Service Date: 07.07.19
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I’m gonna move a little further in this
series today but I just got to stop and
and say something to you now and I’ll
just tell you I’m just we’re gonna move
deep and I’m gonna talk about conviction
today but but before I do I want to tell
you about yesterday morning when I got
convicted by the Holy Spirit I went out
to this park that I go to it’s right by
the beach and I work out there and I go
there to pray and I went out there to
pray and when the workout was finished I
went out and I looked over the waters
and I was getting ready to pray and I
started to pray about something I need
and the Holy Spirit convicted me and
said that’s not what you need to be
praying about and I said okay because it
wasn’t a bad prayer it wasn’t evil it
wasn’t wicked it wasn’t that it just
wasn’t what the highest version of me
should have been praying in that moment
I’m gonna teach that in a minute so I go
to pray and and it felt like this is not
I didn’t feel an anointing on praying
for that thing how many of us know you
feel you should feel the anointing when
you pray sometimes it’s better let the
spirit pray for you you wanna me instead
of it becoming these vain repetitions
there is something that God wants you to
pray in a particular moment that’s why I
pray with my understanding like we
talked about last week and I pray in
this spirit because I want to cover
everybody’s prayer not just my prayer I
want to cover the Holy Spirit’s prayer
so anyway I’m there and I was getting
ready to pray this nothing wrong with
this thing this good thing and then hope
the conviction Holy Spirit you can’t
play it felt almost like sin to pray
that and it was a good thing and so I’m
like well God didn’t what am I surprised
I started thing then you know you try to
go real spiritual I’m like okay well we
got the Women’s Conference coming and
maybe I need to be praying for the
Women’s Conference and that’s a good
thing right and we’ve been praying for
it but guy was like that ain’t it either
and then you know then you get all
religious stuff like that wow I’m just
praying that all the world would be
saying and that is a good prayer right
but it wasn’t it
and the Lord was basically like asked me
what I want you to pray and so I pause
overlooking the water the vastness of
God I paused and I realized in that
moment by the Holy Spirit that my
prayers were too small and sometimes God
can’t do what he wants to do through
your life because you don’t have the
capacity to ask him properly you
understand what I’m saying he told he
told David or David sang about the Lord
in Psalm 2 & 8
and God said ask of me and I’ll give you
the nation’s he’s like ask for nation’s
and so I’m there I’m like God what do
you want me to pray for and then he said
I want you to think about what’s been
happening lately and I thought I’m like
wow okay we had a couple of earthquakes
and let me just say as a believer you’re
not supposed to just like take an
earthquake and just go on about your
business I understand you watching the
news and and getting all that you know
we’ve got those wonderful doctors from
the USGS we thank God for them and they
give us the scientific interpretation of
the earthquake but how many so there’s a
spiritual interpretation of the
earthquake – hello so you embrace the
scientific and I’m not saying that you
have a corner on the earthquake you some
people like okay in is coming not so
fast
but Jesus did say something in Matthew
24 that as the day draws near there’s
going to be earthquakes in various and
various places so there is a connection
between what Jesus said is happening and
what is happening and so it should sober
all of us at least a little bit don’t
get caught up in the science of it the
sides of it is wonderful that’s that’s
great but there’s a spiritual
understanding there’s something that the
Holy Spirit wants us to do as we start
seeing things like that happen right and
so I was like while we did have those
earthquakes he’s like yeah and then it
just came to me he said here’s what I
want you to pray he says understand this
when the earth shakes when there is a
natural disaster or when there is a
human disaster when there are conditions
that are crazy and things that seem to
get worse you have to understand that
that is what the Bible calls the earth
or the creation grow
I want you to studies when you get a
chance as Romans chapter 8 and you can
start reading the first night didn’t go
away down in fact just read from Genesis
to Revelation you’ll forget the point
trust me but it talks about the Bible
talks about how the earth the creation
everything that got created is groaning
it’s groaning and then it also says that
and we too are groaning so watch this
when the earth groans you are supposed
to groan awful holy spirit you when the
earth groans the Spirit is groaning but
sometimes just as there were some who
did not feel the earthquake because for
whatever reason you were not in a bad
way but just distract it from being
steal enough to feel it does not mean
that the earthquake didn’t happen you
feel me
so sometimes we’re busy can I just
preach for a second sometimes we’re so
busy in our lives their spirit is
groaning but we’re moving and
functioning and doing so much in our own
shrimp or in what we want to do that we
don’t even feel the shaking
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hello somebody I didn’t feel the first
quake on the third because I was hiking
I was moving that Roma I came but when
my wife and I decided to get into bed
early and we lay down to watch TV
we felt the earthquake so as I’m
standing over this way looking at the
vastness of the sea it came to me as I
paused I let the Holy Spirit lead me and
guide me my prayer that what the Holy
Spirit wanted me to pray for was the
revealing or the manifesting of the
children of God because that passage in
Romans 8:19 says that all of creation is
eagerly waiting watch this for the
revealing of you are a Borgia
every time the earth shakes God is
calling your name every time there is a
natural disaster or some calamity every
time the earth grows the Spirit of God
assigned to you is groaning – so God
said what you need to pray for what you
need to pray for is pray for the
revealing of my children pray that what
my people would get serious about me and
start walking with me and start being
led by me so that they can start
becoming in me and that’s what I prayed
that’s what God wanted and I hear God
said I got all that other stuff covered
I feel the Holy Ghost God saying I’ve
got your life covered I need you to pray
prayers that are bigger than your life I
need you to ask
four nations asked me for America ask me
for Africa asked me for Brazil Indonesia
asked for India
