The Nomadic Life | Touré Roberts

Summary

The Potter's House Podcast

Episode: The Nomadic Life | Touré Roberts
Date: November 2, 2025

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Episode Overview

This episode, delivered by Pastor Touré Roberts, centers around the theme of "The Nomadic Life" as a spiritual posture for Christians in a rapidly changing world. Drawing from Luke 9:57-62 and other scriptural foundations, Pastor Touré unpacks what it truly means to follow Jesus as a “nomad”—not just geographically, but in mindset, profession, culture, and spiritual posture. The sermon is both a challenge and an encouragement to the church, urging listeners to develop spiritual, emotional, mental, and practical agility, fully trusting in God’s guidance and provision.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Burden of Readiness (01:34–05:00)

• Pastor Touré opens with an honest confession: He carries a burden for ensuring the congregation is prepared for present and future challenges—not just spiritually, but emotionally, physically, and economically.
  • “You don’t stumble into readiness. You don’t shout your way into readiness. You don’t dance your way into readiness. You are transformed into readiness by the renewing of your mind.” (03:47)
• Emphasizes the need for intentional personal transformation and alignment with God’s calling.

2. Embracing the Nomadic Identity (10:45–20:10)

• Defining “Nomad”: A detailed etymological exploration reveals that a nomad is “one who moves responsively in search of provision, not randomly but as necessary for survival and thriving."
  • “To be nomadic is to have a certain responsiveness to changing conditions. A nomad is one who moves with the pasture.” (15:14)
• Biblical examples: Jesus Himself lived as a nomad, highlighting this life as essential for His followers. Abraham, Paul, and David are also cited.

3. The Call to Shift (20:35–30:00)

• Obedience Requires Movement: Abraham’s blessing came through obedience to God’s directive to leave his home. The willingness to “move” (in mindset, action, or geography) is often a prerequisite for blessing.
  • “Some of you are not experiencing blessings in certain areas of your life because you are not a nomad. You’re stuck in one place of thinking... God is saying, what I have for you is not where you are.” (21:22)
• Spiritual and Practical Application: The willingness to make necessary shifts (physical, mental, or emotional) is linked to ongoing blessing.

4. The Value of Rest and Stillness (25:03–31:16)

• Personal anecdote: Pastor Touré shares about being forced to pause through illness, finding clarity and refreshment in the stillness.
  • “Some shifts cannot happen without first a divine pause.” (28:00)
• Sabbath as self-care: Resting is obedience, not just to honor God but to replenish oneself.
  • “The Sabbath is you sinning against you. And God wanted us to understand the importance of the pause and the importance of the rest.” (30:43)

5. Mental, Professional, and Cultural Agility (31:37–36:04)

• Not just geography: Embracing the nomadic identity involves being flexible in thinking (renewal of the mind), open to learning new things, and adaptive in professional and cultural settings.
  • “I’m a professional nomad. Everything’s changing right now. What used to prosper yesterday may not prosper tomorrow.” (34:04)
• Stretching comfort zones: Engaging with diverse perspectives and communities enhances agility for God’s purposes.

6. Posture: Willingness and Obedience (36:05–39:01)

• Hearing and obeying: Willingness must precede instruction; otherwise, we won't hear God clearly.
  • “If your obedience is optional, you will not hear because your heart is already hard. And hard hearts don’t move in obedience.” (39:01)

7. Agility and Readiness for Shifting Times (42:56–48:15)

• The imperative of agility: God needs His people to be agile—ready for whatever comes and able to pivot without clinging to past strategies or comfort.
  • “God needs you to be agile. He needs you to be flexible. He needs you to be ready for whatever.” (42:56)
• Practical warning: Avoid unnecessary, lengthy commitments without seeking God’s direction in these uncertain times.

8. The Blessing of Giving Yourself Permission to Rest and Receive (50:07–54:05)

• Running without reflection: Many continue striving without realizing they are in a season of harvest, not sowing.
  • “You don’t even have your nets ready to receive a harvest because you’ve got the wrong tool in your hand. You’re still working, still laboring... not realizing that you have been sowing seeds for years.” (52:11)
• Declaration: It is harvest time for many; permission is given to rest, celebrate, and receive.

9. Lessons from Nomads in Scripture (55:45–59:39)

• Nomadic leadership: Abraham, Paul, David—God’s greatest servants exhibited the nomadic life in pursuit of their calling.
• Shepherd imagery: Jesus as Shepherd means being led as a nomad, always moving with the provision and calling of God.

10. The Shepherd and the Promise of Provision (59:39–64:59)

• Psalm 23 reinterpreted: All promises of Psalm 23 flow from the reality of the Lord as Shepherd, and us taking up the posture of a nomad.
  • “To say the Lord is my shepherd is to confess that I am a nomad... My life is not my own. I have a leader. I have a guide.” (62:03)

11. Ten Blessings of the Nomadic Identity (75:11–83:20)

Pastor Touré prays ten blessings from Psalm 23 over all willing to embrace the nomadic posture:

1. No lack: “You will have no lack. The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want.” (76:00)
2. You will reach the next pasture: “You will make it to the next feeding place.” (76:30)
3. Divine direction: “You will not be left wondering; you will hear His instruction.” (77:30)
4. Perpetual restoration: “Your soul will be restored as you walk.” (79:11)
5. Peace: “You will have peace that passes understanding.” (80:13)
6. Assurance in darkness: “You will have assurance even in the valley of shadow.” (81:07)
7. Victory over enemies: “You will have victory over every enemy.” (81:29)
8. Overflowing anointing: “Your cup will overflow, your head anointed with oil.” (82:07)
9. Goodness and mercy will follow you: “You’ll be stalked by goodness and mercy.” (83:02)
10. Abiding presence: “You will have God’s abiding presence on your life.” (83:20)

12. The Final Call: Embracing Jesus Fully (83:36–end)

• Invitation to respond: Listeners are invited to surrender to Jesus, recommit, or join The Potter’s House community—emphasizing Jesus as the good shepherd and the safest refuge.
  • “He wants nothing from you. He only wants for you. And he recognizes that he is the best thing since anything. And he freely makes himself available.” (86:14)
• Corporate prayer: A prayer of gratitude, surrender, and blessing for all who accept the nomadic calling and those committing or recommitting their lives to Jesus.

