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Foreign. Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our services from ONE in la. If you haven't been to one, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to one, the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end. Hallelujah. You must be up to something. You ought to just think that when things are crazy and you feel confused, concerned, worried, all the normal things that we experience in life, you have to learn to not question to the point of doubt. I get we all question what's going on, you know what I mean? But I want somebody know what I'm talking about, what you know, what's happening, but really get to a point to where. And you know, we'll do that. We'll say, what's up, God? You know, but then somehow you have to land on. You must be up to something because. Because he always is. There's one description of Jesus and he is called the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. The Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. The slaying of the Lamb or Jesus going to the cross had to do with redeeming something. But if he was the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, that means that the solution, him redeeming the solution was produced before the problem. You tracking with me the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world, before there was anything to be redeemed, the redemption occurred. So I have to remember that when I'm in a moment, in a moment, no matter how difficult the moment, we'll touch on that. I have to remember that God is up to something behind the scenes, behind the curtains, God is moving, getting ready to reset the stage. You ever been at a. I was gonna say Broadway, but Broadway is on another level, but some bootleg theater production. And you see the curtain, the curtains closed. Scene one has ended. The curtain is closed. And you see elbows, you see all this kind of movement behind the curtains and you know that something's getting ready to. And it changes. And it's like, surprise. It ain't no surprise. I saw elbows and toes peeking through the curtain. God, no matter where you find yourself, is behind the curtain, resetting the stage. And at the right time. Ta da. And it's all going to make sense. That's the Bible, Romans 8, 28. We all know it. For God causes all things to work together for good for those who love him, those who are called according to his purpose. He is that type of God. He's not sitting back indifferent to the sufferings and the struggles of people. He is a strategist. He is a master strategist. And he has an incredible plan to take the good, the bad, the ugly, the confusing, all of it, and in the process of time, cause it all to work together for good. Speaking of in the process of time, let's go to Exodus, chapter two. We'll start reading in verse 23. Should I give you backdrop? Yeah, maybe a little. This is the story where the children of Israel were experiencing. Well, they were on in the. Their last phase of experiencing horrible oppression. Horrible oppression, Unthinkable oppression. And God was getting ready to shift things. It says now it happened in the process of time. That will preach all by itself in the process of time. Time has a process. There's something. Time is not just time. Time has stuff going on. There's a process taking place, a very brilliant strategic happening and working is taking place in this thing called time. God is an eternal God. He's eternal. God is infinite. Infinite, Right. But in this thing called time, there are processes playing out. And you think about a business, you think about a company. Processes are everything. Structures, systems and processes ensure the success, I was going to say, or the failure where it lacks it. But good systems and good processes ensure the success of the enterprise. Are we tracking so time is not just time, Dr. Anita, they're processes. God has process. He has things that are working behind the curtain of time. Right. All right. Now, in the process of time, it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. The system of oppression. I will keep moving now. It happened in the process of time. In the process of time that the king Egypt died. Kings, I'm hearing this song. Kings and kingdoms, they will all pass away. Process of time. King of Egypt died. The oppressive system died. The leader of that oppressive system died. You're gonna have to give me liberty today. Liberty and freedom today. Just let me, because I don't want to miss. First of all, I miss you. But second of All. I don't want to miss one thing that God is saying. So I want to. I want to be at a certain cadence. And I don't want to move on until I feel like everything that has been said there has been said. Now, it happened in the process of time that the king, the figurehead of this oppressive system was removed. It says, then the children of Israel. The children of Israel. I'll come back and tell you why I'm emphasizing children. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out. And their cry came up to God because of the bondage. God is always interested in the cries of oppressed people. Always. The Bible says that he resists the proud and extends grace to the humble. That's why we can never get. We can never get too high on our own supply. We can never. We should never think more highly than we ought to. And we certainly should never look down on anybody else. Because the person that you're looking down to, God, is getting ready to elevate in front of you. Hello, somebody. Treat everybody with dignity and respect. Always. I don't care who you are. I don't care how much money you have. I don't care how your breath, everybody with respect. That makes you like God. Okay? So their cry came up to God because of the bondage. So God heard their groaning. And God remembered his covenant with Abraham. Let me stop. When it says remember, doesn't mean he remembered like he forgot. A Hebrew word literally means to mark or to recognize, right? And so there will be times when because of your prayers, because of your intercession, you will cause God to go back and find a specific point in his covenant with you that he can utilize legally to bring the breakthrough that you need. Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth? There are a lot of things in your covenant and your intercession. We'll get to that. Your intercession, you crying out to God sometimes the issue is you're not crying out to God, you're crying out to man. We're crying out to our money. Lord, if you could just give me some money or if you can give me favor with this person or favor with that person, right? Or if we all come together. No, no, no, no. They cried out to God. Maybe prior to that they were crying out to the king. I don't know. Maybe they were crying out to each other. Bible says they cried out to God because of the bondage. And God heard them. And God remembered. He marked, he recognized. And then God starts Moving. So God heard their groaning. And God remembered. He marked. He recognized his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with J. Hmm. All of whom were dead. Some of you right now, your grandmama prayed some prayers, your father prays. There's some prayer. There's some seed in the ground that you didn't even. You don't know nothing about. There's some multi, generational grace, opportunities, blessings, open doors, favor that belongs to you. And I hear God saying, you gotta learn to start crying out to me. You gotta learn to stop calling unto me. Because there are some things, there are some things in the earth, there are some things that I did not get a chance to do for your grandmother, but it's on your life because it goes from generation to generation to generation. I hear Dr. King saying, I have a dream. He didn't see it. He saw it, but he didn't get to walk in it. But we're walking in his dream. Come on. So what I'm getting at, what I'm getting at is there things in your covenant because of your relationship with Jesus. There are things. They're powerful things. If you knew how rich your covenant was, you wouldn't fear another day of your life. You wouldn't doubt another day of your life. You'll stick out your chest, square your shoulders, not question yourself, and walk through every open door that God provides. I gotta. Okay, I gotta. We gotta finish this here. So God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God looked upon the children of Israel and God acknowledged them. That word acknowledges the Hebrew word yada. It means to know. So it wasn't just acknowledge them? No, no, it's to see deeply. Sometimes that word is used literally to speak to intimacy, like physical intimacy. And so God is saying that when you cry out to me because of bond, I'm going to remember covenant and I'm going to see you like nobody sees you. Thinking about Hagar in scripture, where she calls him Jehovah or she calls him Elroy, the God who sees me. And I hear that for somebody, somebody needs to know. God sees you. He is not indifferent to the tears that stream down your face or the pain that you feel or the struggle that you feel in those deep and dark moments. God is saying, I see you and I'm near you and I got you. And let me tell you something. Let me show this last thing. So that closes out. It closes the chapter out, the second chapter of Exodus. It closes out with God saying, I see you. I see. I heard you. And I see you. And the next two words are powerful. Chapter three and one. Next two words. After God sees. After I cry out to God after I get it right. And I'm crying because of bondage. It's an ugly cry. It's not cute. It's not a full of faith. Oh, rah, rah, shobo. You ain't speaking in tongues. It ain't none of that. You're crying because you're embodying bondage. You're like God, if you don't do this, I don't even know if I can make it another five days. God acknowledges them. He sees them. And then the next two words are powerful. Now Moses. I feel somebody is in a now Moses season. Moses was a deliverer. It literally means his name, means to draw out. And I feel like because you cried out to the Lord, God is getting ready to send a Moses. He's getting ready to send deliverance your way. And he's getting ready to draw you out of a difficult place and bring you into a large place. Mary, Mary, put it this way. He's going to take the shackles off of your feet so that you can dance, so that you can be free to be everything that God has created you to be. But let's talk about it. I want to talk really quickly from this idea. Covered in the chaos. Covered. Covered. As I was praying to God, God, what do you want me to talk about? I don't do sermons. I don't. God, what are you saying to your people right now? And he wanted me to talk on this Father's Day about covering. Covered. You're covered in the chaos and the chaos. The enemy wants you to think that you are not covered. The enemy wants you to think that you are vulnerable. The enemy wants you to think that you don't have protection. The enemy wants you to think that you don't have provision. The enemy wants you to think that you are forgotten. But God sent me all the way from Dallas, Texas today to speak and decree to you right now. I don't care how you feel. I don't care how chaotic your world is. You are covered right now. That's why you will never not be a child of God. Because you have a father who sits high and looks low. And you are covered. Do me a favor, shout, I'm covered. Come on, open your mouth. Say, I'm covered. I'm covered. I'm covered. I'm discovered. I'm even in chaos. Even in the chaos, even in the fire, even in the pain, even in the brokenness even in my place of suffering. One thing I know is I'm covered. Baby, if you're covered, holla at me real quick if you're covered. And you know you're covered. I'm covered. I'm covered. I'm covered. I'm covered. No weapon formed against me will prosper. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. I'm covered. Your rod and your staff, they comfort. I am covered. He who dwells in the secret place will dwell under the shadow, will abide under the shadow of the Almighty. You're covered. You're covered. You're covered. You're covered. You're not a bastard. You're covered. You're not rejected. You're covered. You have a daddy. You have a father. You have a father. So, Lord, help me to take these few minutes and these few words that you've given me and let it turn into something that changes the way your sons and daughters show up in the earth. May that simple recognition and understanding that the sovereign God, creators of the heavens of the earth, has got my back, has got me covered. And there is nothing that I will face that has not already been accounted for in his grace. And I pray that you would make it so plain that your sons and daughters will begin to walk in something different. Who would we be if we knew that the sovereign God was covering us and that goodness and mercy was following us all the days of our lives? And so, God, God, these are your children. They're yours. They belong to you. God, in this moment, I am just your vessel, your channel, your conduit from your heart to theirs. And I pray that they would feel your love and your protection and your nearness so powerfully and so radically that it would chase away every fear, that it would break every yoke, every stronghold in their mind, everything that's holding them back, everything that's causing them pain. I pray God, that your love would come in like a flood. That your love would come in like a flood. That it would baptize your sons and daughters in such a way that every chain would break, every yoke would break, God, that they would come forth like gold. So do it, Lord, I yield this message to you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Huh. Well, this is interesting. It's going to be pretty interesting because I have more message than I have minutes as I prayed for you pertaining to this moment as it is now evidenced. God wanted me to talk to you about covering and for you to understand the blessing of covering, how it changes everything about your life to know that you are covered. I remember I was in a neighborhood I grew up in, and there was a guy in the neighborhood. He was older than me and bigger than me, and he used to exploit that from time to time. And one day I was with my cousin of blessed memory. His name is Theo. And I decided, since Theo was present, he was my older cousin. He's bigger, stronger than both me and the bully. And I decided, because Theo was there, that this was my moment to get a little get back on the bully in the neighborhood who was bigger than me and older than me. And before I knew it, I didn't solicit Theo's participation at all. He was just theirs. And I knew I was covered. And I ran up on this guy, and I decided that I was going to throw a few punches at him and get a little get back from the years of him exploiting our height and strength difference. And I swung on the guy and Dr. Nita, I hit him pretty good, but he didn't move. And instead of moving in the way that I thought he would move away from me because I hit him, he moved toward me with two or three or five or six or 19 punches. And I began to realize really quickly that this was not going to the way I. I don't think I ever been hit that many times in that short window of time, in the process of time. And it was not going too good. But next thing I know, I felt relief come out of nowhere. And it was my cousin Theo and my cousin Theo. I don't know if you know this term, but he gaffled. Y' all know what gaffled mean? He gaffled him up. Y' all gotta be from Cali to understand the gaffling. He wrapped his arms around him with great force and intensity, and he delivered me from what have surely been a severe beatdown from the bully. The point that I'm making is that I had the courage to go into the fight because I knew I was covered. When you know that you're covered, you are a different person. The uncovered version of Ture would have never done that. And let me tell you. Oh, and by the way, the bully never bothered me anymore because whatever that one or two licks that I got, apparently they were somewhat effective, at least at angering him, if nothing else. But that was it. And there was a respect from that moment forward. And we actually became pretty good friends. When you know that you are covered, you show up differently in Life, it gives you courage. And I'm gonna tell you right now, your calling necessitates courage. And you've heard the definition of courage before. I don't have to say it. I'll just tell you right now. Courage is not the absence of fear, is the ability to move forward in spite of it. Right? Listen, there are going to be moments in life where you're afraid. But if you don't get to a place to where you don't. Where you do not allow that being afraid or that fear to keep you from moving, you don't get to that place, you're going to miss purpose. Because I'll tell you right now, if God calls me to do something that doesn't