Your days of complacency are over. Just when you thought you could settle for where you’re at, God will send a “Peninnah” to shake things up. Who’s Peninnah, you ask? She’s the person who irritates you, calls you out, exposes your stagnancy, and it’s not to tear you down; it’s to save you from mediocrity. According to 1 Samuel 1:4-15, that’s what she did for Hannah! Peninnah teased Hannah for her barrenness and, at the same time, stirred up her purpose to give birth. Are you provoked to purpose? Now, it’s your moment to PUSH!

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first samuel chapter 1 verse 4 4-15 and

if you’re able to stand please do so as

we go into the word of god

i know it’s been a while now but i’m

still just so glad to have real people

to preach to

after preaching to chairs and empty

seats for two years

glory to god i don’t care to put

mannequins in

i’m just happy to see you

amen

when we go into the word today

on this special

day a commemorative

holiday that

that is a natural holiday it’s not a

biblical holiday but it’s an important

day

where we appreciate mothers

and recognize that they are in part the

source from which we come

that god has invited them into the

creative process with him

that he incubates his destiny in the

wounds of women

what a tremendous responsibility

that god would trust you with what’s

next

that he would set it off with you and

you will never

see the completion so don’t be

frustrated if it doesn’t look like what

you want it to look like right now

because you will not see the completion

of all that god is going to do

through your offspring

come on say man somebody

we come into a situation where god is

about to turn things around

and he’s going to turn him around in a

mighty way

but the people through whom he’s going

to turn it around are oblivious to the

fact that the change is going to come

through them

because often god grooms greatness in

obscurity

and you don’t even know that you’re

chosen

in fact they think they are ordinary

but god is about to do something

extraordinary in their lives

a gentleman

i’m preaching already

it’s not like you come born into the

world with a stamp on your head that

says i’m getting ready to do something

amazing in your life

in fact you can live half of your life

or even most of your life and not know

that the next turn is going to

revolutionize

your entire life

and because you don’t know it sometimes

you can be complacent and i’m going to

spend a lot of time dealing with

complacency because we don’t recognize

that god is going to do something

extraordinary in our lives because this

family is an ordinary family according

to the times that they lived in and

they’re fairly affluent i don’t know i

don’t want to be presumptuous and say

rich but they were well enough off to be

able to travel and to go and to worship

god and to travel a distance and the the

very fact that elkanah has two wives is

a sign of being prosperous

will make you broke

i have not gotten to the point that i

can afford to have two

so i’m still working on el cana i have

not gotten there yet but he has two

wives hannah and penina he is not

otherwise mentioned in the scriptures as

being particularly significant

and hannah often gets all of the

spotlight because hannah doesn’t know

who she is yet

she’s a grown woman who doesn’t know who

she is yet

she does not recognize who she is

but god uses the other wife

as a catalyst of conversion

so when we read it let’s read it

carefully because there’s a couple of

things i want to note whenever the day

came for el cana to sacrifice he would

give portions of the meat to his wife

benina and to all her sons and daughters

but but but to hannah

he gave a double portion because he

loved her

and the lord had closed

not

for your available family he does not

want her to appear before the lord

empty-handed

think about that for a minute

so he gives her a double portion because

he loves her to make as if she has what

she does not

because the lord had closed hannah’s

womb her rival

kept

provoking her

in order to irritate her

pay close attention to that word

provoked she kept provoking her in order

to irritate her

this went on year after year whenever

hannah went up to the house of the lord

her rival provoked her

till she wept

and would not she was fine

until penina provoked her

her husband alcana would say to her

hannah why are you weeping why don’t you

eat what why are you down-hearted don’t

i mean more to you than ten sons

once when they had finished eating once

when they had finished eating and

drinking in shallow

hannah stood up somebody say hannah

stood up

oh now eli the priest was sitting on his

chair by the doorpost of the lord’s

house

in her deep anguish hannah prayed to the

lord weeping bitterly

and she made a vow saying lord almighty

if you will only look on your servant’s

misery and remember me and not forget

your servant but give her a son

then i will give him to the lord for all

the days of his life and no razor will

ever be used on his head

as she kept on praying to the lord eli

observed her mouth

thought she was crazy

hannah was praying in her heart and her

lips were moving but her voice was not

hurt he thought she was drunk

and senator how long are you going to

stay drunk

put away your wine isn’t it funny how

people will be presumptuous

you see it all the time on facebook and

instagram and people will just make

presumptions about you as if they

actually knew what they were talking

about

she said not so my lord hannah replied i

am a woman who is deeply troubled i have

not been drinking wine or beer i was

pouring out my soul

i was pouring out my soul to the lord

leave me alone

leave me alone get out of my face

what i want you to see

i’m going to summarize in my title

provoked

to purpose

provoked

to purpose you would think that purpose

just

happened

but purpose doesn’t just happen they

went years just going through routine

until

she was provoked

to per she was irritated but then she

got provoked

when she got provoked that was the

turning of the tide

provoked is not a good feeling

it is an uncomfortable irritating

feeling

it is a scary annoying feeling

her husband tries to comfort her he is

unable to comfort her he is unable to

resolve the issue there are some

irritants

that should not be fixed

[Applause]

