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hallelujah family i am so excited to be
with you all you know today in the
united states we’re celebrating
thanksgiving on this particular day you
might watch this on a different day but
we’re celebrating thanksgiving and all
around the world for me this is a
reminder because we recognize that we
are a global movement and so
thanksgiving the whole essence of it is
really about just having this
moment where you can just remind
yourself the things that everything that
has happened in the year that you are
thankful for you see so many times in
life we get so consumed by the negative
right it’s the same thing that happens
have you ever had a moment where maybe
you posted a comment or you were
watching someone’s comment or you’re
watching a post or something on social
media
and all you saw was that one negative
comment and just disregarded all the
positive things that were said you see
that is why the beauty of just having a
moment to just say god
thank you and i encourage that this is
something you actually do every single
day before you get into the busyness of
life and the business of your day that
you take a moment to have a salah with
god and just to reflect and say lord i
thank you lord you’ve been so good to me
you’ve woke me up this very morning with
air in my lungs lord you have a purpose
for my life lord your promise to me is
still active god thank you even right
now just put thank you lord in the
comments just do that for me it’s a
beautiful thing and so like today and
every every other day right we are going
to be giving god thanks and my message
today is really a message that reminds
us even more gives us more reasons to
just say god thank you this is what it
means to be a child of god this is what
it means to know that lord that you are
with me my message for those taking
notes is winning against all odds
winning against all odds this is the
beauty this is the joy that we have in
christ and i want you to just go with me
to one of my favorite scriptures it’s in
ecclesiastes 9 11
and it says this
i returned and saw under the sun
that the race is not to the swift
not the battle to the strong nor bread
to the wise nor riches to men of
understanding nor favor to men of skill
but
time and chance happens to them all this
is so powerful i want to tell you a
story
so a couple years ago
i remember i had this desire and you
might hear it you might laugh but this
is real life for me right i love to sing
right i love it i i sing everything i
sing words when i’m in the grocery store
if i’m looking for plantain chips i
might start singing you know talking
about how i’m looking for plantain chips
it’s something i enjoy and one moment i
was like god i really love this you know
i would actually like to just you know
be the one who can be loud and confident
right because you can be loud and
singing and confident when you have a
voice that sounds like an angel okay but
for me it just sounds like i don’t know
it’s not what you want to hear
so one day
i was like there were two artists one of
them included whitney houston
i said lord they’re not here with us
okay and i don’t think heaven needs the
beauty of their voices we need it on
earth i was like god can you just mix
the two of them and send it to me you
know i grew up watching powerpuff girls
and if anyone is a pop-up girl fan from
your childhood the way they were made
these these girls who were like
superheroes they there was this
combination it’s like sugar spice and
everything nice and then comes the pop
of girls and so i said god
maybe you forgot one ingredient before
you sent me on earth maybe you just i
was in a hurry you know and you forgot
to just give me this angelic singing
voice but i was like god anything is
possible
you can send me a combination of whitney
houston and this other artist that i
admire and i was really praying about
this so i wake up in the morning after
my prayer time and i will go to the bath
when i’m taking the shower i’ll start
singing and i’m singing to test if you
know it it’s there if it’s activated
and so one day to make matters worse
i was at a conference i was actually was
this big crusade and i was backstage i
was on the stage so but not where people
you could visibly see like the people
the worship team that was singing and
this man walks up to me to give me a
prophetic word and he said i was looking
at you and the lord said you’ve been
desiring to sing and he’s going to give
you that voice i wanted to jump shout
scream do the hula hoop because i said
god you are really a god of
possibilities right and in my mind i’m
like this man could not know this that
god is truly gonna answer this prayer
and give me this voice that i’m looking
for
then one particular day a friend of mine
invited me for this bible study
and the bible study was like women who
are very you know seasoned
in age and they host this beautiful
bible study and on the way to the bible
study i remember the lord i heard him so
clearly saying to me what you’ve been
asking for i’m going to give it to you
today he said all you have to do is
serve with it
and i was like oh that’s easy i said i
would sing loud and proud for the people
