1 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:09,512 I want you to just say this phrase with me. 2 00:00:09,616 --> 00:00:11,580 Holy discontent. 3 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:14,168 Oh, man, this is a good. 4 00:00:14,224 --> 00:00:16,120 This is a good congregation here. 5 00:00:16,240 --> 00:00:17,800 Okay, let's do it one more time. 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:20,312 Because I couldn't hear Miami, they were too quiet. 7 00:00:20,456 --> 00:00:22,380 Holy discontent. 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,104 All right, come on, let's go take our seats. 9 00:00:26,152 --> 00:00:29,416 Let me message like, hit this message, okay? 10 00:00:29,528 --> 00:00:31,400 Holy discontent. 11 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:34,392 This is going to be the basis of this sermon. 12 00:00:34,456 --> 00:00:37,416 And this may be one of the most important messages that you've 13 00:00:37,448 --> 00:00:40,328 heard in your entire life, because it's going to shift you into 14 00:00:40,384 --> 00:00:41,384 what's next. 15 00:00:41,552 --> 00:00:43,336 Holy discontent. 16 00:00:43,448 --> 00:00:48,056 Holy discontent is when you know, deep in your spirit, it is 17 00:00:48,128 --> 00:00:52,180 not supposed to be like this. 18 00:00:53,770 --> 00:00:56,386 You know that feeling you get when you're driving around Brooklyn 19 00:00:56,418 --> 00:00:58,642 looking for parking and you're like, it ain't supposed to be like 20 00:00:58,666 --> 00:00:59,230 this. 21 00:01:00,570 --> 00:01:01,458 Or you look at. 22 00:01:01,514 --> 00:01:05,618 Or when they tell you that the rent just got jacked up higher, you're 23 00:01:05,634 --> 00:01:07,390 like, it ain't supposed to be like this. 24 00:01:07,770 --> 00:01:11,634 You know, we all have these things in our lives, varying degrees 25 00:01:11,682 --> 00:01:15,362 of frustration, but there's this holy discontent. 26 00:01:15,426 --> 00:01:17,170 This is what I want to talk to you about. 27 00:01:17,290 --> 00:01:19,602 Holy discontent is. 28 00:01:19,706 --> 00:01:23,022 It's the fire that won't let you settle. 29 00:01:23,186 --> 00:01:27,046 Holy discontent is the fire that won't let you settle. 30 00:01:27,078 --> 00:01:30,806 And let me just tell you, if you got in your car in northwest 31 00:01:30,838 --> 00:01:34,470 Indiana and got all your kids ready and you drove to church, you 32 00:01:34,510 --> 00:01:36,550 have a fire that won't let you settle. 33 00:01:36,630 --> 00:01:39,622 I'll tell you what, most of y'all who are sitting in seats right 34 00:01:39,646 --> 00:01:41,750 now, you did not come to church. 35 00:01:41,830 --> 00:01:43,350 You came to meet God. 36 00:01:43,430 --> 00:01:43,974 You came. 37 00:01:44,062 --> 00:01:45,702 You're like, this ain't even about church. 38 00:01:45,766 --> 00:01:49,014 Church is just facilitating me encountering him. 39 00:01:49,102 --> 00:01:51,158 I have a fire that won't let me stop. 40 00:01:51,214 --> 00:01:53,590 I have a passion that won't let me quit. 41 00:01:53,670 --> 00:01:57,138 Is there anybody that can say on the inside of them, there's something 42 00:01:57,194 --> 00:02:01,010 that's saying, I did not fight through all hell just to give up 43 00:02:01,050 --> 00:02:01,442 now. 44 00:02:01,546 --> 00:02:04,562 I did not get this far just to get this far. 45 00:02:04,666 --> 00:02:09,266 I did not cancel five suicidal attempts just to give up now. 46 00:02:09,338 --> 00:02:11,714 There's a fire that shut up in my bones. 47 00:02:11,762 --> 00:02:13,218 Is there anybody who knows about that? 48 00:02:13,274 --> 00:02:13,906 Fuego. 49 00:02:14,018 --> 00:02:15,842 Are y'all asleep on me today? 50 00:02:15,946 --> 00:02:19,266 Is there anybody that can just give God a 10 second praise break 51 00:02:19,338 --> 00:02:23,250 that you didn't quit, you didn't give up, you didn't back down. 52 00:02:23,290 --> 00:02:25,314 Because there's a fire that never quits. 53 00:02:25,362 --> 00:02:27,206 There's a fire that never gets. 54 00:02:27,378 --> 00:02:28,238 Come on. 55 00:02:28,374 --> 00:02:31,854 See, the devil has endurance, but we got more endurance. 56 00:02:31,982 --> 00:02:33,310 We will outlast him. 57 00:02:33,350 --> 00:02:36,350 There's a Reason why I'm the last man standing? 58 00:02:36,430 --> 00:02:39,902 Because there's a fire inside of me that said, I'm not giving up 59 00:02:39,926 --> 00:02:40,878 on New York City. 60 00:02:40,934 --> 00:02:42,686 I'm not giving up on Long Island. 61 00:02:42,798 --> 00:02:47,230 There's a holy discontent until I see the world start to look 62 00:02:47,270 --> 00:02:50,250 like the vision that I see on the inside of me. 63 00:02:50,710 --> 00:02:54,826 Is there anybody that sees a vision of what things should be? 64 00:02:54,978 --> 00:02:55,482 Come on. 65 00:02:55,506 --> 00:02:58,550 I keep seeing a vision of what my body is supposed to be. 66 00:02:59,650 --> 00:03:00,910 Why are you laughing? 67 00:03:01,570 --> 00:03:03,750 Why do they laugh when I say this? 68 00:03:04,370 --> 00:03:06,842 You know how I know I accomplished that vision is when 69 00:03:06,866 --> 00:03:09,230 I say these jokes and no one laughs anymore. 70 00:03:09,570 --> 00:03:12,634 I'm coming back from sabbatical looking like a ninja turtle, 71 00:03:12,682 --> 00:03:13,750 let me tell you. 72 00:03:16,210 --> 00:03:17,870 Are you getting a visual? 73 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:20,920 Well, you know, I'm bald, you know, so I have the. 74 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:22,060 Okay anyways. 75 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,448 But it's like I have a vision for my body. 76 00:03:25,504 --> 00:03:30,376 I have a vision, but it doesn't come into alignment. 77 00:03:30,488 --> 00:03:32,856 So there's this holy discontent. 78 00:03:33,048 --> 00:03:37,480 It's what turns ordinary people into chain breakers. 79 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:40,760 The way that you get a diamond is pressure. 80 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:41,768 It's gotta be. 81 00:03:41,824 --> 00:03:45,112 It's coal in its barbaric form. 82 00:03:45,216 --> 00:03:47,368 It's this black chunk of coal. 83 00:03:47,464 --> 00:03:51,396 But if you subject it to the right conditions in the right process, 84 00:03:51,468 --> 00:03:52,868 you can make a diamond. 85 00:03:52,964 --> 00:03:56,212 Coal has value, but diamond has greater value. 86 00:03:56,316 --> 00:03:58,084 And what's the difference in the value? 87 00:03:58,172 --> 00:04:00,644 It's the process that it was subjected to. 88 00:04:00,732 --> 00:04:04,532 What if I told you that God is trying to increase your worth? 