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you’ve been thinking this is not enough

gifting this is not enough talent it’s

not enough money it’s not enough i don’t

have enough and jesus is whispering in

your ear tonight

when you say i am not enough

it makes you pray harder

it makes you seek harder

it makes you ask for more grace

yeah it sucks

but this is going to be sanctifying

yeah it’s hard

but somehow healing’s coming out of this

it’s time to get up step up step out in

faith take a risk do what god has called

you to do become who god has called you

to become don’t listen to the naysayers

don’t let fear doubt or negativity keep

you here trap it’s time to cross over

it’s time to break camp it’s time to

advance and go in and possess the

promises of god

[Music]

i was 17 years old i laid down and went

to sleep

and while i was sleeping i dreamed

i was reading a verse that i didn’t know

existed at the time

god was saying to a young man before i

formed thee in the belly i knew thee

or i ordained thee and i sanctified thee

to be a prophet

to the nations

and when i woke that morning i just took

my bible

with with childlike faith and just

let it fall open

and it fell open on jeremiah

and he said before i formed thee

in the belly

i knew thee

and i ordained thee

and i sanctified thee

to be a prophet unto the nations

and all of a sudden i remembered all the

stories my mother told me about when i

was born i was born with a veil over my

face and then one of the neighbors came

down and said look the lord has given

you a prophet

and mama said a prophet she said yeah he

has a veil over his face thin membrane

born over some babies faces i was one of

them

that membrane

the old folk said was a sign you were a

prophet but i didn’t know i was a

prophet so i was a wild crazy foolish

ignorant rambunctious

kid

who got into everything and anything all

the time driving people crazy and i was

having a good time doing my own thing

until god came along and messed it all

up by bringing this stuff again about me

being a preacher

and

i ran

from my calling i purposely got drunk

and went wild and got high and partied

and did everything i could to convince

him to go away

get one of them people with the little

dollies on their head and the long

skirts on and the no makeup who pray all

day and talk in tongues all the time and

leave me alone because i am not one of

them i’m crazy i’m ignorant i’m wow i’m

uncoof i will embarrass you i will

disgrace you please don’t call me this

is not going to be good for you and it’s

not going to be good for me and we

should not do this together

but god didn’t ask me to vote

he asked me to obey

and after several years of running and

after several years of going in clubs

and sitting on bar stools where one

drunk would lean over to me and say

funny man i had the craziest dream about

you

i i dreamed you was preaching in this

church

and i got up and ran out of the club

and i felt like david if i make my bed

in hell thou art there and if i take the

wings of the morning and ascend to the

uttermost parts of the earth are there

and i’m not going to be able to outrun

this and i couldn’t understand

that god wouldn’t let me go

i couldn’t understand why god picked me

if i get to heaven and we’re only

allowed one question a piece i simply

want to know

why did you call me

a boy from the heels of west virginia

the son of a janitor and a school

teacher

why did you call me and i had lots of

excuses

like moses i i had a speech impediment

you you can’t call me

you can’t you can’t call me i didn’t

stutter but i had a list i can’t be a

speaker because i have a list

but all of us have areas where we feel

inadequate

and if you don’t

you’re disqualified

because humility is framed from feeling

inadequate

when you say i am not enough

it makes you pray harder

it makes you seek harder

it makes you ask for more grace

beware of all the people who tell you

they are enough

it’s a sure sign

that you’re dealing with a fraud

because the questions the world is

asking

are too complicated for you to answer

with a degree

the problems people are having now

require divine intervention

and you have to have somebody who has

heard from god

not from themselves

so it doesn’t matter in my weakness he’s

made strong

in in my weakness his strength is

validated

so he chooses fragile

broken limited people so you won’t be

confused where the ointment comes from

you know that the glory that we have is

not of ourselves but christ jesus the

lord that has given us glory and it’s

him coming out of us it’s not our talent

coming out of it it’s not our skill

coming out of it it is him coming out

both to do and to will according to his

own good pleasure

that’s the facts

and what makes god all the more real is

recognizing that he can work with such

poor material

that he could that he can be so

masterful as michelangelo

to paint the sistine chapel with a

broken brush

and i am the brush

and you are the brush and you are the

brush you are the brush

and he chooses broken brushes so that

there will be no

glory to the brush

only to the artist

when

the master

the master bittner

plans to transplant you

arguing will not stop it

he will not let you go

until he’s moved you to the place that

he has prepared for you

and you for it

and placing you in that place

you begin to grow

and you will know you’re in the place

when like joseph

your branches reach over walls

when god plants you

your branches reach over every

denominational

racial

generational

wall that ever stood

and i believe he wanted you to hear this

at this moment

in your life

jerry and i my husband and i we’ve been

married nearly 20 years now i can’t

believe that and we have three sons that

we are raising they are giant

they are giants y’all

my 15 year old is six foot two inches

tall his 14 year old brother is six foot

two inches tall um their nine-year-old

brother is coming up right after them

they are some big boys and one of the

things i do for these boys in fact you

should know that my full-time job is

feeding the boys that is my full

time job i am trying to figure out any

which way i can differently to cook

chicken for dinner every single night

just like y’all that’s exactly what i’m

doing

so we just do sports and everything with

the boys they’re growing up so quick so

one of the things that i have done since

my oldest was five i started when he was

five um i went to uh ross dress for lest

in the back hand corner left hand side

there is a one row that has books and

journals and those sorts of things i

went and i grabbed um three journals

hardback journals they were just little

