Blocked but Blessed: The Danger of Self-Powered Faith

• Divine Blocking vs. Spiritual Attack [00:23:22 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that perceived blockages are often God's protection for those not yet ready to carry the blessing, rather than demonic opposition.
• Human Capacity and Readiness [00:27:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > The sermon suggests that limitations are often due to personal capacity, wrong methods, or emotional immaturity rather than external forces.
• The Story of Jabez [00:25:55 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the biblical figure Jabez, who was born into a 'blocked identity' (meaning pain), to illustrate how prayer and shifting approach can change one's trajectory.
• Correcting Approach (Push vs. Pull) [00:23:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the analogy of a door that requires pulling but was being pushed, the pastor illustrates that striving and forcing often fail because the method is wrong, not the outcome.
• Self-Blocking and Mindset [00:36:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that many believers are blocked by their own negative beliefs about themselves and their past, rather than by God's will.
• Marriage Dynamics and Gender Roles [00:33:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > The speaker uses personal anecdotes to illustrate how women can 'block' men from leading by not allowing them to serve, contrasting this with how God provides.
• Divine Protection vs. Rejection [00:41:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reframes perceived rejection or delay as God's protective measure to ensure the believer's character and discipline are ready for the blessing.
• Prayer for Expansion [00:40:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the biblical example of Jabez, the pastor encourages praying for 'enlarged territory,' noting that such prayers expose areas of weakness that need growth.
• Divine Preparation and Character Building [00:47:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reframes delays and blockages not as denials, but as necessary periods where God widens foundations, strengthens character, and expands capacity so the individual can handle future elevation.
• Spiritual Warfare and Identity [00:52:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor addresses past traumas (church hurt, divorce) as assignments that failed to destroy the believer's identity, encouraging them to recognize their role as 'iconic disruptors' for Jesus.
• Prayer and Repentance [00:51:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > A call to congregational prayer, repentance, and asking God to remove blockages that are self-inflicted or not from Him, while seeking to be 'hungry' for God.

• Sermon Illustration [00:21:03 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about being in a hurry and trying to force open an automatic door that wouldn't open. After waving, stepping back, and pushing, she noticed a small sign that said 'PULL'. She realized she had been pushing the whole time, illustrating that people often strive and force situations when God is asking for a different approach.
• Sermon Illustration [00:31:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a personal story from when she was single and praying for a husband. She attended a conference where she experienced multiple car troubles (a tire going out on the way there, a flat tire on the way back) to illustrate seasons of turmoil and 'nonsense' where it feels like everything is breaking down at once.
• Sermon Illustration [00:32:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a personal story from when she was single and attending a conference: both of her cars suffered tire issues (one rim, one flat) on the same day, which she interprets as a moment where God challenged her reliance on self-sufficiency.
• Sermon Illustration [00:34:08 ▶️ 📄]
  > A humorous anecdote about her husband changing a lightbulb, where she pretends to be a 'damsel in distress' to allow him to lead and feel valued, illustrating how women can empower their husbands.
• Sermon Illustration [00:39:05 ▶️ 📄]
  > An observation of her mother traveling at age 78, who would stand on the plane waiting for a stranger to help lift her suitcase, demonstrating a posture of allowing others to serve.
• Sermon Illustration [00:37:32 ▶️ 📄]
  > A hypothetical scenario about a person with a felony record who could either give up or use their story to show how God can shift a trajectory, contrasting with Jabez who could have accepted his name/label.
• Sermon Illustration [00:47:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a construction zone to explain spiritual delays: just as construction zones require slowing down because things are changing and are dangerous at normal speeds, God disrupts our pace to elevate us and prevent repercussions from getting ahead of Him.
• Sermon Illustration [00:53:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > A personal anecdote about a plumber fixing a broken toilet while the pastor was on the phone, illustrating how God can fix situations unexpectedly, followed by a humorous exchange about blocking/unblocking people and companies to get to the 'interior' or desired outcome.

• Pastoral Charge [00:17:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > Come forward or express a need for divine intervention before the service ends.
• Pastoral Charge [00:17:43 ▶️ 📄]
  > Immediately claim or pray for their desired outcome without delay.
• Pastoral Charge [00:18:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > Physically raise hands as a sign of surrender or worship.
• Pastoral Charge [00:19:58 ▶️ 📄]
  > Celebrate personal victory and prepare for the sermon.
• Pastoral Charge [00:36:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the realization that self-belief is a source of blockage.
• Pastoral Charge [00:41:26 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the affirmation that God blocks access to protect from unpreparedness.
• Pastoral Charge [00:43:06 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the principle that spiritual expansion overcomes limitations.
• Pastoral Charge [00:46:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down and verbally affirm the distinction between temporary blocking and permanent denial.
• Pastoral Charge [00:48:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > Physical act of standing up
• Pastoral Charge [00:49:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > Lift hands and engage in prayer, specifically asking God to help shift their perspective and mindset
• Pastoral Charge [00:50:19 ▶️ 📄]
  > Verbal prayer requesting removal of hindrances, growth, expansion of capacity, and healing
• Pastoral Charge [00:50:55 ▶️ 📄]
  > Verbal prayer of repentance, surrender, and expressing a desire for spiritual hunger and God's presence
• Pastoral Charge [00:51:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > Verbal declaration of readiness and breaking of curses

