Break the Barrier | Sarah Jakes Roberts

Summary

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The Potter's House Podcast: "Break the Barrier" | Sarah Jakes Roberts

Air date: September 21, 2025
Host: The Potter’s House
Speaker: Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts

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Episode Overview

This episode centers on the theme of "Breaking the Barrier"—spiritually overcoming obstacles that hinder our connection with God and stepping into personal revival. Sarah Jakes Roberts draws from 2 Chronicles 7:12-15, inviting listeners to examine what barriers prevent their prayers and praises from reaching heaven. She emphasizes the transformative power of humility, repentance, and the Holy Spirit in breaking free from spiritual stagnation.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Scriptural Foundation: 2 Chronicles 7

• Context: Solomon's dedication of the temple and God’s response.
• Application: Just as the temple was a place of God’s presence, our lives are now God’s dwelling. Barriers that existed for Israel—pride, entitlement, sin—can also hinder us today.
  [01:30–05:18]

2. Barriers to Oneness with God

• Identity: Even when believers falter, “they’ll still be my people even when they don’t look like my people” (Sarah Jakes Roberts, 05:19).
• Ownership: "If you are really a child of God, you ought to be called by his name." (05:49)
• Humility: Emphasized as crucial for access to God’s presence. Congregants are urged to take ownership of their spiritual identity and not exclude themselves due to struggles or failures.
  [05:18–07:00]

3. Sensory Overload & Spiritual Discernment

• Modern Distraction: Sarah describes feeling "sensory overload" from the constant barrage of information and emotion, paralleling physical stimuli with spiritual and emotional overload.
  [07:00–11:00]
• Role of the Holy Spirit: The Spirit acts as a translator and filter, interpreting what is truly happening around and within us.
• Discernment: "I have my therapist saved on speed dial, but when I can't get through to my therapist, I call the comforter, I call the teacher, I call the guy." (Sarah Jakes Roberts, 11:16) [07:00–13:00]

4. Living Beyond the Rules

• Observation: “No one’s playing by the rules anymore… if nobody’s playing by the rules, I'm not going to make the Holy Spirit play by the rules anyway.” (Sarah Jakes Roberts, 13:14)
• Encouragement: Let the Holy Spirit lead beyond tradition or limiting beliefs—age, background, “the rules”—into God’s unique vision for your life.
• Memorable Word Play: “I don’t play by the rules. I play by the spirit. I don’t talk by the rules. I talk by the spirit.” (15:12)
  [13:00–16:00]

5. Accessing the Power to Prophesy

• Proclamation: The outpouring of the Spirit gives everyone a prophetic voice—a sound that pushes back against negativity and despair in the world and their own lives.
• Command: “You going to have to prophesy…over your household.” (Sarah Jakes Roberts, 24:21)
• Practical Prophesy: Speakers lead with powerful declarations over health, wealth, legacy, and national healing, urging congregants to do the same for their own spheres. [21:00–27:30]

6. The Power & Physics of Praise

• Analogy: Corporate praise is likened to soundwaves, where energy (breath) disrupts matter—mirroring how worship can break through spiritual and emotional barriers.
• Encouragement: Sometimes our praise has to “break through the matter”—hardship, discouragement, heaviness.
• Corporate Spiritual Help: Even those too weary to praise on their own can ride the “wave” of another’s faith and worship. [27:13–37:59]

7. Breaking Down Spiritual Barriers

• Six Barriers Identified:
  1. Forgetting spiritual identity: “One of the barriers that keep the sound from reaching heaven is that they forget that they’re my people.” (44:20)
  2. Disowning oneself from God’s presence.
  3. Answering to the wrong names (fear, pride).
  4. Pride/Entitlement to God’s presence.
  5. Praying from entitlement, not humility.
  6. Failing to repent and truly turn from destructive paths.
• Key Challenge: “One of the barriers that will keep your sound from reaching heaven is if you disown yourself. Because God will never disown you.” (Sarah Jakes Roberts, 46:09) [44:18–54:00]

8. Turning (Repenting) as a Corporate Move

• Group Project: Like a wave, genuine repentance and turning from old ways start with one person but spread to others, becoming a movement.
• Altar Call: Listeners are urged to enact inner and outer humility by kneeling, repenting, and “getting low” before God.
  [54:00–65:00]

9. Receiving God’s Love and Restoration

• Assurance: "You are still my people, says God. You can still answer to my name...when others walk away from you, I'll be waiting for the moment you call me." (Sarah Jakes Roberts, 72:28)
• Adoption Restored: God offers a new identity and belonging, especially to those who’ve never felt claimed or wanted.
• Call to Surrender: The episode ends with encouragement to live every day breaking the barrier, receiving forgiveness, and walking in freedom.
  [72:16–76:46]

10. Closing Thoughts on Generosity & Abiding

• Generosity: Consistent tithing/offering is framed not as obligation but as a covenant with God—part of "fulfilling all righteousness" (77:48).
• Abiding: Drawing from John 15, listeners are urged to remain ("abide") in God, not merely visit Him, and trust in His faithfulness for fruitfulness and provision.
  [76:46–88:10]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Identity:

  "Even though my people may do some things that make them not look like my people, they’ll still be my people even when they don’t look like my people.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (05:19)

• On Discernment:

  “The Spirit helps me interpret what needs to happen in this moment... I have the translator with me.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (11:09)

• On Limiting Beliefs:

  "The rules say you’re too old. But the Spirit says you’re right on time."
  — (Co-preacher, 14:55)

• On Breaking Tradition:

  “No one’s playing by the rules anymore… if nobody’s playing by the rules, I'm not going to make the Holy Spirit play by the rules anyway.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (13:14)

• On the Sound of Repentance:

  “There is a sound that heaven cannot ignore, and it’s the sound of my people crying out.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (44:28)

• On Belonging:

  “One of the barriers that will keep your sound from reaching heaven is if you disown yourself. Because God will never disown you.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (46:09)

• On Worship:

  “When it gets finished taking this journey through matter and disrupting molecules, when it reaches heaven, it ought to be interpreted as praise… your praise has to go through some things before it becomes praise.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (27:13–28:30)

• On Repentance:

  “Repentance lays the foundation for revival. And revival doesn't happen standing up. Revival is an inside job. That happens when we get low.”
  — Sarah Jakes Roberts (61:47)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• Scripture Introduction & Barriers Explained: 01:30–07:00
• Sensory Overload & Role of Holy Spirit: 07:00–13:00
• Living Beyond the Rules: 13:00–16:00
• Power of the Spirit & Prophesy: 21:00–27:30
• The Physics of Praise: 27:13–37:59
• Breaking Down Six Barriers: 44:18–54:00
• Turning/Altar Call & Corporate Repentance: 54:00–65:00
• Receiving Love & Restoration: 72:16–76:46
• Abiding, Generosity & Closing Blessings: 76:46–88:10

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Flow & Tone

Sarah Jakes Roberts’ message is dynamic, deeply personal, and invitational. She skillfully weaves biblical teaching, prophetic encouragement, and vulnerable self-reflection, creating a space for listeners to both confront and lay down their spiritual barriers. The episode crescendos with a vivid altar call, collective worship, and tangible steps for ongoing transformation.

