The Danger of Self-Activation: A Theological Review

The sermon is fundamentally compromised by critical doctrinal errors. It promotes a synergistic soteriology where human speech activates divine power, intertwines prosperity gospel promises with spiritual seasons, and employs Montanistic prophetic authority. While the intent to comfort those in 'wilderness' seasons is understandable, the theological mechanism proposed is unbiblical and spiritually hazardous.

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Theological Status: ACTIVE HERESY Biblical Parallel(Archetype): Thyatira
❓ What do these grades mean?
🔍 Biblical Discernment: The 7 Church Parallels
The Faithful Parallels Smyrna • Philadelphia
Teaching that parallels the churches that endure suffering with true spiritual riches (Rev 2:9) and keep the Word of Christ without denial despite having "little strength" (Rev 3:8).
The Cold Orthodox Parallel Ephesus
Teaching that upholds doctrinal precision yet parallels the loss of the "first love"—the vital, motivating power of the Gospel (Rev 2:4).
The Compromised Parallel Pergamum
Teaching that parallels churches tolerating the "doctrine of Balaam" through cultural accommodation (Rev 2:14), characterized by weak boundaries, sloppy theology, and worldly compromise.
The Corrupted & Dead Parallels Thyatira • Sardis • Laodicea
Teaching that parallels churches with active heresy, synergism, therapeutic deism, or dead orthodoxy (Rev 2:20, Rev 3:1, Rev 3:17). These represent systemic, fundamental errors that corrupt the Gospel.
Why strictly "Mark & Avoid"?
We do not issue this rating to attack the speaker, but to protect the listener. This ministry's overall teaching trend consistently deviates from sound doctrine. As per Romans 16:17, we identify these patterns so believers can guard their hearts.

🧐 Overview

Theological Verdict & Summary

Sermon Summary: While the sermon attempts to encourage believers through seasons of hardship, it dangerously shifts the focus from God's sovereign grace to human verbal power, teaching that our words can manipulate spiritual outcomes.

Pastoral Analysis: The sermon is fundamentally compromised by critical doctrinal errors. It promotes a synergistic soteriology where human speech activates divine power, intertwines prosperity gospel promises with spiritual seasons, and employs Montanistic prophetic authority. While the intent to comfort those in 'wilderness' seasons is understandable, the theological mechanism proposed is unbiblical and spiritually hazardous.

Biblical Parallel (Archetype): Thyatira — The sermon exhibits active heresy through the integration of Word of Faith theology, Montanistic prophetic claims, and Prosperity Gospel principles. These errors fundamentally distort the nature of God's sovereignty and the Gospel of grace, replacing biblical truth with a system of human activation and transactional blessing.

Big Idea: Seasons of rejection, isolation, and perceived abandonment are not acts of divine abandonment but are strategic training grounds designed to build spiritual authority, revealing that God uses adversity to prepare individuals for leadership and dominion rather than leaving them as victims. [00:01:15 ▶️ 📄]


📖 How they Handle Scripture & Jesus

  • Primary Text: Psalm 23:5
  • Usage Classification: Thematic
  • Text-to-Talk Ratio: High
  • Pulpit Decorum: ⚠️ CAUTION - The sermon includes coarse language and pejoratives regarding marriage and personal appearance, which detracts from the dignity of the pulpit.

✝️ Christological Focus: Absent

"The sermon focuses on human activation and personal breakthrough rather than the finished work of Christ. Jesus is not presented as the sole source of power or the object of faith, but rather as a backdrop for human spiritual performance."

Scripture Saturation: Verses Read: 9 | Referenced: 6 | Alluded: 2

📖 View 6 Passages Read Aloud
  • Psalm 23:5 [00:02:10 ▶️ 📄]
    "you prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. So that tells me that you get the oil when they throw you to the enemies, they break you. And then the oil comes out of you. And then it says my cup overflows with blessing. You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessing."
  • Genesis 50:20 [00:03:06 ▶️ 📄]
    "you intended to harm me, but God intended it all for my good."
  • Isaiah 54:17 [00:03:46 ▶️ 📄]
    "no weapon formed against me shall prosper"
  • 1 Samuel 17:34-37 [00:11:49 ▶️ 📄]
    "I have been taking care of my father's sheeps and goats, he said. When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, I go after it. I can see you. I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw. I catch it by the jaw and club it to death. I have done this to both lions and bears. And I'll do it again. And I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too. I've already. tore the lion and the bear you think this 10 foot tall I bet he looked like my husband but my husband's fine every time I look at my man I'm like my man my man my man even on bad days I'm like at least I got a bicep to hold on to what you got so he says and I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too for he has defied the armies of the living God listen I have done it to this both lions and bear and I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too for he has defied the armies of God the Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear will rescue me from this Philistine Saul finally consented all right go ahead he said and may the Lord be with you"
  • Ephesians 3:20 [00:10:13 ▶️ 📄]
    "God is going to do exceedingly abundantly more than you could ever ask or think"
  • Galatians 1:10 [00:23:34 ▶️ 📄]
    "if i were still trying to people please i would not be a servant of christ"

