**Transcript:**
Well, today is a very special day in Connecting Church. One of our very own has a birthday today. One of the seers of the house has a birthday today, and we want to celebrate her.
Happy, happy, happy, happy birthday! Happy, happy, happy, happy birthday! We are so honored to have you be a part of CC Nation. You know I'm absolutely honored to call you God Mom. I'm honored to have you in my life, to be a spiritual assistance to my walk in God, and to be a seer and to be a help.
We just want to bless you today on behalf of CC Nation to show you our love, to show you our appreciation for all that you do for the ministry, for all that you do for CC Nation. We absolutely love you. We declare that this is going to be your best year yet, that the things that you saw in the past you'll see no more. We declare that your latter is far greater than your former and that God is taking you so much higher in Him, so much deeper in Him, that you're gonna be left in awe because He's doing exceedingly and abundantly above all that you can dare ask, think, or imagine according to the power that is working on the inside of you. Hallelujah!
So we just want to bless you today, but it's nothing compared to the blessings that He's about to release on your life. So get ready, get ready, get ready to receive all that God is gonna do. Thank you, thank you! I love y'all. Amen.
Y'all want to sing Happy Birthday? Alright, one, two, three!
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Sister Belinda, happy birthday to you! Yay!
Okay, you know a woman never reveals her age. We should cash out. You gotta be ready in season and out of season. Okay, her cash app is dollar sign Belinda 301. So if you would like to sew into her life and be a blessing to what God will do, it's Belinda, dollar sign Belinda 301. And so if you would like to sew into her life, there you are. There's her handle, there's her cash tag to be able to be a blessing to her today. Amen.
Amen! Hallelujah! Enjoy, enjoy!
Well, without further ado—no, I did not—well, not without further ado, I still got a job to do. Heroes of Faith! Hey, Rosa Effect! We are literally, what, almost a week out? Two weeks out from the Heroes of Faith? We're so excited to be in anticipation and greater expectation of what God will do.
How are you guys doing with the fast? We know that that is setting the atmosphere, paving the ground, paving the way for the signs, the wonders, and the miracles that we're expecting to see in God. I hope you wrote out your expectations, the things that you're believing for, the things that you're expecting to see.
But we know that our expectation is the breeding ground for the miracles of God to manifest. Amen? And so keep your expectation high. Continue to go further in the things of God. Don't draw back, but just keep pressing and pressing and pressing until you see the realities. And not until you see the reality, just keep pressing. Don't stop pressing, but you will see the fullness of those realities that God desires to do in and through your life. Amen? Amen! Hallelujah!
Did I cover it all? We have a promo for you, and then after that, you will hear the voice of Pastor Antonio to make everything in your life limitless. You have it to the field, you have it to the full, you have it to the overflow. Be like Peter and cast your net back into the water again because there's a record-breaking blessing that's about to happen, that's about to take place.
I'm not believing in my resources, I'm not believing in my connections, but I'm believing that Jesus is the one that answers my prayers, that Jesus is the one that heals me, that Jesus is the one that delivers me. What you are believing for, it shall be done, but invoke the overflow so that you see it to the field, so that you see it to the full, so that you see it to the overflow. Hallelujah!
Do I have any free people in the house this afternoon? Is anybody free? For two weeks we were bound up, for two weeks we got free, and we are back in the house of God.
Is anybody excited and glad to be back in the house of God? Hallelujah! I am absolutely excited to be back here in the house of God. Haven't seen y'all since Father's Day, and I'm just elated to be back here. I'm telling you, I don't know what y'all been going through, I don't know what's been happening, but I know that you need to get your level of expectation as high as humanly possible.
Forgive me in advance, Lord. Get it Whitney and Bobby high! You need to have—I'm telling you, you need to have your expectation high as a kite. Okay, listen, I'm telling you, it's something that you got to be able to relate to. You know how high Whitney and Bobby looked? Look up a picture of Whitney high right now. You see the hair all over the place.
And listen, you want your level of expectation to be that great for what God’s about to do. I'm telling you, the enemy don't attack for no reason. The enemy, for three years, we went without having COVID, and then half of our church gets COVID in one week. And now, I'm telling you, to be two weeks away from the Heroes of Faith conference, there is something that God is doing.
There is something that is moving. The enemy only shows up when there's something great that's about to take place. The enemy only shows up when there's power that's about to take place. The enemy only shows up when he knows he's been sitting in the meetings with God, just like with Job. He was at the meeting with God and the angels, so he knew what was about to happen. He said, "God, let me go down there and test him to see if he'll still trust you."
I'm here to tell you, after two weeks, I trust God even more after COVID than I did before. My faith is increased even the more. My belief is increased even the more. Listen, the enemy didn't just attack our bodies with COVID; he attacked our minds, he attacked our thoughts, he attacked our vision, he attacked our finances. He came with an all-out attack, but no weapon formed against me shall prosper, and every tongue that rises up against me shall be condemned.
