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hey family

i’m pt pastor toray roberts i’m the lead

pastor of potter’s house at 1la

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hey family god bless you i’m so honored

to be here with you today to

to take you on a journey in this work

this word and i just believe that

that the spirit of god has already been

moving through worship throughout

all that has transpired in the service

so far i believe god’s already touched

you

and maybe you’re just tuning in right

now and and i’m gonna tell you you’re at

the right place

at the right time because god wants to

speak to you in fact

that’s the whole purpose of the

gathering when god established corporate

worship

way back in exodus chapter 25 it was

because god wanted to meet with you

he wanted to speak to you and he wants

to dwell among you wherever you are in

this moment right now god

is interested and he wants to meet with

you he wants to speak to you he’s got a

word for you we know that

we don’t live by bread alone but we live

by all the words that proceed out of

god’s mouth

and so he wants to meet he wants to

speak and he wants to dwell among you

and i believe

that that there’s somebody perhaps

you’re under the sound of my voice right

now and

and maybe you don’t feel good maybe you

don’t feel good emotionally maybe you

don’t feel good

physically in your body and i believe

that by the time we’re finished together

god’s gonna lift

you and something’s gonna lift off of

you and god’s gonna move powerfully in

your life and so

so i’m just excited to be with you i’m

gonna pray and we’re gonna jump

right into this word today and we’re

gonna go on a journey i don’t know what

god’s gonna do i’ve got

my notes and everything but but i just

feel that there’s a freedom that god

wants me to operate in today and so

and so he may just prophesy all day long

we’re just going to let him do

what god does because we know when we do

so we’ll be better

and so uh so god bless you and listen we

as you notice the the

environment the scenery is a little

different today you know because you’re

in your house maybe you’re at work but

the majority of you are at home or on

your phones or in your cars or whatever

and so we wanted to bring you into a

home environment and and we’ve got

leaders and staff that are here and

we’re going to experience this all

together

and again we’re just happy about what

god’s going to do in your life in this

moment so let’s pray

father thank you so very much

for this moment that you have brought

all of us into

god there are people from all over the

world watching

we might be here in los angeles lord and

in denver but there are people

in south africa and people in germany

and and switzerland lord god people in

the uk people in

in south america god just all over the

world you

by the spirit and through technology

have brought us all here together

in one moment to experience this grace

and we’re so grateful

and we claim right now that we’re not

going to be the same when we finish

we claim right now that we’re going to

be better that we’re going to be

stronger

we thank you god that where there was

confusion there’s going to be clarity

you’re going to clear some things up

thank you lord lord you’re going to

light our candle there’s some whose

candles have grown dim

but you’re gonna light it again there’s

some who gifts have haven’t been used in

a long time and those gifts seem dormant

you’re gonna stir them up again

and cause them to come to the forefront

there’s some who have been in a battle

they’ve been in a war and they have

gotten a little weary in their way of

doing

but you’re going to fire them up again

you’re going to push things off of them

there’s some

who have sickness in their bodies god

and that sickness is going to turn

around things are going to shift

there’s some god that need financial

miracles and financial breakthroughs god

and you’re going to come through and

show them that you are jehovah jireh

the god who provides god there’s some

who have been oppressed by the enemy

and you’re going to break the yoke and

bring a healing to them i thank you

we thank you god for the wonderful

things that transpire

and take place when your people come

together in trust

and in faith with our eyes on you

and so god do that which only you can do

in jesus name

amen amen

i want to give you the the thought as i

really pursued

what i believe god was dealing with me

about what he wanted to share with you

today is

the idea and the theme that we’re going

to move around with today is

is this theme called upgrade season

and and i believe i’m all about seasons

right and

and i think that any wise person should

have a

seasoned mentality and the reason why

it’s important to have a seasoned

mentality first and foremost is so that

you will know how to function and

operate

right there’s a passage of scripture

that talks about the sons of issachar

and how they understood

times and seasons and what israel ought

to do and the way that translates to

us is that it behooves us to know

what season we’re in because doing

the right thing in the wrong season is

the wrong thing

are you tracking with me and then it’s

also important to have a seasoned

mentality because

because uh trouble doesn’t last always

and sometimes man you can be anybody

ever been in just a

crazy season you’re like lord jesus if i

just took

five more minutes of this i don’t even

know if i can make it right a seasoned

mentality also helps you to know that

weeping

may endure for a night but joy is going

to come in the morning

and so if you have a seasoned mentality

it helps you to seek god properly

and it also helps you to be not

overwhelmed when cray-cray

lasts for a long time right it’s just a

season right if you’re going through

something i want you to put it right

there in the chat put it right there in

the feed and just say it’s just a season

it’s

it’s just a season and as i was seeking

out the lord

and i’m like what what do you want to

talk about and it’s an interesting time

right now

because um here in america at least and

in some other places

the world is opening back up and people

are

getting ready to uh enter back into

what they believe their life is and what

their life is supposed to be about

and uh and that’s a very interesting

time that means that there’s

that a shift has come right you know and

and it’s exciting let’s be honest it’s

kind of cool you know you

you’re going out and you can go to a

restaurant and

and i don’t know where you are on the

vaccine tip that’s between you and your

god that’s none of my business i’m gonna

drink my water my wife would say i’m

gonna drink my water my my own business

you know what i mean but but uh for

those who have been vaccinated there’s

another level of confidence that they’re

stepping out with and life

you know you just forget you forgot how

how cool it was to to go sit down and

have lunch with a friend

you know or to just be somewhere so

things are beginning to happen but i was

really

you know i’m always trying to understand

and not that i will ever fully

understand but i like to try to

understand

why you know what i mean like so we you

know we’ve been going through this for a

year and

three months or a year and four months

somewhere in there you know but i always

like okay god we went through that uh

and and because if you don’t reflect and

i talked about this a few months ago if

you don’t reflect you’ll miss something

so there are two passages of scriptures

