The Danger of Self-Powered Faith: Why ‘Sowing’ Cannot Replace Grace

• Harvest and Cultivation 00:08:06 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a woman with a dead garden to illustrate that one cannot expect results (harvest) without taking action (planting seeds).
• Entitlement vs. Responsibility 00:09:08 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor contrasts the attitude of entitlement with the biblical principle that God requires active participation ('planting') before providing results.
• Tithing and Offering 00:12:06 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor defines tithing as establishing order and offering as expressing overflow, emphasizing that giving should be a covenant of gratitude rather than a forced obligation.
• Cheerful Giving 00:16:37 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that God desires cheerful giving, citing 2 Corinthians 9:7, and warns that forced generosity builds resentment.
• Judgment and Humility 00:18:54 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal realization about stopping judgment of others after experiencing personal failure, illustrating that humility comes from recognizing one's own vulnerability.
• Intentional Giving vs. Manipulation 00:20:11 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor distinguishes true biblical giving from hype-driven or guilt-based manipulation, framing it as a response to God's grace.
• Kingdom Mindset and Abundance 00:21:18 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor argues that believing in God's ability to provide 'exceedingly, abundantly' impacts all areas of life, not just finances.
• The Principle of Sowing and Reaping 00:22:27 ▶️ 📄
  > Using agricultural metaphors, the pastor explains that one cannot expect a harvest without planting, linking generosity to spiritual and material increase.
• Breaking Generational Curses 00:33:56 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor suggests that dysfunction in family history was used by God to cause separation, preventing the believer from becoming like their ancestors and allowing for a new, abundant destiny.
• Generational Dysfunction and Separation 00:33:56 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor explains that God uses dysfunction and separation from parents to prevent believers from becoming like them, thereby breaking generational curses.
• Loyalty and Betrayal 00:34:31 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor discusses how God allows betrayal by those with loyalty as their love language to release the believer for a better purpose.
• Self-Forgiveness and Healing 00:36:55 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal testimony of hating herself and others, and the necessity of laying hands on herself to ask God for help in forgiving.
• Avoidance of Investment 00:38:28 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor critiques the desire for blessings without the corresponding effort, prayer, or obedience, using analogies of disrespect and avoidance.
• Rejection as Redirection 00:39:25 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor reframes rejection not as a failure, but as a divine redirection, asserting that anything leaving one's life was never part of their destiny.
• Sowing and Harvesting 00:41:40 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the agricultural metaphor of sowing seeds in marriage, health, business, and calling to explain that harvest requires prior investment and sacrifice.
• Faith and Fear 00:45:35 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor encourages stepping out in faith despite fear of racism or loss of ministry, citing that 'one will put a thousand to flight' when God is involved.
• Surrender and Burial 00:47:53 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor concludes that harvest requires burial and surrender, stating that 'every seed calls me something' and 'something has to die before something begins.'
• Faith and Action 00:49:45 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor contrasts emotional planting with expectation-based sowing, urging the congregation to trust the process rather than quitting when results are not immediate.
• Spiritual Harvest 00:50:35 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor defines the next season's blessings as coming from believing and sowing, not wishing, and calls the congregation to sow time, faith, and obedience.
• Personal Responsibility 00:51:11 ▶️ 📄
  > Through a call-and-response format, the pastor establishes that the individual is a 'sower' whose obedience and consistency are the seeds for their harvest.
• Divine Alignment and Blessing 00:51:55 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor leads the congregation in a prayer to align their hearts and minds with God, referencing Amos 9:13 and the promise of rapid, overwhelming blessings.
• Discernment and Protection 00:53:22 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor prays for discernment to know when to leave certain situations and for the ability to allow God to remove anointing from past seasons to enter new territories.
• Repentance and Healing 00:55:48 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor concludes with a call to repentance, asking God to heal families, marriages, and relationships, and to bring home prodigals.

• Sermon Illustration 00:07:10 ▶️ 📄
  > A story about a woman who complains about her dead garden while her neighbors bloom, only to reveal she never planted any seeds, illustrating that one cannot expect harvest without cultivation.
• Sermon Illustration 00:13:19 ▶️ 📄
  > A personal anecdote about giving clothes to a church member who never wore them, leading to resentment, which the pastor learned to overcome by understanding that giving must come from a cheerful heart, not obligation.
• Sermon Illustration 00:12:22 ▶️ 📄
  > A story about a woman who promised to bless someone with a Rolex in a good mood but later regretted it, illustrating the danger of giving out of obligation rather than genuine desire.
• Sermon Illustration 00:13:19 ▶️ 📄
  > An anecdote about a woman who needed clothes and was given expensive items, but the pastor felt angry when she didn't wear them, highlighting the issue of giving with strings attached or for recognition.
• Sermon Illustration 00:15:14 ▶️ 📄
  > A story about a family member who promised to buy a church if they won the lottery but then refused to give money to a nephew without a job, illustrating how people hide blessings or give conditionally.
• Sermon Illustration 00:18:16 ▶️ 📄
  > A personal reflection on the pastor's mother telling her not to give to the homeless because they might drink, contrasting this with the pastor's decision to give cheerfully anyway, recognizing that the act of giving is about the giver's heart, not the recipient's usage.
• Sermon Illustration 00:24:32 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about her mother forcing her to wear knockoff Coca-Cola jerseys instead of the real ones, illustrating the difference between a 'knockoff' and the real thing, which she uses to transition into a discussion about God's provision.
• Sermon Illustration 00:29:18 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts her experience in the gym with her husband Angelo, where she initially hid her effort on social media but later realized she needed to 'sow' (work out) before seeing the 'harvest' (results), using this as an analogy for praying for a spouse before they appear.
• Sermon Illustration 00:25:52 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor describes her past anxiety about being broke as a preacher's daughter and her fear of wearing clearance items, contrasting it with her current confidence in God's provision and her refusal to be pushed into early retirement.
• Sermon Illustration 00:35:31 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a personal story of being the only one in her family to achieve success, having been in special education, and writing bestsellers after deciding to worry about God's opinion rather than others'.
• Sermon Illustration 00:36:55 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor recounts her past state of hating herself and everyone else, needing to 'lay hands on herself' to ask God to help her forgive.
• Sermon Illustration 00:42:20 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a restaurant valet leaving a car out front to explain how God trusts believers with more opportunities as they prove faithful with little.
• Sermon Illustration 00:44:54 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor shares a story about her husband's mother warning her that marrying a black man would cause her to lose her ministry, and how she chose to prioritize the relationship over that fear.
• Sermon Illustration 00:46:56 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor mentions a video from 1975 of herself 'nae-nae-ing' on a bar, using it to illustrate how AI can now recreate such moments, symbolizing how the past can be reclaimed or reinterpreted.
• Sermon Illustration 00:49:45 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor uses the analogy of farmers who do not sow based on emotion but on expectation, illustrating that one should not plant a seed and expect a tree overnight, warning against quitting too soon.
• Sermon Illustration 00:50:04 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor references the cultural desire for 'Ozempic blessings' and 'Faha miracles' to critique the desire for quick, effortless spiritual results.

