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00:00:00 God says I'm not moving until you get so upset with your circumstance that you're
00:00:08 willing to cry out and when you call on me I will answer
00:00:15 what if I told you that a cry is the signal to God that I'm ready to be
00:00:23 delivered
00:00:26 and the enemies that we see today we shall see no more I mean every Moses
00:00:44 online and every Moses in this building to shout we are coming out. I promise you we are moments
00:00:56 away from a miracle that's that's all I want to tell you it won't be long you
00:01:06 are moments away from a miracle if you believe it high-five everybody you can
00:01:11 reach down to your seat telling we're moments away we're moments away we're
00:01:14 moments away
00:01:17 I feel God in this room.
00:01:47 Moments. What you're in right now are the moments before the miracle.
00:01:57 And maybe maybe you've never asked yourself the question that I am about to
00:02:10 pose for those of y'all who are in this time zone this morning for those of y'all
00:02:17 who are in the East this afternoon for those of y'all who are in other parts of
00:02:22 the world this evening maybe you've never asked yourself this question and
00:02:28 don't feel bad because the Inquisition has never entered your mind it's
00:02:31 something that I thought of as I was reading this week and I don't even know
00:02:37 why I asked myself the question because it is only recently as I've tried my best
00:02:45 to live completely in the present I'm on this journey of living in the present
00:02:52 not thinking about what was not even concerning myself as the scripture says
00:02:59 I don't have to concern myself with what will be I'm only responsible for where I
00:03:06 am and and when you practice being present it develops a level of gratitude
00:03:16 that most people don't have gratitude for where they are let me tell you as
00:03:21 bad as it may be I swear to you it could be worse it could be worse and so as
00:03:30 I've tried to to practice this this this isness this presence I asked myself a
00:03:38 question that I've never asked myself before it's gonna be a mundane trivial
00:03:42 question it's not our inspiring it's not shocking but it is one that yields a
00:03:46 result if you're open for information but have you ever asked yourself what is
00:03:52 the difference between a minute and a moment
00:03:58 I've never asked myself that but we use them in what linguistics would
00:04:11 would say is synonyms which are words or phrases that have nearly if not the
00:04:17 exact same meaning so you've heard this before you've heard the words used
00:04:21 interchangeably you've heard somebody say give me a minute but you've also
00:04:25 heard somebody say I need a moment have you ever asked yourself what's the
00:04:31 duration of a minute and what's the duration of a moment we know that a
00:04:38 minute is an accumulation of 60 seconds
00:04:45 but how long is a moment and and if I say give me a minute and you actually
00:04:52 that at 622 and I come back at 623 I'm within my rights because all you asked
00:04:59 for was a minute what you meant was give me a moment what's the difference
00:05:11 between a minute and a moment every parent in here has said y'all I need
00:05:21 come on parents just give me a minute I just walked in the house I know you're
00:05:29 hungry I know I know we got to get to basketball practice anybody got kids
00:05:34 they just they just they're waiting on you and and and but you just finished
00:05:39 working are you just finished doing something else and you just need you
00:05:44 need a minute or do you need
00:05:47 what's the moment and how do you how do you define a moment I'm getting ready to
00:06:06 tell you what it is a moment is a period of time that begins to vanish the moment
00:06:17 it starts
00:06:19 hmm this is this is good because everybody in the room is waiting on your
00:06:29 moment but if you waste time your moment will be over because the moment starts
00:06:40 to end the moment it begins I don't know who will be honest and identify but
00:06:52 anybody in the room will be honest and say I suffer with the spirit of
00:06:59 procrastination
00:07:02 needs for am I right about that it's like I know I know I'm ready but I ain't
00:07:10 ready I'm ready to go but I'm ready to stay I'm ready to start this business
00:07:16 but I ain't ready to start this business I'm ready to start this family but I
00:07:20 ain't ready to get up and feed nobody every two hours I'm ready but I ain't
00:07:24 ready I'm praying God make me a husband I'm praying God make me a wife but I
00:07:29 ain't ready to submit so let's date a while
00:07:34 ladies don't act like you ain't said God I want a husband but uh he gonna have to
00:07:46 be patient with me while I learn how to be a wife you're asking for your moment
00:07:53 but the reason why God doesn't send the moment the moment you want the moment is
00:08:01 because God knows the moment ceases to be a moment the moment the moment begins
00:08:09 and if you're not ready when the moment begins your moment will be up and you'll
00:08:14 still be asking God for a moment because it's like a vapor the moment it starts
00:08:29 it's already fading away this is a good word for young people because if you
00:08:36 listen to young people they say stuff like I'm still young baby you you are
00:08:40 not I just want you to know I'm still young I'm still 25 I'm still 30 I'm