There's a name that's greater than COVID, and that is the name of Jesus, and Jesus has won. He has prevailed. We shall win! I'm telling you, get your level of expectation up. The enemy is only showing up because he knows something great is about to happen.
I've gone 32 years without ever having pink eye, and I got pink eye in both eyes right after having COVID. The enemy, he's after something. The enemy, he's after your stuff, he's after your mind, he's after your thoughts, he's after your heart, he's after your calling.
Get your level of expectation risen! Listen, don't count it odd when you fall into diverse temptations. In fact, you should be getting excited because if the enemy's showing up at my doorstep, that means that God is around the corner, and he's trying to beat God to the punch.
The enemy don't just show up to nobody's house just because. If you live for him, if you serve him, he ain't nowhere to be found. But when you're standing and you're believing on the word of God, understand that the enemy is going to come, and he's gonna rear his head. But when he comes, he has nothing in you.
And I'm thankful for what God is doing and for what he's about to continue to do here and then through our lives. I'm telling you, for five days, faith comes by what? Hearing and hearing by what? The word of God. For five days, we're going to hear the word. For five days, we're going to hear the word of God.
And I'm telling you, Pastor Natavia and I haven't been getting much sleep lately. Her more than me because I'm gonna get some sleep. Well, let's just say this: in the nighttime hour, she's been up in the nighttime; she's sleeping during the daytime. I'm sleeping at night, and I'm up during the day.
But God has been transforming our minds completely over this last week and a half. Listen, when you hear God speak, you got to be obedient to what he says. There is a shift that is coming, there's a shift that's happening, and it's taking place. You do not want to be caught out of position while that shift is happening.
And I'm telling you, if I could just let y'all—y'all would want to be a fly on the wall for these conversations that we have when we start talking about faith at two o'clock in the morning, and before we know it, the sun is rising up, and we don't know where the time has gone. And we're not tired because we're so amped and full of faith.
I'm telling you, God is doing something. He's talking about y'all. He's talking to us about CC Nation. He's talking to us about your calling. He's talking to us about the next level. He's talking, and if you put yourself in position, you'll be able to hear exactly what he's saying.
Do not miss this conference, not one session. You never know which one is going to be the one that provides the breakthrough. Don't come for a specific speaker. We're not telling y'all. You won't know till the day of. That is very strategic.
There's only one other person who knows what day it is, and I'm not going to tell you who that person is either, so you can't try to bribe them. "I'll buy you lunch this week." Alright, listen, I slide you 20, you let me know who on Thursday or Friday. No! Be in position and be ready to receive all that God has for you during that time.
Alright, Hallelujah! Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you. Let's grab hands with somebody real quick. I just feel led to do that. Let's connect to Connecting Church. Sure, you can grab my hand. Thank God I made it back.
Father, in the name of Jesus, we lift up—listen, just begin to speak in your most holy faith, lifting up the person on your right and your left and the hands that you hold. Father, in the name of Jesus, we lift up those on our left and our right, those that are watching online. Father, and we decree and declare breakthrough in their lives now in the name of Jesus.
Whatever they are in need of, whatever they're believing for, whatever they're standing for, Father, we intercede on their behalf. Father, we connect now in the name of Jesus. We connect our faith to theirs, and we put our faith in alignment with theirs.
Father, you said where two or three are gathered, there you are in the midst. You said if two of you on Earth touching and agreeing, anything that they ask shall be done. So, Father, we lift up the hands of those that we hold on our left and our right, and we declare anything shall be done for what they're believing for now in the name of Jesus.
Nothing missing, nothing lacking, nothing broken now in the name of Jesus. Father, we lift up those CC Nation members online, and we decree and declare nothing missing, nothing lacking, nothing broken now in the name of Jesus.
Father, we decree and declare that this is a record-breaking year of overflow. Father, we thank you, Lord God, that as we go, we cast our nets again, that we catch a year's worth in one day. Father, we thank you that you are outdoing yourself. You are outdoing things.
Father, we thank you that there's a shift and there's a change. We thank you for what you're doing. We thank you for what's taking place. We thank you, Lord God, that things are happening, that things are moving, that things are shifting.
Lord God, we thank you, Lord God, that there is anointing that is touching and resting on your people now. Father, we thank you that they are healed from the crown of their head to the very soles of their feet, spiritually, physically, financially, and emotionally now in the name of Jesus.
Father, we thank you for the word that comes forth today. We thank you it'll come forth with power, simplicity, and understanding. We thank you that revelation knowledge will flow freely and be received freely, unhindered and uninterrupted and unchecked by any satanical, demonic force.
Father, I thank you. Their eyes are open to see, every ear is open to hear, every heart's ready to receive, and our spirits are ready to understand that what you will say here today. We thank you that the pathway has been set and the way has been made for your work to be fulfilled here today.
Father, we believe, we receive. If you're in agreement, shout Amen! Hallelujah!
Listen, hug somebody real quick as you get ready to take your seats. Look at this! Oh, Jesus! Huh, it is—you would have to—it's not—well, kind of, you know, you know.