• Pastoral Charge 00:00:41 ▶️ 📄
  > Subscribe to the YouTube channel, share the video, and prepare to take notes.
• Pastoral Charge 00:00:56 ▶️ 📄
  > Engage in a mutual affirmation with the person next to them.
• Pastoral Charge 00:01:00 ▶️ 📄
  > Compliment the neighbor next to them.
• Pastoral Charge 00:17:43 ▶️ 📄
  > Decide internally and give generously to God.
• Pastoral Charge 00:29:06 ▶️ 📄
  > The pastor commands the congregation to take active, practical steps in their personal lives and responsibilities.
• Pastoral Charge 00:48:13 ▶️ 📄
  > Engage in difficult conversations, stay home to focus on work, and prepare for a fast.
• Pastoral Charge 00:50:35 ▶️ 📄
  > Actively sow time, faith, and obedience rather than just wishing for results.
• Pastoral Charge 00:51:11 ▶️ 📄
  > Stand up and identify a specific area of life where they have been refusing to invest or 'sow'.
• Pastoral Charge 00:51:55 ▶️ 📄
  > Physically place hands on the heart and verbally pray for internal alignment with God.
• Pastoral Charge 00:52:55 ▶️ 📄
  > Verbally declare a request for God to fill them completely and to replace overthinking with trust.
• Pastoral Charge 00:54:25 ▶️ 📄
  > Verbally release distractions and break spiritual strongholds, identifying as a 'generational curse breaker'.

[00:00:10] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:00:10] Hello, beautiful people. Pastor Kim here. Y'all, we just had the greatest Sunday at Limitless. Listen, I'm going to tell you something. When life becomes the life, you got to know how to praise your way out. And that's what we're teaching you here at Limitless. We've been in a series this month, Purpose for Profit, talking about how God will use everything, how he will grow you in every avenue of your life when he sees that you're ready. And he'll send you out into all the world. He will enlarge your territory. And so today,
[00:00:40] You're right here at my YouTube channel.
[00:00:41] Go ahead and subscribe.
[00:00:43] Share this with somebody.
[00:00:44] Get your notepad out.
[00:00:46] I'm telling y'all, this whole month we've been talking about giving and people are seeing miracle signs and wonders.
[00:00:50] I love you so much and I'll see you soon.
[00:00:53] Y'all ready to get into the word?
[00:00:56] Look at your neighbor and say, we got this.

[00:01:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:01:00] Say, you look good today.
[00:01:03] You're amazing.
[00:01:05] The anointing on your life.

[00:01:07] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:01:07] How many of y'all feel like God's doing something in your life right now and you don't even know how to explain it?
[00:01:16] How many of y'all like sitting close?
[00:01:20] I'm making y'all like each other.
[00:01:24] Y'all gonna like each other whether you like it or not.
[00:01:26] I believe in community.
[00:01:30] And I think sometimes in life, what we do is we like hide.
[00:01:34] Like I don't, like when I'm going through something, I don't want you talking to me.
[00:01:36] Anybody else like that?
[00:01:37] I don't want you talking to me.
[00:01:42] I don't want you asking me questions.
[00:01:44] I want to work it out.
[00:01:47] But that's why God gives us community so that we can work it out together.
[00:01:51] Amen.
[00:01:51] So how many of y'all have loved our series?
[00:01:55] What do y'all gotten out of it?
[00:01:56] See, I like y'all here because I feel like you close.
[00:02:01] I feel like y'all close.
[00:02:02] I can get up in your business.
[00:02:05] So what have y'all gotten out of this month already?
[00:02:07] Somebody yell out.
[00:02:09] What?
[00:02:11] Tithing is a lordship test.
[00:02:14] You better.
[00:02:14] You better, our little youth director.
[00:02:16] How many of y'all got some youth?
[00:02:20] Y'all know y'all got, tonight we have pipe night.
[00:02:22] So you know what that means.
[00:02:24] Free babysitter.
[00:02:25] Just kidding.
[00:02:26] we have hype night here starts at six o'clock and they have so much fun with the youth and so make sure you get your youth here and y'all go eat at longhorns you're welcome you're welcome so what
[00:02:42] have y'all learned this week this month you can't serve two masters order unblocks blessings what else online y'all give me some stuff what money is mammon it can be but money is something that god blesses us with and i always when we do our series here in march it's always
[00:03:07] about finances and i never want y'all like i don't believe that you pay for a profit prophecy you ever seen those people you give 250 dollars before that word is activated i'm like well then keep your word that's what i feel like you gotta go dump 342 dollars for
[00:03:29] made the third to I'm like keep it but when you do things God's way see the enemy is always trying to taint stuff y'all know that right that's why you go through some relationships that stinks and
[00:03:43] all of a sudden you're like I don't need no man and I'm always something else because you ain't ever had a man you need because what the enemy does is the enemy tries to make things awful
[00:03:54] right the enemy tries to make you look at blessings like oh that's just what church folks say, but I'm living it. Like I am living the abundant life when I used to be righteous.
[00:04:07] I was that girl that always said, yo, I'm from the south side of heaven.
[00:04:10] Then I started praying, Lord, get me out of the south side of heaven.
[00:04:14] I do not want no Clayton County blessings. Lord, do it in me. So I had to stop making excuses for