we get to the church i didn’t really
know what god meant
we got to the bible study
and like i said it’s seasoned people
right so some of the worship leaders
were running late and they had like a
cassette player or something a tape
player some of you may not know that but
you know but they had this whole tape
player
and she was like hey guys you know some
people are running late but if there are
any worshipers in the crowd that would
like to lead us in worship please come
to the front
and my heart sank i said oh oh no oh no
no no no no and i realized that i’ve
been asking god for this voice really
just for my own purposes right it was
never about serving but here is the
funny thing
there was a time and there was an
opportunity that god made available to
me
regardless of the fact that i was not
born with skill or talent when it came
to singing but there was a time and a
chance available for me to walk in an
open door that god said you want it this
is the door to get it and i you know
just walked away threw away the key
but this is the beauty family
you see in this scripture we’re learning
that time and chance
happens to every single person
this scripture has so much weight
because first of all the book of
ecclesiastes is believed to be written
by the king solomon and there are many
reasons why because even when you’re
reading the book in the first chapter he
the writer identifies himself as the son
of king of david king of jerusalem he
talks about how he has acquired so much
wisdom and so there’s so many evidence
that points to the fact that king
solomon is the writer and it’s
incredible to know this because king
solomon was a man that god encountered
in a dream and god said to him what is
it that you want anything i would give
it to you and then solomon did not ask
for anything that was self-promoting he
said you know what lord give me a wise
and discerning heart that i would judge
your people properly god was so moved he
said you know what you didn’t ask for
the lives of your enemies you didn’t ask
for riches i would give you what you
asked for and so much more but here is
the thing god said concerning solomon
that there will there would be no one
like you there was no there was no one
like you before you and no one would
arise like you even after you when it
came to his wisdom and this was wisdom
that came from god
and so in the wisdom that came from god
and in everything that solomon had
experienced about life he tells us this
that because you have let’s let’s even
look at this right he says first of all
the race is not to the swift he said
it’s not because you’re fast
it’s not because you have all the right
connections it’s not because you have
all the right relationships that you
have the advantage in life he says now
battle to the strong he’s like hey i
know you look strong in everything you
go to the gym you work out five times a
day but your strength is not what will
give you the advantage then he says no
bread to the wise and in all of this
solomon is highlighting the strength of
man he’s like it is not your wisdom that
would give you the advantage in life i
know you went to some of the best
schools i know every you are just like
oh my gosh an honor student but that is
not what gives you the advantage then he
says this nor riches to men of
understanding nor favor to men of skill
he’s like hey i know you understand how
the moving culture but that’s not what’s
going to give you the advantage i know
that you have this skill but that’s not
what’s going to give you the advantage
solomon reveals the justice system of
god he says time and chance happens to
everybody
the beauty of this is because first of
all we see the goodness of god in this
statement
because we live in a broken world that
can only be made whole through jesus
and in a broken world with broken people
unless they have come into an encounter
with the lord to open themselves up to
his holiness which is his wholeness
broken people break other people
and so many of us we have very colorful
backgrounds
we’ve experienced things very
differently
maybe you were raised in a single parent
home maybe you were raised in the foster
care system maybe you were abused even
by the ones that were supposed to
protect you your story may look very
different but in this scripture solomon
reveals the justice system of god
he says it’s not because
it worked out so well life looks so
great for this person a that you start
comparing yourself and you feel defeated
because you just think that god this
dream you’ve put in my heart it’s not
going to work it’s not going to happen i
don’t have what it takes and god says i
don’t i’m not i’m not weighing it by
that
but for every single person
there will be a time and there will be
an opportunity that can radically change
your life
when i began to think about this
i thought about
colonel sanders
right in college kfc took me through a
lot of you know broke days
[Laughter]
you buy a bucket of chicken and you’re
good to go right
but i thought about colonel sanders
in the united states for example
the average age that people retire is
62.
colonel sanders started kfc kentucky
fried chicken at the age of
65.
