Expect the unexpected. The comfortable system of enablement that keeps you stagnant is no longer viable. God is calling you out with a challenge: Can you escape your self-centered mindset and walk into the unexpected? This will be the year when barriers break, demons flee, and you stand up, fully empowered in faith. “Normal” is your enemy when we serve a God this extraordinary, and He’s setting you up for your better in a new, unseen way. Forget what you think you know. Get ready for an unexpected encounter with God!

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turn to the book of acts and stand for

the last time you don’t have to stand no

more

you can duck walk out of here if you

need to

just so you stay seated but acts chapter

3

verse 1 through 10.

now peter and john

now peter and john

not peter or john

peter and john

went up together into the temple

at the hour of prayer

being the ninth hour

and a certain man laying from his

mother’s womb from his mother’s womb

was carried whom they laid daily at the

gate of the temple which is called

beautiful

to ask alms of them that entered into

the temple

who seeing peter and john about to go

into the temple say hey give me some

money

and peter fastening his eyes upon him

john said look on us

and he gave heat unto them expecting to

receive something

expecting

expecting to receive something of them

then peter said silver and gold have i

none

but such as i have

give out thee

in the name of jesus christ

of nazareth

rise up

and walk

and he took him by the right hand

and lifted him up

and immediately

his feet and ankle bones

received strength

and he leaping up stood and walked and

entered with them into the temple

walking leaping and praising god

and all the people saw him walking and

praising god

and they knew that it was he which said

it set for alms at the beautiful gate of

the temple and they were filled with

wonder and amazement

oh they just said that last week about

amazement

god’s gonna amaze you and that which had

happened unto him

can you say amen

i was fascinated because a man expected

to receive something

but what he got was not what he expected

and the holy spirit said to me to preach

the unexpected

the unexpected i don’t know who this is

for i don’t know what this is about but

god said he’s going to do the unexpected

it it it’s not going to be normal it’s

not going to be no ordinary it’s not

going to be routine

god’s going to do

the unexpected maybe you’re watching

online

and you just come another sunday because

it’s sunday but god said he’s going to

do

the unexpected

exceedingly abundantly above all you may

ask or think

that mind-blowing move of god

that disorienting move of god the kind

of move of god that makes you have to

change your plans to accommodate it

because god’s going to do the unexpected

that out of the box kind of god

that rule-breaking god that yoke

breaking god that door opening god get

ready for the unexpected

do you hear what i’m talking to you

about

spirit of the living god fall fresh on

us now as we open up the word of god we

are so grateful to you that you would

speak to us at all

let the words speak in such a profound

and didactic way that we are altered and

changed and even disrupted by what you

preach minister not just to me but

through me

flow through me

that i might deliver to your people that

which you would have imparted unto them

i thank you in advance for what you’re

about to do i believe you for amazing

things have your way great god that you

are

i believe you for it in jesus name

amen

you may be seated

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yeah

time to go to work

i must confess to you that

these are troubling times

i don’t care how much faith you have and

how much

how much you pray these are

troubling times

you don’t know from one moment to the

other what’s going to happen next

you can’t count on people

they’ll say something and then do

something completely different

and then say they didn’t say what you

heard them say

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you got the tape of them saying and

they’re still act like you’re crazy and

say i didn’t say that they’ll say

that you didn’t see what you saw even

though you saw it and say it so long if

you’re not careful it’ll make you wonder

did you see what you saw when you saw it

because i have never seen so many people

be absolute in being absolutely wrong

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it used to be that we had some absolutes

some truth that we could build around

some areas that we would not touch in

order to gain momentum some areas were

sacred and untouchable but now anything

goes

to get ahead

these are troubling times

because we have hurricanes where we used

to have sunshine

tsunamis where we used to have beaches

these are troubling times because we

have ice where we used to have heat

and heat where we used to have ice

these are troubling times because the

the world we’re living in is so

unpredictable that we had to leave our

water running last night and tomorrow

it’s going to be hot

i don’t know what to wear

i feel like wearing a fur coat with

shorts

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i’m just totally confused because i

