7/27/2020 TRY ME Part 28 Wifey Material (Redefined TV)

 Ephesians 5:25-32

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

* Marriage was designed to be a representation of what Christ and the Church looks like. This is why it makes so much sense why that God will use "Unfaithful" terminology when He was speaking about the children of Israel indulging in idolatry - "They went whoring after other gods." "Adulterous and unbelieving generation."

God views it as cheating when we have a 'lifestyle' living according to the flesh but then yet claimed to be the bride. This is why the enemy sends you counterfeit after counterfeit, distraction after distraction - it is not necessarily about you. The enemy is messing up the representation. This is why a lot of people have issues with the church and a lot of issues with Jesus. It's not that they have a problem with Jesus, but with the people who claim to be followers of Jesus. 

2 Types of woman:

A. Doesn't have value application

Doesn't have any requirements thus whoever applies she hires. 

Even businesses and corporations understands the importance of application. If you want this position or want to work here, you have to apply- needs background check / info, do you meet the requirements for this position, degree, license, trainings, credentials and former employer to check if they're lying. If you ever know somebody's lying (not think or assumption because assumptions are the termites of every relationship), when you know that they're lying, don't tell them, just ask about it because I need to see how many problems am I really dealing with. Am I dealing with you just being a liar or with you being a liar and denying about you lying to.

You can do all of that, fill up application, background check and 3 interviews and still not get the position. Why? Because we know who we are looking for. They have a value of application.

She doesn't have full awareness of who she is and there are a breed of men looking for a woman like that. They know, she'll tolerate me, take care of me, she'll even make excuses for my poisonous behavior because she doesn't know who she is. She has all of these insecurities, she doesn't know her value in Christ. She doesn't know she's a queen, a woman of purpose, that God has a powerful plan for her life. Women do it too, you know this man has no chance, you don't like him at all, he has no chance but he likes you, but use his feelings to get a free meal, use his feelings to get what you want.

B. She knows who she is. She has a requirement and standard.

 There's a difference between standard and preference.

Standard orbit around godly fruit. Example He must be saved.

Preference orbit around flesh. Example 6 feet tall, curvy.

Sometimes men won't mess with her, they want her and they know that this is the type of woman that they need but they won't mess with her because she requires for someone to be mature, won't tolerate your boy type ways, abuse, narcissistic behavior, manipulation, and since these men can't get you, they'll settle for type A then sometimes you'll question yourself, "What's wrong with me?" Many have tried but many have failed. But you are the one that's favored. The Bible doesn't say, when he finds you, you get favor but, when he finds you, he gets favored. You're favored in your single state, and you're favored in your married state. You are the ticket to favor. Don't question yourself, because you're the one with the favor and men will begin to walk around and say you know what, that's wifey. 

Men / women - you are Christ's wife. You're the bride, He's the bridegroom.

WHAT TYPE OF WIFE AM I?

Am I asking God to send me somebody when I'm not even a good wife to You already? Instead of trying to get people to understand your love language, how you try to understand God's love language.

1. Jesus loves quality time

When you spend time with Him in prayer, when you dedicate the morning and bask in His presence, and seek His face and dwell in His word.

2. He loves words of affirmations

He loves words of affirmation, not because He needs to be affirmed but He knows when you affirm Him it affirms you. 

You don't read the Bible for God. All of these are for you.

You praying won't make God any more faithful, more holy, more righteous. You worshipping is going to help your mind stop worrying. because you can't worry and worship at the same time. A lot of us got it twisted. We think we're doing God a service because we attend church, we're giving, praying, fasting - you're doing this for you. God has no competition / adversary.

3. He loves when you use your gifts.

Because He gave them to you. When you worship, He gave that gift. When you exercise your gift of artistry, gift of speaking, gift of business skill. I LOVE WHEN YOU DO THAT BECAUSE IT SHOWS ME OFF.

4. Acts of Service

When you're serving your community, your husband / wife, because you're the hands and feet of God.

5. Physical Touch

When you touch the heart of God. Anytime you choose His will over your will. Anytime you say "God, I want to do this, but I trust You and You're my husband and I'm gonna follow You and I'm gonna submit to You." It gives glory. 

God loves us so much. If it hurt Your heart so much, why give me an opportunity to choose between the tree of good and evil, and the tree of what You said not to eat from - why give us a choice?  I love you and I don't want you to have control, I want you to have free will because anytime you choose Me over choosing what you want to do, that shows Me that you love Me.

Will you listen to Me? Or will you listen to culture? Me or your flesh? Which one will you choose?

It'll be hard to choose if you're facing the wrong tree. It wouldn't be so hard if you're surrounding yourself with people who aren't eating from the wrong tree, if you're seeking God's face.

If you're married or want to be married - let's say, you roll upon your spouse on their work and noticed they're not wearing the wedding ring. How many of us will have problem with that? It's one thing if you have an agreement, but you ask him or her about it and they pull it out and place it back. Most of us are like that. Ashamed of it, taking our ring off. Jesus is like, "Why do you keep taking your ring off that hang in that relationship, when you go around your friends, when you go to happy hour with them?"

"I want everybody to know that you're My bride. Represent Me well." You are the bride of Christ.

GENESIS

Story of creation; God spent 5 days establishing the order, the waters, the light, day and night. Heaven is His throne and earth is His footstool. Our God is so powerful, He spent His time focused on the environment before the arrival because God knows the power of atmosphere. He's showing us a portrait of how He operates. "I don't breathe in it until there has been a created space for it." 

A lot of us keep on window shopping at our dreams but then purchasing our excuses. It's really not faithing it if we haven't prepared space in our life to receive what we're asking for God to extend. Because sometimes God will bless you with double. Story of Isaac and Rebekah- Rebekah couldn't conceive so Isaac prayed (power of having a praying man), asked God for his wife to conceive, and God gave him twins. Sometimes, if you're bold enough to ask for one- I'm big to bless you with 2. 

When opportunity calls, only the prepared could answer. 

Value closed doors. It's the off season teaches you how to prepare, where nobody sees your mistake, where you train. Change your perspective. Just because the curtain is closed, doesn't mean the production is over. All it means is God is switching scenes.

Never mislabel a bad weather as a bad season. When the weather gets the most severe is due to the seasons changing. It could just be irrefutable evidence that you're in transition. 

God focuses on the atmosphere before the arrival because I need an atmosphere that could sustain what I'm about to do. I need a system in place for what I'm about to send. 

This is why you don't want to surround yourself with complainers, because it sets forth an atmosphere.

CHURCH (EKKLESIA) - assembly / called out ones.