00:08:48 still 35 do you know how old that is see 25 30 and 35 is only young in church go
00:08:57 to Wall Street at 21 they're already millionaires by 25 they're already
00:09:03 raking in billions but somehow when it comes to spiritual things I'm just I'm
00:09:08 just I'm just getting started I'm young your mama had three kids by the time she
00:09:13 was your age
00:09:15 you keep using their young card because it's your moment one day you're gonna
00:09:25 look in the mirror and time will betray you and you're gonna be 25 today and 32
00:09:34 next week and you can keep trying to look young but internally your lungs
00:09:46 still 45 and your back is still 18 years after high school it doesn't matter what
00:09:54 you do on the outside you've got to take advantage of your moment because the
00:09:59 moment the moment begins the moment starts to disappear somebody say be
00:10:07 present why do you think the Bible says that he has a very present help in the
00:10:12 time of trouble or in the time of storm present present present present
00:10:22 precinct not just present but precinct so the reason why God is a very present
00:10:29 help in the time of trouble is he's actually a very precinct help in the
00:10:34 time of trouble which means that God is already at the trouble waiting on you
00:10:40 because he presents himself do you understand what I'm saying that's how
00:10:46 God that's how serious God is about the present that he's already there before
00:10:52 the present becomes the present I think you missed what I just said so so so you
00:10:58 got to take advantage of the time you have now why because yesterday was
00:11:04 tomorrow you missed what I just said yesterday was tomorrow and and now
00:11:14 yesterday is today so so you got to take advantage of the moment and be ready the
00:11:21 moment the moment becomes the moment because the moment ceases to be the
00:11:25 moment the moment the moment becomes the moment your moment is fading right now
00:11:34 and there is some young person studying what you studied looking at what you
00:11:42 looked at becoming what you're still trying to be and they're taking
00:11:48 advantage of their moment I wish I were here me today do you have the picture of
00:11:55 what I am painting now let's sit that here and let's get into the text it's
00:12:00 Moses's moment Moses has been through hell and high water first of all when he
00:12:06 was born a man tried to kill him for the first three months of his life he was
00:12:14 hidden in the basket in the Nile River because somebody's somebody it was their
00:12:21 moment and they were trying to keep their moment from ending let me put it
00:12:25 this way you remember Pharaoh it was Pharaoh's moment he was in charge and
00:12:30 what he tried to do is he tried to kill every young Jewish boy beneath the age
00:12:35 of two why because Isaiah said that the Messiah was coming and what he was
00:12:40 trying to do is elongate his moment by killing the competition do you realize
00:12:47 that most of the enemies that come up against you have only identified you as
00:12:54 competition and so the reason why they tried to end your moment is because they
00:13:03 can't see a world where they keep their position and you become your best so as
00:13:13 opposed to allowing you to become your best and them having enough security and
00:13:17 what God has given them they try to cut you down trying to elongate their moment
00:13:23 but by the time this sermon is over you will realize that no weapon formed
00:13:29 against you will ever be able to prosper and there is not a person alive that can
00:13:35 prevent your moment from being your moment when your moment shows up touch
00:13:42 three people say it's my moment it's my moment it's my moment watch this are
00:13:48 y'all ready to preach we're at the burning bush this is probably one if not
00:13:55 the most memorable moment of Moses's manifestation in life now the Bible says
00:14:01 and you have to go back to chapter 2 to see this around verse 23 the Bible says
00:14:05 in the previous chapter and it came to pass in the process of time that the
00:14:13 king of Egypt died what did you hear what I said it came in time that the man
00:14:25 whose moment it was is now dead this is the same man that tried to kill Moses
00:14:32 and tried to keep it from being Moses's moment now the man who tried to prevent
00:14:38 Moses from getting his moment his moment is over and he is now dead and Moses is
00:14:46 about to walk right into his moment y'all gonna miss what I'm saying the man
00:14:52 who tried to kill Moses has just witnessed that his moment has ended and
00:14:59 the Bible says that his death sparks a chain reaction because in Exodus chapter
00:15:05 2 two things take place number one Israel rejects Moses as their leader they
00:15:14 said we don't want him y'all hear me who's listening to me right now Israel
00:15:21 as a group they said all right God says this is gonna be the man that leads y'all
00:15:25 they said God we don't want him why did they not want him because Moses was
00:15:30 trying to lead them forward but they were addicted to backwards Oh Jesus they
00:15:38 wanted Egypt Moses wanted promised land are you listening to me today you're
00:15:45 gonna have to realize that when it is your moment you're gonna do more pulling
00:15:51 and pushing then you will ever get from pushing from other people you're gonna