don’t know what’s going to happen next

all of the absolutes are being changed

and even though we are citizens in our

own country sometimes we feel like

subordinates

sometimes we feel second class

sometimes we feel mistreated sometimes

we feel

unheard

it’s not just a matter of race

but also status

it seems like if you have enough status

you can get by with doing anything

you can be guilty and not go to jail if

you got enough status

you can be innocent and go to jail if

you don’t

and these are troubling times i don’t

know what to teach our children to

expect

because i am unsure

and if i act like they didn’t bother me

at all i’d be lying to you i want to

confess to you i have faith i believe

god i talk to god but sometimes i’m

troubled

sometimes when i lay down i’m in trouble

sometimes when i get up in the morning

i’m in trouble

i would be a lot more troubled if it

weren’t for the word of god

i confess to you that i used to come to

church just to come to church but now

the word of god is often my therapy

it’s my therapy it’s my detox zone it’s

it’s where i get my head together it’s

where i chill out it’s where i’m

reminded that that the world has been

crazy before

it’s where i’m reminded that the

the prophets of old worked against

adverse conditions and circumstances and

still called fire down from heaven

still cold water out of a rock

still grinned into a city and turned the

city upside down it’s important to me to

read that and the more i go into the

word of god it is more than reading

bible stories i become more fascinated

about the circumstance in which the

story occurred

in the text today the circumstance that

surrounds the story is as powerful as

the story itself

this generation of jews

have been have lost power

in their own country

they’re on their land but they are not

fully deputized and empowered to be able

to function in their environment they

are oppressed by rome

oppressed to a degree not totally

oppressed

not like their forefathers who were

oppressed in babylon

they’re oppressed at home

now it’s one thing to be oppressed in a

strange country

and it’s another thing to be oppressed

in your own house

to be on your own turf in a familiar

environment and not be empowered in your

own situation

such were the times that they had to

come to the roman government and say

mother may i before they did anything

because they were not in control in the

same territory

that they owned

they were a colony

of rome

and this colonization this notion of

colonization had caused them to be

kind of patted on the head

rome said we’re going to control all the

money but you can still have church

that it’s almost as if church became

worship became a pacifier

while rome took

control and it had been that way such a

long time

that you couldn’t tell

where the government ended and the

church began

sounds a lot like today

in fact they called it herod’s temple at

one point

when did herod

get to have a temple

and now herod is making money

off the temple the reason jesus turned

over the tables wasn’t because they were

selling cakes in the back of the church

the reason jesus turned over the tables

is because herod had brought his hand

into god’s house

and was making money off of people who

just wanted to worship him

it was nothing wrong to bring an

offering but herod was taxing them

on their giving

and when jesus saw what government had

done to church he turned the tables

upside down i don’t know i don’t know i

don’t know but i think today if he were

to come in and see what’s going on in

the church world today that it’d be some

tables flipped over

in the floor

because we have confused the gospel with

our perspectives

and now if you don’t agree with me

you’re going to hell and you don’t even

need a bible verse to send me all you

need is an opinion

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colonization can be a damnable thing

that’s why our country was founded

resisting it started out not to be

states not to be its own government it

started out to be 13 colonies

who rolled up and protested against

great britain and said we refuse to be

an outpost

of another country’s government

and fighting and fighting and fighting

back until finally in 1776

they warned their independence

we didn’t have ours yet but they had

there

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i’m just telling turning like it is

the jews at this point wanted their

independence

even those who followed jesus did not

just follow jesus so he could perform

miracles and do tricks like a magician

they had an underlying motive when will

you restore the kingdom really meant

when are you going to give us back

control

of our own land

the coming of the messiah and the

calling of him the king of the jews gave

them hope that they would stop to be a

colony of rome and that he was strong

enough to fight back

but he didn’t

he died

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they beat him a half to death

rome did

and the lord of glory died

and how do you preach

a powerful message

when the one you’re preaching about

got beat to death

and died

thomas said i’m through with it

and you blame thomas and you talk to him

about it but i’m not too hard on thomas

cause there are things there is a hurt

that can hurt so bad that shakes you

down to your toes and you don’t even

want to be in anything that reminds you

of that kind of pain again maybe you

have lived long enough to have that kind

of pain but there there is a pain that

becomes so tough that you don’t even

want certain pictures in your house

there is a pain that becomes so tough

that you’ll block the face off of the

media you don’t want them to pop up on

facebook you don’t want them to come up

on instagram there is a pain that

becomes so tough that you don’t want any

sign of it again and thomas said unless

i feel the nail prints in his hand and

where i pierced him in the side i will

not believe it

and jesus showed up because he

understood thomas’s disappointment

judas hung himself

peter went to cousin

everything was coming apart all hell was

breaking loose

and still he rose

still he rose he had come into his own

and his own had received him not

he had stood on the mount of olives and

weeped over jerusalem and said oh

jerusalem one of the few times that

jesus cried incidentally oh jerusalem

jerusalem how oft would i have gathered

you as a hen does her checks but ye

ye

my brethren

would not

we’re not

we’re getting ready to celebrate the mlk

day

and it’s a wonderful thing

but a lot of people who are celebrating

him in death

did not respect him in life

and i’m not just talking about white

folks either it was some black folks

that didn’t accept him in life he was

controversial in life it’s amazing how

after you die everybody names stuff

after you

[Applause]