i want to show you real quick i want to

and and we’ll do some things and we’ll

see how the lord operates today but

but two passages i think that are going

to help us to understand

how god operates and functions from time

to time the first one is in ecclesiastes

chapter 7

and verse 14. let’s look at it real

quick it says in the day of

prosperity and the day of prosperity be

joyful but in the day

of adversity consider

it’s one of my favorite paths of

scripture in a day when everything is

going good in a day of prosperity be

joyful you know receive it take it all

in

it says but in the day of adversity the

day of trial the day of tribulation the

day of

struggle it says consider it’s a hebrew

word it literally means

see it means see when everything’s great

be joyful hallelujah

when everything’s challenging it’s time

to see

it’s time to perceive it’s time to learn

it’s time to

discern right and then what’s

interesting is it says in the next

part of that it says surely god god

has appointed one as well as the other

so all of it is god so so the day of

prosperity is god

and the day of difficulty is god too and

the day of prosperity

hey it’s easy either way shout praise

the lord take it in let me tell you

something that’s why when good times are

rolling in my life

oh i get down i party

oh yeah i because because i know

that there’s another season coming when

i’m gonna wish it would be organic for

me to laugh

well i’m gonna wish that it would be you

know what i mean so you gotta learn

sometimes

you know you gotta you gotta receive i

don’t know whose is foreign but

sometimes you gotta learn how to receive

a blessing

and don’t feel guilty about a blessing

and don’t be bad because your friend

didn’t get blessed you got you

better take your blessing and if you got

to shout and rejoice all by yourself

do it do it do it you’re worthy of

celebrating what god is doing because

there’s going to be a season

that rolls up on you well you can be

like man i’ll show

i sure wish for the good old days but

here is the thing

the difficult days are good days too now

listen i don’t want to be insensitive

man let me tell you something i

i just came out of some crazy days right

some days where i’m like

lord this is not befitting a man of god

you’ve been there before were you like

yo this this doesn’t line up

with somebody who walks with you who

lives for you lay down their life

you know you know you get all funny you

know and god says yes it does

yes it does because there’s certain

things

that lead to glory right at the end of

the day what we’re moving toward

honestly

is glory new levels of glory new

dimensions of glory the word tells us in

first corinthians i think is first

corinthians three and eight

second corinthians three and some three

eight somewhere now i’m gonna tell you

what it says

it says we go from glory to glory read

the whole bible i promise you you’ll

find it if you don’t i’ll give you five

dollars

but it says we’re going from glory to

glory so our path

the path literally from glory to glory

but anyway

he says rejoice in the good times

in the day of prosperity

but in the difficult days and day don’t

think day

right like like friday we talk about

seasons

he says in the day of adversity it’s

time to see

well it’s time to see for god

has appointed the one as well as the

other so that the man can find out

nothing that will come after him a lot

of that was added actually it’s not

there’s not that many words in the

hebrew text there the writer is trying

to give context but at the end of the

day he’s saying that god does it all

so that man will ultimately be humble

and recognize that

he’s not in control right god balance

it’s got

has a way of balancing life out

because here is the truth i’m digressing

because we got a lot of ground to cover

but here is the truth

if it was all always good

that wouldn’t be good your praise

wouldn’t be

if you think about what you really

ultimately give

god praise for i don’t even i don’t

praise god

as much for the blessing as i do for the

grace

come on can we just have a real you know

what i mean i don’t

what i praise god for the most is his

goodness

and his mercy and his grace when i

look back over my life and i think about

not

how it should have been or how it could

have been like how it was

and how god just reached down and he

pulled me up

and he brought me out and then when i

was just satisfied with

being brought out he kept taking me from

glory to glory to glory

god this is that’s what amazing grace is

does anybody know what i’m talking about

there

like like you just got lord i would have

just taken the forgiveness

i would have just taken the the not

dying they’re not

you know passing out they’re not losing

everything god but you keep on

you’re too good if god has been too good

to you put it right there in the feed

just but he’s too good he’s

too good he’s too good and if that’s not

your testimony you just wait you just

keep on serving him you’re gonna go from

glory to glory anyway i’m digressing too

much

there’s another passage that also kind

of helps us

to recognize the way that god works in

jeremiah 18

verse one through four it says the word

which came to jeremiah from the lord

saying arise and go down

to the potter’s house i like that a lot

to the potter’s house and there i will

cause you to hear my words

he says then i went down to the potter’s

house and watch this and it says and

there he was

making something at the wheel so god is

sending the prophet jeremiah he wants to

teach him something he wants to teach

him about his ways

the context obviously there was

something going on with israel but i

still think it is a good

example and an insight on how god

operates how he moves what he’s doing

right

it says then i went down to the pilot’s

house and there he was the potter

making something at the wheel and the

vessel that he made of clays look at

this

and the vessel that he made of clay

was marred in the hand of the potter

so he made it again into another vessel

as it seemed good to the potter to make

okay there’s

so much in that okay so first of all

there is a vessel in the potter’s hand

that he has made now how many of us know

god he doesn’t make mistakes

oh i feel the lord i gotta i gotta sit

in this for a second

he doesn’t make mistakes right yet what

he

makes is now marred

it’s not it’s not what it needs to be

and so

it says he ultimately he’s at the will

and what he does now

is he the lord isn’t too much

he makes something it is now marred

and he makes it again and then calls it

good

he makes something seasons it is now

marred season and then he makes it again

and now it’s good

that’s what your life and my life will

be and god will use

scenarios circumstances

and seasons to continue

to shape you to mold you and to make you

can i take it back to genesis

let me take it back to genesis in the

beginning you know i preached this

before

in the beginning in the beginning it

says god created the heavens and the

earth

genesis 1 1. then genesis 1 2 says and

the earth was

formless and void

and darkness was over the face of the

deep and the spirit of god was holding

over the water

next you know boom formation takes on

again now there’s a lot of theological

implications about that and

you know is that one between genesis 1 1

and genesis 1 2 is that where satan fell

down

and corrupt whatever i don’t care what i

do see

is creation then the lack of formation

and then the spirit hover hovering and