there are some irritants that are not

satanic

the spirit of the living god as i speak

today i pray that the word would be made

flesh in the lives of the people who

hear it

that transformation would occur in such

a supernatural way

that an illumination would occur in such

a way that somebody doesn’t even realize

they think that whatever they’re going

through is what they’re going through

but they don’t understand that what

they’re going through

is is right in online and in level with

what you’re about to do next in their

lives

they don’t even know they’re

extraordinary they think they’re

ordinary they think their situation is

just something that they have to deal

with and they don’t know that in order

to change the situation they have to be

provoked

not provoke to impress other people not

provoke to prove something to other

people but provoked

to to break away from complacency

because it is not good for us to be too

complacent

prepare our hearts to receive your word

in jesus name we pray

amen you may be seated in the presence

of god

yeah get ready get ready get ready

you can be complacent and not know it

you don’t always have the benefit of

having someone

in your ear raising you developing you

coming from a culture an environment a

family culture or environment that lends

itself to causing you to believe that

there is something exceptional that god

has planned for your life

and if you’re not careful most of us

settle

it is easy to settle

if i take this glass and i pour sand in

it and put a spoon in it and stir it up

i have to work to settle it to stir it

up but i have to do nothing for it to

settle

when i when i take the spoon out left to

its own devices

it settles

and when we settle we often settle into

a place of complacency

now complacency is defined like this it

is a feeling of quiet pleasure or

security

often while unaware of some potential

danger

or defect or the like

self-satisfaction or smug satisfaction

with an existing situation or condition

just satisfied just dissatisfied and in

and of itself that doesn’t sound bad

to be satisfied

what makes it bad is when we are

satisfied

with less

than what god has for us

and it it is easy to become satisfied

with less than what god has for us

because we don’t always know what god

has for us

and we don’t always understand what it

takes

to really revolutionize our lives and

come to a place where we really go after

what god has

it is difficult now to distinguish

between

like peace and faith

and things that we’re taught in church

and complacency

how do you determine the difference

between peace which is also a calm and a

subtle and a relaxation and complacency

so let’s distinguish it by saying

there’s a difference between trusting

god after you have done all you can do

as opposed to complacency is the

assumption that you can invest less

effort and still maintain

more responsibility

you get to the point in your mind that

you don’t think that you really have to

give your best because you’re in now

it let me break it down where you can

get it good it’s the difference between

the dating you and the married you

you’re in now

it’s the difference between your first

month on the job and your 10th year on

the job

complacency complacency begins to occur

when we no longer put our full effort

into becoming what god wants us to be we

are living in a world that creates two

polarized ideologies follow me i want

you to think with me a little while

we’re going to have church in a minute

but i want you to think for a little

while

the world the world has two polarizing

ideologies that i want to deal with one

is a deep feeling of inadequacy on one

hand you got people who feel inadequate

this is a voice that says your best is

not enough

and maybe you’re not enough

they live with an inferiority complex

an insecurity nothing they do is ever

applauded

within

it it doesn’t mean that it’s not

applauded outwardly

but but inwardly you never clap for you

you never appreciate your accomplishment

you’re off to the next battle you’re off

to the next thing and when you look back

at it there’s always something wrong

with it and you can always see what’s

wrong with it and you can never see

what’s right with it

you have been conditioned to see

yourself from a position of inferiority

often we seek affirmation from others it

makes you hungry for affirmation you’re

starving for affirmation see when you

clap for yourself you don’t desperately

need somebody else to clap for you

this is important it’s ruining our

relationships because we don’t often

marry because we we want companionship

we we sometimes marry because we want

affirmation

[Laughter]

so we assign to our spouse the job of

clapping

and as long as they clap we’re good

but the spouse eventually gets tired of

clapping

into the life of someone who’s leaking

if you’ve ever tried that no matter how

much you clap for them they never hold

on to your clapping these are the people

that keep asking you do you love me you

asked me that yesterday yeah yeah do you

think i’m pretty i told you monday is

pretty this is just tuesday

it it it leaked out already do you think

i’m smart yes i think you’re smart and

then i don’t know i feel dumb the reason

it’s leaking is because

you are pouring into them things that

they don’t agree with

[Applause]

i’m not just talking about so much just

believing in in oneself i’m not even

talking about believing in god

i’m talking about allowing positivity to

be internalized when it is due

when it is really due i mean when you’ve

really done the work and you’ve done a

good job to take a moment and i have to

i have to work on this in my own life to

take a moment to take in good moments

sometimes i’m so busy going on to the

next thing

that i don’t take time to just see law

the word see law in psalms is a musical

term that means to pause and just

breathe in and just take that in and

really allow that to soak into you what

you’ve been able to accomplish am i

talking good this morning

[Applause]

if if you don’t internalize it don’t

assign me the job

of telling you what you ought to be

telling yourself

i’m not talking about pumping yourself

up when it’s not good i’m not talking

about lying to yourself when it’s not

good i’m talking about applauding

yourself when it is good

clap for yourself

some of y’all even felt funny doing that

you just felt funny knowing that you’re

not used to clapping for yourself but

god shows us how to do this in the book

of genesis the bible says that god

stepped out on nothing and said let

there be something and let there be

light and there was light and and the

evening and the morning was the first

day and guess what no angels no choir no

spouse no friends no person came along

nobody started dancing no praise team

came along and said god clap for himself

he said and it was good

and it was good

it doesn’t have to be finished

to be good

it it it doesn’t have to be finished to

be good

god said i got some more to do tomorrow

but that that i’ve already done that was

good

that was good right there and see some

of you wait too late to clap

you’re not gonna clap till it’s finished

but you gotta clap behind every

accomplishment and celebrate every step

the steps of a good man are ordered by

the lord and he delighteth in the way

and every time you take a stop you need

to clap for that step because at least

i’m further than where i was i may not

be where i’m going but i’m further than

where i was am i talking to anybody this

morning

and so you need to praise god for baby

steps

praise god for progress praise god for

improvement celebrate within yourself

and not be afraid to look yourself in

the mirror and say you did that well

you did that real well you’ll never be

able to determine who you need in your

life until you feel your own void

you’ll choose somebody out of your pain

and then when you get well you don’t

want them

[Applause]

