Service Date: 10.18.15 11am
if anybody tries to leave because they
know pastors in coming please block the
doors gatekeepers if we could have a
moment to pray father thank you for the
opportunity to be in your presence thank
you for visiting with us and sitting in
this room we ask that you would saturate
the atmosphere Oh God that you would
have a personal encounter with every
soul in this room that it would feel as
if you’re speaking to us and us alone
and so we ask that you would open our
hearts even the parts that we often try
to hide and that you would create shift
and change your God that we would have
an encounter with you in this moment
that forever changes our paths and as
for me father I execute would remove any
nerves that I would decrease so that you
could increase so God that your spirit
would overflow in that every word every
thought that proceeds from my mouth has
been kissed from heaven and sent to
earth in Jesus name I pray amen
I’m going to be speaking today from
Genesis 16 7 through 12 I just want to
give you a little bit of background when
we come into the scripture we find Hagar
who was the maid of Sarah and Abraham on
the run that’s the name of my message
for today it’s on the run I really tried
not to name it that just because I know
you all know about people being on the
run and other capacities but I think
when we get finished speaking you’ll
understand my intentions so Abraham and
Sarah have an Egyptian slave named Hagar
and this Egyptian slave Sarah volunteers
to her husband Abraham and she says
since I can’t have children I want to
give you my servants so that you can
have a
with her and when you all produced a
child then we will raise the child as
our own we want to use Hagar and if I’m
honest I think that when Sarah came up
with this idea and presented it to
Abraham that she was probably hoping
that he wouldn’t take her up on the
offer I mean there had to be a certain
part of her that was hoping you know
that when I asked you to you know sleep
with someone else that you would tell me
no honey absolutely not you are the only
one for me yet somehow Abraham is very
willing to adhere to his wife’s request
it’s like sometimes I xpt to help me
watch what I eat and then when he starts
knocking food out of my mouth we have a
little bit of tension because I didn’t
actually want you to do what I asked you
to do and so Abraham sleeps with Hagar
Hagar becomes pregnant and instantly she
begins to despise Sarah and Sarah
recognizes that she is being despised by
Hagar and she begins to abuse Hagar and
so Hagar runs away and the angel of the
Lord finds her and he says by its spring
of water in the wilderness by the spring
on the way to sure and he said Hagar
Sarai’s maid where have you come from
and where are you going she said I am
fleeing from the presence of my mistress
Sarah and I want to stay right there for
a moment because when the angel of the
Lord asked her this question where have
you come from and where are you going
her answer was so interesting to me
because she doesn’t really answer where
she came from she answers why she left
and she never addresses at all the
second question and it made me wonder
what is the difference between why we
left and understanding where we came
and so if you’re taking notes today
there are two questions that I want to
present to you as you’re on your journey
and evolving in Christ and that is where
have you come from and where are you
going
so Hagar answer she said I’m fleeing
from the presence of my mistress and the
angel of the Lord said to her return to
your mistress and submit yourself under
her hand you have to know that Hagar
probably was a little bit confused you
have this encounter with the Lord the
angel of the Lord tells you to return
and before he could finish the sentence
a part of her probably had to felt like
this is when the tide is going to change
for me I’m going to go back to the place
where I came from the place where I felt
misunderstood the place where I was
broken and abused and I get to go off
before before he even got to the part in
submit yourself under her hand a part of
her head to feel like if you’re sending
me back and I’ve had an encounter with
the angel of the Lord surely and so that
I can tell them that till you do right
by till you do right by me is all I’m
saying the angel of the Lord has sent me
and I’m not the one no more and I tried
to be quiet but he says and submit
yourself under her hand what do we do
when God sends us back into environments
where we have to submit ourselves when
we can’t go back equipped with the
knowledge of who we are and confidence
in what we can produce but instead we
have to learn the gift of being
controlled disciplined while we are
being groomed before she could even
reply the angel of the Lord said to her
I will multiply your descendants
exceedingly so that they shall not be
counted for multitude and the angel of
the Lord said to her behold you are with
child and you shall bear a son you shall