then formation coming

to be again so even if lucifer fell down

that’s when things got corrupted

what was corrupted the thing that he

once made

and then this whole thing came back

again let me just this is the caveat i

tell you got to let me flow today

you got to recognize it even the devil

is god’s devil

oh i feel the hell you got to catch that

because a lot of times we give the devil

too much

oh the devil is the devil there in and

then fighting the devil and all this

kind of stuff not realizing that

sometimes

god will allow the devil to be a part of

the formation

process that produces a version of you

that your destiny needs

you understand what i’m saying so right

here what i love about these two

passages of scripture

is that essentially that they show us

all of the ways that god moves

it’s easy to to detect god in a blessing

but can you detect him

in a difficult situation like like what

are you doing that that passes

for god causes all things to work

together for good

and so and so you have to understand and

maybe you’re in your nighttime right now

some of you maybe you’re out whatever or

you know some of you are out of your

struggle some of you are in it what you

have to understand

is that in every dark thing at

every dark thing

there’s gonna be light somewhere

light lurking i love that genesis one

you gotta study that i like that genesis

one

uh little thing did i describe because

it says that god created the heavens and

the earth and

says the earth was void without form and

darkness over the face of me and it says

the spirit was god of god was hovering

over the face of the water and that’s

just

that’s you could chew on that all day

long but you got to know that even

when there is darkness you can’t see it

but the spirit is hovering

oh god i feel it somebody needs to know

that you felt alone in your

difficulty you felt alone in your

circumstance in fact you have deduced

that because this thing is so crazy

and because this thing is so is so

negative and because this thing

watch this is even so violent toward you

you have deduced that god cannot be

present at all

and that’s not true that’s not true

because even when you can’t see god you

got to know he’s hovering

i promise you and he’ll strike just at

the right time

he’s hovering over your difficulties

hovering over your pain he’s

close he’s close right sometimes he’s

easy to feel god’s hand

you we discern the hand of god when when

we’re blessed or when

well not when we’re blessed because what

does that mean you’re always blessed but

when there’s a blessing a tangible

blessing or when we

you know we feel him when we feel good

our emotions are aligned

with the reality of god’s truth and

that’s when we you know we

his hand is easy to recognize but but

his hover is not

his hover is not because sometimes in

order for god to develop you

he has to cause his hand to hover you

but not touch you

because the it’s that something happens

in the growth between

the hover and the touch i feel the

spirit of god

right it’s almost like there’s almost

like a magnet effect

i believe and you you stretch and and

you grow

when you trust the hover that okay god i

i know that

the this is true or this is a lie the

idea that you’re not there is a lie

i know that’s not true but i can’t feel

your hand resting on me

so your hand must be hovering over me

and so what i’m going to do is i’m going

to reach

and i’m going to stretch and i’m going

to grow until i feel your hand touching

my head

it’s almost like you know my my little

girl and she she’s learning how to swim

and she

actually she knows how to swim but she

doesn’t like to act on what she knows

and so we’ll be in the pool and and

she’ll be you know

uh dad let me i’m gonna swim to you but

she will only go she

she wouldn’t have to swallow she could

really just walk i’m like nah baby go

back further

she’s like dad don’t come close to

complain i’m not coming closer because

you know how to swim

we pay good money for them swimming

lessons and i want you to exercise

that ability to swim and she’s like no

no no no no and she’ll come close and

i’ll pull back on her and she’ll come

closer and i’ll pull back on and she’ll

come closer and i’ll pull back on her

and what am i doing i’m not going to

cheat her

and shortchange her and because here is

the thing

i want her to go even beyond what she

can do

because the reality of it is her

potential is greater than what she

thinks

and so i’m certainly not going if i know

that all you got to do is

just stretch us up a little bit and

maybe take two or three strokes and get

here then i’m not gonna let you get

something that you can just take one

step

no i think god does this the same way

i think that god knows what he’s

invested in us he knows that what he’s

placed in us he knows watch this

see some of you you have fought some

giants i feel the spirit of god on this

you have fought some giants in your past

watch this bigger than the giant that is

tormenting you now

oh god half the battle family

half the battle is remembering what god

has done

in the past that’s the discipline of

communion brunes

the discipline of communion is not that

that jesus is going to go to the cross

again

every time you take communion no he said

do this

in remembrance

of me there are things family that some

of you have endured

but you’re so far removed from that

miracle you’re so far removed from that

blessing you’re so far

removed from that breakthrough you

forgot who you are i feel the spirit of

god

do me a favor wherever you are just lay

hands on yourself again

and stir up the gift of god that’s on

the inside of you

because you are more than you think you

are god has put divine deposits on the

inside of you

and you’re stronger than the moment that

you’re in and i want you to know it

and because god loves you so much and

because god is committed

to your development he will not put his

hand on something

that requires a hover

that requires a hover being shaped again

right you’re the potter

he’s the potter with clay

so it was he created formed it but then

watch this okay yeah

that worked for last season that that

that worked but now it’s

marred in my hand watch this because the

hands of god are always current

they’re always up to date so he knows

that oh

oh terrain yeah that’s not gonna get it

so now it’s marred and i’m like what’s

going on

i don’t feel like myself what’s going on

you know things

things are crazy wait what’s going on

like like these these

doors seem to be closing like you know

you know what’s going on

and he’s like you’re on the wheel i’ll

tell you what’s going on you

i’m spinning you but

you’re being formed into something else

and when i’m finished you’re going to be

ready

for the present moment that you’re in

are you tracking with me

so when i look at the pandemic i shared

this

with campus in denver a couple

wednesdays ago

as horrific i mean what

six hundred thousand in just the u.s

alone approaching six hundred thousand

out there

that that that’s unthinkable i can’t

even

i can’t even fathom that number and

worldwide you know that number is five

times that number

you know and growing and increasing

particularly in some

of the undeveloped nations which is

really um

uh heartbreaking that that they’re

uh there’s a shortage of vaccines i

don’t even want to get into that because

again i don’t know if you do that or

you feel about that if you have theory

about that a conspiracy i don’t really

care necessarily prerogative and all