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praying to small church we pray to small
if your prayer life is only about you to
small even in the model prayer he said
pray first before we got into any of the
daily bread he said pray your kingdom
come your will be done on earth as it is
in heaven and then it ends with for
thine is the kingdom and that is the
power and thine is the glory big prayers
I feel this for some of you as God
increases your capacity to pray he’s
gonna make your life bigger bigger
prayer bigger life he’s got you covered
he knows about your little money he
knows about you
he knows about your little bills he
knows about your house
play some big Kingdom
you will create a four
and it’s funny God speaks that to me and
then all of a sudden rabbits start
coming around me and squirrels start
coming around me and birds start drawing
calls and it was almost like they were
saying we’re waiting on you will you be
who God has created you to be
and stop playing and get busy can I talk
to you like that today where my real
believers ain’t talking about believers
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he said you praying too small you want
to know what I’m thinking about you
don’t want to know what I see I see the
earth groaning I see the earth shaking I
see everything that can be shaken being
shaken so that that which cannot be
shaken can stand hallelujah hallelujah
I got a pastor a real church hello
somebody
and trust me you want me to because when
this shaking comes I don’t want you to
be swept up and worrying about the
science of it and all of that the
science is fine that’ll be there but
there’s a higher thing going on every
time the hearse take my spirit on a
stake
what does that look like practically I’m
a practical guy what does that look like
practically that means me not playing
that means me getting serious that means
me digging in god what did you do when
you grabbed me Paul put it this way I’m
trying to lay hold of that for which
Christ has to laid hold upon me God why
don’t you put your hand on me God why
did you save me
why didn’t I die in that car accident
why didn’t I die whenever
did some
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right now
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some real questions
you start asking questions like god
what’s in me what’s in me you start
asking questions like what is all the
hell that I face big trying to keep from
coming out of me why am I so important
to hell that I gotta fight to smile
every single
because because if the other guy could
have me he would have me how come the
Lord only allows him to get so close but
every single time I make awake how comes
he made the enemy just like a roaring
lion but not a real lion why is he
trying to scare me from stepping into my
destiny why is he trying to keep me from
being everything that must be something
about me that makes
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see I start asking questions I start
asking questions why is there fight on
my life so vigorous what is that what is
that maybe I need to change the
narrative about my struggles they may be
difficult but every time I open my eyes
I’m still here that they may threaten to
wipe me out or or this is the big one
this is gonna take me out of the game
and I embrace for the worst but then I
look up and I’m still standing maybe
maybe it’s time for the narrative the
change maybe the Lord allows me to go
through stuff to prove that I’m bigger
than the stuff that I go through and
maybe just maybe God wants to settle it
once and for all I’m here to stay baby
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and I got a signal
I gotta settle it I feel that for
somebody
I’m telling you Chris I feel that for
somebody some of you you need to settle
in I’m here to stay and since I’m here
to stay I might as well be on my way
since I’m here to stay
my mother’s will not be concerned about
how people see me I felt God or what
people say about me
says I can’t be stopped I might as well
get moving get moving to me a favor
high-five somebody say get moving get
moving get moving
found out that I stopped
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what were they
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cuz only
got one life to live and the ground is
shaking
don’t you feel it right now they say
there are tweaks are happening all the
time we just aren’t sensitive enough to
feel it can’t you feel the ground
shaking under you right now I feel your
spirit is stirring ain’t God’s house
today and I’m calling forth the
revealing of who you are I’m tired of
looking at imposters with real
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shaking is coming shaking is coming it’s
time to wake up you don’t have anything
to worry about it’s time for you to wake
up and it’s time for you to stand up
stop apologizing for being anointed stop
apologizing for being special
stop apologizing for being safe stop
apologizing for being caught
stop apologizing for having the Holy
Spirit in your life
no more apologies by the grace of God I
am what I am what do I do
I pray and mountains move what do I do
I’m lay hands on the sick and they
recover what do I do I point my finger
at Devils and they flee what do I preach
the good news of the kingdom of heaven
what do I
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no mine
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I am what I am God didn’t call me to fit
in he called me a breakout breakout
break out break out in your uniqueness
wake up in your gifting break out in
your calling y’all got me happy
break out break out stand out be bolder
than you’ve ever been before
see that’s what the Holy Ghost gives you
the Holy Spirit gives you bonus mmm I
feel the Spirit of the risen Savior in
this house come on let’s just take a
minute and worship I feel God in this
house Oh glory to God I see a generation
mighty wind
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cut power in you
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somebody’s catching it if you’re
catching it holler at me
somebody’s catching it somebody’s
catching it you catching it you starting
to get it it’s starting to make sense
now okay see I’m not talking to your
mind maybe when I give him my notes I’ll
speak to your mind
but right now I’m speaking to your inner
man cuz there’s a part of you that knows
I’m telling the truth even when your
mind is trying to fight it dig down on
the inside of you he is speaking to a
part of me you’re not weak
you’re not insecure
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that ain’t you that’s who you’re killing
that’s really killing so the Holy Spirit
one of the amazing gifts of the Holy