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Memorable Quotes

“You don’t stumble into readiness… You are transformed into readiness by the renewing of your mind.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (03:47)

“To be nomadic is to have a certain responsiveness to changing conditions. So, a nomad is one who moves with the pasture.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (15:14)

“Some of you are not experiencing blessings… because you are not a nomad. You're stuck in one place of thinking… God is saying, what I have for you is not where you are.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (21:22)

“Some shifts cannot happen without first a divine pause.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (28:00)

“If your obedience is optional, you will not hear because your heart is already hard. And hard hearts don’t move in obedience.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (39:01)

“God needs you to be agile. He needs you to be flexible. He needs you to be ready for whatever.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (42:56)

“To say the Lord is my shepherd is to confess that I am a nomad.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (62:03)

“If you are a nomad, it doesn’t mean that you have nothing. It means you have postured yourself to have everything.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (68:12)

“He wants nothing from you. He only wants for you… He freely makes himself available.”
— Pastor Touré Roberts (86:14)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Intro & burden for readiness – 01:34–05:00
• Etymology and spiritual nomadism – 12:22–20:10
• Abraham & shifting for blessing – 19:18–21:22
• Personal story: pause/rest – 25:03–31:16
• Nomadic agility (mental/professional/cultural) – 31:37–36:04
• Hearing God & obedience posture – 36:05–39:01
• Why agility matters now – 42:56–48:15
• The harvest and permission to rest – 50:07–54:05
• Psalm 23 and the nomadic shepherd – 59:39–64:59
• Ten blessings of the nomad – 75:11–83:20
• Invitation to respond – 83:36–end

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Summary

Pastor Touré delivers a challenging, deeply biblical, and practical message on embracing the nomadic life as followers of Christ. Citing Jesus, Abraham, David, and Paul as models, he urges believers to be agile, responsive, and willing to move by God’s direction—mentally, emotionally, professionally, and yes, sometimes geographically. He warns against complacency, rigidity, and the dangerous sense of comfort, highlighting instead the need for intentional pauses, ongoing learning, and cultural engagement. The ten blessings he proclaims encapsulate the promises awaiting those who trust God as their Shepherd in full surrender.

This episode is a clarion call to reexamine one's posture before God, seek readiness for change, and trust in His provision—reminding us that to have the Lord as Shepherd is to embrace life as a faithful, Spirit-led nomad.

Transcript

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[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I want to draw your attention to Luke, chapter nine. We're going to look at verses 57 through 62. There is an insight therein that I believe is relevant and very relative to the moment that we're standing in right now. Hallelujah. My burden. My burden. Every day for you, I live, I live under a burden. Anybody that's called has truly surrendered and submitted to their calling. And that is many of you. I know that. But if you're called, you understand that you live life both with a blessing and a burden. And I'll tell you my greatest burden right now for the people that are assigned to my voice, those who God has entrusted my voice to reach. My greatest burden is that you are sufficient. Spiritually, physically, emotionally, economically. That you are sufficient and equipped and prepared to move throughout the earth in the times that we're in right now. Wish I Could say that better. I'm looking at the world, and I'm looking at you. Hmm. Can I just be transparent for a moment? I'll get to the text. Just give me two seconds. Looking at the world. I'm looking at you, and I'm looking at the Word. I'm looking at the world, I'm looking at you, and I'm listening out for the Word. Because there is a gap between who we are and who we need to be in the times that we are in.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

And this is something that we have.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

To be intentional about, because you don't stumble into readiness. Come on. And I'll be honest with you. You don't shout your way into readiness. You don't dance your way into readiness. You are transformed readiness by the renewing of your mind. I live with this burden every single day. God, show me as. As. As it were a son of Issachar. Show me what's up. Show me the times and the seasons, and show me what God's people ought to do. I live that. I eat it, I drink it. I pray. I fast for that. So when I bring you a word, that's where it comes from. That's where it comes from. Luke, chapter 9, verse 57. Now, it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to him, him is Jesus. Lord, I will follow you wherever you go. And Jesus said to him, foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. Then he said to another, follow me. But he said, lord, let me first go and bury my father. Jesus said to him, let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God. And another also said, lord, I will follow you, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house. But Jesus said to him, no one, having put his hand to the plow, looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Father, we thank you so much for this glorious worship experience that we've already partaken in thus far. We also thank you for your word. It is a lamp unto our feet, and it is a light into our path. We don't live by bread alone, but we live by every word that proceeds out of your mouth. It is our sustenance. Hallelujah. It is our nourishment. It is our life. Now, Father, I thank you for the spirit of wisdom, revelation and insight and knowledge and Holy Ghost power, the Spirit of prophecy. Hallelujah. That I might minister this word in due season to the effect of transformation, to the effect of all of us taking a moment and revisiting faith, our sense of calling and identity and making whatever adjustments we need to make order to be equipped for the moments that we are in. Hallelujah, God. May the words in my mouth and the meditation in my heart be acceptable in your sight, O God, my strength and my redeemer. And may the end result of this time together be alignment. Simply put, things that were out of alignment, may they come into alignment where there was confusion, may there be clarity where there was fear. May they be boldness and faith. God. Hallelujah. I thank you. You're going to answer prayers that haven't been prayed, questions that haven't been asked. You're getting ahead of your children so that when they come to the juncture, they will already know what they should do. We love you, God. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Please greet somebody in the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. And in honor of Big Chris, I will go to work. Hallelujah. As I mentioned, my daily work and my daily prayer is to utilize the insight, the resources, the relationships, the platform, the stage to equip you and make certain that you are ready for now. Sometimes I look at just full transparency. Sometimes I look at what's happening in the world, what's happening in the spirit, and I look at the church and I think, man, we ain't ready. Because I feel like sometimes, not all the times, but sometimes we can get church right, which is a wonderful thing. There's nothing wrong with it at all. To get church right. Community, encouragement, inspiration. And sometimes I look and I think that's not enough. Sometimes I just. I look and I see and my heart begins to grieve because not in a gloom and doom type of way, but I see what's coming and I see the demand that these times are placing on people, especially God's people. This season, let me just be direct. This season is placing a demand on us that no other season has. We have to be so much more than spiritually astute. We have to be emotionally astute. We have to be physically, literally, to take care of our bodies in a particular way so that. Watch this. So that we are prepared for whatever. Because the last thing that you would want to be is spiritually endowed but physically weak. Are you hearing me? Because you're going to have to go the distance. There is an economic aspect, a new prowess that we're going to have to move with. Now. The wonderful thing is all of those things are Available, but they have to be sought after, pursued, and there have to be sacrifices made to achieve these things. In other words, you can't do what you always done. And so as I was praying about this season, I've been talking to the Lord about this season and God. What is your high level message as it relates to who we need to be in these times in order to be positioned properly so that we can not only survive but thrive? And the word that he gave me was we must become and fully embrace the identity of a nomad. So I want to talk about the nomadic life. Nomad. Nomad. You're like nomad. This is a new term. I don't even think I've ever seen it in all of scripture. Yes, you have. You just didn't call it nomad. So let me break down that word. I wanted to understand. I said God. Okay, well if we're going to talk about that, then help me to understand what this word means, where it came from and what it means. Are you tracking with me? Can I take a moment and teach and just unpack this thing and walk and just lay some foundation and we'll go where we need to go. And don't you tune off, because at the end there is a blessing, a decree, a tenfold, a 10 point blessing that the Lord gave me in prayer to pray over you. So you just hang with me until the end because there is a blessing that's going to be prayed right out of the word of God over you and, and your families. Are you tracking with me? In fact, if you receive it already, just give God just a little shout real quick. I just, I receive it already. Already. You ain't even said it, but I receive it.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

