know you he told your mom before I
formed thee in the belly I’d lose me I
ordained thee I sanctified thee I knew
you before your mama saw you so while
she’s pregnant trying to understand this
moment in her life God is already
looking beyond the moment and saying
that that that that in your belly is two
different people okay those are
fraternal twins they’re two different
people and then he looks down through
time and says there are two different
nations so God is talking about license
and people while she is praying about
babies and the reason you don’t
understand God’s answers is because you
are praying about your present and God
is answering about your future oh my god
oh my god
god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my
god oh my god and you saying Lord get me
out of this
and God says this doesn’t matter I had
to take you through this to get that to
come out of you inside of you I’m going
somewhere with this glory to God and the
fighting starts in the womb and when out
started reading about Jacob and Esau
which we haven’t even gotten to talk
about their names yet then I’m gonna go
ahead and do a spoiler alert when you
start talking about Jacob and Esau being
at war in the womb causing their mother
to have a disorder in her pregnancy I
went to the seventh chapter of the book
of Romans and thought oh my god
Paul is pregnant when he writes when I
would do good evil is present with me
there’s a war going on in my members my
lot in agreement inside of myself that
which I would do I do not that which I
would not do I do
o wretched man that I am I’m approving
who shall deliver me all y’all ain’t
ready for me let me go home
some have gone into delivery who shall
deliver me from this fraternal twins
that exists down inside of me there in
one person but they’re two different
people
evil and good are always fighting inside
of me every day I hate to mess with you
but there are no good people and bad
people yeah
good people that got bad in them they’re
bad people that got good in them there’s
a war going on you don’t get to be you
without a fight I had to fight my
brothers I had to fight ice well for God
oh you’ve been fighting all your life
you’ve been fighting in your sleep you
wake up tired in the morning because
there’s a war going on in your members
there’s a war going on in your members
and the Bible talks about the power of
the two now what you must notice Esau
comes out first now is talking about
order because when God talks about two
there must be order what God talks about
two there must be order what God talks
about two there has to be order because
order defines agreement so the Bible
says it’s not just enough that you know
that there are two people and that there
are two Mason’s coming out of you it is
important that you understand the order
Esau came out first say that Esau came
out first
yeah and the Bible says that he was read
and Harry now this is one of the few
times that God describes a baby so if
God describes the baby you know how we
do when people bring you their baby
and you look over the crib and you say
oh well I can’t say that there’s a sale
oh and heaven
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it wasn’t real bad I say jiminy
Christmas I can’t give you all my
secrets now you trying to remember what
I said what I saw you back out just easy
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why does God why does God describe the
baby take the time to tell us that the
baby is born
hairy and red I almost called this
message red alert because the
significance of the red it is important
he is red and hairy and then the next
one comes out and and he hasn’t been
named yet he is named by what he did the
next one comes out and as he comes out
he has got Esau by the heel and he has
grasped his heel the fight continues it
just changed territories oh god I was
ahead tack the fight continues like the
fight between good and evil continues
like it started in heaven it fell to the
earth realm it just changes tear toys
see you got to get used to fight
you keep waiting for the fight to be
over as soon as you finish this fight
you’ll know it’s finished by the next
fight the graduation from the first
fight is the next fight so they fought
in the womb now they’re being born from
one world into the next world
and even in the next world they still
fighting so Lucifer fell from heaven and
the fight continues in the earth realm
watch this
Jacob comes out pulling Esau by the heel
he grasped it by the heel I don’t care
we’re coming out or not I’m still
pulling at you I’m still pulling at you
because evidently you weren’t supposed
to come out first
I’m still fighting for my rightful place
two circumstances you got to drop on me
and you came out first but I’m still
fighting for my rightful place because I
am the one you might have come out first
but you are not going give it to me the
kingdom separate violence and the
violent take it by foot y’all ain’t
ready for me there’s more there are
somethings that are yours but you gotta