scare me a little bit, I don't think it's God. God will never call you to do something that you feel with within your reach. That's you calling it God. God sees a version of you that you don't see. Because God, before he formed you in your mother's womb, he knew you. So God knows more about you than you know about yourself. He knows who you can whoop. I don't mean that you know, in the way that I just described. He knows the giants that you can slay. He's already seen you slay them. So I need to feel covered so that I can face my giants. And that's why David, even you think about David and Goliath. You know the story. I'm sure the height difference between Goliath and David was much different than me and my guy. But he tells you when he goes in there, when he goes to fight him, this little boy goes to fight this giant, he essentially talks about his covenant. He knew he was in covenant with God, which meant that he knew he was covered by a covenant. And as a result of that, it gave him the courage to face Goliath, which. Watch this. Which ultimately changed his destiny. See, this is critical because some of you, as I mentioned before, some of you are being squeezed by pressure because you're going to face something. You're going to become something, you're going to do something, and it's going to mark you and change your life and the lives of the. Your children and quite possibly the lives of a complete. Of a whole generation. Are you tracking with me? So when you know you're covered, it gives you courage, it makes you brave. Mm. I'm a different person when I know I'm covered. Right. And watch this. It extends you to the bounds of your potential, the bounds everybody talks about. Man, for someone to tell me that I have potential is not a compliment. Trust me. You. You know, in fact, if someone is. Let's say there's an employee who worked for me and their new employer is coming to me and they're asking me about that person, and if I say that person has a lot of potential, that wasn't a compliment. Because potential left unearthed or left unpotentialized. Failure. So when you have a covering, it gives you the courage that allows you to move and do life in such a way so that you can actually discover the bounds of your potential. Are you hearing me? Because there's more to you than you think. And if you are still breathing, you're not in your potential yet. It's always in front of you. I'm always. That's why God is always encouraging you. That's why if you don't spend time in the presence of God, you don't hear his whispers that cause you to do scary stuff. All right? But the peace to take stands and to do the things that God invites you to do that seem beyond you have very much to do with your sense of covering. Are you tracking with me your sense of knowing that there is something greater than you hovering over you? But let's talk about the feeling of being uncovered and the effects of that feeling. Because everything I just described feeling uncovered is the opposite of that. When you feel uncovered, you feel naked. You know what you feel when you feel uncovered, you feel naked and ashamed, which is not natural. You remember in the garden in the very beginning, God creates man in his image and in his likeness. There's one thing. Once he's finished, there's one thing that he says about them that's really powerful and sometimes you might forget it. He says, and the two of them were naked and unashamed. Naked yet unashamed. And then when the fall happens, they are now hiding themselves, trying to cover themselves. Now they are naked and ashamed. And so what does God do? God knows. Even though they made a mistake, he knows that they cannot function in a consciousness of being uncovered. So even though they don't necessarily deserve it, he covers them because he knows I cannot get anything out of them if they feel uncovered. Are we tracking? I got to move through this really quickly. For me, one of the greatest things to me about being a father, and I have six kids, I love my kids. I have people who are like kids, and some would consider me their spiritual father. For me, one of the greatest things about being a father is the responsibility of covering, of protecting, covering My family. Like, even though it's a responsibility, it feels good to be the covering of my family. And I think the reason why it feels good is because I never feel. Watch this. More divine. I never feel more like God than when I'm flowing in, in my father consciousness. The consciousness of me being a covering, me as a father, as a coverer is me in the best version of me. It feels amazing. Yes. Is it tough? Yes. Is it daunting? Yes. But it's the best version of me. Fathers, you know what I'm talking about. Like, it just like to be, you know, just to be a dad. That there are people depending on my excellence, my preparation and my provision. I don't know, it just does something to me. It makes me feel valuable because it's me flowing in the image and the likeness of God. It delivers me from self centeredness, right? I love being a dad, right? Because it gives me a sense of purpose. Fathers that know what I'm talking about holla at me real quick. See, fathers know what I'm talking about. It's powerful. And I'll be honest with you, there is little that I pride myself on more than being an exemplary father. I really am. You ain't got to tell. I don't even need nobody to tell me. I know I am because I work at it and I pray and I'm always striving to be better. And my children will tell you that, right? And not because I paid them, because I'm living it. And yet, as good of a father as I and all the other fathers in here may be, it doesn't even come close