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:04:25] why I was on the south side of heaven. And I started saying, God, get me out of the south

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:04:29] side of heaven and then what i started doing i started going down the street i started laying hands on my tongue i put that tongue all the way out and lay hands on it because i knew this tongue
[00:04:39] get you in trouble because you can't control yourself kim you got these walls up you you all you all churchy i can't stay in religion now because i was churchy and churchy keeps you Stucky. You up here. And as soon as you leave, you cussing everybody out. God don't care about
[00:05:07] my mouth. No, but what's in your heart comes out of your mouth. So all this coming out of your mouth is like ghetto because that's the first place we go. Because what's inside of us comes
[00:05:19] out of us and what's inside of us came because of disappointment. That depression is from rejection.
[00:05:26] So what does the enemy do?
[00:05:27] The enemy starts making you feel like you're less than your family.
[00:05:29] You make a few mistakes.
[00:05:31] Then all of a sudden, you ain't blessed.
[00:05:33] You ain't never going to be blessed.
[00:05:34] That's what I was taught.
[00:05:36] Once you get divorced, you're going to hell on a slip and slide.
[00:05:38] Finally, I was like, well, I really ain't scared of going to hell.
[00:05:42] I was not scared of going to hell.
[00:05:45] My daddy would say, you leave this church, and you're going to pull out on 85.
[00:05:50] And a big old truck hits you.
[00:05:53] Are you going to heaven?
[00:05:54] are you going to hell and I'm like well who's in heaven because if all those people that I was just in church with is in heaven I don't want to go I want to go to hell because I don't know what hell
[00:06:06] is I ain't never been there and then I had to start getting to a place where I realized my actions and my feelings the feelings buried alive never died and I was cursing my life
[00:06:18] and so I want to talk to you today and in this series we've been in a financial series this whole month, but it ain't just a financial series. It is getting your heart right, your mind
[00:06:30] right, your spirit right, your marriage right, getting yourself in preparation for that king with the ring, getting your children ready, being a great single parent, walking in the abundance because you ain't living in the past. Say, I'm not living in the past. So today, I want to start
[00:06:51] with this. Okay, y'all, go with me. I want you to picture this. A woman walks outside every morning to her backyard. She stands there, and she hands on her hips, frustrated. And as she's looking
[00:07:10] around her garden, she starts saying, why is nothing growing here? Why is everyone else's

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:07:20] gardens? Why has she been able to get married three times a night? I can't even get married.
[00:07:32] Why is everyone's garden blooming and mine is dead?
[00:07:43] Why would one thing falls apart?