I'm pregnant with a ministry, with a destiny, a calling, a purpose, a business, and due to what I'm carrying, I can't eat that. Because when you become pregnant, certain things now make you nauseous.

It's due to what I'm carrying. Things I used to consume, they now make me sick, just the smell of it now makes me sick.

You need to work out your own salvation. Don't expect only the pastor or preacher needs to study the Word. You study to show yourself approved, not just the pastor or preacher. It's recognizing that I also need to be diligent with my growth. Evolve so hard that you need to reintroduce yourself. This is why it's stupid for people to gossip about you because most likely that's outdated information because you evolve on the regular.

WIFELY DUTIES

1. CALLED TO REPRESENT

Need to have that proposal energy. The energy showing off that He proposed (posting pictures of the ring, etc) Let everybody know that you're a believer.

Matthew 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Jesus is saying, I want people to know you're married. I want them to know that you're Mine. The same way you're flexing that ring.

How to represent Him? 

1 Timothy 5:16

Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Represent Me the way you behave, with loving one another, in Word, in the Spirit, in your faith, in your purity.

2. SCRIPTURE IS BOSS

It's the highest authority in our life. When I encounter a situation, I always reflect back to the Word of God. SCRIPTURE IS BOSS NOT MY FEELINGS. Feelings are wonderful servants but terrible masters.

3. CHRIST-CENTERED AND HOLY SPIRIT LED

It's not about going to hell. A lot preach - "If you do this, you're going to burn!!!" 

Don't do things because you fear your spouse will divorce you. Do good things (going to your spouse every night, cleaning, flowers, etc.) - you do those things because you love your spouse. 

As a wife and being the bride of Christ, there's a lot of things God is going to ask you to do and you're not gonna want to do them, but at the end of the day, it's not about me, I'm trying to please my husband.

4. MAKE MUCH OF JESUS

If you live a life making much about Jesus, everything that you really want, you're going to collab with on the way.

This is why seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all of these things will be added unto you.

A lot of us want the things but we don't want to seek the Kingdom. We don't want to study or to live pure, but we want the things. People who want God for His hand and not after His heart.

Be passionate about evangelism.

5. SUBMIT

God won't submit to you. You submit to Him. The hardest thing about a marriage context is that the man has the final say. Why are you with a man that you don't trust Him out of the final say, in the first place? Submission is never demanded, it's modeled. As a Kingdom man, He never puts His foot down, if it's not for the better of his family (Christ on the cross). It's never gonna be about him. He never abuses his position, like God never abuses His position. The final say - it's always for you and the children, not himself. 

If you can't submit to God now, what makes you think this person will be submitted to you. If she can't submit to a God who is perfect, how is she going to submit to your behind, you being imperfect.

He has to be kingdom of course. It's going to be hard for you to submit to a fool. God is saying, this man is already submitted before you ever came into the scene. He was already submitted to Christ. Getting behind him is going to feel like something that you already have because he's never going to use his position to treat you with disrespect. If you're with somebody who disrespected you, you kind of already disrespected yourself. 

Everybody wants to be kingdom until it's time to do kingdom.

6. DEVOTED TO DISCIPLESHIP

Go make disciplined ones. Discipleship requires nudity - have to be honest, open, nude. You can't heal when you act like it doesn't hurt. 

You can't expect the doctor to call you and you're the one with the virus. Doctors follow up but after a while, you got to let Me know that you got aches. You got to let Me know that you got issues, that something hurts. Because I don't know if you don't tell Me. Don't let all of the stuff that went from generation to generation, suffering in silence, that stuff didn't work. You would die miserable and in pain, and blame everybody else because you never recognize sometimes you got to get ugly for your deliverance. You can't care what people think, you can't care your issues exposed because they can't save me anyway, I need to be able to be held to somebody who could disciple me.

7. HAVE GODLY LEADERS

You need each other, many members, one body. You can't do this alone. 

 1-Church grows you. 2-Disciplines you. 3-Church is you.

7/17/2020 TRY ME Part 26- No More Entanglements (Redefined TV)

 * A lot of us want to change but a lot of us are struggling to change is because we're trying to change at a fruit level vs. the root level

* Store of Samson & Delilah - a lot of us don't even recognize that Samson was already in trouble way before Delilah came on the scene. 

Judges 14:1-3

Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. So he went up and told his father and mother, saying, “I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines; now therefore, get her for me as a wife.” Then his father and mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your brethren, or among all my people, that you must go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” And Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she pleases me well.”

>>> God already gave an instruction not to intermarry with them because they would turn your hearts after their god

* We already see Samson with an issue of lust, issue with wrong picks. Wrong picks create wrong cycles. 

Judges 16:1

Now Samson went to Gaza and saw a harlot there, and went in to her.

Judges 16:46

Afterward it happened that he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.” So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and with what you may be bound to afflict you.”

* The spirit of Delilah will always visit you in the valley - in that low season, season of uncertainty.

* The spirit of Delilah is anything that tries to attack where you're strong; wants to hit your strong spot and make you in bondage there. This is why we hear the enemy the most in the area that we're most effective

ENTANGLEMENT (Ensnared) - compromising relationship (example: relationship that you know won't last long but you're still tolerating it) 

* Pleasure

* Possessions

* Power

* Unaddressed pain

WEB OF PLEASURE

- they'll be intoxicated with things that are killing them and they don't recognize I'm killing them softly

CHASE POSSESSIONS 

- caught up with chasing things (cars, houses) but the enemy wants things to have you. You'll lie, compromise, forget Jesus to get them because I want more which helps me engage in idolatry

WEB OF POWER

- doesn't matter whom you'll hurt or destroy (chauvinistic, narcissistic, dictator)

UNADDRESSED PAIN

- not talking about your pain so that pain can add layers to you

Phases of Entanglement:

LURE - DRAW - HOOK

We have preferences for God. We have ways we want God to do it. When He doesn't do it, we think He's silent. Some people stopped praying because they think God is not answering them, but He is. He is just answering in a way that you don't want Him to. God does not have to do it the way we want to do it. We're not in control, God is. 

7/13/2020 TRY ME Part 25- The Trap of Comparison (Redefined TV)

1 Samuel 17:38-40 

Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail, and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off. Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.

  COMPARISON (Covetousness) - wanting what someone else have 

> Envy, Idolatry  "I'll praise God once I get what they have" 

- when you put anything before God

> Robs us of discernment and ability to perceive our season like 2 women being pregnant, one is 9 weeks, the other is 9 months. Maturity is recognizing we're both pregnant. Can you applaud when someone else wins?