Key References: Psalm 23:5, Genesis 50:20, Isaiah 54:17, 1 Samuel 17:34-37, Ephesians 3:20, Galatians 1:10

💧 Liturgy & Sacraments

Altar Call / Invitation Observed: Yes

  • Theological Conditions: Forgiveness of sin, Repentance for thinking one could destroy the call on their life, Repentance for quitting on oneself, Releasing things in one's life that are not supposed to be there, Acknowledgment of a 'comeback season' and 'heavenly season', Commitment to making wise decisions
  • Sinner's Prayer: "Father forgive me of my sin forgive me for ever thinking that I could destroy the call on my life forgive me for quitting on me I know this is my comeback season i know this is my heavenly season i got clarity i'm making wise decisions everything that's in my life that ain't supposed to be there come on say it say expose it and god take it away out of my life even if i want to keep it i release it even if i want to keep it I released it because I know this is my season. My aim is 9-13 season. It won't be long now. God's decree said things are about to happen so fast. My head is about to spin. Blessing upon blessing. I won't be able to keep up, God. Thank you for peace. Thank through. Thank blessings." 00:31:29 ▶️ 📄
  • Pastoral Appeal: "I feel like I've been depressed pastor Kim I feel like I'm struggling pastor Kim I feel forgotten pastor Kim I feel erased Kim" [00:29:36 ▶️ 📄]

🎙️ Sermon Content & Delivery

Word Count: 4,704 words

📌 View 13 Key Topics Addressed
  • Divine Positioning vs. Rejection [00:01:15 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor argues that being cast out or attacked by others is often God's method of placing the believer into their specific destiny or 'assignment,' rather than a sign of abandonment.
  • The Wilderness as Training Ground [00:11:23 ▶️ 📄]
    > Using the example of David, the pastor defines the 'wilderness' not as a place of punishment, but as a necessary environment for building spiritual grit, authority, and readiness for greater battles.
  • Spiritual Warfare and Identity [00:03:46 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor distinguishes between 'spiritual attack' and 'choice attack,' asserting that believers have the power to overcome through scripture ('Papa Spinach') and that the enemy attacks those with potential ('oil') rather than the weak.
  • Surrender and Elevation [00:07:41 ▶️ 📄]
    > The core application is that surrendering to God's timing and process, even when it feels lonely or difficult, leads to elevation and the realization of one's God-given authority.
  • Divine Training vs. Abandonment [00:15:29 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor reframes feelings of abandonment and isolation as intentional divine preparation and training for future authority.
  • Resilience and Grit [00:16:06 ▶️ 📄]
    > Emphasizes enduring criticism and failure without folding, viewing these experiences as building spiritual grit and preventing stagnation.
  • Identity and Authority [00:27:43 ▶️ 📄]
    > Shifts the focus from surviving trauma to commanding it, asserting that the believer is anointed to lead and shift environments rather than just endure them.
  • Rejection as Detoxification [00:22:13 ▶️ 📄]
    > Describes rejection as a holy process that detoxes the believer from the addiction to people-pleasing and approval, leading to standing out rather than fitting in.
  • Prophetic Declaration and Prayer [00:29:49 ▶️ 📄]
    > Concludes with a corporate prayer and prophetic declaration for the congregation to release past sins and claim their 'comeback season' and authority.
  • Grief and Divine Comfort [00:31:02 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor addresses the pain of losing a spouse and asserts that God is actively filling that void.
  • Repentance and Release [00:31:29 ▶️ 📄]
    > A call to confess sin, specifically quitting on oneself, and releasing anything in life that does not belong.
  • Spiritual Authority and Declaration [00:32:53 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor instructs the congregation to use their voices to declare victory ('I'm back') and activate spiritual power through words.
  • Prosperity and Restoration [00:34:10 ▶️ 📄]
    > Promises of shifted finances, rest, and a transition from a 'toxic' state to one of power and living for Jesus.
🖼️ View 9 Illustrations & Stories
  • Sermon Illustration [00:01:37 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor references a post about being 'thrown to the wolves' and coming out with a 'fur coat,' illustrating how enemies' attempts to harm the believer actually result in blessing and protection.
  • Sermon Illustration [00:07:26 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about starting his ministry late in life, noting he didn't start until he was 42 and is now 50, to illustrate that God's timing is not bound by age and that perseverance leads to significant impact.
  • Sermon Illustration [00:11:00 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor uses the biblical story of David fighting lions and bears in the field before facing Goliath to illustrate that past struggles in obscurity were actually preparation and training for future public victories.
  • Sermon Illustration [00:16:06 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor humorously notes that he doesn't fold laundry, using this as a metaphor for his refusal to 'fold' or give up in the face of criticism and adversity.
  • Sermon Illustration [00:17:30 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about being mistaken for a senior citizen at Goodwill when he was 50, using it to illustrate how the enemy attacks insecurities right before a major life shift.
  • Sermon Illustration [00:25:58 ▶️ 📄]
    > Uses the analogy of a roller coaster (Scream Machine at Six Flags) to describe the feeling of surrendering to an unknown but inevitable future, holding on despite fear because it cannot get worse.
  • Sermon Illustration [00:19:11 ▶️ 📄]
    > Uses the metaphor of wolves and fur coats to explain that surviving attacks (being thrown to wolves) results in gaining authority and respect, as wolves do not respect weakness.
  • Sermon Illustration [00:22:57 ▶️ 📄]
    > Uses the analogy of a recipe versus sauce to explain that while others can steal opportunities or methods, they cannot replicate the unique anointing ('sauce') God has placed on the believer.
  • Sermon Illustration [00:34:10 ▶️ 📄]
    > The pastor uses the analogy of being thrown to the wolves but coming out with a 'mink' (or 'meat cone' in a later playful correction), illustrating a transformation from a pitiful victim to a powerful victor.
🚀 View 6 Calls to Action
  • Pastoral Charge [00:14:28 ▶️ 📄]
    > Look at current fights, gossip, and attackers in their lives.
  • Pastoral Charge [00:14:40 ▶️ 📄]
    > Stop being depressed in new seasons by recognizing past experience and survival.
  • Pastoral Charge [00:28:39 ▶️ 📄]
    > Stand up and verbally declare 'I'm back'.
  • Pastoral Charge [00:32:48 ▶️ 📄]
    > Yell 'I'm back' on the count of three.
  • Pastoral Charge [00:32:48 ▶️ 📄]
    > Shout 'I'm back' on the count of three to declare spiritual victory.
  • Pastoral Charge [00:33:57 ▶️ 📄]
    > Hold onto the word and persist in daily life despite difficulties.