call his name Ishmael
because the Lord heard your affliction
if we could go back to verse eight
please I want to talk about the journey
of understanding where we’ve come from
so that we can understand where we’re
going what the angel of the Lord
promises her is a covenant but the
Covenant can only be fulfilled when she
goes back to where she came from and for
many of us who have escaped situations
we know why we left but we don’t
understand who we were in that situation
and because we have failed to really
take inventory of who we were in that
situation we have found ourselves in the
same situation over and over again what
if until you can fully answer where
you’ve come from you’re going to be just
as lost as Hagar was when the angel of
the Lord found her yes we know we don’t
want to become like our mother we know
we don’t want to become like our father
but we don’t understand the environment
that produced them in the first place
so how then can we say that we don’t
want to become like them until we
understand how they came to be there is
a psychology called the environment
environmental psychologist and literally
they study how the environment affects
the people it holds they say that we’re
all products of our environment that in
spite of our best efforts that somehow
our environment will seep inside of us
and while many of us end up resenting
the very environments that we have come
from few of us dare to really understand
those environments the danger then is
that we end up seeking control again
so Hagar is free in this moment but
ultimately because she has no direction
she doesn’t understand where she came
from or where she’s going she’s bound to
find into a situation that controls her
again how many of us say we want to be
free but what we’re really looking for
is a different type of Master I don’t
want to be in that relationship anymore
but I found myself in a very similar
relationship a different name a
different time but it’s got the same
symptoms maybe it’s not them maybe it’s
me maybe I haven’t fully understood who
I was when I had this encounter
why would Hagar answer why she left
I am fleeing from the presence of my
mistress she left out of fear not
purpose if you came to Los Angeles from
wherever you are from because you are
afraid of what you left behind all you
can attract in Los Angeles is more fear
because you didn’t leave with purpose
you didn’t leave with a vision you left
because no one necessarily understood
you and so now you’re in a city where
you’re looking for understanding not
purpose or fulfillment and the danger in
that is that there’s always someone
willing to pretend that they understand
you long enough to get what they need
from you and then you find yourself more
lost more broken than you were before
you met them you have to know where
you’re going
more importantly than knowing where
you’re going is understanding who you
were when life first broke here we look
back on these moments in our lives that
make us cringe that make us most ashamed
and instead of dealing with them we
learn to become on the run
we don’t ever dare to figure out what
happened to the broken little boy or
broken little girl inside of us we just
know that the pain of confronting it
makes us run and then we run ourselves
until we are breathless and crying out
for help
much like Hagar was when we find her in
this text and so he said Hagar Sarai’s
maeda where have you come from he
already knew when he addressed her who
she was I know you’re Sarah is made I
know your journey hasn’t been easy I
know life for you has not been a crystal
stare I know there has been struggle and
there has been difficulty but I want to
know do you know where you’ve come from
I know where you’ve come from since the
Lord but do you know do you know why
you’re so adamant about not being like
your mother do you know why you’re so
adamant about not being like your father
do you know that there are traces of
them inside of you anyway have you dared
to look for those traits have you taken
inventory of who you are on the inside
because before we can set a plan and
determine what’s next for our lives we
have to know what we left behind so when
we go on to the next verse the angel of
the Lord says return to your mistress
and submit yourself under her hand then
the angel of the Lord said I will
multiply your descendants exceedingly so
that they shall not be counted for
multitude somewhere between verse 9 and
verse 10 it seems like the angel of the
Lord skipped a step
how do I return to the images of who I
used to be and somehow you’re going to
take that and use that to multiply my
descendants that there will be multitude
so many that they cannot be counted how
can I undergo that after being bound and
enslaved you see the issue really came
for Hagar not when she was on the run
but when she realized that she could
produce something that her superior
could not the Bible tells us that Hagar
got a little bit prideful when she