Hallelujah! Y'all can sit down. Sit down. Good to see y'all. Good to see you guys. We are back in the building. Good to see you! Hallelujah!
Okay, I'm 30 seconds into my time. Hallelujah! Y'all ready for the word? And y'all was excited when Pastor Natavia said that y'all have no idea what I'm preaching today. I'm not sure how excited y'all can be, but we gonna do this in Jesus' name.
I'm starting a new series today. Yes! Now, that does not mean that the gift of faith is finished. It just means that God has impressed something else upon my heart right now that I want us to be able to really dive into.
You can go ahead and you can put that on the screen, and it's called "Delivered." Somebody shout "Delivered!" Delivered! Say it again, "Delivered!" Oh man, I'm telling y'all, this is not going to be flowery, and this may make you shout, it may not. This is not going to be the same as the gift of faith, I promise you that.
But it is going to test your faith. It is going to test. It's going to cause you to have to remain accountable to the word that you hear. And I'm telling you, this is something that God has been speaking to me about and been dealing with me on, and I believe that if we really grab a hold of this, then we will see God absolutely shift and change everything in your life.
Alright, say it again, shout "Delivered!" Touch your neighbor and say, "I'm gonna get delivered!" And say it like you mean it, "I'm going to get delivered!" There you go!
Begin to think about your thought process in your mind.
Foreign 8 3018. So if you send it to Belinda 301, that person just got blessed. Maybe it didn't go through, but Belinda 301, it's her birthday. I mean, it's her cash app. Alright, so be a blessing to her if the Lord so leads you to.
She interrupted to let it be known that it's Belinda thrilled. She said, "I'm going to get my blessing!" Alright, "Delivered!"
What is the definition of deliverance? The definition of deliverance is the action of being rescued or set free. Somebody say, "I'm getting rescued today!"
It's a formal or authoritative utterance. You're delivering something, you're saying something. And so now you hear about deliverance a lot in the old church. You know, in the old days, they used to have deliverance service and testimony service and tarrying service and all them type of services to make sure that people were being set free and delivered from whatever it is they were going through.
And a few weeks ago, God just began to deal with me about being delivered from some things. I struggled in what I was going to call this series. I had a couple different things, and God said, "I want you to settle on deliverance."
And then Pastor Natavia and I began talking, and we began listening to some things, and God just confirmed that this is where we are. And so now, how many of you can be honest that there's something in your life that you need to be delivered from?
If you didn't raise your hand, if you said no, you're watching online, it's a lie that you need to be delivered from being a liar. There it is right there, you need to be delivered.
There is—we all have something within us that we need to be delivered from. And here's the truth: most of us have not been delivered; we've just been prayed for. Most of us in our lifetime, we have not been delivered from anything. We had hands laid on us, and we've been prayed for.
Why do I say that? Because being delivered means that you're coming out of one thing and going into something else. That means that you're coming out of perversion and you're going into purity. That means you're coming out of fear and you're going into faith.
That means you're coming out of greed and you're going into generosity. There are some things that begin to shift. If you're going out of backbiting and you're going into being encouraging, you're going from one thing to another.
Most of the time, what happens is that we get lost in the process of being delivered, and we get stuck, and we never make it to the completion of it, and we revert back and start the process all over again.
You've gone to the altar, you've gone up for prayer, you've gotten everything that you needed, but for some reason, you have not been able to completely be delivered.
Again, most of us, we've just been prayed for. You've got to prepare for this. You've got to prepare for that, and you keep going for this, and you keep going for that, and God wants to do it. It's not that God doesn't want to do it, but here's where God's hands get tied.
Deliverance is a decision of your yes. Deliverance is a decision of your yes. The problem is that we love what we are bound to so much that we really don't want to get delivered from it.
You're not going to go to God to get wisdom on something that you want to keep doing. God, you're not going to go, "God, how do I stop drinking? How do I not keep smoking? How do I not keep doing this?" when those are the things that you love.
You're not going to go and ask questions about that. Your children are never going to come to you and ask you, "Oh, mother, can you teach me how to wash dishes better? Can you teach me how to clean the bath?" My kids never ask how to clean the bathroom.
But let me tell you what they do ask: "Can we download this game on our iPad? Can you give us money to buy this? Can you do this, Daddy? Can you do this, Mommy? Can we do that?" And ain't nobody asking, "Can I clean the bathroom? Can I wash out the tub? Can I mop the floor? Can I sweep the floor?"
We don't ask for the things that are going to benefit us and better us. We ask for the things that are going to keep us comfortable. We don't say, "We say, God, give me a better job. God, give me more money," but not, "God, help me with my time management so I show up to work on time and I don't get fired."
We say, "God, give me another husband. God, give me a better wife," instead of saying, "God, help me to be the best husband or the best wife that I can be."