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Summary Usefulness:
Whether seeking personal spiritual growth, preparing a sermon, or looking for inspiration to overcome internal obstacles, this episode offers practical steps, memorable wisdom, and an indelible sense of hope grounded in God’s unwavering love and grace.

Transcript

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Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Thank you God. Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. We receive everything that's in this atmosphere for us. My message title is Break the Barrier and even as we were praising and making room for what God's doing, feel like barriers were being broken. So when I say we receive everything that's in this environment for us, I mean we receive everything that's meant to break any barrier that's keeping us from having oneness with you. Thank you God for allowing us access to your presence. Thank you God for doing that which only you can do. Thank you God for your healing, for your peace, for your restoration. And God, I pray that you will stand tall and strong. You know this room. You know this word. You know the meditations of my heart. Heart God, I surrender and I submit to you. Let me add only what I can add, nothing else, nothing less. And God, I thank you for hearts being opened in this space, for transformation, being available to us, for your glory, becoming a personal encounter. Thank you God for making this personal and allowing it to empower us as we leave out of this place. You've already started God, so help us to just stand in the flow in Jesus name. Amen. I'm in 2nd Chronicles, chapter 7, verses 12 through 15. This is not unfamiliar for some of you, as a matter of fact, when I read it, some of you who maybe grew up in church or around church will know some of the words in this scripture. But for those of you who are just beginning your journey, it's important to understand that there is a King Solomon who has created. He's built a temple for the Lord. And he went through some struggles to build this temple. His father thought he would build it. His father didn't get a chance to build it, but the Lord allowed him to build a temple, a dwelling place, place for his name. And they have finally built the temple. And they have a huge celebration to dedicate the temple. And Solomon makes his prayer request known before the Lord during the dedication of this temple. And in this text, the Lord answers those prayer requests that Solomon prayed as it related to dedicating the temple. And in verse 12 it says, Then the Lord appeared to Solomon, Solomon by night and said to him, I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, that means when my people start going through a hard time, when life doesn't look like what they anticipated, when the world as they know it begins to change. When I shut up heaven and there is no rain or command the locust devour the land or send pestilence among my people. If my people, oh God.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

If my.

[Pastor or Preacher]

People who are called by my name. Oh, this is so good to me. See, the beautiful thing about this text is that it's letting us know that each. Even though my people may do some things that make them not look like my people, they'll still be my people even when they don't look like my people who are called by my name. My last name is Roberts now. It was Jake's before that.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

That.

[Pastor or Preacher]

That's the name that I answer to. If you are really a child of God, you ought to be called by his name. We ought to know that it's you. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray not enough to get low, you got to pray and seek my face. It's not enough to get low, not enough to pray, not enough to seek my face. And then you got to turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to prayer made in this place. God, take this word, transform this word and release this word until every drop of glory is squeezed out of it. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. Let it rip. I missed you last week. Where was you? I'm keeping roll when y' all don't come to church. Just so you know. I was looking for you and I didn't see you. Bishop, you can stay home when I'm preaching. Because I didn't too much care for what happened up here. I mean, I cared for it in the spirit, but I didn't know about it. When I felt about it. When I heard what you did up here. You understand what I'm saying? He knew. Amen. You stay at the house all throughout the day. We are bombarded with different types of stimuli. We're constantly being inundated by different types of stimulus, stimuli, things that stimulate our senses. And this reality that we are inundated by stimuli doesn't even dawn on us because our brain works so quickly that it takes the stimuli and turns it into perception. When I say stimuli, I'm thinking biologically, psychologically, that there's a union between what we are experiencing in the world and the stimuli that creates the world as we understand it. And then the way that our brain translates that perception, we call it seeing. But sight is really the result of the brain interpreting light waves as shapes and depths and images. We call it smell. But smell is actually what our brain interprets as chemical compounds that we translate into odor. These are all types of stimuli. Our stimuli doesn't just stop there. It continues with the way that we experience touch. It continues in the way that we experience sound. The stimuli is happening all around us, and our brain interprets it. Sensory overload is when we begin to experience more stimuli than our brain has the ability to process. That's what's been happening for me over the last few weeks. It hasn't necessarily been in this biological and psychological sense. It's been happening as it relates to me. Listening to all of the things that are happening in the world. I feel like I got sensory overload. I mean, just swiping, you go from laughing to upset to questioning, just sensory overload. So much so that when I close the app, my mind is still processing all of the things that happen within a 10 minute span. I've got sensory overload. And what the brain does biologically and psychologically, the spirit does for us. The spirit takes the stimuli that we are exposed to and it translates it into something that we can perceive. Perception is the organization of the stimuli. The Holy Spirit makes intercession on our behalf. That means the Holy Spirit stands in the gap, helping us to sort through Everything we've been exposed to. The Holy Spirit's interpreting everything I've been exposed to. That's why some of us don't really get like, I went to therapy, and therapy really helps me. But there are some things that only give me breakthrough. When I get into the presence of the Lord and I start asking the Spirit to help me translate what I was just exposed to. Some of you have discernment, and that discernment is when the Spirit is trying to help you translate. They said something nice, but don't trust them. The Spirit's trying to help you translate that stimuli. That's why I need the Holy Spirit. I have my therapist saved on speed dial, but when I can't get through to my therapist, I call the comforter, I call the teacher, I call the guy. When I'm walking into a room and I don't know what to expect, I have the translator with me. The spirit helps me interpret the room. The spirit helps me interpret what needs to happen in this moment. The Spirit helps me to understand this is what I was exposed to. Now what do I do with what I've been exposed to? Jesus told the disciples, I'm going to send you a helper. I'm going to send you a comforter because you're going to be exposed, exposed to some things, and you're gonna need someone to help you translate what's a problem and what's not a problem? They wonder why you have peace in the middle of the storm. Because the Spirit told me that the storm can't knock me out of my purpose. I got the Spirit translating on my behalf. Oh, you better get a relationship with the Holy Spirit. If you come to church and all you become is a good church person, you would have missed out on the best part of being in relationship with Jesus. The best part of being in relationship with Jesus is I'm never in it on my own. You can'. Speak above my head.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You can't speak above my head because.