🧭 Biblical Alignment Dashboard

Overall Verdict: Fundamentally in Error

CategoryStatusReasoning
Gospel Presentation ❌ FAIL The Gospel Engine is broken. The sermon teaches that spiritual advancement and blessing are activated by human verbal declarations rather than received through God's monergistic grace. This replaces the finished work of Christ with a system of human effort and word-of-faith manipulation.
Soteriology ❌ FAIL The sermon teaches Synergistic Soteriology, asserting that human words activate spiritual realities and blessings, thereby undermining the doctrine of salvation and sanctification by grace alone through faith alone.
Bibliology ⚠️ WEAK Scripture is used instrumentally to support Word of Faith claims rather than as the ultimate authority. The power of the Word is attributed to human utterance rather than God's sovereign purpose.
Hermeneutic ❌ FAIL The sermon employs a highly subjective, proof-texting hermeneutic that ignores the broader biblical witness on suffering, sovereignty, and the nature of prophecy, twisting texts to support a prosperity/activation framework.
Theology Proper ❌ FAIL God's sovereignty is compromised by the teaching that human words can 'activate' or shift divine providence. God is portrayed as a transactional responder to human declarations rather than the absolute sovereign Lord.
Sacramentology ✅ PASS No specific sacramental errors were detected in the provided reports.
Confessional Depth ❌ SHALLOW The teaching relies on emotional appeals, personal anecdotes, and subjective prophetic declarations rather than deep, systematic biblical theology.

⚙️ The Core Gospel Framework

What is this? This section checks if the sermon contains the essential building blocks of the Gospel. We look for explicit, substantive mentions of God's holy standard, human inability, and Christ's finished work on the cross.

Why it matters for the final verdict: A complete Gospel framework protects a sermon from becoming man-centered. If a preacher gives commands for good behavior but leaves out the grace and atonement of the Gospel, it often results in a 🔴 Critical or 🟠 Major error for Moralism (teaching human self-improvement rather than reliance on Christ). However, if these Gospel elements are missing simply because the pastor is preaching a highly focused, practical message to mature believers (e.g., instructions on biblical marriage), our system applies a "Safe Harbor" pardon, graciously reducing the omission to a 🟡 Minor error.

The Law And Wrath: Not observed in the sermon.

Total Depravity And Inability: Not observed in the sermon.

Active Obedience Of Christ: Not observed in the sermon.

The Cross And Atonement: Not observed in the sermon.

⚠️ Theological Concerns

🔴 Critical Synergistic Soteriology (Word of Faith Activation)

Root Cause: Word of Faith / New Apostolic Reformation

"the bible says that life and death and the power of your words you're activating something" [00:33:16 ▶️ 📄]

The Belief/Behavior: The pastor teaches that human verbal declarations possess inherent, creative power to manipulate spiritual and physical realities, effectively making human speech the causal mechanism for divine action.

Why It's Dangerous: This destroys the doctrine of Grace by teaching that spiritual advancement and blessing are earned or activated by human effort (words) rather than received as a gift from God. It leads to spiritual pride when things go well and despair when they don't, as the believer believes they failed to 'activate' the blessing.

Biblical Correction: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)

🔴 Critical Subjective Authority & Montanism

Root Cause: Montanism / New Apostolic Reformation

"I prophesy i prophesy keep your hands up everything that tried to destroy you is bowing to what's on you this is serious season" [00:29:49 ▶️ 📄]

The Belief/Behavior: The pastor issues binding prophetic declarations over individuals, claiming direct spiritual insight and asserting that human words activate spiritual realities.

