The Potter’s House Podcast “Never Been Done Before”

Episode: PSJR - 260104 | January 4, 2026
Host/Speaker: The Potter's House (mainly one preacher, with co-speakers/testimonial speakers and worship leader/encouragers)

Episode Overview

This impassioned message explores the biblical principle of stepping into the “never been done before,” using the story of Jesus at the temple (Luke 2), the science of nature versus nurture, and the account of Hannah (1 Samuel). The preacher urges listeners to break out of self-limiting environments, activate their spiritual inheritance, and embrace the kind of unnatural obedience that invites God’s supernatural work. The message is lively, relatable, humorous, and weighty, directly challenging listeners to allow God to do “what has never been done before” in their lives in 2026.

Key Points & Insights

Setting the Scene: Jesus at Age 12 (Luke 2)

• Text Chosen: Luke 2, the only glimpse into Jesus’ childhood besides his birth.

  • At 12, Jesus remains behind at the temple, astonishing the teachers.
  • Mary and Joseph, after days of searching, find him debating with learned men.

• Cultural Reflection: The speaker notes how personal lenses can color our reading of Scripture.

  • “When I read this text, it makes me think that Jesus wanted a pow pow.” [02:10]

• Jesus’ Rebuttal to His Parents:

  • Quote: "Why did you seek me? Did you not know that I must be about my Father's business?" [04:53]
  • The preacher finds this moment fascinating: Jesus seems “smart with Mary and Joseph.” In another culture, it could call for a reprimand!

Theme: Nature, Nurture, and Hidden Capacity

• Nature vs. Nurture:
  • Modern science affirms that identity is shaped by genetics (nature) and environment (nurture).
  • Example of twins raised apart: Some traits emerge regardless, but environment triggers latent capacities.
  • "Sometimes what's in you can't get out of you unless you're in an environment that makes a demand on what's in you." [10:47]
• Personal Example:
  • The speaker shares a humorous story about thinking she wasn’t a runner—until in the right context, even latent abilities surfaced.
    • “My feet and legs don’t do whatever makes people… run.” [09:57]
    • “But I be doggone it, my feet actually do the thing…” [10:30]
• Spiritually:
  • Many people “judge their capacity based on limited environments. Which means you don’t really know who you are or what God has placed inside of you.” [11:20]
  • Environmental Demand: Some environments pull out the best; others suppress destiny.

Spiritual Environment & Inheritance

• “Change Your Environment, Change Your Life” [14:38]
  • The preacher insists that sometimes a new season requires leaving places and people that keep us small or in sin.
  • “If you change your environment, it will change your life. But I cannot change your life in this environment.” [14:38]
• Example: Moses’ destiny required a new environment and a new word from God.
  • “My word is an environment within itself... When you got your own environment, it don’t matter where you go.” [15:51-16:10]
• Warning:
  • Not all environments are good for purpose:
    • “Some environments… pull out a version of you that God is trying to kill… God can never allow your purpose to be manifested [there].” [13:47]
  • In 2026, the speaker vows: “I’m not playing with my environment this year.” [16:41]
• Call to Action:
  • “I dare you to break up with the environment that is killing what God placed on the [inside of you]. I dare you to get violent with it. The kingdom suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” [21:53-22:05]

Tapping Into Spiritual Inheritance

• Believers Have a Spiritual Inheritance:

  • Not only salvation, but access to spiritual attributes: strength, peace, authority, freedom from shame. [23:02, 24:14]
  • “Spiritually, at any given moment, I can tap into my spiritual inheritance and express it.” [24:14]

• Decision Points:

  • In hardship, you choose either to sink or to tap into inheritance: pray, worship, stand in the gap.
  • “We’re not just worshipers because we’re worshipers. We had a decision to make. I could let life beat me up, or I could lift my hands in surrender…” [27:08-27:13]
  • Quote: “I need an inheritance that allows me access and ability to do what’s never been done.” [27:51]

Hannah: Shifting the Environment for the Miraculous

• Story of Hannah (1 Samuel):

  • Hannah sees others blessed where she longs for fruit.
  • She moves from bitterness to active prayer, which shifts her environment—and her strategy.
  • “She started shifting the atmosphere with her prayer.” [31:37]

• Transparency Before God:

  • Don’t mask pain; bring bitterness and surrender honestly:
  • “Some people come into the house of the Lord with gladness. And some… with bitterness. But we serve a God who can handle it all.” [31:57-32:04]

• Breakthrough Prayer:

  • It’s not about getting what you want, but what brings God glory:
  • “She was asking God to do something for her, but God wanted her to ask for something that I can get the glory out of.” [37:22]
  • “If what I want doesn’t give you the glory… then show me how not to want it.” [39:16]

• Doing What’s “Unnatural” Opens the Supernatural:

  • Hannah did something new and bold that year—she changed her cycle.
  • “If you're going to experience the supernatural, you're going to have to do something unnatural… You're going to have to do something that has never been done before.” [43:31]