So I want us to take a.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Look at this word. I want us to break down. I want us to look at the etymology of this word nomad. And it's an English word that comes from a Middle French word, nomade. And that French word comes from the Latin word nomas, which means watch this, this is important. Wandering people. Wandering people. And that Latin word in turn goes all the way back to an ancient Greek word, nomos, meaning roaming, roving, wandering. And more specifically, to find pasture for flocks and herds. Stay with me. Building something here. And that Greek noun is related to another Greek word meaning pasture, grazing, grazing ground or feeding place. And if you take the word nomad and you break it down even further into the Indo European root, you get the word or the concept of the idea of this is important to assign to allot or to deal out. To deal out. Thus the pasture or grazing land that is allotted you. Tracking. Stay with me. So let's put all of that together really quickly. Let's take all of the insight as it relates to this word. Let's look at all the semantic elements and let's put it together. So from this etymology, here are the semantic threads. One, it's about pasture. It's about grazing, it's about feed. And in the ancient sense, this is important. It's about moving in order to find pasture or feeding ground. So it's about mobility, but not random mobility. It's about mobility to find the allotted the pasture and the feeding ground. So this mobility or this nomad nature is about survival. Stay with me. It's about wandering, movement. Because as we look at it in the pastoral sense, the. The people lived with mobility, moving from one grazing ground to another, and they were not fixed on one location. Their home was transitional. And so the term came to mean people who do not have a permanent home. Watch this. But instead move as part of their livelihood. So movement was connected to livelihood and provision. Stay with me. And then we had the idea of allotment.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

When we broke it all the way.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Down to the Indo European term, we had allotment or distribution. And so it gives the sense of this is where the pasture is allotted. Ooh, I can't wait to break this down. Or watch this.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

Or here's another way to look at it.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Or we move because the allotment or the portion changes. We tracking. And so inherent in the nomadic life is the pursuit of resources, necessary resources, pasture, water, land that was only seasonally viable. Stay with me. So, so, so provision moves. And because provision moves, we move. Which means that. Watch this. To be nomadic is to have a certain responsiveness to changing conditions. So, so, so, so, so a nomad is one who moves with the pasture. Oh, I can't wait to unpack this. So in the text, Jesus is professing that he is a nomad. He says, foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

Son of Man has no place to lay his head.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

He says this in the context of.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

His followers saying, I'll follow you everywhere. In other words, they were saying, I.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Am committed to being a believer. I am committed to being a Christian.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

Jesus says, oh, really? All right, well, let me let you know what this thing is really about. You want to follow me for real? I get that.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

That's good.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

I actually want you to follow me. But let me help you to understand.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

What you're Signing up for. He says, I am a nomad, baby.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

I'm not stuck in one place. And if you're going to follow me, you've got to keep up with me because I am on the move, baby. If you like, comfort me. And you can't be friends because your comfort zone will kill you, will stagnate you. If you're trying to follow me, are.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

You hearing with me? Can I lay a little? He says, even foxes have holes, even birds have nests. But I, I, I, I, I, I, I haven't even unpacked my bags.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

When I go into a city, I.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Don'T even get comfortable.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

My suitcase.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Can we walk and talk a little bit? So what he is doing in this text is he's trying to help his followers understand that if Jesus is a nomad, they must be nomads too. Abraham was a nomad, you say? Well, show me in the Bible. Abraham was a nomad. Watch this. Nothing, nothing moved for Abraham until Abraham moved. The very first thing that the Lord says to Abraham as he is calling him, the very first, not the second thing, the very first thing, Dr. Sabrina.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

When he engages Abraham.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Watch this.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

Who would be the father of faith or the model for all of us if we want to get this thing right? As it relates to walking with God and moving with God, you can't get.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Any more precise other than Jesus, than Abraham. The very first thing he says to Abraham is, now, I'm going to need you, Genesis 12 to get out of your father's house and out of your country. Watch this.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

And he doesn't even tell him where he's going. He says, I'm going to tell you. You want to know what your destination is?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

To a land that I will show you.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

In other words, it's not really any of your business.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Your business is to simply follow me.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

And, and put yourself in a position to hear from me so that you can follow me. That's why he built altars everywhere he went. He worshiped God. He went to a place. God met him in a place. He built an altar right there. And I believe that altar of worship kept the heavens open in front of him so that he can get downloads about moving to the next place.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Abraham was a nomad.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

And here's what I love about Abraham. If you've been around me any length of time, you know I love the end of his story.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

He had a wonderful journey, an interesting journey, a powerful journey.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

But I like the end of Abraham's story.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

And it's in Genesis, chapter 24.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

And I didn't tell him about it, but study it when you get a chance. Genesis 24:1, it says, and Abraham was.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Well advanced in years.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

In other words, Abraham was old. And the Bible says, and the Lord.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Had blessed him in every single way.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

How was he blessed in every single way? He was blessed in every single way because he followed God all of the way.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I feel the Holy Ghost, in other words, and I just put it out.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

There, in other words, some of you are not experiencing blessings and in certain areas of your life because you are not a nomad. You're stuck in one place of thinking you're stuck in one place geographically. And God is saying, what I have for you is not where you are. I've got you covered. I've got this covered, I've got that every way that you want to be blessed, I know how to bless you. But do you know how to follow me? And are you willing to be a nomad?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I will tell you where to put your net down.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

The difference between lack and abundance was where the net was dropped.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

You know the passage I'm talking about, right?

[Pastor or Church Leader]

Drop it.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Watch this.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

Drop it on the right side of the boat. I don't know what side they were previously dropping the net down on. And apparently they must have had some confident confidence in that side because they continued to drop it down on that side. Jesus comes to say, hey, hold up, homeboy, drop it down over there. In other words, I will show you. It's not that the provision isn't there, but can you hear my voice? Can you follow my instruction? Can you move when I tell you to move?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Every next level blessing and breakthrough that.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

Has happened to me in my life was a direct result of me being willing to make a shift and to develop and to cultivate. The type of mentality and the heart posture that will make a shift does not happen at the moment of the shift. It is about the mentality of a nomad.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I want Jesus to walk with me while I'm on this. See, the old saints understood that they were pilgrims. They were looking for a city whose builder and maker was God. Yes, we can take that all the way up to heaven.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

Or we can also add that I'm.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Looking for a place, a land and a territory that God has set up for me.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

I'm sniffing out God, God, where are you? Because if I'm experiencing lack, maybe, just maybe, it's because I'm not being nomadic enough. I'm stuck in my ways, I'm stuck in comfort. I don't want to change I don't want to shift. I think that God is going to try to come and find me. What if God is not trying to find you? What if he's wondering, where are you?

