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Sarah we want to welcome you to this

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I don’t know about you but there was

something about that song that made me

so thankful that when other people don’t

live up to our expectations of what we

think they should do or who that we

think they should be in our lives that

Jesus has proven himself worthy of his

name I don’t know about you but I think

part of what makes Jesus so worthy of

his name is the Great Lengths in which

he was willing to go to sacrifice that

we may have life and this week we’re in

Passover we have the ability to pause

and take a moment and look at that

sacrifice of fresh and we have some

incredible things planned for you right

here we’ve got a Good Friday service we

have an incredible Resurrection Sunday

plan for you and even tonight I believe

that God is going to begin to bring us

into the cost of what it took for Jesus

to become all that he is to us now so

I’m so excited I’ve been praying and

I’ve been believing in God that this

would not just be another Thursday night

but that God would radically meet with

us that he would open up our eyes to how

much he loves us how much hope he has in

us and how much he needs us to recognize

that his love his way his path

only lends itself to prospering that our

souls are going to prosper our minds are

going to prosper our health is gonna

prosper because that’s the kind of God

we serve

so I want to get right into the word I’m

in Matthew 26 and this isn’t an

unfamiliar text I think it’s one that

most of us know very well but in keeping

with the season and us really taking a

moment to commemorate what it costs for

Jesus to be who he is I looked over at

the Passover and I looked over what

happened after Jesus has his final

Passover before heading to the cross and

I found something there that I believe

is going to bless you tremendously I’ve

only got two scriptures I’m going to

start in verse 38 and in verse 38 it

says then he this is Jesus talking to

three of his disciples he says to them

my soul is exceedingly sorrowful even to

death stay here and watch with me he

went a little further and fell on his

face and prayed saying O my father if it

is possible let this cup pass from me

nevertheless not as I will but as you

will not as I will but as you will

father that is my prayer for this moment

with these your sons and daughters that

it would not be what I desire to happen

but it would only be what you desire to

happen and so father I pray that you

would allow me to decrease that you may

increase that there would be no room for

my nerves for my fear for my nervous

anxiousness but father it would be your

strength your power and your anointing

standing tall father help me to take my

time that this word may breathe and take

root and produce fruit father we turn

this service over to you and we say

thank you for your son Jesus thank you

for making him who had no sin all of our

sin father may we encounter that great

love in the

I’m together in Jesus name I pray amen

amen again one of the things I’ve really

been focusing on is I really prepared

for this message is to really understand

the character of God when I read the

Bible and I get this question so many

times people ask me how what should I be

looking for when I read the Bible and I

think ultimately it comes down to your

relationship with God but one of the

things that I try to focus on when

reading the Bible is the character of

God what does this say about the

character of God that he pulled Moses

out of his confusion and called him to

be a leader what does it say about how

God can use anybody what does the

character of God reveal to me when I

look at David and all of the things that

he went through and I look at the

character of God and as I was studying

specifically with that in mind one of

the things that I recognized about the

character of God is something that we

don’t necessarily talk about a lot when

we’re giving our sermons but it’s

something that I think is worthy of

noticing because it is a small but

necessary component to us understanding

how God functions and in Genesis 1 and 1

we get a glimpse into this specific

trait that I want to lay the foundation

for my message with in Genesis 1 and 1

it says in the beginning God created the

heavens and the earth and then it moves

into verse 2 and it tells us that the

earth was without form and void and that

darkness was covering the face of the

deep and the Spirit of God was hovering

over the face of the waters but Genesis

1 is what I want to focus on for just a

minute it says in the beginning God

created the heavens and the earth it

sounds so simple it sounds so minut in

detail that it doesn’t really give us

the fullness of what happens in this

moment what happens in between God

creating the heavens and the earth is

something that we must take into

consideration because it reveals to us

from the very beginning there’s

something here in Genesis 1 and 1 that

the author of this text Moses wants us

to understand about how God functions in

Genesis 1 and 1 it’s there I saw it for

the first time so clearly when I was

studying the other night that our God is

a God of systems in Genesis 1 and 1 it

is an abbreviated explanation of the

intricate process that produced the

solar system in the beginning God

created the heavens and the earth it

doesn’t break down to us that God

created the galaxies in the Milky Way it

doesn’t break down for us that God

created Mercury and Venus and Earth and

Mars it doesn’t break down for us how

Saturn and Jupiter and Pluto came into

play all it says is in the beginning God

created the heavens and the earth but

what that says to me about the character

of God is that before he even rolled up

his sleeves and began working on earth

that God created a system you serve a

God of systems I want to define what

that means systems are a set of things

that work together as parts of a

mechanism or an interconnecting Network

God is a God of systems he put mercury

where it belongs he put Venus where it

belongs he put earth where it belongs

and he space them apart enough that they

can move around one another without

colliding into one another God doesn’t

do random he does systems when I look at

the way our body functions the

cardiovascular system it says to me that

God set things in motion so that they

could work together and never against

one another that he has a strategy when

he puts anything into the earth it fits

into a system God doesn’t do random he

does systems I think one of the most

important things that any of us can do

as we seek to find our image in God is