little um with the little spine spiral

spines nothing real fancy 4.99 i picked

one for each boy i’ve had it ever since

my oldest was five and at that age i

started to record a journal for them i

do not write in it every week or every

month or even um you know just on a

regular basis it’s just when something

happens i don’t want to forget or they

say something that’s really interesting

or i see the hand the handiwork the

fingerprints of god in their life in

some way i kind of write it down

my goal is to have a collection of

writings and thoughts and and love

letters really to my boys about their

life that i hand over to them when

they’re you know mature enough to

appreciate it or better yet i might just

hand it over to their wives and say girl

this is what you’re getting yourself

into right here

and because my oldest will be 16

next month i was looking through his

journal and came across a story from

when he was five

i read it with fond memories

because it was the the little journal

entry i put in there about him losing

his first tooth

he had wiggled that tooth

and wiggled it he couldn’t wait for it

to come out

and the reason he couldn’t wait for it

to come out is because we had told him

that when your tooth comes out the tooth

fairy will come

she will come and she will replace the

tooth with a treasure

so he could not wait

finally the tooth came out and that is

my boy still to this day that that has

never been eager to go to sleep but that

night

he dove into bed at bedtime he could not

wait he put the tooth underneath the

pillow he laid his head down and he was

he was trying to go to sleep but every

three to five seconds he would look

under the pillow

to see if anything had happened

finally he did fall asleep

we let some time pass and then about

three o’clock in the morning or so the

six foot two 250 pound tooth fairy that

i sleep next to every night he got up he

went upstairs and he replaced the tooth

for a treasure

in the morning i knew in jackson and at

the time we just had jackson and jerry

jr

i knew when they got up i knew i could

hear it i could hear the excitement the

squeals i could hear the stomps on the

floor i could hear the eagerness and

enthusiasm because the tooth fairy had

come and left the treasure they bounded

down the stairs into the room jackson’s

fists were both clenched closed he ran

up to me and said bomb the tooth fairy

came she left me a treasure

i said buddy let me see what she left

you

opened up one hand and it was a package

of gummy bears which was a big deal at

the time because that was his favorite

snack he opened up the other hand and it

was five dollars

[Applause]

now i don’t know what happened when

y’all were growing up but

i grew up in the days of dimes and

nickels

can the church say amen

so you know i’m trying to be excited for

the boy

[Applause]

really i’m annoyed about this whole five

dollar situation and my husband can see

that i am troubled

and you know if mama ain’t happy

nobody’s happy

after jackson left the room jerry came

over to me and he said priscilla don’t

worry

he said do you remember that last month

was jackson’s fifth birthday

he said do you remember that we had all

of the family over still to this day we

do that when one of the boys has a

birthday we invite the whole clan over

grandparents and cousins and aunts and

uncles everybody comes to celebrate he

said do you remember they all came most

of them had cards and then those cards

were five dollar bills he said do you

remember we took all those five dollar

bills and we put them in a birthday

drawer in the kitchen he said this

morning at 3am i went right inside that

birthday drawer

dave ramsey would be so proud of us

that’s good financial stewardship right

there is what that is

[Applause]

so that morning

really what i had witnessed

was my little boy getting excited about

treasure

that actually already belonged to him

treasure that he already had he just

didn’t know it

i came to tell somebody that there is

treasure

hidden in these earthen vessels

i came to tell you that by god’s spirit

there is gift and there is power that

has been entrusted to you that is

available to you available to me as

daughters of the most high king

you need to know that even if you do not

believe what the scriptures declare to

be true about your treasure if you don’t

believe that you’ve been forgiven or

that you already have the victory or

that the enemy is already underneath

your feet that there is no condemnation

for those of us who are in christ jesus

or that you have been made competent by

the spirit of god

i came to tell you that even if you

don’t believe it the enemy does

he knows who you are what ashamed it

would be for him to know and us not to

so it’s time for us to open up the

drawer and start pulling out the

treasure the treasure we’ve been

ignoring the treasure we’ve been calling

insignificant the thing that we’ve said

is not enough not valuable lord if i

could just be like her lord if i could

just be like that if i could just have a

bit more of that if i weren’t me then

lord i’d be enough he says uh-uh you

have enough you just haven’t opened up

the drawer

pull out the treasure

there is a story in scripture that is

going to be very familiar to you it’s

the one that the lord has been using in

my own life to remind me about how

he will compel me and he will compel us

to open up the drawer and reach in and

pull out the treasure and see what it’s

like when he uses what he has already

entrusted to us

luke chapter nine verse one

and two

says this

and he called that’s jesus he called

somebody say he called

he called the twelve together and he

gave somebody say he gave he gave them

power

and he gave them authority

over all demons and to heal all diseases

verse two and then he sent somebody say

he sent

he sent them

called them

he gave him treasure

and then he sent them out

verse 10 says and then when they

returned to him they gave an account to

him of everything they had done

and taking them with him he withdrew by

himself to a hill called bethsaida

the multitudes were aware of this verse

11 says so they followed jesus because

you know wherever jesus went a crowd was

sure to follow they weren’t quite sure

he was the messiah but what they didn’t

know was that when this man showed up

blind people could see

what they knew is that when jesus showed

up the lame could walk and the death

could hear the dead were being raised so

wherever jesus was they came

the crowd followed and welcoming the

multitude jesus began speaking to them

about the kingdom of god and curing

those who were in need of healing verse

12.

