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You're tuned into the Potter's house podcast where we are encouraged by powerful testimonies and life changing truth.
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Let's go. I want to draw your attention really quickly to the passages that we began to deal with last week. They are both in the gospel according to St. Luke. Beginning we'll start and we'll kind of work backwards. We'll go to Luke 17 and 21, and then we'll go to Luke chapter one and we'll read verses 31 through 38. And I want to acknowledge again the father of this house, our bishop, Bishop T.D. jakes, and our first lady, Serita Jakes. And that is extremely important when you study scripture. Even in the days of Joseph, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were acknowledged. Come on, somebody. You. You. You do yourself a disservice when you fail to esteem, revere, honor and recognize the fathers of kingdom movements. Hello, somebody? And those who rule well are worthy of double honor. Hello, somebody? And so we honor you both very much. And we're so grateful we are not ignorant to the reality of the shoulders upon which we stand and the sacrifice that those shoulders procured for us. And we will never be ignorant. We love you and thank you so much, even unto now laying hands. Thank you, sir and ma'.
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Luke 17, verse 21. Now, when he, Jesus, was asked by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, the kingdom of God does not come with observation. In other words, if you're looking for it, you're not gonna find it. You're looking around, you're looking up under the car in the kitchen. No, you're not gonna find it doesn't come like that. It says, nor will they say, see here or see there. It says, for the kingdom, for indeed the kingdom of God is within you. Luke 1:31, 38. And behold, you will conceive the angel speaking to Mary. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth the Son. And you shall call his name Jesus. And he will be great, and he will be called the son of the highest. And the Lord will give him the throne of his father David, still honoring David, a father, the throne of his father David. And he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there will be no end. The Mary said to the angel, how can this be? How can this be? How can this be? Since I do not know a man, I'm confused, I'm perplexed. And the angel answered and said to her, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the highest will overshadow you. Therefore also that holy one who is to be born will be called the Son of God. Now, in case you don't believe me, now indeed, Elizabeth, your relative has also conceived the Son in her old age. And this is now the sixth month of her who was called barren. For with God nothing will be impossible. Then Mary said, behold the maid servant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word. And the angel departed from her. Lord, we honor, revere, respect and reverence you in the deepest, highest and most genuine way. We recognize God that it's by your mercies that we are not consumed. Your compassions faileth not, they are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness. We acknowledge that it's in you that we live and move and have our being. Hallelujah. We acknowledge that we don't live by bread alone, but we live by the words that proceed out of your mouth. And we love you, we honor you, we cherish you, God, and we desire your word more than our necessary food. As Job once said. Now, God, may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight. O God, my strength and my redeemer. And I thank you, God, for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and insight and knowledge and prophecy and access to the hidden treasures. The secret of the Lord is with those who fear him. Lord, reveal secrets, manifest keys to the kingdom that we might open, doors that no man can shut and shut doors that no man can open. We love you, God, and may we be transformed. Carry us up a little higher in Jesus name, Amen. Amen. God bless you. Please greet somebody in the most kind way possible as you take your seat. Yes, sir, I will. Yes, sir, I will. Last week we began a conversation in the Scripture entitled the empire within you. And that word has been sitting in my spirit for a long time and is born out of my conviction about what you carry and my passion and my. I just. I will see everything that God has placed on the inside of you come to fruition. I will see it and I will preach it and I will speak it and I will prophesy it until I see it manifest. And so last week we looked at that. Our goal was to deal with a few things. Our goal was to answer a few questions. What is it when you talk about the empire within? Of course we're talking about the kingdom. And I'll offer some distinction between the kingdom and. In fact, let me just go ahead and do it now. What's the difference between a kingdom and an empire? The kingdom is Singular. There's only one kingdom that's singular. Empires are plural. Let me unpack it. The kingdom of God is God's sovereign reign. It's his sovereign rule. It's his sovereign authority and his will over all creation. That is the kingdom of God. Empire, as it relates to what you and I carry is. If you're taking notes, write this down. It's the delegated domain where that kingdom is expressed through you. You see the difference? The kingdom. There's only one kingdom, but all of us, and we'll unpack it later, all of us have been given authority and a territory whereby we function and operate within the confines by the power of the kingdom, within the confines of the lines that have been laid out for us. So that's why he's called the King of kings. And also that's why we're called kings and priests. Because God has given us. He has delegated to us authority within the. As Paul wrote. We'll talk about later. Within the sphere or the bounds or the territory of the spheres that have been assigned to us. That's our empire. Are you tracking with me? So obedience for me is not me trying to move in your sphere. Influence. It won't work there. All of us, David said in Psalms, the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places. In other words, there are lines, there are territories, there are spheres, dimensions and domains that only I have authority over. I pastor, I still oversee a church in LA, in Hollywood. A church is 23 years strong. People have tried to start churches in Hollywood and have ended up in a scandal in the first six months or literally had to close up and shut down. Now, there are a number of reasons why that can happen, but one reason is it might be a glamorous thing. Oh, I want to pass the celebrities. Come on, somebody. I want to pass the celebrities and take pictures with the celebrities. Yeah, but if you have not been assigned that territory, you don't have any authority in that territory. You understand what I'm saying? So when I talk about an empire being within you, I am talking about the delegated domain of authority that God has given to you and I. And we're gonna learn in a little bit what to do with it.
