Even when it looks like you shouldn't have it, it's unspeakable for a reason. Because words won't be able to describe why, when you're going through what you're going through, why you're still happy. When He talks about peace that surpasses all understanding, why in the world, in the midst of this going on right now, am I at peace? Why do I have joy? Why am I happy? That's how God created you: to enjoy unspeakable joy. Unspeakable joy. Unspeakable. Nobody would ever know, not because you're trying to hide and not because you're trying to suppress it, but the joy of the Lord is literally being your strength. It's His joy that's pulling you through.

Don't you worry. Don't you worry. Your joy and your praise is what steals the enemy. I remember going through our transitional period, and there were times where I was sitting down at the washing machine, loading the washer, taking clothes out, trying to pack up everything, and I would just begin to cry. The washing machine—I mean, I'm bawling in tears. But then, out of nowhere, there would just be a joy that would begin to overtake me, and those tears of sadness would begin to cease because I knew that there was something greater that was coming. I knew that He was in control.

So no matter what it looked like in the midst of what was going on, He is in control. That's what you gotta know. That's what will keep your joy overflowing: knowing He's in control.

Anybody else that's going through something, know that He is in control. This didn't catch Him by surprise. Nothing that we face is catching Him by surprise. He's in full control. Amen. Hallelujah. Ah, thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Father, thank you, Jesus.

Vivian, do you have anything?

My name's Vivian. When the pastor was talking about the weapons, I just felt like a cannonball, and it was stopped. I couldn't shoot anything else out. It's done. And when I was passing the table, he started talking about the Lion of Judah, and all of a sudden, I said, "This cannonball is a cell phone," but they couldn't shoot; they must stop.

So no weapon, whatever it is, must stop. And you are pretending—who am I pretending? I believe that it's translating into the supernatural, into the spirit, into the physical realm. Some stuff is about to be stopped. I just believe. I just believe. I just believe. I just believe. So I believe I receive in Jesus' name.

Listen, I love prophetic worship. It's so different. It's so different, and we are able to hear God speak so clearly. Our video worship—that was cool, that was cool when we had it—but man, nothing has compared to these moments and times that we've been able to spend in the presence of God. Hearing video worship will last 25 minutes; we've been here for an hour and five minutes in worship, and hearing God move and speak and do what He does—there's nothing like the presence of God.

Well, you want to take a moment and just give God honor and thanks for the woman of God of our house here at Connecting Church. Just thanking God for another year of her life. We celebrate her birthday today. I know it was the 17th, but we, as a corporate family, just want to celebrate and say happy birthday to you and thank God for you.

And just declare that this is your most blessed year yet. This is your Jesus year. [Laughter] This is your Jesus year. Y'all can put two and two together and figure out how old she is there. If you would like to be a blessing to her, if you're watching online, her cash app is on the screen. If you would like to be a blessing to her, you don't have to, but if you would like to, she's been a blessing to your life. Let's sew into her for her birthday.

I just thank God. You can't see it on here, but it's online. That TV is a little special. [Laughter] We thank God for just her life and what God has done. I know what she means to my life, and I'm sure she means a great deal to you guys and to everybody that she comes into contact with. You're an absolute joy and a pleasure to be around.

It's an honor to watch you grow. I've seen you through, whoo, how many birthdays now? Since 20? Birthdays since you were 20? So 13 birthdays I've seen you through, and it's been an honor to watch you literally grow from a teenager into the woman that you are today. I mean, you're like a whole woman now. You're a whole woman. You've birthed five children; you've birthed many more in the spirit realm.

And I know that God has so much more in store for your life, and I'm thankful for what He's doing. So let's stand and just give God praise one good time for Pastor Tavia and her birthday. We love you so very much. We thank God for you because if there was no you, there would be none of this. There would be none of us here today if it was not for you.

So we thank God for you. Thank you for having her. Thank you for watching her. Thank you for washing her up and taking care of her. [Laughter] And I thank God for that.

I mean, you can thank you, Jesus, from Connecting Church to you. God bless you. We pray that you're absolutely blessed by opening. [Laughter]

If anybody would like to come and say something very quickly, we're not going to do funeral time in two minutes; we're gonna do lifetime in one minute. If you would like to, you can. If not, then you're fine. Y'all are special.