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Where art thou, Adam? I've got a prepared place for you. Can I take my time? I talked about the nomadic identity and the criticality of needing to shift. I got to tell you, God did something to me. Or I'll just say he allowed something to happen to me recently. Kind of messed me up. I got sick a couple of weeks ago and I was real sick. And it was like food poisoning. I've had food poisoning before, but this was on another level. I mean, it was real bad. And it was so bad that I literally couldn't do nothing but stay in the bed, even when I tried. And you know, I'm a little rebellious. Pastor Sarah, you didn't have to be so. You didn't have to. Amen so loud on that. I'll still. I gotta be real, real sick to stay down. I gotta be real, you know, I gotta be like. You know, like. And I was real, real sick. I found myself unable Mother Nix. I found myself so sick that I couldn't even move and I couldn't even get up out the bed. And then I got to rebuking the devil, you know, all of that and got, you know, the intercessors and all that was wonderful and all that. I'm sure it was all appropriate because the enemy was in there somewhere. But this level of stillness, this level debilitation, that forced me to completely stop. And it created space for me to ponder some things, think through some things. It stopped me. And God met me in that stopped place. And then I began to scratch my chin and I got a little suspicious because that level of ceasing, I'll be honest with you, I don't even know.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

How to access that.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I'm just come down for a minute. This stillness that put me in a position to experience fresh clarity and fresh vision and to reassess and begin to re. Evaluate. I begin to discover.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

As God met me in that still place, I got suspicious and I said, God, I think you have a little something. First I was rebuking the devil. Then I pulled back on my rebuke.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

A little bit.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

And I laid into.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

This thing because I realized that I. And maybe I'm not by myself. Maybe you're the same way. We don't have the capacity to stop to the degree that we need to stop. Because some shifts cannot happen without first a divine pause. That's that much. There's some. There's some I'm thinking about. Even like in racing and racing and you have the shifting of the gears in racing, you don't just go from gear to gear. Come on, somebody. There is a pause in between one level, one gear and the next gear. And that pause is not insignificant. During that pause, the RPMs, the engine speed and the wheel speed gets synced. Oh, I wish I could articulate this better.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

When there's a shift, that pause is not insignificant. That pause is so important because it gives things an opportunity to get into alignment and you can't do it too soon.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Soon.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

You can't shift too soon and you can't do it. It's got to be just right when there is an alignment. And then when you come out, you can accelerate with power in that new gear.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

God was teaching me something and he.

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Was teaching me that part of being.

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A nomad is respecting rest.

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I'm going to say this, and I'm.

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Going to move on. Isn't it interesting when I think about the Ten Commandments, the majority of the Ten Commandments are about sinning against God and sinning against others. But there's only one commandment in there that is not necessarily about sinning against God or sinning against others. This one is about sinning against yourself. And it's the Sabbath. You ain't sinning against God. God's not all upset. Well, why didn't you make this day special for me? This is my birthday. Why didn't.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

God's not like that. The Sabbath is you sinning against you. And God wanted us to understand the importance of the pause and the importance of the rest.

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So important that he did it himself.

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After he works for six days, he's like, I need you to understand how important this is. The Bible says on the seventh day he rested. Then that is right there in the Ten Commandments.

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He is serious about rest.

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Because one of the things that keeps us from going to the next level is that we're stuck on the level that we're on because we can't even.

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Get the instructions for.

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For what is next while we are so busy doing what was then.

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As it relates to being nomadic, we need to be nomadic geographically. Sometimes you gotta move, right? I started. I was born in Oakland, moved to la, California. I've stayed all over la, all over California, moved from city to city, place to place, right? It's a big enough state to do that. I've lived in Denver, now I live in Dallas. I've been to Africa, I've been to Europe. I've been all over and have had impact and have picked up different things and in different places. So certainly being nomadic is about movement. But movement isn't always geographical. Sometimes that movement is also mental. I'm thinking about when Paul talks about Romans chapter 12, and he talks about that I need you to be transformed by the renewing of your mind. The renewing of your mind. The word there that was translated renewing can be better translated. The renovation of your mind. That's movement here. I can't be rigid and inflexible in my thinking if I'm going to be everything that God has called me to be. In fact, it is unhealthy to not continue to learn new things. The preservation of. Of the mind, the elasticity of the mind, the growth of the mind as you continue to learn new things.

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That's actually how your mind develops. It is important, no matter how old.

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You get to keep on learning something new, because that is continuing to keep your mind vibrant. And studies show literally doing so. Continuing to learn things and various other mind exercises could literally reduce the chances of dementia. Oh, God, I feel that thing right there. Geographically, mentally, professionally, especially now. I gotta be.

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Don't, don't.

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I'm not too quick to define myself one way, because as these times are changing, you are gonna need to be whatever you need to be to win. Come on. I will be whatever I need to be professionally.

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I'm a professional nomad.

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Everything's changing right now.

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You see companies laying thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people off. See, you got to be a different.

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Type of person in the world that we're living in today.

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What used to prosper yesterday may not prosper tomorrow. And so I've got to be nomadic.

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Even how I define myself and how I earn my living. You got to be a cultural nomad, too.

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Get out of. Listen, go find somebody doesn't look like.

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You, talk like you, think like you.

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You don't have to necessarily be best friends. But I guarantee you, sometimes there's something to learn.

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And watch this. See, this is counterculture, particularly if you're on social media and various things, because.

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The way the algorithms work, they only bring to you bring to your feed people that look like you, talk like you, and think like you, and it gives you a false sense of progress and confirmation and validation. But you are only getting one side of the story, and you cannot grow.

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Read all of the news.

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Don't just be locked in on your favorite. Read news that you don't agree with.

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Is good for your mind. Are you tracking with. You didn't like that? You didn't like that I read it all.

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Because the truth, I was going to say is right there in the middle.

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I don't even know if it's in the middle.

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The truth is probably way out in left field. But. But the more that I expose myself.

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To culturally, you don't know where things are going to shift.

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Your prosperity might be in Tokyo next. That sounds crazy, right?

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Not to the nomad.

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Because the nomad says, God, wherever you tell me to go, I'll go. Whoever you tell me to be, I'll be. Whatever you tell me to do, I'll do. I will follow you wherever you go.

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I was thinking about Isaiah, chapter one and 19. Stay with me. We're going somewhere. We're almost there. And it's a powerful passage. And the prophet says, if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the.

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Good of the land. Willing.

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See, nomads watch this. Nomads are willing. And again, you don't become willing at the moment of the instruction.

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Because if you are not willing before the moment of the instruction, you won't.

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Even hear the instruction.

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This is one of the things that I've learned about God. There is one word.

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It's a Hebrew word, and it escapes me, but it's in there. But it's about to hear.

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And it's not like here, like here.

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You hear my voice. It literally means to listen intently. There's one word to literally stretch your ear with the intention to obey. So there is a connection. There's an overlap between hearing and obeying.

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There's no distinction. In other words, I'm going to hear.

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So good, because I've already made up, I feel the Holy Ghost. I've already made up my mind that.

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If I hear, when I hear, I will obey. That is a posture. And that posture positions you to hear clearly what? Thus saith the Lord. But if you already have a. I don't know, in my spirit, or maybe in my spirit, or if it's comfortable in my spirit, you're not even going to hear because there's already a narrative. You are the captain of your own faith. So you've already made up your mind. God, I don't care if you tell me to go to Nigeria. I don't care.

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And we're praying for Nigeria in the.

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Name of Jesus as it relates to.

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Persecution and all those things.