[Pastor or Preacher]

The Spirit helps me translate what's happening in the room. The Spirit helps me translate what I need to be praying for my children. The Spirit helps me translate how I.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Need to step into the moment.

[Pastor or Preacher]

The Spirit helps me translate. I'm never without help. I'm never without strategy. This isn't me boasting because I know everything.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I dropped out of school.

[Pastor or Preacher]

This isn't me boasting because I've been everywhere. I haven't been many places, but the.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Spirit prepares me for places I've never been. The Spirit prepares me with Words I could have never spoken on my own. The Spirit prepares me.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I don't know how you did that. The Holy Spirit did that. I don't know how you stepped into that moment, baby. The Holy Spirit did that. If we start walking in the Spirit and talking in the Spirit, we wouldn't have to wonder whether or not we were children of God. It would be evident that no one with that background.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Oh, my gosh.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I'm thinking about the Pharisees who were trying to figure out how did the disciples, who are unlearned men, start speaking in that language, and all of a sudden they knew they'd been with Jesus. How did they know they've been with Jesus? Because they walking in a different way. They talking in a different way. Yeah. Oh, I'm gonna say this prophetically because God gave it to me this week. The thing that is most interesting about the times that we're living in is that no one's playing by the rules. Isn't that what's upsetting is that we're not supposed to do that? And if we can survive the anger, the frustration and the fear of no one playing by the rule, it would empower and propel us to not play by the rules either. Oh, I wish I could say that real good. See, the reason why the Holy Spirit sometimes can't roam freely through us is because we want the Holy Spirit to fit into the rules. God help me, I can't dream that way. The rules say I can't dream that way. The rules tell me I can't build a family that way. The rules tell me I can't build in ministry that way. So I'm trying to make the Holy Spirit fit into the rules. But I hear God saying, you need to take note about what's happening in the earth. No one's playing by the rules anymore. And if nobody's playing by the rules, I'm not going to make the Holy Spirit play by the rules anyway. That means if God gives you a.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Vision that breaks some rules, don't try.

[Pastor or Preacher]

To make the vision fit into the rules.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You make sure that you let the.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Holy Spirit have full reign and full authority and full power in your life. I don't play by the rules.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You're not too old. The rules say you're too old. But the Spirit says you're right on time.

[Pastor or Preacher]

The rules say you could never do it.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

But the Spirit says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. The rules say you won't survive this. But the Spirit says, when I finish Trying you. You will come out as pure gold.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I don't play by the rules. I play by the spirit.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I don't talk by the rules. I talk by the spirit. I don't walk by the rules. I walk by the spirit. I don't create by the rules. I create by the spirit. I don't preach by the rules. I preach by the spirit. I don't raise my children by the rules. I raise them by the Spirit. And if the spirit wants to break the rules, the Spirit can break the rules if the Spirit wants to break me out of my shame, out of my depression. Because who wrote these rules anyway? Who wrote these rules? Who told you you were naked? Who told you you couldn't do it? I don't trust the rules.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You better let it free you. You better let it free you.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You better get free from the rules. You better act like you got a.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Limited window, and God's going to give you strategy for what to do in this season. Some people can't minister to you in this season because they play by the rules. And the rules they play by don't exist any longer. So you need the Spirit to help you discern and interpret what to do. In this generation, in this job, with this opportunity, Jesus didn't play by the rules. He was led by the Spirit. And the Spirit gave him insight. Oh, at all times, the Spirit gave him insight about who people were, about how to heal, about how to function. The Spirit gave him insight. I'm thinking about in Mark, there's this moment where he could perceive that the Pharisees were taking issue with what was happening. It's in Mark 2, verse 6. Can I. Can I give you a little Bible? In Mark 2, verses 6 through 8, Jesus says, Hold on, I got it here. It says. It says. And some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts. Oh, this is so good to me. I love the word. Why does this man so it's people talking about them in their hearts. Didn't say it to his face. It was in their heart. Why does this man speak blasphemies like this? Who can forgive sins but God alone? So Jesus is in the presence of those who are speaking poorly about him. But immediately when Jesus perceived in his Spirit. You don't even have to speak it when you got the Spirit. The Spirit will tell you what's in their heart without them even having to open their mouth. Oh, y' all better start asking God for the Holy Spirit. Not just so you can shout and speak in tongues, but I Need you to tell me what's in their heart before they even open their mouth. The spirit helped him to discern what was in people's heart. Holy Spirit, help me to see what's in their heart. Some of us got swept away by words only to find out what was in their heart didn't match their words. I hear God saying that don't have to be your portion no more. That if you would seek me first, I'll show you what's in their heart. The Holy Spirit helps us to interpret the stimuli that our spirits are exposed to, to test every spirit to see what's in the hearts of men. All of this conversation about interpretation and stimuli helps me to understand that part of the reason why the Holy Spirit helps us to interpret the stimuli we are exposed to is so that we can move from understanding it and discerning it into a space of proclamation. So once I'm exposed to it, the Holy Spirit helps me to organize it. I land to that place of truth that the Holy Spirit led me to. Now I've got something to proclaim. If you're taking notes, I want you to write that down. That's why I need this spirit to help me discern it. Because when I'm finished discerning, I need to proclaim Acts, two references, a prophecy that really originated in Joel. And that prophecy says, and it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. So the spirit's going to be poured out on all flesh, and the spirit is going to lead them, and the spirit's going to guide them, and the spirit is going to comfort them. And then when the spirit is poured out, there's going to be something that happens after that. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. So the spirit helps me organize it so that once the Spirit brings me to truth, I've got something to say. I need you to understand that you are supposed to be carrying a sound. I need you to understand amidst all of the noise that's in the world, what makes what you carry different from the noise is that the Lord has given you a sound that started in. In the spirit. God help me to say it real good. I need you to understand that the enemy is distracting you with noise to keep you from tapping into your sound. Your sound are the words that God wants you to prophesy out of your mouth. I know you came to hear somebody preach. I know you gonna come back next week to hear Bishop preach. But I came here to tell you that when the spirit gets finished pouring out that you ought to have something, something to prophesy out of your own mouth. It's going to take everybody in the room using their microphone to combat what the enemy is trying to deposit in the earth. And if you don't prophesy for your generation and if you don't prophesy for your family, the enemy's going to prophesy instead.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