realized that she could have children
and she had been able to do something
that Sarah could not that it wasn’t
necessarily that she was leaving just
because of the abuse but because she
discovered something inside of her that
she deemed better than what was inside
of Sarah what do you do when you
recognize that you are more gifted than
the people are around you yet those
people still control you what do you do
when you realize that you can do
something that no one else in your
family can do that you are gifted beyond
measure yet some kind of way they’re
still in the mix can you submit yourself
even when you’re the one who produces or
well your production make you so
prideful that anyone who doesn’t embrace
it you shine and run away from can you
handle the discipline of being gifted
that you recognize that everyone’s not
going to understand you everyone’s not
going to get you but you’re ok with that
because to be chosen often means that
you end up lonely
and so at this point Hagar is free free
from Sarah’s hand free to chart life
however she desires but what the angel
of the Lord presents to her is that
freedom has a cost that you have to know
the answers to the questions where have
you come from and where are you going
there’s this illusion when you’re a
child that when you grow up you’re going
to be free you know like when you’re
really young this just might be my
testimony will seem and you would be
driving and you would see those golden
arches and you would say to your mother
mom first of all you look beautiful
today and church was good can we go to
McDonald’s though and then your mother
just drove right by McDonald’s like she
never even heard you like you cleared
your throat to make sure you wasn’t
dreaming she just kept driving or if
you’re like my sister now we got these
Nextel cellphones when we were like in
middle school and you couldn’t tell us
nothing because we had the chirp and the
cell phone line but then when we got in
trouble they would turn the cell phone
line off so all you had was the chirp
and nobody really had Nextel so all we
could do was chirp them and I thought to
myself when I get grown
I’m going to turn my cellphone on I’m
going to eat all the McDonald’s I want
to and then I get groan and I realized
that that even freedom has a cost and in
adulthood that cost comes in the words
of bills that like you can you’re free
to go wherever you would like but it
ain’t free to go wherever you like
and so the angel of the Lord is trying
to tell Hagar that you’re free now
you’ve made it you broke away good for
you
but if you don’t know where you’re going
then you’re never going to realize that
freedom has a price and for adulthood
that price often looks like discipline
and self-control but nobody likes the
words discipline or self-control God has
this funny way of until we can fully
recognize that we need discipline and
self-control he surrounds us with people
who restrict us and if we aren’t careful
we end up resenting the restriction
instead of recognizing that the
restriction is there to protect us the
angel of the Lord doesn’t send Hagar
back to Sarah’s hands because he wanted
her to be abused he doesn’t send her
back because he felt like it was in her
best interest to be hurt and broken but
he knew that there was the Covenant and
where she left that could not be
fulfilled until she went back until she
was leaving out of purpose instead of
out of fear then that there was no point
in her leaving at all that she had to
believe that what was waiting on the
other side of the pain was worth more
than what she would have to go through
to leave and until she came to that
place he sends her back but he sends her
back with a promise and that promise is
that I’m going to multiply your
descendants that means your ability to
survive your ability to go back in and
untangle the mess that you’ve major
ability to confront the person who ended
up in these terrible situations I’m not
asking you to go back and recount your
past in your history so I can make you a
shame
of yourself or so that I can make you
feel judged or so that you can cover up
but so that you can understand that even
those moments had a purpose and that
becomes the turnoff with the church
because we often find ourselves afraid
to go into communities where we feel
like we may be judged because we don’t
really want to have to fully see
ourselves we just want to see like the
highlight reel don’t talk about my
struggle don’t talk about my issues
don’t talk about my wounds just talk
about the promise and the fairy tale and
when I’ll get to cloud nine but don’t
get in my business what do you do when
the spirit insists that you confront the
demons that you’ve learned to hide what
do you do when when you sing these
incredible worship songs and then you go
home and you’re tormented by by your
past and so you you become religious
because you don’t want to deal with your
past you just want to live in the praise
but the beauty of worship comes in our