fight for it there are some things that
God is gonna give you but you gotta
fight for it there are somethings that
God telling you is yours but you gotta
fight for it
cuz that evil twin you got he’s trying
to sabotage everything God has for you
you got to let me tell all of my Latino
brothers and sisters all my white
brothers and sisters there’s a saying in
our community when a black woman takes
off her earrings
if you are ever arguing with a sister
and she get to fussing and she started
pulling off her earrings some of you in
here right now you need to pull off your
earrings
take off your cute heels push you in a
fight and if you don’t glass this moment
you don’t have time to play you don’t
have time to chase down robots you don’t
have time to worry about who’s killed
you got touch omegas I’m about to pull
my earrings off this more
I’m not gonna live and die and not get
what God has for me oh my god so number
three I’m talking about the power of the
struggle the power of the struggle
always continues can I take my time this
morning I have lived my life all kinds
of ways I know what it is to have a
small church tiny itsy-bitsy little
Church where you got to drive the
members back home you go by and pick
them up when I blow for you be ready I
know what it is to work 40 hours a week
and put my my whole check in the church
to keep it going
I know what it is to have my lights off
and my water off and my gas off not all
at the same time but what they took
turns the gas would tag the water and
say tag you in the water would tag the
electricity say it’s your buf take them
on out this part they need to be in the
dog this month we’re gonna let them have
something to drink but dangle be able to
see where to go get it
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I know the struggle of clipping coupons
I know what it is to get to the grocery
counter and have to put stuff back wow
people looking at you like you crazy
and say well I don’t really need that I
was just teasing
we don’t really leave no telling if
people put that out back
we were just kidding waiter wheeler we
don’t really have to have that could
these diapers
we got Jesus and I thought to myself
self if you ever get up on your feet
if you have a stand straight up with all
your utilities old at the same time if
you ever get where you can go to the
grocery store without a calculator if
you ever get to the point that you ain’t
got a pocket full of coupons your
troubles will be over well let me tell
you something that’s wrong because you
just go to fighting from this level to
fighting on that level the fight will
always continue big church little church
lots of money no money
big crowd no crowd there’s always
something that bites you back because
strength is developed through resistance
oh my god I think I’m a tweet that
myself strength is developed through
resistance and the reason God allows
struggle to come in your life so you can
find out what you’re working with
recognize who you are stand on your own
two feet
did you stop crying about what you going
through if it ain’t this it’s gonna be
bad
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I’ve been patient here almost 23 years
and still sometimes when I come over the
hill and I see the parking lot full and
the crowd back up I still can’t believe
it but that don’t mean I don’t have
struggles it just means I graduated to
another level of the struggle I had so I
use the strip’s from the struggle I had
against the struggle I have right now
that’s why the battle said it was good
for me that I was afflicted that’s why
the devil Kate chased me out of town
cousin go fight cut my teeth on a fight
in the wound in the delivery room you
just gotta make up your mind that
fighting is normal oh ain’t nobody
dancing now
he grass he saw by the heel but the
position is not lying right in the Bible
says to his mama Rebecca he says in the
Word of God that the elder shall serve
the younger
now let’s translate this out of the
context of the text into the turbulence
of you you the human you and the divine
you the human you and the divine you are
still youth they still wear the same
suit they got on the same tennis shoes
they were in the same shirt they came
out at different times I was born during
the night 1957 I was born again
September 1972 and the trial of my life
is to make sure that the elder
y’all did get better for me this book
junkie HIPAA that kind of stuff y’all
can handle that the Bible said that the
elder shall serve the younger from
trying to make the old me sad the new me
I don’t give you 30 minutes to get a
good praise out
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this is a moment this is a moment this
is a moment this is a moment this is a
moment this is a moment this is enormous
this is about some of y’all missed it
when I told you to praise the Lord
something y’all just looking around with
your cute self the subject of the sermon
is grass the moment that’s what’s wrong
with you now when other people are