that kind of stuff but the reality of it

is it’s struggling

it seems like the nations that have uh

found some ways to fight back are doing

better

at this time than the others and that

and that part is sad

uh i don’t want to be insensitive

towards that i’m not being insensitive

toward that because

uh there’s pain in real time um all over

the earth

you know and i don’t want to be

insensitive uh but i do believe

that for every shaking every time

there’s a shaking

uh there is something that that god is

doing

um that ultimately um

could not happen without the shaking and

if you take notes i want you to write

this down

this thought for every shaking

there must be a prophetic response

i mean take a minute and unpack that

real quick for every shaking every time

that there’s a shaking

in the earth god shakes the pandemic was

a shaking don’t

don’t let me tell you something bible

talks about how everything that

that can be shaken will be shaken so

that that which cannot be shaken will

remain

the pandemic was a lot of things it was

painful it was hurtful it was

challenging all that kind of stuff

but what was also in that pandemic was a

shaking

i mean the church got shook like in fact

if you think about it

the church may have gotten shaken more

than any other

organization in the world think about it

because the whole uh basis

the the majority of the basis by which

through which the church

operates was shut down overnight without

warning

without preparation and god allowed it

and we were talking about the devil

there’s the devil we coming we buying

the devil for closing our doors

i i don’t know if that was the devil

because i know some people that forged

through it and kept doing it and had

breakouts in their church

in the hundreds i don’t know

you know i mean teach his own i’m not

you know judgment here but i i don’t i

don’t know if that was the

devil trying to shut your doors i think

it might have been common sense but

that’s okay that’s why we love everybody

we love everybody

and everybody has they have to operate

in their level of faith and all that

kind of stuff right

but think about this this thing hit the

church

the way that the church operates and

functions

overnight got hit

watch this got disrupted

that term that we love come on us

business people

we love disruption come on books about

it we’ve been talking about for the last

15 years disruption disruption

distraction disruption

disruption i want to i’m a disruptor

everybody on your your bio i’m

disrupting no you’re not first of all

you’re not

and the church got disrupted

thinking about it like we we haven’t

been in our building

we took time out we’re revolting now

we’re like well this is you know since

it’s vacant i mean all these stuffs we

wanted these

things we wanted to do but the whole way

that we did church got disrupted

and here’s the thing since then we’ve

reached more people

we’ve our outreach is through the roof

like 10 times what it’s been in the past

years

uh community is you know all these other

things nations have been reached

so like wait a minute so i’m thinking to

myself like wait

this had to be god had to be in this

somewhere

because the things that we obviously

were locked into

assuming that that they were the most

valuable and the most effective ways of

doing it

obviously in god’s estimation we’re not

didn’t that’s something and so and so so

i believe with all my heart

that when there’s a shaking and we’re

coming out of the shaking

and i think that one of the things that

we need to be thinking about in the

shaking and that might be part of this

thing where he talks about in the day of

uh adversity c

is what is

going to be our prophetic response

to the shaking can i unpack that a

little bit

a prophetic response the

prophetic response or tapping into the

prophetic response that must follow

every shaking first of all is the

recognition

that in every difficult season

every difficult time every difficult

season every difficult circumstance and

every single difficulty

there is a word now understanding that

will change your life

like when you get finished crying when

you get finished

licking your wounds when you get

finished suffering and there’s nothing

wrong with that all of us have to take a

minute and say ouch right

we can’t even get treated well at a

doctor unless he points to unless he

pokes us in the spot and gets down to

ultimately where the pain is right

so i i’m not knocking at it we all have

to say it hurts

wrong with that but once you get through

that you have to recognize that there is

a word in it somewhere

that somewhere in this difficulty that

somewhere in this pain

there is a word god will not send the

trial without a word

i’ll fill it there because the word

is what will sustain you

it’s it’s it will it’s what will keep

that situation from wiping you

completely out

there’s a word in it somewhere there’s a

word he doesn’t send trouble without a

word somewhere

right but our light afflictions which

are but for a moment

are working a far greater weight of

eternal glory did you guess that

that’s what paul said in second

corinthians 4 i think

just study the bible you’ll find it but

it says

our light afflictions which are

but for a moment are working

a far greater weight of glory so there

is a word

working in our affliction every time we

go through something

there’s a word working in it somewhere

the most difficult things you’re like

pastor

you’re lying because how could there be

something working in in me

going through what i’m going through

losing what i lost sometimes that word

that’s working

is the word that’s developing empathy in

you

sometimes it could be as simple as that

uh a purpose being birthed in you

because of the pain that you experienced

i have good friends a good good couple i

love this family so much

and they lost their daughters actually

how i met them they lost their daughter

to cancer

and ritiana was she was 13 or 14

when she passed away and this couple and

the sweetest couple you ever want to

meet

and they’re probably watching i i just

love the hendersons

and um and in the midst of that pain

they birthed a ministry a non-profit

called britiana smiles

and they have helped probably now by now

this years ago

hundreds of families

that were dealing with children who had

cancer so they’re all there’s always

gonna be

i’m not saying it’s always pretty but

empathy

there’s something there’s always

something in it

purpose discovery even in the midst of

the most difficult things and so we have

to come to this place

where we have to decide

what our prophetic response is going to

be i don’t want us to just step back

into

you know business as usual no what

what’s the response what was god trying

to pull out of us right

and so and so getting to it begins with

the recognition

that in every difficult thing there is a

word

and and our prophetic response are you

tracking them are you still tracking me

just put it right there in the feed

because i’m being

professor toray not not not preaching to

right this i’m not preaching to them

just you know okay

just right there i’m tracking with you

okay i saw it there thank you all right

um so

so i believe that our prophetic response

and prophetic response

is what is what our new expression is

gonna be

as a result of what we have come to see

it’s what our new expression so so when

i show back up in this new world

and i show back up in this new season

what is

the expression of me going to be

now who who who am i now