jesus has now died and rose from the

dead but he only showed himself alive

to believers

and after showing himself alive for 40

days with many infallible proofs he

stepped on a cloud and ascended into the

heaven and left him looking up at him as

their dreams went up in the air

you men of galilee the angel said why

stand standing here gazing at me this

same jesus that you see us sin shall

descend in like manner go and preach the

gospel and you shall receive power acts

1 and 8 after that the holy ghost has

come upon you and you shall be witnesses

not power to dance not power to beat the

tambourine not power to start your own

choir not power to make a name for your

ministry you shall be witnesses unto me

witnesses you don’t need a witness

unless you’re on trial ye shall be

witnesses under me i’m gone and i’m

still on trial i’m gonna be

controversial even after i’m gone ye

shall be witnesses unto me

in jerusalem

in judea and samaria

and utter most parts of the earth

you should be witnesses under me and so

what we see here

is peter and john coming up

in a last-ditch attempt to give

jerusalem a final chance to recognize

jesus as messiah

jesus was through with it

he said not one stone will be left

standing upon another i’m done with you

i’m out of here

peter and john are coming to the

synagogue at the hour of prayer

peter and john is not just anybody they

are part of jesus inner circle

there are a few things that jesus did

that peter and john and james were not

at

they were there at the mount of

transfiguration

they were there in the garden of

gethsemane

they were jesus inner circle sometimes

you can’t take everybody with you

oh that’s worth writing down right there

sometimes you can’t take everybody with

you

when you know who you are you have to

have an inner circle

that kind of insulates you from outside

influences peter and john were the cream

of the crop

these are not just anybody

this is not bartholomew or somebody this

is not matthew or somebody this is jesus

choice

coming to the synagogue and our prayer

now they are not coming to the synagogue

because they agree with the synagogue

the synagogue has rejected jesus

they are apostles of jesus

so it is the clashing of kingdoms that

they would have the audacity

to come to the synagogue to preach what

the synagogue thought was a cult

so they did not expect a warm welcome

they did not expect that

and the synagogue did not necessarily

expect that they would have the

audacious attitude to be able to walk up

into their assembly to preach something

contrary to what they believed

and they did not expect to run into the

lame man at the gate

and the lame man who had been laid daily

at the gate did not expect to run into

them

so everything that happens in this story

is

unexpected

if you would have told the synagogue

that peter and john were coming they

would be shocked they were not looking

for them

if you would have told peter and john

that they would stop outside at the gate

call beautiful and expend their

anointing on a no-name beggar who had

been laid daily at the gate from his

mother’s womb

they did not expect it

there was no appointment on their date

book for this to happen

oh y’all don’t hear what i’m saying

but god and his sovereign ability to

orchestrate the affairs of men sets

appointments and don’t necessarily tell

you that it’s an appointment you just

walk into it and it happens to you and

once you’re in it you begin to recognize

this is a divine setup

i didn’t know that meeting you was going

to change my life

[Applause]

i didn’t know that meeting you would

change the trajectory of how i see

myself i didn’t know that i would have

the kind of encounter having met you

that would disrupt how i defined myself

but such is the text

because the lame man was used to being

the lame man

what do you do

when you are referring to

as a lame man

what do you do

when you are referred to

as a drug addict

what are you what do you do when you are

referred to

as a cheater and a whoremonger

what do you do when what you do becomes

bigger than who you are

oh y’all don’t hear what i’m saying

and until somebody can name your

weakness and everybody in the room know

who they talking about

[Applause]

this is the lame man everybody knew it

the people in the temple said we know

that’s the lame man who’s begging at the

gate they didn’t say that’s fred wilson

that’s charlie johnson

that’s michael frederick no they didn’t

call his name they called his condition

because the condition had defined who he

was

have you ever had a condition

that defined who you were

that had swallowed up your name

that everybody referred to you whether

in your face or behind your back

what you do not who you are

such is the case

with the lame man

he is not lame in many ways

even though he has spent his whole life

begging

his hands were not broken

he had no problem stretching forth his

hand

there was nothing wrong with his brain

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he was not blind like bartimaeus

his spine was not twisted

he was not sick with palsy

he was not paralyzed

in fact 90

of his body was functional

it was just his ankles and feet

isn’t it funny how one thing

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i know y’all don’t know what i’m talking

about

so sit there look real confused won’t

nobody know that you got a thing

that that that affects every other thing

in your life whether it’s a mouth or a

temper or a doubt or an attitude or

a disorder one thing that you know about

yourself that limits your movement your

activity your growth your opportunity

that stops you that brings you to your

knees and in spite of everything else 90

being strong and healthy 10

can take you down

one thing being broken in your life can

take you down that’s why it’s not good

to turn up your nose and start talking

about people because everybody got

something that don’t work right

yeah yeah i’m a preacher today everybody

got something that don’t work right it

might not be obvious it might be covered

it might be camouflaged it might be

camouflaged by the accruments of your

success or your accolades or your

degrees or your finances or your beauty

until people don’t notice that you’re

beautiful but you just a little bit

crazy

that you can quote all of the bible but

you have trouble living

certain parts it was just his ankles

but his ankles had shut down everything

he might as well be paralyzed all over

his body

because this one

part didn’t work i’m wondering if you

are honest enough

to admit that something don’t work right

good at speaking in front of people but

i’m bad at handling money

i’m great at having money but i can’t

stand to be around people

everybody has something in their life

that affects everything else because

life keeps asking you

to function in the way that you don’t

function

what happens when you have to function

in a way that you don’t function

you create

a way of coping

with what you can’t correct

and so what we see in the first

sentences of this text is this man has

set in place a coping mechanism that is

built around his dysfunction

blind people do it

moving furniture around to fit blind

people handicapped people do it putting

bars in the bathroom so that you can

move from the wheelchair and move over

to the seat everybody has a way of

making adjustments in their life to

accommodate their deficiencies

little ways of doing things i knew when

i got married that i could not safely

marry a mouthy woman

so every mouthy woman that dated me i

said not her

not her because i don’t i’m gonna i

don’t want to be locked up with bobo not

her

you gotta know what don’t work right in

you i’m not i’m not against mouthy women

it’s just not for me

cause that’s a trigger for me

you get up in my face

shaking your neck

[Applause]