and the story goes that he started you
know he he borrowed some money he fried
some chicken he sewed the door the door
and next thing a couple years later at
88 years old he was a billionaire
and an age that everything was working
against him
and an age where his friends are
retiring they’re like hey when are you
gonna just you know
chill out and just maybe watch after the
grandkids
colonel sanders i don’t i mean i don’t
i’ve never met the man but i can only
imagine what was going on in his heart
that there was a dream in his heart that
he knew that god you gave me a promise
you gave me a word and whether he
identified it as christ or not every
single human being your spirit came from
god
so even when you don’t know him he knows
how to speak to you he knows how to get
to you that’s why many people when they
come into relationship with christ they
begin to realize oh my gosh i recognize
that the hand of god has been with me my
whole life i just didn’t know that was
him
but there are certain things that make
you understand that no there was
something else at work for a man at 65
to start a business
for a man at 65 to bet on himself it was
not just about him betting on himself
there was a word over his life there was
a promise that he was connected to
and then recently i read about the
amazing wilma rudolph
her story fascinated me because in the
1960s she was the first african american
to be known as the fastest woman in the
world and not even just limited to her
race she was even the first american to
win three gold medals in one single
olympic
in one single olympic game
and this is the crazy thing about her
story
because wilma rudolph actually suffered
from scarlet fever
measles she survived infantile paralysis
before up until the age of nine she had
to wear a leg brace when i read her
story i was like we got to talk about
this
because the odds were against her life i
mean everything connected to her past
said that this is not supposed to be
your future
but against all odds
now we read about the victory connected
to her story
let’s not even go too far our pastors
our pastors model what it means
to win against all odds
if i use our my spiritual father our
pastor pt for example
growing up in the inner city
being a victim of a drive-by shooting in
his teenage years
but look at everything that god has
produced through him today
time
and chance happens to us all
i think about my mother
i think about a woman in her 20s
who lost her husband at the hands of an
assassination
and then assassination attempts towards
the family
and despite everything in a country that
didn’t really support women’s rights at
the time
despite everything there was a moment
and there were consecutive moments that
in her obedience to what god had showed
her it changed everything
time and chance
that it doesn’t matter where you come
from it doesn’t matter your story it
doesn’t matter the fact that you might
feel like god why do you want me to
start this channel i only have five
people following me
who am i talking to
you might feel like god what is the
point of doing this you want me to write
a book i don’t have an audience for the
book but the lord said just do what i’ve
called you to do because there will be a
time and there will be an opportunity
that i will use to launch this all i
need for you is to be obedient
when i even think about my story
it is really the evidence
of timing
and the opportunity that god put before
me and if i was not obedient to his
instruction then i would not have
experienced the fruit on the other side
it’s not about your past
it’s about recognizing that god is just
and his word to you and his promises to
you that he is not a man to lie to you
that he is not a man to be limited in
his abilities
that when he gave you a promise when he
gave you that word he said no
despite all the odds you are going to
experience victory because there will be
a season that will come
and there will be an opportunity before
you and it would open a door as long as
you give into it with obedience
you see there are three key thoughts
that i want to share with you as it
comes to being the person who partners
with seasons with the seasons that god
creates in front of you to partner with
a season there are three key thoughts i
want to share with you and the first
thing is to believe
in god’s promises
i know sometimes that sounds easier said
than done
but for some of you i want you to even
write this down right now to understand
that belief
is actually deliverance
you see when i was in prayer for you
the lord kept showing me even some
people just in the posture of praying
and your your request to the lord was
god break me out of this cycle
break me out of this negative cycle i
keep finding myself in a cycle that is
keeping me in this place of stagnancy
break me out of it and then the lord
just whispered that message that belief
would be their deliverance
because the moment you start to believe
indeed that you are who god says you are
your decisions will break the patterns
that created the cycles in the first
place
because when you think about the cycles
you fall into there is a pattern
that leads you into that
there is a way that leads you right back
into it and it’s the unbelief
of what god has already showed you
concerning yourself
because you see for example i remember
there was a time that i thought that i
was struggling with discipline in my
life
i thought there was a particular area
that the lord was speaking to me and i
was like god i’m just trying to get more
disciplined in this place
and the lord says stephanie you’re not
struggling with
