Blocked but Blessed: A Theological Audit

• Blocked but Blessed [00:01:49 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor introduces the sermon title and theme, suggesting that perceived blockages are often due to human error or wrong approaches rather than divine obstruction.
• Wrong Methods [00:05:38 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that people strive, force, and beg when God is asking for a different approach, using the analogy of pushing a door that needs to be pulled.
• Mindset and Media Consumption [00:11:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor critiques addiction to trash TV and social media, suggesting these things lower one's spiritual level and create a wrong mindset that leads to feeling stuck.
• Divine Protection/Blocking [00:13:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reframes 'blocking' as a protective act by God, stating that He blocks what we are not ready to carry or handle.
• Divine Protection vs. Rejection [00:13:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reframes perceived blockages as God's protective measure for those not ready to handle the blessings or responsibilities associated with them.
• Mindset and Identity [00:18:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > The speaker argues that self-imposed labels and negative mindsets (like the name Jabez) are the true barriers, which can be overcome through prayer and rejecting the narrative.
• Prayer and Ambition [00:23:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor critiques 'small prayers' that ask only for survival ('help me get by') and encourages 'dangerous prayers' that ask for expansion and territory.
• Character Readiness [00:27:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The sermon suggests that closed doors are often due to incomplete healing, lack of consistency, or insufficient character development.
• Divine Protection vs. Rejection [00:27:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that perceived rejection is often God's protection because the individual's character or healing was not yet complete to handle the blessing.
• Spiritual Warfare and Self-Talk [00:31:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor instructs the congregation to rebuke negative words spoken over them, emphasizing that titles (doctor, pastor) do not grant authority to curse, and one must speak life over themselves.
• Expansion and Comfort [00:35:09 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor asserts that one cannot pray for expansion while remaining comfortable; growth requires changing habits and letting go of the 'mess' rather than just asking God to anoint it.
• Exposure and Responsibility [00:37:12 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that when God removes a block, exposure increases, bringing more eyes, pressure, and responsibility, which requires maintaining spiritual discipline to avoid losing God.
• The Construction Zone Metaphor [00:41:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reframes delays as a 'construction zone' where God is widening the foundation and strengthening character, warning against comparing one's journey to others or rushing the process.
• Spiritual Warfare vs. Divine Preparation [00:48:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that perceived attacks or delays are not always warfare but are often God's method of preparing the believer for what is behind the door.
• Submission and Gender Roles [00:46:53 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using a personal anecdote about her husband, the pastor illustrates the need for women to learn submission and allow men to lead, contrasting independence with partnership.
• Faith and Self-Blame [00:50:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor addresses the tendency to blame oneself for negative circumstances (bad kids, cheating spouses, flat tires) and encourages believers to stop believing the lie that God isn't listening.
• Prayer and Repentance [00:51:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor leads the congregation in a prayer of repentance for getting ahead of God and asking for forgiveness to remove blockages.

• Sermon Illustration [00:02:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about being in a hurry and frustrated at an automatic door that wouldn't open. She pushed and waved at it, feeling like a fool, until she noticed a small sign that said 'pull'. She uses this to illustrate how people often struggle with God because they are using the wrong approach (pushing/striving) instead of the required one (pulling/receiving).
• Sermon Illustration [00:13:52 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the biblical story of Jabez, who was named for pain and born into a 'blocked identity,' but prayed a 'dangerous prayer' to expand his territory, resulting in God granting his request. This is used to illustrate overcoming societal and familial labels.
• Sermon Illustration [00:20:52 ▶️ 📄]
  > An analogy of a car accident where one part of the car is hit, followed by another part being hit, illustrating how the enemy uses sequential failures to make a person give up and accept a debilitating situation.
• Sermon Illustration [00:28:43 ▶️ 📄]
  > A humorous anecdote about going to State Farm insurance while speaking in tongues, contrasting spiritual enthusiasm with emotional instability in secular settings.
• Sermon Illustration [00:29:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about being diagnosed with ADHD, rejecting the idea that it is a punishment or something God made to hinder her, but instead viewing it as a 'superpower' that prepared her for business and ministry, which she manages through prayer and decreeing rather than medication.
• Sermon Illustration [00:28:43 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a fish on the back of a car to illustrate the inconsistency of emotional states in believers who lack a prayer life, contrasting speaking in tongues with erratic behavior that causes others to question their stability.
• Sermon Illustration [00:33:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical story of Jabez, noting that when he prayed for expansion, God responded, illustrating that heaven moves when one aligns with increase rather than just asking for help to get through a season.
• Sermon Illustration [00:41:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a construction zone to explain spiritual delays, noting that just as one must slow down and not risk fines in a physical construction zone, one must not rush or compare themselves to others in their spiritual construction phase.
• Sermon Illustration [00:44:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal story about having a flat tire before meeting her husband, feeling angry and abandoned, only to realize later that God was using that situation to prepare her for submission and leadership in her marriage.