89 00:04:04,596 --> 00:04:07,892 He's trying to increase the value of your life by putting you 90 00:04:07,916 --> 00:04:12,116 through a process that will turn you into something that you've 91 00:04:12,148 --> 00:04:14,820 never seen in your family before, that you've. 92 00:04:14,900 --> 00:04:17,028 Am I the only one that you start looking around? 93 00:04:17,084 --> 00:04:20,960 You're like, I'm less and less relatable to my family. 94 00:04:21,580 --> 00:04:24,848 I might have this same eye color, but I have a different vision. 95 00:04:24,944 --> 00:04:25,552 Oh, come on. 96 00:04:25,576 --> 00:04:26,928 I'm speaking to somebody. 97 00:04:27,024 --> 00:04:29,568 We might share genetics, but in the spirit. 98 00:04:29,664 --> 00:04:32,820 I've been grafted into Abraham's lineage. 99 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:36,016 It's like we got the same eye color, but we've got a different 100 00:04:36,088 --> 00:04:36,608 vision. 101 00:04:36,704 --> 00:04:40,336 Like, there's something about the deeper you go on this journey. 102 00:04:40,368 --> 00:04:42,512 It's a process that will change you. 103 00:04:42,616 --> 00:04:46,000 As a matter of fact, the Bible says that we go from glory to glory. 104 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,952 It might feel like I'm going from pit to pit, but, baby, if you 105 00:04:49,976 --> 00:04:52,960 look at the trajectory, I was always going higher. 106 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:56,812 I might have temporarily gone lower, but over the long haul, I 107 00:04:56,836 --> 00:04:58,220 was always going higher. 108 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:01,980 Sometimes God will take you lower to readjust you, to take you 109 00:05:02,020 --> 00:05:02,604 higher. 110 00:05:02,772 --> 00:05:06,252 Sometimes he's repositioning you, but you're always headed higher. 111 00:05:06,356 --> 00:05:09,580 But there's something that you see that you're convinced of what 112 00:05:09,620 --> 00:05:10,440 I'm saying. 113 00:05:10,740 --> 00:05:14,160 That's why you didn't allow yourself to stay depressed. 114 00:05:14,660 --> 00:05:17,468 That's the reason why you didn't allow yourself to even stay 115 00:05:17,524 --> 00:05:18,140 at home. 116 00:05:18,260 --> 00:05:23,082 Because you see something, and you can't be convinced otherwise. 117 00:05:23,236 --> 00:05:25,534 Because faith is the evidence of. 118 00:05:25,622 --> 00:05:26,622 Come on, help me. 119 00:05:26,726 --> 00:05:29,758 Faith is the evidence of things hoped for. 120 00:05:29,894 --> 00:05:30,730 And the. 121 00:05:31,670 --> 00:05:32,270 Oh, no. 122 00:05:32,310 --> 00:05:32,670 Come on. 123 00:05:32,710 --> 00:05:34,970 No, come on, Come on, come on. 124 00:05:35,350 --> 00:05:36,366 They don't know their Bible. 125 00:05:36,398 --> 00:05:40,862 In Miami, they were all, let's try it again, Church. 126 00:05:41,006 --> 00:05:46,350 Faith is the evidence of things hoped for and the substance 127 00:05:46,430 --> 00:05:49,370 of things not seen. 128 00:05:50,940 --> 00:05:55,108 So my physical reality, I don't see it. 129 00:05:55,244 --> 00:05:58,600 But by faith, I'm certain that it exists. 130 00:05:58,940 --> 00:06:01,240 Oh, we're about to go into the realm of faith. 131 00:06:01,900 --> 00:06:03,924 We're about to go into the realm of faith. 132 00:06:04,052 --> 00:06:05,812 We're about to go into the realm of faith. 133 00:06:05,876 --> 00:06:07,316 First Samuel, chapter one. 134 00:06:07,388 --> 00:06:08,772 I feel the power of God right now. 135 00:06:08,796 --> 00:06:09,748 I'm about to shout. 136 00:06:09,844 --> 00:06:11,284 I'm about to take off running. 137 00:06:11,332 --> 00:06:12,452 It's not the caffeine. 138 00:06:12,516 --> 00:06:13,720 It's the Holy Ghost. 139 00:06:14,620 --> 00:06:15,732 First chance. 140 00:06:15,876 --> 00:06:16,468 You know why? 141 00:06:16,524 --> 00:06:18,080 Okay, we're gonna get there. 142 00:06:19,180 --> 00:06:22,000 Because I believe this for you. 143 00:06:22,460 --> 00:06:25,760 I'm not gonna let you stay where you're at. 144 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:29,636 This is why I'm excited, because I'm gonna grab you and I'm 145 00:06:29,668 --> 00:06:33,108 gonna pull you up and I'm gonna push you into what's next today. 146 00:06:33,164 --> 00:06:35,044 Cause I believe it for you. 147 00:06:35,212 --> 00:06:36,580 Oh, I feel the fuego. 148 00:06:36,660 --> 00:06:38,116 Some of y'all just needed it. 149 00:06:38,188 --> 00:06:39,840 I believe it for you. 150 00:06:40,300 --> 00:06:51,326 Because the Lord had closed her womb, her rival used to provoke 151 00:06:51,358 --> 00:06:54,010 her grievously to irritate her. 152 00:06:54,630 --> 00:06:56,958 Oh, we all got some of these people in our lives. 153 00:06:57,014 --> 00:06:58,970 You might be sitting next to one of them. 154 00:07:00,310 --> 00:07:06,446 Because the Lord had closed her womb, her rival used to provoke 155 00:07:06,478 --> 00:07:09,070 her grievously to irritate her. 156 00:07:09,190 --> 00:07:10,054 Therefore. 157 00:07:10,222 --> 00:07:14,710 Therefore, Hannah wept and would not eat. 158 00:07:14,870 --> 00:07:16,370 Let me break this down. 159 00:07:17,710 --> 00:07:22,710 If you're a man, you can still be a prophetic Hannah in this sermon. 160 00:07:22,790 --> 00:07:24,370 So I want you to hear this. 161 00:07:24,830 --> 00:07:27,126 I'm talking to the women as well. 162 00:07:27,278 --> 00:07:29,318 So this is for everybody. 163 00:07:29,494 --> 00:07:30,810 Everybody. 164 00:07:31,470 --> 00:07:33,370 This is for everybody. 165 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:39,496 Because there are some things that you keep blaming on the devil, 166 00:07:39,688 --> 00:07:42,136 but in fact, it's God that did it. 167 00:07:42,288 --> 00:07:46,904 Because that holy discontent is what he's trying to use to push 168 00:07:46,952 --> 00:07:48,568 you into your destiny. 169 00:07:48,744 --> 00:07:49,960 So here's the thing. 170 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:54,248 Well, she could have said, oh, the devil is attacking my womb. 171 00:07:54,344 --> 00:07:55,704 Bring me the intercessors. 172 00:07:55,752 --> 00:07:59,240 Bring me the prayer warriors, we're gonna cast this demon of infertility 173 00:07:59,320 --> 00:07:59,940 out. 174 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,402 But it wasn't demonic in its origin. 175 00:08:03,536 --> 00:08:05,990 The Lord had closed her womb. 176 00:08:06,070 --> 00:08:07,570 Can I take you to school? 177 00:08:08,110 --> 00:08:09,654 Can I take you to school? 178 00:08:09,822 --> 00:08:13,606 There are some things that you blame on the devil that in fact, 179 00:08:13,678 --> 00:08:17,382 God has done to orchestrate his will in your life. 180 00:08:17,486 --> 00:08:21,798 And if you'll stop complaining and you'll stop criticizing and you'll 181 00:08:21,894 --> 00:08:25,830 actually allow that thing to shift you into intercession and prayer, 182 00:08:25,910 --> 00:08:28,662 and you'll let it provoke you to what's next, you'll get to the 183 00:08:28,686 --> 00:08:29,526 other side of it. 184 00:08:29,598 --> 00:08:31,616 But stop blaming it on the devil. 