Why It's Dangerous: This elevates human authority above Scripture, leading the congregation to trust in the pastor's subjective words rather than God's objective Word. It creates a dependency on charismatic authority and fosters a mystical environment where truth is determined by emotional experience rather than biblical fidelity.

Biblical Correction: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. (James 3:8-9)

🔴 Critical Prosperity Gospel (Transactional Providence)

Root Cause: Prosperity Gospel / Word of Faith

"he about to shift your finances he about to shift your sleep" [00:34:10 ▶️ 📄]

The Belief/Behavior: The pastor guarantees specific material and physical blessings (finances, sleep) as an inevitable result of the current spiritual season, treating God's provision as a guaranteed transactional outcome.

Why It's Dangerous: This reduces God to a cosmic vending machine, teaching that faithfulness guarantees comfort and wealth. It leads to spiritual crisis when believers suffer or lack, as they believe they have failed to 'activate' the blessing, and it distorts the biblical view of suffering and contentment.

Biblical Correction: Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. (Philippians 4:11-12)

🟠 Major Formulaic Dominion Theology

Root Cause: Dominion Theology / Formulaic Faith

"baby when you're a season of birthing god automatically gives you contractions and those contractions begin to push you've been in that pushing season that epidural is rubbing off those medications are rubbing off and God said just God says you're about to take dominion" [00:30:21 ▶️ 📄]

The Belief/Behavior: The speaker imposes a rigid, formulaic causality upon God's sovereign providence, falsely asserting that all suffering is merely a mechanical precursor to immediate earthly dominion.

Why It's Dangerous: This creates a false expectation that suffering always leads to immediate earthly triumph. It discourages believers who suffer without seeing immediate 'dominion' and promotes a theology of glory that bypasses the cross.

Biblical Correction: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:2-4)

✅ Commendations

Pastoral Empathy | Addressing the Pain of Isolation

The pastor demonstrates genuine empathy for those experiencing seasons of rejection and isolation, validating their pain and offering a framework for finding meaning in suffering.

Encouragement | Reframing Adversity

The attempt to reframe 'wilderness' seasons as training grounds for future leadership is a positive pastoral impulse, aiming to give hope and purpose to struggling believers.


📜 Full Sermon Transcript (Audit)