as i’ve taken inventory over

everything that i’ve sensed everything

that i’ve heard everything that i’ve

felt everything that i’ve overcome

right if i’m taking all the images so

now now what is my

based on me knowing that god saw this

day before i got here

how am i going to show up in the world

now

as a result who am i now

and this requires intentionality i’m not

just going to show up no no

i’m somebody different now i i didn’t

god didn’t send me

the whole world shook around me

and that means that i shook yeah

everything that can be shaken will be

shaken that means that you and i

got shook a little bit too we didn’t get

shook to the point

of of not being able to recover but we

got

shook so that some things

that don’t make sense for our future

should have been shaken loose

and now god wants to put the new you

into practice

he wants to put the new you into

practice and i believe this new you that

god wants to put into practice

is an upgraded you it’s an upgraded jew

can we go a little further i believe in

this season prophetically

that the quality of our expression

is being upgraded oh god

the quality see everything is lit see

when i looked at the pandemic

and i looked at like how how massive it

was

like how none of us have been through a

trial

a global when nobody here is alive it’s

been through a global pandemic right

we’ve never seen it

never seen it maybe we read about it but

even though you know the

you know the the bubonic plague or

whatever it was you know we read about

it but

but it was almost like by us reading

about it we thought that that was just

it that well

the people who lived there whoa they had

it so bad

wow wow that was crazy

and then that thing rolled up on us

and threatened us and haunted us

and and then we saw the people dying and

we saw the body bags on the east coast

and and we we see was taking place in

india right now and we

we saw friends die and and we saw

relatives die and we saw loved ones

dying like

whoa whoa i’m living in a pandemic

see you don’t move on too fast

because because we got shook

we got shook now we you know we were

trusting god and believe in god and

stuff like that put on our mask

washing our hands stuff like that and

that little tickle come over our throat

and we’d be like oh no jesus please

hold up please jesus not the road to

please lord jesus

i’m sorry lord you know what i’m talking

about

be honest there was at least one time

where you sneezed a little too hard

you cough just a wee bit too much and

you’re like oh no jesus no

no no no i’ll serve you i promise i

promise

you know what i mean that was trauma

this was our life it was crazy

we got shook but i want to know

who am i who am i now some of you i’m

going to

speak this prophetically you’re going to

step back into

positions in ministry

in the workplace in your family you’re

going to step back in

and there’s going to be a lot more gas

in the tank than there’s ever been

before

i didn’t say that better because i i

sense this strongly there’s going to be

see see there’s opportunity out there in

the world and whenever there’s

opportunity there’s brokenness and

there’s pain

god charges his church he fills his

church up

and some of you and you got to hear this

prophetically you’re going to need to

step

out a little bit to get into the

type of atmosphere where the fullness of

your gift can manifest itself

can i just prophesy just for a second

not my notes it’s true

because there’s more in you and and

sometimes

it’s almost like you know i wrote about

i think it was my first book purpose

awakening and i wrote about the

my friend’s pet turtle and the turtle

stayed small as long as the turtle was

in a small tank

but then when the turtle got when she

put the turtle in a big tank the turtle

grew because the turtle watched

was restricted by its environment

its environment limited watch this the

growth the potential to grow was there

the potential to be more was there the

environment

was not conducive and so some of you are

going to be needing to step out of the

boat

and step into new things where where

your faith has to be put to work where

your faith has to be activated

that thing we talked about earlier that

thing that scares you

what is that thing that that both

thrills you

on the one hand and scares you equally

thrills you like nothing else but scares

you like nothing else i’m telling you

something happened to you when you got

shook some things shook off of you

and i think that god put more in you

because what we don’t realize

is that the whole world was on the wheel

we were on the wheel our movement was on

the wheel

our families we’re on the wheel and god

i believe that that will is coming too i

don’t think it ever stops spinning but i

think it’s

you’re going to come out of this thing

as a as a more perfected creation for

the season that you’re in are you

tracking with me

if you’re tracking with me just put it

put it right there put i’m tracking with

you pt i’m tracking with you

and so the quality the quality

of the expression of you is being

upgraded

man i don’t prophesy let me tell the

truth i just saw it

there there are some things that you

have been

waiting for and you have been upset with

god

you have been mad at god you have been

angry

with god because it seems like god has

forgotten about you

and what i hear god saying is i have to

develop you

before i give it to you i feel the

spirit of god

and you have been angry you have been

upset watch this but these are the types

of

moments these are the type the type of

season

that you came out of is the type of

season

that god utilizes to get you what he

promised you

and you’ve been angry with him and

you’re like god i wanted a boo but you

sent a pandemic

but what if he was saying i was some

there were some things in the pandemic

that i was getting set up in motion

because when the pandemic gets finished

with you

you are going to be ready for what i

have for you that’s somebody’s word if

that’s your word take about

five seconds give god praise and say

that word

is for me oh i feel it i feel it i feel

it i feel it

you got to get that i don’t want to move

on that’s true that’s true that’s from

god

that’s from the lord hear me clearly

you don’t know what you’re praying for

you got to recognize remember

we’re always in his hands and his hands

are always

current and his hands always know

what we need and his hands are always

working

and his hands are always shaping and his

hands are always

molding and sometimes his hands has to

mar a little bit

because he has to take you around the

wheel

one good time to bring you to this next

dimension and there’s some things i’m

telling you i’m

telling you there’s some things that

this season

that this season prepared you

to be able to receive this season

is preparing you has prepared you to

receive some things that you’ve been

praying for

that’s your word write it down he spoke

it to me

i heard it in my spirit i wrote it down

and it’s going to come to pass and

you’re going to be given a testimony

while you’re tracking with me i got to

get back on the script here

yeah the quality

of your expression is being upgraded

what do you what i mean by expression

what is what is what is my expression

it’s it’s it’s what we express

it’s it’s our image right and not the

image like the the facade it’s not what

i’m talking about

i’m talking about image when it talks

about we were created in the

image and likeness of god it says of

jesus

he was the express image of the father