But I came to wage war on the enemy. That you can no longer prophesy in my house. That you can no longer, longer rule in my home. I came to prophesy against powers and principalities.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I rebuke you, devil, in the name of Jesus.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I'm treading upon serpents and over all of the power of the enemy. You may have had power before, but the spirit is being poured out. And because the spirit is being poured out, I've got something to say. I didn't have nothing to say before, but the Spirit told me I shall live and not die. The Spirit told me, I'll declare the works of the Lord. The Spirit told me that that business is going to flourish. I got something to say. I couldn't say it in my own strength, but the Holy Ghost told me I got a feeling everything's gonna be all right. I wish I had about 5 or 10. 10 really good sanctified people in this house. You going to have to prophesy. You going to have to prophesy.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You don't have to prophesy. You're going to have to prophesy.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Your grandmother may not be here, so you may have to open up your own mouth. Your favorite preacher may not be here, so you may have to open. Open up your own mouth. So, Holy Spirit, pour out your spirit on everything that's fleshy on me. I'm tired of my flesh prophesying. I'm tired of my fear prophesying. I'm tired of my sin prophesying.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I dare you to take five seconds because surely the Holy Spirit has been poured out in this place to start prophesying over your household. I'm gonna give you five seconds and I'll move to my next point. But I dare you to start prophesying to allow the word of God to come out of your mouth. That you are fearfully and wonderfully made. That new weapon formed against you got to prophesy the word. If God hasn't given you a word yet, start prophesying what the word says about his people.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

If my people who are called by.

[Pastor or Preacher]

My name, I prophesy I prophesy health. I prophesy wealth in every way you can be wealthy. I prophesy good mind. I prophesy that the spirit of fear will get out of my life.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I prophesy that depression would get up off of me. I prophesy that my joy is coming back. I prophesy that I haven't seen my best days yet. I prophesy that he that began to work in me shall complete it until the days of Jesus Christ. I prophesy that I shall live and not die. I prophesy that my children will know God. I prophesy that everything that God put in me will come out. I prophesy that cancer's gotta get off of me. I prophesy that my health is coming back. I prophesy that my heart is healed. I prophesy that my mind is whole. I prophesy that anxiety will let me go. I promise.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I prophesy over this nation.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I prophesy over the globe. I prophesy that evil will be exposed and the glory of God will rise. I prophesy that we will hunger and thirst for righteousness. I prophesy that we will find ourselves on bended knees again in the presence of the Lord. I prophesy that the church will be full. I prophesy that we won't have space to hold what God's gonna do in this earth. I prophesy.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I prophesy that the curse is broken.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I prophesy that the curse is broken. I prophesy that the curse of rejection is broken. I prophesy the spirit of adoption. I prophesy the spirit of identity. Only the identity that can come from God. I prophesy that my mind is transformed.

[Pastor or Preacher]

The Holy Spirit wants to give you something to say. The Holy Spirit wants to give you something to say. I want to give you something to say that will disrupt atmospheres. Oh, the Holy Spirit wants to give you a sound. So I started studying about how sound is produced from this physics standpoint. How is what we perceive as sound produced? When we look at this from the lens of physics, sound has really quite the journey. But our mind perceives as sound. It starts with what physicists would call energy. Physicists, in the name of Jesus, say that energy begins to disrupt matter. So. So my breath is energy. And when I exhale from my lungs, that breath travels through matter. The organs inside my body travels through my vocal box, through my vocal folds, and that matter, my vocal cords and my vocal folds, is made up of molecules. So when that energy passes through matter, it disrupts the molecules. And that disruption of molecules, they start bumping into one another until they create a wave, creates a sound wave, a pattern. And then that pattern reaches your eardrum. That same pattern that started with my breath reaches your eardrums. And your brain interprets it as my voice. So my breath has to go through some things in order to become my voice. And that is how sound is produced. So in Psalm 151 says, Let everything that has breath praise ye. The Lord is saying that your breath is going to have to take a journey through matter. Oh, God, help me. And when it gets finished taking this journey through matter and disrupting molecules, that when it reaches heaven, it ought to be interpreted as praise. That means that your breath, your praise, has to go through some things before it becomes praise. I wish I could say that real good. When we're talking about how the Lord has given you a sound, I need you to understand that there are moments when the sound that God has given you cannot be released because it cannot break through the matter. I'm not talking about biology anymore. I'm talking about what happens in your spirit when the Scripture says, let everything that has breath praise the Lord. And the enemy starts to tell you, no, you can't praise the Lord because you don't know where your next meal is coming from. No, you can't praise the Lord because you went through that heartbreak. I'm telling you that your praise. It is not uncommon for your praise to have to break through some matter. So our bodies are giving us a.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Sign that praise doesn't always come easy.

[Pastor or Preacher]

That's why Hebrews says that we have to offer the sacrifice of our praise. Sometimes making a sound means I gotta break through the noise. Sometimes making a sound means I gotta break through what the enemy has been saying to me sometimes. Let's practice it. Let's practice. Let's practice this. If you're in this room, I want to see if we can create a wave that lands in heaven as praise. So when I say, let everything that has breath praise ye the Lord, however.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You do your thing. Come on, come on, come on, come.

[Pastor or Preacher]

On, come on, come on, come on.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Come on, come on.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You may have to break through the grief. Come on. You may have to break through the anxiety. Push that breath out. Let everything that has breath praise ye the Lord. Praise him with your voice. Praise them with your hands. Praise them with your feet. Praise them with your body. Because he inhabits the praises of his people. So if you give him your breath, if you give him praise, you're making a home for him. I'll sit on top of that praise. Cause I know what you went through to release it. I'll sit on top of that praise. Cause that praise is a miracle. I'll sit on top of that praise. Cause that praise had to break through some things. I'm gonna give somebody else 10 seconds to break through your praise. Breakthrough. Breakthrough. Breakthrough. Breakthrough. Out of your breath. Breakthrough from your praise.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I still praise you. I still praise you in the middle of the storm. I still praise you Lord.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Here's my breath.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Oh, let me tell you the beautiful.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Thing about sound creating waves. There are people in this room and they don't have enough energy to break through. But they can get caught up in your wave. Can we take just five more seconds for the people in the room who don't have enough breath?