i call it marrying your nurse

you you’re attracted to them because

you’re sick

and they’re good at making you feel

better but then when you get better you

have no purpose for them in your life

and all of a sudden you say you’ve

outgrown them no you haven’t outgrown

them you just built a world around

your affliction

on the other extreme but equally as

dangerous but the antithesis of

inferiority is the assumption that what

god has given to you requires nothing of

you

you don’t put anything into it you just

received it you got it you think it

ought to be there anything you add to

your life requires your attention

if you have a goldfish you have to feed

it

if you get a cute little puppy

you got to walk it

you got to take it out you got to clean

it you got to take it to the vet if you

buy a car you’re going to need oil if

you buy a car you’re going to need gas

anything you add to your life is going

to require more of you stop adding more

than you’re willing to maintain

say this word with me

no

some of you have said yes so much

because you assume that you are

collecting whatnots to keep on a shelf

but in reality you keep saying yes and

not really taking care of what you

already got you keep adding more and

more and more and more to your life and

then somewhere on some therapist couch

you say i’m overwhelmed and i’m nervous

and i got anxiety and i guess you do

to him whom much is given much is

required

this grandiose mentality that you have

has led you to a place of utter

frustration you underestimate what

greatness cost

i’m gonna say that again you

underestimate what greatness costs

this is a dangerous thing you don’t seek

to keep up advance your skills study or

work out you don’t seek to maintain the

relationship keep it spicy and

interesting you think i got that

unlocked you do not have that unlocked

you have come on come on come on you

never

you never have it unlocked you don’t

have your husband on lock you don’t have

your wife on luck you don’t have your

career unlocked you don’t have your

child on luck you don’t have your mama

on life you don’t ever have anything

online that’s why you got to celebrate

people while you have them you have to

love them while you’ve got them you got

to pour into them while they’re there

you don’t have it on luck

somebody is after your job right now

somebody’s after your spouse right now

somebody’s after your house right now

somebody’s after your position right now

never fall into complacency and think

that you are so wonderful that you’re

just being there is all that’s required

no

no

no

no complacency will not do it you have

got to put some grind in it some sweat

into it some work into it that’s why you

don’t need too many hits

because every it you take on is gonna

take something from you

it’s gonna give something to you but

it’s gonna take something from you and

there may not be enough of you to handle

all the places you said yes to and

you’ve got to be able to evaluate am i a

pints am i a pint-sized container with a

gallon-sized appetite

complacency expects reward without

sacrifice

you want to be rewarded as if you were

doing more than you’re really doing

they take people places and things

for granted that’s all it means you just

take them for granted you just think

they’ll always be there and often blame

anyone past president or future to avoid

taking responsibility for outcomes

you’ll even blame god you’ll even blame

god

god didn’t come through

i paid my tithes i gave my offers and

they said god was going to give me a

double portion and god didn’t come

through he did come through you spent it

[Applause]

y’all not gonna like me today and it’s

mother’s day

the message might not be good but the

dinner after this is gonna blow your

mind

it’s gonna be a great dinner after this

come on somebody

you don’t understand god gets blamed for

everything that we didn’t do ourselves

god didn’t do it you can’t sit back

apathetically and differently put it on

autopilot and expect god to do

everything in your life it does not work

it is a lackadaisical attitude it is a

naivety that we take for granted and

assume that we are just so wonderful and

we are just so special and we are just

so great and we’re just so grandiose

that that’ll be glad that i showed up

for work this morning no i’m not glad

that you showed up what did you get done

and it starts in our childhood you just

wonderful you just gorgeous you just

special you just wanna and you think

you’re so wonderful that you don’t have

to work that’s wrong

you’re not that wonderful we’re not that

amazed by you we’re not that caught up

with you that you could be derelict of

your responsibilities and now you want

to be celebrated

[Applause]

it is difficult to celebrate a mother

that didn’t mother

it is difficult to celebrate a man as

the head of a household and he’s not

there and he doesn’t provide and he

doesn’t do it he doesn’t work but i’m

the man it is how i’m glad you told me

because these bills ain’t saying nothing

stop taking trophies for races you

didn’t run

stop taking trophies for races you

didn’t rock write that down and put it

on the line put it in your head stop

taking trophies for races you didn’t run

stop comparing yourself to other people

other couples other careers other jobs

because if you don’t put that work in

you don’t get that result

you can’t say to your wife i want you to

treat me like sister jake’s teres bishop

jakes you you don’t act like bishop jake

you didn’t do what bishop jakes did you

didn’t serve like bishop jakes did you

you didn’t stand by me you didn’t go

through the fire with me you don’t get

that just because you in the building

you got to put some work into that

complacency

complacency i’m gonna mess with you this

morning complacency needs the

frustration the bible said comparing

yourself with one another is not wise

[Applause]

oh i’m gonna get to you

if i don’t make you happy i’m gonna make

you good and mad

one way or the other i’m gonna get a

good i’m gonna get some kind of reaction

out of you

complacency expects reward without

sacrifice

then it creates a lukewarm

nauseating attitude in god god said i

wish you were either hot or cold

but because you are lukewarm complacent

people are lukewarm people i spew you

out of my mouth there’s nothing worse

than a lukewarm employee

maybe there is somewhere so lukewarm

manager is worse

a lukewarm ceo lukewarm people are

nauseating luke warm you’re not hot

you’re not cold you’re indifferent

lukewarm doesn’t change the temperature

in my mouth

almost you you the only one got it in

the whole church lukewarm doesn’t change

the temperature in my mouth if you’re

coming and going doesn’t change the

temperature that i had without you

[Applause]