to recognize that if we’re going to be

like God we can’t do random if we’re

going to be like God we’ve got to have a

system we need to understand how this

relationship works together

how is this can

to what God is doing in my life because

I am connected to a system I am not

random I am a part of a bigger system

that God had in mind when he formed me

in my mother’s womb you are a system you

are not random you are not a coincidence

you are not an accident I don’t care how

your parents got together or whether

they’re still together now or not God

says there is a system that I have in

the earth and I need you to be a part of

it

I don’t do random and I’m trying to be

like God so the most powerful thing that

ever happened to me is when I decided

that I couldn’t do random anymore I

don’t know about you but even in this

season I’ve been thinking to myself I

can’t just do random anymore I can’t

just let whatever comes to me become

what leads me because I’m a part of a

greater system I’m connected to

something I’m trying to raise these

children I’m trying to protect my

marriage I’m a part of a system what

happens to me affects everything

connected to me that’s why I am a part

of a system you were not an island I

know it’s cute to say we don’t need

anybody I know it’s cute to say that we

can do this thing all on our own but I

am Telling You the most powerful

revelation that any of us can have is

that we are a system if you don’t

believe me ask them why they asked

everyone to stay at home they asked

everyone to stay at home because whether

you realize it or not you and your

neighbor and the person down the street

and the person down the highway are a

part of the system and if one of us is

infected all of us are infected that

same thing is true in the kingdom and

spiritually you are a part of a system

and I can’t think of any better example

than what we are going through right now

to prove that everything is working as a

system and you can tell whether or not a

system is effective not based off of how

we are connected but what happens as a

result of us being connected when you’re

a part of a system you will have

multiplication multiplication is a sign

that a system is working properly they

say that they’ll know whether or not we

have flattened the curve when it comes

to this pandemic because if this

system is working then there should be a

multiplication of healthy people there

should be a decrease of those who are

sick because the system is working

properly evidence of a proper

functioning system is multiplication I

love this so much and I’m going to prove

it to you I’m going to prove to you one

that God works in systems I’m going to

prove to you that not only does he work

in systems but that evidence of a proper

functioning system is multiplication I

want you to come with me to Genesis 1

and 20 Genesis 1 and 20 is going to help

me lay a foundation for this system of

multiplication that God set in motion

from the very time he created the earth

if your system doesn’t yield

multiplication there’s something wrong

with your system you can tell whether or

not a relationship is functioning the

way that it’s supposed to function based

off of the multiplication connected to

it it doesn’t mean that there isn’t

sacrifice but your sacrifice oughta lead

to multiplication when I met my husband

I had to sacrifice being a single woman

I had to sacrifice my idea of what my

life would look like in that season but

I did not sacrifice it so that I could

be subtracted I sacrificed it because he

was a part of my system I could tell by

the way that he spoke I could tell by

the way that we connected that he was a

part of this system that would create

who God had called me to be and I knew

that when I sacrificed what I wanted if

I sacrificed what my life was in that

moment that I would be multiplied as a

result of him being a part of my life if

you are in a relationship if you are in

a friendship if you are at a job and you

have laid down as sacrifice there ought

to be increased connected to your

sacrifice God doesn’t ask you to

sacrifice so that he can subtract you

God asks you to sacrifice so that you

can be multiplied if you don’t believe

me go to John where he talks about a

tree bearing fruit and how a tree needs

to be pruned and not so that it can stay

prune but so that it can bear more

God doesn’t just add a little bit I feel

God on that God doesn’t just add a

little bit to who you are he adds

multiplication to who you are God says

I’m never gonna pull you back to just

add a little bit to you if I pull you

back if I make you sacrifice it’s so

that you can be multiplied god only

speaks and multiplication everything I

do

increases everything I do adds and

becomes more exponentially more

exceedingly and abundantly above all

that you could ask for or imagine sounds

like multiplication to me if you are

faithful over a few things I will make

you ruler over many that sounds like

multiplication to me God doesn’t just

give you a little bit on top he’s not a

cherry on top kind of God you served the

kind of God that wants to multiply you I

want to multiply what I place down on

the inside of you you think you are just

one God says I placed so much down in

you that you if you are multiplied could

change the world that you’re living in

right now that you if you are multiplied

to change that marriage that you if you

are multiplied to change that job for us

never doubt the ability of one because

God says you’re never just one I put

dimensions down on the inside of you

there are layers to who I am there are

levels to who I am and you are just

getting started I don’t know who you are

but you have been sizing up what you

look like on the outside and I hear God

saying that if you really want to have

breakthrough stop sizing up what you

look like on the outside and start

asking God what he put down on the

inside of you because what God put down

on the inside of you was meant to be

multiplied you’re meant to be multiplied

you’re meant to be multiplied you’re not

supposed to be an island you’re meant to

be multiplied and I’m gonna prove it to

you in Genesis 1 in 20 I’m going to

start with how God sets up the world

because it gives us a clue and how he

sets us up in Genesis 1 and 20 then God

says let the waters are bound with an

abundance of living creatures and let

birds fly above the earth across the

face of the firmament of the heavens so

God created great sea creatures in every

living

that moves with which the waters

abounded according to their kind and

every winged bird according to its kind

and God saw that it was good and God

blessed them saying be fruitful and