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And we see with Iranian brothers, if we pray, powerful things can take place. Just lift up a word of prayer real quick. Just 15 seconds for Nigeria right now. Father, in the name of Jesus, we pray that you, spirit, would move upon that land and every weapon that is formed, every enemy, every wicked thing. And not just Nigeria, but any place on the continent, any place on the world where the enemy is raging against Christians. We pray in Jesus name that revival would break out, that you would thwart the enemy, that you would thwart the foe, that you would rise and cause your enemies to be scattered on their.

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Behalf in Jesus name.

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Just have to do that real quick. The point that I'm making is that if it is optional.

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If it is.

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Optional, if your obedience is optional, you.

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Will not hear because your heart is already hard. And hard hearts don't move in obedience. Are we tracking one of the hardest shifts for people? This is important. One of the hardest shifts for people is to go from being static to nomadic. We're creatures of habit, and we must go from static nomadic. And it necessitates intentionality. I used to be able to just work out. I used to be able to just go in the gym and just. You know what I mean? You know, no problem. Now, now. Now. The first 20 minutes of my workout is stretching, Bishop.

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I dare not attempt to do the type of training that I do without first.

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Because as you age, as you get comfortable being you over the years, you have to be intentional about fighting against rigidity and inertia. It is the same way. It's the same thing. We get comfortable in these lives and we get comfortable in how we feel like things ought to be. And we get so comfortable that when God wants to move us to the left.

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I gotta move on.

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Why is this.

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Why is this so important? This is so important because in times of shifting and change, we. We have to be agile. Oh God, this is my burden. This is my burden. I'm almost there. But this is my. Hear me clearly when I come here. That means I really need you to get this. God needs you to be agile. He needs you to be flexible. He needs you to be ready for whatever. Oh God, I say it's better. My fear, my fear. Can't you tell the world is changing now why would God allow the world to change and command you to stay the same? Bishop talked about a couple of weeks ago about a groaning. He says the earth is groaning. Scripture says the earth is groaning and so are we. So, so, so, so, so you're groaning and your groaning is desiring of a change. Oh God, I wish I. So as I see things shifting, I have to begin to ask myself, what shifts do I need to make and.

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Or am I ready and available? Have I ordered organize my life in.

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Such a way that if God calls me to pivot, I can do it without throwing a hip out. And some of you can't get that instruction yet because you are too busy doing what you've always done because it seems to be working. Did you know that if I go outside into a garden and I find an orange tree and I cut off the branch of that tree and I dragged that branch in here, that I can pick oranges off of that branch and eat them and they will just be as fresh and as delicious as they were when that branch was connected to the tree for a season? That means that I can think that.

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Everything is well, even though, watch this. I'm no longer connected to the vine. I can think that everything is well.

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Because for a moment the orange juice is still dripping down my hands and I'm enjoying it.

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But tomorrow it's not going to be as sweet.

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And the juice is not going to flow as abundantly.

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And if I never plug back into.

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That vine, I'm in John 15.

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Now, if I never plug back into.

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That vine, Jesus says, without me you can do nothing.

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So being plugged into the vine is.

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Being connected to the flow of the Lord.

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It is the flow of the Lord through that tree and going into that branch that causes not just fruit, but more fruit. And the Bible talks about that this.

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Type of fruit is fruit that will remain. I'm almost there. So we have to be in these times.

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We have to have agility.

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We have to be agile. And agile is. We have to stretch so that we can be ready. We got to practice agility. We got to read more.

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We've got to pay attention.

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We've got.

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We've got to keep learning. We got to connect with people that don't look like us, talk like us, walk like us. We got to keep learning and expanding our mind, reading books and learning new things. We got to get outside of our comfort zone and go and join certain organizations. We got to go to school, and school is easy. Now you can go to school for free.

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So that we can stay nomadic. Agility requires flexibility and freedom. I'm going to say this and I'm going to move to where I want to land. And this is very, very instructional. We shouldn't be in this moment signing up for anything that is going to tie us down for long periods of time or indefinitely without prayer and divine confirmation. Say that again. Especially if you haven't taken the time to pause. We're moving into the holiday season, right? You did good this year. You made it through January, you made it through February, you made it through March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October. I am so proud of you. You have made it. But it would be unwise of you to just run right into 2026 without pausing. First of all, to thank God for bringing you through so far this year. Hello, somebody. Can we just pause and say, God, I thank you. Crazy things happened this year.

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God, I thank you. Weapons were formed this year, but they didn't prosper. God, I didn't know if provision was coming my way, way, but it did. I got a bad health report, but I'm still here. Are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth? God, I thank you for bringing me this far.

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Danger seen and unseen, people who didn't.

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Make it, but God, you saw fit. I want to say thank you. And sometimes when you're in the rat.

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Race, when you're in the hustle, right, you also don't take time to experience how far you've come. See, I'm going to be transparent, man. I've always been a runner. I was born in East Oakland and my mom, you know, we moved, just me and her, and we moved to LA running. Then I was in la, I was in South Central la and things were crazy where I was. And so thank God for a Praying mother. My mom, you know, bused me out to private school running. Then we ultimately left South Central LA and we moved to Inglewood running. And then we moved. Then I went away to the San Fernando Valley to college running. Then I kept moving my house and moving my house and I kept pushing further and further and further west, trying to get away from all of the element and all the things that scared me to death when I was a kid. Many of you know my testimony. I was shot when I was 16 years old. I have seen it all. Running, running, running. Went to corporate America, excelled in corporate America. Started my business in text, did very well in text. Running, running, running. All that running, running, running. I just kept running. And the only problem with continuing to run is you don't stop and see how far God has brought you.

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And some of you in this room.

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And you're still running, but you're safe. And I hear God saying you're safe. Can't you see that? If I was with you then, I will be with you now.

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You can, you can take a minute and just breathe and just, just breathe. I got news for you. There is no boogeyman. And if there was a boogeyman, Jesus conquered him.

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Some of you are in harvest time and you're acting like it's sowing time. Say that better. You can't even receive your harvest.

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You don't even have your buckets. You don't even have your nets ready to receive a harvest because you got the wrong tool in your hand. You're still working, you're still laboring. You still think you need enough, not realizing that you have been sowing seeds for years. You have been sowing in tears. And God wants you to take the tool and put the tool aside and go get you something so that you can get those sheep sheaves. Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy. Doubtless you will return with your sheaves with you. The promise of God is that if you have been sowing in tears, you are going to reap in joy. If you have gone far forth bearing precious seeds, there is a season where the harvest is so abundant, you will come back with sheaves. And I want to declare to somebody right here, right now, it's sheave season. God is a faithful God. He will not allow your seed.

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To.

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Go into the ground, and he not respond. And while you are in that harvest.

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Season of gratitude and reaping, God will speak to you and give you instructions for the next. I want to give somebody who was under the sound of My voice. Permission to rest. To rest. The work will be there. We're not smarter than God.

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Six days. Yes, you better work and work with all your might. But what about the seventh day?