taking action you are looking around
when I say praise the Lord let
everything
everything that happened Pacey the law
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slap your neighbor and tell him I’m
getting ready to grass the moment
I’m gonna read ransom over so if you
nervous you better get out of the way
I’m getting ready to grass this moment
because I’m getting ready to go after
what God has promised me if you don’t
like little boys you might want to get
up and move because I have about to
grasp it’s unseemly but I’m gonna grasp
it it’s weird
but imma grasp it I don’t understand it
but I’m gonna grasp it cuz this mod just
is your moment
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I rebuke every devil who told you you
yesterday was your best day the devil is
Allah Jeff is show movement
slap your neighbors say this is my
moment right now to blast this mother
right now if you don’t give it took me
almost smashing
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here let me tell you how I always love
I’m about to have a moment with ever I’m
about to have a moment I always have an
attack some kind of struggle breaks out
in my life as a sign that I’m about to
give birth I want everybody that’s been
in a struggle
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see the struggle is always a distraction
the struggle is always a distraction for
what God is about to do in my life and
the enemy wants me to be so focused on
the struggle that I miss the moment
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Oh
I’ll let nothing stop rightly me the
height Lord death law power law
principality please
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watch Fred moment
that’s what the Lord told me them cows
oh yes
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I’m getting rid of the grass good I’m
getting rid of the grass fit that means
I might be unseemly I might get out of
order I might get on your nurse I might
do something that’s unprecedented we
never hear of this happening again where
two babies are born and one is snatching
at the other one what are they coming
out sometimes in order to get a
breakthrough you gotta get on Orthodox
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I’m gonna go deeper the elder the elder
shall serve the younger
Esau shall serve Jacob favorites shall
serve Z Adam shall serve Jesus your
flesh
you will get this until you make your
flesh serve your spirit you gotta bring
your flesh of under subjection you gotta
bring your laughs up under subjection
you got to bring your pride of under
subjection you gotta bring your
selfishness upon the subjection because
the elder shall serve
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or your e-shelf now what happened what
happened I thought you were Sheldon did
you really think you were gonna grass
the moment without struggle did you
think you would grass a moment without
sacrifice do you really think you will
grass the moment talk about I gotta be
Li you don’t get to be you you don’t get
to do you boo you got to do him and not
you you’ve got to make your elder serve
your younger in the natural I’m 62 in
the spiritual about 45 so my 62 gotta
serve my 45
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jumping hammer this so they fight now
you and they was fighting in there and
now to fight now here Satan that God was
added in heaven then they go to the
wilderness and they’re added in the
earth different dimensions same struggle
you will have different dimensions of
the same struggle the strength you got
from your first struggle prepares you
for your next
so what I went through in Charleston got
me ready for Dallas if I had in the head
of Charleston I couldn’t handle the
Dallas but I got $2 someplace I had
never been before on with the strip that
I learned in Dallas that’s what’s wrong
with certain success sudden success
didn’t allow you to grow dimensionally
from faith to faith and from glory to
glory Davison I don’t fool with things
that are too hard for me
you don’t want nobody to give you
anything you didn’t earn because stress
preparation for the next level so that’s
well now now watch this because this is
important this is important they found
in the belly they fought in the birth
they fought in the belly they fought in
the birth and the next thing they grow
up and they fight over the bowl the
belly the birth the bowl the belly the
birth the bowl and all this text is
talking about dimensional warfare in
order to bring things into divine
alignment there will be dimensional
warfare the belly the birth the bowl so
it doesn’t talk about them growing up it
goes from the birth to now they’re grown
and it describes how different they are
grown they were different in the belly
they were different in the birth they
are now different at the bowl it says
that that Jacob was kind of a mama’s boy
he had to be his daddy didn’t like him
if I had a mystery not where that out
and and and so he’s good at what mom’s
good at the anointing you respect is