> Comparison robs you of the ability to perceive your oil. There are levers to OIL:

* King Saul - flask of oil

* King David - ram horn of oil

*Jesus - alabaster box of oil

If we don't understand our oil, we'll end up trying to get in the room that we don't have oil for.

Example: Moses and Pharaoh - God told Moses to go through on dry ground. Pharaoh saw it and tried to do the same thing and he ended up drowning, because this is what happens when you try to follow a Word God didn't give you.

> Comparison is the mother of infertility / keeps from giving birth to your gifts.

The reason why you can't give birth to your gift is because doubt keeps making you miscarry and why you're doubting is because you're so focused on everybody else. You're looking at their platform, views, at what they're doing. People don't post their failures, inadequacies, insecurities. Could it be they're not better than you? They're just a better editor than you. You're comparing an edited version to God's handiwork.

> There's something God wants you to do, who cares what they're doing. You don't know what's behind the curtain and here you are feeling inadequate and they could be giving you false advertisement

> Comparison is the spawning pool of insecurities

> Could you be insecure because you feel as though you being out of dress code is a problem? So what you're not like everybody else. You're out on dress code on purpose. You cannot be part of the pollution and then be the solution. You cannot be God's example and the devil's sample at the same time. God has called you to be light, not shade; salt not sugar.

Galatians 6:4

Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else

 You match in the Kingdom of heaven, as a Kingdom ambassador, as a Kingdom trendsetter, not match with culture. God doesn't want you to be in uniform with your peers, God is making you His billboard, His example, His blueprint. You're so busy looking at everybody else that you're not looking at all the gifts God has put on the inside of you. 

1 Samuel 17:38-40 Then Saul clothed David with his armor. 

> David is about to fight but Saul begins to dress David with his own tunic. 

You have to be careful with who you are allowing to put stuff on you because wardrobe come with warzones. You know why your lust is raging, because somebody put their wardrobe on you. Why you're so bitter, complaining about everything, could it be your mother put her wardrobe on you? 

How to be free from people pleasing?

There's only one you in this earth. How do we get exhausted? We get exhausted when we haven't recognized that everybody's going to have a different version of you in their heads. Let's say we walk in a room with 20 people. There are 20 different 'you' in everybody's head. We get exhausted is when we go to each person and try to recreate the version of 'you' in their head. Freedom happens when you get to the place 'I don't care.' I don't care what version of me that you have of me in your head. The version of me that you have in your head is not my responsibility.' When you get to the place of as long as I'm the me that God created for me to be. It doesn't matter if anyone doesn't like me. I like me and God loves me. I love me. That you, that God called you to be. 

The truth that freed me is "I'm not for everyone". Whatever version of me that you have in your head, that's your business, but I know the version of me in my head. And this is dangerous when you don't have an accurate version of you in your head, you'll keep on following the trends because you don't have your own version of you this is why your feelings get so hurt when somebody tells you their opinion because you care more about the version that they have of you than the version God has of you in His head. Before you were in your mother's womb He knew you and all that matters is what God knows me. The best well-known is hearing well-done!

> Saul sees David is ready to fight, and so Saul puts his uniform on him. He puts him in dress code. He puts him in dress code with the rest of the soldiers because this is how you're supposed to look when you fight. Could you imagine if David struggled with security - he possibly would have thought 'You know what, everybody else is dressed like this, so since they have shields and they have armor, sword, maybe I should be in dress code too.' I think David would have lost if he would have went out there in Saul's armor because you will always lose fights wearing Saul's uniform.

1 Samuel 17:39 David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.

Quintessential question - Have you just adjusted to what someone put on you? Have you adjusted to their opinions or do you have a David posture - "I'm taking this off."

1 Samuel 17:49-51 Then David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone; and he slung it and struck the Philistine in his forehead, so that the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. 

>>> A lot of us would be content right there 

But there was no sword in the hand of David. Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it.

>>> A lot of us, there's some problems that have come back in 2020, that were your Goliath and you thought because the stone stuck in his head it was dead, but it really was unconscious - 'I thought I was over this.' David said, 'I'ma chop off his head.' Head is symbolic of authority. 'You have no more authority over my people.' There's some things in your life that you've allowed to have authority- comparison, insecurity. By the power of God, chop the head off!!!! 

How do we become cured from comparison?

1) A FOLLOWED FOCUS 

When you have a focus, goal, vision, you won't compare yourself to others.

I'm so focused on what God called me to do. Did you hear? No. Have you seen? No.

You're so focused on what God called you to do that you really have no time to focus on the gossip or mess.

John 21:20-22

Then Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following, who also had leaned on His breast at the supper, and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?” Peter, seeing him, said to Jesus, “But Lord, what about this man?”Jesus said to him, “If I will that he remain till I come, what is that to you? You follow Me.”

Jesus is saying, mind your business, why are you worried about them? But you can't mind your business if you're on everybody else's business.

2) SURROUND YOURSELF WITH CREATORS VS WATCHERS

The people who are most critical will always have something to say are the watchers - they're on the bench, they have so much to say, they always try to give somebody advice. Here's my problem - can we look at you and tell you your advice works? Not judging but if you're so wise, all the advice you have why we don't see any fruit in your life? Why your tree so fruitless? 

Creators - especially if they're not insecure - they give the most encouragement.

3) DEACTIVATE THE INNER CRITIC

You're subscribed to your own criticism.

4) VALUE THE PASTURE

We live in a generation that everybody wants to arrive quick, fast.

1 Samuel 17:34

But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them

Pasture season is PRACTICE - Nobody knows your name, no platform, no follower, nobody's coming to your business, nobody's making an order, but you're learning how to perfect that slingshot. You're learning how to improve your gift. So many of us want to hurry and get to the palace because you have oil for it.  If you overlook what God is teaching you in this pasture, you won't be ready to fight Goliath in the battlefield.

7/10/2020 Try Me (Part 24) When Men Worship (Redefined TV)

Daniel 6:10-13 (NKJV) Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.
Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. And they went before the king, and spoke concerning the king’s decree: “Have you not signed a decree that every man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?”
The king answered and said, “The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.”
So they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.”

* Judah - means PRAISE; that Daniel whose praise can't be stopped

* One of the most masculine things a man could do is WORSHIP

  One of the most masculine things a man could do is PRAY

  Because their prayer life reveals HUMILITY, and prayerlessness reveals ARROGANCE

If you want to know if a man is humble, if he has a prayer life. If he has a prayer life, this man is saying, "God I can't do this without You. I'm lost without You. I need Your guidance, I need Your instruction, I need You to be my compass God."

A  Kingdom man recognizes I need the Lord to intervene because without You I'm gonna mess up.