• Sermon Illustration [00:53:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a recent medical issue with gout in her toe, refusing a prescription and trusting God for healing, illustrating her continued faith despite lingering pain.

• Pastoral Charge [00:00:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > Take notes and share the sermon message with friends.
• Pastoral Charge [00:00:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > Lay hands on head and pray for reception of the sermon's message to break chains.
• Pastoral Charge [00:09:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > Join the morning Bible reading prayer calls at 8 a.m.
• Pastoral Charge [00:18:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor commands the congregation to physically write down the truth about their mindset and self-perception.
• Pastoral Charge [00:27:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor commands the congregation to write down this theological principle as a reminder of God's protective nature.
• Pastoral Charge [00:33:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the statement 'expansion breaks blockages' and verbally affirm it.
• Pastoral Charge [00:38:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > Write down the distinction that being blocked is temporary while denial is permanent, and verbally affirm the phrase 'Blocked, but blessed.'
• Pastoral Charge [00:41:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > Stand up and verbally repeat the affirmation 'Blocked, but blessed.'
• Pastoral Charge [00:49:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > Lift hands and recite a prayer asking God to remove blockages and prepare them for blessings and miracles.
• Pastoral Charge [00:49:44 ▶️ 📄]
  > Recite a prayer asking for hunger for God's glory, His hand on their family, and preservation of self during elevation.
• Pastoral Charge [00:51:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > Engage in immediate prayer, surrendering burdens to God and asking for faith.

[00:00:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:00:11] Listen, you're about to listen to a sermon that is going to blow your mind. It's called Blocked But Blessed. We're about to flip where you're talking about Jabez. Get your pen, get your paper, go share it with all your friends. Every single Sunday right here, you should have a date. If you're not in Atlanta, Georgia, to come tune in every Sunday right here, 10 and 1130 for this sermon. This whole month's going to be incredible. If you're in Atlanta, come to 1653 Highway 85 South,
[00:00:41] Fayetteville, Georgia, 30215, every Sunday, 10, 11, 30, Limitless Church across from Whitewater High School. Y'all, I'm telling you, get ready, get ready, get ready. Come on, lay hands on your head. Say, Lord, let me receive what I need to receive out of this, because it's going to break
[00:00:53] some chains off you. I feel it, and I love you. There's a lot of people that drive a long way because when the anointing is chain-breaking, I believe there are seasons in your life where
[00:01:04] God brings voices, right? Those voices kind of agitate you enough to get you moving, you know and then there's there's seasons that voices change friendship change has anybody ever walked through a season where you lost all your friends
[00:01:17] and it got lonely anybody what did you feel about yourself when all of a sudden you got lonely huh she said relieved girl I was relieved when they left they were a pain they thought they were
[00:01:38] they were hurting me but they were really blessing me you thought when you walked out my life was going in and it just elevated because listen i'm teaching a sermon today on blocked and the
[00:01:49] sermon is talking about a lot of times what we want to do is we want to look at it through human eyes but nothing we do is through human eyes right especially when you're in the kingdom of god i
[00:02:00] want to start today i'm going to title this one blocked but blessed i need my clapper i'm gonna bring my clapper to church because y'all just looking at me like this i'm like girl that was
[00:02:14] drop the mic? Well, I don't know if it's dropped the mic yet, Kim. I need to know what block but blessed means. Block but blessed. And I want to start with this story, okay? I remember a time
[00:02:27] I was in a hurry, running late, already frustrated, and I walked up to a door that should have just opened. You ever been at that place where you're in a hurry? Angelo calls me Dennis the menace
[00:02:42] because I am in a hurry. I will get frustrated. In fact, I have learned that when he's with me, I don't even know where to go. I just follow his footsteps. But I got to this door. Angela was not
[00:02:55] with me. And I get to this door. And as I walked up to the door, I was seeing everybody else just going to the door and I wasn't paying attention, but I kept seeing, I was the only one at the door.
[00:03:04] Like, why am I the only one at the door? Something's wrong with the door. So, you know, those doors, the ones that are supposed to be automatic, right? So I stepped up, nothing happened. Then I'm
[00:03:18] starting to feel stupid. You ever been there? Where now you're just standing there looking like a fool?
[00:03:23] You ever seen those people walk into glass? I done that too. So I stepped up and nothing happened. I waved my hand, nothing happened. I took a step back, tried again, nothing happened. Do we have any of
[00:03:38] those people that get to the stoplight and at the stoplight don't turn green, you back up, back, back up again. Y'all impatient. That's what I do. Like, like it's going to move.
[00:03:49] That's exactly what I did with this door. I stepped up. Then I stepped back. Nothing happened.
[00:03:55] I waved my hand. Nothing happened. Took a step back. Tried again. Nothing happened. Now I'm irritated. Now I'm irritated at a door that cannot hear me. I'm standing at the door. I'm waving my hands. It's making me even later. Nothing happened. Took a step back. Nothing happened. I'm irritated.