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:07:45] Does everything seem to fall apart?
[00:07:48] I just need some help.
[00:07:49] I just wish to God, God would bring me a harvest.
[00:07:54] God, where is my harvest?
[00:07:59] Day after day, she complains.
[00:08:01] Week after week, she compares.
[00:08:04] But here's the truth.
[00:08:06] She never planted a single seed.
[00:08:08] no tomatoes, no greens, no flowers, just dirt with expectation. Then one day her neighbor walks over and says, what did you plant? What did you plant? She said, nothing. And the neighbor says, well, that explains your harvest. And some of us are standing in empty areas of our lives saying,
[00:08:42] why is my marriage dry? Why am I still single? Why is my business not growing? Where is the peace in my family? Why won't my kids ever get it together? And heaven is gently asking,
[00:08:57] what have you been planting? Because you can't clap for harvest in a field and never cultivate.
[00:09:08] That's entitlement. You ever seen those people that are just entitled because of your title that can be stripped away in 10 seconds.
[00:09:19] But because what the enemy does is he brings stuff to fulfill voids in us.
[00:09:23] And once we get that void filled, if we're not really healed and we get that, then we mess up what God brought us because we don't think we deserve it.
[00:09:31] So you can't clap for harvest in a field you never cultivated.
[00:09:36] So you're not waiting on a harvest.
[00:09:39] You're waiting, your harvest is waiting on a seed.
[00:09:42] You're not waiting on harvest.
[00:09:45] Your harvest is waiting on a seed.
[00:09:47] So you have to stop walking around frustrated in empty fields and you got to start planting something that can grow, which means you got to start laying hands on yourself every day and say, God, show me what I need to do and I'll work with you. See, we think God's a genie in a model.
[00:10:08] We out here wishing upon a star when we can pray to the one that created it.
[00:10:12] We're out here going to psychics. We're reading astrology in the newspaper.
[00:10:16] all of us August birthdays are the exact same we all gonna get tripped up today eight million people I need to go let I need to go let my socket give me a word about my future or go to
[00:10:37] the witches what then we burning sage and you wonder why your husband keeps getting he waking up outside every day because you praying for the spirits to get out and they going outside or worse you caught you waking up outside god get rid of these spirits and all of a sudden
[00:10:57] you outside because we are we are we are walking in seasons of our lives if we're not careful when we're living in a world that is full of racism we're living in worlds that are full of
[00:11:11] opinions we got families that aren't even talking to each other because one voted this way and one voted that way. We got people literally eaten up with sickness in their bodies because they're letting this life. You're letting a president that don't even care about you cause you to hate
[00:11:31] people. Why? Because it's the law of draw. If there's hate in your heart, you gravitate to the hate. If there's anger in your heart, you gravitate to the anger. If there's insecurity in you, you gravitate to the people that help you fix that insecurity. We want full-time God on a
[00:11:52] part-time relationship. So we got to stop walking around frustrated in empty fields and start planting something that can grow. And we've learned this month that tithe establishes order.
[00:12:06] Offering expresses overflow. The tithe says, God, you get what's first. You are the most important person in my life. And the offering says, God, you've been good to me and I got it.
[00:12:22] so i'm gonna give it tie this covenant offering is gratitude emotion have you ever given a gift to somebody because you had to or you promised it when you were in a good mood i'm gonna bless you with this rolex then all of a sudden you're like no i remember there's one
[00:12:48] time this lady came to our church i love my clothes i love shopping i love funky stuff i've gotten a little classy over the years now I'm 50s you know gotta act a little bit more grown
[00:13:00] and this lady came to our church and she needed some clothes so I didn't just get her sheen I can do with sheen she's like 20 bucks I was blessing her with good stuff all of a sudden
[00:13:19] every Sunday I couldn't wait to see what she walked in wearing that woman never wore one thing I gave her and I just sat on that front row getting madder and madder this is when I wasn't
[00:13:32] really save, save. I was just having to come to church because my daddy said, you living in my house, you're going to come to church. So I wasn't save, save. That's how I had a little ghetto
[00:13:41] inside. Okay. I was right. Ratchet, not righteous yet. I was hood and not holy yet. Okay. And all of a sudden I'm like, well, she ain't wearing none of the clothes I gave her. She don't realize.
[00:13:55] And I remember one day I was talking about Mimi said, well, you should have kept those clothes.
[00:13:58] I said what she said you should have kept those clothes she said because you messed up your whole blessing she said because when you sew and you don't do it out of a cheerful heart it ain't
[00:14:15] doing nothing for you keep it that woman never wore those clothes and it took me a minute to get over it and finally one day I had to say why does that bother you then I started giving more
[00:14:28] clothes away ain't nobody wearing my clothes I was like well why ain't everybody because they don't like your style. I thought my style was great. But see, when you get in your head something and you think you're doing it and people are going to love it, then they don't love it.
[00:14:43] Or you give something that Rolex away and then they don't even, they go pawn it.
[00:14:49] Right? Or they give that something you worked so hard for that meant something to you.
[00:14:53] This is why you got to be careful where you sew too. Because sometimes you're sewing into empty pots. You're sewing into places that ain't ever going to do anything with what you're giving.
[00:15:04] And that's why you are tired.
[00:15:09] You're giving to your cousins that ain't never worked at J-O-B.
[00:15:14] They said, if I win the lottery, I ain't telling nobody.
[00:15:17] Oh, I am.
[00:15:18] I am $84 million rich.
[00:15:21] We're going to buy you a church, you a church, you a church.
[00:15:25] Don't come to me, nephew.
[00:15:26] If you ain't got no job, you ain't getting nothing.
[00:15:30] Because what we do is we try to hide our blessings that God gives us because there's family members that like to tell us, oh, you think you better than everybody else.
[00:15:38] so you don't even drive your brand new car to the family reunion because you don't want to hear.
[00:15:44] Baby, you better park it right in the VIP. You better stop hiding God's blessing because you playing around wrong people. My husband always says, let the dead bury the dead.
[00:15:57] My baby tells me all the time. He's like, I like to smoke. Let the dead bury the dead.
[00:16:01] I'll be worried about something. He said, girl, get over it. Let the dead bury the dead.
[00:16:05] I'm like, they ain't dead. So tithe says, God, you're first. And offering says, God, you've been good. But tithe is a covenant. Offering is gratitude in motion.
[00:16:22] So when you give a gift to someone because you had to versus because you wanted to, one feels forced. The other feels joyful. God is not after pressured giving. He's after cheerful giving.
[00:16:37] because forced generosity builds resentment.
[00:16:44] It just does.
[00:16:45] You only talk to me when you need something.
[00:16:48] Ever been there?
[00:16:50] Instead of looking at it like, man, at least I had it.
[00:16:53] You're like, here they come again.
[00:16:55] I'm not answering that call because every 15th they call me for something.
[00:16:58] They never check on me any other time, right?
[00:17:01] And so what's happening is that resentment is being built and the enemy is using that to get a thorn in your flesh.
[00:17:08] So God is not after pressure giving.
[00:17:10] He's after triple giving because forced generosity feels like resentment, builds resentment, but joyful generosity builds freedom, right? It's down. Generosity reveals the condition of your heart. And we're going to go to 2 Corinthians 9 and 7. It says, each of you, come on, y'all read it with me. Each of you,
[00:17:43] well, that does it. I wasn't going to give nothing. Praise the Lord. It says, each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give. For God loves a cheerful giver. Notice in the
[00:17:55] scripture, it says, it says decided in your heart and cheerful. And this goes for everything.
[00:18:04] Today, we were coming to church. My mom used to always tell me, don't you give to the homeless because you know, they just going to go get drunk. This man, as soon as we pull up to a light,
[00:18:16] baby, you got any ones? I'm going to pull out a five. He says, well, I said, give him the five.
[00:18:23] because it's cheerful, right? It's knowing that if I, it ain't my problem he gonna go get drunk.
[00:18:31] It ain't my problem what he gonna do with it. I decided to give it at the light. I'd rather give it to a homeless man than that aunt over there that's gonna make you feel entitled and walk on
[00:18:39] eggshells every week. Because if I can show hope to the homeless, we all just about a few foot paychecks from homelessness. You ain't that good, baby, for life not to hit you in the butt.
[00:18:54] I learned how to stop judging when I realized how quickly God could put me in the position I was judging people in.
[00:19:01] Oh, they've been married before.
[00:19:04] Now, all of a sudden, the second one in, I'm like, dang.
[00:19:09] God's like, you ain't learned your lesson yet, you little loud mouth.
[00:19:14] There ain't nothing like hitting rock bottom to humble your booty.
[00:19:18] Then all of a sudden, you're like, come in, sit at my table.
[00:19:22] You've been married 10 times?
[00:19:23] Well, sit right here.
[00:19:25] You will feel welcome at my table.
[00:19:27] why? Because I've been in hell and I came out on fire and now I know Brains Kim. So he says, I got chill bumps on that, man. I feel like in this church, what God is doing in online,
[00:19:44] he has taken some of y'all that have put yourself in a box and he is expanding. Sometimes he has to expose to expand. And what you took as heartbreak and what you took as failure and what you took
[00:19:57] that as an embarrassment was a setup for a comeback this is when i wish i had tennis shoes on instead of these cute shoes because i'd be jumping out and i'd be walking on them chairs
[00:20:11] right now offering is intentional it's tithing is intentional it's not hype driven it's not manipulation it's not emotional guilt it's giving because you know god did it for me