Spirit is the gift of conviction because
what conviction is identifying is that
which is not you and we get and we get
conviction and condemnation crossed and
and and we run from conviction because
when we get conviction and condemnation
crossed condemnation is a terrible
feeling condemnation says you’re not
condemnation says you you are the fact
no condemnation says you you’re terrible
condemnation says you’re bad
condemnation says you’re worthless
condemnation says you are what you do
and condemnation has so has no
redemption and that there’s no
redemptive value in condemnation and so
we run from it conviction says something
different conviction says that’s not you
conviction as the master potter is
chipping away to create his masterpiece
conviction is chipping away everything
that is not you and everything that is
unprofitable and so great people embrace
conviction great people aren’t settled
if they live and not feel conviction for
too long
because wait something’s wrong because I
know at least at least got one thing
that needs to be worked out or it worked
on so if I don’t feel conviction that
means that I haven’t put myself either I
haven’t put myself in a space to be
convicted or I have desensitized myself
to conviction which is a terrible thing
because conviction is your friend Oh
hallelujah you you you don’t have you
know we talked about last week the Holy
Spirit is the advocate conviction as
part of him advocating because the Holy
Spirit has a picture of who you are
before I formed you in your mother’s
womb I knew you
if any man is in Christ he’s a new
creation old things have passed away all
things have become new
you’ve seated in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus far above principalities
and powers and so so there is a youth
that you are yet meeting but that the
Holy Spirit fully knows and that’s why
the Holy Spirit convicts you he’s not
mad at you he’s saying no that’s not
what you do hmm the Holy Spirit says
I’ve already seen you and so I’m gonna
confront this because you don’t know it
yet because you’re still becoming that
you that I’ve seen but to you that I’ve
seen doesn’t think like that doesn’t
function like that is not broken like
that is not insecure like that is not
fearful like that is not pulling look
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Hey so so the Holy Spirit is the
guarantee right that’s what it says what
Holy Spirit and infusions chapter 1 I
believe he says he is the guarantee of
the promise in other words I guarantee
it’s going to happen because one I’m
gonna convict you of everything that’s
not you I’m gonna empower you and guide
you to you oh I wish somebody would
catch what I’m saying because I can’t I
can’t do it the way out you know I can’t
do that because we’re in something now
we’re in it now we’re in now the Holy
Spirit sees you I mentioned it before in
the early part of series the two of you
Philippians 1:6 God says he who has
begun a good work in you shall complete
it until the day of Jesus Christ that
work complete in the Greek is in the
present perfect tense in other words
something is in the present perfect
tense means that it is happen while it’s
happening so he who has begun a good
work in you is completing what has been
completed are we tracking together so
there is a you that’s already good
there’s a you that doesn’t have
struggles there’s a you that’s not
broken the Holy Ghost there’s a units
not fearful there’s a you that doesn’t
give away pieces of yourself for
attention there’s a you that’s perfected
and completing God entirely and this you
is trying to get to this you John 16
says the Holy Spirit convicts of sin sin
is not what you do sin is why you did it
you’re not ready for that
sin is not what you do send us why you
did sin the Greek word for Santa’s
Herman Tina in the Greek it literally
means to miss the mark or to fall short
that’s why Romans 3:23 says all have
sinned and then what fallen short of the
glory of God why is it a problem to fall
short of the glory of God it’s because
you were created in God’s image so to be
unlike God is sin not what you do but
the condition that makes you do it
that’s why Jesus did not become sins it
doesn’t say God who had no sin became
sin it says he became sin not Jesus
became sin enough he didn’t become
simply what you do he became the root of
what you do he became the why you do
what you do
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so that we might become the
righteousness of God did you catch that
not my righteousness I have fallen short
because of this condition I have fallen
short and one of the evidences is death
God is eternal so death itself proves
that I’ve fallen short of God’s
intention because of this thing called
sin so what the Holy Spirit does is it
is he convicts us of the areas of
limitation in our lives and calls us
higher Paul put it this way that works
against an means to miss the mark
remember when Paul said I haven’t
arrived and I’m not perfected yet this
is Philippians 3 if you take your notes
he says I haven’t been perfected yet
he said but this one thing I do know
before he says that he says I am trying
to apprehend what I have been
apprehended for he says I am trying to
grasp what I have been grasped for this
is the faith life it is not houses
planes and automobiles I understand all
that I get that but it’s not about that
that’s this life you can have houses
planes and automobiles and have nothing
to do with faith so watch this the real
faith pursuit the real discipline and
function and the real walk of faith is
trying to grasp what you have been
grasped for why am I here on a Sunday
morning not in New Orleans
or at the beach or just getting up from
some wild praise the Lord
the why did the spirit move me to come
to this converted theater on the prayer
the life of faith family is to daily try
to apprehend the reason for your
apprehension and Paul says I forget
what’s behind me and I reach forward to
those things which are ahead of me in
other words nothing worthy of me is
behind me the real me is not back there
there are no such things as the good old
days the real me will forever be in
front of me Oh hallelujah
Paul says forgetting what’s behind and
reaching forward unto what is ahead he
says I press for the mark there’s a mark
and you haven’t reached it yet and the
mark is not money and the mark is that
social media followers because when you
get to a million you’re gonna find
somebody with twenty and when you get to
twenty you’re gonna find somebody with a
hundred hello somebody so it’s not that
it is not even optimum health although I
believe you ought to be yourself there
you can be what is the mark you know
what the mark is the mark is you know
real you know glorified you
the you with no limits I feel God that