[00:04:15] So I start doing what all of us do when something won't open. I force it, pushed it, got my foot and started doing this to it, trying to get it to move. I'm pulling on the handle, pushing the glass,
[00:04:33] looking around. Why is this not working? And then I noticed something I missed. There was a small sign on the door. It wasn't big. I needed it to be big and I needed it to be flashy. It wasn't big.
[00:04:52] It wasn't loud, but it says pull. Why am I going to pull a door that I'm walking through? I got a lot of common sense. The whole time I'm pushing and it's telling me to pull because usually it's
[00:05:16] always a push to go out. This is the way that some of us are with God. We're frustrated with God because the doors aren't opening. You've been pushing. You've been striving. You've been dancing.
[00:05:38] you've been working out you've been fasting you've been forcing you've been begging you've been stressing and God is saying it's not blocked you're just using the wrong approach this is why I always tell you it's something about getting into the house it's great online
[00:06:02] our biggest campus is online but there's something about getting in this house because life happens. And if you don't learn how to step back and say, God, I'm doing some things in my life. It ain't good results. I'm going to sit back and let you show me what to do. And when you come
[00:06:20] into the corporate anointing here, you can hijack other people's faith. You know, sometimes they say you can't hijack nobody's faith. I bet I can. I bet I get around the loudest one in this room,
[00:06:31] the one acting the fool the most. And I'm going to stand right beside you and I'm going to just rub up against you you're gonna act like you're about to fall out i'm gonna catch you because
[00:06:40] whatever's on you i need to get on me i need to stop for a minute and pause see the presence of god in this room is a place while they're singing worship you gotta sit and get into the presence
[00:06:52] of god because life will have you not praying life will have you not believing life will life you to death. And so he's saying it's not blocked. You're just using the wrong approach. See, we love to shout about open doors, right? Anybody love to testify? You love it. You'll see on social
[00:07:17] media, people were saying, I believe this week money is going to hit your bank account. I see checks in the mail with nine zeros. There'll be 55 people underneath. It's mine. It's mine.
[00:07:30] I want to go up underneath and say, yeah, if you work, because we love open doors, but we don't want to put feet on our faith. We want to be offended. We want to blame others. We want to
[00:07:46] be mad at ourselves. We want to live in shame, right? We, we, we, we don't really talk about the wrong timing seasons we don't really talk about the time we didn't ask God about that spouse
[00:07:57] and we married Satan and had to pretend we were happy we don't really talk about our grown kid not talking to us we we don't really talk about that church where we got asked to leave because
[00:08:07] we got pregnant out of wedlock we don't really talk about those seasons where we go and find our kids strung out on drug with fit hanging out of his arm we don't want to talk about the wrong
[00:08:17] mindset and see the enemy knows if he can get you in the wrong mindset then he's got you because what's in your head say in my head come on so we don't need to hit it what's in my head comes out
[00:08:31] of my mouth what's in my mouth gets in my heart what's in my heart comes out of my mouth and my life is a prophecy of what's inside of me so the enemy wants to make you hate the enemy wants to
[00:08:45] make you sad. The enemy wants you to sit and live in fear. The enemy wants to make you believe that you'll never recover. But my God said, stop wrong methods. See, some of your only Bible that you
[00:09:02] ever read is social media. That's why we're reading the Bible through every morning at 8 a.m.
[00:09:09] on my prayer calls. We're in James. It's not too late for you to start with us. Because even when you don't think you understand the word it's getting in your spirit and before long when the
[00:09:23] enemy comes at you and tells you you won't make it you're like i don't know who you're talking to you at the wrong address because baby i'm not just gonna make it i'm about to flourish i'm not just
[00:09:34] gonna make it i'm about to take back everything the devil stole i'm not just gonna make it i'm gonna make the devil come up in here and clean my house i'm gonna tell him you get your butt up in
[00:09:42] here and i need you to take all your little demons with you and i need you to get out of my house because greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.
[00:09:49] You cannot have my kids.
[00:09:51] You cannot have my marriage.
[00:09:53] You cannot have my mind.
[00:09:54] You cannot have my money.
[00:09:56] You cannot have my feet.
[00:09:58] But the enemy wants you to get stuck.
[00:10:03] But you ain't stuck because why?
[00:10:05] Because you ain't no tree.
[00:10:09] You ain't stuck because you ain't a tree.
[00:10:11] And as long as you ain't dead, God ain't done.
[00:10:13] Well, I don't really have anything to praise God for as you woke up.
[00:10:16] Well, I wish I wouldn't have, but you did.
[00:10:18] because there's something inside of you that the enemy does not want you to ever get if you can ever learn how to praise your way in the hallway.
[00:10:27] I don't see a door open.
[00:10:29] You better learn how to praise him.
[00:10:31] Well, you sure do look crazy praising him when you've lost everything.
[00:10:35] Yeah, because I know if I lost it, it wouldn't mind in the first place.