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:00:00] With me, he lives inside. So go ask Daniel. Our God will bring you out, and he will testify. He shuts the lion's mouth. Go ask those Hebrew boys, if he'll stick by your side. He will identify the false man in the fire. They'll tell you, oh, next to you, that he's in the room. Say it again. He'll tell you, oh.
[00:00:33] I've got a church and in my week, I search the earth, make my bed in hell.
[00:02:02] He's there.
[00:02:02] No matter if I'm in spirit, he's there.
[00:02:09] He's there.
[00:02:10] Deepest depths, he's there.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[00:08:22] This name that we'll always pray, amen, amen, and amen.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[00:09:15] Rise and know that it's all your presence.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:16:39] I want to lift up your voice in here today.
[00:17:20] We have joined today with expectation on our lips.
[00:17:24] minds are adapted and we are ready and we are focused for a move for a shift for a pivot for open doors come on somebody needs some open doors today before we leave this service
[00:17:43] come on you need you need god to do something today not tomorrow not not even next week you got a deadline you gotta say don't wait for the deadline for today call it forth right this second
[00:18:01] And so, Father, we just thank you for that.
[00:18:04] Lord, we thank you that you are replenishing us.
[00:18:07] How many walked in here feeling heavy today?
[00:18:08] Lift up your hands.
[00:18:10] Come on, lift it up, lift it up, lift it up, lift it up.
[00:18:12] Now, Father, right now I pray we get out of our emotions, we get out of fear, we get out of worry, we stop overthinking, and we know that, God, we can't pray and panic.
[00:18:23] We can't pray and panic.
[00:18:25] Come on, lift it up.
[00:18:26] See yourself just lift it, lift it, lift it.
[00:18:31] Now breathe.
[00:18:34] You feel the presence of God?
[00:18:37] Yo, I literally will catch myself at times feeling overwhelmed, right?
[00:18:43] Because we're human, right?
[00:18:45] And I will physically feel myself.
[00:18:50] I'll just act like I am lifting.
[00:18:52] I'll act like I got weights on.
[00:18:54] And if I really want to get crazy, I'll go get my 10-pound weights, and I'll just lift it and just do this.
[00:19:04] Because when you carry something, God can't carry it.
[00:19:08] and a lot of times you're trying to do things in your own strength and God is saying do you trust me or don't you right and so today God we're giving it to you and we're letting it go and I
[00:19:20] pray in this house miracle signs and wonders are taking place God you know prayers that we hadn't even prayed audibly you know the ones that are just the desires of our hearts and so today say
[00:19:35] today. It is done. Say it might be blocked, but it's blessed. Blocked, but blessed. Blocked, but blessed. Now high five yourself. Say good job. Y'all ready to get into it? Good job team.
[00:19:58] I keep waiting on our little songbird, Chelsea. She pregnant and I'm waiting for her to blow up, but she ain't blowing up yet I'm like I don't know if it's good you you you are a great pregnant
[00:20:14] woman I've been I've been knowing forever I must have knew it two weeks in because I'm like looking at you she's still singing like killing it some of y'all get pregnant you like a damsel in distress
[00:20:27] I can't do nothing she's over here singing from her toes I love you Chelsea say blocked but blessed Y'all listen, I am so excited about this series.
[00:20:42] So we're starting a new series today called Blocked.
[00:20:46] And for the next four weeks, I'm going to be breaking down.
[00:20:48] Y'all ready for this?
[00:20:49] Say, break it down, Pastor.
[00:20:51] I'm going to break down how sometimes being blocked is the greatest blessing on the planet.
[00:20:58] Y'all hear that?
[00:21:00] We don't think it is, especially when we're in it.
[00:21:02] I want to start with a story.
[00:21:03] I remember a time when I was in a hurry, and it's the funniest thing ever because my husband calls me Dennis the Menace.
[00:21:09] anybody clumsy anybody clumsy come on admit it like I'm the type of person that if I barely tap it and it moves like this if when I go to catch it I knock it across the room that's how
[00:21:22] graceful I am I tell my mom all the time God forgot grace like she should have named me Kimberly Grace to prophesy but I remember a time when I was in a hurry running late already frustrated
[00:21:35] and I walked up to a door that should have opened ever done it I hate to see those doors that you got to walk around and everybody gets in it and you walk together right and I'm in a hurry all
[00:21:47] the time I'm gonna get in front of somebody that's gonna go real slow in there and then I'm gonna get in and start trying to push it and they're gonna turn around give me the bad eye right like get