in discipline you’re struggling with
belief
because if you believe what i said about
you then you would know that you will
have confidence in the outcome if you do
what i’ve shown you to do
the reality is that you don’t believe
what i’ve shown you and so you are not
moving in the manner that you should if
you did
you see if my belief would actually
reveal will be revealed in my behavior
my behavior shows what i believe
and so i was like wrestling with god and
my god man give me the grace give me the
grace to be more disciplined in this
area and the lord just whispered to me
you’re not struggling
you don’t have a discipline problem
you have a belief problem
and i need you to choose
to believe the words that i’ve spoken
towards you
because when we talk about time and
chance there will always be these
moments
and you will have to make a decision and
that decision is connected to obedience
what has god placed in your heart
and what are the opportunities in front
of you to move forward in that area
and sometimes you just have to look at
every opposing thing and say god
i choose to look at your word above all
else
and i know for some of him i still feel
like man but how do i get to this place
of belief god how help me you know there
was a man who said to the lord jesus he
said lord i believe but help my unbelief
that it is possible to have both belief
and doubt working at the same time and i
began to wonder how is this possible and
here is what the lord showed me
that to get to the place of belief you
have to pursue wholeness
and this is why
in matthew 13
jesus is telling a given a parable every
time i see parables in the scriptures i
just think about story time with jesus
right but jesus is given a parable about
a farmer
and he talks about this farmer who went
out to sow seeds on different types of
ground
he says the farmer you know threw some
seeds on rocky or stony ground and it
was a ground that didn’t have much soil
so by the time so even though like yes
the you know the plants sprung up really
quick but the moment the sun that the
sun came out it withered as fast as it
came up because it didn’t have any roots
to it
i mean that in itself is a whole message
but that’s not my message but i keep
sensing like somebody even needs to hear
that
because one thing that you would know
about god
is that process would always precede
success
that the success that comes from god
would not come in a way that is this
overnight thing that just happened
processed will always precede success
this is not in my notes at all but i
believe that someone actually needs to
hear this
because maybe you’re in this place and
you’re just like god i just feel like
man i’ve been in the wilderness for such
a long time and god says i’m actually
trying to give you roots
and this is connected to my message
actually i’m thinking about it this is
happening in real time
because at the end of the day god wants
to give you roots because god is more
for you than you are for yourself that
when the situation and the opportunities
presented before you you would not
wither away
when opposition comes when difficulties
come you will not wither away you will
not be so quick to say god maybe this is
not what i wanted i quit because at the
end of the day there is a burden there
is responsibilities connected on the
other side of what you call the blessing
that you’ve been waiting for but when
that blessing is given to you now you
are a steward
and being a steward means taking
responsibilities and sometimes that
could feel like a burden but when you
have roots in god you begin to see it
properly
and so maybe god is you’re in a process
because god does not want you to be the
one that has little soil
and that yeah you don’t want to just
spring up so quickly and then the moment
opposition comes you wither just as fast
as you sprung up
but in matthew 13 because like i said
that is not my message but in matthew 13
jesus is highlighting these different
ways these different areas that the
farmer was throwing seeds
so first he says yes he threw it on
stony ground
then jesus highlights that the farmer
threw some seeds and then the where
there were thorns and the thorns grew up
and choked the plant
and then the farmer threw seeds on
healthy soil and on the ones on healthy
salt some of them reaped 30-fold 60-fold
100-fold but here is what i want to
focus on was the place where there were
thorns
because where there were thorns jesus
equated this he he explained that the
thorns represented the worries of life
the anxiety the distractions of life
and you see what is interesting is that
everywhere that the farmer threw a seed
jesus explained that that represented
the hearts of men and women
and the seeds were the word of god
when i’m saying pursue wholeness
as a way to get to the place of belief
because when you’re looking at life
through the lens of pain through the
lens of brokenness to the lens of the
things that hurt you the people that
betrayed you these are the thorns that
raise up quickly and choke out the
promises of god when he says
he gives you a word about your future
your past comes rushing in and it begins
to choke it up your trauma comes rushing
in and it begins to choke it up it says
no that cannot be you
any voice that begins to speak to you
against the word of god
are the thorns
that are raised up to choke that word
and so sometimes you’re just like but
god how is it that i have faith but i
also struggle with doubt and i have this
but i’m also dealing with unbelief
pursue wholeness
and for some of you that might look like
going into therapy for them to dig
things out of you
that might look like going on the