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[00:00:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:00:11] Hello gorgeous people. You better buckle your seatbelt. So I preach from a place of they threw you to the wolves and you came out with the fur. I'm giving you everything you need to pivot today. So I'm so glad you're right here on this channel. You're on my Real Talk Kim YouTube channel and I pray that you get to know people in this comment section that we build community and you feel like that you were put on this earth to bust through hell. This week when the devil comes after you and says there's another
[00:00:41] storm coming you gonna tell it bring it on because I am the storm go ahead and share this with your friends subscribe to this channel I love you so much and I can't wait to hear your testimonies
[00:00:51] this week and say let's get into position mind get everything that you're supposed to get today there's an awakening happening that thing I've been praying about is about to be answered right now. Right now. What took years is about to happen right now. Because I'm in position. Amen.
[00:01:15] All right, let's go. Let's get into it. This is our drive-by. Say thrown into position. Thrown into position. So I told you about that post a few weeks ago that said they threw me to the wolves
[00:01:37] and I came out with a fur coat that's you some of you've been waiting on God to spin the block and he already did it but you just won't let go of the block you stuck and you ain't stuck because
[00:01:56] you ain't a tree so I got three verses and then I'm gonna get into it so y'all I'm gonna go quick because I got a lot to say Psalm 23 and 5 says you prepare a feast for me in the presence of my
[00:02:10] enemies. You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing my head with oil. So that tells me that you get the oil when they throw you to the enemies,
[00:02:29] they break you. And then the oil comes out of you. And then it says my cup overflows with blessing. You prepare a feast for me in the presence of my enemies. You honor me by anointing
[00:02:48] my head with oil. My cup overflows with blessing. And then Genesis 50 and 20 says you intended to harm me, but God intended it all for my good. You see what just happened there, right? There's
[00:03:06] a shift. This is why we read the Bible every single day. That's why on prayer call every single morning at 8 a.m on all my socials we are reading the bible through because a fact of the
[00:03:15] matter is life is going to happen but if you know your scripture it's your ammunition i call it your papa spinach because when you know how to combat the enemy you don't go into depression you can't
[00:03:27] be in depression and following jesus you cannot be in depression and reading your bible it's like free xanax is holy ghost fire that when you know you intended for my harm so that means no weapon
[00:03:46] formed against me shall prosper we're not over here down one day and i think a lot of people love to love to think they're so spiritual that they're always under spiritual attack i'm just under spiritual attack i'm just under spiritual attack no you're under choice attack
[00:04:04] because you go to church every sunday but you don't know how to praise your way through because if you did you wouldn't be stuck still in 1980 right so you intended to harm me but
[00:04:15] God intended it all for my good so they thought you were they thought that they were throwing you away but they were actually throwing you into your assignment they thought they were gonna mess up your life you ever seen those people that leave your life and then can't quit
[00:04:34] watching your stories why are you still watching my stories you didn't act right when you were in my life because they thought when they left you that they were going to leave you they thought
[00:04:45] when they left you the blessing was going to be off your life but see we don't serve the same kind of God because my God ain't on your team my God don't come after people and sabotage people
[00:04:55] that's not how my God works so they thought they were throwing you away but they were actually throwing you into your assignment they thought you were the prey and God said no no no no no
[00:05:07] that's my shepherd they misjudged your season because they couldn't see your oil they thought you were special ed they thought you were just a troublemaker they misjudged your season they allowed your season to be blog worthy they took and talked about you because if they talked about
[00:05:34] themselves wouldn't nobody listen when you came out of your mama you came out of your mama with an anointing on your life that's why you don't fit in even with your family sometime that's why
[00:05:44] you feel odd when you walk out into the crowd and people staring at you and looking you up and down.
[00:05:50] Sometimes they ain't looking you up and down because you're weird. They're looking you up and down because there's a glow on you that you can't see on yourself. There are seasons that come into our life where you feel surrounded. You feel outnumbered. You feel misunderstood and you
[00:06:08] feel set up you didn't fit you weren't chosen you didn't ask for this you can't help you got the glory on your life you can't help that you can step in and come out smelling like roses
[00:06:25] you can't help it that you ain't never had that give up thing inside of you you can't help it that you just go into the wolves and come out with a fur coat you can't help it it's just
[00:06:38] something that God put on you because he knew your oil was going to cause a lot of riffraff in your life. You were tolerated and never celebrated. They couldn't handle your glow. They couldn't handle your shine. They couldn't handle that. You just had this heart that just wouldn't quit.
[00:07:01] But what they didn't realize was you weren't being thrown away. You were being thrown into position.
[00:07:12] And sometimes it takes some of us a little longer to get into position Some of us it takes till we're 50 some of us 60 some of us 70 some of us 30 Some of you babies at 28 think oh my life is just going to hell baby
[00:07:26] You can do more in your lifetime than I ever thought I could and i'm 50 and I didn't start till I was 42 And look what god's done in my life All god needs is somebody to surrender and get into position and say father wherever you take me
[00:07:41] I will give you glory I will make heaven more crowded this is why you can't be ashamed of where you came from let's talk the truth truth is it felt like betrayal truth is it felt like rejection
[00:08:02] truth is it messed you up truth is it made you embarrassed truth is that rejection hurt so bad that now you're scared to even move because you don't ever want to feel the scrutiny of the crowd