[00:10:38] It means I opened some doors I should have never opened.
[00:10:41] I opened some doors because I wanted comfortability.
[00:10:43] I opened some doors because I wanted some kids.
[00:10:46] I opened some doors that I knew it wasn't God.
[00:10:48] But in this season, as for me and my house, we'll serve the Lord.
[00:10:54] So I might have opened some doors, but opening that door just gave me a message.
[00:11:00] Baby, in this season, you're coming back with a whole documentary about your life.
[00:11:05] So we talk about everything but wrong timing, wrong methods, wrong mindsets.
[00:11:11] And sometimes the door isn't the problem.
[00:11:14] It's a version of you that keeps showing up to it.
[00:11:17] We're watching Love is Blind, but we ain't open one single scripture.
[00:11:25] We're watching anything that don't make us think.
[00:11:27] In fact, we are addicted to things that make us feel better about our lives.
[00:11:31] Their lives are trash, so it makes you feel better about your life.
[00:11:34] And when you hang around people that ain't elevating, you go on their level instead of them coming on yours.
[00:11:39] So you're watching all this trash TV, and they all of a sudden not making you feel so bad about your life, and you're stuck.
[00:11:47] At least I ain't lose my house like she did.
[00:11:49] You close.
[00:11:49] That's why I say you better never put your mouth on people because you do not know how quickly god can put you in The same situation that they're in So it's a version of you that keeps showing up. That's why this series this whole month is called blocked
[00:12:07] Because some of you think people are blocking you Your daddy is blocking you your mama's blocking you your your your your life is blocking you the enemy is blocking you But I need y'all to see let's do this
[00:12:21] You know what that means?
[00:12:26] You got fingers, you got hands, you can worship, you can praise, right?
[00:12:35] So you're letting circumstances make you get mute.
[00:12:41] Because when you get mute, you don't have anything to say.
[00:12:45] And until you know how to open your mouth, Florence, ain't that the right?
[00:12:48] Until you learn how to open your mouth and begin to decree and declare that by his stripes I am healed.
[00:12:53] He said in Jeremiah 29 11, for I know the plans that I have.
[00:12:56] Says the Lord plans to bless me and not harm me, give you a future and hope.
[00:12:59] I feel like everything around me is harming me.
[00:13:01] I feel like everything around me is just keeping me stuck.
[00:13:05] It's your fault.
[00:13:07] Because what you think about all the time is what you got in your life.
[00:13:15] So you think the enemy blocks you.
[00:13:16] You think people are blocking you.
[00:13:17] You think life blocks you.
[00:13:18] But what if I told you God will block what you're not ready to carry?
[00:13:27] Sometimes the door didn't open because you couldn't handle the hate that's going to come with the promotion.
[00:13:35] you can't even handle your mama mad at you how you gonna handle 58 000 people online coming to your page and unfollowing you you get mad at the bots they pay to come under your post
[00:13:52] there was a man named jabez say jabez he was born into a life that looked blocked from the beginning but instead accepting the blockage he prayed a dangerous prayer he says god enlarge my territory. So before God opens the door, he will fix the way you approach it. He's seeing
[00:14:17] how you handle that disappointment. How do you handle it? How do you handle disappointment?
[00:14:27] How do you handle doors not opening? How do you handle doors closing? How do you handle no traction? How do you handle looking like people on social media is just taken off and you can't
[00:14:39] get two likes. How are you handling opportunities that are passing you by? How are you handling?
[00:14:48] You know you're called for more, but you keep hitting a wall. See, sometimes it's not the devil

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:14:57] blocking you. It's your capacity. Your anointing ain't like them. Your call ain't like them.

[00:15:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:15:13] What God has on your life is so different and life-changing that he needs you to let it process. That's why the enemy's got you a victim. Because as long as you're a victim, you can't be
[00:15:28] a victor. And so we're constantly striving for victory, but you're already victorious because you're made in the image of God. So every time you lay in the bed depressed, God's inside of you going, what are you doing? Because you have the same power that raised Jesus from the dead
[00:15:51] living on the inside of you. Let's look at 1 Chronicles 4, 9 through 11. See, God will not pour overflow into a life that can't handle it. So you know what the challenge is this week, right?
[00:16:06] You got to stop falling apart. You got to stop using Facebook as your personal journal.
[00:16:18] Stop sending subliminal messages to people that ain't done nothing to you.
[00:16:24] Stop bleeding on people that didn't cut you. Stop thinking it was your five-finger forehead that made that relationship not work? It was your anointing. And God said, they cannot go where I'm taking you. Their character is never going to get right. He said, there was a man named Jabez who
[00:16:43] was more honorable than any of his brothers. 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 me
[00:17:05] and expand my territory. Please be with me in all that I do and keep me from all trouble and pain.
[00:17:16] And it says, God granted him his request. So Jabez was born into blocked identity, right?
[00:17:30] So society will tell you because you didn't have a daddy, you can't be a daddy. Society will tell you because your whole family struggles with addiction, you're going to struggle with it.