sabbatical with the holy spirit because
he is also known as the counselor
but you want to give yourself time to go
into the presence of god and say lord
how do you help me deal with my heart i
don’t know what’s in here and i don’t
want to let what may have gotten into me
cause me from being from cause me from
being a limitation to myself concerning
my future
you see one thing that happened to me
i’m going to be very overall with you
today i remember one day i was literally
in prayer
and i was praying about some things that
i just found myself struggling with
and the lord said to me stephanie you
need emotional accountability
and i felt like that was just very
random i said who got what who got time
for this right i said lord i have you
what was this thing about emotional
accountability
and he said you need emotional
accountability
and he said i’m gonna send you help this
was the lord speaking
that day a couple hours later
a pastor who i
just strongly admire and who’s also a
therapist reached out to me
and she was like stephanie how is your
heart
i said
i don’t like this question
it makes me want to think
and i sent her a response right
and she said no that sounded like it
came from your head how is your heart
and when we
that message took us on the whole
journey
and i opened up to her and i said
literally this morning the lord said to
me you need emotional accountability
there’s some things that you need to
heal from there’s some things you need
to process properly and
even though you can hide behind me
you might actually use me to be to it’s
almost like a shield in protecting the
areas that you don’t want people to see
and that is why i am such an advocate
even when it comes to therapy
because in our relationship with god it
can only go as deep as our
vulnerabilities
and when you are you know when you start
believing your own hype and you’re like
no i’m okay this is not a problem you
know i’m good
and like god we don’t have issues in
this area
then you can actually be deceiving
yourself that’s why the bible talks
about how the heart is deceit is
deceitful above all
that who can know it
but then the bible also says out of the
abundance of the heart the mouth speaks
that’s why there are people who are
trained to hear what you’re saying
and they can fill in the gaps by what
you are not saying
they they’re trained to understand your
emotional well-being by the things you
choose to say and by things you choose
to not say
and so if you have to talk to somebody
if you’ve experienced things in your
past that that put you in this place
that you just you have this negative
narrative over your life
then choose to start opening up pursue
wholeness
say that god i desire wholeness above
ego i desire wholeness above pride i
desire wholeness above looking right i
desire wholeness above looking like i
just i’m you know i just woke up and i
woke up like this no you did not
but god i desire wholeness at every with
whatever it takes i desire this if i
need to open up to someone if i need an
accountability partner if i need to
maybe even forgive someone in my life
maybe there is this offense that i’ve
been holding on to and it’s eating me up
from the inside out because i’ve not let
something go then maybe i need to talk
to a pastor i need to get involved in a
community group whatever it takes
pursue
wholeness recently during our one
meet-up our pastor
talked about seeing life through the
lens of jesus
and how that changes everything
and that’s what happens when we are
whole
when we are holding christ we begin to
see life through the lens of jesus
we begin to see life that oh my gosh
this is actually beautiful yes i am who
you say i am oh that project oh that’s
not going to defeat me oh i have what it
takes to get it done because i have you
lord
but if there’s anything in your life in
your hearts from your past trauma that
you know you have to heal from don’t
delay it one more day one more second
it’s as easy as even having an
accountability partner
just to say hey i want i want i want you
to even hold my destiny accountable
not just an accountability partner for
random things
talk to them about the promises and the
visions that god has given you about
your life
and say i want you to hold me
accountable to my purpose i want you to
hold me accountable to my healing i want
you to hold me accountable to my desires
in life
that if this is who i i’m saying that
god has shown me to be whenever i’m
functioning out of this
call me out
whenever i’m accepting below what god
has shown me is available to me call me
out on it
and you have to choose to accept
humility
you have to choose to allow people in
your life that can sharpen you
the bible talks about iron sharpens iron
you have to choose to have
men and women in your life that can be
the iron that will sharpen you
and as a result you sharpen them because
your transformation it becomes
contagious
everybody starts desiring to grow and
keep growing pursue wholeness and that
would uproot doubt and it would uproot
the things that would cause you to see
life through the lens of brokenness and
pain and trauma and so when the word of
god comes to you there are no thorns to
choke it out
you become a healthy soil
that you can say god i believe in what
you’re saying
and when you open the door in front of
me
i’m going to move with boldness and i’m
going to move in confidence because i
know that you are with me
and the third thing i want you to
understand
is that time is an expression of god’s
mercy
what do i mean by this
you see one of the reasons right that
even satan cannot be forgiven
is that he was judged