multiply be fruitful and multiply and

fill the waters in the seas and let the

birds multiply on the earth God doesn’t

sit down and say every time I need a

salmon I’m going to create a new salmon

he doesn’t say every time I need a whale

I’m going to create a new whale what I’m

going to do instead is I’m going to

create a system where the system has no

other choice but to multiply that’s

important for you to recognize because

when God created you he placed you in a

system in that system when it functions

properly has no choice but to multiply

multiplication ought to be the way that

you just do what you do it ought to be

the way that you just function I know it

may seem weird and it may sound strange

but the only thing that keeps us from

multiplying the way that we’re supposed

to be multiplying is when something

infiltrates the system in Genesis 3 when

the serpent infiltrates the garden and

has this conversation with Eve

what he’s really doing in this moment is

he is infiltrating God’s system I was

studying this encounter and I realized

that the enemy in the garden was not

just trying to infiltrate the system

he’s trying to infiltrate God’s system

by making the woman question whether or

not she could trust God’s system the

enemy doesn’t have to break the system

the enemy depression darkness anxiety it

doesn’t have to make the system just up

and stop working properly all he has to

do all one thought one action one

encounter one experience has to do is

make you question whether or not you

still fit in the system when Eve eats

from this fruit in the garden all of a

sudden her eyes are opened and she

doesn’t know where she fits and this

system the most painful traumas that we

experience as humans are moments where

we feel like I don’t know if I fit in

this system that’s all it takes is for

you to begin to question whether or not

you fit in God’s system and I just want

to speak this over you that God did not

call you in to this earth to put you in

a system where you don’t fit and the

greatest battle and the greatest war

that any of us may ever have is trying

to come to a place where we are

confident that in spite of what we’ve

gone through in spite of what we

experienced that I am still a part of

God’s system I am still a part of God’s

strategy for the earth that I am still a

part of how God wants to manifest his

will in the earth you are still a part

of God’s system and I know that you had

to see some things and I know there are

some things that crushed you and tried

to break you but I’m telling you that

even though they crushed and tried to

break you that they did not break or

change your place in God’s system God’s

system cannot be broken God’s system may

be infiltrated but it can never be

stopped

it can never be halted and God will find

a way to make sure you end up right

where he had in mind in the very

beginning you see because multiplication

is a byproduct of who we are it is what

we are called to do we do it organically

whether we realize it or not and I can

know that because when I was studying

this text and I was looking at what it

means to be a product of your

environment the product is the answer to

any multiplication problem the product

of our environment means that ultimately

we have become not just the answer to

what’s happening in the world but we

have also become a symptom of someone

else’s system God helped me to become a

product of your environment means that

you have become a symptom of a system

that existed before you got here

generation

you know curses are symptoms of a system

that existed before you got here

when your mother went through her

heartbreak when your great-grandmother

learned that it was better to keep still

and to be kept quiet than it was to

vocalize her pain or her trauma she

created a system of silence they created

a system of how we handle issues in our

family they created a system of how we

handle unwed mothers in the church there

was this system that was set up there

was this system that was set up and

sometimes we’re living in the symptom of

someone else’s system without even

realizing it but as I was reading this

text I realized that the same way that

God gave us the ability to multiply

broken systems that he also gave us the

power to in the systems of

multiplication that continued to harm us

and causes trauma in our families in our

hearts and our minds and in our souls

what does that mean it means that it may

have not started with you but it can end

with you that you have the ability to

start a new equation to start a new way

of being to start a new way of

connecting with God to start a new way

of showing up for your family I don’t

know what symptom you have been living

in but I hear guys saying that you have

been living in it long enough that you

have become a product of your

environment but I hear God saying that

that doesn’t have to be the final

product if I had to name this message

anything I would name it the final

products the finished product happened

on the cross and it gave us the ability

to change the final product of anything

that we face and right now I want you to

be crazy enough and bold enough to begin

asking yourself can I live with the

final product of where I am right now or

is there still air in my lungs because I

am the remedy that can change the final

product I want you to know that no

matter what you have gone through no

matter what you have faced that God has

given you power and ability to change

the final product I hear God saying that

your great-grandchildren don’t have to

go through what you went through

I hear God’s saying that I have given

you power and creativity and stress

energy knot so that you can be rich not

so that you can be famous but I gave it

to you because I’m trying to change the

final products I’m trying to change who

you get to become when it’s all said and

done and I hear God saying that all you

needed was an awakening that all you

needed was someone to tell you that I

know that’s how everyone else did it

along the way but you don’t have to be

like everyone else

you don’t just have to accept that the

women in my family do it this way and

the men in my family do it that way I

hear God saying that you are the one who

can change the final product what are

they gonna be saying about you ten years

down the road twenty years down the road

thirty years down the road God says it’s

gonna come down to what you’re doing

this moment it’s gonna come down to what

you reject in this moment I want to

prophesy over you I don’t know where you

are I don’t know what you’re going

through but I hear God saying that it’s

time for you to reject the answer just

