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
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[Applause]
[Music]
[Music]
you