in a realm outside of time
he was judged in an eternal now
his judgment came from a realm that time
does not exist or function the same way
that it does on earth
and so when his judgment happened
it is executed now
it is executed in that very moment and
what i’m trying to explain to you is
that where there is time there is mercy
that’s why the bible in the book of
lamentations it says to us i believe it
might be 3 22 but if it’s not then i’m
going to take a line from my pastor read
the whole bible and you find it but
there’s a scripture that tells us
that god’s mercies are new every morning
because wherever we have time we have
mercy
and why am i saying this because while i
prayed for you
i could see that there’s some people
that just feel like god in my brokenness
i feel like i’ve sabotaged the things
and the doors that you opened before me
i sabotaged the relationships that maybe
something beautiful could have come out
of it i sabotaged the jobs that could
have been amazing god i’ve sabotaged the
things that i thought would be a
blessing
and maybe you’re you’re down on yourself
because you’re just like god i’ve messed
up already
i’ve messed up i’m too deep in this
thing i don’t know how i’m going to
recover
time is an expression of god’s mercy
did you know that just saying god have
mercy on me
there’s a song in culture where they’re
like lord have mercy right and we always
sing in it and the rest of the song is
not really in the scriptures or words in
the bible but
lord have mercy on me
is a powerful prayer
because you’re literally saying god
if i’ve ever stood in my own way
if i’ve ever been the limitation on my
life god have mercy restore to me the
time
restore to me the opportunities restore
to me the doors lord god that would be
an open door for me to be everything
that you say i am
you see the bible says this that times
and seasons belong to the lord
and so it doesn’t matter what you feel
like you may have lost
nothing is wasted in god
he uses even the seasons where you feel
like man god i i think i sabotaged that
moment that is why we have this
beautiful promise that god works all
things together
for those who are called according to
his purpose
he knows how to work everything together
the moment you recognize that god
i i see what i have heard i’ve seen
where i have missed the mark but lord
have mercy on me david understood this
he said surely goodness and mercy
follows me all the days of my life
and that’s why david no matter his
shortcomings
he understood this in god no matter
where he fell short he knew
that lord have mercy on me and restore
unto me
see david was a wild man there was a
story about david
where he you know he looked at this girl
one day
and he was just like yeah i want her
right
and her husband was part was a man in
his army
david had a set up where the man got
killed so he could sleep with the her oh
well actually you know let me rewind he
slept with the woman
she got pregnant
then he’s like oh my gosh she’s pregnant
he tried to have her husband sleep with
her to cover it up like you know maury
wasn’t there in that time for them to
try to figure out who was the father
right and so david is like oh my gosh i
cannot be the father and he’s like man
let me set it up so he’s trying to have
her her husband come back and sleep with
her but the man he had such integrity
you need to read this story it’s going
to bless your life he had such integrity
and he he comes home he’s like no i’m
not sleeping my wife you know this is
the time of battle that’s what david
should have been he should have had a
posture of focus the man was so focused
that he did not even sleep with his own
wife
david is like you know flabbergasted
he’s like oh my gosh i they would know
that i am the father
david has a set up for the man to be
killed the man gets killed he takes he
no takes in the woman now as a wife but
all the while he forgot that god is
watching
that god is looking at this whole scene
one scene two and he god is like you
know what cut
this right here we’re about to cut it
and in the judgment of god he did not
allow that child to live because of the
manner in which that child came from
there’s a whole story to that but even
in that story it’s not it has nothing to
do with you know god being evil know
that
how the child came into the world was
not it there was just a lot of mess
attached to it and god said no this
child would not live in god’s judgment
because of the circumstances surrounding
it
but david did not let that defeat him
david understood i am not my mistake
david understood i messed up in this
area but i am not my mistake lord have
mercy on me
and that is why the same woman
that received god’s judgment
was the same woman that god restored and
her child solomon became king that ruled
after reigned after david
that is called restoration
can you imagine what it was like
for solomon’s mother
lost her husband
lost the child
but all of a sudden she is restored
has a son named solomon and amongst all
of david’s children
he is the one chosen by god
to reign as king
you are not your mistake
you are not defined by your past
you are not defined by your trauma
you are not defined by what keeps you up
anxious at night you are not defined by
your pain you are not defined by your
fear you are not defined by the words
that were spoken against you you were
not defined by the negative things that
happened to you that gave you a wrong a
flawed perception of life you were not
any of these things
if you knew better than you would have
done better
give yourself a break
allow the mercy of god and the goodness
of god to come into your life