you would know brokenness that’s what
we’re after so the Holy Spirit his job
his job is to convict us toward the mark
not to put you down not to make you feel
shame see you have to understand the the
mentality of the holy spirit if you want
to sit down you can I’m gonna talk for a
few minutes we’ll be done the mentality
of the Holy Spirit the mentality of the
holy spirit it’s not about what’s wrong
with you that’s not I’m almost done to
you by the way the mentality of the Holy
Spirit the mentality of the Holy Spirit
it’s not about what’s wrong with you the
mentality of the Holy Spirit is obsessed
with what is right with you so the
conviction of the Holy Spirit is to
simply move you from error to accuracy
host fears not managing the cross took
care of our shortcomings that the
picture the idea of God being upset with
you well God’s really gonna get me for
this that’s not even accurate the cross
he got Jesus for you now that doesn’t
mean that let me tell you he doesn’t
even have to punish you all you do is
just live in the lesser version of you
and life will punish you so it literally
is an escape so real quickly I want you
to look at conviction differently great
people seek out conviction there’s a
verse this one verse will use and that
that’ll be it it’s out of proverbs
chapter 27 and verse 6 I love it oh I
love this verse such a real verse it
says faithful are the wounds of a friend
put it up there probably went there we
go praise the Lord
26 I love this look look at these words
poetry is beautiful faithful are the
wounds of a friend but the kisses of an
enemy are deceitful in that beautiful
faithful I love I love it
faithful are the wounds of a friend the
wounds of a friend that that seems
almost oxymoronic the wounds of a friend
faithful that word faithful is a Hebrew
word and the underlying root were their
means to build up so so when God wants
to build you up he’ll use a faithful
friend and that faithful friend will
wound you juxtapose against look but the
kisses of an enemy are deceitful so my
enemy kisses me my friend wounds me and
this made me think of the Holy Spirit
the Holy Spirit is that faithful friend
that will convict you and sometimes that
conviction feels like a wound in fact
most of the time if it’s a real
conviction it feels like a woman and the
reason why it hurts a little bit is
because let’s just be honest with you
you know you’re not perfect but some of
you near thank you close to it come on
especially when you start going to
church and you cut out some of the stuff
that you used to do you know you still
got some work but you feel like you’re
doing pretty doggone good let’s just be
honest two or three of you feel like you
got it
pretty much together now you know now
and see the Holy Spirit will convict you
about something that you won’t convict
you about because the Holy Spirit sees
you more accurately than you see you
so I need the Holy Spirit because I’m
not going to convict me on the level
that the Holy Spirit does because I will
justify me I’ll call it things like
that’s just my personality come on
somebody that’s just just how he made me
me and just how I am
that’s just my good luck no no no here
here here this God knows my heart he’s
not cool what you being mean so so
conviction conviction we need God
because God will tell us straight up
because all of us particularly when you
start walking with the Lord every and
even sometimes when you don’t walk with
the Lord everybody has a little eating
little sprinkle of self-righteousness in
there just a little pinch like
Grandmama’s cooking you know what
grandma you get the season that you know
I don’t know about that okay
all right just a bit seasoning seriously
you you ever been a new over eating in
New Orleans I’m sorry miss I can’t do it
see my wife has seized my filtering but
no let me just say it since its essence
weekend okay if you ever eat in New
Orleans the food is so doggone good it’s
like somebody’s Grandmama’s in the
kitchen and when nobody’s looking she
just reaches in her bra and pulls out
this little spice and just I’m sorry I’m
tired all right but all of us all of us
sometimes have a little sprinkle of self
righteousness in us and we won’t convict
us by God will God will show us stuff
that we are cool with we will tolerate
we’re cool with it right
we won’t convict ourselves in that area
and God is saying
I’ve got to deal with that here’s what
thing that is interesting about
conviction and why you have to pay
attention to it it’s because God
convicts about certain things at certain
times here’s what I mean if the Holy
Spirit’s job is to convict us of sin and
it is that’s John 16 you can find it
okay if that’s his job none of us are
without sin the real version of us is
good but we aren’t which means that if
if the Holy Spirit were to convict us of
all sin all the time he’d be convicting
us all day so he doesn’t convict us of
all of our issues all the time which
means that he is very selective about
when he convicts and so we have to pay
attention to the timing and the issue
that he’s convicting of for this reason
if God is highlighting it that means
that there could be an expiration on the
grace for that thing can I talk to you
like that for a second because he
doesn’t convict us all the time
but every once in a while he’d be like
alright now when you were a child you
thought as a child you understood as a
child you did this as a child but when
you became man it’s time to put away
childish things I feel that for some of
you there’s there’s oftentimes there is
there’s grace there’s always grace but
sometimes when God knows a if you don’t
make the ship now you’re gonna miss a
critical opportunity of transformation
can I talk to you like this I know that
I promise this is positive so it’s a
gift the conviction is a gift it would
not be love if God didn’t do nothing
with it
just let you just knew that magic she
got to make the shift now she’s gonna
miss that thing she’s got to get these
things in order Hey
because it was cool for those things to
not be in order but I’m getting ready to
bring the blessing that necessitates her
alignment
so I got to convict you and sometimes I
bring the conviction on strong because I
want you to really get it because I
don’t want you to miss it because this
is connected to that and that is
connected to that and that is connected
to this and the very thing you’ve been
praying for is on the other side of your
appropriate response to my conviction
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conviction is a gift we got to fall in
love with it the great love conviction
David said search me Lord switch me
search me if you find anything in me
take it out of me can we go a little
further I want to show you really quick
I only have like about four or five