The Model of Jesus: Embracing the “Unnatural”

• Jesus as Example:
  • Jesus left the perfection of heaven for the pain of earth, a supreme act of doing what’s “unnatural” because it was necessary for God’s plan.
    • Philippians 2 (“Let this mind be in you…”)
    • “He made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant… It was unnatural for him to leave heaven and… step into time.” [52:49-53:10]
  • Jesus, even as a boy, submits to his parents—choosing obedience over what “comes natural.”
• Obedience Over Understanding:
  • Sometimes God asks us to nurture mysteries we don’t understand (Mary and Joseph’s role in raising Jesus).
    • “Your comprehension is not a prerequisite for its manifestation.” [58:57]
    • “If you obey, you don’t have to understand it.” [59:29]
• Guarding the Miracle:
  • Don’t normalize or lose awe for the miracles in your life—stay sensitive and steward well.
    • “If you begin to normalize your miracle, you won’t treat it with the level of sensitivity and awareness and attention that maintains your knowledge of what it is.” [61:34]

Final Exhortations & Prayer

• Stepping Into “Never Been Done Before”:

  • 2026 requires that we break former limits—personally, spiritually, relationally.
  • “Do not be surprised when God trusts you with something that has never been done before… Don't let it scare you.” [67:52-68:01]
  • Even asking for help, changing habits, or setting new boundaries can be unnatural—but necessary steps into the supernatural.

• The Strength to Step Out:

  • “The strength to do is in the doing, not the waiting. God says, I’ll strengthen you as you go.” [72:05]
  • Vulnerability, help-seeking, and changing environments are all holy acts.

• Closing Prayer:

  • Asking God to “search our hearts… help us to lose our desire for that which limits us. Through Jesus, we can become a new creation.”
  • "Like Jesus, they would increase in wisdom and strength, stature, and in favor with God and men." [71:22]

Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Environmental Limits:
  • “You do not know what God has placed inside of you… You see people doing things and you think to yourself, ‘I could never do that.’ They couldn’t do it either, until God put them in an environment that made a demand…” [11:38-12:35]
• On Hidden Capacity:
  • “There are some things that you don’t think you’re capable of doing, but the Lord knows you’ve got hidden capacity.” [18:12]
• On Breaking Social Cycles:
  • “I’m doing something unnatural. Nobody in my family’s ever seen it, nobody in my church understands it. But I'm doing something unnatural. The old me, I left in 2025. I'm doing something unnatural all 2026. Because I need God to do the supernatural.” [45:02-46:44]
• On Obedient Surrender:
  • “Your comprehension is not a prerequisite for its manifestation.” [58:57]
• On Spiritual Inheritance:
  • “Spiritually, at any given moment, I can tap into my spiritual inheritance and express it.” [24:14]
• On Natural vs. Supernatural:
  • “Jesus did what was unnatural. He exchanged the wonder of glory in heaven and streets paved with gold to come into an earth filled with pain and grief.” [53:41]
• On Doing What's Never Been Done:
  • “There are some things that the Lord wants to bring out of you. And you can wait for your season to change, or you can change your environment and watch your season change.” [69:23]

Key Timestamps

• 01:11-05:00: Luke 2 context; Jesus at the temple, parental dynamics, personal reflections.
• 06:57-14:38: Nature vs. nurture discussion; latent ability; spiritual parallels; personal stories.
• 14:38-23:02: Spiritual environment, Moses example, the importance of cultivating the right climate for destiny.
• 23:02-28:01: Spiritual inheritance accessible to all believers; decision-making in hardship; Hannah’s transition from bitterness to breakthrough.
• 30:27-39:16: Hannah’s story, environmental reality, authentic prayer, shifting for God’s glory.
• 43:23-47:44: “Unnatural” action as a path to the supernatural; bold exhortation to break personal norms in 2026.
• 49:27-59:08: Redefining what’s “natural” versus learned or inherited behaviors; Jesus as the ultimate model of righteous “unnaturalness.”
• 61:03-63:58: Guarding and stewarding miracles by continually remembering and tending to what God has given.
• 67:28-73:00: Final prayer and application; courage for the “never been done before,” changing environments, seeking help.

Conclusion & Takeaway

The message charges listeners to courageously examine and change their environments, recognizing that hidden spiritual and natural capacities will remain dormant without the “demand” of the right conditions. Just as Jesus, Moses, and Hannah stepped out of the known into difficult, even unnatural acts of faith and surrender, so too are believers called—in 2026 and beyond—to allow God to do something “never been done before” in their lives, for His glory. The podcast closes with a pastoral and prophetic prayer of empowerment, inviting listeners to accept their inheritance and step into the supernatural work of God.

Summary prepared for listeners seeking depth, encouragement, and a practical, faith-filled challenge for the year ahead.