Embracing the Manasseh Blessing: Moving Beyond Our Past

"Some people think when God blesses you, that means you bless once you once you realize you blessed or once you hear in Scripture, you bless. But the reality is when God blesses, it's a response to something that he already did. Do y 'all see what I'm saying?" [00:06:15] (17 seconds)


"That's what it means when it says, God, God, God blessed. He responded. Somebody say he responded. I believe y 'all. That's why the psalmist said, I will bless the Lord at all times and his praises shall continue to be in my mouth. It was the psalmist saying, I will always have a response for what God has done in my life because he's just too good." [00:07:10] (24 seconds)


"he had him sit down really for two reasons because sometimes in order to be able to receive what he wanted to receive he had to sit down blessings we gotta we gotta be in a posture to receive so he says sit down somebody say sit down the two reasons he wanted them to sit down so they could receive and perceive see when you're seated it indicates that you have the right posture and now you are ready and some of us if you're gonna get some of the blessings and things that god has for you in 2025 god says you got to be able to sit down that means your ego gonna have to sit down sit down it means sometimes my education gonna have to sit down it means sometimes my experience gonna have to sit down it means sometimes my self -reliance and me trying to make everything happen because i put it on my 2025 goal list sometimes even your list gotta sit down so that you can be in a posture to receive" [00:10:15] (62 seconds)


"Perhaps he wants to send a little boy with a bag of lunch your way. Not literally, but what I'm saying is he might send something. He might send something. He might send something. He might send something. He might send some destiny partners through people that you didn't even expect. Do you hear what I'm saying?" [00:12:44] (14 seconds)


"he didn't say where else will we go what did he say he says to whom will we go do y 'all see what I'm saying everybody else when they left they went to a different place they went to different places because in their minds we can get bread anywhere else but Peter said to whom will I go they can find that bread anywhere but I can't find this bread nowhere Jesus you are the bread of life you are bread when I'm hungry he says you are the living bread you are bread from heaven I can't find this is that anybody's testimony you done searched all over and went to different places for different blessings but realize ain't nothing like Jesus I gotta get ready to go over time but I gotta before I go I gotta pronounce this blessing on you somebody say this blessing before we go God has put this thing in my heart that before they go into 2025 he says Stefan I need you to speak this blessing over everybody listening today everybody listening today you see what's wrong with the people who left what they don't understand is blessings can't reproduce blessings in and of themselves so they missed out but the blesser is able to keep on blessing you do you understand what I'm saying and that's what he wants to do today somebody say the Manasseh blessing" [00:22:50] (95 seconds)


"before i explain this blessing i i ain't even got to prompt you because some of y 'all you already know the trouble you're in you've been through some of us you've been carrying some pain not just from 2024 but since 2004 you've been going through some pain you've been going through some trauma you've been going through some struggles and it's been hard for you to to fight and i don't know who i'm preaching to but this blessing is for you you gotta understand the word manasseh means make and forget and if you know the rest of the story of joseph you know he didn't literally forget because when he saw his brothers he cried so he didn't literally forget but what this blessing means is that god ended up blessing joseph so good that what used to consume his mind barely even crossed his mind anymore and if you will lift your hands i speak that over your life that what used to consume your mind what currently is consumed Consuming your mind, the stress, the fear, the torment in your mind, the worry, the things, the trauma, the pain, what keeps it, it makes it hard for you to forgive and trust. I don't know who I'm preaching to, but God says in 2025, when you least expect it, he's going to open the door and bless you so that we're used to consume your mind." [00:26:57] (96 seconds)


"He'll leave just a little bit just enough so every now and you can be reminded of a time how all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose. He'll leave just enough for you to look back and remember that we've been willing to do it for a night, but joy came in the morning." [00:29:30] (27 seconds)


"Sometimes blessings will flow through the mercy portal. Where God will hold back something that he could have gave you. That's a blessing. It flows through the mercy portal. But what I need you to get that Joseph understood, the reason he got the Manasseh blessing, is because Joseph pulled from the reward portal." [00:40:40] (23 seconds)


"See, I didn't just skip one thing and went to the next. I told you that he went through all of that. But the main thing is he stayed faithful. Somebody say faithful. Despite all the suffering and the temptation and the test, he was faithful. So he received from the reward portal." [00:41:04] (16 seconds)