oh lord i can see him get mad now

you have to be courageous enough to ask

yourself a question am i a lukewarm

person am i a lukewarm daughter am i a

lukewarm son am i my mother used to say

all the time to us

do something that makes folk miss you

what would they not have if you’re not

there

if you can’t point to several

significant things i’m talking to you

if you can’t figure out whether this

message is for you or not if you can’t

answer that question what do you bring

to the table

and what do you keep bringing to the

table and how are you advancing what

you’re bringing to the table and how do

you avoid being complacent all these

years hannah has settled into a routine

and elkanah has enabled her by making it

as if she had what she did not have

because he loved her some people love us

to our own detriment they give us

compliments and this is what’s unfair in

a relationship because a lot of time

when somebody ends up leaving you you’re

shocked because they just bought your

rosie the day before but you didn’t earn

them they just gave them to you because

they’re supposed to it’s february 14th

he was supposed to give you rosie

brought you roses don’t mean i’m happy

means i got a calendar

don’t want me it happens all the time

[Applause]

it does not mean a thing if you cannot

point to how you change the temperature

when i take you in you are lukewarm

what do i lose if you leave

it’s like somebody getting ready to

leave your company and they want to exit

meeting with you for what

go

go god bless see you later have a nice

life

god it’s fine

we couldn’t tell you was here anyway

[Applause]

see and people of faith are really good

at this because it is so easy to give

god our job

i’m walking by faith i just believe

god’s gonna handle it i’m just believing

god my career his own lot i’m just

believing god i played the angels of the

lord and care about them i plead the

blood you plead the blood all you want

to

all over your house but the blood ain’t

gonna make breakfast the blood ain’t

gonna cook dinner the blood ain’t gonna

make happiness the blood ain’t gonna

have sex the blood ain’t gonna do

anything you plead the blood into all

the walls of painted red in your house

you can anoint your children until they

are greasy as kfc

but that does not take the place of

mothering your child there is something

required of you you have to put some

work into it stop having babies you’re

not gonna take care of

and that ain’t just for the women that’s

for the men too

stop having babies you ain’t gonna take

care of

don’t run up to him and tell him i want

you to be my baby daddy no i want you to

get some diapers i want you to bring

some groceries in this house i want you

to at least pay half of this rent i want

you to add some wisdom and some love and

attention and time give them a job

description that goes along with the

baby

god put adam and eve in the garden he

set him up in the garden he made

everything right he put a system in

place he put a system in place he

brought them into a a

system that had irrigation he brought

them into a system that was beautiful he

brought them into a system that was

fruitful and then told them to teal it

to work it

to garden it the fact that god gives you

something doesn’t absorb you of the

responsibility of working it

type on the line work that thing

you got to work that thing if you go if

you’re going to turn your job into a

career you got to work that thing if

you’re going to turn around and break

the curse off of your family you’re

going to have to work that thing if

you’re going to lose weight you got to

work that thing glory to god that’s why

i’m fat today you got to work that thing

you got to work that day it’s not going

to come i keep waiting on a pill i’m

waiting on an injection i’m waiting on a

drug i ended up with a treadmill

[Applause]

maybe someday they’re gonna come up with

something that we can just inject and

come out here with biceps and triceps

until then you got lifting weights

are you hearing what i’m saying to you

some people live their whole lives

complacent and you might get by with it

until god’s purpose watch this this is

it until god’s purpose is compromised by

your complacency

you can live your whole life being

complacent and you might be married to

an enabler who makes it legal for you to

be complacent because they give you a

double portion because they love you

but that love is also enabling you not

to be your best self

i have learned sometimes when somebody

crying let them cry

don’t fix everything for everybody

don’t create a false reality that makes

them feel good about some they need to

feel bad about

they need to feel bad about it because

when you start getting in the way of

what god has purposed for your life

then god has to send something

to provoke you

somebody holler provoke me

[Applause]

don’t let me spend my whole life living

beneath my purpose leaving beneath my

potential living beneath what i could be

living beneath where i ought to be going

i know i’m preaching to you because deep

down inside there’s a voice down inside

of you that suspects that there is more

that god has for you than what you are

experiencing right now or you wouldn’t

even be listening at me it is that

haunting

nagging suspicion

that there’s something else you don’t

even know what it is you don’t even know

how to get it but there’s a nagging

suspicion that you were put here on this

planet to do more than what you’re doing

right now and i came to irritate you i

came to get on your nerves i came to

stir you up i came to holla in your ear

i came to get you frustrated go ahead

and cry you need to cry it’s going to

take some tears to break the yoke of

complacency that’s been hanging over

your life i don’t know who i’m talking

to but if you hear this word and you

know it’s for you give god five seconds

of crazy praise

[Applause]