your knowing you receive so Jacob can do
what Rebecca can do are you follow me
let me let them let me let me let me let
me let me get into this
Jacob can do what his mama can do but
Jacob is important because Jacob is the
one that spreads the lineage it shall
not come to Esau now Isaac doesn’t pay
much attention to Jacob well Jacob is
serving Isaac according to the Talmud
the particular meal he prepared is in
honor of his father meaning he’s a
mama’s boy but he got daddy hungry Esau
has the favor of his father because he’s
good at what his father lacks his father
likes venison he’s good at killing at
hunting he has his father’s favor but
he’s not supposed to
Isaac has picked Esau but God God has
been Jacob the reason I got happy there
see I know what it’s like to not be the
one that everybody was expected and yet
God has picked you when people have
stepped over top of you looking for
somebody else but God is about to do the
unexpected in your right I want to talk
to some people that’s been picked over
stepped over cast aside and look over
baby this word is for you
the stone that the builders rejected
that’s the one God always chooses
surprise
watch this Esau comes in the house
hungry we pass over all of their
childhood experiences we come down to
their hunger point for the power of
choice is always based on your values
how you choose the decisions you make
will always tell me what you value Esau
comes in hungry he comes in hungry he
comes in hungry flesh is hungry flesh is
always flesh is always hungry your flesh
my flesh
his flesh her flesh young flesh old
flesh flesh is always hungry later in
the New Testament it will use Esau as a
type of fornication and lust because
flesh always wants something they not
shouting now like they was before I told
you to work more like this part when I
got down to this this
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he’s always so hungry and he values
flesh over spirit so he says give me
some what you got in that pot and what
Jacob was cooking let me taste some
Jacob don’t despise your gift because
your gift is gonna make room for you I
know it’s not a gift that people want to
recognize but it’s a gift that God is
going to use to open up the next
dimension this is a prophetic word for
somebody who wishes you had a gift
somewhere else
no God’s gonna take the gift that he
gave you and it’s gonna make room and
bring you before a great man and though
it looks like you’re ain’t doing nothing
sitting around in the house cooking
beans who would have thought that God
would have a bowl of soup into a moment
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he saw busted the door he said hey Jacob
man I’m hungry
Jacobson you know I can cook
you know it’s good you smell it don’t
you smell it don’t you
and then the Bible tells us something
that things are necessary it tells us
that the soup is red the red man what’s
red suit and I had to read it over and
over here because whip whip whip when
when I saw saw the soup the red soup
cooking in the pot the boy who was born
read values what he is flesh always
values what it is I’m coming here watch
this
you are no greater than your choices
your choices are built up for your
values whatever you value is what you’re
going to choose esau chose what he was
the red man chose the red too and he
didn’t value his birthright he said what
good is my birthright
when i’m hungry like this he had
something that he didn’t value and
anytime you have something that you
don’t value you will always lose it
somebody who knows the word on a sound
right there anytime you have something
or somebody or some job or some place or
some opportunity that you do not value
you will always lose what you do you
ought to see the couples
tried not to nod I saw one lady put a
negative brace but a toe was jumping up
and down says say it Mitchell say it say
it Julie you better value this here
right there you better but you better
value this right here don’t think I’m
gonna stay where I’m not very easy but a
him watch it watch whatever you value
will come to you whatever you don’t
value you will lose it can be more
valuable but if you don’t value it you
will lose it I cannot tell you how many
people in this room who know what it is
to grieve over the fact that you lost
something that you now know the value of
but didn’t appreciate in the moment can
I get a witness
watch this so if you want to change your
choices you have to change what you
value you have to change what your value
you have to change what your value which
means you gotta have something that we
are not good at delayed gratification
you ain’t going back hunger is temporary
discomfort we are wrestling between
temporary discomfort and long-term
benefit never make a permanent decision
over a temporary condition over what he
gave up was a permanent generational
blessing that effective today
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vegans don’t
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this boy and the reason this message is