* A foolish woman, she's impressed by what a man drives. But a wise woman is impressed by what drives him ♡♡♡

A MAN WHO KNOWS HOW TO WORSHIP:

-He knows how to cover his family 

  breaks the attempted yoke, because there are some things the enemy wants to attempt to put in your household, to put in your children, to attempt to put on your mind, to put on your esteem. But when you have a kingdom man there, the very strategies of the enemy, they don't even succeed because he breaks the attempted yoke.

WORSHIP is the DNA of the kingdom man. Worship confirms that this man's heart has been grasped by the King of glory. It is the evidence that I need the Lord.

Men are supposed to express the heart of God. Point of reference to God. Before your daughter / son knows the heavenly Father, she / he will be first introduced to her / his natural Father, either by presence / absence. Men are supposed to express the heart of God and we give identity. 

God has wired for men to be identity givers.

Genesis 2:19 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 

We see Adam handing out identity. Could you just imagine how detrimental it is for the house infrastructure if our identity giver is in identity crisis. Even deeper, what if the identity giver is not even there. Anytime the father is absent of in identity crisis, we will always position our family to engage in identity theft so we reach out and put other names on us. Why do you think that young man feels so special when he wears Jordan / Yeezys? 

The war has always been and will always be over the man, and it was always the agenda, the syllabus of heaven for that man to be the identity giver. Because the man got to have a life of worship because worship is married to assignment and assignment is married to identity. If I don't know my identity, I won't be able to know my assignments and the reason I don't know my assignment is because I don't worship.

You gonna spend a lot of time with the King of glory, you were constantly in His face, basking in His presence, submerging yourself in His presence, you're gonna spend uninterrupted time with the Creator, and He's not gonna reveal to you why you've been created? Worship is married to assignment, and assignment is married to identity.

Joshua 5:13-14 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?” So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”

He runs into God, an encounter, he begins to worship then after he worships, he's given his assignment and now I'm given my assignment, I know my identity. Worship expressed Worth-ship. Joshua to conquer Jericho; Joshua the conqueror.

Genesis 12:7 Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him. 

Altar - for worship

For the believer - worship is like our inward well and so what the enemy wants to do, he wants to dam our well, he wants to have some blockage, some boulder, some type of hindrance so that we don't have a worship life, and we don't have that internal reservoir because we're gonna need it when we hit dry places, because worship is that fountain. Dam that fountain with anxiety, distractions, counterfeits, rage, with all these type of things then they won't be able to glean in from the inside. It doesn't matter how saved you are or how great your calling is whether you love the Lord or not, all of us will eventually hit a dry season.

But this is the power of a man who knows how to worship, because men are wired to be leaders and when we hit hard season, I may not know where to go but you best believe I know what to do, I have this reservoir inside or me and the enemy knows the person who can tap in get breakouts. Just because it is bad all around me, it does not affect my worship. 

Worship - the psalmist says magnify the Lord with me. When you magnify- to make big. When you are surrounded by problems, that's when you command your soul to magnify the Lord. Worship is gonna affect the problem size. Why? Because worship invokes God. HE INHABITS THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE. When Paul and Silas were in jail, and they began to worship and praise at midnight, there was a great earthquake. It's because the prison cell was too small for God to fit. Your worship and your praise has a locksmith personality. Everybody in the whole prison, their chains were broken, not because they were worshiping, but worship creates an atmosphere of freedom. This is why it's powerful for a man to be a worshipper.

* Crisis reveals who Christ is. 2020 not only  exposing hearts, is also exposing spiritual depth. 

W  ORTHY

O  BEDIENCE

R  EGULATES

S  URRENDER

H  UMILITY

I   NTIMACY

P  RESENCE

WHY WE WORSHIP?

♡ He is worthy - I won't know my worth if I don't know He's worthy. Me knowing He is worthy, helps me discover my worthy. When I discover I'm a man of the King, when somebody doesn't want me, I don't feel as though I need now to reduce my rate, I don't feel as though now I need to be on the clearance rack, because they didn't like me. They probably couldn't afford me, because when you know He is worthy He reveals to you your worth. A lot of us are crying over people who wanted you at a cheap rate, but God is saying, listen you're worth more than that.

♡ Obedience - the first time you see the word worship in the Bible is in the context of when Abraham is taking his son to sacrifice. 

Genesis 22:5 And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will 

(Heb. 11:19)come back to you.” 

Abraham is exemplifying obedience and following God's instructions. "I worship out of obedience."  Obedience opens doors that you never have to knock on.

♡ Worship regulates - if you're having a bad day or bad mood, why don't you try to worship? Worship is thanking God for who He is

♡ Worship is surrender - (Arms raised) I'm not trying to resist arrest. God arrest my heart, arrest my emotions, arrest my will, arrest my cravings, arrest my desire. I'm not fighting, I surrender.

♡ Worship is humility - it is saying, "God, without you, I'm gonna wreck my life, so be my compass." 

♡ Worship is intimacy - IN TO ME SEE. There's all these stuff in me God, there's all these stuff I don't like about me, there's all these stuff I want to give to you, all these stuff that you have for me God, I want to trust you, I want to love you, I want to embrace Your will, so I have to be intimate. If you keep on getting intimate, you'll end up pregnant - He's gonna put something on the inside of you and then now that it's on the inside of you, it begins to grow, and then once it begins to grow, everybody can see your baby bump - baby bump of purpose, passion and that pregnancy gets you to walk different eventually because now I'm catering on the what's inside of me, and eventually life comes with contractions and this is when you have to push because God wants you to give birth to something and you labor in prayer.

♡ Presence - I want the presence of God. God lead me and guide me. Unless we're like a child, we can't inherit the Kingdom of God.

2/23/21 I heard the Lord say, Supply!!! (Watch Him Do It) (Prophetic Drive Time)

The Lord says that we are intimidated by His goodness. Oftentimes there is only so much that we allow to the Lord to do for us, because of our mindset, our rational mind. But I hear the Lord say SUPPLY this morning. 

In John 15, the Lord begin to highlight to me being the vine. And He said to me, the branch needs what's in the vine. He said, "Do you know all the good that exists in Me?" When He asked me that question, I knew that regardless of what I thought about God and how much I profess God is good, and how much I think about the Lord, I realized that  there was more in the vine. 

But everything the Word reveals about the vine, the vine wants our life to reveal about Him. 

"My people perish for lack of knowledge." Not for lack of power, not for lack of God's ability or God's desire, we perish for our rational minds. 

Everything the Word reveals about the vine, about Christ, the Lord says, it's declared so that it could be available to be in your life. There's more in the vine. There's more in Christ that He desires to supply to the branches. So that we could bear fruit. Fruit in all areas of our life - spiritually, naturally. 