00:15:56 have to convince people that we don't need to stay here you're gonna have to
00:16:00 convince people that it's time to move on and you're gonna have people say we
00:16:05 ought to just stay here because we got bread and we got water and where you're
00:16:09 taking us is too hard and those are the people you're gonna have to just walk
00:16:14 and see who will follow you you cannot stay in Egypt when God has predestined
00:16:20 you for the promised land so my question for you this morning is what and who are
00:16:28 you willing to walk away from to keep the moment that God has placed over your
00:16:36 life and most of us have the syndrome of trying to save everybody in our life and
00:16:42 you're trying to bring everybody and what you have done is you've cursed
00:16:47 yourself to your current position because not everybody in your life is
00:16:51 ready to go to the promised land some of them would rather stay in Egypt where it
00:16:55 is easy but I'm looking for some people who know that in your heart you feel a
00:17:00 pull to the promised land and you know that God is pushing you into your moment
00:17:05 and come hail the high water you will let nothing separate you from what God
00:17:10 has for your life holler at me if I'm talking to you okay when Pharaoh died
00:17:20 the Bible says something I'm about to preach now because I feel the Holy Ghost
00:17:26 when Pharaoh died the Bible says that they cried out to the Lord and
00:17:34 immediately in chapter 3 the Bible says that the angel of the Lord appeared to
00:17:39 them okay let me say it again they cried out to God and the angel of the Lord
00:17:46 appeared to them they cried out to God not the angel of the Lord appeared and
00:17:55 then they said we praise your name no they said he ain't here yet but we
00:17:59 praise your name and then the angel of the Lord see you don't understand that
00:18:05 praise is an invitation most people got a weight on God to do it and then they
00:18:11 want to give a testimony no God says I'm not starting with the
00:18:15 testimony I'm starting with the test and if you pass the test I'll give you a
00:18:21 test they cried out and the angel of the Lord did what he came when I saw that I
00:18:31 really realized that God was already ready to come they were not ready to cry
00:18:39 now watch this until now until now they have rejected Moses as their leader and
00:18:47 let me tell you something this shows you how stupid they are they reject Moses
00:18:52 Moses was living in the palace he was a prince they were slaves and they
00:18:58 rejected him as a leader can I tell you something the people who reject you it
00:19:02 is not a reflection of who you are it's a rejection of who they are most of y'all
00:19:08 don't understand that you are kings and queens being rejected by slaves I don't
00:19:15 know who I don't know who I'm talking to I just want you to know that everybody
00:19:20 who rejected you was beneath you and here you are walking around with your
00:19:25 head hung down thinking that you're not a worthy because they rejected you you
00:19:29 got to understand that people who don't like fine dining will go to a fast-food
00:19:34 restaurant I am the head and not the tail and just because you don't have an
00:19:40 appetite for me doesn't mean that I'm not worthy it means that you have cheap
00:19:45 taste
00:19:53 stop walking around with your head hung down because they rejected you slaves
00:19:58 reject princess all the time
00:20:02 they rejected a man who had experience and where they were trying to get not
00:20:14 recognizing that he had the keys to the next level but they were so comfortable
00:20:24 with dysfunction that they didn't understand somebody whose moment it was
00:20:30 oh god it's gonna be tough because most of you all don't understand that when
00:20:37 you are connected to somebody and it is their moment it is God's way of saying
00:20:42 that if you get with the program it can be your moment to Paul and Silas come on
00:20:47 if y'all get on the same page and stop competing and get the crab in the barrel
00:20:53 mentality out of your spirit and collaborate we can all come up
00:21:00 tell your neighbor say if you get out I'm getting out if you get out of if you
00:21:06 come up I'm coming up if God blesses you it means he's gonna bless me if God
00:21:11 brings you out I'm coming out with you I'm not a hater I'm not gonna be mad I'm
00:21:16 a congratulator I want God to bless you because it is no
00:21:20 secret what God can do what he's done for others he can do
00:21:27 it's Moses this moment people in slavery talking about we don't want you know it's
00:21:41 not that you don't want me is that you can't handle me and you'd rather blame
00:21:47 me for your insecurity I need every prince and princess every king and queen
00:21:55 to understand that their rejection of your gift is not an appraisal of your
00:22:02 worth somebody shot on the head and not the tail
00:22:09 they wanted the moment but they wasn't ready for the man God was going to use
00:22:22 what they wanted was going to come through the person they didn't want y'all
00:22:31 missing this just touch your name so you gonna miss me you ain't spoke to me yet
00:22:37 cuz I ain't got on diamonds you ain't said nothing to me yet because you don't
00:22:40 know what I got in the parking lot you ain't said nothing to me yet because