to who father God is. I want to show you something really quickly. In Luke, chapter 11, verses 9 and 13. I'm just going to read it. It's really, really a profound passage. You've heard it before. Luke 11:9, it says, so I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock and it will be open to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks, finds. And to him who knocks, it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? He's painting these scenarios of father child exchange. And then he says, if you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? Let me, let me unpack that just a little bit. First of all, who you call an evil. I used to have a wee bit of a problem with Jesus because I just told you I pride myself on being a fantastic father. I do, I do, I do. But here in the text, I was rolling with him at first because Jesus was like, you know, if a son asks for this, will you give him that? I'm like, yes. And if a son asks for stone, will you give him a. Yes. Bread, will you give him yes? I'm like, yes. And then Jesus just flat out calls me evil, says, if you being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, I said, who's evil? I am an exemplary father, I'll have you know, Lord. But yet it's in there and it's in red. So, you know, Jesus said it. You can argue with Paul sometimes a little bit. You get a little argument with Paul every once in a while sometime, you know, but isn't red. You're evil hurt my feelings a little bit, you know, you know, but, but here's what he's saying. He's not necessarily saying Jesus, you gotta, if you study Jesus, Jesus is very dramatic. He is not a drama queen. He's just dramatically trying to make up. He's a storyteller. And most storytellers are dramatic, right? And he wasn't necessarily saying that you are an evil father. He is saying, watch this. That even the best of you have some potentiality for evil in you. Somebody said that wasn't much better. PT no, it's true. We have flesh. We can get angry. Do something, say something. Watch this. I don't care how good you are, haven't you said something evil? One day you might have said something evil to somebody driving to church today, you know, cut you off, you start speaking in tongues. So the dramatic Jesus, what he is trying to do is he is trying to communicate the vast difference between even the best of fathers and the heavenly Father. Let me show you a picture that talks about the Heavenly Father real quick. And I'm just. Gimme a moment. James 1:7. It says, Every good and perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of Lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. In other words, the God who is covering us is perfect. Oh, stay with me. I'm getting into it now. He's perfect. There is not a flaw at all in character, in ability, in the ability to see you, right? Flawless, perfect. Because if he wasn't perfect when you cut him off and whatever that might look like in your life. He will cut you off. Haven't we cut off Jesus a time or two? Haven't we turned our ear or turned the way or allowed what we wanted to do and the passion of what we wanted to do? Drown out his still, small voice. Haven't we at least one time been unfaithful to God? Let me tell you something. Let somebody be unfaithful to you. You will shut down, close down, pack up, get out. Not only are we not together, but I hate you. Don't you call me again. And I hope you die. I hope. I mean. And yet he is so perfect. So perfect that even when you move, he doesn't. This is the one who's covering us. But I do have a bit of a challenge with the text. A bit of a challenge. I've overcome the fact that he called me evil. I get it now in context. I understand. Okay, I got it. You're talking about the difference between me and you and. Okay, I got you. Okay, all right, all right. But there is something that I didn't, until I got enlightened, I didn't really appreciate about what he said. He says, ask and you shall receive. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you. And then he talks about how, you know, whatever you need, I got you. And then he says, how much more? If you ask, how much more will I give the Holy Spirit to those who ask? Now, wait a minute. I got a money problem. Wait a minute, I got a relationship problem. God, you're a God of abundance. You got everything. And you're saying that the thing that you're guaranteeing that you'll give me if I ask you is not more money, it's not more peace, it's not fixing my marriage, fixing my relationship, fixing my health, fixing my body. He doesn't promise any of that. In this context, in this verse, he didn't promise any of that. I don't like that you're God. You're supposed to love me with your unevil self. You're supposed to love me. If you love me, then surely whatever I need, you're going to give to me. So if I got a money problem, you're going to take care of that. If I've got a health problem, you're going to take care of that? He says. He doesn't say any of that. He doesn't say any of that. I'm not saying that he won't do it, because he will, but he doesn't say any of that there he says, how much more will I give the Holy Spirit in the context of his love and character? He's saying, what I will give you without limit is my spirit. I felt a little shortchange there. And that's kind of almost like, just stay with me. That's kind of almost like another scripture that kind of bothers me a little bit until I got enlightened. Luke 22, verse 31, 32. And the Lord Jesus is talking to Peter. He's talking to Simon. And the Lord said, simon, Simon indeed. Satan has asked for you that he may sift you as wheat. Now watch this. Now I'm coming to my covering. I'm having