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[00:20:29] and this is what I owe. He's saying, man, so will you grow. There are churches closing down

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[00:20:39] by the truckloads right now because people don't understand. Somebody got to pay these lights.
[00:20:48] Somebody's got to pay the staff to send out emails. And we're about to start a building.
[00:20:56] So y'all ain't got to sit on top of each other. I ain't going to do that till I see them cheap them chairs over there full. I'm going to let y'all sit right on top of each other. Just kidding.
[00:21:06] I'm going to get y'all away from each other because I don't know. I wouldn't want to be sitting like this either. But the church has done such a terrible job with why you matter in the
[00:21:18] seats. It ain't because we want to tell people how big of a church we have. It's because when you know what kingdom mindset can do in your life, not just in your finances, but in your health,
[00:21:29] in your relationships, at your job. When you believe that Exodus, Ephesians 3.20 says, exceedingly, abundantly, more than you could ever ask or think, goes for every part of your life, not just in your money, not just at your job, not just in your relationship, but in your sleep.
[00:21:48] You ain't laying awake, 99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer, take one down, shake it around, 98 bottles of... Y'all done adding words to it because you can't sleep until you get to one. But when you've got a clear conscience, when you know you're doing what God's
[00:22:07] called you to do, you ain't even worried when hell hits your home. Because you realize if hell hits my home, it means that I'm right here. Right here. Because thieves don't rob empty vaults.
[00:22:19] Bring it on, Bertha. 2 Corinthians 9, 6, it says, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly.
[00:22:27] So it's not prosperity pressure. This is the principle. Farmers don't pray for harvest while refusing to plant. Generosity is a seed. Seed always proceeds increase. You don't get harvest in fields you refuse to sow in. Offering breaks the back of scarcity. Tithing breaks lordship.
[00:22:52] Who do you trust? I always tell y'all this, the first thing that you, 10 cent on a dollar, that's your tithe. And it's showing God, God, I'm giving this so that you know that I am not
[00:23:05] controlled by money. That means when you bless me with a million, I'm going to give you a hundred thousand. I need y'all to be millionaires. I need a hundred thousand dollar tithe to build that
[00:23:18] church. Like five of them, seven of them. I don't know how much it's called to build a church, baby.
[00:23:24] But it's pressed down, shaking together, running over. When I walk into rooms, the atmosphere shift, the relationship was dead. But when I got myself together, all of a sudden our marriage came back together. My prodigals came home. Scarcity says hold tight. Faith says
[00:23:48] there's more where that came from. Luke 6 38 says give and it will be given to you. Press down, shaken together, running over. So running over doesn't happen in closed hands. My mama used to

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[00:24:05] always, that's why I didn't want to be no preacher because my daddy was a preacher. We were always