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So last week we talked about it. We talked about what it is, what the kingdom is. It's the reign and the rule of God. And we looked at Mary because we wanted to understand not only what it was, but how to own it. You remember that? And we talked about how Mary was a very good teacher as it relates to Owning it. Because initially, even though the angel of the Lord spoke to her and told her that she was going to conceive the king of the kingdom, conception without reception doesn't work. I need to say it better. In other words, God can speak a word to you and he can give you a word, and the word within itself has the ability, the ability to impregnate the hearer of that word. But that word not being mixed with faith to receive doesn't profit the one who heard it. That's why you can be in a service and the same word go forth and one person walk out changed the other person walk out in the same situation. The issue is not conception. The issue is whether or not there is a reception. So we get excited on Jackie. We get excited about Mary and the fact that the angel said, came to her and said, you know, you're going to conceive, that's wonderful. But listen, the story wasn't over because she did not receive immediately. She questioned. And we all do this, right? This is not picking. We're not picking on Mary. She's wonderful. She's the Virgin Mary. She's a one. She's wonderful. We're not picking on her. But I'm telling you, nothing was going to move until there was a reception of the conception. I feel that for somebody. That's why every time you come to church, you ought to make up your mind that you're gonna get knocked up before you leave. Oh, God, I. Let me, let me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not just coming here to see what's going to happen. I'm coming here because I'm about to get knocked up because God is not finished with me. Hello, somebody? So we talked about that. We talked about how Mary had to move from conception to reception, and that's when everything shifted and everything changed. If you weren't here last week, I encourage you to go back and listen to it, because there was a lot in it. God moved. The spirit of God moved. The spirit of God started encouraging people who were barren. And we learned last week that being barren is actually not a disadvantage, it's actually an advantage. Because if you are barren in some area of your life, you. You are a prime candidate of the glory of God. Are you tracking with me? When the angel comes and begins to talk to Mary about what's on her life? He said, oh, and when she starts stumbling and struggling with receiving, he's like, oh, oh, by the way, you know your cousin Elizabeth, who was beyond age and she Was barren. Oh, she already received hers. She's six months into this thing. And so what that taught me is sometimes the last shall be first. And sometimes what you think is a disadvantage is actually an advantage. If you will keep your perspective and your mentality. Watch this. And your womb open. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost there. And your womb open. And your womb open. In other words, you're going to have to have radical faith, a resilient. Let me put it this way. You're going to have to have defiant faith sometimes. I may not have a baby. I may not have the miracle. I may not have what I'm looking for, but I got a womb. I got to say that better. I may not have yet what I've been praying for. I may not have yet what God promised me. But one thing I do have is a womb. I have the ability to regulate my insides in such a way that I am postured to receive whatever he speaks. I want to curse something really quickly, and I want to curse what's cursing you. And I want to curse a mentality that says just because I never had means that I never will. I want to curse that right now. Because it's a curse to disbelieve. Because just because you don't have it doesn't mean that God can't do it. If God said it, his word supersedes your history. His word supersedes your experience. His word supersedes that. And you got to stay fertile. I feel the Holy Ghost. You got to stay fertile. You got to speak to that thing and say, I'm still fertile. I'm still available. Maybe this is why the writer of Hebrews I got to move on. But maybe this is why the writer of Hebrews said, cast not therefore away your confidence. Hebrews 10:35. Study it. Cast not therefore away your confidence, wherein there is great reward for you are in need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God, you shall receive the promise. In other words, don't throw away your expectation. Don't throw away your belief that it can happen for you. I don't care who it didn't happen to. It can happen for me. Do me a favor and shout, it will happen for me. It will happen for me. If God said it, it is going to happen. Watch this. I just have to trust God enough to allow the will of God to play out. After you have done the will of God, I have to trust God enough that his will for me is good, that his plans for me are good. I've got to trust him to stay fertile. I told y' all last week, don't be feeling sorry for no barren person. They might be more ready than you. So anyway, so Mary taught us how to own it. How to own it. And she did a wonderful job doing that. Now I want to move into where we answer that third question there. So we answered the question, what is it? The kingdom talked about that a little bit. We answered the question how to own it. And Mary instructed us so well. And now comes the really important part. What do we do with it? So we have this empire within us. What is it