Okay, who would like to say to you, my beautiful girl, because I can call you a girl because you're my baby. I love you so very much, and I'm so very proud of you. The older you get, the more beautiful you get. Your youth is definitely renewed like the eagles. You look like a little girl. I was just looking at some pictures; I was doing a little cleaning, and I was going through some pictures, and your face—everything still looks exactly the same as when you were in elementary school. You look the same exact way. You're beautiful, and that's because you hold beauty in you always.

You've always been such a beautiful girl, and I love you. Your family loves you unconditionally. Your church family loves you unconditionally. I couldn't be under a better leader. God made me a promise, and I'm seeing His promises fulfilled in all my children, and I'm just so thankful, and I love you so much.

She watches Hallmark so much; it comes out in her words. She's a walking Hallmark card. Yeah, you've been doing good. I ain't called you your nickname in a long time—my second baby. I am so glad. I thank God for putting your mom in my life. It's just awesome. You know, your mom—God put it in her for her to trust me with you, and it's been great.

I remember when you first started going away to school, you would come home, and you, me, and you would have our little lunch dates. Remember? We would go out and everything and have our little lunch dates, and then all of a sudden, it stopped. And we don't know why, but okay, it stopped. But anyhow, oh yeah, probably still because you stopped going so you can see all the time.

But like your mom said, we're just so proud of you. You know, we look at you, and we just think of, you know, look at God. Just look at God. And we look at you and just how you are just so obedient, how you just do it. It just comes to you effortlessly. You just do it. You know, you just do this thing—bringing forth God's word. It's not hard, and maybe it is; we just don't see that part.

But I just want to say we love you. I love you so much. We love you at the church, in this church, Connecting Church. We love you so much, and we thank you. We thank you so much. Again, we thank you, sis. We thank God. We thank Antonio—Pastor Antonio, I'm sorry, Antonio. You know, and I just want to tell you, you know, I'm trying not to do all that because I don't want to make a score, but I just want to tell you that we love you, and we thank you, and we just hope you enjoy your birthday.

Continue to enjoy your birthday. Amen.

I personally would like to thank you for embracing me when I came in with no judgment, no hang-ups, no nothing, and receiving me and always being there for me and, you know, listening to me, right? And always being there to tell me the truth, even when it stings, because I know you're trying to grow me.

In everything, you showed me that I can talk, I can speak, and God is not afraid of me saying how I feel. In my faith walk, you know, I see—I want to be like both of y'all when I grow up, or as I grow up. It's actually both of y'all because when you speak to me, I hear him too. When he speaks to me, I hear you too. It's like I can't see one without the other.

I get it that sometimes I can only tell you something, but I know when I'm telling you, I'm telling him, and y'all both got me covered. But I appreciate you, you know, the female that you are that I can connect to and that I can talk to. And like I said, you never judge me. That's the biggest thing that I appreciate about you.

And I pray that God gives you so many more birthdays today, and I appreciate you and the whole CC Nation coming into my life. May God continue to bless you. Amen.

We didn't just come into yours; you came into ours. Amen. Well, I hope you bless what you get. What's up, guys? Can I get a little bit? Okay, all right, all right. Well, our benefit, because I get to see you. All right, all right. Well, I pray that you're blessed, and I pray that you have enjoyed your day, days, and that you continue to enjoy.

I mean, it's amazing to see what you have been able to accomplish, the lives you've been able to touch and change over the course of time. I mean, 19. Wow! And to see you now, it's absolutely amazing. They've seen you for more years, but it's okay. I'm honored to have spent this time with you and to have gotten to know you and to experience you, and I'm thankful. Amen.

Let's get ready for the word this afternoon. Stand as we pray. Oh, go ahead, do your thing. Thank you all for your love and your words and your gifts. That means the absolute world to me. I was on Thursday when I woke up; I just was so full, just in God choosing me. Like, God, you chose me for such a great calling, such a great assignment, to be able to display your love to such great people, to preach, or like just being so honored to be used of Him and to hear y'all's testimony of how I impact your life.

Like, it's all the goodness and a testament to who God is through me and just living a life of just complete surrender to Him. And so nothing brings me greater honor—I'm trying not to cry—but nothing brings me greater honor than to serve you guys and to love you and to walk this life out before you. Because you don't always see a good picture of that reality walked out and displayed before you, but to be able to see somebody else do it and do it with grace and do it in class, it encourages you. Like, man, I can keep going. Man, I can keep doing this because I have an image before me.