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[00:24:11] broke. And y'all remember when them Coca-Cola jerseys were popular? I'm aging myself. Girl, 50s. These Coca-Cola jerseys were so popular with penny loafers with a penny in them. Now y'all remember that woman wouldn't even let me wear pants. So I was wearing dresses like this on
[00:24:32] purpose with no split. And then I'd have Keds on. That's how she sent me to school. With long hair, I couldn't even cut my hair. I was ugly as all get out. I had teeth that was jacked all up.
[00:24:45] I'd chase the boys and they'd run away. But my teeth were going to get them. And I remember I wanted so bad to be so cool. And I said, Mimi, I said, they're these Coca-Cola jerseys. They got
[00:25:01] them at JCPenney's and Sears. All of it gone. I remember she took me to that store. She would get me a flamingo jersey. I said, what is a flamingo? She said, it looks just like the Coca-Cola.
[00:25:20] I said, but it ain't the same. It is a knockoff. The next year for Christmas, one whole year later, she gets me a Coca-Cola jersey. I said, Mimi, they ain't even in style no more.
[00:25:37] And I remember my mom would always make me shop on that clearance rag. So I was like, I ain't never going to be a preacher because I refuse to be broke. So when God called me to be
[00:25:52] a pastor, I started making millions. He said, now you can preach, but now I don't got to.
[00:25:58] I can be on Punta Canta.
[00:26:01] I can be in Cabo.
[00:26:03] I ain't got to be worried about people being offended at me all the time.
[00:26:05] For what?
[00:26:08] They come to church when they want to come to church.
[00:26:10] You know how many times I walked in this church and said, I'm about to retire.
[00:26:13] I ain't never coming back.
[00:26:16] And God says, I didn't call you.
[00:26:20] I called you to win souls.
[00:26:21] And at the end of the day, that's all you got to worry about is getting people set up for kingdom mindset.
[00:26:27] That you can be wealthy, that you can be whole, that you can live in abundance, that you can be the generational curse of your family.
[00:26:32] so generate generosity expands capacity here's what generous people experience you ready for this y'all ready for this less anxiety you know why because you ain't worried about money you ain't checking your bank account every day I just gotta pay I just need to pay I need 30 more
[00:26:50] dollars you're like girl I ain't gotta keep you need to check your balances but you don't have to because you don't live in anxiety you live in abundance also generous people experience more gratitude you're happy you're happy they walk across that room again so i can see you he's
[00:27:20] like what is wrong with you oh i'm just happy i'm generous you also get greater vision you also have increased faith because giving expands your eternal world so when you live generous you stop thinking survival, you start thinking expansion. And some of what you were frustrated
[00:27:41] with, God for. God is actually looking at your field like, you're asking me for harvesting a ground you won't even touch? You're asking me to heal your marriage and you don't even sleep together? You're asking me to heal your marriage and you co-sleeping with Jesse? He should be his
[00:28:01] own bed anyway. You're asking me to fix your finances and you don't invest? You don't do nothing? You just keep charging sheen hauls and you never leave the house, so why you keep buying to close. Well, I might go out. I might. By the time you go out, it's going to be dry rotting
[00:28:19] because you got it from Sheen. Yeah. Listen to what 2 Corinthians 9 and 6 says. It says, remember this, a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop, but the one who
[00:28:37] plants generously will get generous. This is what Ecclesiastes 11 and 6 says. It says, plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon. Not Netflix and chill. For you don't know if profit will come from one activity or another. So maybe it's going to come from both.
[00:28:57] So get up, get yourself dressed, take your muumuu off, walk in there like you got it together.
[00:29:06] Hear me. When I started taking care of myself, when I started getting my body in order, I remember and we went to the gym and Angelo was like, come on girl, get in there. Me and him became enemies
[00:29:18] in the gym. I was like, Lord, if we can make it through the gym, we might make it to the, to the, to the, to the altar. Cause he would turn into, I might still be mad at you looking at you thinking
[00:29:32] about this. I go in there for a week cause I ain't never worked out. All of a sudden I'm in that gym and I'm like, I take my, you know, he over there just talking. I take my phone out and I'm in that
[00:29:46] gym and i'm doing the stair master that was only gonna be on just for the video because i was getting off that okay i was dying and so i'm taking it and he walks over to me and he says
[00:29:59] you might want to take that down off social media i said why i'm encouraging other 50 year olds to get up on that stair master he said but you're also lying he said until you look like you work
[00:30:15] out. Shut your mouth. I remember about a year later, he started taking videos. He said that this is what we're talking about. Because you sow for a minute before you even see a harvest.
[00:30:34] You pray for your spouse before that man ever comes into the picture. You pray for that woman before that woman ever comes into the picture. I used to wake up every morning. Because y'all know I was born to be a wife. That's why I kept trying it. One of these is going to stick.
[00:30:50] I was going to try it until I got it right not knowing that it was the whole village of us that did the same thing God just needed y'all to see one that could bounce back
[00:31:02] I remember I'd walk around my house and say Father I pray over my husband today wherever he is don't you let that man fall for a counterfeit Lord I thank you that you're saving him
[00:31:12] for me I thank you Lord that every Delilah that would try to trap him and keep him away from me that you would that's why every delight let's try to mess with that baby that's why when he goes out i ain't
[00:31:25] worried a second i'm like baby you look fine because i know i got him covered because i was practicing before i saw it you sow before you see it you don't stay stuck because you're walking
[00:31:42] through bankruptcy i ain't never ever gonna invest again you better i'm never ever gonna love again i'm never ever ever getting married again it's just gonna be me and my cats i don't need no
[00:31:57] man it's because you ain't never had a man you needed because when god brings that that one in your life and he knows you're ready he knows your mouth they gonna bleed on people they didn't cut
[00:32:08] you over here bleeding on people that didn't cut you that ex got the greatest man on the planet now you're getting with a new woman that deserves you to be amazing and you ain't amazing because
[00:32:18] she broke you down? I appreciate the day because God created this house to live in abundance.
[00:32:29] You didn't lose to stay lost. You lost so you could elevate to where God wanted you to be.
[00:32:39] Rejection was redirection. Some of you are frustrated with God, but God is looking at your field like you are asking me for a harvest and a ground you won't even touch. You won't even heal your heart you won't even go all in that's why some of your marriages are falling apart
[00:33:04] because y'all hate each other now it's hard out in these streets you just acting like you ain't got no bills when you charged it man because your daddy wasn't there to teach you how to be
[00:33:26] a great man we've got elder james here man that has a men's ministry with larry and they are killing it they will pour into you man of god i believe that when natural fathers or mothers

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[00:33:42] suck. We're going to call it like it is. It's because God knew they didn't have what you needed.

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[00:33:56] So they use the dysfunction to cause separation so that you wouldn't become like them.
[00:34:05] That's how generational curses are broken. They lived in a van down by the river and you're about to live in a $10 million house. And God knew that if you stayed in that kind of environment,
[00:34:15] that's why they had to fire you with that job because their ceiling was your floor when they're pushing me into early retirement ain't nobody gonna push me into nothing because i can do all things through christ who strengthens me you had to fire me so i could be
[00:34:31] released from you because my loyalty is my love language and sometimes god will let someone break your heart because he knows he's got something way better for you and you would never get it because your loyalty is your love language because you have a propensity to give to others what you
[00:34:55] wish to god they would give you but they ain't the one they ain't the one they ain't the one they were supposed to drop you they were supposed to lie on you they were supposed to betray you
[00:35:11] sometimes god breaks your spirit to save your soul because he needed you to get into an environment where you could start believing anything is possible.
[00:35:23] There was nobody in my family that ever did anything I did.
[00:35:31] I was the only one in the family that still don't know where commas go.
[00:35:36] You still read my statuses on social media, you gotta be in the Holy Ghost because you're trying to figure out what I'm trying to say because it's a complete run on sentence.
[00:35:47] I was in special ed for real because I needed to be.
[00:35:51] And then here I am writing six bestsellers and building a legacy for my children because I decided to quit worrying about what you think about me and I started worrying about what God thought about me I wanted to hear well done my good and faithful servant I didn't want to live
[00:36:07] from paycheck to paycheck I don't want to be sick in my body and on medication like my grandma I want to die of dementia like my dad so I started digging in that word I was the woman that hated

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[00:36:24] life so bad. No joy was in me because I hated me. I started laying hands on myself. I said, God, God, get me right. Snatch me up on my roots. Get in my face. Help me forgive because right now I