[00:17:40] Right? Society puts these labels on you. Jabez was born, his own mother named him a name that identified him with pain. Can you imagine how that boy must have, he could have felt.
[00:17:58] He could have went through life saying, my mother didn't want me. There's some of you watching today in this room that your father's told you more than once, I wanted a boy. Some of y'all, your
[00:18:11] parent told you, you were a straight up accident. And what the enemy is doing is the enemy knows that you're the shifter, you're the pivoter. And so what the enemy wants you to do is go through
[00:18:22] life carrying this label of this is just the way it's going to be. Jabez, his name meant pain.
[00:18:29] before he ever lived a life. He was already labeled. He was blocked by his past. He was blocked by perception. He was blocked by expectation, but one prayer shifted everything.
[00:18:44] Write this down. Some of you are blocked by what you believe about yourself. Some of you are blocked because of what you believe about yourself. See, Jabez could have accepted his name, right? This is just who I am. This is just how my life is going to go. But instead he prayed.
[00:19:19] Does anybody in this room remember the time when you finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired? Anybody? Anybody remember the night you finally looked at yourself in that mirror and said, shut up. When you finally looked in that mirror and said, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. This
[00:19:33] is not the way my story is going to go. When you finally got fed up with agreeing with the enemy and begin to speak something over yourself, that was life instead of death. See, instead of giving
[00:19:47] up, it says that Jabez prayed, which means he rejected the narrative that was placed on him.
[00:19:54] right and some of your block not because God said no but because your mindset says I'm not worthy your mindset says I've already invested so much time so I'm just going to stay here you know that
[00:20:15] thing ain't never going in you know it ain't never going to be happy but because of your mindset you will stay in a season and allow your mindset to tell you that you'll never recover so you stay
[00:20:27] in a season that depletes you because you're afraid of the unknown. Because seasons wear you out. Toxic seasons wear you out. When one thing breaks in your house, another one. You have one wreck, someone hits you in the front, going to work. Then four days later, somebody hits you in
[00:20:52] the back and the enemy starts making you say things like, I just give up. This is just the way my life's going to be. And before you know it, you've gone on social media and just ran into a whole
[00:21:04] bunch of people that don't even know your middle name. Now, all those people are coming out of the woodworks to tell you, girl, I know you should see what happened to me this week. Before you know it,
[00:21:14] the whole page is full of a whole bunch of negative Nellies that are co-signing on your debilitating situation. So now you're co-signing. Some of you are blocked because God said no.

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:21:33] not with this person. You have only been with builder bear people. I want to bring somebody

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:21:44] in your life that takes care of you, that loves you, whether you're 400 pounds or 200 pounds or 50 pounds, that loves you enough to when you wake up in the morning, they instantly look at
[00:21:58] you and say, good morning, gorgeous. Instead of someone that always makes you feel like a burden.
[00:22:04] so you can walk into new territory. You can't say, I can't walk into new territory while agreeing with an old lie. Now ask yourself, what's the lie? What's the lie? How many just something dropped in your spirit when I said that? It's a lie you telling yourself every day.
[00:22:30] What if he cheats on me like my ex did? Then you can't even give your all to this person that God's bringing in your life because you're waiting for the floor to fall out, right? Not even knowing
[00:22:43] that God saved you for this, and you're going to miss it because of your mind. Write this down.
[00:22:53] Small prayers, say small prayers, keep me blocked. Small prayers, keep me blocked.
[00:23:07] So y'all listen, Jabez didn't pray, God just helped me get by.
[00:23:11] How many of y'all been praying that prayer?
[00:23:13] God just helped me get by.
[00:23:16] Some of y'all lying.
[00:23:16] You may not be lying.
[00:23:18] Because you go here.
[00:23:20] Y'all be trying to give up.
[00:23:22] Oh, you'll hear me in your, get out!
[00:23:26] God just helped me get up.
[00:23:28] God just helped me pay.
[00:23:30] I need 40 more dollars.
[00:23:34] You're going to get 40 more dollars.
[00:23:36] Come on, baby!

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:23:38] See, God just eased the pain.
[00:23:43] Just ease the pain.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:23:50] Ease it.
[00:23:51] I just need a good night's rest.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:23:53] No, some of y'all need to get you some oil.
[00:23:58] And begin to walk around your house acting like Medea in the spirit.
[00:24:02] Medea on the Holy Ghost, okay?
[00:24:03] Right?
[00:24:05] You need to begin to speak and prophesy where you're going.
[00:24:08] You got to prophesy the word of God.
[00:24:11] He says, enlarge my territory.
[00:24:14] That's a dangerous prayer.
[00:24:16] Because when you ask for more, God will expose everything in you that can't handle more.
[00:24:26] That's why sometimes we pray, God.
[00:24:28] We're like, we're scared to say, God, just do what needs to be done in my life so that I can.