00:22:43 you don't know if I'm hot like that you ain't said nothing to me yet but you
00:22:46 don't understand you sit next to somebody who in their moment and one
00:22:50 prayer for me can change your life don't ignore me because you don't know me
00:22:59 you got folk in church hopping over folk trying to get to the people who they
00:23:04 think is gonna help them and you just hopped over Moses you better speak to me
00:23:11 when you see me cuz it's my moment you better shake my hand when I extend my
00:23:16 arm because it's my moment you better not look at me funny cuz I'll mess
00:23:20 around and not pray for you it's my moment
00:23:24 you
00:23:26 people in slavery rejecting the man who lives in the castle you know how many
00:23:39 people think they better than you and they ain't you got to hear what I'm
00:23:45 telling you don't let where you live make you think that somebody's better
00:23:49 than you because they house is bigger you got a big house good congratulations
00:23:56 I'm headed to the promised land
00:24:00 Moses is a prince being rejected by slaves don't let the people who don't
00:24:14 want you make you think that you are what they think about you some people
00:24:23 don't know a good thing I need all the good women here to make some noise
00:24:32 listen to me ladies just cuz he didn't call you back don't mean that anything
00:24:41 was wrong with you it means that God was protecting you from a fool when you
00:24:46 didn't have the strength to protect yourself you were so tired of being
00:24:53 lonely you about to give up your moment
00:24:56 now let me stop I get messy I'm about to help somebody the more unwanted you are
00:25:07 the more necessary you will be they didn't want Joseph in chapter 37 they
00:25:19 didn't want him and they threw him in a pit but by the time they got to chapter
00:25:22 50 the man they threw in the pit was giving him bread you might not know it
00:25:28 you don't need me now but in 13 chapters you will oh god I need everybody shot
00:25:37 what they meant for evil God is gonna turn it around I'm not talking to
00:25:41 anybody in the balcony they don't need you now but you will keep playing with
00:25:53 me I'm gonna own the company you're gonna be working for keep playing with
00:25:58 me one day you're gonna walk in there put an application I'm gonna be on the
00:26:01 other side of this and I'm gonna remember how you looked over me when you
00:26:05 thought hmm Bible says be careful you could be entertaining angels
00:26:18 unaware I don't like people who treat people bad because they don't know me
00:26:24 they don't need them in but then all of a sudden when they get high hey God put
00:26:28 you on my heart no he didn't Instagram did you saw me doing well and you wanted
00:26:32 to act like he was checking on me shut up
00:26:36 I'm telling you the more unwanted you are the more necessary you will be when
00:26:50 the Prophet came to Jesse's house looking for King Samuel the Bible says
00:26:58 that he was interviewing all of Jesse's sons except for the one that was out in
00:27:06 the field tending sheep and the one he didn't want was the one he needed
00:27:14 because the more unwanted you are the more necessary you will be you just got
00:27:20 to get through your feelings in this rejection season everybody ain't
00:27:29 supposed to want you if you everybody's taste you cheap
00:27:36 preach black man I don't care what you say about me
00:27:45 if everybody can afford you you are not special you oughta have clientele that
00:27:58 cannot get within the Holy of Holies because you ain't for everybody
00:28:07 we're out here changing yourself to fit in with every crowd and then gonna find
00:28:14 out that you don't know yourself after you finish genuflecting and bending
00:28:17 trying to fit in every form stand bold and be yourself and when God begins a
00:28:23 good work in you he'll establish it until the day of Jesus Christ just do me
00:28:32 a favor tell your neighbors I don't care if you don't like me can I be honest
00:28:36 sometimes I don't like myself
00:28:40 but I'm about to change that because I just got word that it's about to be my
00:28:52 moment Oh God somebody says my moment is my moment it's my moment it's my moment
00:28:58 it's my moment Moses leaves Egypt he arrives in Midian stays there for 40
00:29:12 years it didn't take Moses 40 years to get ready it took Israel 40 years to get
00:29:22 humble and the Bible says that they finally cried out by reason of bondage
00:29:35 when I looked up the word cried it shocked me because when I say cry what
00:29:42 do you think tears this is why you can't just read the Bible you have to study it
00:29:48 I looked up the word cry in the Hebrew and it shocked me what actually was
00:29:59 being said English they cried out unto the Lord and the angel appeared Hebrew
00:30:06 they cried out to God and the angel appeared original language they got on
00:30:13 the same page and the Lord came because the word cry in the text means
00:30:19 assembled so God didn't come it's because everybody wasn't crying out at
00:30:25 the same time and sometimes God can't come into your life is because you got a
00:30:32 circle of people who are not all on the same page you crying and they complaining
00:30:40 you worshiping and they lying you purifying yourself and they full of hell
00:30:47 God says I am NOT sending the blessing to a fractured circle so if you want me
00:30:56 you're gonna have to make sure everybody's on the same page doing the