The problem with getting to deliverance is that you have to somewhere be held accountable, but we don't want to be held accountable. We leave the church at the moment that the pastor says something that holds us accountable to what it is that we're supposed to be doing.
Things you say, "God, I want your help. I need your help. Pastor, hold me accountable to this." And then the moment that we hold you accountable, you pull your tithes, you stop coming, and we don't hear from you ever again until it's too late.
And then what do we do? We open our arms, "Oh, come on back in! We're going to love you, and we're going to start this process all over again." You're going from something into something else.
Somebody say, "Delivered!" When you go on Amazon and you order a package, just because you ordered it and paid for it, it is not delivered to you until it shows delivered.
It is outside on your doorstep, but then there are times it says delivered, but there's nothing that's there. It says that it's been delivered. It's showing that it's being delivered.
Listen, some of us are walking around with masks going, "We're showing that we've been delivered on the outside." We're showing that we're free, but on the inside, we're really still being held bound and captured by what it is that we're trying to process.
So somewhere along the way, Pastor Octavia just happened to her. They sent her a picture, and they didn't send her an email. "It's been delivered!" It ain't nothing sitting outside. There's something that's missing.
And so now you've gone up for prayer, and you show this life of being delivered from this, and you say, "I've been delivered." You say all these things, but then your life eventually is going to come out, and it's going to show that I'm really not yet delivered from what it was I said I was because you weren't really willing to do the work.
You weren't really willing to go through the process. You weren't really willing to go through the steps of getting yourself 100% free. You can't get free from alcoholism if you keep hanging around the same people that's drinking alcohol.
You can't be accountable to somebody that's struggling through the same mess as you because then y'all gonna find yourself in the same mess together. You can't hold yourself accountable to not gossiping when you are best friends with somebody that's the biggest gossiper you know.
They are a Channel 7 affiliate. There's no way possible you can hold yourself accountable to being set free from promiscuity and perversion with somebody else that's doing the exact same things as you.
There's no way that you can hold yourself accountable to being set free from gluttony and overeating and doing stuff when you got somebody that's friends with you that wants to eat all the time.
No, we can't go to no new restaurant today. No, we're gonna meal prep this week, and we're gonna bring our lunch. No, you can't be accountable to somebody to save money, and they want to go out every weekend.
How they gonna help you with your budget, and their budget is looking just as bad as yours? Somebody shout, "Delivered!"
It's the blind leading the blind. Can y'all imagine how that looks? I know we talk about that, we use that saying so loosely, but imagine two blind people trying to lead each other the right way.
I mean, can we just—can we get that thought process into our minds? Two people walking around with their eyes closed saying, "Oh yeah, let's go this way." "Okay, Tom, I'm gonna follow you that way." And then they both end up hit by a car on the side of the road dead because it's the blind leading the blind.
How many people will you end up with hell with because you followed what they were doing? Hoping, "I'm a Christian, and I'm a believer," but yet you never set yourself apart.
I don't believe in this concept of once saved, always saved because you still have to do the work to maintain the relationship with your Father. When you get to heaven, they're saying, "Depart from me, I never knew you, you workers of iniquity."
You preached in my name, you prayed in my name, you prophesied in my name. Those sound like people that were saved to me, but for some reason, the relationship was never built.
Could it be that your relationship has been built too much to pornography? Could it be that your relationship has been built too much to your finances and your money? Could it be that your relationship has been built so much to your success and climbing the corporate ladder?
Could it be that your relationship has been built to Netflix and your relationship has been built to cookies and your relationship has been built to Little Debbie?
Listen, I had to break up with Debbie. I had to break up with Debbie, okay? Me and Debbie, we was going strong for about—I'm 32, we was going strong for about 28 years. Me and Debbie, we was going strong, and I had to let her know I can't be with you no more.
And then what happens? I walk through the grocery store to buy snacks for my kids. See, that's the devil, right? He'll use it. It's the people that you love, it's the people that surround you because the kids still gotta eat and still gotta have snacks.
And so I'm in the grocery store, and that Swiss cake—has anybody ever had this? Little Debbie Swiss cake rolls? Those are anointed of the devil, okay? I was going to say God, but it's the devil, okay?
And so now, for 32 years of my life, they've never had strawberry filling in Swiss cake rolls. But in the time that I decided I'm going to break free, I'm divorcing Debbie, I'm not gonna love her no more, I walk to the grocery store. What do they have? Strawberry-filled Swiss cake rolls!
And I said, "God almighty!" Thank you! The moment that you begin—I'm being funny, but the moment that you begin to reinvent yourself, the moment that you say, "I'm gonna be free from this, I'm gonna be delivered from this," now they come out looking totally different.
You know, I gotta try that. "Oh, I gotta try that!" And it sucks you right back into the very thing you were trying to be delivered from.
Oh man, I'm trying to get delivered. I'm not gonna drink no more. I'm done with drinking. And then all of a sudden, they come out with a new flavor of Ciroc. "Oh, I gotta try that!"