185 00:08:31,728 --> 00:08:33,792 Stop blaming it on your geography. 186 00:08:33,856 --> 00:08:35,552 It's not your city's problem. 187 00:08:35,656 --> 00:08:37,472 It's not your boss's problem. 188 00:08:37,576 --> 00:08:37,904 It's. 189 00:08:37,952 --> 00:08:40,000 Oh, I'm talking to somebody right now. 190 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:40,944 You blame. 191 00:08:41,072 --> 00:08:45,904 But see, Hannah intuitively understood this is between me and 192 00:08:45,992 --> 00:08:46,496 God. 193 00:08:46,608 --> 00:08:50,820 As a matter of fact, she even had arrival before her arrival. 194 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:56,016 She had arrival before her arrival. 195 00:08:56,128 --> 00:08:59,136 Let me just tell you, if you think you're gonna get haters after 196 00:08:59,208 --> 00:09:02,524 you're successful, you haven't lived yet. 197 00:09:02,612 --> 00:09:06,540 People will hate you before you even succeed because they know 198 00:09:06,580 --> 00:09:07,932 you're headed towards it. 199 00:09:08,036 --> 00:09:10,796 See, this rival was speaking to her future. 200 00:09:10,948 --> 00:09:15,340 Sometimes when they talk about you and they criticize you and they 201 00:09:15,380 --> 00:09:19,212 taunt you and irritate you, all they're doing is prophesying 202 00:09:19,276 --> 00:09:20,620 what's getting ready to happen? 203 00:09:20,740 --> 00:09:24,972 What does the devil inside of them know about what's up ahead of 204 00:09:24,996 --> 00:09:25,276 you? 205 00:09:25,348 --> 00:09:28,158 That they're trying to criticize you out of the promise. 206 00:09:28,324 --> 00:09:29,270 Come on. 207 00:09:29,810 --> 00:09:31,210 I'll take a demonic prop. 208 00:09:31,250 --> 00:09:33,274 Some of you, like, the Lord hasn't sent a prophet. 209 00:09:33,322 --> 00:09:35,550 He did in the form of your rivals. 210 00:09:41,170 --> 00:09:42,710 It's opposite day. 211 00:09:43,890 --> 00:09:45,274 You say it's over. 212 00:09:45,362 --> 00:09:47,150 The Lord said it just began. 213 00:09:47,730 --> 00:09:49,690 They say that I'm nobody. 214 00:09:49,770 --> 00:09:53,482 The Lord says that I'm a royal priesthood, a chosen generation. 215 00:09:53,626 --> 00:09:55,914 Oh, they said I'm always gonna be broke. 216 00:09:55,962 --> 00:09:57,834 But the Lord says, I see overflow. 217 00:09:57,882 --> 00:09:59,710 Your seed is actually gonna. 218 00:10:00,510 --> 00:10:01,382 Oh, come on. 219 00:10:01,486 --> 00:10:02,086 I'll take. 220 00:10:02,158 --> 00:10:05,366 Sometimes if God doesn't send one of his prophets, the devil send 221 00:10:05,398 --> 00:10:05,878 one of his. 222 00:10:05,934 --> 00:10:09,670 And I'll say the it's opposite day devil, because I know that if 223 00:10:09,710 --> 00:10:11,302 you're lying, it's the. 224 00:10:11,406 --> 00:10:14,566 What God is revealing is that the opposite is true. 225 00:10:14,678 --> 00:10:16,010 So she had a rival. 226 00:10:16,430 --> 00:10:17,862 But here's the thing. 227 00:10:18,046 --> 00:10:20,450 The intention was to irritate her. 228 00:10:20,910 --> 00:10:22,290 Let me just tell you. 229 00:10:22,910 --> 00:10:26,010 Are you being irritated or are you being stirred? 230 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:31,060 Are you being irritated or are you being stirred? 231 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:32,820 Stirred. 232 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:35,540 Stirred. 233 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:41,580 I remember when they told me you can't simulcast in New York City? 234 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,064 No, New York City churches simulcast. 235 00:10:44,112 --> 00:10:48,100 People don't want to watch sermons on a screen. 236 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:51,350 But I said, but I know what the Lord told me. 237 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:54,750 And I went from being irritated to being stirred. 238 00:10:55,810 --> 00:10:57,546 Now I'm on a mission. 239 00:10:57,738 --> 00:11:01,258 Matter of fact, there's a pastor who actually has a multi side 240 00:11:01,314 --> 00:11:03,850 church in Manhattan and he hit me up the other day and he said, 241 00:11:03,890 --> 00:11:07,130 you have given me vision and you've proved that we can simulcast 242 00:11:07,210 --> 00:11:09,162 and be one house with many rooms. 243 00:11:09,226 --> 00:11:11,322 And he said, I don't even know if you know this, but you're the 244 00:11:11,346 --> 00:11:13,834 very first pastor to simulcast in New York City. 245 00:11:13,922 --> 00:11:15,418 But let me just tell you this. 246 00:11:15,554 --> 00:11:16,394 I had to choose. 247 00:11:16,442 --> 00:11:19,310 Am I going to be irritated or am I going to be stirred? 248 00:11:20,030 --> 00:11:22,582 See, I don't know if you noticed this, but your rivals can 249 00:11:22,606 --> 00:11:24,570 actually fuel your next levels. 250 00:11:25,150 --> 00:11:27,574 I don't know if you've recognized this, but the difference 251 00:11:27,622 --> 00:11:31,830 is you have to bless those who curse you and you have to pray for 252 00:11:31,870 --> 00:11:33,814 those who despitefully use you. 253 00:11:33,902 --> 00:11:35,942 Because it's actually not about them. 254 00:11:36,046 --> 00:11:38,774 It's about you and God and what God's trying to do. 255 00:11:38,862 --> 00:11:42,550 As a matter of fact, the Bible says that promotion does not come 256 00:11:42,590 --> 00:11:43,222 from man. 257 00:11:43,326 --> 00:11:45,170 That promotion comes from. 258 00:11:45,980 --> 00:11:47,620 Oh, help me say it louder. 259 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:50,900 Promotion does not come from man. 260 00:11:51,020 --> 00:11:53,108 Promotion comes from God. 261 00:11:53,204 --> 00:11:55,796 Oh, so your boss can't hold you down. 262 00:11:55,948 --> 00:11:58,452 So the problem is not between you and your boss. 263 00:11:58,516 --> 00:12:00,440 It's between you and your God. 264 00:12:01,420 --> 00:12:04,320 Why hasn't your God promoted you? 265 00:12:04,940 --> 00:12:09,780 See, Hannah understood this because she doesn't respond to her 266 00:12:09,820 --> 00:12:10,522 rival. 267 00:12:10,716 --> 00:12:16,574 Hannah wept and she would not eat and she was deeply distressed 268 00:12:16,702 --> 00:12:21,214 and she prayed to the Lord and she wept bitterly. 