for? What should we do with it? And there are three, in my estimation, successive levels to that question being answered. The first thing is this. You have to eat from it. You have to eat from it. The empire is your sustenance. The empire within you. Stay with me. I'm gonna make it all make sense. The empire within you is designed to sustain you, not just sin you. We know ultimately we're going to get to advancing. I'll just give you a cheat. I'm just going to, you know, spoiler. We know ultimately we're going to advance it. But before the kingdom can ever advance outward, it must first nourish you inward. Stay with me. That's why. That's why the Bible talks about in Matthew 6 and 33, when Jesus is addressing our propensity to be worried about stuff. Don't worry about what you're going to eat. Don't worry about what you're going to drink. Don't worry about what you're going to wear. Don't worry about what you're going to put on. He says, after all these things, the Gentiles seek those who were not in covenant relationship with God, those who were not covenant conscious. I can understand why they would be worried, right? They. They don't understand the reality of the kingdom. He says, later on, he says. He says, your Heavenly Father, he said, he says, seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all other things.
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Be added unto you. In other words, in the kingdom is my sustenance. God is not an ignorant, an ignorant or an unfair God that will say, work for me, but not nourish you to work. That's ridiculous. If I hide, that's like. Like you getting hired on a job and the job not giving you tools. I need you to go and fix this house on behalf of the company. You're not a contractor. You work for me. You are an employee. But I'm not going to give you the ability. I'm not going to give you a truck. I'm not going to give you any tools. Just go and do it. That's foolish. So when you work for the king, the king recognizes all that it takes for you to be you, and he provides. Watch this. Within the function, within the role, all of the benefits and the tools necessary to do what you got to do. Are you hearing me? So you got to eat from it first. Deuteronomy 8:18 speaks to it as well. Right? Because when God places an empire in you, track with me. We're gonna go somewhere real deep today. When he. Well, maybe not that deep, but, but, but when you say deep, it ain't deep. You understand what I'm saying? When God places a kingdom or an empire in you, he embeds some things in you. Provision is one of them. Provision to believe the lie that you do not have and you never will have is one of the most horrible things that can happen to a person. God says in the Bible in Deuteronomy 8:18, you've seen it before. He says, I've given you ability to create wealth that I might establish my covenant with you. I've given you the power and the ability. There is an empire on the inside of you, and you are trying to establish this relationship and that relationship. If I could only do this or get to them or go here or do there, right again, the kingdom is out there. If I can only find something outside of me, then I'll be okay. And God says, no, that's not what my word says. My word says that I've given you the ability to. To create wealth, that I might establish my covenant with you. Now watch this. He doesn't say, I've given you wealth, ain't what he said. He said, I've given you the ability to create wealth. That means you got to work. You gotta work it. And I believe in my spirit that the church is getting ready to hit a whole new wave of the manifestation of God's promises as it relates to provision unlike ever before. Because we have only been moving in about a quarter of the covenant, We got joy. That's wonderful because the Bible says in Romans 14 and 17 that joy is a part of it, but that's not all of it. Peace is in there. But that word peace is the Greek word eirene and it is its Hebrew counterpart, shalom. It's not just peace like, oh, I feel. Well, the root word there is to be joined or complete or whole. So this peace is the result of nothing missing. And I'M so blessed that we are able to help the way that we are able to help. And we will continue to do that because there will always be somebody that needs help. But we're also kicking in another gear because God is getting ready to raise up some helpers. Because you recognize that God has given you the ability to work and to make something and to produce something. So it's not just going to be the church helping you going to be a helper in your community. You are going to be a helper in your family family. Because God is getting ready to unlock some strategy. I'm going to take my time with this. Something is getting ready to happen. And so. So times are tough, but I believe that times are tough because God is about to squeeze your potential out of you. Whenever you see tough times, that means that God is potentializing his people. So you got to eat from it. But the beautiful thing is you're not just going to eat for you, you're going to eat for your children and your children. I feel the spirit of God. I want to pray into something real quick. Cup your hands like you're getting ready to receive something. Father, in the name of Jesus. I thank you, God, that you've given us the ability to create wealth, that you might establish your covenant with us. In other words, our covenant is provision for our children and our children's children. And I pray in the name of Jesus that you will just sweep through here right now and break every lie, break every poverty mentality. Break it, break it, break it, break