[00:08:17] again but winners don't care you still show up you can always tell your gravity and your oil by this that by the things that you ain't got to pay for it just happens because if you showing up
[00:08:31] it might seem small to you but what seems small to you is God just beginning to elevate you and it starts small because he's got to get your skin a little bit tougher he got to get you a
[00:08:46] little bit thicker in the skin because oh you were really a people pleaser before this but when you come out this time you ain't gonna worry about the people you're gonna be so healed from the
[00:08:56] inside out you're gonna realize they threw me to the wolves and I came out with a fur coat baby it felt like you got surrounded by people who didn't have your heart but what they didn't know
[00:09:13] is God will use a wilderness to introduce you to your authority. The key is when God brings you out of Egypt, you got to make sure Egypt gets out of you. That's why a lot of times he breaks your
[00:09:34] circles and it feels real lonely. Yeah. Lonely seasons where you're fighting and nobody even knows what you're fighting. You're struggling with addiction. Your marriage is going to hell in a handbasket. You're struggling with identity. You're struggling with insecurity. You're struggling
[00:10:01] all your life. All you've ever known was trying to fake it and never making it. But the key is because you're trying to make it in a way that God did not design you. It's bigger. If Ephesians
[00:10:13] 3.20 says that God is going to do exceedingly abundantly more than you could ever ask or think, that means you can't even map out. It's going to be so much bigger and so much greater. I tell
[00:10:28] people this all the time. The enemy is not fighting you because you're weak. He's fighting you because you're strong. Do you hear me? He's fighting you because there's something in you that when you finally get to that place where you're totally surrendered to God, he's going to
[00:10:45] blow your mind in such a capacity that you're going to be so humble and elevating. See what they didn't know was what God will use a wilderness to introduce you to your authority. Let's talk
[00:11:00] about David. David didn't become a king in the palace. He became a shepherd in the field surrounded by lions and bears. So here's your first point. The wilderness, what's your wilderness? And by this point, I want you to write what your wilderness was. The wilderness was training
[00:11:23] ground. Now beside it, I want you to write what was your wilderness because you got to identify it because a lot of you have been thinking it's bad, but it wasn't bad.
[00:11:36] And when we can change the script in our mind, it breaks something inside of us and breakthrough happens.
[00:11:43] Listen to what 1 Samuel 17, 34 through 37 says, but David persisted.
[00:11:49] I have been taking care of my father's sheeps and goats, he said.
[00:11:54] When a lion or a bear comes to steal a lamb from the flock, I go after it.
[00:12:02] I can see you.
[00:12:03] I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth.
[00:12:12] If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw.
[00:12:18] I catch it by the jaw and club it to death.
[00:12:24] I have done this to both lions and bears.
[00:12:29] And I'll do it again.
[00:12:33] And I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too.
[00:12:37] I've already.
[00:12:39] tore the lion and the bear you think this 10 foot tall I bet he looked like my husband but my husband's fine every time I look at my man I'm like my man my man my man
[00:12:58] even on bad days I'm like at least I got a bicep to hold on to what you got so he says and I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too for he has defied the armies of the living God
[00:13:11] listen I have done it to this both lions and bear and I'll do it to this pagan Philistine too for he has defied the armies of God the Lord who rescued me from the claws of the lion and the bear
[00:13:27] will rescue me from this Philistine Saul finally consented all right go ahead he said and may the Lord be with you you know Saul didn't no more mean that the man the moon But Saul was a scaredy cat.
[00:13:44] He had all them men that he thought was bad to the bone around him.
[00:13:48] Y'all ever been there?
[00:13:49] Where everybody in front of you ain't got no qualifications.
[00:13:52] They all scared to death, and yet they got all the titles.
[00:13:57] And here comes little David up in here.
[00:13:58] He said, bring it on.
[00:14:00] Bring it on.
[00:14:03] And so Saul goes, may the Lord be with you.
[00:14:07] David fought lions and bears before Goliath.
[00:14:10] Why?
[00:14:11] Because David wasn't random.
[00:14:13] David was ready So I want you to look at your fight in your life I want you to look at the gossip. I want you to look at those people that come for you Man, I get out of one season and here I am going into another well
[00:14:28] You shouldn't be depressed in this new one because you made it through the last one You got experience People always like man. I just want to give up. I'm like you wanted to give up two months ago, too
[00:14:40] And look, you're still here.
[00:14:42] So it means whatever you were going through then that you wanted to give up with, you made it through.
[00:14:46] So why don't you realize that that was just training ground for where you, well, I wish I could just get a break.
[00:14:51] You will when you learn how to fight.
[00:14:55] I just want to quit.
[00:14:57] That's what you said last month.
[00:14:59] And what did it give you?
[00:15:02] You were boss.
[00:15:03] You were created in the image of a good, good father.
[00:15:06] listen david was ready but where did he get ready not in the palace not on a stage not on instagram not on tiktok not with applause in isolation in obscurity in pressure the place that felt like
[00:15:29] punishment was actually preparation because god wanted to show him that you are abandoned you were being trained. Some of you need to touch your belly today and say, I'm not being abandoned.
[00:15:45] I'm not being overlooked. I'm being trained. I always say, you'll never see me fold. The only time you ever going to see me fold is in a laundromat and I don't fold laundry. Why? Because
[00:16:06] God knew that I was going to have some grit. He knew that it was going to take me till I was about 42 years old and go through a couple of divorces and be talked about by everybody and he knew that
[00:16:21] i was going to learn that they can't stop me they can't stop me and i sure ain't gonna lay in this bed depressed over a whole bunch of people that are giving me an absolute criticism when i'm trying
[00:16:31] to escape the life they're living see the problem is you keep taking constructive criticism from people that ain't never constructed nothing because if they had they wouldn't be on social media knocking somebody they don't know. So you called it rejection and delay and isolation and