[00:24:33] We're like, we're scared to pray.
[00:24:35] I was scared to death to pray.
[00:24:37] I thought God was going to strike me with cancer or something.
[00:24:40] You ever been afraid of God?
[00:24:41] Afraid to pray to God because some religious person told you some hogwash?
[00:24:45] That ain't how our God is.
[00:24:47] Our God don't look at you as your past.
[00:24:49] He don't look at you as what you've done.
[00:24:51] He ain't sitting in the corner making you stand up with a dunce cap on.
[00:24:55] He's not out there trying to expose you.
[00:24:57] He ain't making you walk around the wall of Jericho 1,200 times till you learn your lesson.
[00:25:02] He said, I need you to get up, realize that what's behind that door is not yours, and keep it moving.
[00:25:12] So this week, God, I need you to show me the areas in my life that I need to let go of.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:25:18] Who do I need to remove?

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:25:22] See, some of you are frustrated with God.
[00:25:25] But God is saying, I'm not blocking you.
[00:25:28] I'm building you.
[00:25:31] You know what I've learned, y'all?
[00:25:33] If it's off, if I feel a check in my spirit, I don't care if you're the president.
[00:25:44] I ain't doing it.
[00:25:46] You hear me?
[00:25:47] I ain't going to be bullied by nobody.
[00:25:50] I ain't going to lie for nobody.
[00:25:52] I ain't going to help for nobody.
[00:25:54] and I sure ain't letting you steal my peace.
[00:25:59] We will get up in church and sing, the devil can't have me or my family.
[00:26:03] This is an eviction notice to the enemy.
[00:26:06] The chain breaker's in the room.
[00:26:08] And go right home to it.
[00:26:12] You just sang in church and got the victory and you're going to walk right back in that house knowing that you need to pack up that junk and get it out.
[00:26:21] God is saying, I'm not blocking you, I'm building you.
[00:26:27] So if your prayers don't stretch you, They won't move, God.
[00:26:34] Just help me get by.
[00:26:37] No, I want to be the first millionaire in my family.
[00:26:39] So, God, thank you for giving me millionaire ideas, trillionaire ideas.
[00:26:44] Lord, I'm going to sit and practice every day of my life on how to write a trillion-dollar check.
[00:26:50] And I'm going to put it up.
[00:26:51] I need to know how many zeros go there because I know I'm a kingdom provider.
[00:26:57] Y'all are like, I just need $10, $10 more dollars.
[00:27:00] Can you cash out me $10?
[00:27:01] No.
[00:27:03] You should have asked me for $200 because I ain't throwing my money into somebody that ain't good soil.
[00:27:11] You asking me for $10.
[00:27:16] Don't be asking me for $200.
[00:27:18] Write this down.
[00:27:20] God will block what you're not.
[00:27:22] God will block.
[00:27:23] Say God will block what I'm not ready to carry.
[00:27:29] So some of what you call rejection was actually God's protection.
[00:27:33] Some doors didn't just open because your character wasn't ready.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:27:40] You're disciplined.

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:27:41] wasn't consistent. Your healing wasn't complete. So God will block access to protect your, well, how long is it going to be? It could be five minutes. Because the Bible says, do not get weary in well doing for in due season, you shall reap. If what? What does
[00:28:12] faint not look like? Not giving up. But what does not giving up look like? Keep going. But while you're going what's happening huh I need y'all to think it through come on let's process it
[00:28:27] I'm elevating I'm watching what comes out of my mouth I'm decreeing and declaring I'm like letting my situation move and make my mood all bad you got a fish on the back of your car and
[00:28:43] one day you walk into state farm and you're speaking in tongues and telling them what service you had stop telling them you go to limitless if you can't keep your emotions under control one day they one day you just walking in and you're the joy of the place the next day they
[00:28:55] saying can she go home early because you're like this up and down up and down up and down why because you don't have a prayer life and you don't read your bible if you read your bible and you had
[00:29:05] a prayer life you can't get depressed I don't care what nobody says y'all can come for me I ain't gonna read it keep your emails you cannot be depressed if you are praying and prophesying
[00:29:15] and reading your bible you hear me you can't so God will block access and I'm not one of those it's going to put a label on you. I don't believe God made ADHD. I'm sorry, I don't.
[00:29:29] I don't believe God. I don't believe it. I don't believe that God made situations and allowed you to stay. I got diagnosed with ADHD. I have been told several times, you need to be on medication.
[00:29:43] I look at it like it's my superpower. Because if God gave it to me, he knew that I was going to be a businesswoman. And he knew that I was going to be able to have to learn how to do everything.
[00:29:52] And if they put me on some medication, some Adderall, right, I'm going to be like this.