it. And I pray, God, that wisdom and anointing and grace and faith will descend down upon your sons and daughters unlike ever before. And you will give them witty ideas and you will give them witty inventions and you will bring them into relationship. You will give them Kyle men, resources and means that they might advance your kingdom to your glory in Jesus name. If you receive that, give God a Holy Ghost roar in this house. There's a new wave coming. I feel the Holy Ghost. There's a new wave coming. I want the whole counsel of God. I want everything you have for me. Some of you, Some of you, I want to articulate this the way I see it. Some of you have been so burdened with doubt, so burdened with disbelief that it has crippled and hindered your ability to work. But I feel like in this new season, in this new chapter, God's going to stir something up in you. You're going to recognize that you were ordained enough, anointed, called, designed to work. And I feel that Laziness is going to break and I feel that worry is going to break and you're going to start taking God at his word unlike ever before. And I see you walking in generational abundance. Worship God if that's your word. It's in your work. It's in your work. It's in your work. It's in your work. And I hear God saying, don't be afraid to start small. Everything big started small. Don't be afraid. God gives you an unction. Get up out the bed, write it down, research it, do it, believe it. He wakes you up early in the morning, get up, it's for a reason. In the morning, do your work. In the evening, withhold not your hand. See, listen. The reason why God is so serious about the Sabbath is because you were designed to work like crazy. You're gonna have to take the Sabbath because God is getting ready to bless the work of your hands. He is not gonna bless your wishes. He is going to bless your work and he's gonna tell you where to put your net down. There is a whole empire in you that will outlast you. And faith, faith is arising. The person who hears this word and gets knocked up by it in 12 months. I wouldn't say it if he didn't say it. Don't play with God like that. So. So this empire, this empire. Is designed for you to eat from. Freely you've received, freely give. Are you tracking.
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He puts provision in there, not just for you, for your children's children. That's why if you study scripture, Scripture repeatedly connects inheritances to generations. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We just read in the text about Mary being conceived of the Holy Ghost and they're talking about David in there. An empire is something that's passed down. That your children for the father. For the father who is worried not just about you being sustained, but your children being sustained. This word is for you. And I need you to get knocked up by it and stop asking God how and look into man. I hear him saying, the Holy Ghost is going to overshadow you. It's bigger than you. I wouldn't give you that family without putting an anointing and an ability in you to provide for them and your grandkids. If you will work that ability, no excuses, no wishing, no waiting, no, only working. And you're going to have to. I'm digressing, but just let me have it for a minute. You. You are going to have to manage your time well. You're going to have to manage it well so that you can work when you need to work and rest when you need to rest. You're going to have to be very intentional about how you move. There are certain things, if it doesn't profit you, you gotta put that to the side. I'm building me in 2026. Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth? I've got a legacy to build. I've got an empire to release. That's why I did that. Clarity. God, we're gonna move with clarity in 2026. Because if I don't move with clarity, I am going to be careless. And you say, well, PT That's a strong word. It is strong. Careless is simply you doing something that you're not purposed to do. That is careless. Everything around you is designed with purpose. I don't want to waste 30 seconds on something that is not connected to my purpose. To unleash the empire that is within me. So I gotta. I gotta eat from it. Number two. Number two. I gotta eat from it. Thank God. I have to watch this be increased by it. So the empire that is within you is bigger than you. Mary. Mary had to grow up into what she was carrying. Once she received the conception, she had to grow what was in her expanded her. You hearing what I'm saying? So this empire in you going to disrupt your perspective about your capacity? I need to say that better. I need to say that better. The. The. When God puts an empire within you, you just receive something that is greater than your current cap, Which means that purpose is supposed to be uncomfortable. Can I take my time and really teach this thing? It's supposed to stretch you from the inside out. I've been studying Solomon lately. And Fascinating life, fascinating man. And in First Kings, it's somewhere around chapter six or eight or seven or nine. Read your whole Bible, you'll find says something that God did. We know that God gave him wisdom. We know that God gave him understanding. But it says, Courtney, it says God says. The Bible says that God enlarged his heart. Now, what we know about Solomon is that he was the richest and the wisest ever. The Bible says no one before him and no one after him was richer or wiser than him. Ecclesiastes breaks down how he had all this stuff and he did all these things and his wisdom seemed endless. He had this mega life. But the reason why he was able to