important is because you’re right on the
cusp of something and your values are
gonna make a difference because your
values are going to determine your
choices and if you value the right thing
you will suffer for it
you will wait for it you will endure for
you will sacrifice forth you will know
that the long term benefit outweighs the
immediate gratification the reason you
give people money and they always spend
it is because we go for short-term
gratification I don’t want to be rich I
want to look rich
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I don’t want to be smart I want to act
smart so I will drive this bitly right
up to the hook and I will spend my money
on depreciating assets because they make
me look good in the moment but I won’t
have anything in appreciating assets
because I cannot stand delayed
gratification I want to have it now so I
got nothing safe but I look
[Laughter]
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I got nothing to give to my children I
can’t send my kids to school I can’t
start my own business but I am the
sharpest pressing on the block if I
trade it in these heels I could pay this
mortgage
I got red-bottom shoes on and I’m three
months behind on the mortgage because
red always wants to eat ready to make
better choices
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help you with something this important
so sambar bad house in West Virginia I
bought my house in West Virginia and I
was driving an old Lincoln and it was
old and it looked bad and the big
preacher came to town preacher said to
me said you can’t have all of this house
and that Brad that rust-bucket up to
that house I said ride this rust bucket
is what bought this house
touch somebody say wait for it yeah
there’s something that God is about to
do in your life but you gotta be willing
to wait for it there’s something that
God is about to give you let’s go change
your destiny but you gotta be willing to
wait forward either you don’t wear
designer clothes or gods don’t make your
name great and they don’t be wearing
your name but you got away even you will
watch foolish or you won’t make foolish
but you gotta be willing home country
people say wait for it wait for save for
labor for wait for crap for do without
for God is about to open up the windows
of heaven and pour you out a blessing
Who am I talking to
the enemy tricked you into picking that
bad boy so that when that good man came
along you would walk here with see
deadbeat Danny because you wouldn’t wait
sir you are no better than your next
choice you are no better they said whoa
you are no better than your next choice
the greatest one of the greatest gifts
God ever gave man was the power to
choose the power to choose I won’t make
you be save I said before you life and
death you choose that’s part of your
godlike nature the ability to make a
decision I’m gonna bring all the animals
before you Adam you name them and the
power of your choice
I choose to call that a giraffe I choose
to call that a deer it will be whatever
you say it is
your choice determines your change your
choice determines your change God is
going to offer it to you your values
will determine whether you are worthy of
it
Jacob is cooking soup Esau has a bat
right that will affect thousands of
years and all of his children and Jacob
is over there just cooking this is the
moment the moment is determined by
choice not who they like the best not
who came out first not how they
struggled this is the moment that all of
heaven is peeking over the balcony to
see the choice because the choice
determines the change you are not going
to get to your next destination just by
prayer
I hate to mess with you I hate to mess
with your mind but prayer will not be
enough it will be my choice I thought
for sure for sure before I went back and
studied the text I thought for sure that
he saw his name change to eat them from
which came the [ __ ] which means red
I thought it happened at birth but it
didn’t they didn’t change his name to
eat him which caused all his descendants
to be the [ __ ] who ended up
possessing the territory that we now
call Jordan and a little bit of Joe of
what is Israel – was their dwelling
place it did not happen at birth it did
not happen at birth it happened at the
Bogle
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when he looked at the red suit and
thought it was more valuable than his
birthright when he looked at the
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depreciating asset and didn’t value the
appreciating asset when he looked at the
gratification of the moment rather than
the reality of the process when he
looked at exciting the crowd as a
preacher but not studying at home to
know the methods
see that’s what’s wrong with where we
got right now we got a lot of people who
want to look like what they are not they
don’t want to really do the work so they
wait for somebody else to preach
something so they can take it they don’t
want to study cuz that takes too much
time they don’t want to lay out before