And so that's why I hold myself to such a high standard in God, in the things of God, and I take so much on my shoulders as concerned because I do it for you guys. I do it to make God proud, and I'm so thankful for you all. And your words are more than enough, and your gifts just overflow.

So I love you, and I thank God for each and every one of you.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for this moment and opportunity and time to come before your presence. We decree and declare, Lord God, that revelation knowledge will flow freely and be received freely, unhindered and uninterrupted by any satanical, demonic force. Father, I thank you that every eye is open to see, every ear is open to hear, every heart's ready to receive, and our spirits are ready to understand what you will say here on this afternoon.

Father, I thank you that our lives will never, ever be the same after we encounter your word here today. In Jesus' name, everybody in agreement shouted, "Amen! Amen!"

[Laughter] I'm about to quit. Listen, okay, the hand is white; it's okay. Huh? Okay, oh wait, that's the entire evening. Okay, listen, this is your show. Listen, somebody shout, "Delivered!"

Listen, we are on—this is part, I don't know, part four of "Delivered," but part two of "Self-Preservation." Somebody shout, "Self-preservation!" And y'all get a treat from both of us at the same time today for the first time in a long time. We get to tease together today.

Listen, self-preservation is a necessary thing for us to begin to release because in self-preservation, you are causing yourself to be the one that's in the driver's seat. But when it comes to the things of God and to the supernatural realm, you being in the driver's seat is the equivalent to hardly getting behind the wheel of our car right now. He's unprepared; he ain't tall enough to sit behind the steering wheel. He can't reach the pedals. He got to do the steering wheel, and somebody else got to press the gas.

And there's just too many hands in the pot, and literally, Jesus needs to take that wheel. Literally, Jesus needs to take the wheel. So in the supernatural, you look like an unqualified, unlicensed child trying to drive a vehicle that you were never given authority or permission to take control of. And you're thinking that because you're driving the car, because you're in control, that everything is all well and fine, when all in all actuality, everything is not. In fact, it's even more of a disaster right now because you're behind the wheel.

You tried to take some things over from God because, "I can do this better myself." And God said, "I need you to let me take the wheel." Somebody shout, "Delivered!"

And I told you before that a big part of my portion throughout the series that we're teaching is for me to deal with the root of the issue. Because in order to deal with the fruit of self-preservation in our lives, we first got to uncover where it's coming from and the source thereof. And so today, that's my assignment: to uncover the root cause of those things in our lives that cause us to be in a position of operating from a posture of self-preservation so that we can, in turn, move out of that place into a complete trust in God.

Because like we said before, we've said it over and over throughout the series, and we hope you're getting the full picture of it by now, is that in order for you to be completely delivered, you got to go from here to there. It has to be a complete shift from out of something into something completely new. And so that's what my design and my intent is for today.

And so Luke chapter 9, out of the Passion Translation, verse 1, it says, "Jesus summoned together His 12 apostles and imparted to them authority over every demon and the power to heal every disease."

And so in this season, Jesus has summoned all of us to something. He summons us to rise up and to live the abundant life. He says, "I've come that you may have life and to have it more abundantly." Yeah, the enemy's come to steal, kill, and destroy, but I'm not concerned about any of that. Why? Because I've come to give you life to the full, till it overflows.

Jesus has summoned us to arise and to shine, for our light has come, and His glory is risen upon us. And it's not just there to be shining and just to be showing, but it's there as a picture of what life can be and what we can experience as a reality of having Jesus shining within us.

He's summoning us to preach the gospel and to raise up believers and to be in a place where we preach the perpetual jubilee. When Jesus was walking the earth, He talked about the jubilee being an acceptable year of the Lord where there's freedom. But when Jesus came on the scene, and when Jesus died, and when He laid down His life, He came so that we could live this perpetual life of freedom—no longer bound to sin, no longer bound to the ways of this world or the systems of this world, but to be perpetually free to live life on Heaven's terms.

He came, and He summoned us to heal the sick. He's summoning us to set the captives free. Like, we have an assignment in this time. We have an assignment in this hour. Why? Because Romans 8 tells us that the whole world is groaning, and they're waiting for the manifestation of the sons and daughters of God. They're waiting for us to be revealed. They're waiting for us to take our place. They're waiting for us to enter into the new place. They're waiting for us to be delivered out of all of these things that's hindering us from operating in the fullness of the reality that God created for us to walk in.