that’s what the scriptures say

so what i’m talking about your

expression i’m talking about

who you truly show up in the world as

i feel that see some of you don’t know

you don’t even know what your expression

is you have an id you think you know

what it is but you don’t know what it is

because it is true you can only express

who you truly are oh god of it

you can only express it you can fake it

but that’s not what i’m talking about

i’m talking about

the the expression that i’m talking

about is your divine

presence manifest and revealed

that’s your expression that’s why uh

back in the book of acts

there were um these cats the sons of

seva

and they were trying to cast out devils

and they were saying all the right

things

and they had all the right posture but

they didn’t have the right expression

and the demons couldn’t move you

understand what i’m saying

because your expression i cannot express

what i am not

right all of when it says that all of

creation romans chapter 8

when it says that all of creation is

eagerly

waiting for the revealing of the sons of

god he’s talking about their expression

not the title that they put on not who

they pretend to be

it is who they truly are and so god is

upgrading

your ella rasha he’s upgrading your

expression

and when your expression is upgraded

what you attract is upgraded

you better catch what i’m saying when

your expression

is upgraded see i can only attract at my

level

in business in relationships

only at my level in resources only at my

level

if i don’t believe if i don’t believe

the things that god says are coming to

me

then i can never have them no one gets

what they don’t believe they can have

did you know that you ain’t never said

you never say oh i didn’t never think i

would get that and now i have it

no you receive on the level of what you

believe that’s literally the way

you get what you believe you can have

that’s why you have to pay attention i’m

digressing gosh

that’s why you got to pay attention to

what god allows you to see

i swear to you you drove up here and and

you

probably you some of you passed some

really nice places

pay attention because the beginning

of believing is seeing

so when god puts you in a place where he

starts showing you stuff

that you wouldn’t mind

you know that that fit into the dream

that he’s given to you

pay attention because it’s a seed he

knows it

and that seed can become belief

and when when that belief is solidified

yeah but i digress your expression

though

is being upgraded and you’re going to

attract differently so so let’s talk

about

what the quality

of our expression let’s talk about what

that’s going to look like really quickly

i think that

our expression how we show up in the

world i think is mostly comprised of

these things

how we think how we pray

how we talk how we move forward or go

after something

and how we handle warfare now i don’t

think

that i’m going to be able to to touch

i’m just going to scratch the surface on

those things

our expression our expression how we

show up in the world

right that thing that’s being upgraded

and i believe each of you everyone

watching

is comprised of how we think

how we pray how we talk

how we move forward how we go after

things

and how we handle warfare can i just

touch on

just a few of those really quickly then

we’re going to pray and i’m let god do

the rest i’m just giving you the

framework and you you

leaning to god for the rest so upgrading

your thinking

first of all upgrading your thinking

really begins

with taking inventory

like i don’t think that we could just

sit back and let our mind do what he’s

gonna do

because you gotta remember your mind

works for you

it works for you your your mind your

mind is

is is an agent it’s it’s your agent of

transformation

i i wrote i wrote something down about

the mind i thought was kind of

interesting

uh and this is a long sentence

and there’s a part of it that wants you

to if you have a pen and paper

you know i want you to write this down

but this is something that you have to

know about your mind

i’m gonna say it you can always you know

rewind the podcast or

or re rewind the youtube video however

you’re consuming this content but

but this is what i want you to think

about your mind

my mind is

my instrument of infatuation

imagination and innovation

towards the purpose and vision for my

life so in other words i need to be

infatuated with my purpose and my vision

i need to wake up thinking about it

i i’m serious like i need to because

it’s gonna let me tell you something

that thing that god

is calling you to and is required of you

and and is truly about your destiny

is going to take all of you it’s going

to

it’s going to take so much focus

that you’ll literally consume you want

people to say man you’re obsessed with

your purpose and your vision

yeah because you have to be

because watch this it’s going to require

more of you

your purpose and your vision

and the thing that god has created you

for before i formed you in your mother’s

womb

i knew you and all that kind of stuff

all of that is going to require watch

this

not just this version of you but

successive versions of you

oh you got yeah you got you yeah

not just not just who you are now but

who

you remember he’s got you in the wheel

he’s shaping you

right and then it’s marred now it’s

formless now and then he’s got to shape

you again

it’s going to require all those use

are you tracking with me like like it’s

not just i know you like you think

you’re ready

you know and then that’s great right

you’re ready for this stage

but your purpose requires a version of

you that you haven’t even arrived at yet

so as you focus on it and as you stare

at it you

lock yourself in position to become

everything that god has created you to

be to fulfill it

and your mind is the instrument that

helps you to stay locked in it’s got to

work for you

and if i’m locked in on it because i’m

infatuated with it

i’m i’m obsessed with what god has

created me for

right then my imagination

you’ll be surprised if you stare at

something long enough

how your imagination would just come up

with things i feel this that’s why the

enemy’s so

into distracting us he’s so into

distracting us

because he knows and if you lock on if

you lock in on something you focus

in on something long enough imagination

creativity and innovation is going to

start coming to you

and it’s going to start happening and so

what do i do when i’m

i just start dividing your focus right

let me tell you

you know what will kill a vision unlike

nothing else

another vision another vision

and you’re like oh my god it’s so

wonderful to have this vision no i’m

telling you

danger because it’s going to take all of

who you are we got to get through this

right

and so and so and so he’s going to

upgrade

my thinking i’m always taking inventory

of what’s

what’s in my head my my head just

doesn’t drift

i i’m in control of that right you have

to remind yourself what to think

you you have to tell yourself what to

think and what not to think

there’s sometimes when i say no i don’t

think like that

hello somebody and you look you talk to

me like i’m crazy what i’m talking

myself no

i don’t think like that no that ain’t me

i know i rebuked that thought

hello somebody no you got to get like

real territory over your headspace

no i rebuked that no that ain’t me i

don’t know who that was

that wasn’t me devil you are a liar

taking control

right and not and not and it’s not