Don't ask me how I know what Ciroc is. I watch TV too, okay? "I gotta try that!" You trying to get delivered from alcohol, then Londa Urban brings her famous rum cake to work. [Laughter]
My mother, she bakes a mean rum cake. I'm telling you, I'd never eat again. No, my chest hairs were burning. I got very few as it is. I ate that thing, and I was like, "Good God almighty!"
You say, "I'm gonna get delivered from eating this mess, and I'm bringing my lunch to work." And I'm either side of the day, and the next thing you know, you show up to work, and they didn't cater Krispy Kremes and Popeyes.
Come on now! You say, "Hey, I'm gonna give this stuff up. I'm not eating sugar no more." I'm not doing this. All of a sudden, you get an email from your favorite company. "I got a new snack out!" You're like, "I gotta be delivered from buying shoes, and I don't need another pair of this, and I don't need another that."
And all of a sudden, Coach got a sale going on. "Oh, they got 85% off! I gotta go see what they got!" Come on now! I don't need another pair of shoes, and then all of a sudden—I'm sorry, Pastor David, then Jordan come out with something else.
I'm messing with her. I don't need another this, I don't—and you are—here's the problem. You know that you don't need it. The problem is that you know that you don't need this thing. You've already come to grips that you need to be delivered.
You've already said it, and so now this is the problem with deliverance. It requires your unadulterated 100% yes. Anything less than 100% will not work. 99.99% is not good enough for God. He needs the whole hundred.
Somebody shout, "Delivered!" It don't matter if Amazon say that they're three stops away, my stuff still ain't here yet, so I'm not excited yet because the whole 100.
Would you be satisfied if it just stays stuck on being one stop away, but it never showed up? And it's one week later, and it's still one stop away? You'd be on the line with customer service so fast.
Listen, Pastor, we don't play when it comes to Amazon. And they say they're one stop away, and it's supposed to be delivered by nine o'clock, and it's 8:59. Okay, y'all got one minute left before I'm on the line with customer service.
I'm telling you, she's texting them and calling them at the same time. I don't understand how she do it. And then all of a sudden, oh, they say it'll be here tomorrow, and they refunded me, so we got it free! "Look at God! Is good, ain't He?"
What would happen if you would do that same thing when it came to your deliverance? The moment that something showed up, you wouldn't allow a customer service. "Jesus, I need you on the main line! I need to tell you something! I need to talk to you because I'm getting tempted. My hormones are raging. There are things that are happening. There are things that are taking place. There are things that are going on within me, and I need you because, listen, I'm at about a 95%, and I'm trying to get to the 100%, and I don't want to fail this. I want to see the complete and the full deliverance."
And so, Jesus, I'm on the line with customer service because I need you to help me. Oh, there's so much stuff I want to—I want to—you don't have children's church. He'll call us when you need healing in your body, need prayer, but you won't call us when the hormones are going.
Can your pastors only help pray for you when you need healing in your body? That's also a healing that you need. The problem is we don't want to be accountable to the things that are going to keep us on the right path.
Somebody say, "Delivered!" Turn to Matthew chapter 12. By the grace of God, somebody say it again, "Delivered!"
Y'all ready for me to stop preaching yet? Okay, we'll see what happens about week three. We're going to deal with a lot of different subsets of your deliverance because you got to get free from it.
I want you to begin to think about whatever it is that you need to be free from, and it's not far away from you. It's right in the forefront of your thought process. You already know what it is.
Declare this out loud: "Father, I decree and I declare that by the end of this series, I'm going to be delivered!" Give God praise over it!
Listen, you said it, it's on tape. Heaven has heard you, it's on record. You are now held accountable to being delivered from that thing. Hallelujah!
We get delivered in here. We're not going to be just walking around having a whole bunch of faith and no deliverance because what good is your faith, and what good is God blessing you if you can't keep the blessing that He gave you?
Because the moment that you get the blessing, you are right there at the Coach Outlet, you are right there at Tanger, you're right there at Ruth's Chris, you're right there wherever else has got to be that you want to go to.
What good is it for God to bless you and to bring you out for you to go right back in? There's this video that's serviced around Facebook for a long time. It's a lamp, and how fitting is that?
It's a sheep that's in the crack, it's like a crack in the ground, and the shepherd, he's trying to pull it out, and he's trying to help him get free. And he's squealing, he's crying, "Oh my God, help me! Help me!" The sheep is making all types of noises.
I can imagine him saying, "Help me!" and trying to get him out of there. And the shepherd goes and he pulls his leg out, and he gets him free. And so now the sheep runs and jumps around, and all of a sudden, that Bama goes and jumps right back in the same mess all over again.
If you're not from D.C., don't worry about it. I just said Bama. Don't even try to worry about that. You Texas people, don't worry about it. You's a Bama too. Don't even worry about it.
Listen to the—the sheep went right back and got into the same mess. When God delivers you out of the ditch, don't go back! You spent enough time getting delivered out of debt just to get a new credit card to go right back.