[Music]

and the district apparently gonna have

to come get me i i just

you gotta know what doesn’t work

for you

i don’t want no dumb woman who can’t

think and can’t help i want you to be

strong i want you to have your opinion

but i don’t want you up in my face

breaking glasses and stuff

cause i might forget

[Applause]

i’m just telling i’m confessing my

ankles i’ma show my ankles today i might

forget

i might forget i’m telling you don’t do

that i might forget

you can’t do that

you you you don’t

set yourself in situations that you know

are too big for you

that you know you can’t handle you don’t

knowingly send the cookie monster to

work at the cookie factory

and then be shocked because he ate up

the cookie you knew i was a cookie

monster when you hired me

[Applause]

you don’t hire a child molester to work

in pediatrics

[Applause]

when you know that something doesn’t

work in your life you make certain

adjustments to accommodate

[Applause]

your issues

so that you can be in an atmosphere

where at least you can survive

this man has never walked

he is not a person who used to walk

he has no memory of standing up

he has no mental cognitive memory of

standing up

his muscles have no memory of standing

up

his nerve endings have no memory of

standing up whether you know it or not

your body has a memory if you work out

all the time and you quit for a while

and go back to working out it doesn’t

take long for your body to say oh we’re

doing that again and it starts giving

you the strength to do what you used to

do it has a memory his legs have no

memory of ever walking

he has been lame he came out of his

mama’s belly

with his ankles broken

and so

he has devised

a system

and the system

has caused him to surround himself

number one with enablers

enablers are the people

who carried him

every day to the same place

the enablers were the people that you

select in your life that support you in

your crippledness

they make it convenient for you not to

do better

[Applause]

i’m a mess with you now enablers are the

sugar daddies

[Applause]

or mamas

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[Applause]

of lazy people who could work but

enablers

are the people

that make it convenient for you not to

have to believe god for better somebody

shout better

you’ll never get better as long as

somebody is carrying you

i would respect him better if they said

he crawled to the gate

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seeing as his knees worked in his hands

were he could have crawled to the gate

but no he has this group of people who

carry him to the same place and in some

ways they are as crippled as he is

because there are people that don’t want

you to get better because if you got

better they wouldn’t have a job y’all

don’t even

i’m gonna mess with you a little bit

there are people who make a living off

of your dysfunction and they’re counting

on you to be lonely and they’re counting

on you to be desperate and they’re

counting on you to call them at two

o’clock in the morning and they’re

counting on you to need them in that way

or they lose importance

[Applause]

he was laid daily carried

ain’t nothing wrong you can’t move

he was carried daily to the same place

you know you got enablers

when they keep taking you

to the same place

the names might change

to protect the innocent

but they keep carrying you

to the same if you own your third

husband and all of them beat you

[Applause]

you got to stop saying what’s wrong with

them and look in the mirror and say hey

what’s wrong with me that i keep

attracting this same

type of person and allow them to

[Applause]

oh y’all ain’t gonna help me preach

today that’s okay i’m gonna get there

i’m gonna get there

their job was to lay him

at the gate called beautiful

never anywhere else

they never took in all of his life

he has been laid in a conspicuous place

where the righteous would walk past him

and feel sorry for him

he is living off of the benevolence

of people who care

he has to be in close proximity

to compassionate people

to work them

it is the same reason homeless people

hang out outside of restaurants

because they know you just ate a

five-star meal and you come out and run

into them they know you’re more apt to

feel guilty

that ain’t no mistake there ain’t no

accident

they’re not hanging around at the

shelter

they’re hanging out at the places where

you eat

so that you could belch and feel bad

and reach for your wallet

and and they got to do what they got to

do but some of us

are beggars

without caring signs

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and we hang out around certain types of

people

because we know they are compassionate

enough to carry us

and we don’t have to use what we do have

that’s working

because they are so compassionate we can

just be helpless

i just can’t do it i just can’t get up

i just can’t stand up i just can’t go to

school i just can’t take it i’m just not

that kind of person you want to eat

[Applause]

certain men laid him daily at the gate

called beautiful these are the people

that you designed in your life to create

an ecosystem of dysfunction

not one of them on any day

challenged him to get up

everybody carried him

nobody pulled him

nobody took him by the hand and yanked

him and commanded him to walk

everybody around him made allowances for

his deficiencies

excuses for oh mama you just don’t

understand him he’s really a nice guy

i know he don’t work a job but he he he

he’s a wonderful person

we make excuses

for the dysfunctions we choose to keep

oh i’m stepping on toad i can tell i’m

stepping on toes cause when i get right

in the middle of your toe you get quiet

i know he’s 35 and still living with me

but one day he gonna take off and fly

like a bud

[Applause]