269 00:12:21,342 --> 00:12:23,130 Oh, we gotta talk about this. 270 00:12:23,670 --> 00:12:25,610 And I'm talking to some of the men. 271 00:12:27,430 --> 00:12:29,090 You better learn how to cry. 272 00:12:30,150 --> 00:12:31,890 You better learn how to cry. 273 00:12:32,790 --> 00:12:34,930 All the men, I ain't gonna cry. 274 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,060 I ain't gonna cry. 275 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,900 But then your favorite quarterback retires and you cry. 276 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,128 Let me tell you, your feelings don't dissipate. 277 00:12:50,224 --> 00:12:52,020 They get displaced. 278 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:54,928 If you don't learn how to get them through your eyes, they're gonna 279 00:12:54,944 --> 00:12:56,380 end up in your lower back. 280 00:12:57,080 --> 00:12:59,536 If you don't learn how to get your emotions through your eyes, 281 00:12:59,568 --> 00:13:01,104 they're gonna end up in your stomach. 282 00:13:01,152 --> 00:13:02,370 They're gonna end up in your heart. 283 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,646 See, there's a physical connection to what is disease. 284 00:13:05,758 --> 00:13:07,250 Dis ease. 285 00:13:07,990 --> 00:13:11,710 So what happens is, if you don't learn how to get that dis ease 286 00:13:11,870 --> 00:13:15,838 out of your body, it becomes dis ease in your body. 287 00:13:15,974 --> 00:13:17,534 See, I'm trying to help you. 288 00:13:17,622 --> 00:13:19,902 You've got to learn where to take your feeling. 289 00:13:19,966 --> 00:13:21,230 And let me just ask you this. 290 00:13:21,270 --> 00:13:22,846 Why do you keep calling your friends? 291 00:13:22,918 --> 00:13:25,570 Do you want attention or do you want transformation? 292 00:13:27,190 --> 00:13:27,930 Because. 293 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:30,820 And men do it, too. 294 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:32,872 Men do it, too. 295 00:13:32,976 --> 00:13:34,584 Yo, what's going on, bro? 296 00:13:34,752 --> 00:13:35,528 Nothing, bro. 297 00:13:35,584 --> 00:13:36,568 What about you, bro? 298 00:13:36,624 --> 00:13:37,368 Yeah, bro. 299 00:13:37,504 --> 00:13:38,456 My wife, bro. 300 00:13:38,528 --> 00:13:39,592 Church, bro. 301 00:13:39,776 --> 00:13:41,048 My boss, bro. 302 00:13:41,184 --> 00:13:42,552 The lie, bro. 303 00:13:42,656 --> 00:13:43,928 8094, bro. 304 00:13:43,984 --> 00:13:45,480 The Dan Ryan, bro. 305 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:46,900 The Bears, bro. 306 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,740 Come on, bro. 307 00:13:51,680 --> 00:13:53,300 I'm trying to help you. 308 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:55,020 Hannah wept. 309 00:13:55,410 --> 00:13:57,642 She knew where to take her feelings. 310 00:13:57,706 --> 00:13:59,594 She knew where to take her emotions. 311 00:13:59,722 --> 00:14:01,882 As a matter of fact, she took them to the altar. 312 00:14:01,946 --> 00:14:06,154 And the Bible says that the Eli who was over the temple actually 313 00:14:06,242 --> 00:14:09,306 thought she was drunk because she was weeping so bitterly. 314 00:14:09,338 --> 00:14:11,402 But I'll tell you what wasn't happening. 315 00:14:11,546 --> 00:14:14,074 Her feelings weren't getting displaced. 316 00:14:14,122 --> 00:14:15,690 They were getting dispersed. 317 00:14:15,770 --> 00:14:18,794 And what happens was she became an empty vessel that became 318 00:14:18,842 --> 00:14:21,642 a candidate to conceive a baby. 319 00:14:21,706 --> 00:14:24,860 See, sometimes you gotta release feelings so that God can 320 00:14:24,970 --> 00:14:26,200 fill you with the spirit. 321 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:29,368 Sometimes you gotta get something out so something new can 322 00:14:29,424 --> 00:14:29,800 come in. 323 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,560 You gotta learn how to turn that grumbling into groaning. 324 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:36,360 You gotta learn how to turn it into intercession. 325 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:36,888 And this. 326 00:14:36,944 --> 00:14:38,340 I'm trying to help you. 327 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,776 I used to never cry. 328 00:14:40,968 --> 00:14:42,936 And then I started surrendering. 329 00:14:43,048 --> 00:14:45,752 And through the surrender, the cry started to happen. 330 00:14:45,936 --> 00:14:47,480 And you know what else happened? 331 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:49,420 My lower back got healed. 332 00:14:51,530 --> 00:14:52,466 See, you don't understand. 333 00:14:52,538 --> 00:14:55,362 You're carrying this stuff, and the Lord wants to help you get 334 00:14:55,386 --> 00:14:55,986 rid of it. 335 00:14:56,058 --> 00:14:56,546 And this. 336 00:14:56,618 --> 00:14:58,466 She was deeply distressed. 337 00:14:58,578 --> 00:14:59,138 And. 338 00:14:59,274 --> 00:15:00,162 Look at this word. 339 00:15:00,226 --> 00:15:05,190 And she was deeply distressed and prayed. 340 00:15:06,330 --> 00:15:06,978 Watch this. 341 00:15:07,034 --> 00:15:09,430 Here's how most of us walk out our faith. 342 00:15:09,770 --> 00:15:13,830 He was deeply distressed, but he stopped praying. 343 00:15:15,210 --> 00:15:18,892 See, we're using the coordinating conjunction, but when 344 00:15:18,916 --> 00:15:19,468 it should be. 345 00:15:19,524 --> 00:15:26,044 And I'm going through it, and I'm still fasting, I'm being tempted, 346 00:15:26,092 --> 00:15:29,420 and I'm still praying and crying out, give me an. 347 00:15:29,460 --> 00:15:30,556 And Kind of people. 348 00:15:30,628 --> 00:15:32,332 Not a but kind of people. 349 00:15:32,436 --> 00:15:33,932 I live in New York City. 350 00:15:34,036 --> 00:15:35,292 It's extremely. 351 00:15:35,436 --> 00:15:37,276 It's extremely expensive. 352 00:15:37,388 --> 00:15:41,420 And I'm the blessing of God through Abraham to this city. 353 00:15:41,460 --> 00:15:44,646 And there's financial prosperity on my life because I've 354 00:15:44,678 --> 00:15:45,590 aligned with his will. 355 00:15:45,630 --> 00:15:46,118 Give me an. 356 00:15:46,174 --> 00:15:48,290 And look at this. 357 00:15:48,670 --> 00:15:53,366 When you can't tolerate it anymore, I want to shift you now 358 00:15:53,518 --> 00:15:57,010 into the next portion of this. 359 00:15:58,030 --> 00:16:04,806 Discontent is actually a sign that you are on your way to transformation. 360 00:16:04,998 --> 00:16:06,438 But here's the thing. 361 00:16:06,574 --> 00:16:10,800 Hannah, she was barren. 362 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:12,608 She couldn't have a child. 363 00:16:12,744 --> 00:16:14,224 She couldn't conceive. 364 00:16:14,352 --> 00:16:18,880 But the most important part of her story is that she refused to 365 00:16:18,920 --> 00:16:20,900 Accept the dysfunction. 