so the day starts to come to a close and

the twelve come to jesus and say now

jesus you’re gonna have to send this

multitude away they’ve got to go into

the surrounding villages and countryside

and find lodging they’ve got to get

something to eat jesus come on now here

we’re in a desolate place

verse 13 jesus said to them

uh-uh

you give them something to eat

they said jesus we have no more than

five loaves and two fish unless perhaps

you let us go and buy food for all these

people because you know we’re not enough

as we are right now

there were about five thousand men

scholars say the reason why luke

specifies men is because there were

women and children too so there were

probably about 15 000 hungry people that

day

jesus said have them recline to eat in

groups of about 50 each so they did so

had them all reclined and then he took

the five loaves and the two fish

and looking up to heaven he blessed them

and then he broke them

and he kept giving them to the disciples

to set before the multitude and verse 17

says they all ate

they were all satisfied and just so you

know how satisfied they were they went

by and picked up all the leftovers

because there was overflow

in this story we meet a hungry multitude

a multitude that is placing a demand

they have a need there is a lack that

needs to be filled and most of the time

when this proportion of the scriptures

is looked into the multitude is who we

concentrate on the five loaves and the

two fish and how they were satisfied

with it but just for a few moments

tonight i want to talk to you about the

12 disciples

those who walked with jesus and talked

with jesus those who were in close

communion with jesus those who would

come out on a friday night to be in the

presence of jesus amongst the people of

jesus i want to talk to the disciples of

jesus

the disciples on this occasion had been

called to jesus by jesus they were

having a conversation with each other

jesus entrusted them with power and

authority and then he sent them out

i love that this gospel is one of the

synoptic gospels the synoptic gospels

are those that tell there are three of

them matthew mark and luke these three

tell some of the similar stories in a

similar tone in a similar way so that

we’re able to get more layers to the

story i love the gospels in that way

they give us layers

just like if someone were to offer you a

chocolate cake but they gave you options

you could have a one layer chocolate

cake or a seven layer chocolate cake

which one you gonna choose

seven every single time because the more

layers there are

the more rich and delectable the

experience becomes mark chapter six is a

layer of chocolate cake for us it tells

us that this is the experience when

jesus called the disciples to himself

and then he sent them out in pairs do

you remember two by two into the

neighboring towns and communities they

were supposed to teach and preach and

perform miracles that would authenticate

the deity of jesus christ mark chapter

six our layer of chocolate cake

tells us that they expended themselves

y’all they were busy from sun up to

sundown they were about the task of

doing what it was that jesus had

assigned to them they wanted to be

diligent about it so much so that when

they came back to jesus they gave an

account to him and jesus recognized

their exhaustion

he saw that they were tired in fact

jesus himself commented that they didn’t

even have time to eat because they had

been so busy

they were depleted and they were tired

and they came back to jesus and they

gave him an account

for how they’d handled the assignment

that he had entrusted to them

if you’re a believer in jesus christ

you got an assignment

and don’t let anybody tell you that your

assignment isn’t ministry just because

it happens to be in a corporate setting

mother of small children who’s chosen to

stay home with those kids don’t let

anybody tell you that a ministry

every single time you make that chicken

for dinner and you set it on that table

and you teach those kids a bible verse

before bedtime don’t let anybody tell

you that that ain’t ministry

corporate woman when you sit around that

boardroom table and you’re the only one

that has a set of ideals that lines up

with the truth of scripture at a table

with those who are thinking and acting

and planning in a way that is left of

god’s word don’t let anybody tell you

that you around that boardroom ain’t

ministry that’s ministry

high school student college student

you’re the only student that stands for

truth when your professor says this is

the way it is and you say no that’s not

the way it is don’t let anybody tell you

as the light on that college campus that

you are not in

ministry every single one of us has an

assignment and the day is coming

when we’re gonna have to give an account

and here’s the

thing you don’t know when that day is

my 38 year old cousin

38

four small children

the day is coming and you don’t know the

day or the hour

neither do i when we’re gonna have to

stand before him and give an account for

how we handled what he had entrusted to

us i’m asking you tonight how are you

handling your assignment

because young women if you think that

you’re young because of your age listen

to me if you’re 20 but you only have

until 30 you’re pretty old

if you’re 50 and you’re gonna live until

100 then you’re pretty young

age is just a number my friend and you

and i cannot qualify young or old

baseball based on our our birth date

it’s based on our death date and since

we don’t know when that day is

that i implore you sisters by the

mercies of god to walk in a manner

worthy of the calling by which you have

been called

cause listen i don’t know about y’all

but when i see him face to face i’m

looking for a well done

i’m looking for well done

when i see him he will not ask me how

many instagram followers i had

he will not wonder whether or not folks

liked my post he will not be interested

in whether or not my selfies were

perfectly lit he will ask me

did i know his son

and then i will give an account

so the disciples they come and they give

an account to jesus i wondered if there

was a recipe for effective ministry

because if these guys were willing to

come and look jesus in his face and give

an account i figured there might be a

recipe for us for effective ministry i’m

interested anybody interested

there are three ingredients to the

recipe

luke chapter nine verse one it says he

called them

he

called them

and his calling superseded any personal

ambition that they had

they laid down whatever they were going

to do because they heard the call of god

beckoning them to do something else

the beautiful thing about that entire

picture is that all of the glory of god

the father

all of the glory of heaven was packaged

in human flesh jesus wanted so much god

the father wanted so much to make sure

that he could speak and so that humanity