00:31:00 same thing see let me tell you why some of y'all ain't gonna get the miracle
00:31:03 look left and right you praising God you excited somebody on your robot to go to
00:31:07 sleep you that whole row is disqualified if I were you I look down my row I'll
00:31:11 shake them you better wake up you bet you better wake up you better get your
00:31:15 stuff together you better open up your mouth you better assemble when I shout
00:31:19 you shout you ain't got to know what I'm shouting about if I stand up get on your
00:31:23 feet because I'm trying to get something that God is sending to the assembly
00:31:32 you better do a pew check say dog don't make me check you cuz I told you it's
00:31:39 time to worship now do I have to make you or are you gonna do it voluntarily
00:31:44 because God says when they cried out together
00:31:50 how many of y'all need a miracle at your house what you need to do is you need to
00:31:59 go in the house today say everybody in the living room at 2 I said everybody in
00:32:05 the living room at 2 y'all ready at 2 o'clock we're about to cry out together
00:32:11 I don't care if you're 2 you hear me Susan I don't care if you're 18 Gerald
00:32:16 do you hear me we bout to worship I want you to take control of your atmosphere
00:32:21 and make sure that everything in it is worshiping God at the same time let's
00:32:26 practice right now I need everybody in this building I need everybody online
00:32:33 open up your mouth and begin to cry out to the Lord I said everybody I said
00:32:44 everybody on the day of Pentecost when the Spirit had fully come and they were
00:32:51 on one
00:33:02 see this is the problem oh that's gonna get me in trouble
00:33:07 most of y'all are our people who are multifaceted but you have people in your
00:33:14 life that you can only do certain things with oh god this is gonna be good y'all
00:33:21 ain't gonna like it but you need to find people in your life well y'all gonna do
00:33:25 it let's do everything together all right so so don't smoke weed with me and
00:33:29 can't worship with me so so oh oh don't you know I'll fight I'm telling I'll
00:33:34 fight listen if we can smoke together we can
00:33:38 shout together oh god oh god I'm trying I'm trying Lord you gonna have to hold
00:33:45 me
00:33:50 like I'm so I went to the club with you yesterday you can't come to church
00:33:56 all right we twerked on Saturday we gonna shout on Sunday and we gonna let
00:34:05 God change our heart
00:34:09 Oh
00:34:11 and we're gonna do it together we're gonna do it all if I can drink with you
00:34:29 you can shout with me today you go to club with him then it's time to go to
00:34:39 church on Sunday well friend I'm sleepy get your butt up I was sleeping yesterday
00:34:44 I was sleeping the whole night I didn't have fun I was out here with you cuz you
00:34:48 hot I was trying to protect you
00:34:54 I
00:34:56 well I don't got an attitude what happened what happened to me well I'm
00:35:06 there
00:35:08 lost my place fooling with y'all
00:35:22 they shouted together I don't want nobody in my life I can't worship with
00:35:32 me and my girl worship we pray I got people in your life you gotta dumb your
00:35:51 Christianity down to be with you got an act not safe so y'all can be cool bye
00:36:00 cuz I'm saved and I'm still messed up at the same time so you're gonna have to
00:36:04 understand I ain't done cussing but I can still shout and I need God working I
00:36:09 promise you I don't mean to it just come out sometime Lord be patient with me I'm
00:36:14 talking about y'all not me cuz I don't do none of that
00:36:19 y'all need to stop
00:36:22 my wife gonna get me now Lord Jesus I'm sorry baby I'm the problem you can't
00:36:36 leave where you haven't been you can't leave where you haven't been when they
00:36:44 cried out together then the angel of the Lord came you gotta find your together
00:36:51 people I got I can tell this group right here y'all together I don't know who
00:37:00 y'all is who is y'all visitors y'all came together but y'all together now
00:37:10 they put y'all together y'all give a hand for our visitors they sit in the
00:37:15 same section now here here's the revelation the way they've been praising
00:37:22 together I thought there was a sorority because how can two walk together
00:37:27 lest they agree so all y'all people I don't know people like this so I got they
00:37:31 don't know each other like that either but for the purpose of this exercise
00:37:35 they're worshiping - okay all right
00:37:40 at the time it's Moses's moment don't sit down cuz I'm about to do it again at
00:37:59 the time Tyrone don't do it you know you don't have me loose just going crazy
00:38:04 this man is crazy I'm telling you at the time that it's Moses's moment he's
00:38:10 tending Jethro's sheep which means he's still in borrow status when it's his
00:38:16 moment he doesn't even have his own sheep and yet it's his moment because
00:38:22 our moments are not marked by the stuff we have it's marked by the stuff we keep
00:38:27 oh god he's watching Jethro's sheep just like they are his and he's proven to God
00:38:36 that if I'll keep Jethro's sheep like this how am I gonna act when you give me
00:38:43 oh I'm about to help somebody how do you treat that apartment while you praying
00:38:51 for a house how you treat that hotel room while you asking for a house how
