What we've been paying attention to is there's something about to shift. Not just in the earth, but point to yourself. Something's about to shift in you. Now, how bad do you want it? Those of you that are watching, how bad do you want it? You know, people talk about, oh, I want change or I want this. But then they don't do anything to position themselves. So talk is cheap. And you discover you go back to those people two, three, four, five, ten years from now. And they're still in the same old wandering cycle of what they were committed to ten years prior or whatever. They didn't shift.
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God said there's a cord of three strands that cannot be easily broken. And I've learned in my life that God speaks in threes a lot of times to establish something that ultimately he wants to do. And the season that we are currently in, and it's why that there is so much rhetoric going on right now and discussions on, is this person guilty? Is that person guilty? Is there ever going to be this person brought to justice? Is this thing? And we have to understand the first word. You ready? Those of you that are watching the word, you all start with an S. God says, okay, there has been a sifting. God is sifting. Right? And it's called shaking. I will shake both the heavens and the earth, says the Lord. And I will shake, he says in his word, everything that can be shaken. And part of that shaking is a sifting so that God can bring to the surface what needs to come to the surface, but also bring the gold, right? Bring that which he's trying in the golden era to manifest.
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You can't have the shift change until you have the sifting, shaking that is currently happening in the earth. It's going to position us for the next thing, the next S, shift. You have sifting, now it's shifting. And I said, well, God, where is this heading? When I was, you know, preparing this message, where are we heading? He said, well, we're heading towards what I've been saying, acceleration. And that is the word swift. Let God sift, shake, shift so that we can come into swift. We can come into the new season, the blessings, the things that we have been praying for, crying out to God for, expecting.
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God brings two kingdoms together. He draws a line in the sand and he says, no more. And then he looks to you and he says, are you going to shift with me? Are you going to be on this side of an old season? Are you going to shift and cross the line? Because I'm drawing it. And if you're on the other line, you're going to, we're going to talk to you in five, ten years, and you ain't gone nowhere. You better shift or you're going to be left out.
[01:35:05]
Something is about to happen in your life that you've been waiting for, expecting. You can't seem to get a breakthrough. There seems to be delay. You're frustrated. And you're going to see in a moment, you're stuck. It's about to shift. Are you going to shift with it?
[01:36:24]
You have to understand that God is a God of times and seasons. He deals with things in the earth according to events. And so what he is saying is the events that have led you up to this point, it's timing out. Now, I have hit the reset. What has God been saying? Reset. He's been saying it since the 2020 chaos. You're coming into reset. You're coming into a shift change. The question God is asking every one of us in here is how bad do you want to change? How bad do you want to shift? It's not on God. It's going to be on you.
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If you are late in the natural, you'll be late in the spirit realm. You'll miss your blessing. That's why he laid it out in Matthew 25 with the five wise virgins and the five foolish. It was all about time. Are you going to be on time? And are you going to be productive in the time that has been allotted to you? And the door closed because they were late. They wouldn't change. They made everything about their terms. My life.
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Don't miss the season, the time, and purpose under heaven because God is declaring we're in a shift change. Are you ready? Now watch this. Hebrews chapter 10 is verse 9. This is what you have to understand this principle. I know people in 40 years of serving God and almost next year, well, over 40 years, almost 40 years of ministry next year where I have had people squall and bawl and bawl and squall why nothing's ever happening for them. And usually the root problem is never God. It isn't God. 99, no, 100 % of the time it isn't God. It's us.
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But you got to be willing to take away the old so that you can establish the new, right? If you're not willing to change, you won't shift.
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If you're holding on to the old and your past and your past is more important than your present positioning for a future blessing, then you ain't going to get it. There are three things we have to understand if we're going to shift change. Number one, you got to recognize your season is changing. Right?
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First, you got to recognize something's moving, something's changing, something's shifting. And then you got to be ready for it. If you don't prepare yourself, that's why the five virgins were considered foolish because they didn't prepare themselves. They couldn't prepare for the shift. They missed the timing. The third thing is you must be willing to not just shift, but change.
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A stiff -necked is a person who's determined to do things on their terms, their way. And when you're stiff -necked, it restricts your movement. Right? Have you ever had a stiff -necked before? How many of you have ever woken up with a stiff -necked? Do you really feel like going out mowing the lawn? Right? Do you feel like doing the dishes, cooking? Do you feel like going to the gym? Do you feel like lifting weights? Come on, Willie, do you? Have you had a stiff -necked? No, you don't. It restricts your movement, but watch this, the most dangerous thing. This is why some of you need to take a break from yourself. Quit celebrating yourself so much.