Even in the areas where we lack peace -  I could feel the desire for the vine to supply, I could feel the desire for the Lord to have His children set free from that spirit of fear, there's a lack of peace, which means there's a lack of supply. Not because the vine is not giving it. The Lord says it's not because He's not giving it to you, it's not because the vine is not supplying it. IT'S JUST THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN RECEIVING. Oftentimes there are things in the way, the number one hindrance to us, to man is the rational mind. Because something that the Lord was sharing with me this morning, "The enemy can't stop My flow." The enemy has no devices to stop God. Man can't stop God. If God has determined to supply you- how many of you know, that He will command the birds, He will command fishes, He'll command the earth to split open and pop out what you need. He can't be stopped. The greatest hindrance - oftentimes comes from our rational mind. But there is such a desire of the Lord to supply this morning. 

There is more of a desire from the Lord to supply you than you even have to be supplied. 

When I allow what's in the vine, to come into the branch, THE VINE IS GLORIFIED BY WHAT IT PRODUCES ON THE BRANCH. When Jesus saw the fig tree, that was unfruitful, He cursed it. BECAUSE THERE'S NO GLORY TO A TREE THAT HAS NO FRUIT. He cursed it. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO JUST LOOK LIKE YOU GOT IT, BECAUSE THAT DOES NOT BRING GOD GLORY. WHAT ALLOWS HIM TO BE GLORIFIED IS IN THE SUPPLY IN THE VINE REACHES THROUGH TO THE BRANCHES TO PRODUCE SOMETHING. NATURALLY. SPIRITUALLY. If it can just produce something, to bring forth fruit, then the vine is glorified. WE'VE SETTLED SO MUCH FOR TRYING TO LOOK THE PART. We settle for trying to look the part, chasing one another, tracking each other down, fighting with one another because we're posturing. You see, but when you are really supplied, you don't have to pretend. Why? Because somebody can come and eat. It don't matter if you're looking the part, if nobody can come and eat. The glory of the vine- the branches. What brings the vine glory is if in the time that is appointed, there's fruit on that thing. Jesus says, "I don't want you to look the part. I want you to really allow Me to supply you." And sometimes through our false humility, we're like "Lord, don't supply me, You can't wash my feet, You can't supply me, I'm just you know..." He said, "If you don't let Me do this for you, how can you have a way with Me, because I'm glorified in My supply, and without Me, you can't do it. Even in the time that's contrary, even in the time where the world is at its darkest point, the vine says, "I'm still the supplier." 

He said something to me, "Son, am I not the supplier?" "Yes You are." But He was challenging my notion, and when I felt Him challenging my notion, He said, "Son, people don't have no confidence that I am who I am." 

John 15:7 If you abide in Me - meaning I got to abide in Christ. 

And My words abide in you. Now what is the Word? What God says about Himself, what God says about you. If it abides, if it lives in you. "I am the supplier." That is the truth about God, that is the Word of God - but is it alive in me? Not have I heard it. Not have I read it. But, is it abiding in Me? Do I acknowledge and accept this as the reality and as the truth about God that affects my disposition towards God. Is it alive in me? Everything that God declares about Himself and declares about you, must come alive within you. It must abide in you. And the word abide means to live, to dwell. It's a truth that is alive. 

If My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it shall be done to you. Why then will I ask and it be done? Because the truth about Me has become alive in you. Who I am, what I say about Myself, what I say about you is now alive. So not only do you come to Me boldly, but you come to Me expecting because what I've declared about Myself is alive in you. THE FACT THAT I DECLARED THAT I AM A GOOD GOD IS ALIVE IN YOU. And because My Word is alive in you, you can ask Me and I'll do it. 

Philippians 4:19 But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches and glory in Christ. 

IN CHRIST. 

Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

all spiritual blessings which means not just of the rational mind which means they go beyond your ability  to process what's in Christ for you.

Jesus says I am the vine. And what's in Me for you.

"What's in You for me, Jesus, that's going to bring You glory? What's in You for me that I am lacking, that I need right now? "

Not of the rational soul this word is saying. Not of the rational soul which means our prayers are often constructed with limitations. Because sometimes it's hard to fathom the above and beyond. It's because we don't have an above and beyond perspective of God. The type of perspective that the Word of God declares about Himself, His faithfulness to us, His promises to us, His word to us, they are already established as above and beyond. But when it comes time to petition, we petition from the rational soul oftentimes. Or we may even petition supernaturally, our expectation is from a rational. But He says, what's in Me, don't make sense. What I have for you, don't make sense. What I have in My heart, what's in the vine for you, doesn't make sense. The level of peace that I leave with you, is not rational of the rational soul. It's not like the world's kinda peace. The peace that I leave with you, it doesn't make sense. It's crazy peace, it's something extra. It's always above the world. 

When we find ourselves in moments, fearing tomorrow, and being in this place of fear,  that doesn't bring God glory, because the vine is not supplying it. The vine does not supplying me the fear.  What brings God glory is the peace. He said the peace I leave with you. He never said this great fear of tomorrow I'll leave with you. 

The only thing that brings the vine glory, is what He supplies. Because fear is bondage, it's torment. Have you ever had fear and peace at the same time? They oppose each other. Why? Because they originate from two different places. GOD IS NOT GLORIFIED IN DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS. God is not glorified in being a two-headed monster. So He's not glorified in something that He didn't give me. But He's glorified when He delivers me out.  He's glorified when He takes me out of. He's glorified when He breaks that stronghold. He's glorified when He breaks that bondage. He's glorified when He supplies me. 

There are some of you are well aware that you've been through a time of suffering, a time of affliction, a time of trial. Your suffering season is over.