could hear that he left his throne in

glory

put on flesh so that the disciples could

hear his call and in the same way he has

given us the holy spirit so that each

and every one of us have the privilege

to hear the calling of god on our lives

the conviction the unction the pressing

the fire that is shut up in your bones

sending you in a particular direction

heed the call of god on your lives

then they were not just called i love so

much that before he skips to the third

ingredient in the recipe sending them i

love that before we get to the third one

there’s that second one he did not just

call but then he gave them power and

authority it means that what he was

calling them to do he was simultaneously

equipping them with supernatural power

to be able to pull it off so it’s good

news for anybody in the room that you

feel like you’ve got a dream that is way

over your head you’ve been called to do

something you don’t have the money for

you don’t have the time for you don’t

have the patience for you don’t have the

gifting for you don’t have the talent

for you don’t have the connections for

the good thing and the great thing about

our god is that he does not call people

who are already equipped he calls you

and then for the people that say yes he

equips them with what they need for the

calling

entrusted them with power and authority

and can i tell you why this is important

this is important because in order to

accompl and accomplish supernatural

tasks

you have to have supernatural capacity

in other words you can be the most

talented person in the world but if you

go in your own strength and power

you still won’t be able to accomplish

the god calling on your life it requires

what it is that only god himself can

give to you to accomplish the task oh

the enemy hopes you will go in your own

power

he hopes you will think you are flashy

enough and savvy enough and talented

enough and impressive enough so that you

will no longer lean on god instead of

leaning to your own understanding

but it is not by power and it is not by

might it is by the spirit of god

and some trust in horses other folks

trust in chariots but not us we trust in

the name of the lord our god

so he called them and then he entrusted

them he gave them some treasure and then

he

sent them

he’s the one who did the sending

resist the urge to send yourself

to do something that it is not yet time

for

because just as important as our calling

is that is equally as important as the

timing is

in which that calling is outworked in

our lives and if you go too soon you

might if you if you give birth too soon

to that which god is trying to produce

through you you might abort

what it is that he’s trying to

accomplish in you

the spiritual backbone the fortification

that he was trying to establish in you

so that you could handle the spotlight

when it hit you because listen that

spotlight that you may be craving if it

hits you and you have no character it

will burn you to a crisp

so he called them

he entrusted them he sent them out and

they returned to him and gave an account

they were tired

the disciples had been given it

everything they had

and i know there are some of you in the

room and you would admit that you

haven’t done it perfectly but man you’ve

sure been purposeful

you’ve been intentional about this

marriage you’ve been giving it

everything you’ve got

you’ve been intentional about that

teenager you’ve been giving that kid

everything you’ve got this

toddler that has this specific vent or

this specific issue that you’ve been

doing everything you can going to see

every expert that you can reading

everything that you can to be the best

that you can as a mother single mother

you’ve been giving it everything that

you’ve got working the jobs that you’ve

got to work to keep food on the table

you’ve been giving that business that

ministry that endeavor everything that

you have and you the disciples are tired

the good news about jesus is that when

the disciples come to him tired he does

not say

go away from me and get yourself

together

come back and then i can use you

he says

come away with

me

in other words listen

the cure for your exhaustion

is intimacy with jesus

that’s the cure y’all

i’m saying i agree take the holiday take

the vacation tell them you need a little

sabbatical you got to step back for just

a little bit you need a little margin in

your life take the holiday but don’t

take a holiday from jesus

don’t take the sabbatical from your

relationship with the lord prayer

shouldn’t exit your schedule because

these are your rest days you still need

to be the deer that pants after the

water your soul has still got to be

replenished and can only be replenished

when you have intimacy with him

and you’re trying to figure out lord

you told me that i was gonna be

replenished you told me that i was gonna

refresh you told me that you had

something that you wanted to give to me

why would you take me here to this place

where i’m being pressed down by a

multitude of issues and concerns and

frustrations there’s something

overwhelming me that is bigger than what

i feel like i have the capacity to

handle why would you bring me here this

tells us that the story of the feeding

of the five thousand is not just about

the five thousand

it’s also about the disciples it’s not

just about the multitude getting fed

it’s about the disciples being fed

physically spiritually emotionally and

it tells us that the five loaves and the

two fish are the gift to the multitude

but it’s the multitude

that’s the gift to the disciples

because the multitude

is what’s going to make them

have to finally open up their drawer

pull out the treasure that they would

have otherwise ignored

place it in the hands of a multiplying

master who’s going to show them what it

looks like when he takes their little

bit and makes it a lot

there is no replenishing

like watching god multiply your loaves

and fish

i came to tell somebody who’s got a

multitude pressing on you

in your marriage or in your finances or

in your health or in your parenting or

in your singleness that thing is

weighing down on you that means that

there is a drawer waiting to be opened

that means there’s some treasure waiting

to be unveiled

and when you take it out finally when

you stop ignoring it when you stop

circumventing it when you stop acting

like god hasn’t given you everything you

need when you will finally recognize

this little bit this little gifting this

little talent this little time this

little money this little dream this

little vision that this is all i need if

i’ll just pull it out

and entrust it to the hands of a

multiply master

can i just show you real quick what the

disciples did

just real quick because i think it’s

interesting because it’s so us

they said to jesus in verse 12 send the

multitude away

[Applause]

and here’s the thing that’s so us see we

don’t just

say it

we pray it

[Applause]