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But here's the danger of a stiff -necked. A stiff -necked doesn't just restrict your movement, it restricts God's. Because when you're stiff -necked, God says, listen, unto the land flowing with milk and honey, I'm not going in the midst of you. You're not going to be part of my move. You're not going to be part of my blessing. You're not going to be part of how great your prophetic destiny is. You are not going to get it because you won't change. You won't take away the old. You keep holding on to what you think is important. And God says, don't blame me when you don't get it. Because I'm not going to go with you because you have an attitude. You're stiff -necked. And not only have you restricted your movement, in fact, the proof of it is they went nowhere for 40 years. All because they restricted themselves holding on to the old and not being willing to change. It restricted God's movement. I'm not going to be part of it. Count me out. Don't blame me. Yes, but God's in control. No, He's not. Not when you are.
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They're stuck. They choose to be stuck. They keep beating the old same dead horse. I mean, has anybody come along and said, that horse that you're riding is dead? Oh, no, it's not. It's still alive. See? No, that's you making that noise. That horse is dead. You need to get out of that stupid job. It ain't helping you. You need to get away from that person. They're not helping you. And you keep riding it and you don't realize that everybody else is looking on going, man, you're stuck.
[01:57:47]
Obedience is connected to whether you get unstuck and you shift change. Come on, I know people all day long, through as many years I've been in ministry, that I've had to say to them, I think you need to do this. And they love me as long as I agree with them. But when I was trying to reveal why and how they were stuck, I was now the bad guy. He's controlling. He's trying to manipulate me. And 99 .9 % of the time, what I told them was the problem and many times what would be the result happened.
[02:02:08]
You're going to have to do something if you want to shift change. You want things to stop withering? You want these never -ending cycles to stop in your life? Then you better obey. You better do something. It requires corresponding action. You know what I do on a regular basis? I go to my board of advisors. Pastor Doug, you're on it. I go to my spiritual fathers and mothers. And I do an evaluation. And I say, what do I need to change? What's some corresponding actions? I have to do the thing I hate sometimes. I have to watch myself on TV. Because I want to be the best delivery boy for God that I can be. And there are some things about me I don't like.
[02:05:57]
People are stuck in never -ending cycles because of old mindsets. You get in your head and the Holy Spirit, when I was preparing this, he said, uh -uh -uh -uh. Uh -uh, it's M -I -N -E sets, old mindsets. That's mine. No one is going to tell me what to do. And you love it when Pastor Hank is funny and quiet and gets to the point. You don't like this. That's because you have the wrong mind. M -I -N -E set. It's all about you and what you want.
[02:10:52]
What causes things to be successful is the celebration of your marriage covenant, spirit, soul, and body. And not my headache. That was for somebody because you're using that. Stop it. Now, if I ever had a headache, Brenda believes me. Has she ever had a headache? She believes me. That sounds so wrong. But, but we don't manipulate. We don't play games. We stay on the same page. We pray every day together. We speak the word in our home. It's not mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine. And then people wonder why their marriage never shifts to another level of communication, happiness, joy. Because somebody is all about the mindset that benefits them.
[02:14:28]
Unless you become converted, unless you shift and change in your Christianity, you cannot inherit the kingdom of God. And I'm not here to play games and neither should you. And if you're in a church or you're Googling or scrolling through churches that you feel good but you don't shift and you don't change, get out of those churches.
[02:16:10]
He's called Yahweh, not your way. I've met Jesus. Jesus, I'm telling you right now, I would never mess with him in a million years because he don't play. It is amazing how people always try to reduce him down. Oh, he gets us. You haven't met him. It ain't about us. We adjust to him. He made everything about himself in a sacrifice as an innocent man. He did get us. He'll get you if you convert. You change. You repent. Right? You shift.
[02:17:37]
You know in your heart when you're texting your little girl on the phone and she ain't your wife. She's your assistant or you work with her. Oh, no, she's just a friend. Oh, really? You know in your heart. Why don't you show those text messages to your wife? When she texts, you won't show it. When she calls, oh, it's a friend at work. Really? You know it's wrong. You know in your heart what is right and what is wrong. Quit playing. My phone is open anytime for my wife. When I text a woman, I let her know. Or I group text her. Huh? Or I make her, she's, do you, hey, Amy, where's Amy? My assistant of 28 years. Do you know that Brenda is also my in -home secretary? You know that she writes a lot of my messages for you? I can't find my glasses. That's really what it is. Here's another thing. She gets to the point.
[02:27:40]
I know I'm hitting everybody upside there, hitting one downside out of the way and everything. Because I'm just trying to get you to shift. But you gotta be willing to change. Now next week, I'm gonna show you some really good tips on how you can do it. Because don't you wanna shift? How many wanna shift? How many wanna change? Right? All right. And realize I preach to myself. Well, how do I know that? Because I hear what comes out of my own mouth too. I also know what I prepare, right? That I'm held accountable to as well.
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