1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace who has called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus after that you have suffered a while make you perfect, establish, strengthen you and settle you.  The Lord said, your suffering is over. That you have been suffering for a while and now He's calling it over. And what He's doing right now is He's preparing your heart, He's opening your heart to receive the supply. Have you received all that Jesus gives? Have you received all that the vine is supplying? Some of you received some, some of you received a lot. Have you received all? The Lord is saying to you, there's more to give. It's not even a hard thing for Him. Can you imagine, that's what He actually what He purposed to do. Some people equate it to robbery to allow God to be good to them, when they don't understand that when they allow the vine to supply them , they're allowing the vine to be glorified. Because a branch with no fruit brings no glory to the vine. Jesus Himself said cut it down, one He said cut down the other said cursed are thee. I believe the Lord is really challenging our perspective. He's really bringing an end to the show, the pretense. We always wanna look the part, and as a result, because we're just pretending, and trying to play the part, we rob our own mind and understanding from the reality, that this is real. You got to understand, your heart will grow whatever you sow.  So if you tell your heart that all you got to do is just look the part, your heart will have no expectation for the Word to be real in your life. YOUR HEART WILL GROW WHAT YOU SOW. Just look the part - but why would I do that? If this Word is real, it's real. What are we doing? The Word is real, that's what I sow into my heart - the Word is real. So I see real things come from the Word. How long will you be satisfied by playing the part? Having no expectation that God is actually who He says He is. Your focus is always on you. So only thing you're getting out of life is what you are able to do. Focus is on yourself, so only thing you getting out of everything is what yourself can do with your own hands, your own self. It's because you've taught yourself to play the part, to look the part. You taught your heart, you sowed that in your heart. But if you could just submit and say, Lord I acknowledge that Your Word is real. And then ask by Your Holy Spirit that You quicken it on the inside, that You make it alive in me. I don't mind being challenged by God's truth. And I realized something, that everytime I think that I've come to a place that the Lord always shows me there's more. Everytime I feel like I've come to a plateau or a level of understanding, the Lord says, "Oh you think you know Me. Here's more."

The Lord is breaking off for you today the hindrances that have affected your ability to receive from the vine. And He's calling to life the Word that you once read about Him, the Word that you heard about Him, the Word that testifies of Him, He's calling it to life in you. That you will be able to ask. 

The Bible says, those who come to Him they must believe that He is - fill in the blank - the supplier, the healer, the provider. Those who come to Him you got to believe it. I don't make it true, but me acknowledging what is true, allows me to access what I acknowledge. If you abide in Me and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will and it should be done to you. Why? What Word is abiding on the inside of you? The Lord says this, I am your supplier. 

That diligently seek Him. See, it's not those who diligently seek religion, it's not those who diligently seek traditions, it's not those who diligently seek error, diligently seek themselves. There's a difference between diligently seeking me and seeking Him. There's a difference between me diligently trying to strain and seeking Him. If I'm seeking You, then I got to humble myself to be wanting to know what do You say about You? He says I am love. I am faithful. I am the Vine. I am your provider. There's people seeking the Lord but they never find Him. Because they won't acknowledge what He says about Himself. 

The Lord is here in an abundant way, the power of the Lord, the Spirit of the Lord, the anointing of the Lord is here to supply. Some of the most challenging Words that we find ourselves dealing with has to do with God's provision and God's supply. The enemy has done a great work to slander the hearts of God's children to where when Jesus said if you being evil know how to give good gifts how much more will your heavenly Father. Attributing a level of goodness that far surpasses even the best of us. But the enemy has worked so hard to slander God in our hearts, to the point that we don't have any confidence that God is who He said He is. That the revelation of Christ is going unnoticed in the lives of God's children. And so the Word of truth, it doesn't live in us. It's something that we hear, and it falls to the ground. You hear about how good God is, and it falls to the ground. We read it then it falls to the ground. But that Word is supposed to be alive on the inside of us. We have to allow that Word to be alive on the inside of us. Because that's the reality and the truth about who God says He is. It allows the supply of the vine. 

Will you allow the Word to live on the inside of you? To abide in you today? That you will find the dimension of children and understand this particular dynamic to be able to ask your Father and know that He will do it. It's not even a question - why. Because who You are is alive in me. Your love for me, the Word of Your love for me, it's alive in me. The Word of Your faithfulness is alive in me. And whatever Word of God is living on the inside of you, these becomes the door, the avenues that grant access to the supply of the vine. Why? Because the vine will only supply you according to the Word of God. You must believe that He is. You got to. One of the greatest illusions of Christianity is just to want it. But the Bible says those who come to Him, you got to believe that God is and who He is. You got to believe that God is the someone to do something about what you're asking. It's hard for me to ask God to do something good for me if I don't believe that He is the someone who is good. It's hard to ask the Lord to forgive me if I don't believe that He is the someone who loves me enough to forgive. You got to believe that He is the someone. Do you believe that He is the someone to address the very thing that you're praying about? The someone who will address the very thing that you need supply for today.

Some of us need radical transformations of who God is, we need to allow our minds to be transformed by the Word of God through renewing of our mind - the mind of Christ. You want to know the testimony of Christ was according to Martha. Do you really have the mind of Christ? Martha said "You know Jesus, You're late, my brother's dead, but You know what, even now, whatever You ask the Father, He'll do for You." And do you really believe you have the mind of Christ? See for Me to supply this life to this dead thing was the natural thing that the Lord was doing by the way, it wasn't spiritual. He took a naturally dead body and brought it to life again. He supplied the life. Even more so, the Lord is here to supply for you the life.

You're wondering, just how much could God supply me? How much is in the vine for me? Look at the cross. It's a crazy amount of supply. 

It's on that level of sacrifice, His love, but it's also His goodness to you, His faithfulness to you, it's all on that level, they all follow on the same road, which is high and above. It all follows His love. 

That's just how much supply He has, that describes the yearning because the Lord says, I'm not glorified in you going without. I'm yearning to supply. 

4/8/21 The Lord said there will be a great deliverance (Prophetic Drive Time)

Sometimes you can be on a God movement, on a God mission and not make no progress. It can be the same Lord who sends you out and you get out there in the middle of the sea and just like the disciples will toil all night and make no progress. Lord, you send me out here but I ain't going nowhere. And then the Lord shows up walking on the very thing that's been troubling you, just to make you aware of who He is. It's to bring you deeper revelation, it's to bring you deeper insight. So you say, why would the Lord send me out here to this other side and there's great opposition. You see the disciples, they were rowing against that. They didn't stop, they were rowing and they were exhausted. It seems that the opposition against me is greater than the command You gave me. 

It's interesting because you see a lot of people make doctrine out of that. There are some people who on God's command faced opposition but instead of continuing to row or waiting for the help to arrive, they came back to shore and made a doctrine about how significant the opposition is against the Word of God, against the command. We become so affected when we get out there and we find the opposition we don't know instinctively we don't automatically connect to the fact that help's gonna come. Help's got to come. Because they turn around, we turn around and lose all perspective that the opposition is not greater than the command. There are some people who've gone out and they came back to shore. Now they don't know where they are, where God is, what's going on. They're in a space where I don't feel like where I'm supposed to be. - I put no stock on the One who said go.