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Cause life is tried to knock the.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Wind out of them.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You stood in the gap for the country. Can you stand in the gap for your pew? Somebody can't pray their way through this heartbreak. Somebody can't praise their way through this disease. But you in the right place at the right time. Cuz I knew something about getting some praise. I know something about getting some praise through God. I'm not just praising you for myself. I'm praising you for the person sitting next to me. All hell has been breaking out against them. But God, I thank you cause you're good anyway. I thank you cause you're worthy. I thank you cause you got good plans. I thank you cause you won't prosper. I call them healed. I call them worthy. God, they'll see your goodness. They'll see your righteousness. God, I decree and declare. No weapon formed against him will prosper. God, I plead the blood of Jesus over them, a hedge of protection over their finances.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I dare you. Just touch them.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Just touch your neighbor. Just touch your neighbor. Just touch your neighbor. Hey, just touch your neighbor. Touch look like a wave to me. It look like a wave of glory to me. Touch your neighbor. Touch your neighbor. I touch your neighbor. I call you healed. Touch your neighbor till they get the glory. I exalt you, O Lord. I magnify your name. If you be lifted up, you draw all men. God, I came dragging my neighbor. I came dragging my sister.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So wave. It's a wave. It's a wave. It's a wave. It's a wave. It's a wave. It's a wave. It's a wave of glory. It's a wave of praise. It's a wave of Praise, it's a wave of praise. God, I'm not asking you for anything.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I'm just praising you right now.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Cause you've been better than good to me.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I'm just praising you right now. Because you seen me through danger, seen and unseen. I'm just praising you right now. Because I think this is a battle. I should have seen the battles you saved me from. God, I thank you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

He's a good guy. He's a good guy. Don't let this circumstance make you believe he's not a good God. I've been there before where I wondered.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

If God would be good to me. But he gave me mercy I didn't deserve. He gave me grace I couldn't earn. He's a good God, I promise you. I know you going through hell, but he's a good God, I promise you. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil. Cause I got a good shepherd. I got a good God walking with me. He'll say, show me the way to take. He'll go ahead of me and make my crooked path straight. I got a good God.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And the enemy will always try to make you believe that you can't trust the goodness of God. So if you're in this room and amidst all of this praise, you're wondering if the God that was good for them will be good for you. So there's something blocking your sound. I need you to understand that the goodness of God is revealed through our faithfulness. I tell you, if you ever start just reading the Word on your own and not just waiting on somebody to read it for you, you'll see. He should have gave up on us alone time ago. Have you ever heard about somebody through someone else and it made you realize that they a good person for real? It ain't nothing like hearing about what God did in that book to help you understand that his character is real. That same good God who showed up for Adam and Eve, for Cain and Abel, for Seth when he called upon the Lord, for Abraham, that same good guy that wrestled with Jacob. That same good guy that didn't even let the fact that Joseph brothers ridiculed him, he stayed with that same good guy. He been good for generations after generations after generation. His goodness won't stop now. But ours, ours will. That's the truth, is his goodness. This doesn't fail, but ours does. And Solomon builds this temple. They dedicate it to the Lord and they throw a big party. And everyone gets on one accord. And the singer Sings and the dancers dance. Second Chronicles, Chapter five. You read the whole thing. They throw this party celebrating the goodness of God and the glory of the Lord fills the temple. The most interesting thing happens after this, though, amidst all of this noise, Solomon dedicates the temple. And he says something very peculiar. If you read chapter six, you'll see he starts to say things like, when they turn away from you and they get distracted by other gods, when you allow them to be held captive because they didn't follow your statutes, he says he hear from heaven and forgive them. He goes, I know right now they're praising. And I know right now they're excited. And in the moment, we would start to believe that we'll be like this forever. But Solomon knows the thing or two about seeing people want to show up as their best selves, but then falling short. And so he prepares in front of Israel. He prepares them for the reality of who they are, that God is good and you're his people. But there are going to be moments where you don't feel like this. And all he does is he asks the Lord to keep your ears open for when they make a sound. He says, keep your ears open. When they get distracted, when sin sends in the way, when they stop praising on this level, when they fall short of who they know they're supposed to be, keep your ears open. Keep your ears open because you're going to hear from heaven. So this text is the Lord responding to his prayer. And the Lord answers him, and he says, I heard you. I heard what you said about them. And I want you to know that I will deliver on what you said, that there is a sound that God cannot ignore. Help me.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Who?

[Pastor or Preacher]

God, Help me.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

There is a sound that heaven cannot ignore.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And it's the sound of my people crying out.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

And I want to tell you, I.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Broke this scripture down. I read this scripture. I've been reading and marinating over it all night. And I'm trying to figure out what produces the sound that heaven cannot ignore. What are the barriers that keep heaven from hearing the sound? And can I tell you one of them? There's six of them. I don't know if I'm gonna get to all of them. I'm gonna try. It's my people. One of the barriers that keep the sound from reaching heaven is that they forget that they're my people. Now, I need you to understand why that's so powerful. Because sometimes we think that if I distance myself, if I sin, if I mess up, if I'm not faithful, Then I don't. I don't have the right to be his people anymore. So you reject yourself from the presence, even though God is willing to keep you. If you want to remove one of the barriers that keep the Lord from hearing your sound, you got to be his people no matter what. No, you got to hear me. Because there's addiction in this room. There's depression in this room. There's pride in this room. There's lust in this room.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

And the enemy will make you believe.

[Pastor or Preacher]

That because it has you. That because you have it, that it has you. But God says, you steal my people. You steal my people. Drunk.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

You steal my people.

[Pastor or Preacher]

People backslid.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You still my people.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You, I still claim you. The love of God was manifesting that when we were still sinners. You still my people. You messed up. You still my people. You got to find a way to receive that as your reality. That I've been grafted in. When I believed in Jesus, when I said, I accept him as my Lord, I, my savior. That means I only belong to God. One of the barriers that will keep your sound from reaching heaven is if you disown yourself. Because God will never disown you. Oh, if you make your bed in hell, I'll be with you. I'll never disown you.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Your friends may walk away.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Your parents may not know what to do with you. You will always be my child, no matter what. Do you understand?