he don’t buy groceries

he don’t pay rent

he don’t help

[Applause]

are you an enabler

who

are you an enabler have you told

yourself a story to justify somebody’s

dysfunction never challenging them to do

what they’ve never done because they’ve

never done it before

you cease to expect it

the depth of expectation limits

productivity

when i give up on you doing better and i

make adjustments for you and i go ahead

and build you a room and give you a key

so you can come in the basement and feel

like you’ve grown while i pay the bills

i have set up a system

that does not allow you to evolve

and from his mother’s womb to this

present moment this man has gone through

the same routine

the vicious cycle

of needing somebody to help you the

vicious cycle of using people as a

profession

the vicious cycle of getting over the

vicious cycle of putting your weight on

me hey excuse me i already got to carry

me

now i got to carry me and you

[Applause]

[Music]

it’s not fair for me to have to carry

me

and you

and you don’t feel bothered by me

carrying you

this is the way it’s supposed to be and

this happens every day i don’t get a

weekend off i don’t get the holidays hey

it’s mlk day monday can i not go monday

is there any day i don’t have to carry

you

could you do something to add value

could you paint the porch

could you take out the trash

could you clean out the refrigerator

could you do something to add value in

my life must you always think that i am

the national bank of commerce

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

there are certain people

that have set up a system of dysfunction

and some of you have a loving heart and

you keep trying to help them and you

keep believing that they’re gonna get

better and they are taking advantage of

your compassion

and this is a hard cycle to break

because the cycle is a system and the

system is a circle and every day i pick

you up you know where we’re going and

every day i get you in the evening we

you know where we’re going because we’ve

been in a cycle for years and neither of

us expects it to change

it is into this environment

peter and john come

but i believe that the picture of the

lame man is a picture of the synagogue

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because can i take my time with this

the synagogue has been functioning for

years

with an outer court

and an inner court

but no glory in the holies of holies

they were just missing a little bit but

they had learned how to function without

the

glory and the synagogue was just as lame

oh y’all don’t want to hear me

the synagogue was just as lame in its

religiosity as the lame man at the gate

called beautiful so we got a lame man in

front of a lame church

[Applause]

and he fits into this lameness

because how can a lame church say

anything about a lame man

[Applause]

both of them have something that doesn’t

work

and into this lame condition

peter and john

now come

the problem with peter and john is that

they are not enablers

they are evangelists

evangelists are not enablers

because true evangelists we don’t have

many anymore

most of you have never seen a true

evangelist

you see speakers who speak multiple days

but a true evangelist is a disrupter

a true evangelist will turn the church

inside out

a true evangelist is not an evangelist

because they hoop they’re not an

evangelist because they raise money

they’re an evangelist because they carry

you somewhere you’ve never been before

and asked you to do something you’ve

never done before and people get healed

and people get delivered and people get

saved and people get set free and a true

evangelist is not like a sunday morning

service held on a thursday night a true

evangelist

disrupts things changes lives marriages

are reconciled people are getting

breakthrough people are getting

delivered people are getting help i have

to describe it to you because you can’t

find it anymore

[Applause]

you got these gunslingers with bibles

who will work for money

but a true evangelist will come in and

disrupt things

[Music]

peter and john came up to the temple at

the hour of prayer and they run into

this man they haven’t even got in the

church they came to disrupt the

synagogue

but before they could get to the

synagogue to disrupt the synagogue they

now have to disrupt this man

who is a picture

of the synagogue

they’re just standing on either side of

the gate laying on this side lame on

this side

they can’t get to the lameness over here

for the lameness over here

can i go deeper

[Applause]

i know this is a familiar text

but i’m gonna drain it dry

[Applause]

i’m gonna pull on it

i’m gonna yank on it i’m gonna squeeze

it and i’m gonna squash it

i’m gonna squeeze it till it fits your

situation i’m gonna squeeze it until god

talks to you i’ma squeeze it until the

holy spirit arrests you i’ma squeeze it

until god says to you you can’t have

another year if you’re gonna keep on

having folk carry you to the same place

in order to have a new year you have to

have a disruptive experience that asks

you to do something that you have

settled in your mind that you cannot do

[Applause]