366 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:24,720 She refused to accept that as her reality. 367 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:29,232 She refused to accept her reality as her final reality. 368 00:16:29,376 --> 00:16:31,340 See, let me show you something. 369 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,648 Hannah lived with bareness. 370 00:16:33,744 --> 00:16:36,980 Everyone else adjusted, but she didn't adjust. 371 00:16:38,150 --> 00:16:44,302 Since when did you accept the fact that you will always have anxiety 372 00:16:44,366 --> 00:16:45,170 attacks? 373 00:16:45,910 --> 00:16:49,010 Do you remember your life before anxiety? 374 00:16:50,070 --> 00:16:53,806 Do you remember your life before the panic attacks? 375 00:16:53,918 --> 00:16:55,810 Since when did you adjust? 376 00:16:56,230 --> 00:17:00,222 See, the real issue here is what are you allowing? 377 00:17:00,366 --> 00:17:02,046 What have you accepted? 378 00:17:02,158 --> 00:17:04,286 See, there's some times where we just say, you know what? 379 00:17:04,358 --> 00:17:06,414 I guess I'm gonna manage it. 380 00:17:06,582 --> 00:17:07,630 Oh, come on. 381 00:17:07,750 --> 00:17:09,774 I guess I'm gonna tolerate it. 382 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:13,470 But see, the Lord is asking some people today, are you going 383 00:17:13,510 --> 00:17:17,198 to actually continue to accept it? 384 00:17:17,334 --> 00:17:20,526 Are you gonna continue to manage it, or are you gonna believe 385 00:17:20,598 --> 00:17:21,566 beyond it? 386 00:17:21,718 --> 00:17:25,102 See, because sometimes you could say, oh, this is just the way 387 00:17:25,126 --> 00:17:26,014 I'm gonna be. 388 00:17:26,102 --> 00:17:28,270 This is just what I'm gonna have in my body. 389 00:17:28,390 --> 00:17:30,574 Let me talk to the queens real quick. 390 00:17:30,742 --> 00:17:32,478 Let me talk to the queens. 391 00:17:32,654 --> 00:17:35,268 All y'all got real ready for church today. 392 00:17:35,454 --> 00:17:37,304 I got my queen over there. 393 00:17:37,472 --> 00:17:39,940 Matter of fact, when I looked over, she was like this. 394 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,448 Don't be flirting with me while I'm preaching. 395 00:17:43,624 --> 00:17:45,100 It's inappropriate. 396 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:47,240 But let me just say. 397 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:48,088 Let me. 398 00:17:48,224 --> 00:17:49,540 Let me just say this. 399 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:53,752 Since when did you let that man start to talk to you the way 400 00:17:53,776 --> 00:17:55,060 he talks to you? 401 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,128 You are a queen. 402 00:17:57,304 --> 00:17:59,816 You are the daughter of the Most High. 403 00:17:59,968 --> 00:18:03,386 Since when did you accept verbal and physical abuse? 404 00:18:03,568 --> 00:18:08,982 It's never appropriate for him to lay his hand on you and stop justifying 405 00:18:09,046 --> 00:18:10,598 what God has not justified. 406 00:18:10,694 --> 00:18:12,982 Stop accepting what God has not accepted. 407 00:18:13,046 --> 00:18:14,790 Let me talk to the kings real quick. 408 00:18:14,910 --> 00:18:15,810 Come on. 409 00:18:22,910 --> 00:18:25,414 I told one of our team members, I said, man, you're amazing. 410 00:18:25,462 --> 00:18:27,622 I said, does your wife know how amazing you are? 411 00:18:27,726 --> 00:18:33,402 He said, tell her I'll go get her right now and tell her, but let 412 00:18:33,426 --> 00:18:34,650 me talk to the Kings. 413 00:18:34,810 --> 00:18:39,706 Since when did you accept people treating you like you're common? 414 00:18:39,818 --> 00:18:41,162 You're not common. 415 00:18:41,306 --> 00:18:42,906 You're a royal priesthood. 416 00:18:43,018 --> 00:18:44,602 You're a peculiar person. 417 00:18:44,706 --> 00:18:46,474 You're a chosen generation. 418 00:18:46,602 --> 00:18:47,146 Come on. 419 00:18:47,218 --> 00:18:50,202 This is the thing about it, is sometimes, and I say this all the 420 00:18:50,226 --> 00:18:53,610 time, but sometimes we have to change our circles to change our 421 00:18:53,650 --> 00:18:54,314 levels. 422 00:18:54,442 --> 00:18:58,282 There are times where our current friendships cannot sustain 423 00:18:58,346 --> 00:18:59,898 our future destination. 424 00:19:00,074 --> 00:19:03,686 There are times where we have to stop giving ear to them because 425 00:19:03,758 --> 00:19:06,422 they are not in alignment with where you're going. 426 00:19:06,606 --> 00:19:10,102 Those friends, they were in alignment with where you used to 427 00:19:10,126 --> 00:19:13,190 be, but they're not in alignment with the new assignment. 428 00:19:13,270 --> 00:19:17,382 And sometimes you have to shed some relationships off because they're 429 00:19:17,446 --> 00:19:18,530 helping you. 430 00:19:18,830 --> 00:19:20,310 Oh, Lord, help. 431 00:19:20,430 --> 00:19:24,758 They're helping you conform to an identity that God wants you to 432 00:19:24,814 --> 00:19:25,750 break out of. 433 00:19:25,870 --> 00:19:29,430 You need the kind of friends who say, I do not accept the fact 434 00:19:29,470 --> 00:19:31,718 that you're always going to be riddled with anxiety. 435 00:19:31,814 --> 00:19:32,352 And. 436 00:19:32,486 --> 00:19:34,732 And when you call them on the phone, here's how you know you got 437 00:19:34,756 --> 00:19:35,484 a real friend. 438 00:19:35,572 --> 00:19:38,012 When you call them on the phone and you're like, I just need 439 00:19:38,036 --> 00:19:38,876 to talk this through. 440 00:19:38,948 --> 00:19:42,668 Hey, hang up with me and talk to God about it because he's gonna 441 00:19:42,684 --> 00:19:43,964 be the one that heals you. 442 00:19:44,052 --> 00:19:44,508 I'm not. 443 00:19:44,564 --> 00:19:45,068 Come on. 444 00:19:45,124 --> 00:19:48,236 There's something about friends that redirect you instead 445 00:19:48,268 --> 00:19:51,676 of friends that actually confirm the mess that you're in. 446 00:19:51,748 --> 00:19:53,500 And can I just give you a side note? 447 00:19:53,580 --> 00:19:57,628 Some of them like you being in pain because it comforts their own 448 00:19:57,684 --> 00:19:58,596 mediocrity. 449 00:19:58,748 --> 00:20:01,748 Some of them like you not writing the book because they never 450 00:20:01,804 --> 00:20:02,836 finished theirs. 451 00:20:02,948 --> 00:20:06,132 Some of them like you not starting the business because they're 452 00:20:06,196 --> 00:20:06,756 failed. 453 00:20:06,868 --> 00:20:07,428 Some of the. 454 00:20:07,484 --> 00:20:11,124 Some of these friends like you being a loser because they've lost 455 00:20:11,212 --> 00:20:11,700 too. 456 00:20:11,820 --> 00:20:15,716 And sometimes when you begin to get a holy discontent, they don't 457 00:20:15,748 --> 00:20:19,140 like that fuego because they didn't blow on the embers of their 458 00:20:19,180 --> 00:20:21,636 own fire and their fire smoldering. 