hours left with you I want to show you
really quickly we’ll just call this in
the interest of time I want to I want to
call this the cycle of transformation
hear me you cannot be who God has called
you to be without the Holy Spirit’s
conviction
you will not convict yourself you cannot
trust you to see you you are familiar
with you you know you you are
comfortable in you some of you were born
in something that God wants to break you
out of it is generational it is communal
it is environmental when you are born in
dysfunction it looks like normality
that’s why when God engages Abraham one
of the first things that God tells him
to do when God is getting ready to make
him a statesman to make him an example
to bring the people through him the
first thing that God tells Abraham to do
is get out of your country and out of
your father’s house and away from your
family to a land that I will show you
because you are gonna call certain
things that are broken normal I was
raised in an environment with certain
things that are absolutely gross to me
now we’re normal
things that you would get high five for
were normal in that environment and in
that context so I need the Holy Spirit
because I don’t know how much of what I
am doing or what I am thinking is only
seems normal
because I was birth and dysfunction so I
need the Holy Spirit who knows me who
sees me who understands the real version
of me
who has not been diluted by culture or
family or generational bondage to show
me me because only he has perfect
commentary on who I truly am so herein
is this cycle and I believe that if you
embrace this cycle and you live in this
cycle and you walk out and this walk out
the process and the steps of this cycle
you will never fail to continue to
become and I believe that the more you
become the more you have but the more
you have will not have you you can have
what not becoming you caught that linked
up you can have without becoming which
is sad OOP I know what it’s like that
was me in 2000 I know what it’s like to
have but not be oh that’s when people do
this because I thought that the more
that I have the happier and the better I
will be where do I go when I have it all
and I’m still lost and not only that but
others have this expectation of me that
is not even me
so I’m lost to myself I’m lost to others
but I have accomplished all of this over
here there’s no place to go don’t judge
people who do that anyone is susceptible
of taking that type of plunge and I hate
it when I hear about it I hate it but in
particular when they don’t embrace a
process of becoming
you can become and have two dollars in
your bank account and say well I’ve got
two dollars imma fight this thing I’m
gonna take this two dollars and make
something out of it in G I ain’t going
nowhere and conversely you could have
two billion and not become and jump off
of a skyscraper and what I’m saying is
I’m gonna take you to this cycle I want
you to think about it and I want you to
add this to your tool chest of
spirituality because I believe that if
you employ if you employ the disciplines
in this cycle as it relates to
conviction of the holy spirit you will
never fall short of becoming and the
more you become the more fulfilled
you’ll be which if that were just the
promise by itself that will be enough
the more fulfilled the more transformed
of the more blessed let’s talk about it
so here’s how transformation works here
is a cycle of transformation let me
reiterate you cannot have growth without
conviction conviction is an opportunity
for critical growth that is one of the
greatest gifts of the Holy Spirit he
convicts so conviction is where it
begins
what is conviction conviction is when
the Holy Spirit lets you know that
something ain’t cool
that was me standing on the edge that
thing getting ready to pray it’s getting
ready to pray this and conviction for me
was you got to go deeper that’s not it
that’s not right it’s not wrong it’s
just not right
that’s what conviction does we are
people of the Spirit
we’re people of alignment we want our
steps to be ordered we’re not random
people we don’t want to just do random
like whatever you know what I’m saying
like everything we do we wanted to hit
everything we wanted to mean something
you feel me I want my life to hit I want
my words to hit
I want my interaction with my children
the hit I want my interaction with my
wife to hit
I want my interactions business take it
when I’m in a meeting I wanna I wanna
take it you feel me if you
creating if I’m writing I want the words
to hit I don’t want to just put some
words in the page and get to 260
thousand words to appease my publisher
no no let me sit down because I want
every single dot every single T cross I
wanted to hit and pray for you you read
it my books meeting if not could convict
me Holy Spirit but you know what I’m
said so so so so conviction is the
introduction of the truth that something
is not quite it or fill it and you can
use that in relationships when you’re
dating don’t let the six-pack make you
reject the conviction Holy Ghost uh
conviction but some six bags no cuz that
six-pack will blind you and whatever
your version of six-pack is that’s your
business okay but it will blind you I
need the Holy Spirit because I want you
to show me and tell me that something’s
wrong when everything looks so right
I’ve had I’ve had situations that looked
amazing on paper you ever been there
whoa on paper just like BAM this is it
but something in here and if I would
have moved on it set back millions
relationally same thing so so so
conviction is you get we gotta move
through this conviction as a gift don’t
play with it don’t cheapen it don’t make
it like conviction is the friend that
bothers you
conviction is the faithful friend who
will wound you if he has to
in order to get you to what God promised
you are you tracking with me and you
need some real friends in your life like
that they’re not kissing you all the
time I don’t do everything right I’m
like yes people tell me no every once in
a while at least you don’t said it’s
good for me tell me no staff like really
yes but make it a good no make it a good
no I’m telling you I’m you know whack no
now I get you fired you’re crazy all
right conviction
so conviction is the presence of error
and until that error message is cleared
you can’t move in the direction of that
thing that God is convicting you in
right so the first step in this cycle of
transformation is conviction the second
step is repentance so when God and first
of all repentance literally means to
change your mind a change your thinking
about something that’s when the change
happens the change doesn’t happen when
you do something different the change
happens when there’s a shift in your
mind that you have embraced the
revelation that this is not cool and you