vulnerability but no one’s really
willing to be vulnerable anymore I have
to tell you I have left the church twice
the first time I left I was a teenager
and we had finally gotten cars and you
know we went to so much charge growing
up that I felt like I had Church on
credit you know like
you know you go to three services on
Sunday one on Saturday and Wednesday
night Bible study so when you get to an
age where you don’t have to go anymore
it’s like I’ve gone for so long that
surely I have a balance I would just
like to apply that to my balance please
and so I would sit at home being worldly
you know sleeping in and having brunch
on the weekends instead of going to
church but I never made a provision for
my spirit up until that point I got to
piggyback on someone else’s praise
someone else could lead us into worship
and I got to benefit from their hearts
being opened and so when I decided that
I had you know had enough church and
that I could do what I needed to do at
home
I couldn’t tap in I couldn’t feel the
presence the way I wanted to and so
you’re torn then between I need to go to
church but I don’t really care for
church people I don’t really care for
the judgment or the shame or the way
they make me look at myself when I think
about all of the things that I’ve done
wrong it feels like they can see it too
and so I don’t really like the
conviction of Church and so I stayed
away from it until I realized that there
are things more dangerous than sitting
in church that there are circles that
are certainly willing to accept you but
even that comes at a different cost and
so while I ran from church because I was
afraid when I had to go back to church
it was because I needed a purpose
because I couldn’t be like Hagar just
sitting by the spring anymore that I
needed to believe that life was bigger
than me what the angel of the Lord
promises Hagar in the text is that your
pain
is bigger than you that there is a
multitude connected to you and if you
are willing to survive and confront
where you’ve come from then where you
are going can be that much more
beautiful and so for me it was in the
sanctuary of the Potters house in Dallas
that I felt equipped with a purpose and
a mission believe it or not your current
first lady didn’t like speaking in
public or praying in public or like if
people said you know can you pray for me
I would be like at home when I close my
eyes in my head not right here like
one-on-one still going to the same place
just a different type of delivery but
when I begin volunteering at the church
and I realized that there were some
people who were in such desperate need
of someone just understanding where they
came from
I realized to act like my life was
solely about what made me comfortable to
act like my life wasn’t one of service
but one of selfishness was a disservice
to the people who were connected to my
voice and so I wonder in this room when
you think about where you’ve come from
do you ever stop to think about the
people who need you to survive
while you’re praying that your family
can change and that your mother would
get it together or that the job would
come through or that the child would be
a better environment have you ever
stopped to consider that you could be
the change factor that while you’re
waiting for someone else to stand up
that they’re all waiting for you hey
guards multitude her descendants don’t
exist unless she goes back to the place
that haunted her and for some of you
this may be a physical location going
back to the cities that you may have
left in disarray or mess or because you
know when you find out that you are
actually going to be able to leave you
have a little bit of a different
attitude than when you aren’t sure like
when I finally realized I didn’t have to
go to church anymore I got to tell the
deacon what I really thought about him a
little bit like don’t talk to me anymore
I don’t like your spirit
and then you have to go back
cuz life then run you out you broke your
empty you left feeling like you could
produce something that was better than
all of them around you but then you have
to go back and though you could produce
it you didn’t really have enough time to
develop it and so what you produce
didn’t yield any fruit yeah there’s a
development that comes when we allow
ourselves to be guided and directed and
if we could stop long enough stop
resenting it long enough to recognize
that even that restriction is temporary
that it’s until God can trust you with
the influence you’re praying for until
God can trust you with the finances
you’re hoping for I’m going to restrict
you a little bit some of you praying for
million dollars don’t really need a
million dollars you’re not going to
tithe
when you if you won’t tithe off a
hundred dollars let me tell you what’s
even more difficult a hundred thousand
dollars like lord do you really need
this many zeros but it’s not about what
the Lord needs it’s about what you’re
willing to sacrifice but if I give you