time for you to reject what you have

accepted I refuse to believe that this

is how I have to function I refuse to

believe that this is the only way that I

can show up in the world every

this product I reject this idea I reject

this notion of how

and instead I’m opening up myself

because I want to know what God saw when

he manifested me I’m tired of living out

my grandmother’s issues and

my father’s issues and I don’t want to

be I don’t want to be a product of this

environment anymore I don’t want to be a

product of this environment anymore this

environment shame created this

environment brokenness created this

environment caused my family trauma

after generations after generations

after generations and I don’t want to be

a product at that environment anymore

I hear God saying you don’t have to

accept it you just need to be awakened

to the facts and I’ve given you the

power and the ability to change it you

are the only one who can change the

narrative of this story God says I can

give you power I can give you ability I

can give you strategy but if you don’t

do anything with it then the product is

going to stay the same and it’s not

until you take what God has placed in

you and throw it at the brokenness that

is within you then the product may stay

the same but if you’re crazy enough and

ambitious enough to say I want to change

the final product then you’re going to

experience a dimension of who you are

and a dimension of your family that they

may never see again this thing is

serious and God needs you to refuse to

believe that I have to continue to be a

symptom of a system that has been broken

I admire the people who decide that they

are going to be an activist or protester

in different fields and different

sectors because what they’re saying to

me is I’m gonna buck the system that’s

what I feel like God wants you to do I

feel like God wants you to buck the

system I want you to become curious

about whether or not things really have

to be this way I want you to become

curious about whether or not education

really has to take place this way I’m

not saying be rebellious I’m just asking

you to take a look at this system in

which you are living in

and ask yourself did God create this

system or that brokenness create this

system because remember we multiply

that’s autopilot we multiply in the text

and the read the whole Bible you’ll find

it as my husband would say there’s a

text that says that you’ll know a tree

by the fruit it bears that means that

even bad trees can bear fruit that means

that you can multiply things that aren’t

necessarily good for you because you

were created to multiply that means

anything that is in you is going to be

multiplied that’s why you need to

qualify what’s in you if shame is in you

shame has the ability to multiply and it

has the ability to not just affect you

but your children’s children as well you

multiply on autopilot so that’s why we

have to become curious about the

environments we’re living in because I’m

gonna multiply what’s in it I can tell

you what to do all day long I can tell

you who you should be all day long but

at the end of the day the only thing

that will multiply is Who I am the only

thing that will multiply in the earth is

what is in me if you meet my children

they talk like me they act like me they

show up like me I didn’t sit down and

tell them this is how we talk I didn’t

sit down and tell them this is how we

act what happened was they just started

multiplying based off of what was in me

if you meet my mother you’ll say that I

act just like her if you meet my father

you’ll say that I act just like him

because what is in you is what

multiplies and so I’m asking you to

qualify what’s in you because if you’re

going to buck the system you got to

recognize that your fight first starts

with what is in you not what is around

you and sometimes it is a distraction to

focus on the systems outside of us to

keep us from confronting the systems

that are within us but I hear God saying

everlasting change only comes when you

first confront what’s in you that’s why

I love this text with Jesus because

Jesus his ultimate goal his ultimate

mission when coming to the earth was to

buck the system Jesus came and he came

preaching and declaring that the kingdom

of heaven is at

and the kingdom of heaven is at hand why

was this important because he’s getting

ready to buck the system he was letting

other systems know that when the kingdom

of heaven is here that means that other

kingdoms have to in every time I see

Jesus saying the kingdom of heaven is at

hand I wonder what other kingdoms were

being set on notice that their reign was

coming to an end there is something

powerful about us recognizing that when

we speak the kingdom that we dethrone

anything that is unlike the kingdom I

was looking at nurses and doctors

praying in the hospital praying in the

place where it says illness is king

praying in the place where they say

death is king and when I saw them

clapping their hands and when I saw them

praying and I saw them going to war on

behalf of themselves and their patients

what it said to me was that the kingdom

of heaven is at this hospital I know

this is a little off subject but I want

you to start getting bold like those

nurses and doctors who had work to do

but took a minute and said before I do

the work I want to establish who was

really King in this place before I

cooked the dinner I want to establish

who was really King in this place

divorce is not the king this separation

is not the king disunity is not the king

the kingdom of heaven is at hand

the kingdom of heaven is at the hospital

the kingdom of heaven is at the grocery

store and no one sounds crazy cuz I just

came here for food but I hear God

everywhere you go the kingdom of heaven

needs to be preached everywhere you go

the kingdom of heaven honest show up the

kingdom of heaven is here the kingdom of

heaven is here I’m not going to cut off

on a patient until I recognize that the

kingdom of heaven is here I’m praying

for your loved ones I’m praying that

then it would be well I’m bring that

they would recover you know how I’m

Rankin I’m rain that the kingdom of

heaven would come to them that the

kingdom of heaven would come to your

finances

because in the kingdom of heaven there

is no lack in the kingdom of heaven

there is no division I speak the kingdom

of heaven a deep trunk and

principalities

in generational curses somebody better

let their brokenness know

heaven is at hand somebody better let

depression know the

the kingdom the kingdom of heaven is

near

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because the kingdom of heaven is at hand