change your mind you change your mind
before you change your ways are you
tracking with me so repentance says okay
I’ve received that conviction as true
and now in my heart and in my head I
repented I think family I think I think
I’ve got five minutes I think I think
that oftentimes we don’t give God enough
space in our lives for conviction to
fully be manifest I need to say that
better we don’t we’re not still enough
for us to even understand the conviction
that the Holy Spirit may be bringing
into our lives
meditation is everything for me I can’t
just get up and just run into my day
I’ve got to take a minute right this is
a day I’ve never seen before hello
somebody I ain’t never seen this day
before I don’t know what’s around the
corner all coming anything could happen
I got in my car this morning it was
acting on find some new cars acting all
weird I’m like this ain’t supposed to
happen you know trying to keep me from
coming in to bring this message I don’t
just jump hallelujah
I don’t just family I don’t just jump
into a day I need a minute I need a
minute to pause is there any unfinished
spiritual business that me and God need
to work through so sometimes even with
conviction I can’t get to repentance
because I didn’t sit in the conviction
long enough and sometimes that was on
purpose
hey because I didn’t like the area that
the Holy Spirit was convicting me in and
I felt like it would be too much to
bring about real change and sometimes
the reason why why we reject conviction
is that we don’t feel like there’s
enough strength and power to actually
make the shift and we don’t want to be
failures so we just kind of brush it to
the side but but I’m gonna show you in a
minute
that there’s always power to change do
me a favor just tell your neighbor
there’s always power to change there’s
always no matter what it is there’s
always power to change so we’ve got
conviction repentance is when you say
all right boom okay conviction has I’ve
accepted that this is conviction I’ve
heard God out in this matter I’ve heard
the Holy Spirit out in this matter and
now I have a change of mindset about it
right and my heart has changed about it
and then I go into the third phase and
the third phase is confession there’s a
passage of Scripture in 1st John chapter
1 beginning at verse 8 and I will read
it real quick because we only got like
like like like five or six hours it says
if we say that we have no sin
we deceive ourselves and the truth is
not in us in verse nine it says if we
confess our sins he is faithful and just
to forgive our sins and to cleanse us
from all the righteous that’s powerful
first of all confession that word
confess is a Greek word is the Greek
word homologue ale is made of two words
homo same low gail is from logos which
means to speak in other words to confess
is to agree with God I’m saying the same
thing out of my mouth I’m saying the
same thing that you are saying about
what you are convicting me in you open
your mouth and speak it and declare you
say I am who you say I am and I renounce
and I reject any identity that you did
not confirm that I am are you tracking
with me Holy Spirit I am trusting and
leading you to teach me and to guide me
as it pertains to identity you speak to
me you teach me I don’t want nobody
teaching me I don’t want man teaching me
I don’t want my momma teaching me I
don’t want my daddy teaching me I don’t
miss it necessarily with my pastor
teaching me Holy Spirit you tell me who
I am and I will say the same thing as
you about my identity
are you checking with me then when you
confessor I love it because it says that
if you confess your sins he’s faithful
and just to forgive
of course that’s easy but I like it says
and to cleanse you from unrighteousness
that work cleanse is the same word
that’s used when Jesus talks about
pruning remember when he says when you
bear fruit he prunes it that it might
bear forth more fruit which means that
in order to truly become there will have
to be contained a cycle of continuous
pruning of things and so we have
forgiveness we have repentance we have
confession this is a process I’m telling
you some of you I can’t wait for us to
pray because somebody’s life was getting
ready to change the fourth stage of this
is endowment
all of this was preparation and
conviction that’s God initiating
something repentance is us responding
confession is us responding we’re moving
towards something and then
when that process of us responding is
ripe there is an endowment of power
there is grace for change Oh hallelujah
and this is important because man I’ll
tell you man sometimes the things that
the Holy Spirit is convicted me on and
I’m like man how is that ever gonna
change my daddy did it my
great-grandfather did it my mama did it
my good you know I’m saying you just
start saying everybody I know that I’ve
never seen I’ve never seen it done can
we have a real conversation what do you
do when the Holy Spirit convicts you
about something that he wants for you
that you have never seen you’ve never
seen wealth through better money
management you you that they haven’t
been a vegan in your family there’s been
fried chicken and potato salad moment
you oh god how
the colored folk get it everybody else’s
like I’m on one today they don’t kick me
out of this church too late I started it
the point that I’m making you got a
laugh sometimes come on Jesus Christ in
this crazy world you better find
something to laugh at
so the point that I’m making is
sometimes the area that God wants to
change becomes this daunting thing as
you look at it because you’ve never
known anything else and you never seen
anything else and I hate God saying to
you ask of me and I’ll give you the
nation’s I will listen with conviction
comes endowment so the moment hear me
this is so important if there’s an error
that guy’s been convicting you in that
you’re a little afraid of with the
conviction comes the endowment remember
how I said God does just all of a sudden
convict you convict you about everything
he convicts you about things where there
is a moment of an opportunity for grace
divine and ableman
to address it that’s why you got to move
at the point of conviction man I can
almost sit on that I felt like I struck
something that’s why you can’t be afraid
of it and that’s why you have to develop
the discipline of embracing it because
in that conviction there is a window of
power to get past that thing I feel that
I almost want to stop right there I feel
I feel the Holy Spirit so strongly but
summon you might be being convicted in
this room right now about something the
Holy Spirit is screaming has highlighted
something and I hit God saying I’ve
highlighted it because I’m ready to get
down to business about it
he says yeah you haven’t been waiting on