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And that works out to be about 13 to 14% of your time. 14%. There's some. Under the sound of my voice. You got the wrong tool. You got the wrong tool. You got the shovel and you need the sheath. You got the shovel and you need the bucket. To gather, to receive, to sow and sow and sow and sow and so and so and so and so and so and so and. And sow and sow. And never give yourself permission to reap. Is doubt. Is doubt. It literally is doubt. The Bible says, while the earth remains, seed, time and harvest, not the message. So I think we've made that point clear. So as we go back to the text. Jesus teaching his disciples, we see now we recognize, as we understand, this nomadic identity. Abraham was a nomad. Paul was a nomad. Even David was a nomad. Even David had to get out of his father's house. Then he had to get out of.

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His other father's house.

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He had to get out of Saul's house.

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Then he had to go all over the place.

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He was a nomad. He had to move about to ultimately get to his resting place. So now that we understand that, we see Jesus a little differently. We see Jesus who is teaching his disciples about being a nomad. But as we look closely and we stare at him, they are following him, but he is following his father. I gotta make this plain. Stay with me. They're following him. He's following. So that means that he is both shepherd and lamb. He's both shepherd and sheep. And he is being a bit extreme about making the point of our need to be a nomad.

[Pastor or Church Leader]

He says things like, let the dead bury their own dead.

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It seems callous and insensitive. But remember, this is all in the context of him trying to watch this communicate an extreme calling to be a nomad. In other words, this is not going to be easy. It's going to require faith. If you really want to follow me, if you want to distantly associate with me, cool. But if you really want to follow me, you are going to have to embrace this. Watch this. This fluid identity as a nomad. Track with me. So, so, so, so, so he is both shepherd and lamb. He says, let the dead bury their dead. But you go and preach the kingdom. Then later, someone says, okay, I'll go, but let me first go and tell Everybody that I'm leaving. And Jesus says, watch this. He says, no one.

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Looks back.

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No one having put their hands to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom. That's an interesting word. So all this is about kingdom. That word that was translated, fit means well placed, literally well placed or postured. So in other words, if I have put my hand to the. If I've begun to follow Jesus and I'm looking back, not postured properly, not postured properly for the kingdom, it's not going to happen. Lot's wife looked back, boom, it was over for her. Right. So he's essentially saying that the posture of moving the kingdom forward is a forward facing posture with a focus on the shepherd. On the shepherd. So this, what he's talking about is the nomadic life. And it's a life that is led by the shepherd. We're almost there. And moves with the pasture, led by the shepherd and move with the pasture. So the pasture moves and the shepherd knows where the pasture is. The shepherd, this shepherd is not roaming to try to find. This shepherd knows exactly where the allotment of your portion is. I want to show you something real quick. Jump over to Psalms chapter 16. Real quick about the landis. Tie it up, I'll make it plain, and then we're going to go home.

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Psalm 16.

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5 says, oh Lord, you are the portion of my inheritance and my cup. Here it is right here. He says, you maintain my lot, you maintain my lot. Then it goes on to say, the lines have fallen to me.

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Pleasant places.

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So this means that the shepherd, Jesus, the shepherd who is also the lamb, because he's both leading and following, is not moving ignorantly.

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He's moving with an understanding of where.

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Our inheritance and where our portion is.

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Before you showed up into the world.

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There was a portion, there was an inheritance.

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There are lines with your name on it. Your provision has already been secured. God is not trying to find your provision. He has already established your provision before the world began. But we have to come to a place where we trust the shepherd and know that we are not just wandering aimlessly, but the Lord who is my shepherd. I shall not want. Uh oh, there's a revelation. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Uh oh, uh oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. This recolors Psalm 23.

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Because in Psalm 23 we claim a lot of promises. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, for you are with me. You will prepare a table for me in the Presence of my enemies. You will anoint my head with oil, and my cup will overflow. Goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life. You will restore my soul. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. We claim those promises but don't realize the context. The context is in Psalm 23:1, where it says, the Lord is my.

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I wish somebody would catch it.

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To say the Lord is my shepherd is to confess that I am a nomad. To say the Lord is my shepherd is to say I am bought with a price. My life is not my own. I have a leader. I have a guide. That's why he says, you will lead me in the path of righteousness for my name's sake. So we claim the promise without the posture. You can't claim goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life without claiming that the Lord is your shepherd. You can't claim that he'll prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies unless you proclaim that the Lord is your shepherd because he's leading you to where the table is. Goodness and mercy is not following you if you're not following him. Goodness and mercy is a sign to the path that God, your shepherd, has preordained for you. The oil lady Brenda is not just anywhere. He doesn't just anoint you anywhere. You've got to be in the right place at the right time with the right attitude.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

Those promises have a context. That context is the posture of a nomad. David was a nomad. Abraham was a nomad. Paul was a nomad. The Holy Ghost is nomadic. You're like, what are you talking about? Study your Bible. In John, chapter three, when Jesus is trying to articulate to Nicodemus about the Holy Ghost, he describes it like the wind.

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You don't know where it's going from.

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Or where it's coming.

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Oh, PT.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

I need more Bible. Okay. In the very beginning, the Bible says that the Spirit of God was hovering, was moving over the face of the deep.

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So if I'm filled with the Holy Ghost, if I'm led by the Holy Ghost, then I am nomadic.

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And so I want to pray for some people. Today, the Lord told me to pray these 10 blessings straight from Psalm 23 over those who are committing. Watch this. To surrender to God in such a way that you would consider yourself a nomad. I know it's scary. The deception. Comfort is very deceiving. It's very deceiving because with one computer glitch, you can go from comfort to chaos. With one storm, you can go from comfort to chaos. So then the question becomes, where is safety? In the will of God. In the will of God, in the word of God, in the path of the shepherd family. I'm not here to tickle your fancy, not here to entertain you. I have no desire. I'm from la, I'm from Hollywood. I've had enough entertainment. I have no desire whatsoever to use the gift and the grace that's on my life to entertain you. My wife and I, Bishop first lady, and really all the pastors and ministers and leaders of this church, we're serious about you. We're serious about you. That's why we take our time, because we want to pack into this time with you together everything that God has told us. Sometimes, right on the spot, that you need to be okay. If you're not okay, we're not okay. And we weep for you and we cry for you and we pray for you every single day. And we are committed to growing because you can't go beyond us. I mean, you can, but you understand what I'm saying. We can't be your lid. So we're in the secret place and we're asking God, God, what are you saying Every single day? 16 page prayer, every single day, God, what are you saying to your people? And I'm telling you without any hesitation, without any ambiguity, without anything other than absolute clarity. God is saying, embrace the posture of a nomad. That's what Jesus was getting across. That's what he was trying to teach them. And that's why he used such extreme examples. Let the bed, let the dead, bury the dead. That seems kind of harsh, but it was dramatic. When Jesus is trying to get something across, he uses a dramatic, you know, if you don't hate mother, he doesn't.