459 00:20:21,748 --> 00:20:22,500 But yours is. 460 00:20:22,540 --> 00:20:22,980 See there. 461 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:25,686 I'm telling you to get what God has for. 462 00:20:25,748 --> 00:20:26,178 For you. 463 00:20:26,234 --> 00:20:27,906 There's going to be a gap. 464 00:20:28,098 --> 00:20:32,066 And the gap is going to be between your friends who are actually 465 00:20:32,138 --> 00:20:33,110 frenemies. 466 00:20:33,610 --> 00:20:35,470 They're enemies of your future. 467 00:20:36,650 --> 00:20:37,410 That's what it is. 468 00:20:37,450 --> 00:20:39,426 They're not your friends, they're your frenemies. 469 00:20:39,538 --> 00:20:41,154 They're enemies to your future. 470 00:20:41,242 --> 00:20:44,674 They don't want you to read the Bible more because it exposes 471 00:20:44,722 --> 00:20:46,350 how little they read it. 472 00:20:46,730 --> 00:20:49,906 They don't want you to pray more because it exposes the lack 473 00:20:49,938 --> 00:20:50,882 of their prayer life. 474 00:20:50,986 --> 00:20:54,192 So there's going to be a gap when you abandon that friendship. 475 00:20:54,346 --> 00:20:57,252 And then all of a sudden, there's going to be a season where 476 00:20:57,276 --> 00:21:00,440 you have to learn how to be alone but not lonely. 477 00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:06,120 Oh, single people, look me in my beady Italian eyes. 478 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:12,520 You can be alone but not lonely. 479 00:21:13,420 --> 00:21:18,340 Because God declares, I will never leave you nor forsake you. 480 00:21:18,460 --> 00:21:22,692 I will be with you to the end until Jesus becomes your husband. 481 00:21:22,756 --> 00:21:26,798 You ain't ready for another groom because you can be alone but 482 00:21:26,854 --> 00:21:27,758 not lonely. 483 00:21:27,854 --> 00:21:31,326 You'll carry that loneliness into your marriage because you'll 484 00:21:31,358 --> 00:21:35,966 make a man an idol when only Jesus is enough to satisfy. 485 00:21:36,078 --> 00:21:39,170 You gotta learn how to be alone but not lonely. 486 00:21:39,830 --> 00:21:40,926 There's a gap. 487 00:21:41,038 --> 00:21:42,830 Hannah was Going through. 488 00:21:42,870 --> 00:21:44,730 Oh, I'm going in for you today. 489 00:21:45,190 --> 00:21:48,690 I'm earning my Chicken McNuggets. 490 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,860 Let me tell you, I'm almost done. 491 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:58,420 Let me tell you, God is trying to divinely speak to you. 492 00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,940 Do you want attention or do you want transformation? 493 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,580 Do you want to be heard or do you want to be healed? 494 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,528 See, this is the exchange that you have to make. 495 00:22:11,664 --> 00:22:13,704 This is what I'm trying to get you to understand. 496 00:22:13,872 --> 00:22:15,512 But you're going to have a gap. 497 00:22:15,656 --> 00:22:17,500 See, Hannah had rivals. 498 00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:21,638 Holy discontent doesn't adjust to dysfunction. 499 00:22:21,734 --> 00:22:23,862 It groans for something more. 500 00:22:24,046 --> 00:22:25,830 Everybody say this word with me. 501 00:22:25,870 --> 00:22:26,650 Groan. 502 00:22:27,230 --> 00:22:30,950 Yeah, even the word sounds like how it sounds. 503 00:22:31,110 --> 00:22:32,090 Groan. 504 00:22:32,750 --> 00:22:33,782 What is groan? 505 00:22:33,846 --> 00:22:37,798 It's the realm beyond words where there's only noise, there's 506 00:22:37,814 --> 00:22:38,870 only sound. 507 00:22:39,030 --> 00:22:42,406 There's a groaning and a travailing and a longing. 508 00:22:42,518 --> 00:22:43,970 Let me just tell you this. 509 00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:50,368 Sometimes God will sovereignly and divinely let your situation get 510 00:22:50,424 --> 00:22:54,240 bad enough to where you actually start praying like you should 511 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,900 have been praying the whole time. 512 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,304 Sometimes God will let it. 513 00:22:58,392 --> 00:23:02,736 Some of you, you only open the Bible to find the answer to the problem 514 00:23:02,808 --> 00:23:04,224 that was perplexing you. 515 00:23:04,312 --> 00:23:08,784 And by God's mercy, he caused you to suffer enough to actually 516 00:23:08,872 --> 00:23:11,728 become the disciple you were designed to become. 517 00:23:11,864 --> 00:23:13,776 And this is what I'm here to tell you. 518 00:23:13,848 --> 00:23:18,100 Do not expect, accept any false gospel that promises once you 519 00:23:18,140 --> 00:23:20,820 say the sinner's prayer, your life is going to get better. 520 00:23:20,940 --> 00:23:22,548 I'm telling you the opposite. 521 00:23:22,644 --> 00:23:26,468 Once you confess Christ as savior, all of hell is going to do 522 00:23:26,524 --> 00:23:27,956 everything to get you back. 523 00:23:28,028 --> 00:23:31,988 There's going to be a war over your mind, a war over your emotions. 524 00:23:32,084 --> 00:23:36,500 Because hell doesn't give up a generation easily knowing the implications 525 00:23:36,580 --> 00:23:38,228 for the generations after. 526 00:23:38,364 --> 00:23:41,268 Can I just tell you, your life's going to get worse because 527 00:23:41,324 --> 00:23:42,420 now you got a target. 528 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:45,444 But suffer well, soldier, armor up. 529 00:23:45,532 --> 00:23:46,132 Fight the good. 530 00:23:46,156 --> 00:23:46,412 Fight. 531 00:23:46,476 --> 00:23:46,844 Fight. 532 00:23:46,932 --> 00:23:50,684 Push back on the devil and say, I'm never going back to you. 533 00:23:50,772 --> 00:23:51,756 I've decided. 534 00:23:51,868 --> 00:23:55,116 As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 535 00:23:55,228 --> 00:23:57,916 I'm not going to adjust to this dysfunction. 536 00:23:58,028 --> 00:24:02,572 I've got a holy discontent on the inside of me and I won't let 537 00:24:02,596 --> 00:24:02,780 the. 538 00:24:02,820 --> 00:24:06,780 Come on, somebody jump to your feet and give me a 10 second praise 539 00:24:06,860 --> 00:24:07,480 break. 540 00:24:09,140 --> 00:24:11,200 Somebody shout unto God. 541 00:24:11,940 --> 00:24:13,920 Holy discontent. 542 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,300 I'm not dead, so I'm not done. 543 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:20,736 Holy discontent. 