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[00:36:55] hate everybody. I hated everybody. If I would have died, nobody would have come to my funeral because I didn't even know what a friend was because I was selfish, entitled, and never took ownership for my own mistakes. I was always pointing fingers when three more were pointing
[00:37:14] back at me. If I thought you were going to hurt me, I'd hurt you before you hurt me.
[00:37:21] And in 2006, when God started shaking my butt, it took him a good 10 years to get me straight.
[00:37:28] Because every time I'd get a little bit free, then I'd be like, let's go. I'd be like, go sit down. I'm detoxing you of everything. See what happens is when we struggle for so long, when we
[00:37:47] start to feel a little bit of a breakthrough. Then we get out from under the protection because now we at least breathing and sleeping at night. And so we think we all the way there, but then when
[00:37:57] life really hits us, now we've fallen apart because we don't realize that we are the mover and shaker of all things around us. So we get out of covering. We get in anger, take a medication to get us up
[00:38:13] medication to go to sleep. You won't increase. You won't increase so bad, but you avoid investment.
[00:38:28] You want a blessing so bad, but you don't pray.
[00:38:36] You want a blessing so bad, but you disrespect.
[00:38:43] You want a blessing so bad, but you'll go to Longhorns and eat the whole meal and send back one bite.
[00:38:48] You want a blessing so bad, but you'll shoot a bird as soon as you leave this parking lot.
[00:38:59] Stand your ex-husband.
[00:39:02] Want him to die.
[00:39:03] Can't stand your ex-wife.
[00:39:04] Stalk him every day on social media.

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:39:06] As if you're saying, I am because of your pride.
[00:39:20] Makes everything about me, me, me, me, me.
[00:39:23] Instead of him, him, him, him.

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[00:39:25] when the greatest gifts I gave myself was realizing rejection was just redirection because anything that can walk out of my life was never a part of my destiny because if it was a part of my destiny and my purpose it could never have left
[00:39:38] no matter how ratchet I was so you won't increase but you avoid investment you won't overflow but you resist obedience you don't get harvest and fields that you refuse to sow into or that you
[00:39:59] run from. You can't reap where you won't reach. I only come to church when I'm desperate. Sometimes I look at people, I get so frustrated, y'all, because I look at people that right up under me

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[00:40:19] is stuck, and I want to shake them and say, you're right next to me. Then I realize, but I'm not God.

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[00:40:33] Sometimes you just gotta let it go, because everyone's not your assignment. And in this season, we're not wasting our sweat dear on a step machine just to get a video no no no in this season

[00:40:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:40:52] we planting where I see growth I'm gonna walk on water and I ain't gonna be like Peter and look down and fall uh-uh I ain't got no Debbie Downers around me I ain't got nobody that's over here
[00:41:03] telling me you might fall I won't be here when you fall girl just come over let's have some wine let's tie one on tonight ain't your baby at your baby daddy house come over and let's just get high
[00:41:14] No, no, no, no. In this season, I got people in my life that we are talking about investments.
[00:41:19] We are talking about growth. We are talking about business. We are talking about retirement.
[00:41:24] And when we retire, we're going to open a whole nother business.
[00:41:28] We love shouting about harvest season, but we get quiet when it's time to be uncomfortable.
[00:41:40] No seed in your marriage. Don't expect intimacy. No seed in your health. Don't expect strength.
[00:41:49] No seed in your business, don't expect profit.
[00:41:53] No seed in your calling, don't expect impact.
[00:41:58] Harvest is not magic, it's multiplication.
[00:42:05] People say, I can do bad all by myself.
[00:42:08] In this season, I can do good and take everybody with me.
[00:42:11] It's almost like in the spirit realm.
[00:42:16] You know how when you pull up at a restaurant and they leave your car out front?
[00:42:20] Special because you remember the times that you self-parked because you were embarrassed. In the spirit realm, the way the father works is when he can trust you with little, he keeps opening more doors. But we have to put ourselves out there. So harvest is not
[00:42:44] magic. It's multiplication. God multiplies what you release, not what you hoard. You are praying for fruit in places you've abandoned. Did y'all hear that? What does that even look like?
[00:43:00] you're praying for fruit in places you've abandoned what does that mean go back same thing same places well God's still working on me he's been working on you for 12 years God knows my mouth yeah he's been trying to get it right Pastor Kim pray for my diabetes
[00:43:29] I need a miracle get rid of the ho-hos I'm about to lose my toe they said get rid of the ice cream go to counseling and get free from people oh that's the biggest thing I've ever done for myself
[00:43:57] is I got free from people when I married Angelo people told me you're gonna lose your whole ministry because y'all gonna be black and white and I was like I looked at him look at him over
[00:44:17] there just on social media talking to you two people like he right there by him and I remember one day I looked at him because I knew I never knew racism was still a thing and it stinks because
[00:44:33] we are really cool people with just different color skin but do you know if you cut us open we're all red I said mama they said that if I get married to Angela I'm gonna lose my ministry she
[00:44:54] said well let me ask you a question she said if you do is it worth it about him in Dominican Republic with his shirt off. I started thinking about at night when I get to put my leg over
[00:45:15] there. I was like, won't it? Because the enemy will send people to make you fear. And if you believe them, you'll stop what God is about to do because one will put a thousand to flight,
[00:45:35] two will put 10,000. Baby, I might've lost some ministry engagements, but I sure did earn a lot a favor because where God allowed where the enemy allowed those people to be racist and not ever

[00:45:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:45:48] invite me back to their church God then sent business people from all over the world that I get to sit in front of a computer and coach every day now I ain't gotta travel unless I want to