00:39:04 you treat that boyfriend while you asking for a husband how you treat that
00:39:08 girlfriend while you asking for a wife because God will test you with rent
00:39:12 before he makes you an owner how do you tend Jethro's sheep it may my seat I
00:39:22 don't care what happens to him you ain't getting your own seat then because what
00:39:27 you do over another man's oh that's the Word of God you ain't got to say nothing
00:39:35 how you treat another man's possession is an indicator of how you will treat it
00:39:40 when it is yours if I borrow your car I promise you two things it's gonna come
00:39:46 back full of gas and it's gonna come back washed I will never bring you back
00:39:50 what you gave me in worse shape than it was when you gave it to me why cuz I'm a
00:39:54 good steward
00:40:01 some of y'all be like it ain't my car and it ain't never gonna be he's tending
00:40:11 Jethro's sheep he's on trial as a renter to see how he'll act when he's an owner
00:40:19 and God looks at how he treats another man's stuff and he says yeah I can deal
00:40:26 with him and then God takes him to Mount Horeb which is a great location because
00:40:32 this is where the law was given this is where the instructions to build the
00:40:37 tabernacle were given and this is where the burning bush is on fire and the
00:40:45 angel of the Lord appears to him out of a flame I thought God you set a bush on
00:40:52 fire and it didn't burn up I thought you was the consuming fire how you gonna be
00:41:00 a fire and the bush can survive you
00:41:04 I said well you you missing the whole point you're missing the whole point
00:41:13 God says it wasn't just a bush horticulturalist will call it a thorny
00:41:21 bush then the Lord gave me a revelation do you know what a thorn is a thorn is
00:41:31 an undeveloped branch a thorn is a branch that tried to be but just
00:41:39 couldn't get there a thorn was a branch trying to get to its moment but just
00:41:49 didn't have the strength to stretch out and so instead of becoming a point of
00:41:58 stability it becomes a point of damage
00:42:04 because when God puts a branch gifting in you and you don't do what it takes to
00:42:20 actually reach your potential the reason why people don't touch you is because
00:42:25 they hurt every time they do God where is my spouse he tried to come but he
00:42:36 bled after spending six months with you she tried to come but every time she
00:42:43 tried to caress and stimulate your mind you brought up your old trauma and she
00:42:50 left because you couldn't ever develop and become what God called you to be and
00:43:01 so you're a short branch that nobody can use and too dangerous to touch but here's
00:43:13 the greatness of God that God came for the underdeveloped for when he died he
00:43:23 had a crown of thorns on his head so the word of the Lord is if you are
00:43:31 underdeveloped you still got time I want 500 people to touch somebody say God's
00:43:39 about to give you another moment to reach your moment let the redeemed of
00:43:44 the Lord shout in this place
00:43:48 listen if you want to sit down go ahead God wants you to still operate through
00:44:04 your underdevelopment get in was weak but he kept operating in his purpose
00:44:19 David was young but he kept operating in his purpose stop allowing your
00:44:33 insufficiencies and your deficiencies and your shortcomings and your trauma
00:44:44 dictate whether you're going to become a branch or remain a thorn touch two people
00:44:53 to say grow through it and live through it
00:44:57 grow through it and live through it you don't you understand what I've been
00:45:16 through grow through it and live through it he left me with these kids to raise
00:45:31 them by myself your mama did it go through it and live through it period I
00:45:42 know my parents growing up and I grew up in the house it was dysfunctional all I
00:45:50 saw was arguing so that's why I argued they yelled so I yell shut your mouth
00:45:56 and get your butt up and throw through it and live through it it's amazing how
00:46:04 you can identify what's wrong but you can't stop doing it if you knew that
00:46:12 yelling that your children were wrong why do you do it because you don't have
00:46:19 the courage to not be a thorn that was a thorn put in my flesh lest I be exalted
00:46:32 above measure so what that means is is that Paul put a thorn or whatever that
00:46:39 was in his flesh to keep his head from swelling so he would be humble and not
00:46:46 arrogant maybe that's why you're surrounded by so many thorns it's
00:46:54 because without them arrogance would be your issue
00:46:58 you'd be surprised how many people you think are beautiful and they don't think
00:47:07 they're beautiful themselves and you got to spend your whole relationship talking
00:47:11 about you are pretty you are amazing God does love you I really do love you
00:47:18 honey no you don't no you don't you don't love yourself and anybody who
00:47:27 doesn't love them you can never convince them that you do
00:47:32 do you have the courage to get beyond your thorny stage listen I don't want
00:47:46 you to be mad at me but I don't care if you are I just want to ask you like how
00:47:51 long is your attitude gonna be that bad
00:47:57 I just want to know since your husband can't say it without getting an argument
00:48:02 let me speak for him how long are you gonna be toxic and have an attitude