me I’ve been waiting on you and I want
to do business with you in that area
right now because it is holding you back
Oh God it is holding you back it’s not
what you should do is what you must do
it is it is holding you back it’s not
just the right thing to do
because I’m a Christian it’s bigger than
that I think I saying the reason why I’m
highlighting it it’s not because I’m
trying to hinder you I’m trying to help
you and then alignment which is when you
and the true version of you have a
rendezvous for a minute concerning that
area and you take on the characteristics
of the real you in that area until you
meet again for the next level to break
through which leads to transformation
and ultimately generational blessing
because when you become it you can pass
it down there are some things that you
have to kill I’m ready to pray because I
feel the president got so strong there
are some things that you have to kill or
they’re gonna show up in your kid’s life
and instead of them going further to the
next level man god this is too much
instead of them being able to take the
baton whether I’m talking about natural
kids I’m talking about spiritual kids
I’m talking about who ever you were
signed to touch and reach instead are
you being able to give them a healthy
baton whereby they might run their race
you give them a decayed baton an
infected baton and now they got to run
their race and deal with what you should
have killed and deal with the Devils
that are in their generation that ain’t
fair that ain’t fair man listen man we
started this church in North Hollywood
in 2004 does 15 years ago I was younger
mm-hmm
and their kids that grew up in this
church I’m thinking about one young man
and actor he’s ripping and running right
now I don’t know if he’s here actor
singing everything and there’s plenty
like that but I’m thinking about one in
particular he was a little boy Trevor he
little boy and he grew up in this church
what I’m getting at is that life moves
moves and they’re people counting on us
to be real listen I know we’re young
church but let me tell you something
some of y’all ain’t that young they love
somebody you ain’t that young some of
you at the age they’re you 30 you need
to be pulling somebody behind you
you you could be a little scooping your
20s a little bit now really not really
but by the time you reach 30 you need to
be pulling somebody and you can’t pull
somebody if you continue to need to be
pulled you don’t have said because your
life my that is your life this life that
God has blessed you to live is connected
to the generation that’s behind you i’ma
tell you straight up it’s not even about
you and the more that you don’t make it
about you the more God will bless you so
much so that you will think it’s about
you you understand what I’m saying
the more you make it about who God has
called you to be
in this short span of time that he’s
given you between your birth and your
death and you max it out and part of
maxing it out is not simply reaching
towards the mark that’s your priority
but one of the reasons why you’re
reaching towards the mark is so that you
can better in a more accurate way grab
that next generation and pull them in
I’m not gonna leave the generation worse
I’m not gonna leave that next generation
worse than it was in my generation you
understand what I’m saying I’m gonna
leave them some faith I’m gonna leave
them some anointing i’ma leave them some
businesses come on somebody
i’ma leave them an industry i’ma give
them something that they can take and
run on with I’m gonna leave them some
churches I believe some Mantle’s with
the next generation can grab something
and say I thank God for pastor Torrey I
thank God for pastor Sarah I thank God
for pastor ty I thank God
that’s somebody in their generation
trusted God serves us believe God fought
devils and demons
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and they changed the world I can’t do
that if I don’t allow the Holy Spirit
through conviction to show me who I’m
not if you hear when you say pastor you
have been wearing me out today and I
know that the Holy Spirit wants to do a
new thing in my life and I want to yield
to the Holy Spirit to his affirmation
and his conviction if that’s you please
meet us at the altar I want to pray for
you come on come on come on come on we
got to get this right change your lives
come on we got to get this right we got
to get this right
we got to get this right we got to get
this right I’m not I’m not afraid of
your Holy Spirit I trust you I trust you
teach me leave me feed me teach me leave
me feed me
come on make your way here come on we’re
gonna be a generation a spirit-filled
spirit lead generation and you’re gonna
hit I feel the Holy Ghost
you’re gonna hit stuffs gonna start
hitting for you you’re gonna get some
patience I hear God saying I’m gonna
slow you down in order to speed you up
and the slowing down is just to get you
to a place where you find the Holy
Spirit’s rhythm so I got to slow down
for a minute but then God is gonna blow
the whistle and then I’m gonna run
accurately accurately I’m gonna slow you
down just speed you up I’m gonna restore
the years that the locusts have eaten
you watched me you watched me I’m gonna
slow you down because you’ve been in
your own rhythm you’ve been in your
rhythm and you’ve been moving too fast
that’s why you’re not feeling the
earthquakes so I’m a slow you down and
I’m a I’m gonna teach you my voice and
I’m gonna teach you my ways and I’m a
I’m gonna teach you how i Function i’m
gonna whisper in your ear this is the
way walk in it so it’s gonna look like
you slowing down but you’re getting
revved up for great out of that – man
you’re gonna pass by it’s not about
competition but i’ma tell you right now
don’t be discouraged by people that
seemed to pass you up not walking in the
spirit
let them run on slow down I feel it I
should slow down and let the Holy Spirit
minister to you and teach you and show
you the way you won’t come out the case
I feel God
from behind and the last I’m gonna be
first I see it you were wandering and
God is getting ready to shore up your
steps he’s getting ready to shore up
your steps and it’s gonna be amazing
it’s gonna be amazing it just seemed so
much people gonna be like where is she
where is he
don’t worry about it don’t worry about
it don’t worry about it
I don’t even want to tell you everything
I see it’s crazy
where is he where is she man they fell
off I ain’t seeing them and then they
gonna come in to your office looking for
a job oh oh that’s where you win to the
top to the top of the mountain the head
and not the tail let them search for you
oh yeah she went got into God she wanted
him God people she see when God
she wouldn’t got all spiritual all