peter and john come up with our prayer

and the bible

says

that the lame man here comes this word

looked on them expecting

to receive something

but but but what he was expecting

fit into the cycle of what he called

normal

i want to spend a minute talking about

the enemy of normal

normal is an enemy

every believer should flee from normal

because if you walk with god your life

should not be normal

when you walk with god you should not be

ordinary when you walk with god you’re

not supposed to fit in the clique when

you walk with god you ought not be like

everybody else when you walk with god

every day is a new day when you walk

with god he does amazing stuff when you

walk with god he opens doors

unexpectedly when you walk with god he

lets you meet people you never thought

you would meet when you walk with god he

puts you in situations that you weren’t

even qualified but god has ordered your

steps in such a way that every day is

exciting when you walk with god there’s

a spirit of gratitude that comes into

your life because your life is not

normal and it is not routine when you

walk with god god will always do the

unexpected

can i go deeper

i have all kind of journalists that ask

me i want to follow you around today so

i can see what life is like for td jakes

in a normal day i said you can forget it

i have never had a normal day every day

is different from the other day i don’t

have any day that looks like the day i

had before

one day i’m in africa the other day i’m

making oxdail one day i’m in washington

the next day i’m in new york one day i’m

at a business meeting the next day i’m

laying hands on the devil one day i’m at

the hospital one day i’m at the more i

don’t have a typical day because when

you walk with jesus he does the

unexpected i’m wondering if there’s

anybody in here who’s spiritual enough

to have walked in the unexpected

you can’t put me in a box you can’t put

me in a box you can’t give me a title

and tell me that’s what i am you can’t

expect me to always dress to say look

the same and i just said because i have

an unexpected god i’m just like my daddy

one day i’m in jeans one day i’m in a

suit one day i’m in shorts one day i’ve

been coverall you can’t expect me to fit

into your routine deadbeat ordinary

lifeless religious philosophical

ideology because i serve a god who hates

religion he likes relationship he does

see unexpected he does the impossible he

speaks to mountains and tell him to go

into the sea he comes to his disciples

walking on water he stops funerals and

raises up the dead he goes to weddings

and turns water into wine i serve a god

who’s able to do exceedingly abundantly

above all you may ask or think have you

met my god have you met my god he sleeps

in the middle of a storm he cast demons

out of legion have you met my god he

pays taxes out of the fish’s mouth have

you met my god

he refuses to bound the whipping post

have you met my god he prays for the

people who crucified him have you met my

god he rolls his own stone away he gets

up out of the grave he walks in the

garden alive again have you met my god

[Applause]

[Music]

type on the line the unexpected the

unexpected the unexpected the unexpected

to the unexpected type it as fast as you

can and i came to tell you that 2022

is going to be your year

for the unexpected

this is going to be the year

that the cycle breaks

this is going to be the year that god

releases you from enablers and brings

you to evangelists this is going to be

the year that you get strengthened

places you never had it before this is

going to be the year that you leap over

obstacles this is going to be the year

that you step over mountains

this is going to be the year

that the tale becomes ahead

this is going to be the year

that the head becomes a tale this is

going to be the year of the unexpected

2022

is my year for the unexpected don’t look

for me where you left me don’t look for

me where you laid me down don’t expect

me to be where you dropped me off

because i’m getting ready to bust a move

up in here i’m getting ready to step

somewhere i’ve never stepped before

[Music]

[Applause]

somebody giving 15 seconds

of crazy

[Applause]

oh that was cute

that was cute thank you

but that’s not the kind of praise i want

i expected that kind of praise i want

that jaw-dropping praise

that unexpected praise that excited

praise

that revolutionary praise that praise

and says i’m not through living my life

i’ve got something else to do

i’ve got something else to build i’ve

got something else to fight i want

somebody with an unexpected prayer open

up your mouth

and give god an unexpected

run over and fist from somebody and tell

them i’m gonna do the unexpected

[Music]

don’t expect me to be expected don’t

expect me to be normal don’t expect me

to be where you left me don’t expect me

to fit in the circle i will not stay

where you leave me i will not stay where

you dropped me off i will not stay in

the condition i was there i will not

stay there i will not stay there i will

not stay there i will not stay there i

refuse

to have another year like last year

something is gonna move this year

something is going to change this year

something is going to open up this year

open your mouth

and give god the glory

[Applause]

yeah

yeah

yeah

i’m getting ready to mess things up

i’m getting ready to break the routine

i’m getting ready to get out of

character i’m getting ready to do the

impossible i’m getting ready to do

something to write about you’re gonna

have to write about this because you

ain’t never seen me do this before i’m

getting ready to break some rules i’m

getting ready to get out of line

i’m getting ready to get out of the way

i’m getting ready to not need you to

carry me like i needed you to carry me

because i’m getting ready to get

independent i’m getting ready to stand

on my own i’m getting ready to flow in a

brand new zone

i’m getting ready to loan and not borrow

y’all don’t hear what i’m saying i’m

getting ready to build a second home

i’m getting ready to start a franchise

i’m getting ready to open up another

business i’m getting ready to become an

investor

yes the one who was on welfare yes the

one who was on food stamps yes the one

that they overlooked

yes the one they said would never be

anybody i’m getting ready to get up from

here don’t be looking at me for me to be

where you dropped me i will arise

michelangelo said it’s still iran

[Applause]