and you made this bar a few things but

you could never describe the kingdom the

kingdom will be at my apartment the

kingdom will be in my car the kingdom

will be in my children because I stepped

into the road everything that didn’t

look like the kingdom

the kingdom of heaven the kingdom of

heaven is at hand and so I watched how

Jesus works when he’s getting ready to

change the final product when Jesus gets

to the earth he’s getting ready to

change the final product I feel the

Spirit of God on this thing he’s getting

ready to say that death doesn’t have the

final say he’s getting ready to say the

blindness doesn’t have the final say God

says I’m getting ready to change the

final product and I’m gonna do it by

multiplying the man named Jesus so when

Jesus sets in the room he starts

prophesying about something they can’t

see it it doesn’t look like a kingdom

and just looks like one man but when God

gets finished using this one man you

want to see that there was a kingdom

down on this man I don’t know about you

but when God gets finished using my life

there will be no doubt that the kingdom

of heaven was sad on the inside of me

when God gets finished pouring me out

there will be no doubt that the kingdom

of heaven was

you only look like one but you forgot of

multiplication and God says when I get

finished pulling you out when I get

finished stretching you wide that the

kingdom is gonna come at me like a flood

I speak the kingdom over your dreams

I seek the kingdom over your music over

your mind all the Europe agree

the kingdom

Jesus started prophesying the kingdom of

heaven the kingdom of heaven is at hand

the kingdom of heaven is getting ready

to change the final product and that’s

what I’m saying to you you can change

the final product and Jesus recognizes

that my one mission here is to change

the final product now when we meet Jesus

in the text it’s Passover week just like

it is now and now it is time for him to

be multiplied this is the moment where

Jesus is going to go from being the man

who was prophesying about the kingdom of

heaven at hand to the man who was

multiplied so that we can all become a

part of the kingdom and I wanted to

study this because as I was praying the

strangest thing came to me God kept

saying Sarah I’m getting ready to

multiply again I’m getting ready to

multiply I’m getting ready to multiply

again and I want you to study how I

multiply because if you study how I

multiply then you’re going to recognize

how to teach other people how to

multiply what I place down on the inside

of them and what better person to

studied in Jesus in this process of

multiplication first of all let me say

that the reason why we need you to be

multiplied is because what God has

placed down on the inside of you needs

to inhabit the earth that God is giving

you gifts and talents that have his name

on it

it has his stamp on it and it needs to

be multiplied in the earth because there

are other kingdoms in this world the

kingdom of idolatry the kingdom of pride

the kingdom of ego there are other

kingdoms in this world

Tiger King what is in this world

we have to be willing to recognize that

we have the ability to release the

kingdom but it cannot be done unless we

are willing to be multiplied and I

looked at this week this Passover week

when Jesus is preparing for

multiplication because I wanted to

understand how do we position ourselves

inwardly and spiritually so that we can

be multiplied in Jesus during this

Passover week is with his disciples but

he has to be separated from them when we

see him in this text separation is a

part of multiplication being separated

is a part of the process too being

multiplied that means that if you are

expecting to still fit in with

everything and everyone and be

multiplied you will be disappointed

because there are some things that God

cannot multiply in you while other

people are projecting their thoughts and

ideas about who you are and who you

should become that says in order for you

to really be multiplied I need to

concentrate you I need to concentrate

you I need to isolate you in a space

where you’re hungry for who I am when

you’re hungry for my voice and my voice

alone I hear God saying I’m going to cut

off the access to everything that was

feeding you because anything that feeds

you has the ability to multiply in your

life and there are some seasons where

people don’t even know what to feed you

this isn’t even in my notes but it must

be for somebody

whatever someone feeds you becomes what

is multiplied in your life I’m reminded

of the serpent in the garden and Eve

tells God that the serpent deceived me

and I ate from the tree the serpent

changed my mind he changed my diet and

now deception has been multiplied in my

life whatever you are fed will be

multiplied and that’s why in some season

God says the only way that I can get you

to multiply and become who I have in

mind is if you are willing to be

separated and isolated there are some

people when we’re finished with this

quarantine when we’re finished with this

isolation they’re going to be multiplied

in a way you could have never imagined

because they started eating something

different than

the lives and defeat and the fear that

the enemy was feeding them before and so

Jesus is preparing to be multiplied and

when he is preparing for this

multiplication he separates himself now

this is the time where he is to offer up

his life as the spotless lamb the living

sacrifice he is the lamb this is the

first Passover in which Jesus will

literally lay down his life up until

this point he has experienced 33

Passover is where he got to watch

someone else sacrifice the lamb or he

got to watch someone else sacrifice but

this is the moment in which he would be

called to sacrifice this is for many of

us the first time that we’ve ever had to

sacrifice ourselves on the level that we

are sacrificing in this moment but what

this teaches me about multiplication

specifically as it relates to what Jesus

is doing in this text that Jesus

literally cannot be multiplied until he

confronts the places within him where he

has sorrow Jesus cannot be multiplied

unless that part of him that has sorrow

dies I’m in my text now Matthew 26 verse

38 he pulls away from the disciples and

he goes away to pray and he says my soul

is exceedingly sorrowful that means that

he recognizes that there’s something in