[00:16:50] God called it training, building, and anointing. So if you can survive the field, if you can survive the grief, if you can survive everyone in your family dying and you're still here.
[00:17:04] Y'all, when I turned 50 years old, all of a sudden mortality, I was like, oh, next is death I remember being 30 yesterday but I never dreamed that when I hit 50 was gonna be when God did everything in my life so the enemy wanted me to get stopped on 50
[00:17:30] he wanted me to get stopped when the AARP card came into the mail then I go into goodwill and I'm checking out the lady said are you a senior citizen say it to my are you a senior citizen
[00:17:50] Then, no, but you about to be.
[00:17:53] So what the enemy will do is the enemy right before you're about to have a shift, the enemy will take you and hit every insecurity that you've got.
[00:18:03] And if you don't know how to bounce back, how long you going to lay in that grief?
[00:18:08] How long you going to lay in that rejection?
[00:18:11] How long are you going to lay with your bank account in the red?
[00:18:15] It's up to you, boo.
[00:18:19] Write this down.
[00:18:20] what was sent to break you built your bite. What's a bite? A bite is your, I surrender all when you want to give them your hand. That's your bite. Your bite is what you do when all hell is
[00:18:45] coming at you. Listen to what Genesis 50 and 20 says. They said, you intended to harm me, but God intended it all for my good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives
[00:18:54] of many people. It ain't even about you. So wolves don't respect weakness. So if they threw you to the wolves and you came out with a fur coat, wolves don't respect weakness and neither does
[00:19:11] warfare. Everything you went through, that abandonment, that we don't want to see you anymore. We don't like you anymore. We were your ride or dies until you didn't do what we wanted you to do. When they lied on you and they left you and they mishandled you and they underestimated
[00:19:30] you. And yes, it hurt. It didn't kill you. It sharpened you. Say it had to happen. It had to happen. If they wouldn't have fired you, you would have never got into a new position. Their ceiling
[00:19:47] was your floor. They would have stopped you and used you for the rest of your life. And you would have lived to make somebody else rich. God never lets something happen without it promoting you.
[00:20:01] even if it's your own fault so listen now you discern quicker you love smarter you love smarter baby you discern quicker you move wiser you pray deeper but hear me warfare doesn't weaken the called it reveals them so that season reveals you say that season reveals me and how am I doing
[00:20:38] check yourself because you can't go back in your car and be acting all petty like you did coming in because the bible says that once you get wisdom and understanding you are now accountable for it
[00:20:50] you're welcome that means you can act like you used to I hope you said everything you wanted to say to them before you walked in this room because now baby we ain't going under we going
[00:21:00] over they go low we go high so warfare doesn't weaken the cold it reveals them you didn't just survive it, you came out different. You didn't lose your voice in that season. You found your
[00:21:13] roar. Found your roar? What's your roar? Who in here can say, I don't look like what I've been through? How many feel like you look like what you've been through? Girl, no, you don't. You so
[00:21:38] fine. You so fine. You blow my mind. Hey, baby, you do not look like what you've been through.
[00:21:44] you didn't lose your voice you found your roar write this down you stopped trying to fit in and started standing out because rejection broke your addiction to approval so you stopped trying to fit in and started standing out because rejection broke your addiction to approval
[00:22:13] there was a version of you that needed validation it needed invites it needed to be picked but rejection did something very holy it detoxed you from needing people who couldn't handle your calling they were jealous of you that's why they didn't use you that's why they used you
[00:22:45] for opportunities and then got all the oil from you and took what they got and left because they thought they were you but the problem is they can steal your recipe but they ain't got your sauce
[00:22:57] they don't got your sauce they can steal your recipe they can go share it all they want but they ain't got your sauce do you hear me you were created for more you were created for excellence
[00:23:14] you were created to stand out rejection did something very holy galatians 1 and 10 said if i were still trying to people please i would not be a servant of christ so god will let people
[00:23:34] reject you so you start rejecting yourself to try to fit in you don't need a front row no more you don't need a hundred million likes no more in fact you turn it all off and you say as for me in
[00:23:49] my house we will serve the Lord I'm gonna show up I'm gonna drop the mic for you Jesus I'm gonna bring as many people out of hell as I can I'm gonna make heaven more crowded and I'm gonna live
[00:24:01] my best life see what we don't understand is living your best life what is that joy peace happiness humility humble loving everybody so if your life don't look like that you probably need to do a heart check and you still got some people pleasing situation on you that you need
[00:24:36] to get free if you care about what they're saying about you oh pastor pray for me because so and so talking about me let them talk let them talk why are you even worried about it people that talk
[00:24:52] about you behind your back are behind your back why are you letting somebody behind your ex included but what if it's my family they're behind your back you're the generational curse breaker That's why they don't understand you.
[00:25:12] You were made from a different cloth.
[00:25:15] That's why you feel weird.
[00:25:19] So God will make you lead what once threatened you.
[00:25:27] You were never meant to run with them.
[00:25:31] You were meant to leave, to lead.
[00:25:34] God will make you lead.
[00:25:37] Oh, I don't want that, Pastor Kim.
[00:25:39] I don't want that.
[00:25:40] I don't want to lead.
[00:25:41] I've been in a very toxic season. I just want to rest Sorry It ain't gonna happen. But here's the key. Here's the key. Here's the key. It's gonna be a ride It's gonna be like being on a trip on that on that, uh roller coaster at six flags
[00:25:58] The big old scream machine and you're gonna be on the top and you're about to go down And all of a sudden all you know is I don't know what's about to happen But i'm gonna hold my hands up in the air and i'm about to hold my breath