God and say Lord what is your word for
my people do you not know I go before
God for you
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every Sunday I preach I listened to Adam
argue on social media that was for me no
child that was for me
oh no you might have thought it was for
you but I swear [ __ ] have been living
in my house your house but the Holy
Ghost has been living in your house
because I labor for God God gives me
your word I don’t deal you don’t have to
make some choices I guarantee you this
word is God prepping you for your next
choice cannot be based on your biggest
pain stop shooter stop cuz you hug
to them people cuz you heard the rap
will go away but the passion is still
[Applause]
I’m not just preaching to you before God
God give me what these people need in a
way that they can said that you always
draw what you value that you’re doing it
to you you end up with the man you
deserve you end up with what you value
we end up with the president we value
our presidents are not anything but a
reflection choices always value or the
like thereof so what you see going on
outwardly is always a reflection of what
started going on in wordly because it
determines what your father now our
choice is coming and you have to be
strong enough to go long enough in pain
for a greater vision of what God is
about to do in your life this choice
changed his name changed his children
had he not made this choice God would
later tell Moses I am the God of Abraham
Isaac and Esau had he not given up his
birthright his children would have been
the heads of the tribes of the children
that we know as Israel but for a bowl of
soup the Jewish Talmud said that Esau
spent the rest of his life trying to get
that birthright back and even in death
that he was bringing gold and silver
trying to get the right to be buried in
the supper car over his father’s because
by the time his values caught up with
his life he had lost point five the
moment the power of the moment the power
of the moment is not retroactive there
are some moments you will never have a
bigger
there are some things that once you lose
them you will never get a do-over again
the Bible said he saw repentance with
many tears what is this a God said
repent repent always works but not this
time because this time it is the power
of the moment doing the right thing at
the right time will determine the right
outcome if you missed the moment all of
heaven is suspended the Chronicles could
not be written until the choice was made
this choice will determine the rest of
the book but God already knew what he
was going to do and he chose on the
level he was not on the order of his
birth because he was in a position he
wasn’t and he sucked to the level of who
he really was he was a soup guy in a
Prince’s place and so he valued low and
he miss his moment there is a moment
spent in your feet there is a moment
that’s not our córdoba’s Jimmy Jimmy
could hear me him in church please
please give me there is a moment that
God will give you that will determine
how enough story there is a moment that
if you discern the power of no devil in
hell can stop you from your destiny in
that moment who would have thought that
after all of Jacob’s fighting he will
win the battle with a bowl of soup some
of you that have been struggling for
years for what is rightfully yours and
all your fussing and all your fighting
had got it done God’s gonna use your
gifts
I don’t know whether you can receive it
here maybe somebody watching right now
streaming online of this is for you
you’ve been wronged all your life you’ve
never had your rightful portion you’ve
never been acknowledged to the place
that you should have been you always
suspected that your situation there is a
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[Music]
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preaching – these are about two ships
watch this and it’s got a shift in a
moment
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after years of struggle
after years of inequity and injustice
and misfortune after years of being
stepped over and overlooked after years
of crime itself to sleep and saying why
didn’t daddy like me after years of not
getting what he knew and inside of
himself was religious everything shifted
in a moment you don’t even see it coming
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you don’t even suspect it’s gonna happen
you have decided I’m gonna make the best
of how things are you said it here’s
what it is know what it is it’s about to
ship all about creature
[Applause]
sounded a little sad I heard the Lord
saying I’m gonna give you a moment and
what you do with that moment is up to
you hear ye the word of the Lord God is
going to give you a moment and what you
do with that moment is up to you
my subject is Christ the moments Jacob
was a fighter in his Mama’s belly
he was a fighter in the belly he was a
fighter in the birth he was a fighter in
the bowl he was a fighter even when God
confronted him he was a fighter over his