me that is so sad and so gloomy and I

have to get it out of me because I’m

about to be multiplied and I don’t want

this sorrow to be multiplied so I have

to have a confrontation with what’s in

me that’s keeping me from laying hold of

what God has for me what if I told you

that you cannot be multiplied unless

something in you is willing to die that

means that you can’t have it your way

and have it God’s Way at the same time I

shared with you a little bit earlier

about how

even as I was marrying my husband that

there were parts of my life that had to

die so that I could be multiplied

multiplication does not come without

sacrifice multiplication does not come

without death there are people who are

waiting right now they want to buy a

house they want to do X Y & Z they want

to write a book they want to do this and

that but they don’t want to sacrifice

you cannot be multiplied unless you are

willing to sacrifice so so long with

these dreams of what you’re going to do

next year and what you’re going to do 10

years down the road what I want to know

is what are you going to sacrifice today

so that you can be multiplied tomorrow

only lazy people talk about what they

want to do people who are actually going

to do it start sacrificing so that it

can be done they start holding

themselves back and holding things close

to them not because they don’t want to

spend it not because they don’t want to

go out not because they want to be at

home being lonely but because they

realize that the only way I can be

multiplied as if I am willing to

sacrifice you cannot have it your way

all of the time you cannot do you all at

the time sometimes you got to do God so

you can figure out who you are and until

you’re willing to sacrifice who you are

you can expect to stay stagnant but

Jesus says this isn’t going to be my

portion I want to confront what’s in me

I want to talk about how important it is

for you to confront what’s in you in the

process of multiplication I came up with

this formula that I asked them to put on

the screen and it is completely random

and probably a terrible analogy but

stick with me there are all of these

numbers on the screen these huge numbers

and all of these numbers would be

multiplied into becoming an exponential

number but there’s one problem there’s a

zero in this formula if we serve a God

of multiplication and we have potential

in this area of our life and potential

in that area of our life but we do not

confront the area where we have that

zero if we don’t confront the area where

we have that sorrow where we have that

shame where we have that sin where we

have that bro

it doesn’t matter how big you are in

other areas of your life if you don’t

confront the area where you are a zero

in your life I know that didn’t sound

cool because everybody wants to be a

hero but I’m telling you right now that

you don’t reach hero status unless you

confront the areas where you have

brokenness this is Passover season this

is Jesus getting ready to go to the

cross and Jesus teaches us a valuable

lesson about multiplication that I

cannot let this sorrow take away from my

multiplication I wonder what is down on

the inside of you that is threatening to

take away from your ability to multiply

I got to start going to therapy why

because I need to be multiplied and I

can’t be multiplied with this brokenness

in me I got to start saving why because

I need to be multiplied and I can’t be

multiplied with this zero down on the

inside of me I hear God saying that your

key to breakthrough that your key to

multiplication that your key to breaking

that generational curse is not going to

come by how many degrees you have it’s

not going to come based off of how many

checks you can get it’s not going to

come back off of how many dollars times

you receive that your breakthrough is

going to come by how you can affront

that zero that sorrow that pain that is

down on the inside of you I don’t care

how well you do in other areas of your

life if you don’t confront your attitude

if you don’t confront the fact that

you’re still broken by the way that that

rejection left you if you don’t confront

those abandonment issues it doesn’t

matter how well you do you’re still not

going to be multiplied in the way that

you could be multiplied in the spirit

realm because you are unwilling to do

the work required to be who God has

called you to be only people who don’t

mind rolling up their sleeves and going

to work on themselves will see the

fullness and the manifestation of God

I may have to apologize I may have to

forgive it’s not because I don’t want to

it’s not because you didn’t hurt me it’s

not because I walked around and

everything went the way that I wanted to

but I’m doing it because if I don’t do

it I may end up a zero in a season where

God has called me to multiply anything

in me that doesn’t look like the

fullness that God has assigned to my

name has to be

kated right now in the name of Jesus

I’ll give it to you the way they said in

Corinthians his strength is made perfect

in my weakness it doesn’t say that you

can stay weak in one area and strong in

other areas and God will balance it out

it says if you’re really weak if you’re

really struggling if you’re really

broken then that’s the area where you

need to let me in because I have called

you to multiply and I’m so glad that I

serve a God who doesn’t mind looking at

the areas of my life where I’m empty and

looking at the areas of my life where

I’m broken and saying I can make up the

difference

I hear God’s saying that you don’t have

to walk around limp and get any longer

you don’t have to walk around broken any

longer that you serve a God who will

make up the difference I’m so glad that

I serve a God who won’t let me walk

around a week you’re struggling with

less you’re struggling with a brokenness

you’re struggling with these thoughts in

your head suicidal thoughts depression

thoughts bitterness and anger and I hear

God’s saying honey that ain’t nothing

but a zero that ain’t nothing but

weakness and I am the God who can make

himself strong in your weakness I can

help you take that weakness and turn it

into ministry I can take that weakness

and turn it into prosperity

give the multiply you and I hear guys

saying you don’t have to hide it for me

that you can get let Jesus in the garden

respects day and God I am exceedingly

sorrowful I am exceedingly broken I am