[Congregant or Worshipper]

You'll always be my people. I know the thoughts in your head.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You still mine. I know what you did in the dark. You still my people. So when I call you, you gotta answer. Because you're my people. If my people who are called by my name, you gotta own it so much that when they say, where are all the children of God? That you say, I'm one of them filthy rags.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I'm still one of them. Don't know all the books of the.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Bible, but I'm still one of them.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

He came and saw about me. He came and got me. I'm his people and I answer to his name.

[Pastor or Preacher]

He put his name on me.

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[Friend or Congregant]

You look the same.

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[Friend or Congregant]

You haven't changed your hair in 15 years.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Selfies check, please.

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[Pastor or Preacher]

If My people who are called by my name, what are you answering to? One of the barriers that will keep your sound from reaching heaven is what you answer to. Are we answering to fear? Are we answering to pride? Are we answering to ego? We answer into this world. World. I'm called by his name, he said. Now if you can get that part, the next barrier is that you may be too prideful, you may feel too entitled to my presence. Israel kept getting in trouble because they just normalized the presence. They started adding other things to it because the presence wasn't enough. So you, you can be my people. You can be called by my name. But are you humble enough to understand that you shouldn't have any access to my presence? But I dwell with you anyway. Are you humble enough? That word humble in the Hebrew admit to humiliate. And we're in a culture and a generation where we prefer our highlight reel. But when you get in the present presence of Lord, you ought to be humiliated. Because when I look at I don't even deserve to be in here smelling like what I smell like, going through.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

What I've gone through.

[Pastor or Preacher]

God, I'm so grateful to be in your presence. God, you're so good and you're so.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Worthy and I haven't been good at all.

[Pastor or Preacher]

God, I look back over my life.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

And all of the mistakes I made. God, how could you allow me into your presence? You still put your name on me. God, I let other people put other things on me, but you still put your name on me. God, how could you do this? How could you put your name on me? I answered to everything in the book.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

But you put your name on me.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Oh God, I shouldn't even be here. I shouldn't even be here, but you put your name on me. You didn't give up on me. You put your name on me. I don't deserve it. You put your name on me.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

You keep on calling me.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

And you.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Keep on showing up for me. And you keep on loving me. And sometimes I get mad because you didn't do what I asked you to do. Like, I'm entitled to your goodness. Like I did everything the right way.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Like this breath started with me.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

God forgive me. Humble themselves.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And this is how you pray from here.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

This is how you pray.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

You pray from the floor.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You don't pray from your degrees.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

You don't pray from your accolades.

[Pastor or Preacher]

You don't pray from your achievements. You don't pray from everything you did the right way. You say, I'm a sinner, God, and only you understand all the ways that I've sinned.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Only you understand all the ways I've messed up.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And sometimes we're praying from a place of entitlement. Sometimes we're praying like, if you don't move, if you don't do what I tell you to do, I'm walking away from you. When you pray from that place of humility, the prayer is not, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, see me.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

See me, see me, see me. It's thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Thank you with thanksgiving and gratitude. It's nevertheless, not my will, but God, this is what I want to happen. But at the end of the day, I trust you. At the end of the day, I honor you. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, Lord, I want to see you. I want to see your face. I want to know you. I want to know you. God, I want to clear my lens until I see you properly.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

God, I don't want to get up.

[Pastor or Preacher]

From this place until I know it's you.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

I want to know who you are. I want to know your ways.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I want to know your voice. I want to know your name. And I got to get low to see those things. I got to be claimed to see those things here.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

For my people.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face. Says, and then you can't just let this be something you do for 10 to 15 minutes in your prayer closet. When you get up, see this, what happens. We walking down a path, we realize we're walking down the wrong path. And the Lord captures us. And from that place he claims us. And we answer to him. And we humble ourselves and we seek his face. And then when we get up, some of us keep walking this direction. He says, if my people follow all those steps, when they get up, come on, somebody. Come on, somebody. I'm celebrating because I feel like somebody's getting ready to turn.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

Somebody.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I dare you to just turn. If that's you, I dare you. Just turn any direction you can turn. Because I've been walking down the wrong path and I know I've been thinking.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

The wrong thoughts and I got distracted.

[Pastor or Preacher]

But here I am, Lord.

[Co-preacher or Worship Leader]

I'm humbling myself. I'm seeking your face, and I'm getting ready to turn. And when I turn from these wicked ways, there will be a sound that is released. Released from my spirit. And that sound will touch heaven. God says, if you want my attention, you gotta make a sound. In this place, your turn is a sound. Your prayer is a sound. Your praise is a sound. I hear God saying, repent. Repent. Repent. Repent. Repent. Repent. For the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Repent. Repent.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Repent.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Because if we're going to see revival, we're asking God to send revival for them over there. Who's getting it wrong? Lord, we shall need revival because everybody else is messing it up. And we're so busy trying to figure out who's right and who's wrong that we stop looking at our own wrong. Can I tell you something? This is something that we're all going to have to partake in, that we gonna have to be humble enough to know that we're all wrong at least a little. At least a little bit. He doesn't say if one person who was called by my name, Potter's house, I'm about to close. He said, if my people. This is a group project. This is not just the job for one person, though. It starts with one person. God says if you start it off, it'll be a sound wave that gives someone else permission to do it as well. And when they start doing it, it'll go from being one person to all of my people. I hear God saying that there's not enough of us willing to get low enough to make the kind of sound that gets God's attention. But if all we're depending on is you, I wonder if you could find a way to be humble. Humble. I wonder if you could find a way to pray so that God can hear from heaven. Verse 15 says, I'm finished. It says that my heart and my eyes will be attentive to prayers made from this place. We think they must have thought at the time that geographically they were talking specifically about that temple. But we know because of the New Testament that then we became the temple of the Lord. As the temple of the Lord, I am telling you that if you feel like God doesn't hear you or you feel like you cannot hear from God, that there may be some barriers standing in the way. I offered you a few of the barriers that exist in 2nd Chronicles, chapter 7, verse 14. But I am telling you that there is no sound like repentance that gets God's attention. And because this is a group project, some of you are going to go home and you're going to assume all of these postures in secret. But there are a few of you in this room who have done enough sinning in secret that you can at least do your repentance out loud. This part of the service is going to require humility and vulnerability because you are going to have to to admit that you've been on the wrong path. And let me tell you something about church people. And I love y'. All. I'm church people. It's me. I am church people. I don't like when people talk about the church from the church. Cuz, baby, you sitting in one. What we doing? Okay, Let me tell you about us is we think that if I'm not doing none of the big sins.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