[00:21:55] get off my get off my toes and I remember I walked up to this door and it should have opened You know, those doors, the ones that are supposed to be automatic.
[00:22:05] So I stepped up and nothing happened.
[00:22:08] I waved my hand, nothing.
[00:22:10] I took a step back, nothing.
[00:22:13] I tried again, nothing.
[00:22:16] Now I'm irritated.
[00:22:17] Now I'm looking for another door.
[00:22:19] There's got to be a door for fire.
[00:22:22] You know, where we can just run out the door.
[00:22:23] No doors.
[00:22:24] So I'm irritated.
[00:22:25] So I start doing what all of us do when something won't open.
[00:22:29] I was trying to force it.
[00:22:32] Trying to put my foot on it.
[00:22:34] Trying to back up a little bit and put some weight on it.
[00:22:37] I'm pulling on the handle, pushing on the glass, looking around.
[00:22:40] Why is nothing working?
[00:22:45] And then I noticed something I missed.
[00:22:47] There was a small sign on the door.
[00:22:50] Not big.
[00:22:51] I need it big.
[00:22:54] I need bubble letters.
[00:22:56] I'm go big or go home.
[00:22:58] It wasn't big.
[00:22:59] And it wasn't loud.
[00:23:01] Just a simple sign.
[00:23:02] they said pull pull pull why am I pulling to go out like I have I always brag about this I got the greatest common sense on the planet pull and the whole time I'm pushing and some of you are
[00:23:22] frustrated with God because doors aren't opening you've been pushing you've been striving you've been fasting you've been praying you've been forcing you've been stressing and God is saying it's not blocked. You're just using the wrong approach. The Bible says, do not get, huh? Huh?
[00:23:50] Weary in well-doing for in due season, you shall reap. If you faint, not it's not blocked.
[00:24:01] That next season is not blocked. The answers to your prayer is not blocked. See, we love to shout about open doors. We even like to wait and testify after we're out of the storm, right?
[00:24:15] But we don't talk enough about wrong timing, wrong mindset, wrong methods, wrong people you're talking to.
[00:24:28] Your early approach, I want to tell everybody this is what I'm planning.
[00:24:32] Why are you going to tell people?
[00:24:36] Sometimes the door isn't the problem.
[00:24:39] It's the version of you that showed up to it.
[00:24:46] Same approach, different season.
[00:24:50] You can't keep doing what you've been doing to get where you're at.
[00:24:53] that's why you keep getting the same results so it's a version of you that showed up to it that's why we are titling this series blocked because some of you think people blocked you that divorce blocked you the enemy blocked you life blocked you that church blocked you
[00:25:14] that pastor blocked you but what if I told you God will block what you're not ready to carry You know how you can always tell when you're ahead of God?
[00:25:26] You get divorced.
[00:25:31] Because you didn't no more ask God if that was your spouse on the man on the moon.
[00:25:35] You jump in a job and you can't stand it.
[00:25:39] You're making $75,000 more a year and you hate going.
[00:25:43] Because we're moving by emotions instead of God's plan.
[00:25:47] So God will block what you are not ready to carry.
[00:25:52] So guess what we're preaching about today?
[00:25:55] There's a man named Jabez.
[00:25:57] We're going to say Jabez.
[00:25:59] see we only know the prayer lord enlarge my territory right remember that the prayer jabez so there was a man named jabez he was born into a light that looked blocked from the beginning but instead of accepting the blockage he prayed a very dangerous prayer god enlarge
[00:26:20] my territory so before god opens the door he will fix the way you approach it Have you ever felt like your life was blocked?
[00:26:38] You ever felt like, oh my gosh, here I am again.
[00:26:41] Here I go again on my own.
[00:26:45] Going down the only road I ever known.
[00:26:48] Yeah, disruptive, distractive, disobedient.
[00:26:54] If it ain't messy, it ain't God.
[00:26:56] That's what you think.
[00:26:58] Then we love to go around saying, man, I'm under spiritual attack.
[00:27:01] No, you're under a choice attack, right?
[00:27:06] Doors not opening in your life.
[00:27:09] Opportunities passing you by.
[00:27:12] You know you're called for more, but you keep hitting a wall.
[00:27:20] Sometimes, say this, say sometimes it's not the devil blocking me.
[00:27:25] It's my capacity.
[00:27:29] Sometimes it's not the devil blocking me.
[00:27:32] It's my capacity.
[00:27:35] I'm an overthinker.
[00:27:37] Sometimes I want to know before I move.
[00:27:39] Sometimes I want to say I'm faith in it, but I ain't no more faking it.
[00:27:43] I'm faking it, faking it.
[00:27:45] See how that just rolled off my tongue?
[00:27:47] I ain't faith in it.
[00:27:48] I'm faking it because church people are the best.