religions let him talk let him talk you
just stay faithful and you trust his
voice because it’s gonna lead you I see
people coming back and apologizing to
you for hurting you not believe oh man I
got to turn this thing off
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Father forgive them for they know not
what they do walk it out walk in it if
you’re here and you say man this is
crazy I left I cried I was convicted I
just my first time here
and I don’t quite understand it and I’ve
never considered myself a religious
person or spiritual person or whatever
but I can’t deny but there’s something
in this place that my soul needs if
that’s you when you’re here first of all
I can’t tell you how I feel unless I’m
connected to the one that knows your
feelings from the inside out
so what I’ll say to you is first of all
welcome first of all welcome second of
all I love you God loves you we love you
third of all God initiates relationship
and one of the ways that God initiates
relationship is engaging us in the place
that transcends what we can understand a
mind doesn’t fully grasp it but
something happen on the inside of us
that we know it was real and something
that we want to be a part of our life
forever if that’s you and you were here
or you’re watching via livestream or
what have you and you say you know what
pastor I don’t understand it and I’ve
got a million questions but I cannot
deny how amazing the presence is making
me feel oh I haven’t felt like this and
I want to feel like this all the time if
that’s you and you’re here I want to
pray for you and I believe that the
Spirit of God is going to seal you so
that this that you’re feeling in the
room will be your norm when you leave
here and if that’s you and you simply
say I want to open up myself to the
Spirit of God that’s in this room I want
you to come and meet me at this altar as
well if that’s you just come just come
out oh because the hours are flooded I
get all that but if you can just make it
just just make some sort of gesture
toward me and we’re gonna pray for you
cuz it’s real good father I just thank
you what more can we say or do you have
had your way in this house in such an
incredible way and we love you so much
we thank you I thank you for these
precious people each and every single
one of them unique and distinct full of
grace
you some survivors in this room so
people that have been through some stuff
and there’s young I feel young people
but you’ve been through some stuff like
you were twice the age that you are and
yet you survived and god I thank you for
the callings that are in this room sons
and daughters called out of darkness and
into your marvelous light they are part
of what you are doing in the earth and I
bless them and I cover them God and I
plead the blood of Jesus over each and
every one of them over their mind over
their hearts over their bodies over
their lives god I thank you for each of
them and you’re doing something in their
lives they’re God Holy Spirit this is
conviction conviction touches our heart
and draws us towards what’s right and
away from that which is not us
so we all are responding to conviction
right now and even moving and taking
steps towards this altar is a sign of
repentance and we praise you for that
and now as we move it to confession I
want you to repeat after me Heavenly
Father I thank you for your love it is
rich I feel it
I accept it
I thank you for your word you know me
you love me that is obvious I receive it
I agree with you and what you’ve spoken
to me I acknowledge that there is a me
in you that is higher than me and this
day I proclaim that I’m on my way
step-by-step through yielding to
conviction to becoming that mean I thank
you for Jesus thank you for making him
who had no sin who had no limitations
who had no weakness thank you for making
him all of my weakness all of my
limitations and all of my falling short
you put that in his body nailed it to
the cross and put it to death but when
he was raised totally free and
victorious
I got raised up too and because I’m in
him I’m no longer a slave to my
shortcomings I’m a slave to becoming
everything you’ve created me to be I’m
not looking back my past is behind me my
future is bright I’m on my way up the
mountain of my destiny and may
everything that is not like you fall off
of me from this day forward from level
to level
and from glory to glory in Jesus name
Oh
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come on
come on we love
she was our life
without future
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this is where is that
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this works all day every day there are
certain things that only work in certain
circles and in certain moments this
right here there’s nothing greater than
it there’s nothing greater than it let
him guide you let him guide you the Holy
Spirit is perfect theology it is the
only place that you will find perfect
theology my wife and I what we want for
you more than anything is for you to
have a relationship with the Holy Spirit
that’s our passion we don’t want you to
be hooked on us we’re not the Holy
Spirit we can help you but we can’t save
you we can help you but we can’t use you
it’s the Holy Spirit and we want you to
have that that’s what we want to leave
in the earth that’s what we want to
leave in this generation I thank God for
for every Church in every ministry but
let me tell you what it’s not about it’s
not about simple inspiration my dog can
inspire you inspiration without
transformation is futile it’s about
transformation
and transformation to what one thing
your preset image in Christ me in Christ
I myself in Christ looks different from
you in Christ you will be able to tell
we’re brothers without a shadow of a
doubt there will be resemblance but
still distinction your unique identity
in Christ you must find your unique
voice and only the Holy Spirit can lead
you to that and that’s why this type of
teaching doesn’t get you all a shout so
you won’t rack up the views on YouTube I
don’t care I care about the people I’m
talking to you’ve got to get this when
when life forces your hood to be raised
to see what’s under there I want to make
certain that life finds the Holy Spirit
they’re saying it may help you
out on one life to pop your hood cuz
life will pop your hood see what you
made of pull your pants don’t ever you
want to call it life will strip you but
neck it to see what you’re working with
hello somebody
and I want to make certain that you’ve
got what it takes and the Holy Spirit if
you get him you’ll have more than what
you ever need are you tracking with me
we just love you we just love you that’s
it that’s it we can give you that we can
give you that
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