[Music]

and steal our eyes

and steal our ass

and steal our eyes

i lost my job

and still i rise

i lost my friends

and still i rise

i’ve lost my situation

and still i rise

i will arise

somebody help me praise him i don’t need

everybody

i just need five people

are helping praise him for the

unexpected

the extraordinary

the exceptional

the unusual

the magnificent

the magnificent

the magnificent

the awesome

the spectacular

power of god

the power of god

the power of god the power of god

[Applause]

so let me see let me see let me see

let me see let me see

we had the enablers

we had the evangelists

i want to deal

with number three

the expectation

he just expected to receive

something

that’s like mailing a letter

without putting an address on the

envelope

lord just give me something

just bless me that’s stupid

you already blessed

why you keep asking god to bless you

you already blessed

bless you how

bless you in what way

bless you in what state

bless you in what area you need to be

specific with god they expected to

receive he expected to receive

something

and what he meant was

give me some money

help me say help me stay

crippled how many friends do you have in

your life

that are helping you stay crippled

[Music]

and john said

i feel like preaching

john said

look on us

we don’t look like your enablers

we’re not the same kind of men

we’re not the people in the synagogue

look on us

so that you can see

that you’re standing in front of

exposure

god has exposed you

to somebody who’s got the power

to change your life

is there anybody in here

that’s ever been exposed

to somebody that’s changed your life

if you’re in here give witness

[Applause]

now

i’m getting ready to get in your

business

you

have only

gotten in your life

on the level that you expected

[Applause]

oh you talked a good game

but really all he expected was arms

the bible said he expected to receive

something but all he expected was arms

because that’s all he had asked for all

his life

and when all you expect is a certain

thing

that’s all you get

and he would have got some more of what

he expected

if it had not been see john told him to

look on us

peter told him silver and gold

have i none

[Laughter]

silver and gold

hello none

but saturn i am

give i under thee

see you gotta have somebody who knows

what they got

something i have

given id that’s all you’re gonna get

from me

is what i got

so that i have

give out thee

in the name of jesus

christ

of

rise up

and walk

[Applause]

[Music]

i speak to somebody watching online and

you’ve been laying there long enough

you’ve been crying long enough you’ve

been depressed long enough you’ve made

excuses long enough in the name of jesus

christ of nazareth rise up and walk

somebody rise up and take a little walk

somewhere just walk anywhere anywhere

but where you were

anywhere but what you where you were

anywhere but what you were this is your

year to move

this is your year to move out this is

your year to take over new territory

this is your year to show up in

unexpected places anywhere but where you

were i’m gonna sit somewhere but i won’t

sit where i’m at i’m gonna stand

somewhere but i’m not gonna stand where

i’ve been standing all my life i’m going

to move somewhere in the name

of jesus

christ of nazareth

ride up and walk

[Applause]

[Music]

and jackie

they heard the word

but even after hearing the word

he still didn’t walk

but peter was too radical

to be defeated

so he took him by the hand

and he snatched him up

this is our year

to snatch up people

they’ve heard our sermons

but this is a snatching year

if you don’t snatch it

it’s not gonna work

i don’t know who i’m preaching to

but god said snatch it up

snatch it up

they’ve had your sermon

now snatch it up you’ve been fussing

about it

now snatch it up he took him by the

right hand and he snatched him up and

the baba said

immediately

immediately

not gradually

but immediately

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

i got enough doctors in this church to

tell you

that’s

inconceivable

for a person

who has never walked

[Music]

that’s inconceivable for somebody who’s

been in a coma

[Music]

if you’ve been laying in the bed long

enough

you would need therapy

[Music]

but god said

number four he’s going to do the

extraordinary

what took somebody months to overcome

what took somebody’s happy to overcome

you already lost enough time

you don’t have time to wait

oh god i feel like preaching you don’t

have time to wait

on therapy

god said i’m going to do a quick work

so that i was said

immediately

his ankles at his feet

received strength

and the man stood up

and started walking

and leaving

and praising god

somebody praise god

like you lost your mind

praise him like you lost

praise it like you lost your mind

praise him like you lost your mind

praise him like you lost your mind pray

them like you lost

[Music]

[Applause]

in order to break the cycle

in order to break the cycle you will

have to be obedient i’m gonna give you

one more chance and god’s gonna bless

you

on the level of your obedience

praise him like you

lost your mind

[Applause]

[Music]

so

[Music]

so

[Music]

[Applause]

i

extraordinary extraordinary

extraordinary

extraordinary character honor routine

praising

praising

get beside yourself just decline

yourself get behind yourself get behind

yourself

[Music]

so

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

hey

yes

[Music]

yes

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

go ahead

go ahead go in

[Applause]

go in

go in

go in

go inside

go inside

go inside

walk it

leave

praising god

walking

leaping

praising the lord walking

leaping

praising the lord walking

leaping

[Music]

praise

walk

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

walk

lead

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

me

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

give it up

[Music]

whoa

[Applause]

yes lord

yes lord

yes

yes lord

[Music]

i said all of that

[Music]