544 00:24:20,768 --> 00:24:21,616 Just sit on your feet. 545 00:24:21,648 --> 00:24:22,976 Bring the worship team up. 546 00:24:23,048 --> 00:24:24,460 Let's drive this thing. 547 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,460 I told you I was eating chicken nuggets. 548 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,620 But here's what I'm trying to tell you. 549 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,176 This church is not a cruise liner. 550 00:24:34,288 --> 00:24:35,712 It's a battleship. 551 00:24:35,856 --> 00:24:38,736 If you want to go to another church, go to the cruise liner. 552 00:24:38,768 --> 00:24:40,944 There's a great Disney church down the street. 553 00:24:41,032 --> 00:24:44,464 And we love them because sometimes you need a cruise liner 554 00:24:44,512 --> 00:24:45,056 season. 555 00:24:45,208 --> 00:24:47,104 But we're running a battleship. 556 00:24:47,232 --> 00:24:52,304 And it takes holy discontent to say, I'm not okay with human trafficking 557 00:24:52,352 --> 00:24:53,536 in New York City. 558 00:24:53,688 --> 00:24:57,072 I'm not okay with extreme poverty in northwest Indiana and 559 00:24:57,096 --> 00:24:57,760 Miami. 560 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,392 And the things that make you angry are the problems that you were 561 00:25:01,416 --> 00:25:03,184 put on this planet to solve. 562 00:25:03,312 --> 00:25:06,176 Your anger is a sense of injustice. 563 00:25:06,288 --> 00:25:07,696 That is your purpose. 564 00:25:07,808 --> 00:25:11,520 And let me just tell you, God's got a way of raising up a people 565 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,192 who say, I am tired of being tired. 566 00:25:14,336 --> 00:25:16,176 I'm sick of being sick. 567 00:25:16,288 --> 00:25:16,880 I am not. 568 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:17,776 Oh, come on. 569 00:25:17,848 --> 00:25:18,272 That's. 570 00:25:18,336 --> 00:25:20,096 That's what I'm trying to preach into. 571 00:25:20,248 --> 00:25:24,048 Sometimes things gotta get bad enough and we have to suffer enough 572 00:25:24,104 --> 00:25:26,540 for us to actually start stepping in enough. 573 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:27,920 So here, let me. 574 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,992 Let me finish the story of Hannah, because Romans, chapter 8, 575 00:25:31,016 --> 00:25:34,864 verse 22 and 23 says, we groan inwardly. 576 00:25:34,992 --> 00:25:37,860 Inwardly as we wait eagerly. 577 00:25:38,290 --> 00:25:39,450 What does that mean? 578 00:25:39,570 --> 00:25:41,418 You're driving onto work. 579 00:25:41,474 --> 00:25:43,310 You're groaning inwardly. 580 00:25:44,370 --> 00:25:45,370 What are you groaning? 581 00:25:45,450 --> 00:25:48,362 See, some of you thought it was depression. 582 00:25:48,506 --> 00:25:50,538 Some of you thought it was discouragement. 583 00:25:50,634 --> 00:25:52,506 It's holy discontent. 584 00:25:52,618 --> 00:25:56,378 You should put a smile on your face because it's the opposite of 585 00:25:56,434 --> 00:25:57,274 apathy. 586 00:25:57,402 --> 00:25:58,266 Think about this. 587 00:25:58,338 --> 00:26:00,682 Some of you been saying, I'm so frustrated. 588 00:26:00,746 --> 00:26:01,866 I'm so angry. 589 00:26:01,978 --> 00:26:03,322 But guess what you're saying. 590 00:26:03,426 --> 00:26:05,338 I'm not numb anymore. 591 00:26:05,434 --> 00:26:07,018 I'm feeling something. 592 00:26:07,154 --> 00:26:08,154 I'm alive. 593 00:26:08,282 --> 00:26:11,014 There's something that's awakening, happening inside of you. 594 00:26:11,102 --> 00:26:12,678 You're not numb anymore. 595 00:26:12,774 --> 00:26:16,502 See, that anger that you're experiencing, that's a good thing. 596 00:26:16,606 --> 00:26:20,310 Because that anger is the evidence that you see something by 597 00:26:20,350 --> 00:26:20,758 faith. 598 00:26:20,854 --> 00:26:23,958 It's still possible that I could do this thing. 599 00:26:24,094 --> 00:26:25,010 Come on. 600 00:26:27,870 --> 00:26:29,690 Here's the thing about Hannah. 601 00:26:30,510 --> 00:26:33,526 Her tears were not weakness. 602 00:26:33,718 --> 00:26:35,930 They were prayers in disguise. 603 00:26:36,690 --> 00:26:38,042 See, right now you might be. 604 00:26:38,066 --> 00:26:39,082 I'm so frustrated. 605 00:26:39,146 --> 00:26:39,706 Good. 606 00:26:39,858 --> 00:26:42,750 That frustration is the proof that you're not dead. 607 00:26:43,250 --> 00:26:46,858 Even when people say, I'm so frustrated with the local church. 608 00:26:46,954 --> 00:26:47,306 Good. 609 00:26:47,378 --> 00:26:49,190 You haven't given up on it yet. 610 00:26:49,490 --> 00:26:54,110 Because indifference is way worse than frustration. 611 00:26:54,530 --> 00:26:56,762 It's when people say, I don't care anymore. 612 00:26:56,906 --> 00:26:57,994 See, it's the opposite. 613 00:26:58,042 --> 00:26:59,802 What you're saying is, I still care. 614 00:26:59,906 --> 00:27:03,050 And God wants to take that, turn it into a faith moment. 615 00:27:03,210 --> 00:27:06,560 Let me show you one more thing, because we're about to pray. 616 00:27:07,060 --> 00:27:09,036 Psalm, chapter 34, verse 18. 617 00:27:09,108 --> 00:27:12,124 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted. 618 00:27:12,252 --> 00:27:14,204 Why is he near to the brokenhearted? 619 00:27:14,252 --> 00:27:15,420 It's very simple. 620 00:27:15,580 --> 00:27:20,380 Because brokenhearted people draw near to him when your heart 621 00:27:20,420 --> 00:27:21,404 is broken. 622 00:27:21,532 --> 00:27:23,308 Oh, Lord, I don't know what to do. 623 00:27:23,444 --> 00:27:25,404 I don't know what to do with my marriage. 624 00:27:25,532 --> 00:27:26,940 I'm so broken over this. 625 00:27:26,980 --> 00:27:27,884 The Lord's near. 626 00:27:27,972 --> 00:27:28,268 Why? 627 00:27:28,324 --> 00:27:31,276 Because in your brokenness, you begin to cry out to him. 628 00:27:31,428 --> 00:27:36,240 You broke past the ritual and you started to get into raw surrender. 629 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,168 How many Hail Marys are you gonna say? 630 00:27:39,304 --> 00:27:43,472 How many Our Fathers are you gonna say before you rip up the script 631 00:27:43,536 --> 00:27:47,232 and you start to tell Heaven your own words, your own language? 632 00:27:47,296 --> 00:27:50,672 God, no one in my family ever got this far. 633 00:27:50,776 --> 00:27:52,368 God, I don't know what I'm doing. 634 00:27:52,504 --> 00:27:56,112 Lord, my mind is so finite, I can't understand. 635 00:27:56,216 --> 00:27:59,968 And then the Holy Spirit responds and says, son, my ways are 636 00:28:00,024 --> 00:28:01,456 higher than your ways. 637 00:28:01,568 --> 00:28:03,840 My thoughts are higher than your thoughts. 638 00:28:03,920 --> 00:28:07,844 And he begins to lift you up into heavenly places and shows. 