life
he wrestled with God in stressful if he
saw that shunda Kolchak
you have had to fight all the you’ll
hear me today after years of struggle
and being tough and sucking it up and
dealing with what you got a deal with
God said I’m about to give you a
moment’s and if you will grasp that
moments I will open up the windows of
heaven and pour you out a blessing
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[Music]
if I’m preaching to you lift your hands
open your mouth and let nothing but
praise come out of your mouth
nothing but praise let it out like the
fighter you are
like the worshiper you are black the
plays on you are
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I’m getting ready to Prince for somebody
and something is gonna happen in this
place the stage has said the Spirit of
the Lord is here the anointing of the
Holy Ghost is in this place right here
right now right here right now right
here right now God is about to do
something amazing
quickly listen at this Sarah Jordan
power saw me at the main D Center I was
up in the balcony listening at Fred
price all the way in the nosebleed
section at the very top of the top of
the table she brought me down to the
front row because she knew me because I
had invited her to sing for Mother’s Day
and a small meeting in Charleston West
Virginia there probably weren’t
particularly memorable to her because we
had 300 people and it was a big deal for
us but she was Sarah Jordan Powell
analysis
I wouldn’t pdj calestous Thompson
Minister Jake tell the Jake’s them she
brought me down to the front row and she
said after service I’m gonna introduce
you to Canton DS and she walked to the
corner stage and Carlton was getting
ready to go in the back and she see
Carlton I want you to read a passage
eggs from West Virginia and he said oh
he said I don’t know and he put his hand
on my chest he said but he sounds like a
preacher he invited me in the back for
the big muckety-mucks go in my little
hillbilly suit and I went back in the
bath and I ate some Franklin stuff shook
hands met some people got out of there
later I’ve had an invitation to speak
for his leadership conference at his
church me brian keith williams said mark
Hamby Wednesday Thursday and Friday he
put all we were so insignificant that
they put us all together on his show and
showed clips of each one of us preacher
cuz none of us had real big names not
like Oral Roberts and him at the time
and he played a seven minute clip
and and the clip that they chose of my
sermon the sermon was called behind
closed doors but everybody calls it
show me your holes because that was a
clip that they showed and they showed
this little clip of me talking about
Jesus showing his wounds Paul Crouch was
writing a book I had no father but God
and was struggling with whether to tell
his whole story or not and he happened
to turn on TBN during the 7 minute clip
that I was preaching about show me your
horse
he called called a person and said this
is big black papper preacher
sweating all over the place on your TV
show right now who is he he said well
that’s that Jade Skye from West Virginia
if Paul would have got up to eat a ham
sandwich
if he would I had to go to the bathroom
he would have missed that clip when God
gives you a moment
here we’ll put you in the right place
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from the foundations this is no time to
be weary and well going this is no time
to be discouraged this is no time to be
depressed this is no time to decide you
not go get it
this is no time to have a pity party
about all the stupid things you did this
is no time for you to worry about who
you are in your humanity this is a time
to grasp Jacob didn’t get it because he
was holy he didn’t get it because he was
perfect he was carnal and fleshly and he
– his name meant trickster he got it
because he grasped
God will look over look everything you
did wrong if you will get this thing
right join hands with somebody leave no
one untouched
check out the grip if they ain’t got no
grip let them go
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because I’m preaching about grasp in the
moment and this is not for anybody that
will not grass
squeezing hang lettle notice how that
how no graphs this thing that’s how no
grass this opportunity that I’m gonna
dress it that I’m gonna lay hold on it
that’s how I’m gonna drip what God has
given me it might not look like much it
might only look like soup I might be lad
that they might have said I’m a mama’s
boy but I’m about to have a moment
squeeze your head the power of the Holy
Ghost is about to erupt in your life you
better overlook the Overlook you may
like your sister better but God is
getting ready to do something in your
life that’s gonna blow your mind squeeze
that hand
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I’m forgetting what’s behind me I’m
forgetting what’s behind me and grasping
what’s in front of me grasping what’s in
front of me I’m grasping what God is
about to do