just to say

expect the unexpected

you watch it online expect

the unexpected

your system will be shattered

your enablers will be unemployed

y’all don’t hear what i’m talking about

everything in your life is about to

change in a dynamic way

god is going to use somebody with the

spirit of an evangelist

they may not even have the title of an

evangelist

but an evangelist is anybody

who leaves you better

than you were before

it might be a wife it might be a husband

it might be a friend it might be a

cousin it might be a co-worker

but god is going to send somebody

that’s anointed

to get you out of your routine

oh god

i gotta quit preaching

because the more i preach

the more i feel like preaching

and the more i feel like preaching

the more yolks are breaking out they’re

breaking in the balcony

they’re breaking in the back of the

church

because the spirit of evangelism

is in this place

and it’s my job to preach

to you better than you were

when you came

somebody said i gotta get to better i

gotta get to better

i got to get to better

i gotta get to better

i got to get to better

i got to get to better

i gotta get to better i got to get the

better

anybody else

who has never walked

would have to have therapy

they would have to teach their muscles

how to agree with their nervous system

so that the bones would be strong enough

to coordinate the language

between

the skeletal system

and the nerve system

connected with the muscle system

all have to walk in agreement

in order for you to be able to walk

this is a motion

you’ve never made before

your ankle

has never moved before

anybody else

would start off in a chair

doing alphabets with their toes

trying to get their ankle built up

strong enough

to be able to bear the weight of their

whole body but because of jesus

because of jesus

because of jesus

you gonna go from bad credit

to great credit

you gonna go from renting to home

ownership

you’re gonna go from being quiet

to being a powerful preacher and it

ain’t gonna take a long time

somebody holler immediately

immediately immediately

the yoke will be broken

immediately

the yoke will be destroyed

you better come get me

immediately

[Music]

[Applause]

god said he sent this message

to wake you up

because the enemy wants to lull you back

to sleep

until monday

looks like tuesday

and tuesday

looks like wednesday

and wednesday looks like thursday

but i prophesy disruption

i prophesy change

i prophesy the unexpected

the exceptional

the extraordinary

the unusual

the spectacular

the supernatural

the

magnificent time to divine

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

this is not gonna be something god puts

in your cup

this is gonna be something god puts in

your ankles

[Applause]

god is gonna put something in your

weakest place

when the doors of the temple flung open

they were looking for

some attenders

they were not looking for the lame man

the bible said they were shocked

they were astonished

because they had put him in the box

of the incurables

and he came in the temple

pastor val

he didn’t come in to get healed

[Music]

hey

he came in already healed no man got the

credit for it

to god be the glory

for the things he has done

and they started whispering amongst

themselves

is not this man

people ain’t gonna know you

because they got you in a box

[Applause]

but this is a box breaking year

this is a box breaking here you hear me

online this is a box breaking year

this is a box breaking year

this is a year for the unexpected

some of you have stayed lame

watch this some of you have stayed lame

to make other people comfortable

you haven’t been your best self

to make them feel comfortable

to make them feel needed

this is your year

if they can’t take you walking and

leaping

they gonna have to get out of your face

this is your year

to do what you’ve never done before

this is your year

to move into a complete different

dimension

[Music]

stop

please stop

the holy ghost said the lame man was

functioning on one dimension

peter and john were functioning on

another dimension

the lame man was functioning on a

dimension that the only thing he

expected was something in his cup

peter and john were functioning in a

kingdom dimension

a kingdom dimension will change your

life

a kingdom dimension will change

your

life

don’t you kill yourself

don’t you think about it another night

because you haven’t even met yourself

a kingdom dimension will change your

life

you don’t need a wife

or a husband

to change your life

you need an encounter with god

to change your life

you don’t need a check

to change your life

[Applause]

i don’t know

i don’t know what this is

it’s been on me for a while now

when i started preaching this

summer happens

i don’t understand it

i’ve been preaching 45 years

i should be slowing down

how

it would be normal

for me to be slowing down

but i feel something

speeding me up

yes

yes

yes

[Music]

god said

the unexpected

bow your heads with me

take this message in

what does it mean to you

what is he talking to you about

[Music]

what is he getting ready to shatter

a normative

it wasn’t evil it wasn’t sin

it’s just less

than what he purposed for your life

[Music]

somebody just broke loose

[Music]

you got to get to better

you got to get to better

i rebuked that spirit that told you

you’re not worth it

i repeat that spirit that said you’re

not worthy i will build that spirit that

keeps making you go back to the familiar

because that’s all you’re supposed to

have the devil is alive

the demons want you

in that same city now

they want you in that same spot you will

not stay there you will not stay there

[Music]

this is the lord’s doings and it’s

marvelous in our eyes i pray for every

head that’s bowed i pray for every eye

that’s closed

i pray for every person that the

anointing has penetrated

in this moment

this is a yanking moment

[Applause]

i yank them up

[Music]

the kind of yank that causes an

immediate

reception of strength

in a place

you’ve never had it before

you’re online receive it right now

this is a miracle moment

in this moment

breathe that in in this moment

take that in in this moment

you have been telling yourself

i’m doing the best i can

this is all i got to work with

this is just how i am

this is my situation

i’ve never been anybody else

anybody who knew me would tell you i’m

like this

all of that is alive

god has ordered the unexpected

oh you were expecting something this

year

but god said what he’s going to do is

more than you expected

[Music]

you