exceedingly on the verge of losing my

mind father I walked around like I had

it under control

but now that I’m getting closer to

multiplication there are some things

that I don’t want to come with me I

don’t want to spend my life working for

everyone else

never get to working on myself I tried

to work on him I tried to work on her

but what I really need to work on is

myself Jesus says I can’t perform

another miracle I can’t help another

lame man walk right now I gotta work on

my own issues right now I gotta work on

my own struggles I gotta work on my own

sorrow I hear God saying that it’s time

for somebody to get selfish you’ve been

performing miracles for everybody else

you’ve been performing under pressure

for everyone else but the defining

moment of your legacy will not come down

to what you did for everyone else it

will come down to how you presented

yourself to God God I don’t want you to

look at what I did for everyone else and

it’s the fact that I was living empty

that I was going to the cross broken and

sorrowful Jesus says I recognize that if

I don’t deal with this trauma that’s

down on the inside of me that I can’t be

who I’m supposed to be on the cross I’m

supposed to go to the cross knowing that

his purpose in his will is the only

thing I’m living for him but what do you

do when his will makes you sad God what

do I do when your will makes me

sorrowful Jesus teaches us in order to

be multiplied that he doesn’t need you

to make it look easy I don’t need you to

make it look easy I don’t need you to

make it look like you breezed through

this moment I just need you to give me

your truth in Jesus in the garden he

offers God his truth

he says God your will right now your

will hurts me thinking about people

burying their parents cousins and

friends got your will your will right

now God you

will hurts God I don’t want to have to

do this God I don’t want to go through

this divorce down I don’t want to face

this disease god I don’t want to stand

up to this what do you do god

when your will makes me sorrowful and

Jesus Jesus goes into the garden he says

my soul is exceedingly sorrowful and I

can’t make it look easy anymore I can’t

make it look like I have it under

control anymore and at the end of the

day I have decided to trust you but

right now I’m not there yet God says

it’s okay for you to not be there yet

but God says that you cannot lay my will

on top of your will so first let’s start

with your will Jesus starts with his

will before he gets to God’s will he’s

going to go to the cross he’s going to

change the final product but he refuses

to allow his will and God’s will to

exist at the same time so this moment

during Passover is so important to me

because it is our opportunity to say God

your will is hurting me I’m gonna go I’m

gonna do it I’m gonna survive I’m gonna

make it I know I am but right now I just

want to say ouch

right now I just want to say it hurts

God it wasn’t supposed to be this way

god it was supposed to work out

differently God please if there’s any

way that someone else can do this that

someone else can be strong enough to

handle this God choose them instead but

he prays this prayer knowing that at the

end of the day if you still choose me

I’m going to show up but I refuse to

make it look easy

you think that you can only get this

badge of honor if you act like you made

it look easy isolated quarantine

fighting for your marriage fighting for

your health fighting for your finances I

gotta be the strong friend I gotta make

it look easy for everyone else

God says I don’t need you to make it

look easy I need you to make it look

real because if you make it look real

when someone else starts struggling with

the cup that I give them they will know

that it is okay to be sorrowful and to

still change the final product I want

you to know that it’s okay for you to be

sorrowful God says I can still multiply

you but you got to give me that

emptiness I was praying and I know

without a shadow of a doubt that God is

multiplying us but it doesn’t feel like

multiplication because most of us are in

the garden and we’re being confronted

with the fact that his will and our will

don’t look alike I miss you I love you I

wish you were right here in this room

but his will and my will don’t look

alike but I’m still here anyway because

at the end of the day I’m not gonna

allow my will to be more powerful than

his will I don’t want to have to face

this I don’t want to have to face that

but I’m still gonna show up anyway you

don’t have to show up as if it was easy

it’s okay for it to be hard

and Jesus proves this to us this

Passover week so when he’ll change the

final product and I believe that as we

are in this season that it will be the

time in which you change the final

product but I want you to know that

there are going to be some things that

have to die first

intact is never easy and death it never

feels good when your dream is on pause

when that relationship isn’t progressing

the way that you wanted it to when you

have to walk away from the business and

walk away from the organization I know

it’s not easy it’s not easy when things

have to die as a part of his will but I

hear guys saying that death will not

have the final say if you don’t believe

me come back on Sunday because in just a

few short days we’re going to be

celebrating the fact that death did not

have the final say

and I don’t care what has to die in this

season I want you to know that when it

is all said and done that

same resurrection power that raised

Jesus from the grave is going to test

your marriage it’s gonna touch your

household it’s gonna touch your family

is gonna touch it happen I hear God

saying you’re gonna have joy again

you’re gonna have abundance again

how do I know it because you serve a God

of multiplication and I will never ask

you to sacrifice me unless I have

multiplication waiting on the other side

so father Here I am

my will I let it out in my life

I believe I believe you gotta trust you

I trust you I trust that you know what

it takes to get to the final product so

remove anything in me that keeps you

from getting to that final answer

man you’re watching I want to pray with

you every time you turn around and feels

like something to die in the pandemic is

one thing your way of life is another

the way you show up in your relationship

in your marriage I don’t know about you