[Applause]

i’m getting ready to stir this thing up

baby i’m getting ready to stir this

thing up in here i’m getting ready to

stir this thing up if i stir you up on

sunday it’s gonna change your monday

tuesday wednesday thursday friday i’m

getting ready to stir you up until you

stop settling for bad credit suddenly

for being miserable at all settling for

not accomplishing what god created you

to do the devil is a lie i rebuke the

spirit of settling right now complacency

has got to go in the mighty name of

jesus somebody help me break this yoke

i’m gonna ride it until i break it i’m

gonna ride until it falls apart i’m

gonna ride until it collapses on the

floor somebody shout unto god

[Applause]

fist bump three people and tell them

something is about to happen

something’s about to happen something’s

about summer something’s about to happen

something’s about to happen

something’s about to happen something’s

about to happen something’s about to

happen something’s about to happen

something’s about to happen something’s

about to happen something’s about to

happen something’s about to happen i

thought i was just gonna get a nice

little mother’s day message no i’m about

to get a revolution i’m about to have a

resurrection i’m about to have an

awakening i’m about to get stirred up

something’s about to happen in my life

i can’t hear you church give him a pray

[Applause]

you see that i’m gonna go a little

further

[Applause]

if i had any hair it’d be standing up on

the top of my head

because i think there’s something else

inside of you

i think there’s more inside of you i

think god created you for a purpose i

don’t think you’re a mistake i don’t

think you’re an accident i don’t care

what the circumstances of your birth

were i think you have been designed and

created by god and that you ought to be

an asset to the world you are to change

the world in some way you ought to make

a difference in the world even if it’s a

little difference you’re supposed to

make some kind of difference in the

world

[Applause]

forbes uh women actually

enforcedwomen.com wrote a very

interesting article about complacency

for women in careers

and i was reading the article and talked

about complacency will ruin

your career

and they said some things i want to

share with you though the article was

written to career women it’s really

genderless truth

it applies to ministry marriage uh any

aspirational accomplishment that you

might have in your life all of it is

true

they gave five warning signs of

complacency and i want to share them

with you

number one

you are complacent when you are no

longer striving

to do your

best in every area

now if that stretches you too much drop

some areas

i’d rather have less areas and do more

than more areas and do less

in the country we used to say it like

this you can be a mile wide and an inch

deep

so you spread yourself so thin

that you’re ineffective at everything if

you know you can only handle three

things

only take on three things

because if you’re not you’re complacent

when you’re number one no longer

striving to do your best

to bring the best your best mind your

best self

to really be present

where you are

visionaries have a challenge with this

because visionaries always have a

tendency to live in where they’re going

at the expense of where you are

so when you get to where you’re going

you have lost

where you are

oh

oh that’s good

visionaries these i’m not talking to

evil people

i’m talking to good people visionaries

you’re so consumed with your goal and

your vision

and your future

and what’s next

that you are negating starving

underutilizing

unavailable for your now

you can’t neglect now and earn next

number two

you’re operating off of an old playbook

you must remain a lifelong learner

what was best 20 years ago is not best

now

when i learned to type we had a

typewriter

you all don’t know what i’m talking

about

we didn’t have a laptop we had a type

typewriter

it was a manual typewriter

it made noise you had to depress every

key

if you could type 90 90 words a minute

on an old typewriter you ought to be

doing 150 on a laptop

because them things you almost had to

crank them and spin it to them

come on yeah you know what

yeah some of you are living in a laptop

world

but you’ve got a manual typewriter

effort

i’ma drive home that number two it’s

important i’m not finished with it yet

you need to understand

giving somebody what they used to need

doesn’t work

you have a tendency to have to to not

really

grow

you you’re not doing anything to grow it

was good 20 years ago

it was enough 20 years ago

complacency assumes that what was enough

is enough

how do i fix that ask

seek

knock

read

get magazines

keep enhancing yourself

developing yourself

you cannot be a doctor and not take any

more classes once you get your uh uh

your degree i’m a doctor i’m through

with it you i i leave them

because they’ll still be giving you

linemen and stuff like that you come

come on

you take some linemen for that you’ll be

all right no linemen do they still make

litter man

you have to keep enhancing yourself

which means you have to be comfortably

uncomfortable

you have to be comfortable with being

uncomfortable to be living on the edge

where you got to keep assuming that i

need to know more i need to grow i need

to go further let me hit number three

let me hit number three

you aren’t seeking to take advantage of

new opportunities

you’re not seeking to take advantage of

new opportunity i like to call this

remaining in a state of growth and

challenge

just as much as you need rest and no one

has to tell you to lay down you need new

challenges to keep you engaged

i shouldn’t have to tell you you’re

tired you need to go to bed nobody has

to tell you to go go to bed i shouldn’t

have to tell you to get up in the

morning i shouldn’t have to tell you

that you need to keep reading keep

growing keep learning keep steady keep

praying keep worshipping keep talking to

god you can’t wait till sunday morning

to have a voice you know why it’s so

hard on y’all to lead people into

worship they wait for sunday morning to

worship god there are people in this

room that haven’t worshipped god all

week and there you are supposed to in 15

or 20 minutes compensate for a life that

hadn’t worshipped god all week long and

you are giving them a grade on the

worship service we came to worship we

didn’t come to raise the dead

we didn’t come to raise the dead

[Applause]

just like you have sense sensitivities

inside of you that let you know when

you’re tired or let you know when you’re

hungry you need to sharpen your

sensitivity to let you know when you

need to learn grow enhance accessorize

develop come to the next level are you

with me

number four you aren’t maintaining or

building your contacts and relationships

that are current that are the currency

of growth you have no more growth

then you have relationships

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and you you know i just i don’t i can’t

like to keep this like it is

then don’t grow

and be complacent

and take the risk

of missing your destiny

you need to keep it fresh

you need to keep it fresh

you need to keep it fresh

you need to be on the cutting edge

you need to walk up on stages to

challenge you

that make you nervous

walk in the rooms where you don’t know

exactly what to say

you need to walk into spaces where you

have to pray and say oh god i’m going in

here now okay i’m getting ready to make

this presentation if you don’t go with

me lord i’m not gonna be able to get

this done i need your help lord i need

your help lord i’m getting ready to do

this i’m out of my element i’m out of my

comfort zone lord i know god scare me

again jesus here we go we’re walking

into this door come on

who am i talking to i’m talking to

somebody

if you’re if all your contacts are old

contacts you don’t have no contacts

relationships are indicators they are

indicators of the currency of growth

[Music]