[00:27:52] And getting out there now, we got this whole movement going manifest.
[00:27:56] We're going to manifest a husband.
[00:27:57] You ain't going to keep him.
[00:28:00] You can manifest your vacation.
[00:28:03] You're going to hate it because you can manifest it.
[00:28:06] But if your actions aren't leaning into God, you will manifest what your flesh wants.
[00:28:12] And the devil is very, very, very nosy.
[00:28:16] He can't stop you, but he will make you be the weapon you use on yourself.
[00:28:22] Right?
[00:28:24] Social media makes you want to manifest things that God never had in store for you.
[00:28:29] You want what they got, but God has something even so much bigger for you.
[00:28:34] So sometimes it's not the devil blocking you.
[00:28:37] it's your capacity sometimes you gotta unfollow people on social media sometimes you gotta unfollow people in real life sometimes you gotta change a job sometimes you gotta break that relationship but y'all been dating 10 years and ain't no ring sometimes you just gotta make some
[00:28:53] waves sometimes you gotta cry yourself into oblivion roll down your wall cry a river and then get your butt up say i'm giving you three days to lay in this bed and cry if god can get
[00:29:06] up in three days and I'm getting up in three days, right? Let's go to first Chronicles four, nine through 11, man. I ain't held a mic to preach him forever. I got to get used to it.
[00:29:18] First Chronicles four, nine through 11. It says there was a man named Jabez who was more honorable than any of his brothers. His brother named him Jabez. His mother named him Jabez because his birth had been so painful. He was the one who prayed to God of Israel, oh, that you would bless
[00:29:46] me and expand my territory. And then he says, please be with me in all that I do and keep me from all trouble and pain. And God granted him his request. Kablu, the brother of Shua, was the
[00:30:03] father of Murr. Murr was the father of Easton. Jabez was born into a blocked identity. Anybody feel like you were born into a very dysfunctional family and it's just caused you, you know, you can't keep blaming that though, right? Y'all know y'all can't keep blaming your mama. We know y'all
[00:30:24] want, we got this whole epidemic going right now where we destroy, we disconnecting from our mamas and our daddies, right? And we're blaming them because it's easier to blame your upbringing than to look in the mirror and see that you got choices and you can change your decisions I don't want to
[00:30:39] be this way no more so I'm not I don't want to be an overthinker anyway anymore so I'm not I'm not going to be stressed out anymore so I'm not I'm not going to look at everybody else's promises
[00:30:49] and what they got so I'm not as for me and my house we are blessed we are blessed because we are kingdom heirs. Do you understand that? Say, I am royalty. So Jabez was born into a block
[00:31:04] identity. His name meant pain. So before he ever lived a life, he was already labeled before he ever even started walking. He was labeled. He was blocked by his past. He was blocked by perception.
[00:31:26] he was blocked by expectation but one prayer shifted everything because we don't think about God enlarge my territory when all hell's breaking loose we just want to breathe see when you've gone through a turmoil and and and a lot of friction and man I feel like I can't get a break
[00:31:48] you know those seasons where it's not just one thing breaks down it's a ton of things break down you don't just get in one work that week you get in two wrecks that week when you get in a wreck
[00:31:58] and then your husband gets in a wreck i remember i had conference one year it's when i was single it's my been when i started praying for a husband i don't even know but i had conference i thought
[00:32:11] i would never get married again i was like i'm good i got everything great in my life but this so i just kept saying i'm good god i'm good it's just me and you i'm good i had two cars
[00:32:22] go out to the car head to the church on the way to church that tire goes out like on the rim i get an uber to go back home because i'm alone go get my jeep come back to the church by the time
[00:32:42] i got out of church the tire is flat during my conference which is y'all know we got one coming up in July. It's a lot of work. It's the little nuisances. Is that a word? Nuances. That is it?
[00:33:01] That sounds way too grown. It's the newnesses or the nonsense, the irritation. It's the fly that won't go away. It's the gnat that keeps coming around your head. It's whatever you focus on is exactly what the enemy does he he gets you where you have no answers because you feel paralyzed
[00:33:23] and I started getting frustrated I was like both cars this is why I need a man and God was like that's the only reason you need a man that's your problem you need a man because you need a man to