and say lord
time and chance will happen for me
time and chance time there will be a
time there will be an opportunity that
you’re going to open the door for me
and so in this in the in in the meantime
i should have called this message in the
meantime no
but in the meantime
i’m gonna pursue wholeness
i’m gonna keep a record of your promises
to me because they will be fulfilled i’m
gonna have destiny accountability
partners
i’m gonna know that lord god every
single day that i wake up
that your mercies are made new that
morning
that i am a candidate for your mercy and
i am a recipient of your mercy
that lord you would you would restore
the years that my ignorance kept me from
things
you would restore the years that pain
kept me from things you would restore
the years that trauma kept me from
things this is the god we serve like i
said god is more is for you more than
you are for yourself
and so when he takes you through a
process
it is so that when you encounter these
divine moments
in life
that your obedience becomes a launching
pad for you
that you would have roots
you see i want you to understand for
some of you you have to even recognize
that there is purpose in healing
you might feel like you’re in a season
and all you’re working on is yourself
and you might be watching people and
it’s like everyone seems like they’re
just flying past you they’re just moving
at high speed and you’re just over there
working on yourself
and you might be feeling like god man i
wish i knew this when i was i was seven
who knows anything at seven right we’re
just looking for some candy right in
good times with some cartoons
oh you’re like god man i wish i knew
this when i was in my teens i wish i
knew this in my 20s in my 30s in my 40s
in my 50s
your journey is different and it’s
unique
everyone has a unique journey in life
so stop you know having a pity party
with what what could have should have
all that stuff would have
and recognize that in the now
you are a recipient of god’s mercy
and for this we give god praise
and we say god thank you
you are so good
and so if you know that i’ve been
speaking to you
just put in the comments
lord have mercy
lord have mercy
lord have mercy lord have mercy i’m
telling you to write that down so you
recognize that whenever you feel
like god ah i don’t think i have what it
takes lord have mercy lord i receive
your mercy lord you are a merciful god
lord your goodness follows me all the
days of my life your goodness and your
mercy every single morning i have mercy
available to me
now this does not mean to be foolish now
but this means to recognize i am not my
mistake
and maybe you need to say that out loud
and if that is you i want you to write
that in the comments i am not my mistake
i am not my trauma whatever that thing
is
that you feel like has put a limitation
on your life i want you to write that
down boldly i am not blank write it down
i am not the abuse i am not the things
that i went through whatever that is put
it in the comment
because time and chance is going to find
you
and it’s going to be so beautiful what
god does through your life
but in the meantime
let him work in your life
let him build you
you the person
god cares about you
never think that god is more invested in
what you do than in who you are
it is because of who you are that you’re
able to move and build according to his
word
you see you have to remember there was a
time
when
mary and martha they were sisters
jesus comes into their home
and jesus is having a conversation he’s
talking his teaching story time with
jesus
i’m sure that it was the disciples that
are around him
and these were you know at the time it
was just men
mary is like look i am going to sit at
the feet of jesus and receive his wisdom
his wisdom that would shape my life
mary goes down and she sits with jesus
martha is cooking in the kitchen she’s
doing a good thing jesus is in your
household you want to make sure wow my
lord is he fed you know does he is he
hungry you know what what does he need
you want to present something before the
lord
martha is cooking and she you know finds
out that mary is sitting at the feet of
jesus she comes in and she’s just like
she’s upset she’s like mary what are you
doing right you should be in the kitchen
cooking
and jesus is like
martha you know chill out now
mary has chosen the better portion
that what mary is doing is actually what
you should model what was jesus actually
speaking to in this moment he said i am
more concerned about you
than what you do for me
i want mary to be close she needs to
hear these words because the word of god
says at the entrance of the word gives
light
every word that we hear from our lord it
lights us up
it transforms us it brings us closer and
closer and closer to the version of us
that he has called
and so you might feel like god i’m not
you know i want to just move quickly and
fast and i want to do all these things
and i want to build for you but if
you’re in a season where god is focused
on building you allow him
he’s giving you roots
so that when his word comes upon you
when the season comes upon you when the
is presented before you that you will
take off
and you would encounter several seasons
like this throughout your lifetime
and so i want to pray with you
you know what maybe you’re listening to
this message and you’re just like first
of all i want to know the lord that you
speak of
that i want to know the lord that you
have this confidence in
i want to know the lord that is lord
over times and seasons i want to know
the lord that can forgive me in the way
that you spoke you see jesus’s love is