all you have is the same old friends you

had when you was drinking at the strip

club

and those are the only people who you

can be friend it means you haven’t

changed

you haven’t grown you haven’t developed

your new friends ought to make your own

friends uncomfortable

if ain’t nobody said to you recently you

thank you so much you ain’t growing

see that’s a real compliment when people

walk up to you out of your old life and

say you thank you so much they’re really

complimenting you they’re saying that

you’re growing they’re saying that

you’re entering into another level of

life stop getting mad at that that’s a

compliment it’s a sign that you’re

growing oh my god i feel the holy ghost

talking to somebody in this room right

now you know you’re not complacent when

you walk in the rooms and they’re

talking about what you used to think was

funny and now you think it’s silly

you used to think they were fun and now

they’re boring

you can laugh a few minutes and then you

want to go when you get through talking

about old times you don’t have nothing

to talk about because everything that’s

on your head is not on their mind that

is a sign you are growing to the next

level come on talk to me somebody

you’re not supposed to get along with

everybody everybody’s not supposed to

like it stop dumbing down who you are so

you can fit in with where you left

i’m gonna break it down until you get it

give me number five i’m gonna come on

through this

number five you don’t risk sharing your

opinion or ideas

these these these people drive me crazy

whatever you say they agree with it

they never add nothing to the

conversation

they won’t risk being wrong

so they just parakeet your ideas

they don’t risk

sharing

your opinion or your ideas as a sign

that you are complacent

fear has got you locked in

have an opinion

even if they don’t do it have an opinion

open your mouth and speak it

you wait on others to be assertive while

you just go along to get along

without taking the risk of offering your

contribution whether it is used or not

you will never be able to evaluate

whether you are growing or not because

you’re playing it safe you’re hiding

adam get out from behind them fig leaves

and let me see what’s really going on

here you’re hiding you’re hiding your

silence is a cover-up because you are

afraid to take risks you cannot be a

leader and not take risks you cannot be

a leader and not get on people’s nerves

everybody’s not supposed to like you if

you’re gonna be a frontliner

stop crying about people hating on you

they supposed to hate on you if you are

a leader they are going to hate on you

that’s part of the job requirement

[Applause]

hannah is trying to settle in to

something that is beneath her

she has everything a woman could want

she has a well-to-do husband who loves

her she has an environment that allows

her to do pretty much whatever she

pleases she’s sitting good she’s doing

really good she cares he cares about her

everything would be fine

if it wasn’t for penina

but nina comes into her life

as a ministry

write this down the ministry of penina

i want you to identify peninas in your

life there are people that god sends in

your life

solely to get on your nerves

they are there to save you from

mediocrity they are there to provoke you

to jealousy they are there to show off

that god has something more and if

you’re not careful you will acquiesce

into becoming their hater

rather than to allow them to become your

stimulator

either you’re going to be a hater or

you’re going to be stimulated but god

says penina and all of her kids

and all of their jelly and peanut butter

stained jaws as a sign to you

that what they said about you isn’t true

there is more possible for you in your

life

god thank you for penina

thank you for penina thank you for

penina in the face of all the obstacles

and the challenges

god you sent penina

are you hearing what i’m saying to you

hannah didn’t realize

watch this that her purpose

was hidden behind her problem

her problem was that she was barren

her purpose

was hidden

behind her problem

whenever god this is please get this if

you don’t get anything else whenever god

has a great purpose in your life

he will put a great problem in front of

it

why are you writing that down write this

out find your giant

[Music]