[00:46:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:46:00] so sometimes you gotta step out in faith even when everybody else is telling you don't you do it don't you do it why because when God calls you he doesn't call a conference call he calls you
[00:46:10] and it always looks scary when something big is about to happen because thieves don't rob empty balls so you're praying for fruit in places you've abandoned because seed requires sacrifice a seed has to die before it multiplies that means your pride has to die your comfort has to die
[00:46:40] that pride that tells you you ain't never gonna recover you better start telling that to you but i'd go online you know every time somebody threatens me with something because y'all know I've got a test. We got a video from 1975 where you were nae-nae-ing on the bar. I'm like, share
[00:46:56] it. Because now we got AI. Y'all can have me right now on the donkey. AI can make us be anywhere at any time. I'll just be like, that was AI. That wasn't me doing the nae-nae. I was AI. Can't you
[00:47:14] see that's AI? But what I've discovered is, is even when you've got something in your life that has stopped you the greatest gift is to get out in front of it and let your fruit speak for itself
[00:47:28] and in this season that's what we're doing we're not letting nobody in our family block our blessings listen what it says we won't harvest without burial we won't increase without surrender but every seed say every seed calls me something something has to die before something begins now
[00:47:53] Listen, I'm going to end with this.
[00:47:57] This is good, y'all.
[00:48:01] What you avoid is often where your breakthrough is.
[00:48:05] So if you can sow bad seeds and get a harvest, you can sow good seeds and change your future.
[00:48:13] The very field you're avoiding is the one assigned to your next level.
[00:48:18] This week, have those hard conversations.
[00:48:23] This week, don't go Taiwan home.
[00:48:27] Stay at home.
[00:48:29] Get in your work.
[00:48:30] We're starting a fast on Monday.
[00:48:33] If you watch my prayer calls at 8 a.m. every morning, y'all know we read the bible through we read four whole chapters and now we're going on a daniel fast starting tomorrow night because the bible says some things only come through
[00:48:51] prayer and fast i'm gonna teach you tomorrow night how we are fasting what does fasting do and then we're launching into a fast because i believe that when you get your heart right your mind right you're gonna be your your your names and rooms hadn't walked in yet and before you
[00:49:12] know it you're walking into new seasons you're walking into the restaurant and there's your angela what you can get cars you can get houses because the wealth of the wicked is stored up for us you can get non-profits and start homes for for addicts and there's so much that you can do
[00:49:28] outside of your thinking so stop asking god is saying stop asking me to bless what you won't build farmers don't sow based on emotion they sow based on expectation you don't plant a seed and
[00:49:45] say i'll come back tomorrow and see a tree trust the process some of you quit way too soon you planted once and when it didn't happen overnight you walked away anybody we want it quick don't
[00:50:04] we we want ozempic blessings we want faha miracles but god is saying if you faint not you will reap some of you have been standing in empty fields crying over what's not growing and God is saying you ready for this y'all you ready for this online campus sow your time again
[00:50:35] say you're sorry again sow your faith again sow your obedience again because the next harvest is not coming from wishing say my next season is not coming from wishing it's coming from believing and sowing so what field have you been refusing to sow into as you stand up on your feet

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[00:51:11] Did y'all feel this today?
[00:51:13] How many of y'all feel like you had a shift?

[00:51:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:51:16] Say this loud with me, y'all.
[00:51:18] Repeat this.
[00:51:18] Come up here, you handsome man.
[00:51:21] Say this loud.
[00:51:21] Y'all ready for this?

[00:51:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:51:23] I will not expect harvest where I refuse to sow.
[00:51:29] I am a sower and my obedience is my seed.
[00:51:34] My consistency is my seed.
[00:51:37] My harvest is my seed.

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[00:51:40] If I want a different harvest, I will stop staring at the field and I'll start sowing into it.
[00:51:55] Lay hands on your heart and say, God, get my heart right.
[00:51:59] I feel every void in me.
[00:52:05] Come on, say, God, feel every void in me.
[00:52:10] Father, I thank you that my mind has stayed on you.
[00:52:16] Father, I thank you that you are working all things together for my good.
[00:52:19] Come on, say it.
[00:52:20] You can say it quietly.
[00:52:22] Just say, God, I know you're working it out.
[00:52:25] I know that you've got plans to bless me and not harm me.
[00:52:30] And say, Lord, I believe.
[00:52:32] I am walking in Amos 9, 13 season.
[00:52:36] It is time that it won't be long now.
[00:52:40] God's decree said things are about to happen so fast.
[00:52:44] My head is about to spin.
[00:52:47] Blessing upon blessing.

[00:52:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:52:49] I won't be able to keep up.
[00:52:51] Say, Lord, fill me up from the top of my head.
[00:52:55] to the soles of my feet. Say, Lord, help me. Stop being an overthinker. Let me overthink everything

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[00:53:06] and let me trust you. Lord, thank you for joy. Thank you that I'm not expecting no one else to give me joy. I got my own joy. And Father, I pray you put discernment on this house.
[00:53:22] I pray you put discernment on the inside of us that we know when to excuse ourselves from certain situations that father you are giving us the wherewithal you are giving us the ability you are giving us the faith you are giving us the know-all you're giving us peace that
[00:53:40] when it's time and your anointing has lifted off of a season that we will allow you to remove it and we will walk into this territory that you're enlarging for us now father I I pray online and in this house that this week, Father, they're going to see miracle signs and wonders.
[00:53:57] That God, even when we do something that we're normally used to doing, you check us in our spirit.
[00:54:02] We realize that it's called conviction.
[00:54:04] And the reason we have conviction is because you've got such an anointing on our lives.
[00:54:09] So, Lord, give us clear minds.
[00:54:12] Say clear minds.
[00:54:15] Free heart.
[00:54:17] Good sleep.
[00:54:20] Peaceful confidence.
[00:54:25] Courage.
[00:54:25] and every distraction that has been sent by the enemy i release it i break every stronghold because i am a generational curse breaker father let me sow i know 10 of my seed goes to you first
[00:54:48] because when i give that 10 that 10 cent on a dollar that is basically saying god i am not ruled by money and you can trust me with more because i am a kingdom builder and father you
[00:55:05] heal our families god you heal their hearts heal their marriages lord bring kings with rings that are gonna love our women that are gonna lead our homes that are gonna love you more than they
[00:55:22] love them bring beautiful women into our single men's lives that are gonna make them better That favor is going to be on his life because he married a woman that is full of God.
[00:55:35] And Lord, bring home our prodigals.
[00:55:41] Bring home our kids, God.
[00:55:43] Heal relationships.
[00:55:46] Heal broken hearts today.
[00:55:48] In Jesus' name, say, Lord, I repent of any sin that I've ever done.
[00:55:57] Help me not be a sinner.
[00:55:59] Help me not look, don't let me go to hell on a slipper slide.
[00:56:03] Lord, let me be free.

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[00:56:04] I want to serve you God in Jesus name amen amen and amen come on y'all y'all feel it I've been here playing about you