we pray away what we don’t even

recognize is the gift he has given us

to press us into opening up our drawer

so if you pray for your multitude to be

taken away and in god’s sovereignty he

has left it in your life

that means there’s a drawer there’s a

drawer stop start looking for a drawer

if there’s a multitude that means

there’s loaves and fish somewhere in

your life that is supposed to be

entrusted into the hands of god so we

pray away did you realize in verse 12

they are wishing away what in verse 11

jesus welcomed

welcomed what they’re wishing away

so the disciples say

get get this multitude away

they don’t even know they’re praying

away their miracle

everybody wants to see the red sea

divide but nobody wants to be the one

that comes face to face with a red sea

everybody wants to see the walls of

jericho come tumbling down but nobody

wants to be the one who has to walk

around those walls in obedience to god

to trust him to shout prior to seeing

one brick fall

if there is a multitude that means there

is a miracle

so praise the multitude or they ask for

the multitude to go away and jesus he

doesn’t go for that so when he doesn’t

they he doesn’t go for that the

disciples have another solution this is

us too

send the multitude away jesus says

and they say

well send us away then

you see it

they said send us to the surrounding

towns and villages so that we can go and

buy more accumulate more get more

because as we are is not sufficient

so send us somewhere else so we can get

better and be better suited to this

multitude because as we are is not

enough it has always been the tactic of

the enemy to get us to think that we are

not enough as we currently are that what

we currently have is not sufficient for

the task that is before us but if the

lord has allowed that multitude into

your experience that means that as you

currently are with the entrusted

treasure the power the authority that he

has given to you you’ve got everything

you need if you just pull out what he

already has entrusted to you

in fact in mark chapter six our layer of

chocolate cake we find out that he says

to the disciples

well what do you have

he asked them that question

he says what do you have and then he

doesn’t even give him a chance to answer

he just immediately responds and says

go and look

he said it like that

go and look

he said it like you would tell your kid

if the month i mean the week after

christmas they came to you and said mom

i’m bored

you would say

well what do you have

and then before you gave them a chance

to respond because you could already

tell that the response they was going to

give you was going to get them in

trouble

so you didn’t even give them a chance

you just say you would say to them

go and look

because if you’ll just look you’ll see

that the thing you’re complaining about

is something you already have access to

if you will go and look moses you will

see that everything you need to do what

i’ve called you to do it’s in your hand

it’s that rod that common rod that has

always been right beside you but now i’m

gonna infuse it with my power if i can

just get you to go and look moses pick

the stick up put it over the red sea you

will see that it will make the red sea

divide like a solid wall go and look

david yes goliath is right there but if

you’ll go look down by the stream i’ve

already provided five smooth stones that

will be everything you need to take that

giant down go and look spend all of the

energy that you’re spending complaining

spend that energy going to look for what

god has already given us access to

so they pulled it out

all right jesus you’re gonna do

something with this

they say okay

here you go

and they put it in his hands

everything changes

when you put your five and two in the

hands of jesus

everything changes when you stop

speaking negatively about it and just

trust it into the hands of g when you

just take that little dream that that he

has entrusted to you and you give it

back to him and you say don’t look like

much right now but i’m putting it in

your hands and the great thing about our

god verse 16 says is that he took

the meager gifts of man

he didn’t look at their little bit and

say come back when you’ve got more uh

a holy divine almighty powerful god a

god who does not need us or our loaves

and fish when man gave it to him

he received it

and looking up to heaven

he blessed it

y’all you don’t need more you just need

god’s blessing on what you’ve already

got

you don’t need more you just need god’s

blessing on your five and two girl

that’s all you need

you know what his blessing is it’s his

favor

y’all favor is what makes the scales

balance over in your favor

favor is what makes things a little bit

unfair on your behalf favor is what

opens doors that nobody can shut favor

is what puts you in positions that

nobody can take away favor is what sets

you before kings and queens the favor of

god is what you want on your life on

your five and two looking up to heaven

he blessed it then he broke it and he

kept giving it

to the disciples

and it kept going and it kept going and

the 12 didn’t understand how the little

bit they had they had in the beginning

had become so much

and their entire multitude

the whole burden was satisfied

and when everybody was satisfied

oh somebody say satisfied

oh victoria i wish we had time tonight

girl

satisfied

this is not some you know happy meal

sort of situation here

this is not a number one on the burger

king drive-thru this is sunday afternoon

i’m talking about old school sunday

where your mom started to cook on

saturday night and the yeast rolls were

rising and the macaroni and cheese was

bubbling and the sweet potatoes were all

gooey on the stove and and every the

sweet tea was going the roast you know

she started the roast on 200

the night before and let it simmer all

night long y’all are getting hungry

aren’t you i know listen

do you remember how when you came home

from church the next day you ate that

and the only thing you could do after

that was

that’s all you could do that’s why jesus

said go ahead and have the people

recline

have them get in a posture

of expectation

that i’m getting ready to do exceedingly

abundantly

above and beyond anything that they can

ask or think

satisfied sunday afternoon kind of

satisfied

that’s what he does

and they were so satisfied y’all don’t

even sit down just stay standing listen

they were so satisfied this is how you

know how good the meal was

there was leftovers

they started going around picking up the

leftovers y’all and guess what

there were 12 baskets full

one basket

for each disciple

to take home

as an overflow of the grace and the

blessing of god

i want to pray for any of you who are in

this room and you’ve got a multitude

weighing on you

you gotta i mean that thing is burdening

you down and you’ve never considered the

fact

that you’ve already got what you need

you’ve been thinking this is not enough

gifting this is not enough talent it’s

not enough money it’s not enough time i

don’t have enough and jesus is

whispering in your ear tonight

you got enough

just give it to me i’m gonna multiply it

i’m gonna blow your mind with what i’m

gonna do if you just trust it to me

anybody got a specific multitude

that you need prayer in regards to just

go ahead and raise your hand we’re gonna

pray right now

in jesus name victoria will you come up

with me please just as a pastor in this

house would you just be

present in this moment so we can pray

over god’s people lord

right now we entrust every single woman

who has her hand raised in particular we

entrust every single one under the sound

of our voice lord to your love and care

we thank you that you are sovereign over

their lives father we thank you that

there is nothing that is in our

experience right now that is not first

passed through your fingers and since we

know you are good and that you are kind

and that your mercy endures forever then

father we

believe that if you’ve allowed this

multitude there’s something in this

multitude we don’t want to miss and so

father i pray right now that you would

change our perspective so we can see in

this multitude what you have for us

don’t let us miss it for anything in the

world lord

and then father i’m gonna pray over our

five and two i ask right now in jesus

name whatever the five loaves and the

two fish are that you have entrusted to

every single woman i pray that you would

give a holy courage and a holy boldness

that would compel us to open up the

drawer and pull it out and entrust it to

your hands father god i do pray that if

this multitude has anything to do with

the enemy lord if the enemy has assigned

an attack on any woman or her family i

pray that his attack would be canceled

in jesus name and by his blood that has

been shed on calvary

but lord if this multitude is of you

then right now in jesus name i thank you

for it in our lives come on and thank

him for it

i thank you for it

and then father

we’re gonna go ahead and get in a

posture of abundance we’re gonna start

living and praying and acting like

people who believe that you are the god

of ephesians 3 20 and 21.

you can do above all that we ask or

think in jesus name

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it says leaving the crowds behind

see when you’re going to not be

impressive

that means you’re going to have to

divorce your identity from the crowd

leaving

the crowds

behind

i need to give you this point because

some of you won’t be able to make it

past this moment if i don’t give it to

you if you’re going to dwell in the deep

your boat is not built for everybody

leaving the crowds what did i say

behind

the bible says distinctly that other

boats followed

but it said that the boat that jesus had

started them out on

everybody was not able

to get on that boat i bet there was a

lot of people in the crowd that wanted

to get on the boat when jesus said hey

i got a mission for us let’s go to the

other side and literally they said they

moved out

leaving the crowd behind i keep saying

leaving the crowd behind because i

believe that god is asking some of you

to do that very thing if you’re going to

dwell in the deep leave

the crowd behind

who

is on your boat who’s weighing you down

everybody’s not going to the deep with

you

and you will delay your destination

trying to bring a committee to what god

called you to

[Music]