In order for us to walk in and obtain the fullness of what Heaven has for us, it's our time as believers to fully accept the mandate of what God is calling us to, to fully accept our position, to fully accept our authority, to fully accept what Jesus is calling us to do, to operate in, and to be, and to embrace the mantle that God has given us so that we can enter into the new place that He has for us.

And in that new place, operate in a level of success that's unspeakable. And so verse 2, it says, "Then He commissioned them to proclaim God's kingdom and to heal the sick and to demonstrate that the kingdom had arrived."

Is the kingdom of God present? Is the kingdom of God here? Is God's design for it to be Heaven on the earth? Those are the same things that He's commanding us to be able to proclaim in the earth. But He's not just calling us to proclaim those things in the earth for proclaiming them's sake. No, He wants your life to become a living reality of it. He wants the word to be made flesh in and through your life.

And as it's made flesh on the inside of you, you present that to a world that isn't operating in that reality—that I am healed, so you can be healed too; that I am prosperous, so you can operate in prosperity too; that I have peace that surpasses all understanding in the midst of everything that's going on in this crazy world, and so can you.

But we have it, and we're able to demonstrate, and we're able to present it and represent it before a world when we first receive it for ourselves. So when He got the disciples, and when He began to teach them and train them, they had to become that before they could ever demonstrate it.

And so that's the same thing that God is calling for you and I's life—that we have to become this thing, not just know it for information's sake or for knowing the word's sake, but no, we have to become the living reality of this thing so that we can be able to present it to the dying world that surrounds us.

And He says in verse 3, it says, as we're finishing verse 2 of it, "As He sent them out, He gave them these instructions: Take nothing extra on your journey." Read that part with me. Ready? Read: "Take nothing extra on your journey. Just go as you are. Don't carry a staff. Don't carry a backpack. Don't carry food. Don't carry money. Not even a change of clothes."

What is He telling us? I believe this is how He's making it relatable to you and I in this hour. This is the purpose of this deliverance series and this time and in this hour: don't take any of the stuff that I'm trying to deliver you from into this new place.

Don't take self-preservation; it can't go there with you. Don't take human reasoning; it's not going to serve you anything to have human reasoning in the new place. Don't take laziness; don't take procrastination—the things that don't serve you well now, the things that are hindering you more than they're helping you. Don't take those things into the new season.

Every message that God leads him to teach is very intentional because we cannot take this extra baggage into the new season. Don't take your unbelief into the new season. There can be no unbelief. I need you to be able to believe for all things. Pastor Antonio has said this several times: the thing that you're believing for now isn't the greatest thing that God is going to call you to believe for in the new place.

There are far greater things that God is calling us to believe and for, but if we try to take unbelief into that, if we don't deal with those little areas of unbelief that still lie dormant within us, we'll be an imposter who we end up affecting our new place. Don't take mammon into the new place. Don't take your love for money. Don't take your life into this position where I live and I do everything that I do according to the payments that I could receive, according to the paycheck that I get every two weeks.

Every decision of my life, everything that I do, I do it in accordance because I serve mammon, and I'm not serving God. None of that can go into this new season that we're entering into. And so God is trying to empty us so that He can fill us. That's the purpose of deliverance. God needs to empty you out.

He's saying, "You want to overflow? Yeah, I'm desiring to overflow you, but I can't overflow you with that bad stuff that's on the inside. I need to empty all of that out so I can fill you anew." And then, as I fill you anew, you'll overflow from that place.

We all need to be empty of the baggage, of the issues, of the things that will hinder us from operating in the fullness of the reality that God desires us to. Let's show you why. Let's go to Luke 22. Hallelujah.

And this is the testimony of after the disciples had gone and preached and did what Jesus told them to do as He summoned them and sent them out two by two. In verse 35, out of the Passion Translation, it says, "Then He said to all of them, 'When I sent you out empty-handed, did you lack anything?'"

He's trying to make this thing real for you and I. Listen, I need to empty you of all this stuff that you think you need for the new season because the reality of it is everything that you think you need here—which is why you're holding on to it—is already prepared in the new place.

So I need you to empty yourself so I can show you, so I can show myself to you, so I can make this thing real to you that if you allow me to empty you and you allow me to fill you back up in that new place, you will not lack anything. You get into that new place. Those things you thought you needed to hold on to, those things that you thought were holding you up and were keeping you grounded and keeping you in a place of self-preservation or keeping you safe, and God will have the testimony.