[00:33:44] help you lead you need a man to cover you you need a man that got your back because that's a man's job. Y'all know that's a man's job. Men are born to take care of their queens. You hear me? Men love
[00:33:57] their hunters. And if you have a man that ain't doing this because you won't let him. Y'all hear me? I know I just stepped on something. Well, girl, you don't know my husband. I bet you money I put
[00:34:08] that dress right on back down. I get up and all of a sudden I become Molly Housemaker. What you doing? I'm waiting, baby. I'm just sitting here washing your clothes today, putting new sheets on your bed i'm gonna have you supper cook tonight whoa what do you mean evelyn oh no baby i'm gonna
[00:34:25] let you lead and i'm gonna love on you and while you're changing that look light bulb i'm gonna be going you're the sexiest light bulb changer i ever seen in my life sometimes you're in the position
[00:34:37] you're in because you don't know how to be a damsel in distress hands are broke that man And he changed one gas pump.
[00:34:48] You know what a gas pump feels like since I got married.
[00:34:51] Y'all hear me?
[00:34:52] All I got to say is, man, that light bulb is a different color.
[00:34:57] By noon, he done changed that light to the light.
[00:35:00] He will watch my actions.
[00:35:03] And if he sees something's bothering me, he will leave to go get me some coffee to call who he needs to to get that taken care of.
[00:35:10] That's how God is.
[00:35:13] And a lot of times the reason you're in the position you're in.
[00:35:16] I know y'all love me and I love y'all too and we need to hear this my husband's lazy no you letting him you ain't loving on that man enough because all he needs is to know he's celebrating baby
[00:35:29] every time I put something up on social media I got all the women coming up underneath well he needs to pour into me too well I guarantee you he'll pour into you if you pour it into him
[00:35:44] because the bible says do unto others as you would have them do unto you God didn't raise no broke man he really didn't even a man that didn't have a daddy to teach him can learn if you give him
[00:35:53] honor and respect well he don't give it to me so i ain't giving it to him so y'all gonna live the rest of your life miserable baby i learned you can let that man walks in the house i'm gonna get up
[00:36:04] as soon as i hear that clock and i'm gonna run in there to the to the door oh hey baby and i just got done off of the one-on-one get up girl the bible says but the minute he walks in oh my that's
[00:36:21] the same thing with God. Sometimes you got to take your hands off of it. J-Bass, pray this prayer.
[00:36:29] Some of you are blocked. Write this down. Some of you are blocked by what you believe about yourself.
[00:36:36] I ain't never had it. My mama ain't never had it. My aunties ain't never had it.
[00:36:42] So I ain't never going to get it. You sure ain't because you ain't going to let them.
[00:36:48] That's why you'll stay at a job that you can't stand because you make six figures.
[00:36:52] I'd rather make four figures and have to earn three jobs and have bees.
[00:36:59] But because we don't really trust God.
[00:37:02] Some of you were blocked by what you believe about yourself.
[00:37:06] Jay Bez could have accepted his name.
[00:37:09] He could have said, this is just who I am.
[00:37:12] This is just who I am.
[00:37:13] This is just how my life is going to be.
[00:37:16] And I just have to deal with it.
[00:37:18] Anybody ever felt like that?
[00:37:19] Come on.
[00:37:20] Come on, be honest.
[00:37:20] This is just who I am.
[00:37:22] I've already been put in jail I already have a DUI I already got mug shots I've already got this this felony on my record and there ain't nothing I can do about it so I might as well just give up
[00:37:32] in life no you better be the felon that turned it all around and started praying Lord let me use this felony you gave me free press in that newspaper every time they google me that's the
[00:37:44] first thing that comes up I need to let them come find me so they can see what it looks like for a felon to shift the trajectory because Jabez could have done this he could have given up but
[00:37:59] instead say instead he prayed how many I want to pray when you got two flat tires how many want to cuss I love them they like me girl I want to cuss them tires out they can't hear me he prayed which
[00:38:22] means he rejected, say he rejected the narrative placed on him. You ain't never going to get married. Ain't nobody going to ever love you. You've been married four times. That is so embarrassing. You might as well just go out there and become a, what's that woman called
[00:38:44] when she don't need nobody? Feminist. You might as well just, ain't nobody going to ever love you. So now you out in these streets letting everybody know who you are. Honey, I got so good. My mama was on the road with me. She taught me. I would watch her get on that plane.