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He's being dramatic because he's saying, hey, I need to disrupt you. I need to disrupt you with this truth. Walking with Jesus necessitates periodic disruptions in how we think and how we are postured. If Jesus doesn't disrupt your status quo, you haven't met him, you have a distant relationship with him. You know of him, but you do not know him. The Lord will disrupt you in the most holiest way because there's a you that's beyond the you that you are. So he has to disrupt this you to get you to the you that he knew before he put you in your mother's womb. If you are committed to embracing the identity of a nomad, I'm not asking you to do Anything other than to say, I heard the word and the young man argued it straight out to Scripture, verse by verse, line by line with supporting evidence. And I believe that God. It's your testimony. If you're watching via live stream, this is you. I'm telling you there is safety in living a nomadic life. Noah was a nomad. I'm going to pray this blessing over everybody. If you are inclined, I'm going to sow into this because I believe it. I need God's help. And if you're compelled, I want you to sow in increments of 23. It could be $23. If $23 is nothing to you, then sow in increments of 23 that actually means something to you. Could be 230, could be 20, 300, 23,000. Could be 2.3. I don't know where you're at, but if this resonates, if it resonates, you believe that God spoke to you, and one of the ways you know is because it challenges you. A word that doesn't challenge you is a word that you probably need to listen to again because you missed something. Foxes have holes. Jesus. I'll follow you wherever. Oh, really? All right. I don't even have a hole. You still gonna follow me? I don't even have a nest. You still going with me? I don't even have a place to lay my head. But I'm kind of like the Levites. I didn't get the inheritance of land. I got the whole enchilada. If you are a nomad, it doesn't mean that you have nothing. It means that you have postured yourself to have everything. If you're here and pray these blessings over you, I want everyone to stand if you're sowing into this. Instructions are on the screen. Our PMTs are in the aisles. Lift your hands. If God spoke to you, if you didn't interact with. If you don't feel like he spoke to you, I'm not talking to you. But if God spoke to you and he challenged you. See, prophecy is a gift. It's a gift to the hearer. I couldn't serve a God that wouldn't send me prophetic words to prepare me, to establish me. That's not love. That's not love. It's not love. To see the evil coming and not say anything, that's not love. Love is the same way we raise our kids. Do this, don't do that. Hey, let me show you why this. You know what I'm saying? That's love. This is love. We could be talking about anything. I'm telling you right now, God is saying your superpower in this season will be your agility. Some of you are going to have to take a minute, take two or three days and go somewhere and pray and suspend. Suspend your allegiance. Watch this. Your allegiance to sameness. Your allegiance to sameness. I'm thinking about our bishop, our founder from West Virginia. And not just from West Virginia to here levels in West Virginia, place to place. Watch this. Not just geographically. So of course we came here industry to industry. From a preacher watch this profession to a filmmaker, to real estate. I'll be whatever I have to be in order to stay safe. We have a nomad as our example. Here are the ten blessings. I'm filled with so much joy because I'm telling you, these are not just words. If you receive this and put some seed in the ground on this. In fact, hold on, hold up. I feel, and I don't just throw words out there. I'm very careful. But I feel divinity over this blessing. I really do.

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Cmo.com Father, we we standing in unison here today. Even those who are watching via live stream. And we're standing, God, with obedient hearts. Willing hearts. Willing, willing. There is no resistance in us toward you. For to resist you is to resist Life, we will not harden our hearts. We're coming to you in willingness, knowing God, that if we're willing and we're obedient, you will ensure that we eat the good of the land and God, before we receive this blessing. Lord, forgive us for our stubbornness, forgive us for our doubt. Forgive us to what we have clung to, believing, almost idolizing and making monuments out of that which was only a moment of provision. Lord, where we worship the gift and not the gift giver. Forgive us. And God, we worship you and we recognize that you are the good shepherd. And if we're led by you, we will never lack. So, God, we commit today here in your house and in your presence. We will be who you've called us to be, surrendered subjects of the most High God. We recognize that in you we live and move and have our being. It's in you. You are our shepherd. Hallelujah. In Jesus name. If you have seed, if you're compelled to do so, I want you to just hold it up as I speak these things over you. Here are the ten blessings from Psalm 23. There are more, but these are the ten that he highlighted for me to speak over you today. Because you're embracing your identity as sheep, as nomadic sheep following the chief shepherd. One, you will have no lack. The Bible says, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not walk. Want. There's another translation that literally says, I have no lack. I have no lack. I have no lack. How can you have lack if the Lord is your shepherd? Number two, you will make it to the next green pasture. You will make it to the next feeding place. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. There's some. And it has been brittle and it has been dry and it has been dead. But the Lord told me to tell you, According to Psalm 23, he leads me. Green pastures you will make. You will not die, you will not fall off, you will not expire before you get to the next green pasture, is what the Lord told me to pray over you. That's number two. Number three, you will have divine direction. You will not be wondering, you will not be trying to figure it out. You will not be, you know, hey, is this the way, or is that the way?

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You'll hear him whisper in your ear, this is the way.

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Walk ye in it. You will have divine direction because he is your shepherd. Number four, your soul will be perpetually restored. He restores my soul. As you follow him, he's going to lead you to water spots of restoration. He's going to lead you to wisdom and revelation. And there will be breakthrough for everything that vexes your soul. He's going to restore you. He's going to build you from the inside out and make you whole perpetually. As you walk. You're going to be healed as you go. You're going to be healed as you go. As you embrace the identity of a nomad, just walk, just follow him.

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You're going to be healed as you go. You're going to be healed in motion.

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You're going to look for the pain. You're going to look for the anxiety.

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You're going to look for the trouble.

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And you won't be able to find it because he's going to heal you. He is going to perpetually restore your soul. Number five. You will have peace along the way. Peace that passes all understanding. He leads me beside the still waters. You will have peace. Thou will keep us in perfect peace if our mind is stayed upon you. That shepherd language. As I look.

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Look at the shepherd, as I focus.

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On the shepherd, you're going to have supernatural peace. Even when, number six, you have to walk through the darkest of times, Number six, you will have assurance. In the darkest of times, you will have and. And this too shall pass in your spirit. Even as you walk through the valley.

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Of the shadow of death, there's going.

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To be a divine insurance. You're going to know you're not going to fear any evil because you will literally sense the shepherd with you. Number seven. You know it says he'll prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies. Number seven.

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You will have victory over every enemy, over every enemy that rises up against you. You will have victory, says the Lord. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers us out of them all. Thanks be unto God who always causes us to triumph. If God before you, who can be against you?

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Number eight. You will have an open, overflowing cup. Because as you are following the shepherd.

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The spirit of God is going to fill you to the overflow. He's going to anoint your head with oil. Your cup is going to overflow. You may miss something here, but what you won't lack is anointing. You won't lack oil. You will have oil. You might have to walk through something, but watch. You won't lack.

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And what you won't miss is the.

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Overflow of God's spirit, his anointing and his presence. You're going to a new level, a new level of anointing, a new level of his hand on your Life. A new level of grace. A new level of victory. A new level. A new level. A new level. Just go ahead and take it. A new level. A new level. A new level. A new level. A new, new level. This is going to be different. The nomads experience things that associates, distant.

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Associates of Jesus will never experience. Number nine, you will be stalked by goodness and mercy. You'll be stalked by goodness and mercy.

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Because you made the Lord your shepherd.