If.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I'm not doing none of the big sins, and I don't have nothing to repent for, but if the Lord has told you, you need to put that phone down, you need to stop talking that way, stop eating that way, but because it's not a big sin, you've been giving yourself a pass. I need you to be all out of passes. I'm going to ask those of you who know that, at least in one area, maybe more than one, I need to make a turn to get as close as you can to this altar. But get enough space to get down. Leave enough space. Don't come up here standing. Hallelujah. If my people. I still claim you, says God. Just because you coming down here doesn't mean that I disowned you. You still my people. If my people who were called by my name, you've been answering to something else. You see, repentance lays the foundation for revival. And revival doesn't happen standing up. Revival is an inside job. That happens when we get low. If my people. As close as you can. Come on. Kneel before the Lord. Kneel before the Lord. He came to get you. He came to see about you. Humble yourself. Humble yourself.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

You don't know everything. Humble yourself. You're not going to do this on your own no more.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Humble yourself, self.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Humble yourself. Humble yourself. Get low.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Who are you to talk me out.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Of What I called you to do. Humble yourself. I've told you time and time again you mind and you keep running. Humble yourself. Not another idea, not another strategy, not another plan until you humble yourself.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Do business with God.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Lord, I'm sorry, Lord, I can't say no. I'm sorry. I keep getting stuck. God, I'm sorry. My anger, God, I lay it down before you. Lord, I'm sorry. Forgive me, God, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me. I know better and I don't do better. God, forgive me, forgive me, forgive me and thank you, God. God, thank you that you love me too much to leave me in this mess I'm in. God, thank you. You've been so good to me. You've been so good to me, God, and it's still not enough. I keep pushing and asking for more. God, I'm sorry. God, I'm sorry. God, I'm sorry. You took my mother and I didn't know what to do. So I did some things I shouldn't have did. God, I'm sorry. I've been raising this child out of my anger. God, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I've been answering the bitterness. I'm sorry. So sorry. God, I just want to see you. I just want to see you. I can't see them no more. So let me see you. I don't know who I am anymore. But let me see you, God, if I see you, I'll find me. Order my steps, God, fill me again. Nothing else filled me like you did. No one can heal me but you. I lost my fire.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I lost my focus.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

I lost my vision. I don't even know how it happened. But, God, I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. I'm running. Back to you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Dude.

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[Congregant or Worshipper]

I want to be different. I want to be saved. I want to be healed.

[Pastor or Preacher]

I want to walk out this next stage of my life with integrity.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

I don't know what I'm doing.

[Pastor or Preacher]

That's the truth.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Everyone thinks I have it all together. But I don't know what I'm doing. So I'm turning away from pride, turning away from ego. And I'm turning to you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Do it.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Only you can.

[Pastor or Preacher]

God, Holy Spirit. We're offering our hearts, we're offering our prayers, we're offering our ways. And we know that you can interpret them. That you can make intercession on our behalf. Holy Spirit, fill this room like you did in act too. When they were all gathered on one accord.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Here we are, gathered on one accord.

[Pastor or Preacher]

And there came a sound from heaven. A sound like a mighty rushing wind. Oh Lord, send your sound. Hear us from heaven. We don't know what we doing down here. We don't know how to walk this.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Walk, how to talk this talk without you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

So we ask God for you to receive our sound. The sound of our repentance, the sound of our remorse. The sound of us just being lost. I thank you God that before we even cried out to you, you heard us. That you knew this moment was coming. And God, I thank you that in you there is no condemnation. I thank you God, that in you there is only love. It was your love that created this moment. Your love that created this opportunity. God, help those who were at this altar to receive your love in this moment.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Do you feel this love in this moment? I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I've been waiting on you. I've been waiting on you.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Cause I still believe in you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. You are still my people, says God. You can still answer to my names, says God, when others walk away from you. I'll be waiting for the moment you call me. So God, I thank you for identities being restored. I thank you for giving someone the strength to turn from their wicked ways. I thank you God for us finding the beauty in repentance and for our humility breaking the barrier that keeps our sound from traveling to heaven. God, continue to clear the channel, Continue to help us to understand what sins, what ways, what thoughts, what actions keep our sound from reaching heaven. May we live every day willing to break the barrier that keeps our sound from reaching heaven. May we live a life laid down in your presence. God, forgive us for taking it for granted. Forgive us for being entitled after you've already given us more than we deserve. May we receive the spirit of adoption again so that we can cry out abba, Father, teach us how to be fathered in this season, to be claimed in this season.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

I don't know who you are, but nobody claimed you. I hear God saying, I'm going to show you how to be claimed.

[Pastor or Preacher]

To lean into the fact that we'll never be left nor abandoned or forsaken by you. God help that to reshape our identity and change the way that we show up in the world. And God, as your glory fills the temple, the temple of their hearts, the temple of their souls, may they allow it to transform them. May they allow it to become the only thing that fills them. We rebuke the temple power of the enemy in the name of Jesus. We plead the blood of Jesus over every household, every mind, every we plead the blood of Jesus. We break every stronghold in the name of Jesus. We claim them as free. No longer chained, no longer bound to old ways and old activities. We claim them as free and we ask God that they would walk in in the spirit of freedom. This message, this moment, God, may it never end. The lights may turn off, the song may stop playing, but what's happening in their heart, May it never end. May it become their new way of living and thinking and believing so they have no choice but to turn from their wickedness ways. God, this is my offering. These are your people. Thank you for allowing me to serve them. Lord knows I don't deserve it, but you use me anyway. And for that I am forever grateful. May my life be a sign that you use the raggedy, the broken, those who answer to other names. When we find a way to surrender and receive who you are, bless this word, God. Allow it to take root and produce fruit in Jesus name.

[Friend or Congregant]

Hallelujah. A couple of things really quickly. So grateful to God for that word for this entire journey. We're going to receive our tithes and our offerings. I'm thinking about Jesus when he was going to be baptized by John and he at the Jordan river and Jesus walks up to John and John says ah nah nah nah, I'm not baptizing you, you need to be baptizing me. And Jesus said, no, no, no. He said, suffer it. Allow it to happen.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Now.