have a mega outer life is because God expanded him to have a mega inner life. So what God is going to do and what God has been doing for many of you before he shows you omega outside, Michael, is he is stretching you to give you omega inside. Because your outsides will never go beyond your insides. And if they ever do, I'm afraid of what might happen to you. And God in his grace and his goodness, will stretch you, will enlarge you to the size and to the shape of what he's called you to are. You hear me? So don't ask God to shrink the assignment to your comfort. Let the assignment let the vision stretch your thinking, Your faith and your habits. Did you hear me? I saved that one for last. Let the assignment stretch your thinking, Your faith. Watch this. And your habits. Oh. Feel the Holy Ghost. In other words, my norm, my normal method of operation has to be on the level of my calling. When God is upgrading me, my habits must upgrade. So instead of scrolling, I'm reading and I'm reading stuff that I don't even understand at first. That's what you want to read. If you're reading something and you can finish the sentence, you're reading too small. If you're hearing a sermon and you can finish the preacher's sentence, you're only going to stay at that level. God, give me a word that stretches me. I want to be stretched. Stretch me to my potentialization. Okay. All right. And I gotta tell you, I ain't gonna lie to you. That's the most expensive part of the process. I'll be honest with you. That's the most extensive part of the journey. That's why if you're barren, don't worry about it. And if you've been barren for a real long time, don't worry about it. Because what you think, what you're calling barren is you assuming that nothing is happening inside, when in fact that is the very place where everything is happening. Every time you were disappointed and didn't quit, Stretch. Every time you wanted to give up but didn't stop. Every time they doubted you and talked about you and you decided to love them anyway. Every time you were looked over and justice was not served on your behalf, but you stopped. You wiped the tears from your eyes and showed up anyway. Every time you forgave when it was hard to forgive, you had to go find forgiveness in order to forgive, but you did it anyway. Every time you got hurt in church and you didn't allow it to make you give up on God, Some under the sound of my voice, will, what you've been calling barren is simply being in the stretching process. Because what God has for you, you had to be bigger. They say be being the bigger person. That's. That's actually actual. That's true. God is raising up big people. Okay, it's the most expensive part, but it's worth it. So we've got. We have to eat from it, be increased by it. Let the empire expand you. All the great people got expanded. Thirdly, you have to impact with it. If your whole perspective about the kingdom of God, about the empire that is within you, is for you, you missed it. You missed it. It's through you. It's through you. And it is so vast that you can't hold, Has to move through you. If your vision is just for you, you don't know who you are. Now. Every empire has borders. We talked about it. Let's read Second Corinthians really quick. Second Corinthians 10:13. I'm almost done. Paul says, we, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which God appointed us. A sphere which especially includes you. So the apostle Paul teaches us that we have a sphere, we have a domain, we have a territory. And this territory has borders. And within those borders, within that sphere that God has assigned to us, we can actually boast. In other words, we can be bold and confident. I'm not talking about ego. See, there's this passage of Scripture, Paul, he puts it this way. He says, by the grace of God, I am what I am Now. It's a powerful thing, because this is not a proud statement, because what he says is, I am what I am. He is owning who he is. Humility is not failing to own who God says you are. That's false humility. I'm just a lowly old servant. I understand. Yeah, we all are servants. But the Bible says that you are a king and a priest. And as long as you know when to cast your crown down. Listen, says in that worship service in heaven, they cast their crowns down, right? In order to cast their crowns down before God, they had to have it on their head before man. I wish somebody would catch it. It's false humility to not move like you are who God says you are. So Paul says, I am what I am, but by the grace of God. In other words, I didn't do it on my own strength, because if I did it, I would be tore up from the flow up, jacked up, messed up, and nothing. So I am acknowledging how I became, but not denying who I am. It's by the grace of God that I am who I am, because. But I am what I am because you're gonna have to show up to some showdowns. And you can't be no little wimp. The little spiritual wimp. Lord, if it be your will. And, oh, little devil, please, devil, if you don't mind, devil, let me. I just want a little crumb. No, I want the whole thing. And I'mma take it by force. Because it's by the grace of God that I am what I am. Meaning that it is a dishonor to God's grace to not show up fully formed. You ain't doing nobody no service, being all sweet and cute and timid. Lord told me this week, I was praying. He said, pt, I want you to be three things. He says, I want you to be faithful. I want you to be focused I want you to be fierce. I want you to be faithful. Keep the main thing. The main thing. I want you to be faithful unto death. Faithful to the gospel, faithful to winning souls, faithful to your