when you find your giant you’ll find

your kingdom

there wouldn’t have been a goliath in

david’s life goliath was the greatest

thing that could have ever happened to

david david would still be taking care

of sheep if it wasn’t for goliath

goliath is the gateway to the next

dimension whenever god is getting ready

to take you into a new zone there will

always be a big problem standing in its

way the big problem is a sign that as

soon as you get over this

you’re gonna step it did you see that

you’re gonna you’re gonna step into you

you’re about to step into a brand new

dimension stop shrinking back from

goliath stop shrinking back from penina

it’s a sign that god has something else

for you so cry if you want to

fuss if you want to but when you get

through crying and fussing now it’s time

to fight now it’s time to fight

personal testimony quick personal

testimony

the first time i got ready to speak in

front of

what i call a big crowd which was about

120 people

that was big

don’t laugh till you tried

the letter you tried

120

people with three rows of church mothers

on the front row

all dressed in white

i came up in a church where being

spiritual meant looking evil

and the more anointed you are you

squinted your eyes and looked hateful

and the more hateful you looked the more

holy they thought you were

and i had to go past all them church

mothers and go stand up in front of them

and preach and here was here was my

problem

in order to preach i needed a mic i

don’t really need one i probably could

have hollered and covered the room but

and my hands

would shake

so bad

and then when i knew my hands were

shaking and they could see it they would

shake worse

and i thought i cannot speak

in front of people

because my hands shake

now my my purpose

is on the other side

the thing that annoys you the thing that

irritates you the thing that scares you

the thing that frustrates you

is the very sign that god has something

on the other side of it for you

somebody haul a leap over it

questions jumped up in my head i’m gonna

give them to you real quick question

jump up in my why did god choose a

barren woman to birth the prophet

why did god choose a barren woman to

birth the prophet why didn’t he just

give samuel to benina she it was easy

for her to have babies

god never does what’s easy

he does what’s divine

god never does what’s easy he does

what’s divine it’s always going to be

complicated why did god choose a barren

woman to birth a prophet why did god use

a boy to kill goliath

why did god send a backslider to preach

to nineveh

why did god use a century-old man to

have isaac

why did god use a virgin

to birth jesus

why did jesus tell a man whose hand was

withered stretch forth your hand

who tells a blind man to go wash in a

pool he couldn’t see how to get to

y’all don’t hear what i’m saying too

who stands in front of a tomb and tells

a dead man to come forth

that’s how you know it’s god whenever

it’s hard it’s god whenever it’s

difficult it’s god whenever it goes

against the grain it’s god whenever it

frustrates you it’s god

penina was in her life to get on her

nerves penina was there to provoke

hannah for the first time in all of

those years hannah got the bible says

hannah stood up somebody shout hannah

stood up

i came to tell everybody in this room

this is the hour

this is the time

this is the moment

for you to stand up

and say i’m through crying

i threw through being depressed

i’m through being frustrated

whatever it takes to break this yoke in

my life

i’m going to break this yoke in my life

this is your hour

this is your moment

that’s why god has you here that’s why

god gave me this word

on mother’s day

when he knew you would show up

so that you could get this word

your barren days are behind you

your birthing days are before you

your bearing days are behind you your

birthing days are before you god is

about to do a new thing in your life

because you’re provoked to

slap somebody and tell them i’m provoked

elbow somebody tell them i’m provoked

i’m provoked

i’m running out of time i’m running out

of energy i’m running out of strength

if it’s ever gonna happen in my life

it’s gonna have to happen right now

i want all the provoked people in this

room

to open your mouth and make sudden

[Applause]

[Applause]

yell

jump

scream

let the devil know

i know god has something else for me

i know god has more for me

i no longer believe the lie that i gotta

die baron the devil is alive i won’t be

buried in my home i won’t be buried in

my business i won’t be buried in my life

i won’t be buried with my children the

devil is alive

i’m about to birth a miracle i’m about

to birth a promise i’m about to birth a

building i’m about to birth a book i’m

about the birth of business

i feel the labor

i feel the contractions

i feel the groaning

i’m about to deliver

this is mother’s day

this is the day we go into labor

this is the day we give birth this is

the day that we push

shove your neighbor and say push

push

push

push

what the bible says

when zion travails oh i need my might

when zion travails

the bible says

with zion travails

sons and daughters

shall be born

prevail is labored

i’m going into labor

i’m going into work

if i have to stagger

to the altar

if i have to scream if i have to go

scared

if i have to go with my hands shaken if

i have to go with my knees knocking

i will go into labor

when zion travails

sons and daughters shall be born

look at somebody say i’m about to be a

mother

i’m gonna birth a barbershop i’m gonna

birth an accounting firm i’m a birth a

law degree i’m a birth a miracle

i’m a birth of prophet i’m a birth of

promise

i need 30 seconds of crazy

ridiculous

supernatural

first question

mind renewing

praise

praise him

praise him

praise him

what they told you you couldn’t do

is alive from the pits of hell

greater is he that is in you

than he that’s in the world

make a joyful noise unto the lord

i refuse to live and die

and not find out who i am

what i can be

what i can have

what i can do

i am officially provoked

i need a thousand people

in this room

that i provoked

towards your purpose

to go into a crazy praise

and receive this word

[Applause]

i can’t believe

that some of you are still standing

there with your teeth in your mouth

when the bible is clear

what hannah did in church

affected what happened in her womb

if you don’t do it in here

you can’t break it out there

but if you do it in here

it’s going to break out there

and the bible said

because she got drunk

in the house of the lord

something broke in her house

if you want to break it in your house

break it in the potter’s house

make some noise

here i’m gonna break it into here

i’m gonna break it in here

until i look like a drunk

and then i look like i’m crazy but i got

a curse to break

i got a giant kill

i got a panini in my life

i’m gonna break it this morning

i can’t hear you

but if you want to break up your

bareness

you need to break it in the spirit if

you break it in the spirit it’ll break

in the flesh

if you break it into the spirit it’ll

break it if you break it in the spirit

it’ll break in the flesh

somebody ought to break it

break that bad down break that

depression

break that fear let’s break it right now

in the name of jesus

in the name of jesus

is

it’s breaking it’s breaking it’s

breaking and breaking

break it break break

you gotta

and break it in the name of jesus

it’s

[Music]

ranking

yes

[Music]

i’m a pregnant in this spirit

by faith

i want you to declare this by faith

whether you’re online

or in the building

i want you to declare it

by faith

nudge somebody and tell them i feel a

breakthrough

i feel a breakthrough

something just broke

something just broke

something just broke i’ve been

complacent i’ve been laid back

but today it’s over

i’m gonna get everything

that god

has for me

yes

yes

[Music]

i’m just about finished

this is what i want you to understand

what hannah

did in church

affected what happened at home

the bible says when she got back home

and lay with elkanah

for the first time

after

years and years

of believing what she couldn’t do

it

we are going

to make that thing

happen

[Music]

the enemy has lulled you

into complacency

as if it were impossible

but god sent a word

provoked

to purpose

[Music]

the baby

hannah

had

changed

all of history

[Music]

we don’t read about nana penina’s kids

change it jack my love my lord

cause that which comes easy

changes nothing

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

that which comes easy

changes nothing

that that she sweated

and prayed

and crawled

and cried for

changed

everything

and the lord told me

this sunday

to preach this word

that you have a purpose

[Music]