And God will come to you in that place, "Baby, did you lack? What are you lacking? What do you miss? Did you lack anything in this new place?" That's where He's trying to get us to—the place of not lacking anything.

What was their response? Read it with me: "Not a thing." What are you gonna be lacking? "Not a thing." Hallelujah!

Says God provided all that we needed. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! God is desiring to provide all that you need. He's saying it's already existing in this new place that I'm taking you to. Just will you come on the journey and get into this new place? Hallelujah!

But you can't get full; you can't get to that place and not lacking anything until you allow Him to empty you. Just lift your hands up before Heaven and say, "Empty me, Lord, so you can fill me back up." Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus!

And so the reality becomes, what's the greatest enemy of our faith? The greatest enemy that's gonna contend with you in this process of being delivered and going from here to there—what's the greatest enemy to that? It's not the devil; it's not Satan; it's not your moments of doubt; it's not the moments of worry or concern.

Self-preservation is you masking, is masking you believing that you can control your outcome greater than God can. That you can control the outcome greater than God can. God says, "I have this place prepared for you. I've created this new place that I'm trying to take you into, but when we operate from this position of self-control and that we can control the narrative, we essentially create our own new place."

"God, I see the new place that you're trying to take me to, but I got a better picture of what you're trying to show me." So you try to create and control the narrative, control the outcome of what your new place will look like. That's the true enemy of your faith. That's the true enemy of you receiving the fullness of what God has for you.

The enemy has already been defeated. Luke 10:19 says, "I've already given you all power over all the power that the enemy possesses, so nothing by any means can hurt or harm you." So it's not the enemy that's your greatest enemy to this day; it's self-preservation.

It's you making the decision that I can control the outcome; I can control the narrative. And so self-preservation is rooted in us trusting us more than we trust in God. But I trust me more than I can trust in God.

Why do we do that? Why do we get to that place? Because we're predictable, right? I can predict my habits. I know what time I get up; I know what time I go to bed; I know the place I work; I know the stores I go to; I know the things I like; I know the things I dislike. I can control that narrative. That's predictable for me. That's always going to be short; that's always going to be true. The things that I am are always going to exist. That's predictable.

And so we end up believing that we're the only reliable source—that I'm the only person that I can rely on. That if I want it done, I can't—a lot of us say good help is hard to find. If somebody wants it done, then I'ma do it myself, right? Because I'm the only reliable source. Nobody's gonna do this like I'm gonna do this.

And that's the same posture; that's the same position that we take with Jesus. There's nobody better. "God, I know me better than you know me. Nobody can make me happy but me." God, He's the one that created you. He's the one that made you, formed you, and fashioned you. He knows the inner workings of everything He put on the inside of you.

But God, I'm the only reliable source. I'm the only one that I can depend on because in reality, God, I can't trust you to come through when I want you to, right? We can pray; we can believe God, but He's not a genie in a bottle. He's not going to show up exactly when you expect Him to.

So I gotta control the narrative now because God isn't going to come through when I want Him to come through for me. But if I work these certain amount of hours on this job and I get this paycheck, then I'll have enough at the end of the month to be able to pay this bill, to get this item that I want, and I can afford it monthly now because I did the work. I'm the reliable source.

If I believe God for this thing, I may not get it when I want it. I may not get it when I desire it. I may not get it when I feel like I need it. So I'ma rely on me. I'ma rely on the work that I can do, on the things that I can control. Because the reality of it is I can't control God. We can't control God. He's an uncontrollable being. But we can control ourselves.

We can control the narrative that we create, the things that are formed and fashioned because we know us. We know the things that we are able to accomplish. We know our expertise. We know the things that we know how to get and how to get them in the ways that we're going to do it.

We use the worldly systems to navigate and to narrate the things that we want. God don't have enough money for, but I got Afterpay. And Afterpay says I pay 12 today; I could pay every two weeks, and I can get this thing that I want. So it alleviates and it eliminates us from having to believe God.

I believe that the reason why us in the Western culture, we don't see the same level of signs, wonders, and miracles as they do in a lot of the African countries and India and all those places is because we have too many options. They don't have doctors over there they can go see every time something happens or goes on in their body. They just gotta believe God.