this will you give it back to me not
because I need it not because I want it
but because you recognize that you
wouldn’t have it if it wasn’t for me as
I was preparing for today’s message
you know Hagar when we find her is on
the run she’s a runaway slave and so I
had to do a little bit of history one of
the most well known runaway slaves in
our history is Harriet Tubman she’s a
bad girl home girl escaped slavery I can
tell you about me in my life if God
would have brought me into the world
during that time and I escaped I don’t
know if I was coming back for y’all you
know like
I told you I was leaving at five o’clock
you here at 5:01 I send you a letter
from up north
Harriet Tubman returns to the slave
states 19 times 19 times she risks being
caught
and because she went back 19 times she
brought more than 300 slaves to freedom
she went back to the place that once
held her bound but she had a different
perspective on it when she went back
when she went back to that place it
wasn’t because she had this mentality of
brokenness she went back because she
knew where she was going was more
important than where she was coming from
and not only that she understood where
she was going she understood where she
was coming from she understood the slave
states she understood the politics she
understood the danger she understood the
mentality you have to have to survive
certain abuse she recognized surely she
could have been the victim but instead
she decided that she was going to go
back not so that she could be held
captive but so that she could remind
someone else that there’s freedom on the
other side of this it dawns on me then
that that is the beauty of church as I
had to return myself that it wasn’t
about my nerves or my fears when
interacting with other people it wasn’t
even about the judgment or or the
perception that I thought people would
have of me it was about letting if it
were only just one person know that
there’s freedom on the other side of
this
and that when we come into rooms like
this it’s not so that we can see what
you have won or to see what you’ve been
doing all week or to see if you still
have on your club clothes it’s not about
any of that it’s about letting you know
that though you may be bound in this
moment that the life may have gotten the
best of you when you fear that you may
not be able to overcome this mess this
time that because I made it up north
because I was able to find freedom that
you can too but it is also to tell you
that freedom comes at a cost
the beautiful part of Harriet Tubman
even though she went back 19 times and
was able to save over 300 slaves home
girl was obviously a gangster but this
is the truest part of it all
Harriet Tubman had a shotgun with her
not just so that she could have a
defense if someone tried to capture her
but because when she went to capture the
slaves to bring them to freedom that
somewhere along the journey they would
begin to lose heart and want to run back
to the place that held them bound and
she would point the shotgun at them to
remind them that freedom doesn’t come
easy that you might have to get a little
bit dirty you might have to confront
your demons you may have to wonder if
you’re going to make it or not but it’s
worth it on the other side of it
now I am from Texas and I don’t have my
shotgun on me today today but I am here
to tell you being gifted and granted by
the Holy Spirit to remind you that no
matter how bound you are in this moment
no matter how much you’re questioning
yourself or no matter how much
difficulty you have confronting where
you’ve come from that where you’re going
is more precious than where you’ve come
from and that you won’t fully appreciate
where you’re going until you make peace
with where you’ve come from
so many people in this room are chosen
they have been called and set aside and
set apart to do great works but we’re
too afraid that where we come from will
keep us from fulfilling where we want to
go and because that fear is constantly
tormenting us and haunting our every
move in every decision we have created a
prison that exists in our own mind a
prison that keeps us from believing that
we are even worthy of the success we’re
praying for a prison that makes this
shun away from the opportunities that
stretch us and grow us because we’re
afraid that we won’t fit the task when
the angel of the Lord sends Hagar back
to Sarah’s hand he does so with a
promise that there are people connected
to your voice people connected to your
purpose and your anointing and the worst
thing you could do is make this about
you this moment ladies and gentlemen is
not about you this encounter this
relationship that you have with God it’s
not about you it’s not about your
nervousness it’s not about your shame
it’s not about your unworthiness that
has already been paid for the true cost
of freedom when walking with Christ is
whether or not you will trust him to do
what he said he is going to do that even