00:48:08 about everything asking me to be patient with you while you change but then
00:48:14 asking me to accept you the way you are how long you gonna do that don't look
00:48:21 down now you were just standing up and shouting lift your head up how long bro
00:48:30 how long are you gonna continue to try to control somebody who's grown and then
00:48:40 get mad when she rebels cuz she was an adult when you met her what you gonna do
00:48:48 the question is is how long are you gonna remain a thorn because your moment
00:48:56 requires you to be a branch and if you are a thorn when the moment shows up
00:49:04 you're gonna pop it like a bubble because the moment can't touch you when
00:49:08 you're sharp is the moment worth the transition from who you are to what God
00:49:20 is calling you to be when we started this church and I came here God gave us
00:49:27 this building and we we had 1,500 people join this church in the first 16 weeks
00:49:36 it went from 1,500 to 5,000 when it got to 5,000 it stopped I was like God I'm
00:49:47 still preaching I'm doing everything you told me to do but I was a thorn asking
00:49:56 for a branch blessing self-sabotaging because you can be unready for something
00:50:04 that is ready for you and then the moment I got ready then all of y'all
00:50:11 came plus the 600 people that we have to turn away which is why we're about to
00:50:17 give and make the sanctuary a thousand seats larger so we don't have to turn
00:50:20 people away amen and build more parking on this structure so that you're not
00:50:30 walking from a gas station across the street and we're gonna do all of that
00:50:34 together because if we don't do it together then we won't hear from the
00:50:41 Lord you missing what I'm saying but how long do you get to remain a thorn going
00:50:53 home praying for branch blessings over the last 75 days I've been on a
00:51:04 gratitude journey I mean literally intentionally me and some pastors we
00:51:13 were at a conference in Arizona I think the second or third week of February and
00:51:19 we all decided next 75 days we're just gonna be grateful for everything okay
00:51:25 you know understand what I'm saying that means when it's hard I still got to be
00:51:32 grateful I have my moments where I'm like oh I'm tired of this gratitude
00:51:39 stuff it don't work then I see a glimpse of his glory and God will remind me I've
00:51:51 never lost a battle I get right back on my gratitude I realize that when I'm
00:52:01 grateful everything around me catches the gratitude before you know it people
00:52:15 you're dragging are now walking themselves because attitudes are
00:52:20 contagious the question is is yours worth catching Moses becomes the leader
00:52:32 but he's got a different experience because he's a prince they are slaves
00:52:42 which means when it's your moment you're gonna have to have the grace for the
00:52:51 people that are in your life because when it's your moment it won't
00:52:57 necessarily be theirs God would have spoke to you and he hadn't spoken to
00:53:04 them yet and when you come and say God says do this and God says do that and
00:53:09 they haven't heard anything they've got to trust your leadership it is your
00:53:13 consistency in your moment that will cause people to get in line with you and
00:53:20 say man if he don't break I shouldn't if she doesn't give up then I won't but
00:53:32 you gotta you just got to get out of that thorn stage gotta become a branch
00:53:42 once you are fully developed and you finally reach your branch stage then
00:53:52 you're going to get the revelation that the only reason why he made your branch
00:53:57 is to serve the birds land on it it shades the branches never get the glory
00:54:08 which means that when it's your moment you may not get a thank you actually
00:54:18 when it's your moment they expect more from you
00:54:24 yesterday we were at the house I even know it until we left wife and I heard
00:54:36 this loud noise boom birds in the neighborhood start going crazy we looked
00:54:42 at each other did you hear that I said yeah I heard it so I'm from the hood so
00:54:47 this is this how I operate if I hear noise over there I'm gonna let the noise
00:54:53 stay over there I ain't going to investigate what the noise is but if
00:54:57 that noise get too close to me I got a bigger noise you see so we heard the
00:55:03 noise woke up this morning they came to pick us up I noticed that when they came
00:55:14 to pick us up this morning the car was parked in a different place so
00:55:16 immediately I knew something was off come to find out that in front of our
00:55:22 house the noise we heard was a tree that fell down we even know it we were we
00:55:32 were watching blacklist anybody ever seen blacklist I'm in season 3 episode
00:55:37 11 Lord I'm locked in Raymond Reddington where are you bro all of a sudden right
00:55:48 in the middle of the episode TV cuts off so I go reset the router it doesn't work
00:55:57 I look on my app and it says there's an outage in your neighborhood it'll be
00:56:02 fixed by 315 a.m. Raymond I got to go to church woke up this morning still wasn't
00:56:09 fixed driver comes up he says the people said they were knocking on the door but
00:56:18 nobody's home he said yeah they're home because I'm picking them up ah ring
00:56:23 doorbell no internet the Internet's out still out this morning trees in the
00:56:33 yard my wife says something so brilliant she says babe since that tree is on that