[00:39:05] We are both very capable. We both work out. She might be 78 and I might be 53, but baby, we can lift. We both lift. But as soon as we'd get on that plane, I would watch this woman. She would
[00:39:27] get that man up out of a seat that she didn't know to come put her suitcase up. She always got out of the plane first because she would stand there and just be like, and then she'd be like, thank you
[00:39:42] so much. I was like, that's how it works. Now my husband, y'all, I don't even open the door to go out in the garage. It's too heavy. So some of you were blocked, not because God said no. You hear
[00:40:01] me. But because your mindset said, I'm not worthy. Nobody's ever done it for me. I ain't never seen it done this way and I'm not worthy. So I'm just going to get up. I don't need nobody. Yes, you do.
[00:40:16] You need a village. So you can't walk into a new territory while agreeing with an old lie about yourself. Write this down. Small prayers keep you blocked. Jabez didn't pray, God, just help me get back. God just eased the pain. He said, enlarge my territory. That means, baby,
[00:40:47] we got to make a whole documentary out of this. They thought that he was going to lose, And he said, oh, you're waiting on me to lose.
[00:40:56] Let's go on and just get a whole documentary about my life.
[00:41:01] So he says, Lord, enlarge my territory.
[00:41:02] And that's a dangerous prayer.
[00:41:05] Because when you ask for more, God will expose everything in you that can't handle more.
[00:41:14] And some of you are frustrated with God.
[00:41:16] But God is actually saying, I'm not blocking you.
[00:41:19] I'm building you.
[00:41:23] So if your prayers don't stretch you, they won't move God.
[00:41:26] Write this down. God will block. Say, God will block what I'm not ready to carry.
[00:41:39] God will block what I'm not ready to carry. See, some of what you called rejection was actually protection. Delay is not denial. It's just, I love you too much to let you have another divorce. That other one almost took you out. So this time I'll make you sit
[00:42:01] your hips down and grow. So some of us call it rejection, but God calls it protection. And some doors didn't open because you ready for this? Say, tell me, tell me PK, come on, talk to me.
[00:42:14] Your character wasn't ready. Your discipline wasn't consistent. Your healing wasn't complete.
[00:42:28] So God will block access to protect your assignment because God loves you too much.
[00:42:36] say, God loves me too much to give me something that will destroy me. So if he's given it to you, let's flip it. Let's flip it. If he's given it to you, then he already knows that you can,
[00:42:55] are you single mamas, daddies, that job you think you ain't qualified for?
[00:43:01] He would not have opened that door if you weren't qualified for it. Write this down.
[00:43:06] expansion breaks blockages say expansion breaks blockages so the moment Jabez prayed bigger God responded but why y'all why because heaven moves when you align with increase That means faith has to have feet.
[00:43:35] Faith has to have feet.
[00:43:41] That means you can't look at the blessings that are no longer there as your example.
[00:43:45] That's where the enemy gets us.
[00:43:47] He makes us live back in the days that were so good.
[00:43:49] You ever look at a picture of yourself and say, dang, I look good.
[00:43:53] Man, I thought I was fat then.
[00:43:55] I'd kill to be that size now.
[00:43:58] See, expansion breaks fear.
[00:44:02] Expansion breaks limitation.
[00:44:04] Expansion breaks insecurity.
[00:44:06] Expansion breaks cycles.
[00:44:08] But here's the catch.
[00:44:09] You can't pray for expansion and stay comfortable.
[00:44:17] I need my clapper.
[00:44:19] Thank you, baby.
[00:44:24] So you can either stay safe or you can be stretched.
[00:44:30] But you can't have both.
[00:44:33] You can't have both.
[00:44:34] Say, I can't have both.
[00:44:36] I can either stay safe or I can be stretched.
[00:44:41] And a lot of things you call safety is driving you nuts.
[00:44:43] You just want comfortability and you're gonna stay in something that's taking away your peace Because you don't want to risk it. You don't want to walk in faith You don't want to believe god for bigger the last time you had bigger you were torn into pieces
[00:44:56] You couldn't handle it. So now the enemy's telling you you can't handle it and god is telling you No, I had to open. I had to close the doors. I had to burn down the whole bridge
[00:45:06] So you wouldn't go back say bigger bigger write this down if God removes the block say God if God man my time's going so fast if God removes the block you better keep his hand if God's removing that block if God's removing