You done went through bankruptcy, you ain't got your stuff cleaned up and cleared, then all of a sudden you're getting all these letters and all these offers in the mail because your credit is now pristine all over again. You go back and you get in debt right again.
You spent years, you done came, and we done prayed and prayed for you to get delivered from that woman, to get delivered from that man, and then you go back and do the same thing all over again.
King James Version, Matthew chapter 12, verse 43. And you gotta say, "I got it." It says, "When the unclean spirit is gone out of man, he walketh through dry places seeking rest and findeth none."
Your spirit is unclean until you get delivered, and you're going to be walking around, you're going to be searching, trying to find a place to sit, trying to find a place to rest. You're trying to find some reprieve, and God is saying, "I'm not going to let you find that."
Why? Because I can't let you be comfortable in your mess. Our three-year-old, she's going through this whole potty training process, and we know if she's hiding behind the refrigerator, we already know what she's doing.
Hello! Are you pooping right now? No! She just said, "This is an example, baby! Get used to being an example!" Okay? She ain't been in church all her life. She was a COVID baby, a pandemic baby.
"Are you peeing right now?" Don't answer that, baby! I know you're not peeing! Let's just say no! And this is what she does. She's hiding behind the refrigerator. The moment that we ask, she says no, holding her butt at the same time.
The evidence is on you, girl! But what would happen if we allowed her to go to sleep with that mess on her? What would happen if we would allow her to find rest with that stuff still right now?
For her, she may be kind of like, "Oh, I got that out, thank God!" But to us, it's a stinking smell! Something that you don't have! She didn't have that thing bound up, that muffin and whatever else she had ate that buried in processed, and then she had her about it.
Now she is toddler, thou art loosed! And to her, it's not a problem. To her, it's not a problem. To her, her mess don't stink. To her, it's okay. I'm going back to go play. I'm going back to go do things.
But everybody around here is saying, "Leia, you need to get your butt changed because you stink!" "No, I don't! Leia, you stinky!" "But no, I'm not! You're stinky!"
She doesn't see anything wrong with the fact that she's walking around with a mess on her until it begins to hurt. She doesn't think that her mess stinks until she begins to feel the effects of it in pain.
Now her butt is beginning to develop sores, and it's beginning to get hurt, and it's not that her parents didn't tell her to get changed. It's not that her siblings didn't tell her, "You need to go get changed."
It's not that everybody in her life has told her, "You need help, and you need to get this done." It's the fact that she decided to ignore it. Deliverance is a matter of your yes.
Yes! And so now you don't think of every room that you've been in, the entire place is full of your fumes, and you still don't understand the significance of the stench that you're leaving behind.
Y'all not hearing me! There are some things that you're dealing with. There's some mess that you are in, and you are thinking of every room that you come into contact with. Everywhere you go, you're smelling up the place, and you cannot understand that your own stuff stinks until people begin to run from you.
You're leaving a trail of hurt people behind. You're leaving this behind. Your husband don't like you, your kids don't like you, the dogs don't like you, the roaches don't like you. They run when they see you too!
Like everybody, don't nobody want to be around you! The stuff that's supposed to be stinking and attracted to you don't even want to be around you because it smells so bad!
But you're not aware of it until it begins to hurt. And so now we gotta change her. It's an emergency now, but it wasn't an emergency when we told you at the very beginning, "You might want to check that."
Now is the moment. This is part one. It won't be 60 parts like the gift of faith, but this is part one, and God is saying, "Hey, I'm knocking on the door because I need you to check that."
Let's not get to week six and still be left unchecked. God is saying, "Hey, I need you to check this before it gets to an emergency standpoint."
Now we gotta take the pull-up off, and now it's coming out of diapers all on her legs. There's a bigger mess than what there would have been before because she done sat in it and then smushed it, and it's all this other type of stuff happening.
Now we gotta find Desitin because now your butt is raw, and we gotta find you new clothes, and there's such a thing. And now you're in dire straits, you're crying, and you're upset, and you're hurting from something that you could have been delivered from hours ago.
We couldn't threaten her with a spanking to come get it done. She looked at us and laughed and ran the other way. You know she's the fifth child because the first one, that wouldn't have worked.
The first one, you laugh in my face, you got to see me. Number five is like, "Whatever!" I never thought I'd be that parent that as my children—you know, as you had more children, you became lazier. I'm that guy. I am that guy.
Sometimes the three-year-old has gotten away with some stuff that nobody else would have ever been able to get away with. Never! Okay? And she knows it too!
So we have five kids, and all the snacks come in six, right? They all come in six. Never comes in a five or a ten, so everybody can get two. It always comes in six.
How many of you know that as much as we say nobody's getting the last one, the three-year-old, she always ends up with the last one. Never fails! Never fails!
But now there's an emergency. Somebody say, "Delivered!" How many of you can attest to that, that you've seen some people that are smelling and their bodies are rotting away because they need to be delivered?