They kept on rowing and they kept on going and then the Lord showed up. It's interesting because the Lord knew the storm was going to come. The Lord was watching them row. The Lord says, He selected the hour. He was in the mountain praying, as He sent them forward, go to the other side, He watched them toiling, fighting against the opposition, and the Bible says, He selected the hour in which He would come, and bring deliverance. Your opposition is not greater than the command. Sometimes, the Lord shows up personally. For those of you who didn't turn back to shore, but stayed in the midst of confusion just rowing, I have no energy. What do you think happened to them when they saw Jesus walking on the water, exercising authority, the same water that they were rowing, the same water that would not let them make any progress, Jesus came walking on it, water under His feet, exercising authority over the very thing that was opposing them. Sometimes we get lost on moments, Lord why did you allow it? Why did you allow this impossible situation? Sometimes it can be difficult for us to move beyond that point. Why did you allow it? You told me to go. Now, I'm stuck rowing against the opposition, and then He shows up. So that you may know, and understand the God who is on your side. It's about covenant. He said, He's about to slay it before you. He is showing you His might, He is showing you He is for you, you need to know that. He is showing you He is for you. He is showing you His covenant. He says, He is there for you, now you're about to see in greater detail what that means. He is about to bring clarity to what you suspect, clarity to what you heard, clarity to what you thought. I can say God is with me, but I don't know if any of us who ever really know the levels in the depths of what that means. That's why you can talk to somebody who will acknowledge that God is with them, and when you say God is with you and He will do this, this is when they part ways because they haven't seen God come through for them like you've seen God come through for you. While you can both acknowledge that God is there for you, you part ways at the depths of what that means because there are some people who saw God come through at the very depths, and so that's where you part ways. It's not that they won't say God is here, but they don't know the depths of what that means to have God with them. But it's when He shows up, that's what creates the depths, that's what creates the understanding, that's what creates the knowing. The Lord says, I'm about to create some depth in you. THERE IS NO OPPOSITION GREATER THAN THE ONE WHO CALLED. Sometimes, it's necessary for us to see that if it wasn't for God who was by our side, sometimes it's necessary for us to encounter opposition so significant, that we create depth, and understanding of the God who's with us. ALL STORMS DON'T COME TO DESTROY, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING THE LORD. They come to reveal. We enjoy the Lord on a day to day, but the depth of who He is is revealed in the impossible. It's hard to have a textbook understanding of who the Lord is, a very academic understanding of a very real God. It's hard to have an academic understanding of who the great I AM is. Because all that He is doesn't fit in the confines of your theological breakdown. Somewhere along the line you will limit Him, in all that you believe you know. BUT IT'S IN THOSE IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS WHERE HE SHOWS UP, IT'S WHERE HE REVEALS, THE I AM THAT I AM.

Joshua 10:8-10 And the Lord said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.

Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.

And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth–horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

Beth-horon - means hollow  place which means empty in the middle; 

The Lord says, I'm fighting for you. 

Some of you are gonna look back at the opposition and you're going to remember the time when it made you cry but it will become a point of celebration for you, because you're going to look back and say, that's when I saw the Lord come walking on the water. That's when the Lord showed up for me. And my intimacy grew, and our relationship grew, and where He made Himself known to me, where He snatched me into His heart, so I could understand who He was for me. It made you cry, you were on your knees, you were faint, weak, tired, exhausted, you were discouraged. It's ironic how the Lord is about to change that moment, change that memory to a point of celebration because you're going to say, this is the place where God came through. Isn't it amazing how the Lord will change a situation around from one place will be the place where you wept, will now become the place where you rejoice. 

3/17/21 Everything is revealed in it's time (Prophetic Drive Time)

There is a great reveal coming to many of you. Some of you, don't even know who you are. And there's a push by the Holy Spirit to begin to share with you and to convince you that you are who the Lord says you are. But oftentimes people have a tendency to look at where we are to determine what we are, but no one knows the plant like the One who sowed it, no one knows the tree like the One who sowed it, no one knows the identity of what is growing like the One who sowed the seed. The Lord says to you, there will be many people who will say to you, 'I had no idea, this is who you were.'  When you get enough of that feedback, you have a tendency to believe it. You have a tendency to fall for the misdiagnosis, you have a tendency to fall for the misconception for those who are assessing you based upon your growth.

What the Lord showed me was the life of Christ, His very own life how. There was a couple of different moments where you saw the Lord:  at His birth, who He was was revealed only to a few people - the wise men, the shepherds, Mary and Joseph. And even though the star representing the great prophecy being fulfilled and Herod was aware that a King was born, no one had a real idea of the scope and the dynamic of what had taken place. What happens is after that, a brief moment where Christ was in the temple where He stayed behind and Mary and Joseph were looking for Him and they were a bit frantic and they came to find Him, and they were like, "Why'd you do this?" "Don't you know I had to be about My Father's business." But it wasn't time. From that point, He began a life that wasn't synonymous with the Son of God, but of the Son of the carpenter. He was born the Son of God, but He became identified as the Son of the carpenter, filled with all the greatness that will be revealed in time, to which when He showed up when it was this time of reveal, people said, "Isn't this just the carpenter's Son?"

At the time when you're revealed, when you know what you are, when it's your time of reveal, nothing changes. You don't change up. Because you're like, "Yeah. I've always been this. Now it's just being revealed." The Lord wants you to understand, you've always been what's about to be revealed. If you understand this dynamic, you see how the process of growth is, and you see God's perspective. This is why we carry so many heavy burdens that don't belong to us . The Lord often refers to us as plants, flowers, trees, throughout the entirety of the Word of God, you see us being referred to as these elements that start out as not what they will eventually be. They don't start out as what they will eventually become. But this is God's perspective, and if you can grab hold of God's perspective, you can grab hold of freedom, life, benefits and the blessings today. 

The reason why we're constantly being referred to as plants, as flowers, as trees, is because the wisdom of God speaks this wise. He knows. That's why the Bible says He call it those things that be not as though they were. Because the Lord sees you as what He plants. 

If you ever go to a farm, those who are familiar with the farm- He said, "What's in the field?" He's gonna tell you "That's corn." Even if you see nothing in the field, or even if you see one little bitty shoot, He's gonna call it, what it's going to become. He's going to call it what is soon to be revealed, He's not gonna call it where it is. "What's in the field?" "Those are bitty shoots, just little bitty stems sticking up." You see, and you've allowed people to convince you that you was just a little bitty stem, but the Lord says this, "There is a great reveal coming for you." And in this great reveal, what the Lord is going to do, He's going to bring out, or bring to manifestation, or bring to the time and place, what you've always been.