a conversation with my covering. I'm sold out. I'm walking with my. I've left everything. I've left my fishing business. Peter's Fish Fry. Peter's Fish and Chips. It had multiple locations. He was a stunning entrepreneur. I've left all of my franchises to follow you, and you tell me you can find me. You say, now, Peter, I want you to know something. He says, satan has asked for you that he might sift you as wheat. Now, what I'm expecting is for Jesus to say, but I told him, oh, heck no. Oh, heck no. Don't you touch him. You know what I mean? And just this dramatic war scene as Jesus is recounting his conversation with Satan. I'm imagining now because since I'm the one you really into, I left my fish business. You're into. I just know that when Satan told you that he. He was going to roll up on me, you said, oh, the devil is a liar. And you're going to describe to me this dramatic scene of warfare and you stepping on the enemy and just binding him up and all that kind of stuff. That ain't what happened. It says, he asked that he might have you, that he might sift you as we. He said, but I prayed for you, okay? So all is not lost. Okay? You prayed that I would have victory, that I'd have a mighty sword in my hand and I would cut his head off like David gets Goliath. Okay, give it to me. Give it to me. He said, I pray for you that your faith wouldn't fail. What type of bootleg savior are you? Until I understood something about God, I understood that sometimes, for your development and for you to have what it takes to truly walk out your purpose and your calling and to experience. Watch this. The spoils thereof. It is more expedient that God not deliver you, but to give you the Ability to endure and to go through what you must go through in order to be shaped in the way that you must be shaped in order to show up in the earth and have the type of impact in the earth that your life must have. Because remember, God already pre qualified you to overcome. Jesus was the lamb slain before the foundation of the world. In other words, what I must do is learn how to stand. You have to get to a place where you are not begging God all the time to deliver you, but you have to trust Him. And you have to say, like Job, though you slay me, yet will I trust you. And when I come out of this, I am coming forth as gold. That's why he says, I prayed that your faith wouldn't fail. I know the enemy wants to have you. He wants to have you because of what is on you. He wants to have you because of what you're carrying. Of course he wants to sift you. Of course he wants to break you down because he knows who you are. And if you would ever get to a place where you would stop begging God to deliver you, but instead ask him to strengthen you. Give me the strength to endure. Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 35, one of my favorite passages of scripture, the writer is talking to the Hebrews who were really under significant persecution and pressure. And he says to them, cast not, therefore away your confidence. Don't cast away your expectation. Put it up there. I didn't say that. Put. Oh, God, we're almost out of time. Put that passage up there real quick. Hebrews 10, I'm just. Oh, there it is. Therefore do not. And we're going to do verse 36 too. Therefore do not cast away your confidence. Watch this. Which has great reward. There's something in your expectation, right? It says. And in verse 36 it says, for you have need of patience, you have need of endurance. See, you think you need deliverance. You don't need deliverance. You need endurance because. So that after you have done the will of God, that thing that happens in the process of time, you may receive the promise. Sometimes the gap between where you are and what God promised is that battle and that struggle. So God has to strengthen your faith and give you the power of the Holy Spirit so that you can stand. That's why he says, how much more of the Holy Spirit will I give you? The Holy Spirit will give you peace. The Holy Spirit will give you power, and the Holy Spirit will cause you to prevail. Are you hearing me? So what God does is he covers you in the chaos right now you're covered. I got a land right now. You're covered. You know where Jesus is seated In Meshiba on the right hand of the Father, making intercept. Covering you right now. I don't care what the enemy does in this earth, the God. Right now, the Lord is seated on the right hand of the Father, making intercession. And his intercession probably sounds like. Don't let their faith fail. Oh, I feel the spirit of God. I wish I had about 30 more minutes with you. Don't let their faith fail. He's doing warfare, keeping stuff off of you. Let me tell you something right now. I promise you he will not cause one thing to come your way that he hasn't already given you the victory over. If you would stand and fight. There ain't nothing that comes at you that's greater than you. Greater is he that is in you. Are you hearing me? I don't care how loud it is. I don't care how strong it is. I don't care how relentless it is. Greater is he who is in you. You've already overcome. You've already overcome. You just gotta endure it. You just gotta weather it. You have already won. You're not fighting for victory. You're fighting from victory. You won already. You won before the foundation of the world. Every giant has already been defeated. Kings and kingdoms will all pass away. The enemies that you see today. See, let me fast forward. Let me show you. See, I'm going to prove that what they were experiencing, although they had to go through it for a long time, I'll be honest with you, it was 400 years. But God told Abraham in Genesis