[00:29:56] it's gonna it's gonna make me change and so i choose to walk around and say whose report well i believe i believe the report of the lord when i find myself all over the place because i am
[00:30:13] i will stop and say father i anoint myself right now that today i will do everything that you need me to do i will not miss an assignment because of my scattered brain self lord don't let me move
[00:30:25] unless you tell me to move because i will move baby i will start a company every day and i'll he's scared I don't believe that God put that baby inside of you married or not punish you
[00:30:44] he blessed you with it because you could handle it I don't believe that God puts sickness in someone's body for them to die that's why y'all better be careful who's you telling oh I got
[00:31:02] they found a nodule on my on my throat you better stop telling people because there's some people they want you to die you got to learn how to pray and prophesy over yourself you got to learn how to
[00:31:20] walk around your house and lay hands on yourself when someone comes at me and tries to make me afraid of something I immediately say I rebuke it and I say it so they can hear me I rebuke that
[00:31:29] curse you just said about me I am the head and not the tail I'm above and not beneath I do not what you say and I am praying that God ricochets it back to you well that ain't very Christ-like
[00:31:45] No, they need to eat their words.
[00:31:46] You got to stop just saying anything to anybody.
[00:31:50] You got to stop so co-signing with the devil.
[00:31:53] Just because they got a doctor in front of their name don't mean they can get that for $30 on Zoom.
[00:32:00] Just because they got a pastor in front of their name don't mean they nothing.
[00:32:03] Just because they said they're a prophet, they could be a prophet liar.
[00:32:06] You don't know.
[00:32:08] You got to know what God says about you.
[00:32:11] Anybody that makes you discount your life ain't a God.
[00:32:14] Anybody that makes you feel like you can't be called a God because of what you walk through.
[00:32:17] it's not a God. Anybody that tries to steal your joy, it's not a God. Anybody that makes you, that keeps bringing up your past, they are not a God. Do you hear me?
[00:32:27] They are not a God. That goes for your mama.
[00:32:36] Some of y'all letting your mama, oh girl, you can't preach to a girl. Watch me.
[00:32:42] Ain't nobody going to ever love you with your five kids with five different baby daddy. Watch me.
[00:32:48] God knew my whole story and he going to bring some of us and love them kids like they his own.
[00:32:53] You believe what you co-sign with. Write this down. Say expansion breaks blockages. The moment Jabez prayed bigger, what happened? What happened? What happened? God responded. He didn't say, Lord, just help me get through this season. No, he said, God, in this season, I need you to expand me. I need you to
[00:33:18] enlarge my territory. I need you to take this quiet season. And as you open the windows of heaven over my life. You allow me to be in a place where I can elevate. Some of you ain't
[00:33:28] elevate because of people you hanging out with. God's trying to elevate you. He can't elevate you because of the people that are speaking death over you. I don't care if they're working with you. My co-workers are full of it, Pastor Kim. I will tell them. Oh, did y'all watch the news?
[00:33:50] You see what precedents? Nope, so didn't. Oh, girl, let me tell you about what happened this did you hear what her husband oh what'd he do he's gonna do it again I would be so obnoxious
[00:34:08] because you're gonna try to bring me down you're gonna go up with me because I'm gonna make sure I'm louder than you so expansion breaks blockages the moment Jabez prayed bigger God responded why because heaven moves when you align with increase up that's why limitless y'all that's
[00:34:31] why i named limitless limitless six years ago when i got this church it was church of the harvest fayetteville my mom and daddy pastored it i came in here and i was like oh no no no no
[00:34:42] we got to do something that when they look up limitless they feel anointed when they look up limitless they feel like the best years are in front of them that what god can do in the next
[00:34:52] 24 hours. It's more than God could have done in the last 48 years. Limitless is connected to oil.
[00:35:01] So expansion breaks fear, limitation, insecurity, cycles. But here's the catch.

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:35:09] You can't pray for expansion and stay comfortable. Pastor Kim. What does that mean?
[00:35:21] You got to put faith to your feet. You can't pray for God to fix something he never told you to get

[00:35:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:35:35] You can't pray for God to anoint your mess, but you can let go and let God.
[00:35:43] You can start right now.
[00:35:46] Let go.
[00:35:47] I'm just too old, Pastor Kim.
[00:35:49] Listen, what God can do in a minute.
[00:35:55] So you can either stay safe, say, I can either stay safe or I can be stretched, but I can't do both.
[00:36:08] You're losing weight.
[00:36:11] You can't just eat ho-hos.