They don't have a credit system to say if I want this, I can go out and get it tomorrow. They gotta believe God. But we, as the American culture, we've grown so accustomed to the systems of this world. We've become so comfortable in the things that are around us that we control the narrative, but we still say we have faith. We still say we're trusting in God. We're believing in Him, and God is saying, "No, you're not. You're trusting in yourself. You're trusting in what you can do. You're trusting in what you can attain and what you can accomplish, but you're not trusting Him for the line."

It's so good. I think about when she mentioned having the suitcase and emptying out the suitcase. When you go on vacation or when you're traveling, going from here to there, you can't go to the next place until you unload all your stuff. When you get home, you can't go to the next destination until you get all the stuff out the suitcase.

God's trying to take you somewhere different. He's trying to move you to a new place, but you got old, dirty clothes in the suitcase still. You ain't done no laundry. You ain't empty nothing out. You ain't put nothing away. You ain't cleaned your drawers. They're still dirty. They're still nasty from when you was gone on vacation. Huh? They ain't clean. No, ain't nothing done. But yeah, you're trying to get to the next place.

God said, "I'm trying to clean your dirty laundry." He's trying to clean your dirty draws—your dirty, nasty spiritual draws with all the streaks and all the gunk and all the nasty stuff. He's trying to clean your stuff. He's trying to clean some stuff, but you're trying to get to the next place without ever washing your clothes and making sure that you are presentable as you move on.

Go to Exodus 16. Exodus 16. When you got it, say, "I got it." Next to this, the second book of the Bible, chapter 16. We're gonna start at verse 19, and we're going to do this out of the King James Version now.

And this goes along with Pastor Tavia's talking about where mammon is concerned and us holding on to things. And God—listen, God, He told them not to take nothing because He knew what He would provide. He already knew what He would do. He told them not to take money because He knew that He would be Jireh. He knew that He would provide.

Some days you wake up, and you don't know how in the world you're going to pay that bill. Good, because He wants to be something to you. God's trying to relate to you in a certain way. God is trying to—listen, when you get to Heaven, or when people—not y'all, because we gonna believe it's not y'all—when they get to Heaven, He says, "Depart from me, you workers of iniquity, because I never knew you."

This is what He's talking about in those times when I wanted to be Jireh and provide for you. You went to Apple Pay, Square Pay, Quad Pay, this pay, Zip Pay. You did all these other things except believe me. You did everything but come to me.

We don't have access to Quad Pay and none of that stuff no more. God said, "Nope, I'm taking it all away. Give it all to me. I want it. I'll give it." Yeah, I want to be the one that provides that for you. And so He's trying to relate to you. He's trying to do some things for you, but you're finding alternatives to make it happen for yourself.

And in Exodus 16, it's the story of the Israelites. Moses, he's walking them through, and they're in this position where they need food. They need to eat. But God doesn't want them in this place of hoarding stuff and keeping stuff for themselves and holding on to stuff because He wants you to know that, listen, when Jesus said, "Pray this way: Give us this day our daily bread," He wants you to know that there's something new; there's something fresh for you every single day.

I'm trying to provide a new meal for you today. I don't want you eating the same leftovers from two and three days ago. I want you to eat something new and something fresh today. Subway, eat fresh! If Subway can get the idea they don't want to give you stale, old, nasty, stank bread, why are you trying to still hold on to the last two hundred dollars in your account?

Great! He's trying to try to hold on till Friday. I'm trying to hold on until next week. God said something to me recently. We had gotten some money in, and generally, it's okay, we're gonna pay this, we're gonna do this. God said, "No, keep it in your account."

And I said, "Do what? Do you not see this?" There, He said, "I see it." And I said, "Hold it and keep it in your account. This one I want. I want you to have for you."

We get so accustomed to getting paid, and I got to pay this, I got to pay this bill, I got to get this. You get paid on Friday, and you're broke by Friday afternoon. God said, "No, I want you to hold this one for you because I got the bill to take care of the rest."

What if we could get into our thought process that your paycheck is not your source? Your paycheck is not your source. It's a resource that God is using. But most of you have replaced your job with God. You've replaced God with your job. Your job has become your Jireh—the Lord job who provides all—because you have not given yourself over to God and been delivered out of mammon.

Verse 19, it says, "And Moses said, 'Let no man leave of it till the morning.'" Notwithstanding, they hearken not unto Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, and it did what? It bred worms and stank.