and was going to happen. Look, Genesis 15, it says, then God said to Abram, he says, know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in the land that is not theirs and will serve them, and they will afflict them. 400 years. But that ain't the end of the story. Also the nations whom they serve, God says, I will judge. This ain't even your fight. This is my fight. When they come at you, what they don't realize is they're coming at me. And also the nation whom they serve, I will judge. Watch this. And afterward they shall come out with great possessions. I hear God saying, I'm going to give you double for your trouble. I hear God say, I'm going to make it worth your while. I hear God saying, you're going to come out with spoil. You're not just going to be delivered. You're going to come out with Substance. I gotta go because we got one more service. But I want to talk to somebody. I want to pray for somebody who feels uncovered, who feels like God doesn't see you, that God has forgotten about you. It feels like God doesn't have a strategy that is a lie straight out of the pit of hell. I hear God saying, you just got to learn to cry out to me more. Stop crying out to your bank account, Stop crying out to social media. Stop crying out to your friends and your family. And you need to cry out to me because although they are wonderful, they are not in covenant with you. I'm in covenant with you. And if you call on me, I will answer you and I will send deliverance your way. Talk to me. You've been talking to everybody else and accept me. Cry out to me. I can't wait to hear your cry and I'mma come through. I feel the Holy Ghost. I will ride for you. I died for you. I chose you. I'm for you. And if I am for you. So let's get that settled. It might be chaotic, but I'm covered in the chaos. God has gone ahead of me and made my crooked path straight. God has gone ahead of me and he has ensured my victory. So if I have victory in the end, I might as well start praising him now. We used to say in the church that I grew up in, don't wait till the battle is over. Shout, shout now. The children of Israel didn't wait for Jericho's walls to fall before they shouted. They shouted and those walls fell. God is just making you stronger. He's squeezing you. We gotta go. He's squeezing you, squeezing you to get the oil out, to get the oil out, to get you oily and strong. Because the anointing is going to break the yokes. Do all the things you know to do to make your voice known. Do all the things you know to do to stand up against injustice as you perceive it. Do all the things you know to do to do all that. But it ain't going to happen by your own might. It's not going to happen by your own power. The long lasting deliverance and breakthrough is not going to happen through man's efforts without God's grace. It's not going to happen by might nor by power, but it will happen by the Spirit. And how is the Spirit released when you cry out to God? We need to have prayer meetings all over this city, prayer meetings all over this nation. Get on your knees and call on God. Watch him show up and kill Every principality and kill every system and kill everything wicked. You ought to laugh at wickedness when you see wickedness. Yeah, rebuke it and laugh at it. Just look wickedness in the eyes and say, your days are numbered. Your days are numbered. Because the only thing that will stand the test of time is truth and righteousness. Never forget whose you are. Never forget. I'm covered. Yeah, it's chaotic. I ain't gonna lie. Just remember, though, you're covered in the middle of it. I gotta go. We got another service that's getting ready to start. I love you. I want to pray for you. Father, I thank you so much for these, your sons and daughters. God and I believe they're called and chosen to great things. God, as much on their life, we thank you that you've already gone ahead of us and made our crooked path straight. Father, there any here, any under the sound of my voice that are struggling to believe that they are seen. They're struggling with the notion that wickedness is prevailing. I pray, God, that they would just check the record, check the history books. The verdict is in. We win already. And Father, I pray where there is despair and fear, I pray, God, that the peace which passes all understanding will begin to comfort your sons and daughters that are wrestling, that are struggling. Their worlds have been turned upside down. God, remember them. God. I pray, God, for any whose world has been turned upside down. They would look up and know, God, that you're near the brokenhearted and you will always be near the oppressed. You resist the proud and you extend grace to the humble. Help us to not be proud. Help us to be humble so that we won't be resisted. I just want you to pray after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love. I feel it. I thank you for your word, I receive it. I thank you for Jesus, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. Thank you for making him who had no sin, all of mine, all of my weakness, all of my limitations, all of my shortcomings, all of my failures and all of my mistakes you place in his body. Nailed it to the cross and put it to death. And just like you raised him up free and victorious, you've raised me up too. And now I'm seated in heavenly places. In Christ, above principalities and above powers. I thank you that the virt is in. I win. In Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Love you. Hey, family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades, and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience it. 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