do you know where i would be right now

if i waited for everybody that i thought

was supposed to be with me to come with

me on this journey

do you know how many people would still

be wandering and drifting if i needed

the cosine of everybody else when i

already had the cosine of heaven

your boat

is not built

for everybody

and the most spiritual thing that you

may do this year

because you’re going to the deep

is delete them

i’m not talking about if you see them

out you don’t you don’t say hello and be

cordial and i’m not talking about cancel

culture i’m talking about concentrated

culture

do you know that if you are distracted

you cannot reach your destiny in

adequate time and so what god is telling

you right now is i don’t want you to be

in to cancel culture i need you to be in

concentrated culture do you know when a

horse a thoroughbred runs in the indy uh

not indy 500 what do they call it the

preakness or the um um what is it called

the kentucky derby those horses are

worth millions and millions and millions

of dollars they have a 15 piece of

equipment that they put on their eyes to

allow the peripheral vision to be cut

off so that they can be concentrated on

their lane and the finish line

and i believe that in this year god is

asking us to be concentrated on our lane

and the finish line and that means

that everybody

can’t get on the boat

and go

to the deep

well what i do pastor mike

i thought

i thought bobo name was gonna come with

me

i thought tremaine was gonna be able to

make this trip

i already got a ring

i already got a ring i bought a ring

already pastor mike

are you asking me to get on this boat

and go alone

are you asking me

to actually

wait on you

hello hello hello

anybody out there anybody out there

i will trust you i don’t trust you i

would trust you

this sucks this sucks this sucks

eenie meenie miney mo catch a tiger by

his toe

miss mary mac man

all dressed in black

purified

very fine

i want to be concerned

you came from heaven to earth

to show

me something

cause the deep

feels stupid

the deep doesn’t have friends

the deep is calling me to be separate

consecrated

refined

sanctified

see these are

these are words in the bible that we

skip over

like these are when we talk about the

blessings we talk about all that but

then when he says that

he will be the one

to take us

through every storm of life

can i ask you a question

have you ever been in a storm before

when you were waiting on god doing the

thing he asked you to do

and then out of nowhere a storm happens

can i ask you this question how many

people can we be honest we’re hot at

this church humble opening transparency

how many people in some area of your

life are in a storm right now come on

hands lifted all over the world

you’re in a storm right now

what happens

when mark 437 comes up

that i left the crowd

i decided to go to the deep

and this should be easy now because you

are with me right

and look what verse 37 is the whole

point of this message

but soon

a fierce

storm came up

no that’s desperate no no no no no no no

that’s not possible

it’s not possible

that i obeyed god

it’s not possible

that the season was just calm

that’s not possible

that i trusted god i gave him the crazy

faith offering i keep showing up

and then jesus is the one that told me

to go to the other side

he is the one that told me to move to

tulsa

he’s the one that told me to go to that

school

he’s the one that told me

and then

under jesus’s instructions

a fierce

storm

came

has your

life ever

looked

like

a storm

because right now

in many of your lives

that’s what it feels like and that’s

what it sounds like

it sounds

and feels

like how am i out here

and how i’m going to do what god asked

me to do

and what is going on in my life and i’m

out here and it’s dark now and i’m out

here and there’s nobody helping me

and i’m out here and i don’t hear a word

from god

what are you saying to me pastor mike

something you need to know if you’re

gonna dwell in the deep is the anchor

does not excuse the storm

this is the lie that so many churches

and people have told you for years and

i’m gonna shoot it to you straight you

can have jesus and have a storm

it’s better to see it coming than to

allow yourself to be fooled and then

walk away the storm is coming whether

you have jesus or not

your marriage will be tested whether you

pray in tongues or not

your children will have to be taught

whether you fast or not i feel god right

now

you will have

a challenge that you’re gonna have to

believe god for

whether you read the word every day or

not

i’m going to keep the storm going

because this is what many of your whole

last year look like

and what we try to do

is get down and make a better situation

for ourselves

let me roll my way into another

another school

let me roll my way into a better

relationship

let me roll my way

let me roll my way

into a new church

you’ve been to 42 churches

and the storm has not subsided

it might mean because god’s trying to

teach you something in the storm

i need to be even more transparent with

you because i feel like many people have

never done this for you so i’m going to

do it for you jesus does not excuse the

storm

but can i tell you jesus

usually escorts you into the storm

[Music]

god i thought hold on god i thought you

was doing something i thought you was

hold on no no no no i’m in the middle

hold on no i’m in the middle

how do i get out of

i’m your anchor

trust and know

that i am god

be still

and wait on me

[Music]

god

i can’t

i can’t see daylight

i don’t understand

why you didn’t just tell me to stay on

the shore

because god said the blessings in the

deep

can i prove it to you

jesus after he was baptized in water

what ended up happening

is that

god came down and said this is my son

and who i’m well pleased

and then guess what happened

he was led by the holy spirit

into

the wilderness

he was escorted by god

some of y’all been calling your storm a

devastation

and god said that this is just the

destination

that i have to create in you or i feel

this thing the character the stamina the

wherewithal the stick to additiveness

that you need to be everything i’ve

called jesus

[Applause]

[Music]

and right now

i bet on day

21 jesus

was like yo is the storm over yet

and i bet

on day 31 he said is the storm over yet

and some of you

have been living in this place in your

life

is the storm over yet

is the storm going to subside

and for some reason

god doesn’t take you out of the storm

he sustains you in the middle of it

i’m trying to show you a practical

example of what having an anchor does

and can i tell you something if you’re

going to dwell in the deep listen and

write this point down the deep is not

for devastation

it’s for preparation

the darkest and deepest places of my

life

have prepared me for the greatest

victories of my life

i remember when me and natalie had good

credit

and we were in a place to be able to buy

our first home

and it was sunny sky everywhere

and we got hooked up with a bad

contractor

and what ended up happening is we found

ourselves in the smack dab middle of a

storm

and for three

years

my credit went down

we were drained of tens of thousands of

dollars nobody knew pastor mike i didn’t

have no books i didn’t have no nothing i

felt like every day god was letting the

storm continue to pound on my life and i

was like god why i’m praying i’m fasting

i’m giving i’m serving the youth i’m

serving bishop

and god said this is not a place of

devastation

this is a place of preparation

it was in those moments that i learned

the tools and the trades that i needed

to be able to purchase the spirit bank

event center that we sit in right now

he knew that if i went through the storm

in a season where it was inconsequential

that he would sustain me and i would

come out better and at the other side it

would be the very thing i needed

[Music]