simply the quality of your thought life

but it’s also making certain that you

keep the things that are important

the things that represent your values

and your vision in your head right

upgrading your thinking

we’re talking about how to

express yourself we’re talking about the

ways that that we express ourselves how

we’re going to show up differently we’re

going to do it by upgrading our thinking

upgrading your prayers i’m going to run

through these things really quickly in

the interest of time upgrading your

prayers

i want you to pray watch this

like god is on the other end of your

prayers

because sometimes we pray like our

pastors and other than our prayer or our

parents

no pray like the one who spoke

and everything came to be is on the

other end

of your intercession i’m thinking about

that passage of scripture in

psalm 2 and 8. but god says ask of me

and i’ll give you the nations for your

inheritance he’s basically saying

will you please ask me for something

worthy of my attention

like like our prayer life should go to

the next level

you know i mean just what we’re asking

god for big things

big things listen if the pandemic

was big then surely

i can ask for something big the pandemic

was a seismic proportions

so what do you think god is trying to

produce in us as it relates to prayer

life he didn’t want us to be sitting

back

not interceding or praying against the

pandemic

so so so commensurate to the attack

come measure it to the season come

measure it to the warfare

our prayers need to be you understand

so so we have to upgrade our prayer life

i want you to be asking for crazy stuff

like outrage you’re not gonna you god’s

not sitting around like

who does she think she is

asking me for something she ought to be

she needs to keep her prayers small over

here

i cannot who is she no he is moved

by audacious prayers remember

you see how he responded when he walked

the earth when people had great faith

he was like he got excited

i’ve been looking for somebody with some

faith that i can respond to

from the centurion who said listen you

don’t have to come to my house

just speak a word and my servant will be

healed are you tracking with me

i haven’t seen he says oh i haven’t seen

faith like this

faith moves god and the other thing

we’re going to move on because i’m way

over time but the other thing

about big prayers

is what it does to you

it it takes your relationship with god

out of

smallsville out of cute little stuff

and you and god begin to have grown man

conversations

grown woman conversations you know what

i mean

like like like and i believe that the

more you pray even if you you’re

struggling with praying that big

i think it begins to give you the

capacity that we talked about

to receive things on that level i feel

that

so so i used to write my prayers out and

not that i would get stuck in the rhythm

of it but but the reason why i wrote

them out and i wrote them out

when i was in a place of great faith is

because

it would remind me of how big he was

so you come out of a service like this

family this is probably a good time to

write your prayers out

and write down write down them big

things those those huge things that god

is

is is stirring in you right now to think

about

so that when you’re feeling like an

ordinary person your prayers will remind

you who you are

and what you it locks you into

a place of spiritual maturity and faith

and i believe that god will move and so

and so i believe that god is going to

upgrade he’s upgrading your

your thought life he’s upgrading your

prayers he’s upgrading your talking and

this is let me tell you something

i i you know the bible says in in

proverbs 18 21

that death and life are in the power of

the tongue

and i’m beginning to realize and you’ve

heard this before you got to watch what

you think

but but i think that that that the words

that we speak

they’re not simply um the byproduct

of effect i got to say this right

they’re they’re also the cause of things

so sometimes we’re talking about we

think that we’re talking about when we

you know when people challenge you about

talking about something negative what

have you they said you should be

speaking negative all kind of stuff

we think that we’re talking about

something that has happened

but not realizing that even if we’re

talking about something negative that

happened

by us rehearsing it it’s going to cause

it to happen again or things that are

similar

so i’ve learned see and it doesn’t mean

that negative things don’t happen and

the things you don’t like

don’t happen but i’ve learned to talk

about them differently

like full disclosure i don’t know i’m

out of time almost but full disclosure

like

so like recently like i went through

something that just stressed me

out right i may just stress me out like

in a way

that i have never been stressed out and

then i realized something

what was stressing me out more than a

situation was me talking about it

like literally like like my blood

pressure would rise

not because it was happening but because

of

how i was rehearsing what was happening

literally

and i would check it out check my blood

and it’d be up a little bit and i’m like

what

and it would be you know and i can feel

it and now i can feel it you know

because and you talk about it

and then sometimes people are late to

the party and they want to know what’s

going on you’re like oh

child and you start talking about it and

the next thing you know you are reliving

it

you’re reliving it and as you’re

reliving it you’re creating it again

the thing has the thing hasn’t even

happened there’s no threat

it is over but because i’m still

rehearsing it

i’m in trouble so what i’ve learned to

do is sometimes you do have to give an

account but what you have to do

is you have to find a way to talk

positively about your problems

sometimes you have to because sometimes

if you don’t confess it or put it out

there you may not find a solution

but how can i say it in a way that is

positive i walk to this thing and

what i think god is doing right because

there’s always a word in the difficulty

what i think god is doing when he

allowed this to happen was boom

death and life are in the power of the

tongue

if you’re going to rehearse it make it

righteous

figure out okay god you’re not doing

this you know

to to wipe me out i’m not in this

adversity

just because of the adversity i’m

supposed to see something

i’m not in this i’m not in your will

marred to stay there

i’m on my way to become something so i

have to find a way

see this is all a part of your

expression

when you show up differently you talk

differently when you show up differently

you think differently when you show up

differently

you pray differently you you’re

optimistic about things i’m not saying

be

falsely optimistic i’m saying you have a

reason

to believe that god’s going to cause all

things to work together for good i got

to keep going keep going keep going

and so so we talked about thinking

differently up in an upgraded fashion

praying

in an upgraded fashion talking in an

upgraded fashion and this is about and i

said

how you move forward right i think

you’re going to move differently

i think there’s a there’s a boldness

that i want you to have and for some of

you what bonus gonna look like is the

moment that you feel the fear step into

it

just fight fight back immediately the

moment that fear tries to come before it

can even get

in your spirit real good just go ahead

and move into it anyway