[Friend or Congregant]

He says, because it is critical that we fulfill all righteousness. All righteousness. And even though he was a son of God, I'm sure he could have. He was a. A Lord who broke the rule. He was the rule. So he could have said, yeah, you're right, I can take this grace and not. Not do this part. But he said, no, no, no. Every detail of righteousness. So we're going to give in that spirit. There may be some who are watching or some who are here, and, and you've opened up your heart to the Lord, but you haven't given him all of you. And one of the areas that you haven't given to him is the area of faithfully and consistently tithing. And one of the words that the Lord has been speaking to me of late is in John 15, where he talks about abiding in me. Not, don't just tap into me, abide. That Greek word literally means remain or dwell in me. And he says, and if you do that, if you abide in me, if you dwell in me, if you not, not just visit me, but if you consistently abide in me, he says, I will abide in you, and I will make you not only fruitful, but very fruitful, very fruitful. And then he says, and not only that, not only is it true that if you abide in me, I will abide. I will abide in you, and my word will abide in you, and I will make you fruitful, very fruitful. He says, but you can ask me for things. Check out it. John 15, he said, and I will do them. It's in the spirit of that. I know that we are a faithful church in our generosity and so on. We all understand that. But I'm speaking in particular to those who haven't done that yet. You haven't given your resources to God. You've given him your heart in many ways. You've given him, you know, certain things in many ways, but that one, that one is always going to be warfare over mammon. The scriptures say how you see money. If you put your trust in money, you will not trust God. So in the spirit of fulfilling all righteousness, some, to be honest, one of those little sins that maybe Pastor Sarah alluded to is not faithful honoring God with the tenth or with the offering. And he says it in there, this is not to make you feel away, but in that context, in Matthew Malachi, chapter three, he says he's talking to his people and he's saying, hey, there's some things that I need you to get worked out. And then they're like, what do we.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Need to get worked out?

[Friend or Congregant]

And he says, tithes and offerings. And then he goes on, he says, and will a man rob God? Isn't there? I didn't say will a man rob God? Well, how have we robbed you in tithes and offerings? You haven't taken this seriously and consistently. You haven't seen the spirituality of it. You look at it like it's a bill and you treat it with the same thought process as a bill. The tithe is not a bill. It's a covenant. It's a covenantal relationship. Relationship with God. It's about abiding in God, flowing in God. I don't want any area of my life to not be flowing in God, me honoring him. And he said, I'll make you fruitful. So we're going to receive our tithes and our offerings. If you need an envelope, lift your hand if you're watching via live stream. And this is the house that feeds you, and you know it. I invite you to be a part of kingdom building. And there are many personal benefits. I mean, Malachi talks about it. I'll open up the windows of heaven and pour out such blessing you won't have room to receive. I'll rebuke the devour for your sake, right? In other words, I'll deal with that thing that's cursing your economics. For some of you, your economics are cursed because you know better, but you don't do better. That's right there in the scripture. But he says, but we can break that. We can settle that. We can work that out. Honor me with your substance, return to tithe and art that there might be food in my house. And watch me. Watch me do this. This is not up for debate. I'm gonna do this for you. I'm gonna open up the windows of heaven. You're looking out here. I'm gonna have it come from here, from a realm that the economy can't touch. And I'm gonna pour you out such a blessing you won't have room enough to receive. Now, God is not a waste of. So that means that you're going to have so much, and it's going to be so much that you receive and you have to distribute. You're going to be a distributor. You're going to go from distress to being a distributor. When you align with God in the area of tithes and offerings, I'M telling you, it doesn't make sense. He says, and then I'm going to rebuke the Devourer. See, the Devourer had access to your resources because you knew better, but you didn't do better. But I'm going to rebuke him for your sake. He says, and your vine will not fail to produce in the field. In other words, your stuff's going to work. I'm going to give you ideas. You're going to have faith to do it, and it's going to prosper because you're mine and you're not putting mammon over me. Riches don't endure. Endure forever, but his Word does. And his Word says that I will supply all of your need according to my riches in glory by Christ Jesus. So we're going to honor the Lord again. If you need an envelope, lift your hands. If you're watching via live stream, you hear me clear. This is for you. Then giving instructions on the screen. And because this is an act of worship, I just want you to stand and we're going to lift our offerings up to the Lord. My phone. Ella, can you bring my phone, sweetheart, please? Thank you, baby. Thank you, sweetie. Hallelujah. The Lord has had his way with us today, has he not? I don't know about you. I'll never be the same again. I'll never be the same again. Hallelujah. Start to finish. We're still fasting. I encourage you to continue in on the fast. If you're just starting, if you're just hearing about it. We got three more days, and it's going to culminate on Wednesday night. We're going to take communion here together. We're going to break the fast. The cafe will be open. You can walk right out of the service and go into the cafe and get you some catfish if you want to. Hallelujah. Leadership is of paramount importance. Men, if you have not registered for as a man thinketh. I cannot think of a better time to get serious about growing and being the leader that God has called you to be. We had a whole video, but God moved. And so I'm trying to be the video. Hallelujah. All right. And I'm also trying to stall because I want to get my seat in the ground, too.

[Congregant or Worshipper]

Got it.

[Friend or Congregant]

Come on.

[Pastor or Preacher]

Come on.

[Friend or Congregant]

Give me that confirmation. Come on. It's probably because everybody's doing it. I did it. Let's hold up to heaven. Father, thank you so much. Gosh. Oh. For this encounter. We thank you, God, that this was not business. As usual. But there was something unique and special about this. On the 21st of September. Hallelujah. 21. The number of breakthrough. Oh, Hallelujah. Feel that right there. And as we are encroaching and embarking upon the biblical New year, which begins tomorrow evening, culminates on Wednesday when we have our communion, we are in alignment. We thank you, God, for blessing us with a healthy church. Hallelujah. And God, we thank you for your provision in our lives. We know everything that we have comes from you. So it is an absolute honor and a privilege to return to you the tithe and the offering to bring it into the storehouse. That is, there might be food in your house. And we know what the promises are, so we claim them by faith. We prophesy your word that you will open up the windows of heaven and pour out such blessing that we won't have room enough to receive. While some may be experiencing drought and famine, we will, to the contrary, experience an overflow. And you, God, will rebuke the devour for our sake. Meaning that it's going to have to skip over us. Because the covenant. Hallelujah. That we have been grafted into by your blood will cause the devour to pass over us. Hallelujah. And our vines will not fail to produce in the field. We thank you, God, for the blessing that spills over into not just our business and our investments, God, but even our children. Hallelujah. Yes. That they won't fail as well. We love you, God. Thank you for this church. Thank you for each of us. Bless us in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Let's give. Let's give. Please. Pastor Seed to the left. Pmt. Serve the people of God. Hallelujah.

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