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And declared yourself a nomad. And number 10, you will have God's abiding presence on your life. We're going to post these. I want to make sure we post these online. If you want to take out your phone and snap that you can. But those blessings are the blessings that you receive. You will see them play themselves out in your life. Now I want to do something quickly and it's time to go home. If you're here and you do not know Jesus, the shepherd, the good shepherd, the faithful shepherd who's gone ahead of you and made all your crooked paths straight, who loves you, he loves you before you even knew his name. He's for you. If you're here in this room and you say, man, I can't explain all that happened to me from the moment worship began until now, but I know something very real and divine took place. Here's how you feel. Maybe you're watching via live stream. You haven't felt safe in a long time. You haven't felt covered and protected in a long time. But there's something about this whole experience which has been all about Jesus, and you feel covered. I want you to come and meet me here at this altar. I want to pray for you. Let me tell you something. There's not a believer, there's not one believer who at a point in time didn't say, for the first time, yes to God. So all I'm saying is if you feel something tugging you in a very deep way and there's a response, you just feel like, I need to. I need to open up to this. I need to surrender to this. I need to respond. Let me tell you what the this is. That this is Jesus. He is a person and he is real, and he draws by the Holy Spirit and he's really into you. I study the scripture from Genesis to Revelation, and I do it over and over and over again. And I cannot find one reason, one ulterior motive of Jesus other than to be a blessing to you. The sacrifice, the struggle to come down here and take on the form of humanity. He was the king of kings and.

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The Lord of Lords.

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And he hu humbled himself and became obedient.

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Obedient to death.

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Even the death on the cross. And he didn't do it for him. He did it for you. You talk about ride or die.

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It ain't no ride or die.

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It was ride and die for us.

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That's how much he loves you.

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He wants nothing from you. He only wants for you. And he recognizes that he is the best thing since anything. And he freely makes himself available. And so if that's you and you're here and you feel the Lord knocking on the door, your hearts.

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I feel like.

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Like we're in the days of Noah and the door of the ark is open and God is saying, come on in. It's safe in here. Come on in. There's provision in here. Come on in. I've got you covered on. Come.

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Come on in while you can.

[Main Speaker / Preacher]

So if he's standing at the door of your heart and he's knocking, all you got to do, you don't have to force him in and he doesn't force you in. All you have to do is be willing. All you got to do is say, yes, Lord. That's it. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

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Not may, Lord.

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Yes, Lord. If that's you, I want you to come. If you're on live stream and that's you and you say, I want to open up. I feel the presence of God so strong. Just put I receive Jesus right there on the feed. And we got intercessors from all around the world in the chat right there on YouTube and Facebook and on our web, we got intercessors. Just put it right there because we'll see your name and we'll begin to intercede for you right now. If you know Jesus, but it's time to come home. And you just kind of been. You've been, you know, Jesus, but you haven't followed Jesus. And there's a conviction in this room right now. And then God's not mad at you, but he's saying, these times are serious and you can't be playing anymore because this is the first step and I've got a calling for you. There's more than you just being with me.

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I want to flow through you.

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If that's you, and you say, you know what, pt?

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I want to commit my life to the Lord.

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If that's you, I want you to.

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Come and meet me here as well.

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I want you to stand with me. If you're watching via live stream, just.

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Pray, put it right there. I'm committing my life to the Lord.

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And here's the last point of this invitation. I thank God for this house. I thank God for this house. There's some special special about this house. There's something real unique and special about this house, and I believe that it is one of the end time stronghold of God's remnant of God's remnant believers that will put him first. See, I gave you the greatest commandment, but there's a second one that's just like it. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength. But then the other one says, love your neighbors as you love yourself. There is a love in this house for people, for our neighbors. And if you're here and you've been dating this house, you may have come for the very first time and you're like, I can't explain it. I just know what I felt. And there is an instantaneous connection, instantaneous love affair. If that's you and you want to make the Potter's house your house, I want you to come. And right after this benediction prayer, I have pastors, pastors to my left. They've got their hands up. Dr. Crumpton, Pastor Vinshard, they're over there. We want to wrap our arms around you, bring you in close so that you can dine from this table in a very powerful and practical way. Let's pray. Father, thank you for this experience, oh God, this priceless, invaluable experience here in your courts and in your gates. Lord, this house is named aptly the Potter's house. This is your house. This truly is your house. And we can feel it, and we felt it from the moment that we walked in, that you were literally moving in our midst. We thank you for all that took place, all of the word, all the breakthrough, all the healing, all of the deliverance, all of the instruction, all that you fed us with today, all that you allowed us to experience today. We thank you and we don't take it for granted. Now, God, there's some who have come to this altar and they've embraced their identity as a true follower. You willing God to be nomads in order to follow in your way. God, I thank you that you saw even before they made their first step, you saw them and you knew that they were coming. Hallelujah. And even as they were walking, you begin to touch them and you begin to bless them. Hallelujah. And God, we prayed some things over them, God, things that you gave me in prayer today. And I thank you that that will be their portion. Watch. No, no, no. That will be the minimum of their portion in this life because they were willing and obedient. God. There's some who said yes to you, God. And I thank you, God, that when we say yes and we believe, you seal us with the Holy Spirit of promise. So I thank you, God, that their yes, God has turned into an anointing, an unction in even the Holy Spirit that will be with them always, even into the end of the age. God. There's some who rededicated their lives to you, God. And as they rededicated their lives to you, God, I thank you, Lord, that you're going to bring restoration to them. It'll be just as if they had walked with you the entire time. Because, God, you have a place for them in your kingdom. You have a place for them in your army. There is work to do. And I thank you, God, for what you're going to activate in their lives and through their lives for such a time as now. And I thank you, God, for those that we are welcoming into your house today. We love you so very much. Thank you for this experience. Now I want you to repeat after me. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love. I feel it. Heavenly Father, thank you for your word. I receive it. Heavenly Father, thank you for Jesus, thank you for making him who had no sin, all of mine, all of my weakness, all of my mistakes, all of my shortcomings, all of my limitations you placed in this body, all of my bondage, all of my brokenness, all of my hurt, you nailed to the cross and put it to death once and for all. And God, we thank you that on the third day you raised him up free and victorious, with all power in heaven and earth in his hands.

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And God, since I believe I'm raised.

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Up too, seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, far above principalities and powers.

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God, I thank you for the Holy.

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Spirit, fill me to the overflow that.

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I might walk in power, that I might walk in boldness, that I might walk in victory, that I might walk in peace, that I might walk in wisdom, that I might walk in Revelation. God, I thank you that my past is behind me. God, I thank you that the world is behind me and the cross is before me. God, I thank you that I'm looking unto you from whence my help comes from. I'm focused on Jesus, the author and the finisher of my faith. I'm on my way on the upward path. The devil's under my feet, the enemy is under my feet. My past is behind and I'm on my way up and nothing can stop me. In Jesus name, Amen. Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. May the Lord bless and keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and and be gracious towards you. May he lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom. Shalom in Jesus name. God bless you. Love you. See you Wednesday.

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