when the scenario doesn’t look ideal
that you’re you’re trusting that he’s
going to bring you through because
that’s what he said he would do and when
he does so that you don’t have to become
prideful or high and mighty when he does
it because you recognize that it really
wasn’t your will or your strength but by
his Spirit alone that you were able to
survive
and I want to take a moment to pray with
you and before everyone starts grabbing
their bags to get to their cars I want
to say this this is old school church
girl I didn’t understand why they didn’t
want you to move during altar call
because if they saw the parking lot they
would understand why you would want to
get out before everyone else did or if
they knew the line that was going to be
waiting at the restaurant they would
understand why you wanted to get your
name on there first like I got what I
came to receive now I need to move on to
the next part of my day and then I
realized that you’re moving could be a
distraction that there’s someone who’s
about to make a life-or-death decision
in this room and because you just have
to go you convinced them that they might
as well stay seated and so while I don’t
mean to fully convict you I’m going to
ask that if you don’t have to go that
you would please honor the sanctity of
this moment that someone’s going to have
an encounter with God right now that
they’ve been praying for and that you
have no place to go that is more
important than where they need to be
headed
and so if you have found yourself stuck
in the in-between too afraid to confront
who you used to be and not enough
knowledge of who you could become I want
to have a moment to pray with you
not that you would instantly have your
eyes opened and and be empowered to go
forward but that you would have the
courage to take inventory of where
you’ve come from because the clues to
your destiny lie in your history because
the pain you have endured is it is a
glimpse of the purpose that is ahead of
you and until we confront those demons
until we confront those shameful secrets
then we can’t fully be used and the
people who need us will never really
have us the way they deserve if this
message has spoke to you in any way
would you please meet me at this altar
please stand
we stand to give reverence not just to
the spirit and the move of God that’s
taking place in this room but for the
people who’ve had the courage to finally
admit that they’re in need of a touch
from God that they’ve been thirsting for
his touch that they’ve been hungry and
they’ve been dying and somehow he found
a way to let them know that that he’s
heard them in the last verse verse 11 it
says that Hagar is going to have a son
and she’s going to name that son Ishmael
because the Lord has heard your
affliction if you’re at this altar if
you’re in this room it is because the
Lord has heard your affliction that you
were crying in the middle of the night
and wondering if he even saw you and he
had you in mind on this Sunday and you
don’t have to be afraid anymore and you
don’t have to be ashamed anymore because
you haven’t done anything more wrong
than anyone in this room and the same
grace that is accessible to us is
accessible to you and we have created
this opportunity this church to reach
back and let you know that the spirit of
bounds’ that His grace is sufficient and
like Harriet um and willing to go back
to remind the people who were still held
in bondage pastor and I want to remind
you that chains can be broken that every
stronghold must come down
and even right now in this moment when
you feel bound that all God sees their
crowns on your head all he sees are
crowns yes he sees what happened to you
he sees the rape he sees the molestation
he sees the broken relationships and the
broken hearts and yet he still placed
the crown on your scars because he
thinks you’re that beautiful no one in
this room is perfect your first lady
pregnant at 13 years old divorced I
broke all the church rules daddy’s still
found a place for me
and having found that place I can assure
you that there are still seats available
and there is a place for you in the
kingdom and there is a people connected
to you in the kingdom who’s waiting for
someone who had a struggle very similar
to theirs to voice it in a way that they
can express so that they can understand
that freedom though it comes at a cost
is worth every tear they’ve ever cried
and if I’ve done nothing else this 11
o’clock service my prayer is that you
have been reminded that you can afford
the price of freedom that you can afford
the discipline and control and the
restraints that you can handle the
pressure that comes with freedom and
your willingness to do so is going to
teach a multitude how to do the same and
so I don’t see just a couple hundred
people at the altar I see the millions
of people connected to you I see the
echo effect that takes place over the
nation because of the commitment you’ve
made it this altar and I’m just honored