assignment, faithful to me. And I want you to be focused. I want you to be clear. I want you to be distraction, free. And by golly, I want you to be fierce. I want you to lay hold of some stuff. Because some things. Watch this. Some things you cannot grab softly. There's some things you can't just gently and tenderly. Let me put you this way. The Bible says, he who deals with a slack hand, a slack hand will become poor. But the hand of the diligent, the hand of the fierce. The hand of somebody that knows how to lay hold of something. The woman with the issue of blood, she didn't just touch his garment. Study that thing in the Greek. She fastened ahold of that thing. She grabbed that thing. So much so that she got heaven's attention. He said, that is a fierce woman right there. And that fierce woman will get everything. That's a sign. Where are my fierce people? In God's house. I'm not gonna be soft in 2026. I'm not gonna be timid in 2026. I'mma lay hold of everything that God has for me. I'm not gonna be playing patty cake with the devil. If it's mine and it belongs to me, I'mma grab it. Turn me up in the monitors. You got to be fierce. This is not ego. This is expectation. Faithful. That's so you know you're moving in the right direction. Faithful to God, faithful to the gospel, faithful to Christ, Faithful to winning the loss. Faithful to your family, faithful to your church, faithful to giving, faithful in praying, faithful in intercession. Faithful in studying your word, Faithful in getting on your knees. Faithful in coming to church. Faithful, faithful, faithful. And then focused. I'm locked in. I'm locked in. Stuff that I used to have time for, I don't have time for. Cause I'm focused. Cause I'm clear. Cause I'm after something. My meat is to do the will of my father. Oh, Torre, ain't you hungry? No, I'm not hungry. I'm hungry to do what God has called me to do. Because time is winding up, if you know what I'm talking about. Give God some work, worship in this house. Time is winding up. I don't have tomorrow. Tomorrow's gonna take care of itself. God, what are you calling me to lay hold of today? Faithful, focused, fierce in my sphere. We almost there. I'm a boast in my sphere. That means I'mma talk about what God is talking to me about. I'mma keep speaking it till I see it. I'mma go from saying, God, how is it going to happen to me? To saying, let it be according to your word. Behold the maidservant of the Lord. Behold the manservant of the Lord. My language is going to change in this season. We're almost there, baby. In this season. Pay attention to your conversations. When Mary's identity shifted, so did her language. I withdraw myself from unprofitable conversations because death and life is in the power of the tongue. And the Bible says that a man will eat good by the fruit of his lips. And he who loves it will have it. That goes in either direction. So I'm going to eat by my mouth. So if your conversation is too low, I will excuse myself from that conversation because I don't want to be in agreement with something that is beneath where I'm trying to. I wish somebody would catch what I'm saying, because while you're investing yourself in that conversation, you could have been been in another conversation where people are talking about where you're trying to get to. Don't follow anybody and everybody on social media follow somebody that's having conversations on the level of your future. Because conversations create an agreement. Two of you shall agree. In order to agree, you got to be talking about something. And I don't want to agree with a future that's less than my potential 20, 26. Be very. Pay very close attention to your conversations because you cannot rise above the conversations that you're having. We're almost there. I'm a boast. Meshe brah. I'm a boast within the territory of the sphere. In that sphere, there are people. You gotta get this. This might be the most important part. In that sphere, it's not just you having a big place to dwell. No. There are things in the sphere that God has assigned to you that need to be redeemed. You think about Jesus coming. He was preaching the gospel of the kingdom. What else was happening? He was driving out devils that had taken up occupancy. Come on, come on. He was healing infirmities that were taking up occupancy. So I have to have an empire mentality because there were things in my life. My anointing and my grace were assigned to dispossess that. If I never embrace the empire within me, then there will be squatters. On my property. So within the borders of Your sphere via the kingdom. Darkness must be confronted. What's your prayer like? Prayer life like? Do you see darkness on the news and you just say my, my, my. Or do you say my God, my God, my God. In the name of Jesus, Darkness is confronted, disorder is corrected. I'm talking about the empire that is within you. Oh, my God. And it's vast. And it's vast. And some of you are just getting started. It's vast. There's some things. Watch this. I'm going to tie business into this. There are some things that are out of order that if you bring order to you will prosper. Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom. Part of your inheritance is wisdom, Wisdom. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all men freely. Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom. The Bible says in First Corinthians, it talks about how we're freely. We can know things that are freely given to us by God. Freely given wisdom. And one of the definitions of wisdom is the ability to solve problems. And when you have a mind to work and when you understand that God has put an empire within you and you seek God's face, not only are you going to bring order to chaos, but for those who are called to business. Everybody knows that a business that will do well is a business that solves problems. And our kingdom solves problems. And you're like, yeah, spiritual problems. Yeah, but don't spiritual problems show up in the natural world? Everything that is spiritual manifests itself in the natural. Disorder is corrected, value is restored. And this is what I love. Systems are redeemed. Even systems are redeemed. I'm trying to help us to understand the difference between church and kingdom. Church is the community, the ecclesia, the call that we're called out of darkness into his marvelous light. But then the question is, for what? For what to do what Jesus did to advance the kingdom in the earth. I want to pray for some people. I'm so serious about this. I'm so serious about this. Come on, stand with me. We're going to pray. I'm serious about this. And I'm going to give an altar call. And God's going to do something. My bride, Pastor Sarah talked about the church being relevant, and she's absolutely right. The church being relevant is a church that extends its impact. Well, I'll use that phraseology, extends its impact beyond the four walls. The reason why I struggle with that phraseology is because I don't believe that the. I think that the impact actually starts when we leave systems, structures. There are things to be redeemed. Everything that God made has a hidden glory in it. Science has a hidden glory in it. Even law enforcement and the justice system has a hidden glory in it. Medicine has a hidden glory in it. Business, Technology, entertainment, media, it all has a hidden glory in it. And if kingdom people who have the keys to unlock that hidden glory stay in a church mentality and not a kingdom mentality, then whole systems and industries that were designed to be redeemed by you and I, by us.
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Will fail to reflect the God who made it. I love church. I love that we get to come together and pray together and we have fellowship and we have incredible relationships and we get to see our kids grow together and that is wonderful. But may we never forget what it's really about. It is about the gospel of the kingdom of God. And it starts with the empire that he put in you. Jesus coming was watch this. To impregnate the world with the kingdom. Track. Track with me. He comes and he announces the kingdom of God is here. And the Bible says that whoever received whoever received them in John, to them he gave the power to be sons of God. What do sons of God do? They advance the kingdom. We see the whole thing conception that needs reception. And when that reception happens, then we receive the ability to be like him. Now, Romans 8 makes sense. For the earnest expectation of of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing. Remember Mary. Behold the maid servant of the Lord. New identity. Now the kingdom that was being watch this birth and grown in her came out of her and changed the world. You are a representation of Mary and Mary is a reputation of you. And if you receive the identity as a kingdom citizen and you align your actions and your words and your expectations and your conversations and your movements and everything pertaining to your life with what God has placed in you. Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. For you, for your children and your children's children. You will not lack anything. You will not miss anything. You don't have to worry. You don't have to cry yourself to sleep at night. Just seek first the kingdom and his righteousness. And God promises all other things will be added unto you. This is the shift we must make from church to kingdom. Amen. I want to pray for some people. My prayer every single day is that we would recognize the empire. It ain't over there. It ain't up there. It ain't in PT And dad, mom and Sarah, Don and Fincher and all them, we got it. But that ain't where you need to look. It's in you. It's in you. You got it. You got it. If you're here, I'm going to do this invitation a little differently. If you're here and you say, I want to be a part of the kingdom, you hear? And you just feel like God is opening your eyes a little deeper to what you got when you got Jesus, or maybe you've never opened up your heart to Jesus. All of us had that one time. If you're here and you say, I want to receive Jesus and I want to receive Jesus as the king of the kingdom, so that the empire that's within me can be activated. I want you to meet me here at this altar right now. If you're watching via live stream, just put it right there in the chat. I receive Jesus. I receive my Inheritance. Just come meet me here at this altar right now. You don't have to leave. We're out in eight minutes. Let's just honor this moment. God bless you. I see you. God bless you. I see you. If it's time to come home, you say, you know what? I want to open up my heart to Jesus. I want this thing for real. I want this thing for real. I just want you to come meet me here at this altar. This thing is real. And there's so much in you. When you got Christ, you got a lot. You can just come while I'm talking because we're going to pray and something's going to happen to me, this altar. Second point of this invitation is you don't want to let this year end. We got a few more days left in the year, but you don't want to let this year end without recommitting your life to God, without getting on track. And I hear God saying, I know how to restore the years. I know how to restore the years. It'll be like you were never