00:56:38 apart that tree is on our property that mean we don't have to pay for it huh I
00:56:44 said baby you're right the tree fell and we're gonna have to we're gonna have to
00:56:51 pay for it watch this there's actually one in the backyard that's dead and I
00:56:58 just called the landscaping our neighborhood Andre he was there when I
00:57:02 got there I look he he was already doing the house you know when you first moving
00:57:10 in it's easier just to use the dude that's already there you know I told him
00:57:17 I text him I'm like we got to get this dead tree out of the backyard because if
00:57:22 that one falls it's gonna hit the house follow me the day my grandfather died
00:57:32 the day of his funeral there was a tree in his front yard that we used to play
00:57:37 on all the time they have his funeral and I'm talking about a tree with a
00:57:44 hundred-year-old tree I mean big boy my grandfather died the tree died and it
00:57:52 broke and it fell away from the living room where my uncle was sleeping I
00:57:57 promised you my grandfather's house was so small if that tree had fallen on the
00:58:01 house everybody in the room would have been gone I start thinking about all of
00:58:07 the dead trees I've seen in my life start to recognize that when their
00:58:15 moment is over they fall
00:58:19 without warning they just fall served every bird for every year it could until
00:58:32 this moment was up and it collapsed under the pressure of time without even
00:58:39 consulting the ground to decide if it was safe to fall what am I saying to you
00:58:46 you better get all you can out of the moment that you have because one day
00:58:56 without warning everything that goes up
00:59:01 must come down and my question for you is when your moment is over will we hear
00:59:14 it or will you fade away because you never became a branch and your moment
00:59:22 will be over and you will not make a sound because you didn't have the
00:59:27 courage to grow up and be big
00:59:31 I want you to find out why you were born and become so big that when your moment
00:59:46 is over the world will miss you
00:59:50 there are birds that are going to go to that same location and wonder where is
01:00:00 mr. tree mr. tree would probably say my moment was up but I got a cousin tree
01:00:10 right down there go go down there and see him now my wife says are we gonna
01:00:20 have to pay for the tree I say yeah baby we're gonna have to pay for a tree but
01:00:22 already got a plan because now I'm gonna take that tree and what they were gonna
01:00:27 charge me for mulch I'm gonna use that tree because even when that moment is up
01:00:36 I can reinvent myself and find another way y'all not listening to have another
01:00:42 moment here's what God is saying just because you're done doing that don't
01:00:46 mean I'm done with you I'm gonna move you over to another purpose some of y'all
01:00:56 in transition if you're in this place right now and you're in between moments
01:00:59 I want you to stand to your feet
01:01:03 you're in between moments you're in between what you know how to do and what
01:01:09 you learning to do and like Israel you can go you know you can go back you know
01:01:16 you can go back but is that is that where he's calling you
01:01:20 how many of you feel I know I'm a branch but I'm still in my thorny stage raise
01:01:27 your hand I'm not quite there yet I'm still a little sharp still a little
01:01:33 frustrated I'm still a little unsure I'm still a little insecure it's okay
01:01:41 it's alright because he who has began a good work in you
01:01:48 he'll finish it but you just got to continue to grow and live through it
01:01:58 if in this place today I just want you begin to open up your mouth as a sign of
01:02:07 surrender to God that God I'm ready I'm ready for my moment I'm ready for my
01:02:13 miracle and remember we got to all do it together it's not going to work I want
01:02:17 everybody online and everybody in this room while the praise team takes us up
01:02:21 higher in worship I want you to begin to say to God what you would say if he was
01:02:26 standing right in your face and by the way he is here come on open up your
01:02:29 mouth come on
01:02:32 Oh
01:02:34 Oh
01:02:36 Oh
01:02:38 Oh
01:02:40 Oh
01:02:42 Oh
01:02:46 Oh
01:03:08 listen to this Moses finally gets to the location and the Lord says to him he
01:03:15 says Moses you finally made it the place that you are standing on is holy ground
01:03:26 he says but I need you to do something I need you to shake the dust off of your
01:03:33 shoes Lord why do you care about my shoes he says tell the people the reason
01:03:44 why they have to discard their shoes because the thing that they're walking
01:03:51 in is not worthy of the ground they're about to walk on
01:03:59 and I don't know who the parasites and the dust are that have attached
01:04:04 themselves to you so that they can use you as travel to the next location but I
01:04:10 need you to shake off everything that God has not assigned to you because where
01:04:16 you are going is holy ground
01:04:26 if you're in this place today whether in the balcony are you on the front row
01:04:34 maybe you're in the back row somewhere in the middle maybe you're online I want
01:04:41 to extend an invitation to you to get right in the middle of your moment and
01:04:49 if you're here today
01:04:52 (whooshing)