but I’ve been feeling lately like Jesus

what else could fall apart Jesus is it

not enough that we’re in this pandemic I

want to pray with you because it feels

like you are surrounded by death death

of a dream death of joy death of peace

stress is running rampant fear is

running rampant and I want you to know

that God can handle that just for a

minute I want you to give me 10 minutes

of your truth and of your honesty you’ve

been showing up you’ve been putting on

your cape but just for a minute I want

you to be like Jesus in the garden and I

want you to admit that your soul is

exceedingly sorrowful and that’s okay

he can handle that I want to pray for

your soul Jesus tells God about his

exceedingly sorrowful soul and then he

does the most powerful thing that any of

us can do from the place of sorrow he

starts to pray Luke tells us that he

prayed until drops of sweat of blood

started coming out of his head I think

that he prayed to the same level of his

sorry

he preyed on the same level of his pain

he preyed on the same level of his

trauma that is my prayer for you I’m

gonna start the prayer but what matters

most is how you finished the prayer when

this message is over that you would open

up your heart and your soul in such a

way that God can get to know you for

real and so in this moment I want you to

connect with heaven not from your place

of strength but from your place of

sorrow

it’s just between us guys as I can

handle that

bother it really feels like all hell is

breaking loose

and yet the kingdom of heaven is at hand

father help us to understand the power

struggle that’s taking place right now

the right now sorrow is trying to have

the final say that anxiety is trying to

have the final say that there’s a power

struggle happening and the last thing

that I want you to have to fight is my

will so father we offer you not just the

perfect pieces of our life

father we offer you in this moment our

sorrow father my friends my family

they’re watching online right now

they’ve been in a lot of pain father

they’re in this room right now they’re

checking the sound there behind the

camera they’re playing the instruments

they’re in this room and they too have

been dealing with sorrow but father we

recognize that you did not come so that

we could walk alone that you wrapped

yourself in flesh so that you can get us

out of these sorrowful places and so

father we ask that you would meet us in

the place of our pain

that you wouldn’t need us in the place

of our emptiness and our brokenness

because father at the end of the day if

you’re gonna multiply who we are we

don’t want you to multiply our sorrow so

father meet us where we are and give us

the strength and the power to walk this

thing out

father we’re not asking you to take this

cup away from us anymore we’re asking

you to help us walk out your will so

spirit of the Living God we ask that you

would follow us like never before that

you would allow your strength to

permeate our abilities like never before

father we’ve gone as far as we can go on

without your strength we’ve gone as far

as we can go without your power from

this point forward we need your heavens

we need the windows of heaven to open up

over us father we need you to breathe on

us afresh we need you to give us

creativity like never before father we

need you to help us grieve the things

we’ve had to let go in this season so

that we can lay hold of who you have

called us to be father i prophesy

multiplication over their spirit i

prophesy multiplication over their gifts

and their talents they may have lost the

job but they didn’t lose you they may

have lost their mother but they didn’t

lose you they may have lost the

opportunity but they didn’t lose

and father if I have you your word

promises me that greater is He that is

in me than he that is in the world so

greater come forth greater comfort

greater greater greater than the kingdom

of heaven is at hand the kingdom of

heaven is at hand over your depression

the kingdom of heaven is here over your

sickness is over your illness father let

your kingdom come let your will be done

on earth as it is in heaven we make room

for you father and the broken places in

the empty places and we act that you

would fill us that your strength would

be made perfect in us in the deepest

parts of our weakness that we may know

you in a fresh new way that we may trust

you in a fresh new way and that when

it’s all said and done the only thing

that will be left after this encounter

with you is only that which is worthy of

multiplication father’s feel this word

seal it in the empty places seal it in

the broken places and let it take root

and where there was once fear where

there was once suicidal thoughts where

there was once depression where there

was once anxiety father let it take root

and produce God fruit let it produce

peace let it produce joy let it produce

breakthrough let it produce generational

blessings a bruit the generational curse

and produce the generational blessings

so that our families

can have a different environment than

the ones that we had father I thank you

that in your word it’s already done but

like the song says it’s sealed in heaven

so let it be sealed in the earth and

Jesus name I pray amen

listen I told you I’m going to start the

prayer but I want to challenge you to

not just close the computer and take off

to Instagram or social media but to take

a minute in to have an encounter with

God for some of you it may be your first

time it doesn’t have to be loud it

doesn’t have to be eloquent it doesn’t

have to be fancy you don’t have to make

it look easy just make it look real and

allow God to meet you in your sorrowful

places the same way Jesus did sometimes

it can just be God I need you God help

me God give me strength God give me

power God give me vision he’ll give you

the words just create this space for him

to talk to you listen we love you like I

said earlier we have an incredible

celebration this week planned for you

we’re going to celebrate that death

doesn’t have the final say we’re going

to have communion and on Sunday we’re

going to have a powerful resurrection

service I want you to be there and I

want you to be there with victory in joy

so go through the process of confronting

those sorrowful places so that you can

be reminded of fresh of how God has the

final say

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