Greatness is not something that you've acquired through genealogy or logic, greatness was something that was given to you, with the deposit of the seed. And so the Lord says this, "Everytime I look at you, I see greatness." It's funny how people can look at a corn and see nothing but a nut. And we know how it's like to be young in this walk and be a little nutty. And the Lord says, it's time to plant you deep. And you go through this time frame where it's dark and you go through this time where it's like "This wilderness, this whole thing, I'm dying out here." When in actuality, you're giving birth to greatness. Now people in the early stages may walk by and say "Oh, I can't tell what that is." They can't tell what's growing out of you.  They can't tell, what the Lord is drawing out, the greatness. They can't tell. But when the Lord looks, He says to you, "I see a mighty oak tree." Soon people will begin to see the mighty oak tree, that the Lord has deposited in you, the mighty oak tree that the Lord is revealing in you, who the Lord has purposed you to be, who the Lord has put in you to be, and who the Lord is drawing out of you. The same people who refuse to acknowledge, will be the same people who can't help but acknowledge, "I didn't see this in you." 

The Lord says this, "No one can identify the tree, the plant, or the flower, like the One who planted it." And it takes a real botanist, it takes someone who's sent by the Master to recognize the potential in His field. Everybody who claims to be somebody and knows something can't recognize. But when you are sent by the Master, and you know how He values the field, then you speak to the field, like the Master speaks to it, you see what the Master sees. I can't call you something different, than He calls you. If I don't see what the Master sees, then I'm not fit to tend His garden. 

Everything must be revealed in its time. 

Throughout the process, throughout the time frame, there's different stages where we're growing, when we just need to be watered, or we just need to be nurtured. Before the mighty oak can provide shade for anything, it must take shade, take cover. It must learn to find protection, before it can give protection. 

It's interesting because when you come in contact with something God has done, then it tends to bring you to a place of awe, especially when you see the kind of transformation that the Lord is doing in your life. You were almost convinced that you were nothing, but the Lord is declaring to you today, that what you are truly is being revealed. In its time, what you are will be revealed. And you've been looking forward to because you want the truth about who you are to answer your critics, so you can feel comfortable. The Lord is saying for you today, "This word is coming so you can take heart NOW." Be confident in it now. You see, Jesus said, "My time's not come yet." You see, and because I know who I am, I don't mind you mislabeling Me, I don't mind being introduced as the carpenter's Son, until it's time for the Son of God to be revealed. When you know who you are, it will stop rattling your cage when people can't see you. 

John 2:4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.

It ain't time for the awesome wonder. It's not time for the great reveal. It's not time yet, BUT. You see, being aware of your time frame, when Jesus went to His own hometown, they said, "Isn't this just the carpenter's Son?" NO. 

You see, Jesus never walked around warring with the label, of the 'Carpenter's Son' prior to. He never worried about the mislabeling, because He knew the dynamics, the dunamis, the anointing, it wasn't time to be revealed. 

You thought it was a big deal that they couldn't identify you. Because you were hanging your hopes on them seeing you correctly so that you can give your self permission to see yourself correctly. This becomes a snare to our soul. You were waiting for people to see you correctly, to give you permission for you to see yourself correctly. But the Lord says this to you, "Your identity does not hang in the balance of man's opinion." He said, "Because they have not created you, because they have not formed you, because they have not redeemed you, they cannot speak to you and give you the assurity that can only come from your Creator." The Lord says to you, "I formed you, I know what you are about, I created you, I know what is yet to be revealed." 

When you seek the pleasing of man and the acceptance of man, the enemy will walk you right into a snare, and the Lord says to somebody today, "You don't need their permission to be great. If they mislabel you, what is preparing to be revealed, what is getting ready to be revealed, will leave them with no doubt." You don't need their permission. They didn't form you in your mother's womb. They didn't plant you, so you don't need their permission. 

Even if the Lord Himself went through a time of being mislabeled, how could we possibly think that it was over for us and not see that it just wasn't time. How could we allow ourselves to be under any other persuasion? 

The Lord says, A GREAT REVEAL IS COMING that has everything to do with the One who called, that has everything to do with the One who purposed, and people will say, 'I had no idea, that was in you. I had no idea, that's who you were. I had no idea, I'm blown away.' 

GLORY TO GOD.

Everything revealed in His time. It was always who you were. It was always what God determined. 

Flower doesn't start off revealing all its beauty. It first grows, and it can be quite unclear at times, what type of flower it is. And then it grows, and grows, and then the stems start to shoot out, and then it starts to bud, and even as it's budding, it's still hard to tell, what is that. And the moment when it's revealed, and He's like WOW, have you ever seen such a beautiful array. You see, the reason why the Lord refers you to those things is because you grow like those things - that is the system. When we don't know that, we work against it. When we don't know these truths, we don't flow with God, we start to flow against God, crafting our own ways, getting to our own minds, leaning on our own. When we don't understand that, insecurities and frustrations- they move us into a completely different field /space. It's in these moments that we need correction. You'd be surprised just how alright you would be if you knew HOW FAITHFUL GOD WAS. You ain't got to pretend, you ain't got to do none of those things. 

Take heart and understand your process. The Lord sees you as what you will become. He ministers to you, He comforts you, He protects you, He keeps you. 

• You don't even know that you're blessed, because you don't know the different stages of being blessed. Sometimes the blessing keeps you from danger. We look at the blessing as automatically as the supply. Guess what, what is about to be revealed to you, is the other dynamics of the blessing, and that is the supply. You were always blessed. If you look at the life of Abraham, the Lord called him out, war broke out, kingdom Sodom, he's in this conflict- what kept old man Abraham and his servants who were not trained in war, that allowed them to go out and defeat men who were trained in war? It was the blessing. The fact that you got out of what you got out of means you're blessed. But you've been looking at, you've been determining whether or not you were blessed by the fact of what you have, or have not. But the blessing takes on many forms. Sometimes it protects you. If the blessing is protecting you now, then you still got to know that you are BLESSED. The blessing has many stages and it encompasses many different dynamics. Sometimes you can tell that you are blessed by what didn't take you out. What wasn't allowed to claim victory over your life, the blessing kept you. Now, there's a greater level of blessing, another aspect of the blessing that the Lord says, "I'm calling out." - that's about to be revealed. Because of the blessing, I wasn't utterly consumed. But because of the same blessing, I'm about to touch a promise. Because of the same blessing, the unlikely me, is about to do something highly unlikely. I'm about to bear fruit. 

You have been so blessed, and you didn't even know it. And because you didn't know, compromise was always around the corner, it was always at the door, insecurity was always at the door because you didn't know how blessed you were. But the Lord is calling forth a greater level of glory, a greater reveal of the blessing that's on your life. At one point it sustained you, at one point it protected you, but now it's about to cause you to walk in victory.