[00:45:36] that crutch if God's removing that relationship if God's removing that job if God's removing if God's removing you better keep hold of his hand and know because when you let your hand be with him listen he will move mountains he said I'm setting you up for a miracle I promise you one
[00:45:51] thing about reading the word of God as you know he loves you too much to wreck his reputation on you say he loves to wreck his reputation on me you're gonna let your hand be with me he says
[00:46:14] because once the blockage lifts exposure increases more eyes are on you more pressure is on you more responsibility is on you and Jabez understood it he said Lord if I lose God I lose everything
[00:46:29] but if I have God I have everything because I don't want to have access without anointing write this down say blocked doesn't mean denied say self blocked doesn't mean denied some of you walked in here thinking it's never going to happen for me
[00:46:53] But I came to flip that lie.
[00:46:56] Blocked is temporary.
[00:46:58] Denied is permanent.
[00:46:59] And God never said no.
[00:47:01] He just said not like this.
[00:47:03] Not like this.
[00:47:06] If it didn't happen yet, it's because God is still working on you while he's working on it.
[00:47:11] I feel this heavy.
[00:47:16] Some of you are in a season where everything feels delayed and stuck.
[00:47:21] Feels boring.
[00:47:24] You're bored.
[00:47:24] Some of you are in a season where everything feels delayed and stuck, and you are so frustrated.
[00:47:35] But what you thought was a blockage is actually a construction zone, which construction zones mean slow.
[00:47:46] Why do you think in a construction zone, it says, it says tickets doubled, fines doubled.
[00:47:59] why because construction sites are things changing and they're very dangerous if you continue going the same speed you've been going so god has to disrupt you in order to elevate you and just like in the natural a construction zone says slow down or they're gonna find you're gonna be doubled
[00:48:24] that's the same thing with god when you get ahead of god your ramifications and repercussions that stinks. And then you get mad at God because you did it. Stand up on your feet. So what you
[00:48:40] thought was a blockage is actually a construction zone because God is widening your foundation.
[00:48:51] God is strengthening your character. God is expanding your capacity because where you're going requires a version of you that doesn't exist yet so if you've been feeling stuck overlooked late right now this is your moment not for God to just open doors but for God to prepare
[00:49:27] you for what's behind the doors lift up your hands like this say Lord help me shift come on some of y'all need to talk to God you ain't talk to God in a minute some of y'all frustrated man it's
[00:49:45] hard to pray when you're frustrated ain't it ain't it hard to pray when all hell is coming all over you maybe it's because god wants you just to say me getting mad when those tires were
[00:50:02] busted didn't do nothing i just got an uber and sucked it up buttercup figured it out and you know who felt so good after that me say lord i know say lord i know i'm capable of carrying
[00:50:19] this next season and say God remove every blockage that is not for me from you remove every blockage that is from you grow me through it enlarge my territory stretch my capacity heal what's in me
[00:50:48] that can't carry what you're asking me to carry.
[00:50:55] Say, Lord, keep your hand on me.
[00:51:00] Say, Father, I repent of all my sins and I ask you to be my Lord and Savior.
[00:51:10] Lord, make me so hungry for you.
[00:51:15] Let me crave you.
[00:51:16] Give me joy from the top of my head to the soles of my feet lord keep your hand on me heal what's in me change what's in me change your hand on me so that i don't lose myself as you begin to elevate me say father
[00:51:37] i will not shrink will not settle eddie but you better give god a shout say god i'm ready I'm ready God I break every word curse that was ever spoken over me say I'm ready
[00:52:01] I'm ready say bigger bigger I hear the Lord calling you back there's some people in this room and I don't hear the Lord saying you've rested long enough God said you've rested long enough that church hurt was an assignment
[00:52:30] to take you out because of the anointing that's on your life that divorce was supposed to destroy you and take your identity and your confidence and you're afraid to step back into what God's called you to do
[00:52:43] because the enemy knows that you are an iconic disruptor for Jesus and he says this time I got you I even heard the Lord say it's not going to turn out like it did before pain has lost your
[00:53:00] address disappointment has lost your address failure has lost your address I even hear the Lord's saying, I am so proud of you.
[00:53:10] Proud of you that you could have gave up, but you got up.
[00:53:16] So, Lord, release it in this house.
[00:53:19] In Jesus' name.
[00:53:21] Amen.
[00:53:27] Baby.