And you're telling them, "You need to be delivered from this! You need to be set!" You might want to go get this checked out and say, "No, I'm good! I'm okay! I can handle it on my own!"
How many of you know somebody like that? But how many people are willing to admit that I am the one that's like that? Told y'all, y'all did not want to be shouting, "Yes! I'm ready for the word!"
Church is not this flowery thing all the time where we have these messages that are just there to uplift and make us scream and run around and shout. Sometimes the Holy Spirit comes to break you down so that He can build you back up.
And in order to be delivered, this is that moment. Verse 44, He says, "Then he saith, I will return into my house from which I came out." And when he has come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.
Verse 45, "Then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there. And the last state of that man is worse than the first."
Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Let's read that out. I want to read the other passion translation. And that was a rough one there. The Message Bible probably cussed on that one.
Oh, it says, "When a demon—" verse 43, "When a demon is cast out of a person, it roams around a dry region looking for a place to rest but never finds it."
Verse 44, "Then it says, 'I'll return to the house I moved out of.'" Oh my God! I'm gonna go back to the place I moved out of!
And so it goes back only to find that the house is vacant. It's warm, and it's ready to move back in. Now, it's not vacant of the person that was there. That's not what it said. It's not vacant of the person that was once there; it's vacant of the Holy Spirit.
It's vacant of Jesus Christ. When you take something out, you got to fill that void. If you take a battery out of the remote and you don't put one back in, the remote is not going to work.
And so now what happens? The enemy, he's left you. You cast him out, but you have not done the maintenance and the upkeep to maintain your deliverance.
And so now what's happening? He said, "It's vacant, it's warm, and it's ready." Verse 45, "So it goes looking for seven other demons more evil than itself, and they all enter in together to live there."
And so now you don't cast out one thing, but because you did not feel your spirit, that enemy then came back, and he didn't bring some friends along with him.
He then came back, and he didn't bring some more stuff with him because you did not do what was necessary to keep yourself fortified and to get completely delivered.
You got 95% of the way there. You got the enemy out, but then you watched something that brought him right back in. You heard something that allowed him right back in. You begin to talk to somebody and allowed him right back in.
Y'all heard the same misery loves company. Demons love to have a party! Anytime you can get angels to leave heaven to follow you, Satan know how to get a party started.
And now he's living rent-free in the house called your soul. Somebody shout, "Delivered!"
It says, "Then the person's condition becomes much worse than it was in the beginning." This describes what will also happen to the people of this evil generation.
Your deliverance is your decision. Trust me, I'm not just talking to y'all; I'm talking to myself just the same. I know there are some things that God wants to bring me out of. There are some things that God wants to shift and change.
So don't think—listen, I can never bring something to y'all and God not have first dealt with me. I love you too! There's nothing that we could ever say. It would be hypocritical for us to come and to preach to you, and we first not live out what it is that God is saying to us.
We are not exempt. Somebody say, "Delivered!"
Now, I got a few minutes left. Y'all good? Y'all good? Y'all getting this? She said, "We don't have any other choice." No, you don't!
Somebody said, "I'm not coming to church next week." When do you preach again, Pastor Natavia? When is it your turn? I'll be here that week!
Foreign, go to Matthew chapter 8. I didn't ask you to do that. Oh man, y'all pass the play too much, and I'm not talking about me.
Matthew 8, verse 28. I'm good for the time being though. After that, King James Version, chapter 8, verse 28. It says, "And when he was come to the other side into the country of G," we're going to keep that as G, "there met him two possessed with devils coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way."
Verse 29, "And behold, they cried out, saying, 'What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? Art thou come here to torment us before the time?'"
And there was a good way off from them a herd of many swine feeding. Verse 31, "So the devils besought him, saying, 'If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.'"
That's just like the enemy to want to go into the bacon! Listen, y'all, not the bacon! Jesus! But that's what the enemy does. He's saying, "Listen, if you're going to take me out of you, then let me get into somebody else."
Or you're not even ready for this. You're not even ready for what I'm about to say. The enemy is saying, "If you're going to take me out of you, then at least let me get into your children. If you're going to take me out of you, then at least let me get into your grandchildren."
If you want to take me out of you, let me attach myself to something else that's connected to you. That's how we end up with generational curses because you took it out of you, but you didn't do nothing with it.
You took it out of you, you set it on the shelf because you did not want to completely be delivered, but then your children came into your room looking for some candy, and then they picked up that thing off your dresser.
They then picked up that thing off your shelf, and now there's a part of them that's gotten attached to them, and now they're dealing with the same thing.
Laughter! He said, "Let me go into this one! Let me find something else! Let me find something else!" The enemy is actively looking for something else in your life, someone else in your life to attach it to so that it keeps going and going and going and going and going.
And so somebody steps up and says, "You know what? I'm not going to just cast you out and send you away. I'm going to kill this thing once and for all." That's why we got to get delivered!
Our children are watching, our grandchildren are watching, our nieces and nephews are watching, our brothers and sisters are watching, and it is necessary for us to get delivered out of every ditch, to get delivered out of every mess so that it stops, and it's completed once and for all.