gone. Watch me, Watch me. Watch me restore the years. I'm gonna do for you as if you were with me the whole time. If you're here and you say, I want to rededicate, I want to recommit my life to Christ. I want you to come and meet me here at this altar. We're almost done. Come on. If that's you, I want you to come. We're going to pray. We're going to get it together. Last point is, invitation is if you're here and you want the house, the potter's house, to be your house. It already is. It's just you coming into agreement. You believe that this is the place that God meets you. It doesn't matter who's speaking. God always has something for you. Of anointed, gifted, talented preachers and teachers and kingdom citizens, prophets, apostles. Well, we have it all here. And they have integrity and they love people or they wouldn't be here. Not by choice. We have people that love you. We have communities that are waiting to embrace you. Remember I talked about your conversations? We want to grow with you, walk with you, build you. If you're here and you say, I want to be a part of the potter's house, then I want you to come forward. And at the end, I've got pastors to my left there, they'll receive you, connect with you. Or if you have to go, there's the QR code, but I want to pray with you. This thing Is real. You got a whole empire in you. You're full. Everything you need. When you accept Christ, you get it all. And so we spend the rest of our lives unpacking all that we got. We got all kind of stuff. Salvation, healing. We got the ability to have a renewed mind. We got the Holy Spirit. Spirit. We got joy. We got peace. There's a Greek word for joy and I love means calm. Pleasant pleasantness. Calm, like a calm excitement. It's an interesting word. It's like. It's not even loud. Joy is. It's a. It's a calm, knowing. And so all heck will be breaking out around you. But because you got the Holy Ghost in you, the empire in you, the kingdom of heaven is not in eating and drinking, but it's in righteousness and joy and peace. And you have this calm contentment because you know all things are working together for your good. Even this is working together for my good. That's amazing. Peace that passes all understanding. Father Torre Roberts was obedient today. And I thank you, God, that your word will not return unto you void, but it shall establish the purposes for which it was set. Now, God, I thank you for all those who are coming to your altar saying yes to you. And God, anytime there's an invitation and we respond and say yes, there is a spiritual transaction. Hallelujah. So I thank you, Lord God, for the spiritual transactions that are taking place here at this altar today. Hallelujah. And in that spiritual transaction, there is also an exchange. Our stuff for yours, our heaviness, for your lightness, our strength, for your power, the garment of praise where there was once heaviness, God, there's some under the sound of my voice right now. And even as we are talking about Chris mas, and we know that's mass, but mas in other languages is more. And we thank you, Lord God, that more is coming to your children. More wisdom, more revelation, more strength, more that you are enlarging their hearts, expanding their insides so that they might carry what they're called to. And Father, some are rededicating their life to. To you. Today. They're saying yes. Bible says, like sheep, we all have gone astray. That's what sheep's do. But we thank you for your grace and your mercy and you keeping us. And we thank you for justification just as if we had never gone astray. Now, Father, in this new beginning, we ask for more of your spirit. You teach us in Luke chapter 11 that more of your spirit is the answer to every situation we have in life. And so we open our mouths, we open our hearts, we open our souls wide. And we ask you to fill us to the overflow that we might be everything you've called us to be. Now, Father, there's some here. And you are literally changing their identity. They're going to go like Mary from how can this be? Because I've only looked to man. I've only looked to man's system. How can this be? And God, you're going to change their language and they're going to say, behold, the servant of the Lord. Be it unto me according to your word. And you will change their language, you will change their environments, you will change their tongue, and you will change their life. Bless each one richly in Jesus name. Now repeat after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love. I feel it. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your word. I receive it. Heavenly Father, I thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him who had no sin. All of mine, all of my weakness, all of my limitations, all of my shortcomings, you put in his body, nailed it to the cross. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil and God, just as he was raised up free and victorious. Because I'm in him, I'm raised up too. And therefore I will be faithful, I will be focused and I will be fierce. Holy spirit. Spirit, fill me to the overflow. You've placed an empire within me. I will be increased by it. And I will expand it all to your glory. I love you, God. I thank you. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. If you're joining, see the pastors to the left or use the QR code. See you here Wednesday night. It's going to be amazing. May the Lord bless and keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious toward you. May he lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom. And shalom in Jesus name. God bless you. Love you.
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