so irresistible
because it meets you wherever you are
to
to bring you it to the place
that he knows you to be
jesus’s love comes without judgment
because he when he looks at you he sees
the truth concerning you he can he knows
how to remove the layers of the pain and
the mistakes that you have made that is
why one of my favorite scriptures is
when it talks about the even the
darkness is not dark to you
that even my darkness
lord it’s not dark to you
that you can see what i feel like are my
lowest moments and you can see through
it and you see light because you’re
looking at me
and maybe you feel like god i’m just in
a mess i mean this i mean this rut and
god is like your darkness
is not dark to me
i love you
i’m for you
i’m more for you than you are for
yourself i’m more for you than your
biggest cheerleader a hype man or woman
i’m for you
and if you want to fully open your heart
to jesus
because
even as i say pursue wholeness that is a
space
that your barriers to pursue in
wholeness is your relationship with
jesus
because you don’t want to make yourself
available to any spiritual hype that
culture presents
for you as a fast track to healing
because culture is presenting so many
alternatives that actually expose you to
more danger than good
and so if you’re in that place and
you’re like god i want to be made whole
you need relationship with him because
he becomes your the parameters in which
you discover true wholeness
because he alone
is whole
he is the essence of wholeness
we find it in him
not outside of him
that is why god says be holy for i am
holy
come into my holiness come into my
wholeness don’t follow the hype of what
culture might present to you
culture will tell you do this do that do
this it will help you conquer your fears
let jesus be the parameters in which you
guide your life and you discover true
wholeness because there are many things
out there and i’m saying this not from
just watching what people are talking
about i’m saying this from what i know
there are many things out there that
look the part
but it is not the part there are many
things out there that you might expose
yourself to and it does more damage than
good i’m saying from experience there
are people that i have
i’ve walked through deliverance with and
it was because they opened up themselves
to things that they thought were good
outside of the lord let jesus be the
parameters that you pursue wholeness
through
don’t be so desperate that you you start
searching in in weird things and you’re
like okay maybe this is a fast track no
true wholeness comes from the lord
and if you want to receive him into your
life
you can just write in the comment here i
am
here i am lord
here i am
and you’re going to see a text a qr code
in the screen and there’s going to be a
number that you can text and we’re going
to follow up with you and catch up with
you and just really guide you through
the salvation process because life with
jesus is the best thing ever
you know
this would be a saying like you know
what’s bad and sliced bread i i don’t
know where that came from honestly and
maybe i’m digressing
because i don’t know maybe i’m not a fan
of sliced bread but jesus is really
everything you know what’s better than
honey jesus right what’s better than
fruit snacks jesus right what’s better
than your favorite thing i don’t know
jesus
but i want us to pray in this moment one
for you saying yes to him
that lord i’m here and i want to have a
relationship with you
and two i want to pray that lord
have mercy
have mercy on our lives
wherever we have been our own limitation
lord we receive we are recipients of
your mercy we receive it
because that breaks off every lie every
shame every guilt the mercy of god is
what sets you loose from the chains of
shame and guilt because you recognize
that
every single day that i have breath in
my body
god is saying there is more that i still
want to do with you
and i can
did you get that
and he can
you are not that too damaged that god
cannot use you you are not to damage
that god wants to throw you away that
will never be the case with you and god
and so let’s pray
heavenly father we thank you
we thank you for your sons and daughters
that are saying yes to you
we thank you lord god for what this
moment represents in their life and what
heaven how heaven is rejoicing even
right now
cheering them on and welcoming them to
the kingdom of god
lord we recognize
that when you died on the cross when you
gave your life on the cross it wasn’t
even you that died because lord god it
was sin that died everything that could
keep us captive anything that could keep
us bound you killed it on the cross
and when you were raised up from death
when you conquered death itself
you raised us up with you
as an example and as a testament that we
are more than overcomers
lord we love you
come into our hearts come into our lives
be the peace that guards our hearts and
our minds
guide us oh god we we say yes to your
invitation to wholeness
that lord however you want to work in us
reveal it to us
and make a way for us
lord i thank you that time and chance
happens to us all anyone who’s been
counting themselves out that they would
know that you are a just god
that they would know that there would
always be moments in life
that would present an open door for them
to be everything that you’ve called them
to be in this life
and i thank you lord jesus for your
mercy
your mercy that meets us every single
day
you are such a good
such a good god
and we love you
and we cherish you and we adore you
and we say yes to you over and over and
over again have your way in jesus name