You cut off the head of the giant, you cut off the head of the snake, you cut off the head of any army or any military force, and you shut down the entire operation. Somebody shout, "Delivered!"
Verse 30, and it says, "And there was a good way." Now, we did that already. Verse 32, it says, "And he said unto them, 'Go!' And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine."
And behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea and perished in the waters. How many of your children are perishing because you could not release that thing that God was trying to deliver you from?
And understand, just as the anointing gets greater as it flows down, what did this just say? It left out the description. We just said it left out and it came back with seven more. It's getting greater as it flows down.
You got to get delivered! Verse 33, "And they that kept them fled and went their ways into the city and told everything and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils."
Verse 34, "And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus, and when they saw him, they besought him that he would depart out of their coast."
They didn't want nothing to do with Jesus because they wanted to stay in their mess. They didn't want nothing to do with Jesus because if Jesus is here, that means he's coming to set free and deliver.
Oh, I don't want to go back to that church no more because if I go there, I know that I'm going to be exposed, and I'm going to have to be set free and delivered.
There's so many excuses people use as to why they won't go back to a church. The real reason that some churches are not full and packed out is because they are teaching the real word of God.
But there will be so many places that are full because they have the itching ear syndrome where they're teaching what people want to hear. Remove the battery from one of the other ones and put it back in the original one so we can do this.
The enemy is doing his very best to detract from these last few minutes, but we will not let that happen, and we will deliver the remainder of this. You are getting this!
And so now the children of Israel, I want to deal with this for just a moment. Again, remember I said to you that when you are being delivered from something, that means that you're coming out of one thing and into something.
But in order for that to happen, that has to mean that you obviously had a destination. Testing! There we go!
And so now, in order for you to have to be delivered from one thing and into something else, that means that you obviously have had to have a destination that you were going towards.
Amazon don't just send out packages. UPS ain't just driving down the street like Jesus looking for whom they can bless today. No! There's something that was derived from a certain place, and it's going to another place.
Give Joshua chapter 5 up. God has another place for you to get to, which is why he's even bringing this up to you right now. He is the author and what? The finisher of your faith.
He knows what the end before the beginning. He knows he has an expected end. He knows that he wants to prosper you. The thoughts and the plans that he has for you to prosper you and to have an exceeding and abundantly end.
God's trying to do exceeding abundantly above all that you can ask or imagine. He's trying to do something in your life, but you won't allow him to start the process of you getting delivered.
Oh, it's gonna be so hard! It's going to hurt! Oh God, I love this too much! I don't want to give this up! I don't want to stop doing this! I don't want to stop going there! I don't want to stop eating that! I don't want to stop drinking this! I don't want to stop smoking! I don't want to let this person go!
I don't want to stop doing these things! And so now you'll never be able to enter into the promise that God has you.
Listen, let's get past that. God, I don't want to believe! I don't want to have the faith! I don't want to believe for this anymore! I don't want to have faith with this anymore because it's too hard!
You got to choose your heart! Is it too hard for you to get out of this situation and get out of these things, or is it going to be too hard for you in another three years when you are in a worse place than you are now?
You got to choose your heart! Joshua chapter 5, verse 6. And I want to do this out of the New Living Translation. It says, "The Israelites had traveled in the wilderness for 40 years until all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died."
Now, first of all, in order to be able to be eligible to fight, you got to be what? 18 at least! Now, in our day and time, back then, who knows? It could have been 12. Who knows?
But if we're talking about 18, and they were dead by the time that they progressed through the wilderness, that's a whole generational life cycle that's gone by before they entered into the promise.
And hear this, it says, "For they had disobeyed the Lord, and the Lord vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us." A different translation says, "The land that he promised us, the land flowing with milk and honey."
Now hear me when I say they had an expected end, okay? They had an expected end of where God was taking them. If you look at the entire story in Exodus and Joshua and Deuteronomy, anywhere that it talks about the children of Israel leaving Egypt, it always, always attaches the promise of the land flowing with milk and honey.
Always! There's never a time that it talks about it that it does not mention it. Why? Because God wanted them to be reminded, "I'm taking you somewhere."
Why does God keep bringing up your calling? Why does he keep bringing up your assignment and what you're chosen to do and what you're called to do? Because he wants you to have a revelation of the promise of where he's taking you.
The enemy is going to do everything in his power to stop you from getting there. He's going to do everything in his power to get you out of the will of God. But just like the children of Israel, he's never going to fail to mention the promise.
I got into a place not too long ago where my faith had gotten weak in some areas, and I was struggling through some things. And I'm like, "God, I listen, Pastor Natavia's faith and weakness was right on time."
My benefit is that I got to have her preaching to me again, and I got the exponential power off that thing. I got the overflow! Sorry, y'all should have married her!
And I just—I was going through the emotions. I'm going to stop right there.
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on Nov 05, 2023