[00:26:09] And I'm just going to go for the ride of my life because it can't get any worse than it's been.
[00:26:13] I know that greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.
[00:26:17] So let's go.
[00:26:19] Listen, listen.
[00:26:21] This shift, the same environment that intimidated you will soon respond to your authority.
[00:26:28] The same people that overlooked you will look to you.
[00:26:31] The same territory that tried to break you will bow to what's in you.
[00:26:37] because God doesn't just deliver you from it.
[00:26:40] He anoints you over it.
[00:26:42] You're not coming out as a victim.
[00:26:47] You're coming out with a staff in your hand.
[00:26:51] Psalm 23 and 5 said, God prepares a table in the presence of my enemy, not away from them because your authority is revealed in front of them.
[00:27:01] The same environment that intimidated you is about to respond to you.
[00:27:05] You're not just coming out healed.
[00:27:07] You're coming out with authority.
[00:27:08] Some of you are about to go back into the spaces that broke you.
[00:27:12] But this time, you won't beg, you won't break, you won't bleed, you will lead.
[00:27:19] I ain't pitiful.
[00:27:23] I'm powerful.
[00:27:24] I'm not broken.
[00:27:26] I'm a masterpiece.
[00:27:29] Yes, I'm talking to you.
[00:27:35] And this is how we're ending.
[00:27:38] The last point.
[00:27:40] From surviving to commanding.
[00:27:43] You don't run with wolves.
[00:27:45] You command the pack.
[00:27:46] This is where identity locks in.
[00:27:49] God didn't call you to survive environments.
[00:27:52] He called you to shift them.
[00:27:57] I ain't going where I'm celebrated.
[00:27:59] I mean, I tolerate it.
[00:28:00] I'm going where I'm celebrated.
[00:28:03] And if they don't celebrate me and they don't invite me at their table, I'm going to build my own.
[00:28:08] And then I'm going to invite everybody I can to sit at my table.
[00:28:12] So this is where identity locks in.
[00:28:16] God didn't call you to survive.
[00:28:18] He called you to shift.
[00:28:19] Say this with me as loud as you can.
[00:28:22] I'm not intimidated by what I walk through.
[00:28:25] I was anointed for it.
[00:28:27] I am not prey.
[00:28:29] I am not overlooked.
[00:28:31] I am not disqualified.
[00:28:33] I am called.
[00:28:35] I am anointed.
[00:28:37] I am assigned.
[00:28:39] Stand on your feet.
[00:28:48] Say, I'm back.
[00:28:50] I'm back.
[00:28:51] Hit your neighbor and say, we got to go.
[00:28:54] We don't have a choice.
[00:28:56] we got to make heaven more crowded we can't wait till we get ready we're already ready we're on a commission God's got a plan this is a role reversal season they threw you to the wolves
[00:29:11] but heaven said that's a leader that's their entrance that's their redirection you're not coming out wounded you're coming out with authority if you feel like you've been in a season of broken you feel like you've been in a season
[00:29:36] where you can cry all day long lift up your hands as high as you can I feel like I've been depressed pastor Kim I feel like I'm struggling pastor Kim I feel forgotten pastor Kim I feel erased Kim
[00:29:49] listen to this i prophesy i prophesy keep your hands up everything that tried to destroy you is bowing to what's on you this is serious season my baby's having a baby today and it provoked this word because i know how much pain she's gonna be in birth and something
[00:30:21] but baby when you're a season of birthing god automatically gives you contractions and those contractions begin to push you've been in that pushing season that epidural is rubbing off those medications are rubbing off and God said just God says you're about to take dominion
[00:30:46] you're about to write that book you're about to get married God's about to send the ring with the the king with the ring God's about to fill that void of grief after your spouse died
[00:31:02] God is about to do something in you that you are only going to be able to say but God lift up your hands have you been in a season where you felt surrounded overlooked thrown away
[00:31:29] say Father forgive me of my sin forgive me for ever thinking that I could destroy the call on my life forgive me for quitting on me I know this is my comeback season i know this is my heavenly season i got clarity i'm making wise decisions
[00:32:00] everything that's in my life that ain't supposed to be there come on say it say expose it and god take it away out of my life even if i want to keep it i release it even if i want to keep it
[00:32:17] I released it because I know this is my season.
[00:32:21] My aim is 9-13 season.
[00:32:24] It won't be long now.
[00:32:26] God's decree said things are about to happen so fast.
[00:32:30] My head is about to spin.
[00:32:31] Blessing upon blessing.
[00:32:33] I won't be able to keep up, God.
[00:32:35] Thank you for peace.
[00:32:37] Thank through.
[00:32:38] Thank blessings.
[00:32:48] On the count of three, I want you to say, I'm back.
[00:32:53] On the count of three, but you got to yell it.
[00:32:55] we got to let hell know that you came into limitless one way but you're leaving another on the count of three one two three that was your practice session y'all ready tell your neighbor give me some room so y'all been quiet for too long the bible says that life and death and the power
[00:33:16] of your words you're activating something come on on the count of three one two three i feel like it's been a little lifted you need to go back and watch this again and again and again and again
[00:33:43] because right before you're about to come out it feels really made really toxic and you need to know your power if you came in contact with this word today this word was for you you hear me you
[00:33:57] got to hold on to it move one foot in front of the other if they threw you to the wolves you're coming out with a mink you hear me you're coming out living for jesus you're coming out powerful
[00:34:10] you ain't pitiful amen he about to shift your finances he about to shift your sleep how many you gonna get some sleep this week you ain't gonna worry about nothing hey baby what's up man i just

[00:34:27] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:34:27] wanted to drop the mic i just wanted to drop the mic come on jesus come on jesus i'm coming to the He's all right.
[00:34:37] I'm coming to the gym with the wolf and leaving with the meat cone.
[00:34:40] Come on, baby.
[00:34:41] Like the wolf coming in the...

[00:34:43] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:34:43] Feel this thing.
[00:34:47] I'm going to tell you something.
[00:34:48] God's doing something in this world.
[00:34:50] And you're a major component.
[00:34:53] You think you're small, but you're really huge.
[00:34:56] You hear me?
[00:34:59] Baby, let's take up offering.