[00:53:31] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:53:31] What size is this?

[00:53:32] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:53:32] Let's go.
[00:53:33] What?

[00:53:34] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:53:34] What's the wattage on the light bulbs?

[00:53:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:53:38] Do you know what the wattage is?

[00:53:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:53:42] Probably about a 95 to 100.

[00:53:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:53:44] Y'all, this man, listen to me.
[00:53:46] Our toilet was broke.
[00:53:48] I said, baby, just call the electrician.
[00:53:51] I mean, the plumber.
[00:53:55] Can't they do both?
[00:54:01] That dude left my house, went to the plumbing store.

[00:54:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:54:06] Home Depot.

[00:54:08] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:54:08] I already got a man.
[00:54:11] I don't go to Home Depot no more.
[00:54:15] Listen, y'all, I go, I get on my call.
[00:54:19] While I'm on my car, on my call, this man has taken our toilet apart and is fixing that toilet.
[00:54:25] I said, baby, who taught you how to do that?
[00:54:27] He said, I can fix anything.
[00:54:33] You felt good about yourself too, didn't you, baby?
[00:54:36] You're the best plumber I ever met and the best looking.
[00:54:39] I just stood over him going, man.

[00:54:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:54:44] I don't mess with electrical.
[00:54:45] We use Jake for that.

[00:54:47] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:54:47] Yeah, we ain't stupid.
[00:54:50] We don't want to go to heaven quicker.
[00:54:52] We let Jake do all that.
[00:54:54] Y'all ready to give.
[00:54:56] Y'all, we love you.
[00:54:58] Y'all know how much we love you.

[00:55:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:55:00] I just had to, you know, that block was something else.

[00:55:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:55:03] Was it good?

[00:55:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:55:04] Yeah.

[00:55:05] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:55:05] What'd you get out of it?

[00:55:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:55:06] I had to take some people out of it.
[00:55:09] A lot of us got people blocked.

[00:55:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:55:11] Oh, you blocked some people today online?

[00:55:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:55:13] We blocked some finance companies.
[00:55:15] We blocked some people.

[00:55:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:55:16] Oh, you better unblock them.

[00:55:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:55:18] But the only way you're going to get to the interior is unblock some people and some companies to get exactly what you want.
[00:55:28] Unblock dealers.
[00:55:29] Unblock Macy's.
[00:55:31] unblock SVA because you're getting to where you need to be at.

[00:55:37] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:55:37] Come on, baby.

[00:55:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:55:38] Unblock people to have a conversation.
[00:55:41] If you're scared of them, bring them to church.
[00:55:46] And you're going to handle them, baby.
[00:55:48] We'll pray for them.
[00:55:50] You're going to put your hands on them.
[00:55:51] Because the oil costs you nothing.

[00:55:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:55:53] Come on, baby.
[00:55:56] Everybody ready to give?
[00:55:57] Yes.
[00:55:58] Y'all know there's several ways you can give.
[00:56:00] How many ways there is to give?

[00:56:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:56:01] Several ways to give.

[00:56:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:56:02] How many?

[00:56:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:56:03] Several.

[00:56:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:56:04] I want them to answer.
[00:56:05] How many?
[00:56:06] Seven.
[00:56:08] Tell us how good looking.

[00:56:09] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:56:09] You can give online.

[00:56:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:56:11] Limitlesschurch.live.

[00:56:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:56:13] Or you can text to give.

[00:56:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:56:15] 833-245-4502.
[00:56:18] Say 833-245-4502.
[00:56:23] You can set up your automatic payment there.
[00:56:25] You can also go in the news feed right there, Limitless Online Church, and give right there.
[00:56:30] You only got to leave the news feed.
[00:56:32] There's also Cash App, Venmo, My Limitless Church, and you can also just put your phone there and do it.
[00:56:41] We are so relevant.
[00:56:43] We're cutting edge.
[00:56:45] Everybody hold up your devices.
[00:56:47] Say, Lord, or however high you're giving, your checks, your envelopes, hold it up.
[00:56:51] Say, Lord, this week, we are walking in Amos 9.13.
[00:56:57] That says it won't be long now.
[00:56:59] God's decree said things are about to happen so fast your head is about to spin blessing upon blessing we won't be able to keep up in Jesus name Amen amen and amen

[00:57:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:57:44] We've got some great things coming up, next Sunday is Mother's Day, yeah, the heroes among us, the moms, we want to encourage you, invite your mothers, your grandmothers, your aunts, all the ladies in your life, we're going to be celebrating that next Sunday, it's going to be incredible, you don't want to miss it, also on May 31st, we're going to have our summer kickoff, this is our time, we're going to celebrate as a family, we're going to celebrate our graduates, and so if you have a graduate in your family that you'd like to be honored,
[00:58:13] Send us their picture, their name, let us know.
[00:58:16] You can send it to kdennis at limitlesschurch.live.
[00:58:19] We'd love to include them in that time as well.
[00:58:22] We're also going to be celebrating the Dream Team.
[00:58:24] All those that make Limitless Church happen couldn't do it without the Dream Team, man.
[00:58:29] We are better because of the Dream Team.
[00:58:33] And so we're so grateful for you.
[00:58:34] We're going to be celebrating you as well on May 31st.
[00:58:37] And one of the things we're offering, our men's ministry has decided they want to throw a fish fry, shrimp boil for us all and so after the second service everybody's invited graduates dream team everybody it's going to be incredible men women everybody it's going to be fun we're going to hang
[00:58:54] out on the property and just eat eat and fellowship and so we'd love for you to join us may 31st right here after the second service at limitless church hey guys it's going to be a great
[00:59:06] week i know you're ready i know you're pumped let's go take life home can we do that we'll see you next time. Be blessed.