to reach purpose

maybe you need to rename your storm

yeah it sucks

but this is going to be sanctifying

yeah it’s hard

but somehow healing’s coming out of this

john 16 33 said i have told you these

things so that in me you may have peace

in this world you will have trouble can

i say it a different way in this world

you will have a storm

but take heart

i your anchor have over pumped somebody

better help me shout in the place today

if you know that our anchor has overcome

the world

so dear brothers and sisters james one

verse two and four

when troubles or storms of any kind

oh that means i can have a storm in my

marriage any kind of storm

a storm of insecurity any kind of storm

a storm of financial poverty any kind of

storm dear brothers and sisters when

storms or troubles of any kind come your

way uh-oh you want to reframe it

consider it an opportunity

for great joy hold on

is my storm a joyful situation according

to the word of god my storm should bring

me joy because if i know when your faith

is tested

your endurance has a chance to grow

so let me admonish you like james let it

grow

for when your endurance is fully

developed

you will be perfect

and complete

needing

nothing

what i started saying to myself

in the midst of the storm

because what happened is

sometimes you think like i got used to

the storm

and then the lights go dark

and then the stuff that used to be very

very clear and that you could see

then it gets it gets a lot darker yeah

yeah turn all of this off

turn this

yeah yeah cause cause what you think is

that now i’ve learned how to deal in the

storm

and now i’ve learned how to communicate

and and work in the storm

but then

it gets darker

and then come on keep going

like then

all i see and hear is the voice of the

enemy

and i see how they’re doing good

and i see their marriage succeeding

and this little light of mine is not

shining

and then mark 437 said high waves

were breaking into the boat

and it began to fill with water

so the storm got more intense

and the lightning started to go

and the things started to begin to be

more and i’m about to lose my house and

my family doesn’t want to invite me

places anymore and things are starting

to rock and starting to reel and things

are not looking brighter but it’s

looking darker and i don’t know what’s

happening where is jesus

have you ever said where

is

jesus

look what verse 38 tells us jesus was

doing

give me a little light on myself

jesus

was at the back of the boat

with his head on a cushion

no

jesus was sleeping

this greatest storm of my life is

happening

and

jesus had a flintstone pillow

and took residence

i i i need you to see this

in the midst of a shaky situation

y’all know when the storm is happening

nothing’s sure

where’s jesus

no

matthew mark luke and john matthew mark

luke and john

holy holy holy yeah that’s gonna be a

hit that’s gonna be a hit

what happens

when jesus has decided

to sleep

what happens

when jesus has decided to sleep

in the midst of your storm

do you still trust him

will you still wait on him

and people are saying yeah right now

but there’s a lot

that goes into

trusting a god who seems idle

when your situation

is so dark

the disciples woke him up shouting

teacher

don’t you care

that we’re going to drown

don’t you care

that everything around me is shaking

and jesus wakes up

is this what y’all woke me up for

who told you to go to the other side

y’all missed it

is this what you woke me up for the

storm

that when i told you we were going to

the other side

i’m the god of all knowing

so i knew there would be a storm and i

decided to sleep in it

[Music]