to hold my spiritual shotgun at you and
tell you you can’t lose heart and you
can’t turn back now what it’s ahead of
you it’s way more important than what
you’ve left behind you Pastor would you
pray
pester says I can pray I want to give
you one more opportunity if you’re still
standing to join with us at the altar I
know it’s already full in the same
anointing but there’s something about
the action of stepping out of where you
came from and into where you’re going
that makes a difference we’re not trying
to embarrass you we just want to embrace
you and let you know you’re not alone
and just as you physically make the act
to come from where you came from that in
the spiritual realm that you’re making
the movement today when you’re at this
altar to say I know you know where I’ve
come from now show me where I have the
potential to go where I’m from they will
say is there one is there anyone left
who wants to join in this corporate
prayer we’re going to have father I
thank you so much for the ability to
hear your voice that in spite of all of
the things that threaten to drown us
from hearing from you that you cut
through it all and got to the heart of
the matter to prove not just that we can
hear your voice but that you hear ours
thank you Father that you have heard us
now take us deeper and show us who we
are
show us who we’ve been Oh God show us
what we’re leaving behind so that we
don’t recreate our past trying to run
from it show us our potential and our
strength God give us courage to undergo
the restrictions that are around us
recognizing that even those won’t last
always and for those of us I just
declare right now that many of us are
coming out of those restrictions that
even as I pray that chains are being
broken off of these your sons and
daughter Oh God and I declare freedom
over them right now in the name of Jesus
loosed them like never before Oh God
let us roam free in your kingdom and in
this city to prove that you will come
back for us like one lost sheep that you
will come searching for us father and so
I thank you for our afflictions yes I
thank you for our struggle not because
it felt good but because you produce
something inside of us in that struggle
that made us fighters Oh God that made
us understand that we can survive Oh God
and so we’re asking that you would take
us to the next dimension from survival
to thriving or God to becoming evidence
that you hear the voice of your broken
people Oh God
may we be your evidence here on earth
and in the safety of your spirit Oh God
would you move us into our destiny would
you lead us into our purpose Oh God will
you help us to take the steps that you
order and to understand that our hearts
have to be in alignment with your word
and so we’re asking that you strip away
anything that’s not of you any
relationship any opportunity that our
insecurities gain release it right now
what God for we understand that only
what you give us will last and so we’re
willing to let go of the temporary
pleasures of this world so that we can
have permanent pleasure and permanent
joy in your kingdom Oh God
give us the ability to be stable in your
word Oh God to trust you even when our
circumstances would dictate differently
and I thank you Father for the leaders
and the movements that are going to be
birds from this moment that years from
now someone will talk about an encounter
they had on 6:14 North LaBrea
that equipped them to be overcomers Oh
God that we use the bricks that life
threw at us and we built a bridge and
got over it Oh God and so I thank you
for the construction taking place in
their hearts O God for the monuments of
your kingdom that
being built right now oh god
righteousness fall on your people like
never before
allow it to take root Oh God in to
produce fruit that the world benefits
from the influence of you Oh God
not from us not our gifts or our talents
but the influence of a Heavenly Father
who calls us beautiful and so I thank
you for every soul represented and for
the opportunity to be used conformist as
ever however you see fit in Jesus name I
pray amen
wow what a loving awesome God we serve
thank you so much for slaying
family before we go we’ve got one last
thing to do God has chosen us to build
something so beautiful in this city you
talk about failing to go back you think
about the great things that the God has
used as people to build and to create in
the earth there was one thing as it
relates to mentality that those people
had they had the mentality of a sense of
responsibility that what was being built
was not something that somebody else was
going to build are you hearing me it
wasn’t a deferred responsibility well
well the pastor’s going to do a first
lady is going to do it or everyone else
is going to do it know the people who
were hearing that word who were blessed
to be in that moment took it upon
themselves to say it’s my job to build
this thing
let me tell you it’s not even about what
you give toward it because they’re going