and that the purpose is on the other

side

of what they say you can’t do

[Applause]

what they say you can’t have

what they say you can’t be

and you’ve been laying on this side of

your dreams

and god is about to shift you to this

side of your dream

now let me let me check

how many people

it resonates with you

that you have a penina situation

[Applause]

benina

is your best friend

[Applause]

she provokes

you

to show up for the fight

my god

your best friend is not your best friend

your best friend is a person

who keeps flaunting

in front of your face

what they know is hard for you

to do

they are god’s commercial

it wouldn’t irritate you

if you couldn’t change it my lord

[Applause]

the reason it irks you

the reason you’re frustrated by it

is because you’re called to it

everybody saw goliath

but nobody reacted to goliath like david

did my lord

david said i can’t believe this

uncircumcised philistine

y’all mean this is what you’re up

against oh no that he would come up

against the armies of israel

but wait a minute david you ain’t even

in the army

he said that’s why i can do it

[Music]

that’s why i can do it

because i didn’t drink the kool-aid

i came from somewhere else

i have another spirit

and i’m telling you you’re gonna learn

today

oh yeah you’re gonna learn today

[Music]

you’re gonna learn today

can you imagine how shocked penina

looked

when

when hannah started putting on weight

[Applause]

and all of a sudden

penina

has to redefine

how she sees hannah

people are going to have to redefine

[Applause]

wish i had some faith let me talk to the

folk online people are going to have to

redefine

how they see you

because they want you to remain

complacent

[Applause]

and stay in your place

nobody who changed the world

stayed in their place

nobody who changed the world

stayed in their place

from george washington to martin luther

nobody stayed in their place

to rosa parks nobody stayed in their

place to nelson mandela

nobody’s paid in their place you can’t

change the world

and stay in your place

the kingdom suffers violence

and the violence

take it by force

who’s ready to take it by

[Applause]

force today i want to pray with you

that something that i said today

got you so stirred

that you won’t settle

i want to pray that the gift of god that

is laying dormant in you would be

stirred up

that it would be stirred up and that you

won’t let it settle

[Applause]

the whole purpose we come to church we

don’t come to church to praise the lord

you should be doing that all week

[Applause]

we come to church to have our faith

stirred up

so that we don’t settle for less than

what god

has ordered for us to accomplish

i’m not competing with your success i’m

not competing against you i’m competing

against what god has ordained for me

have all the babies you want you can’t

have mine

you can’t have mine look at somebody say

you can’t have mine

i’m the man for the job

you’re the woman for the job

and somewhere along the way

you lapsed

into

complacency

content

with less

than what god has ordained for you

it’s not just about business not just

about money it might be about

relationships

it might be about callings on your life

there’s something else god wants for you

and you know it

i almost call this message so there’s

more for you

how many know there’s more for you

[Applause]

there’s more

for you

four words there’s more

for you

there’s more for you that’s why you’re

here

that’s why you’re watching

that nagging

haunting

frustrating feeling

that irritating feeling

that there’s more for you something is

missing

i’m not saying you’re not saved

not saying you don’t love god

but in your life there’s you were put

here

to do something else and you know it

and the clock is ticking

and the clock is ticking

once god opened up hannah’s womb it was

open

[Music]

and samuel was just the beginning

of many more to come

this is your launch date

and i know it’s in the natural it’s

mother’s day

but you don’t have to be a woman to be a

mother

there are men in this room

that are about to burst something

in this stage in your life

don’t y’all get quiet on me

because we birth first anyway

[Applause]

we birth you

[Applause]

[Music]

the bible said eve was brought out of

adam

so the first birth

came from a man

brother why have you stopped birthing

and building

and become complacent

[Music]

you lost your roar

get your roar back man

get your rod back

just because your wife is birthing

doesn’t mean you’ve been replaced

god wants to do something in you

if this message is speaking to you by

your head i want to pray for you you’re

online by your head i want to pray for

you

this is a water-breaking sermon

it is meant

to cause you to go into birth

it is meant to break the bondage of

complacency

it is meant to stir you up

to make you hungry

to get on your nerves

to irritate you

i’m not gonna die till i see who i am

i’m not gonna die till i see what i can

do

if hannah would have died before she

gave birth it would have changed the

entire remaining bible

[Music]

samuel anointed kings

samuel changed structures

samuel was god’s man

samuel anointed david

samuel set him aside

out of david came jesus

everything was predicated on this barren

woman

breaking beyond her barrenness

in many ways she is the mother of the

movement

and god chose a barren woman

god chooses the most unlikely people

to do the most amazing stuff

lift your hands

you’re the one father right now

every raised hand every open heart

we got a giant

we got a withered arm

we speak with a lisp we

better when we talk

but you chose the foolishness of this

world

to confound the wise

what you’re about to do in that person

with their hands raised right now is

crazy it’s antithetical to what

everybody thinks about them

you sent me to stir them up this morning

and i did my best

holy spirit

finish the job

if you have to have them walk in the

floor at 3 o’clock in the morning

finish them off

i pray that they would never be the same

again

i pray that chains would break off of

their mind and offer their spirit

i pray that they would have the faith to

believe

that a poor boy

born in a raggedy house

on the side of the hill

in the mountains of west virginia

could shape nations

i pray that they would not allow their

past

to destroy their future

i pray that they would stop rehearsing

the history

and start walking into their destiny

i pray that they would be provoked

to purpose

in jesus name

amen if you receive it praise him in

your own way

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

you