639 00:28:07,952 --> 00:28:09,036 But you're not done yet. 640 00:28:09,108 --> 00:28:10,920 I want to tell you one more thing. 641 00:28:11,380 --> 00:28:14,812 Let me have the prayer team members come up across every location. 642 00:28:14,876 --> 00:28:18,572 Just come up across the front, because we're going to create Hannah's 643 00:28:18,636 --> 00:28:19,960 altar right now. 644 00:28:20,260 --> 00:28:22,972 So if you're on the prayer team and you have a badge, just come 645 00:28:22,996 --> 00:28:24,920 up at every location right now. 646 00:28:25,460 --> 00:28:26,640 Praise God. 647 00:28:30,820 --> 00:28:32,040 Let me show you. 648 00:28:35,810 --> 00:28:40,666 Just letting them line up across every location while the prayer 649 00:28:40,698 --> 00:28:41,670 team come up. 650 00:28:42,130 --> 00:28:44,870 Let me tell you something that the Lord showed me. 651 00:28:46,690 --> 00:28:51,530 So what happens is that he builds a nest, and that nest is our 652 00:28:51,570 --> 00:28:52,150 life. 653 00:28:52,610 --> 00:28:56,778 And he builds it with the thorns and the twigs and the branches. 654 00:28:56,954 --> 00:29:00,538 But then as a great eagle, he begins to fill it with all kinds 655 00:29:00,554 --> 00:29:01,470 of cotton. 656 00:29:01,860 --> 00:29:02,508 Why? 657 00:29:02,644 --> 00:29:05,532 Because the baby eagles, they need that fluff. 658 00:29:05,676 --> 00:29:07,132 They need that cotton. 659 00:29:07,276 --> 00:29:11,100 But then what begins to happen at a stage of their development is 660 00:29:11,140 --> 00:29:14,876 that the eagle needs to start to draw the cotton out of the nest. 661 00:29:15,068 --> 00:29:17,356 And then all of a sudden, it reveals a thorn. 662 00:29:17,468 --> 00:29:20,844 And that thorn begins to pierce the side of that little baby 663 00:29:20,892 --> 00:29:21,660 eagle. 664 00:29:21,820 --> 00:29:26,700 And at a certain point, it seems as if it's cruelty. 665 00:29:26,860 --> 00:29:29,772 Like, how could my dad do this? 666 00:29:29,876 --> 00:29:32,346 How could my dad take the fluff out of the nest? 667 00:29:32,468 --> 00:29:34,030 Why am I so uncomfortable? 668 00:29:34,110 --> 00:29:37,230 Well, let me tell you, what's actually happening is that in the 669 00:29:37,270 --> 00:29:41,262 wisdom of the eagle, it's removing the cotton out of the nest 670 00:29:41,326 --> 00:29:45,550 to reveal the thorns, because the thorns are the only way to get 671 00:29:45,590 --> 00:29:47,630 the eagle out of the nest. 672 00:29:47,790 --> 00:29:52,350 And what happens is it's the Father Eagle's way of saying, you 673 00:29:52,390 --> 00:29:53,822 were not built for a nest. 674 00:29:53,886 --> 00:29:55,730 You were built for the skies. 675 00:29:56,070 --> 00:30:00,218 So what God will do in your life is he'll make you so uncomfortable 676 00:30:00,334 --> 00:30:03,330 that you get so irritated and agitated that. 677 00:30:03,370 --> 00:30:08,658 That holy discontent, you say, I can't stay in the nest anymore. 678 00:30:08,754 --> 00:30:12,002 And then you jump out of the nest, but instead of falling, you 679 00:30:12,026 --> 00:30:12,818 start flying. 680 00:30:12,914 --> 00:30:17,698 And he's saying, yes, it was not cruelty, but I did this thing 681 00:30:17,754 --> 00:30:19,586 to get you into your destiny. 682 00:30:19,698 --> 00:30:22,466 And so, Hannah, I shut up your womb. 683 00:30:22,578 --> 00:30:26,930 But the reason why I shut your womb up is because when I close your 684 00:30:26,970 --> 00:30:31,394 womb, I open your words, I open your mouth, and I cause you 685 00:30:31,402 --> 00:30:32,910 to become an intercessor. 686 00:30:32,990 --> 00:30:36,638 And out of that situation came the prophet Samuel. 687 00:30:36,734 --> 00:30:39,518 And Samuel was the greatest prophet to Israel. 688 00:30:39,614 --> 00:30:43,598 And so let me tell you, if Hannah could go back again, she would 689 00:30:43,654 --> 00:30:48,030 not do it any different, because God's perfect will was done 690 00:30:48,150 --> 00:30:49,342 in that situation. 691 00:30:49,486 --> 00:30:51,290 Can I just tell you like this. 692 00:30:54,070 --> 00:30:59,560 If you will turn your grumbling into groaning, if you will 693 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,384 do that, here's what's gonna happen. 694 00:31:01,552 --> 00:31:03,768 You're gonna get through this transition. 695 00:31:03,944 --> 00:31:07,048 Your life is gonna begin to align with God's will. 696 00:31:07,184 --> 00:31:09,944 And then you're gonna go back and you're gonna say, lord, I understand 697 00:31:10,032 --> 00:31:13,432 why you did this thing, and you're gonna give him great glory 698 00:31:13,496 --> 00:31:14,120 from it. 699 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,216 But right now, what we need to do across every location is I'm gonna 700 00:31:18,248 --> 00:31:22,072 count to three, and we're gonna make some time for you to actually 701 00:31:22,176 --> 00:31:22,920 respond to this. 702 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:24,616 And this might not be for everybody. 703 00:31:24,728 --> 00:31:26,344 I know we had a lot of baptisms. 704 00:31:26,392 --> 00:31:27,970 God moved powerfully today. 705 00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:32,270 But the Lord specifically told me, let men and women come to the 706 00:31:32,310 --> 00:31:34,142 front as a sign of. 707 00:31:34,166 --> 00:31:37,790 Okay, Lord, I'm shifting out of grumbling and complaining, and 708 00:31:37,830 --> 00:31:43,870 I'm shifting into groaning, into intercession, into praying. 709 00:31:43,950 --> 00:31:46,622 And I'm gonna pray my way through this thing until God does 710 00:31:46,646 --> 00:31:47,614 the impossible. 711 00:31:47,742 --> 00:31:50,766 So I'm gonna count to three and across every location. 712 00:31:50,878 --> 00:31:53,662 When I get to three, if that's you, just come out of your seat and 713 00:31:53,686 --> 00:31:57,416 come forward and allow one of our prayer team members to prophesy 714 00:31:57,448 --> 00:32:00,184 over you to encourage you to give you a word. 715 00:32:00,312 --> 00:32:05,340 One, I believe that for many of you, this sermon was a major confirmation. 716 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,984 Two, I believe the Holy Spirit's been stirring your heart 717 00:32:09,072 --> 00:32:11,576 to begin to press through, to go, what's next? 718 00:32:11,648 --> 00:32:14,136 And you're gonna shift into the spiritual realm. 719 00:32:14,248 --> 00:32:17,656 Three, if that's you, just come up right now across every location 720 00:32:17,768 --> 00:32:19,000 and receive prayer. 721 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,722 I believe miracles are gonna happen in the front right now. 722 00:32:21,816 --> 00:32:22,502 Come home. 723 00:32:22,606 --> 00:32:22,934 Yeah. 724 00:32:22,982 --> 00:32:23,238 Come. 725 00:32:23,294 --> 00:32:23,430 Wow.