The reason why you get paid on Friday morning at 6 a.m. and you're broke by noon is because you've been trying to do things in your own accord, and it bred worms, and it stank.

That's the reason why the devourer has eaten it all up. He said, "Lay up for yourselves treasures in Heaven where moth and dust will not corrupt." But every Friday you get paid, it's getting corrupt, and the worms are breeding, and it's getting stank. It's getting ate up so quickly because you're not trusting the last 90 percent into the hands of God.

See, we only trusted ten percent. God said, "Would you trust me with the whole hundred? Would you trust that if I told you to hold on, I'm paying that bill, that I have something else in store for you? Would you trust me if I told you to give me an extra ten, that I've got something else in store for you?"

But you want to hold on to it all because you think that you know better than I do. Not allowing me to be the one to take care of you. Over the course of these last—this last year and a half, when God told us to start tithing 20, do you not think that we could have used an extra ten? Yes, we could have.

There have been many times, and I had to stop myself from saying, "God, you know we could have dealt with that. You know what bill we could have paid with that." Why? Because I was plucking up every seed of faith that I had put into the ground. My words were pulling up every seed that I had sown because I was following mammon and thinking that if I could have just kept it for myself—self-preservation.

He said that Moses was wrath with them, and they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating. And when the sun waxed hot, it melted. God is saying, "Listen, the reason why it's going away so quickly is because I don't want you to hold on to it. I don't want you to just keep it for yourself. I want you to trust me that I'm going to give you freshness. I'm gonna give you newness. I'm going to replenish. I'm going to restore."

God was trying to get them to a place of faith to say, "God, I trust you no matter what it looks like. Even in the midst of the wilderness, God, I trust that you're gonna provide for me the food to eat every day. I trust that you're gonna provide money for me every day. I trust that you're gonna provide everything that my life needs."

But the problem is we've been so caught up in our self. "God, I can just hold—if I can just hold on a little bit, Jesus, if I can just hold on and pay that tithe next week, I got you on the back end."

Do y'all know in the Bible, in the Old Testament, that if you miss paying your tithe the next time, it was like an additional 15 percent? Now you're sitting there at 25. You thought 10 was something; you're sitting at 25. I remember Pastor told me that years ago, and I was like, "I would never miss a tithe ever again."

No, we're not under the law, but I don't want God to try to bring that one back. Don't circle; don't spin the block on that one, Jesus. You're holding on to something when God said, "I'm trying to give you something new."

Do we not serve a great enough God that He can provide bread for you 365 days a year, and it'll be a fresh loaf every day? And they ate as much as they wanted. There was no restriction. Oh my God!

God is saying there's no restriction on what I have for you. There's no restriction on what I will give you. There's no restriction on what I will do for you. The only restriction comes because you're operating in and of yourself. You are the restriction. Your thought process, your mindset—you are the restriction. You are the hold-up. You are the stop sign. You are the yield sign that's holding the blessing up because you're trying to hoard it because you don't believe that God will do it.

What would happen if you would simply believe, and it came to pass?

Out on the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread—two omens for one man. And all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses, and he said unto them, "This is what the Lord has said: Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord. Bake that which you will bake today, and see that you shall see it, and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning."

And they laid it up till the morning, and Moses bade, and it did not stink.

Listen, there comes a point in time where God will say, "Hold on for just a second, Jesus." There will come a point in time where God said, "Listen, I'm going to give you enough to sustain you and to cover you in this next season. I'm giving you enough to cover you in this next day."

God said, "Listen, this is my holy day. I want y'all to grab enough to carry it." God is thinking of you at all times, but you cannot think that this time is going to be the same as last time. You can't keep thinking that God's gonna do it the same way this time as He did last time.

He said, "Listen, you built up your trust in me for six days. On this day, you can gather the double." God wants to do the double. I'm telling you, God wants to do so much more, but you won't give Him the space because you're too caught up in your soul.

Verse 27: "And it came to pass that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for together, and they found none."

The problem with not being delivered from self-preservation is that you think that yourself is always right. And so even when you're wrong, you still have it in your mind and in your thought process that you are right, and you cannot hear from God when He told you to get—the double on this day—but they couldn't hear because they were too caught up in themselves.

And now they're trying to come out, and they're trying to come out the next day and get more and get more and get more. Their greed is stopping them from experiencing the fullness of what God has for them.