make the approach say what you got to

say do what you got to do are you

checking with me

oh i gotta land this plane not

hesitating but

but watch this sensing and seizing the

moment

sensing and seizing the moment right

most

successful people have an instinct about

timing

they have an instinct if you stood and

it was cultivated over some time

and most of the time that instinct is

liberated watch this by the absence of

fear a positive

mindset a positive mentality and a

posture of expectation

god wants to develop your instinct so

that you can move you can

sense it and you can seize it you’re not

hesitating so that you don’t have to

wait until it comes back around again

are you tracking with me

and then lastly and i think i’m gonna

have to just teach on this but i’m gonna

just drop this seed on you

upgrading your warfare your warfare your

warfare

first of all and i’ll just give you some

quick bullet points some steps

recognizing that warfare is real it is

absolutely real

one two understanding that jesus

has already gone to war for us and won

right then also understanding that

alignment with jesus is what gives you

authority in it

man this is too much knowing that

alignment equals authority and

and then lastly understanding the

importance of not letting your guards

down

i’m going to teach on warf on warfare

really soon

but those things right there you’re in a

war

when god is doing his thing i’m landing

the plane

when god is doing his thing developing

allowing you to be marred for a minute

while he’s reshaping you

our enemy is a strategist he’s extremely

strategic

and he knows that the best time to go

for you

is when you are becoming you the best

time to go for you is when you don’t

feel like you’re

you’re yourself and he will come with

attack

after attack he will come with words and

thoughts

and they will be intense he will come

when you leave doors open when you stop

trusting god let me tell you something

the most dangerous thing that any of us

can ever do is not trust god

because when we don’t trust god we will

open the door to other things

that have strings attached

you know warfare is real and we’re going

to talk about i’m going to

maybe i’ll teach on the next thursday uh

and talk about the four levels of

warfare and

and how to overcome those things i think

i’m gonna go there soon i’m gonna pray

about it but i’m feeling it because i

don’t want to leave you here but just

know it’s real but god

through christ has given us the victory

and when we align ourselves with christ

the same victory that christ has

we have we have authority because i’m in

christ

i can pray in his name and things have

to break

and be pushed back family so much to

talk about i love you so much i wish i

had

another hour and a half with you but i

want to i want to pause

and i want to i want to stop right here

and i want to pray for you i know i said

a lot i

i apologize up front because

there’s just a lot in my heart and i

just wanted to flow but i believe that

that you heard at least one thing today

that’s designed to change your life

and i want to believe god with you for

that this last point about warfare is a

big deal

because sometimes the opposition that

you’re experiencing is not

god it’s it’s the other guy trying to

keep you from god

and if that’s you and you’ve been having

a difficult time connecting with god or

or maybe you’ve had a difficult time

being you

finding yourself finding your way back

to god

i believe there’s grace in this moment

right now for you to get what you need

and be aligned so here’s what i want you

to do

if this is you if i’m describing you

it’s rough for you

right now spiritually emotionally you

feel oppressed

you feel surprised you feel depressed

you feel suppressed you feel

depressed that i want to pray for you

and i believe this is going to be the

beginning of the breakthrough and

you know and if it’s depression i

believe that god can lift oppression and

sometimes

when it’s a depression thing although

god can heal

and sometimes there are avenues through

which god will

use to get you healed speaking

specifically to counseling

and various things but sometimes the

breakthrough that opens you up to even

go

and be ready for counseling happens in

the moment of prayer

and so if that’s you and you’re on the

other end of this and

you need a touch from god you need god’s

grace to come in and help you

and break something off of you i just

want you to put it right there in the

feed we got

our prayer people praying for you

interceding for you right now we’re

already praying for you

but i want you to acknowledge it take

that step forward and say that’s me i

need breakthrough

that’s me it’s been rough that’s me and

i want to open up my heart to the lord

and give him access to me so i can walk

in his power and authority

if that’s you just say that’s me that’s

me that’s me that’s me

and we’re gonna agree and pray for you

this is upgrade season god’s gonna

upgrade and

tell you what if i knew that you were

getting ready to be more than you’ve

ever been before i would attack you too

yes i would the expression of you is

getting ready to change

you’re getting ready to show up

differently wow

thank you lord i hear god saying you’re

not going backwards

and i also hear god telling someone you

didn’t lose

what i’m not going to restore sevenfold

you didn’t lose in this season what i’m

not gonna restore sevenfold

but i need you to receive what i’m doing

father thank you so much for allowing me

this time with your sons and daughters

lord god and

i thank you for your word and i thank

you for lord the things that you’re

speaking jesus and i

and i just pray god that every word that

you spoke

would take root in the hearts and the

minds of your sons and daughters who

heard it

and that it would bear fruit and there’s

some that are saying yes to you right

now some are literally

crying out i hear someone screaming out

to you

and i thank you for your promise that

whosoever shall call

upon the name of the lord shall be saved

god

save deliver grace

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i see you bringing someone back to the

innocence of

their childhood even in this moment

right now

but that’s how you see them you see them

as a child you don’t see them as

as this as damaged goods as this

this damaged thing but you see them with

an

inner with the innocence of a baby

i thank you god that you’re restoring

something right now hallelujah

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i thank you for what you’ve done in this

moment i thank you for what you’re doing

seal this time together those are

opening up to you i thank you that

you’re

you’re gonna come in and feel them and

bless them richly

unlike ever before thank you god for

this time

in jesus name amen

amen family god bless you i love you i

appreciate you i know we talked about a

lot we cover a lot of ground

we’ll unpack things as we go as we move

back towards some of the normal things

but but i encourage you to

link in get locked in with a small group

learn about our small groups

i believe that many of you are even

called to lead small groups

and we have small groups literally all

over the country and world

and so plug in this is this is i think

that what you’re seeing and what you’re

experiencing is

is going to be in many ways a new normal

for you about how god moves and how god

operates and

love you so much it’s upgrade season

don’t forget it

listen to this again pass this message

along

you