second timothy chapter 1 verse 7

it says for god gave

us a spirit not of fear but of power

love and of self-control our fears are

the cages that hold us back if we’re

talking about the lions we’re in that

cage well the bottom line is i think for

many of us

we are caged in by our fear if god has

not

sent us a spirit of fear and fear is so

rampant on the earth do the math guess

who sent it and if you were the devil

and you wanted to and immobilize

the body of christ what would you send

you would send a spirit of fear you

would send the very thing that god did

not send in order to take christians out

and so what we need to do is stop being

scaredy cats

god hasn’t given us a spirit of fear

there’s a reason why god tells us this

is not from me god doesn’t want us

locked in caged and trapped like those

islands like those lions at taronga zoo

that’s not what god wants for our life

so many of us are just

paralyzed by our fears rather than

living the abundant life that jesus

christ has called us to live we are

paralyzed by the fear of what other

people think that would be one of the

biggest ones

and you know what ultimately it really

doesn’t matter what other people thinks

what does god think

if i would not be doing anything i’m

doing today if i cared what other people

think my family thinks i’m crazy in case

you wonder what they think not my one my

husband and my kids but my family of

origin

because you know what if i tried to

please them there would be no a21 there

would be no propel there would be no

television program because i would be

the good greek girl sitting at home

cooking baklava right now breeding many

more children well not anymore because i

can’t but back in the day okay

but you know what not that there’s

anything wrong with that but that wasn’t

the only thing god had called me to do

and so many of us we settle because our

mom might not be happy or our father

might not be happy or the teacher might

not be happy or our friends how many of

our destinies have we put on hold in

order to impress our friends and to stay

down where we are fear that i’m not good

enough

so many of us just think we’re not good

look let me put you out of your misery

to do what god has called you to do

you’re not good enough you feel good i’m

not good enough

you know what god has called us to is a

supernatural destiny

you cannot fulfill a supernatural

destiny with natural ability so your

best natural ability is not good enough

to do what god has called you to do the

gap between what god has called you to

do and where you are is here and there

will always be the gap it’s called the

god gap and so i need god that’s the

faith gap that’s where god takes me into

doing what i can’t do but that’s where

his strength is made perfect in my

weakness that’s the grace gap do you

think i could run 15 a 21 officers in 11

countries around the world no no do you

think i could be putting traffickers in

jail or rescuing no

do you think i’d be running propelled

women around the world no i don’t have

the ability it is all outside of my

skill set i’ve never been trained in

television i’ve never been trained in

that kind of community this is all

outside of my skills if god does not

show up i’m toast

so let me put you out of your misery

you’re not good enough okay so that

settles that in case you think i’m not

good enough

fear of failure that is a really big one

what if i fail

well what if you succeed

and what if you fail get back a failure

is highly overrated

what are we all so scared of failing for

big deal

big deal get back up and have another go

you know with fear of danger or harm

well i already talked to you in session

one that you can’t avoid it if it’s

going to happen it’s going to happen at

the end of the day you can take checks

and balances but i get on a plane nearly

every day i cannot i’m not the pilot and

i’m not i have to trust that the person

that is putting the gas in and that the

person that’s checking the tires and the

persons that’s checking the little

screws that hopefully keep the wings

attached one hopes you know all of those

things at the end of the day i’m gonna

have to let go and trust god

so if i was thinking about fear and

danger all the time i would not travel i

could not do if i was always worried

about what about my kids what about now

i do all my due diligence there is never

an excuse for not doing due diligence

but you have got to have faith to step

out and say god i’m trusting you to fill

the gap that i can’t feel and we would

do a whole lot more for jesus if we

actually trusted him in that gap fear of

the unknown well the fact is if we’re

walking in faith we’re always walking

into the unknown the bible says of

abraham that he went forth i love this

part not knowing where he went

to a land that he would recognize when

he got there

when was the last time you didn’t know

where you were going we are so fearful

i’ve got to have it all mapped out

here’s my five-year plan here’s my

10-year plan this is where it works out

i’m going to have this much money i’m

going to do this you have a box for

everything you have an app for

everything

what happens if the app breaks

the fact is you know i don’t even live

that kind of life and i run major global

organizations

i have a basic trust in god fact i do

all due diligence i do a basic plan but

i’m like father this is yours

i don’t really know where people go

where you go i don’t know but i get up

every day and i say jesus i don’t know

where you’re going today but i’m coming

wherever you’re going that’s that’s my

bottom line if you’re wondering that’s

about the extent i’m going wherever he’s

going and so that means don’t box me too

much is she just rescuing the victims of

traffic yes and is she helping women yes

and is she doing tell yes and he should

teach the bible yes the answer is yes

wherever

you’re not going to fit me in a box

because i’m not here to fit into your

box i’m here to obey jesus as he walks

forward and so that’s what we need to do

with our lives and so everything that i

have done

everything has been out of my comfort

zone just so that you know anything that

is bearing fruit that remains

has got the touch of god on it it’s not

what i’ve been able to do you know when

i went to church in in when i was 21 you

know for a greek orthodox girl to walk

into a protestant church

and to then give my life to christ and

continue to walk on route that was i was

ostracized people my family members did

not speak to me for three years i was

not included in anything you know what

it was a step of faith to go i didn’t

see this in my future i didn’t know what

was ahead i couldn’t see 30 years in

advance i could just see that my family

wasn’t talking to me that my friends

ridiculed me because they thought you’re

the loser how’d you become a christian

where’d your brain go you know that’s

what kind of happened and now we look at

it 30 years later and go wow

but i didn’t know what was here when i

started but i had jesus there and that’s

who i was following and jesus brought me

here that’s how it goes into the future

as well i left my job to go into

ministry i was in a very high paying

lucrative job to go into ministry where

i wasn’t paid barely for seven years it

didn’t make any sense but it took risk

because that’s what god called me to do

you know when i started the youth center

i didn’t know anything about youth

ministry and had to trust god to grow

when i was a youth evangelist filling

arenas talking to thousands of young

people about jesus no one trained me i

didn’t know what i was doing when we

started a 21 there wasn’t a course i

went to how to grow a global

anti-trafficking organization when we

started propel women i didn’t go and

read a textbook on how to run a movement

for women who lead and to help women

internalize the leadership identity you

know everything i think about when i got

married with my broken past of abuse

and abandonment there was a huge faith

risk to trust god

that this was the next step for me

i never thought i would have children

because i didn’t want that i was so

broken

so then when i really felt the lord say

okay and then he gives me two daughters

i can’t tell you what a risk of faith

that was for me

to think i i don’t want my kids screwed

up in any way

so the fact is to become who god wants

you to become to do what god’s called

you to do it’s always going to take risk

personally emotionally relationally

financially physically in every realm of

life some of you are so caged

by fear

that you’re not going to step into that

relationship because your parents got

divorced or because there was some

brokenness

and what you’ve done is you’ve allowed

that to trap you you haven’t given your

heart you won’t trust serving in church

because somewhere along the line maybe

someone hurt you or abused your trust

somewhere along the line it is amazing

how we have just become like those lions

caged in by our fear what if what if

what if how about you replace what you

do not know about the future with what

you do know about jesus

and you know that your god is good you

know that your god does good and you

know that your god will work all things

together

for good so why don’t you trust the

goodness of god versus what you don’t

know about the future the world is

cray-cray there is no bow here is red

alert it’s just going to get

increasingly cray-cray so why don’t you

put all your eggs in the basket of jesus

and trust jesus who is good and who does

good step out of the boat take a risk of

faith and do the thing that god has

called you to do i have discovered that

what is impossible with man is possible

with god i’ve discovered that our god is

able to do exceedingly abundantly above

and beyond anything that you could ever

ask hope or think i know that my eyes

have not yet seen nor my ears heard nor

has it entered into my heart the things

that god has for me i know that with my

god i can advance against a troop and i

can climb any wall i know that i can do

all things through christ jesus who

strengthens me i do not have to bow down

to fear self-doubt

will kill more dreams

than anything ever will

self-doubt will kill more dreams than

failure ever will you know what you’re

going to have to press through your

limitation you’re going to have to work

with what you’ve got you’re going to

start where you are you need tenacity we

need courage we need resilience we need

patience we need boldness we need to

take risks i love this scripture in

deuteronomy chapter 31 verse 6 to 8 the

lord said to joshua be strong and

courageous do not fear or be in dread of

them for it is the lord your god who

goes with you he will not leave you or

forsake you then moses summoned joshua

and said to him in the sight of all

israel be strong and courageous for you

shall go with his people into the land

that the lord has sworn to their fathers

to give them and you shall put them in

possession of it it is the lord who goes

before you he will be with you he will

never leave you he will never forsake

you i said it twice because it’s worthy

of being said twice god will never leave

you god will never forsake you it is god

that is calling you to cross over it’s

time to get up step up step out in faith

take a risk do what god has called you

to do become who god has called you to

become don’t listen to the naysayers

don’t let fear doubt or negativity keep

you here trapped it’s time to cross over

it’s time to break camp it’s time to

advance and go in and possess the

promises of god for your generation in

jesus name in jesus name amen amen come

on let me pray for you

so father i

thank you

i thank you that you are a faithful god

that has called us to

live an adventurous daring

purpose-driven passionate life full of

risk and full of faith and full of hope

thank you god that you’ve not called us

to attain domesticated boring religious

existence but you’ve called us to a wild

glorious

unpredictable

faith-filled adventure and we thank you

that you’ve promised to never leave us

or forsake us thank you that you are

with us

in every situation give people the

strength and courage just like you said

to joshua the strength and courage to do

the thing that you’ve called them to do

in jesus name amen amen amen at tbn our

mission is to use every available means

to reach as many individuals and

families as possible with the

life-changing gospel of jesus christ

thank you for helping make

the gospel of grace go around the world

without you we couldn’t do it god bless

you