to be many ways to give right now the
greatest need is finances but it’s not
even about the amount because sacrifice
is is correlated
to the individuals ability to give so
the giving is not it’s not about equal
giving right because I know some people
and and and many of you have already
begun to give and some of you giving
$100 was literally a significant
sacrifice and and so it’s not even about
what you give
it’s not about equal giving it’s about
equal sacrifice and the only way that
we’re going to get it accomplished is if
we sacrifice on our level for some
people a significant sacrifice will be
ten dollars and that will be like whoo
and there’s no shade in that because god
looks at that and he honors that as if
you were the person that gave 10 million
I mean it is what it is
but the reality of it is there are
people whose sacrifice is on another
level and your sacrifice would be a
hundred thousand dollars it would be the
same thing in God’s eyes and so what I’m
saying is we’re going to bring an
offering a project welcome-home offering
to the altar as a family and I want us
to sacrifice again all of us had to
sacrifice my wife and I sacrifice was
celebrating one year next month we’re
supposed to be in Maui we’re not going
because we’re going to take that money
that we would have been in Maui we would
have used towards Maui and we’re going
to sew it into this building we’re gonna
get a cupcake in a candle and sit in our
house and reminisce on some of those
some of those things we did to get this
going but but anyway that Oh what I’m
saying is
reel it in reel it in you took my
shotguns and stuff I surely I but what
I’m saying is make it a sacrifice I
believe it’s already done
but it’s only going to happen when the
people that God is assigned to be a part
of it sacrifice and I can guarantee you
this I guarantee you what you sacrifice
what you give up what will happen on the
other side of your sacrifice is beyond
anything you would have even known to
pray for I guarantee you that this is an
opportunity for those of us of low
estate or high estate doesn’t even
matter to God to come together and the
partner and to build something in this
city and as we stretch to build God’s
going to stretch us and we’re going to
be different and we’re going to see
increase in prosperity happen in our own
lives as we sought the prosperity of
this church I’m telling you something’s
going to happen to you as you take a
front-row seat of watching God do what
we couldn’t do ourselves it doesn’t make
sense it’s rich stupid that we should be
going after what we’re going after it we
ought to be slapped but I didn’t get
here without that I promise you from
faith to faith and level the level I
should have been slapped many times but
here we are standing then we’re going to
keep going from glory to glory so what I
want you to do is I want you to pray and
we’re going to bring sacrificial
offering sacrificial offerings that we
pray to God about and we’re going to
bring that until we put the final brick
on this opportunity this God is laid
before me do have any people who are
committed to seeing the vision of God
that’s a sign of our church realize and
so we’re going to bring worship back up
and just pray about what your sacrifice
is and leave it at the altar and when
you leave it at the altar
just pray what do you want to see you
know god I want to see my neighborhood
changed I want to see my family changed
I want to see this city change I want to
see another continent change just just
put your seat down there scripture says
to ask of me and I’ll give you the
nation’s for your inheritance and do it
bigger than yourself I promise you God’s
got you
he’s got you covered but when you saw
this seed so for something that’s beyond
you and I believe that God’s gonna let
you see the fulfillment of it right
before your eyes so let’s just pray and
then we’ll give as we leave father thank
you so much for this rich word that you
have spoken into all of our hearts the
healing God that has taken place and we
thank you for this altar God Lord
thousands of people got hundreds of
thousands through technology have been
so blessed by this altar and God now
you’re looking to expand this all to
expand the reach of the church to to
create a capacity for the harvest that’s
assigned to this church and God so where
we want stood receiving from you we’re
going to come bringing to your vision
and God I pray for every prayer that’s
prayed as we bring the offerings to this
altar God even those who are watching
via livestream or are experiencing it
Lord God spiritually as we bring these
gifts in these altars God show us
miracles signs and wonders in our lives
we love you so much thank you for this
opportunity bless your people richly and
multiplied a hundredfold which are sons
of God daughters sacrificially so in
Jesus name Amen amen god bless you we
love you so much
let’s give sacrificially to this project
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