[00:36:12] even if you're on ozempic you still gotta watch what you eat because everything that requires growth requires a different you and different habits write this down if god removes the block so if god removes the block i better keep my hands off of it and let him keep his hands on it
[00:36:41] if God removes a block you better keep his hands on it all right because once the blockage lifts y'all ready for this is how we bring it at home you use your seat belt buckle huh check it check
[00:36:57] your seat belt because we're about to take off listen because once the blockage lifts y'all ready exposure increases oh it's hard to go from nobody noticing you to all of a sudden when you walk into
[00:37:12] room atmosphere shift oh it's hard when all of a sudden your name has been in rooms your feet hadn't even walked in yet oh it's hard when all of a sudden God begins to open the windows of
[00:37:23] heaven over your life and you start feeling faith the kind of faith that moves mountains you are stuck in the fire you are stuck in Egypt and now Egypt is out of you and you refuse to go back
[00:37:34] see when the blockage lifts exposure increases and listen listen what happens there's more eyes on you there's more pressure on you there's more responsibility on you and Jabez understood this he says if I lose God if I lose God I lose everything see sometimes God knows if he gives
[00:38:02] you everything you're praying for you'll lose him you won't you you won't even talk about him anymore you'll be on your boat cruising around the lake until Frankie acts up again and all of a
[00:38:19] sudden you in church, brave and breaky. Write this down. Blocked doesn't mean denied. How many feel like you've been blocked of something? Now it makes sense. How many of y'all were mad, but now you glad?
[00:38:41] Even though it hurt, it helped. See, some of you walked in here thinking it's never going to happen for me, but I came to end this sermon flipping a lie. You ready for the lie to be flipped?
[00:38:55] The block is temporary. Do you hear me? The block is temporary. See, denied is permanent.
[00:39:09] The block is temporary. Denied is permanent. And God never said no. He said, just not like, just not with them in your life.
[00:39:37] Sometimes he waits until you let go.
[00:39:41] Because sometimes it ain't even you.
[00:39:42] It's the people you let in.
[00:39:48] And if you keep building with them counterfeits, that's why every time you get in their presence, you feel like you're suffocating.
[00:40:00] You can't never do nothing right.
[00:40:03] But yet they're over the prayer team.
[00:40:06] So you think because they're over the prayer team or they're over here prophesying to people that what you're feeling is off in this season limitless you're not going to feel like what you feel is off do you hear me if it's off it's what why because God is a God of what peace
[00:40:27] God is not a God of chaos and confusion don't you make it chaotic and confusion either if God's got you sitting down for a second you better watch your attitude because I promise you something
[00:40:39] greater is coming but he can't do it if your attitude's petty so some of you walked in here thinking it's never going to happen for me, but I came to flip that lie. Blocked is temporary. Denied
[00:40:53] is permanent. And God never said no. He said not like this. So if it didn't happen yet, it's because God is still working on who? Huh? Me. While he's working on it. Everybody stand up. Y'all listen to
[00:41:16] me. Blocked, but blessed. Blocked, but blessed. I feel this heavy. Some of you are in a season where everything feels delayed, stuck, frustrating. But what you thought was a blockage is actually a construction zone. What happens in a construction zone? What happens? What happens? What do you do
[00:41:47] in a construction zone what happens if you don't slow down what kind of fine double it's the same thing in the spirit realm it's a construction zone and you want to keep the pace you want to
[00:42:05] keep up with them you want to show up like them you want to have this you want to have that because they have this and they have that but they ain't you what you carry is oily what you carry is
[00:42:16] anointed well what makes me different from them you you make yourself different the anointing on your life you ever question if God has a purpose on you look at how hard the enemy has fought you
[00:42:27] your whole life well I wish you'd give me a break well he ain't you gonna break break sometimes you gotta walk around your house and just say break break break break break break when my kids are
[00:42:46] acting up break break break break when I'm mad at him break break break break I'm not yelling at them I'm talking to myself God gave me this battle to elevate not them that's when I call
[00:43:02] a prayer warrior say can you pray for me but I won't do nothing on my part I want you to pray for me but I ain't gonna do nothing for me so then this whole month I'm gonna help you flip
[00:43:11] the flow in your life so that you start thinking differently see what you thought was blockage is actually a construction zone because here's the deal God is widening your foundation I need you to visualize it what you lost is nothing compared to what God's he's widening the foundation he's
[00:43:40] strengthening your character he's making you get to a place where you ain't bothered with nothing what used to phase you ain't gonna phase you no more what used to move you and agitate you ain't
[00:43:54] going to move and agitate you anymore he's going to begin to expand your capacity because where you're going requires a version of you that doesn't exist yet say Lord do it in me so if
[00:44:08] you've been feeling stuck overlooked delayed shut out this is your moment well I don't feel like it's my moment I need you to stop right here and get those thoughts out if you just said that well
[00:44:20] I've been hearing this forever my whole life and I ain't seen it yet I need you to flip it come on flip it say lord get that thought out of my head lord get that thought get that negativity out of
[00:44:30] my head because this is your moment not just for god to open doors but for god to prepare you for what's behind the door yo when i met my husband i was independent i remember right before i met
[00:44:50] angelo i had a conference in january i have two cars i live in buckhead i get in one of my cars start heading here the tire went flat it's supposed to be running flat i'm sitting on the
[00:45:06] side of the road angry at myself because why couldn't i made it work with one of them men i need a man right now and i hear the lord saying call uber call triple a it's gonna be all right
[00:45:27] I go back home I get my jeep I drive here to the church by the time church is out the tire is flat got angry I started feeling like man is this what spiritual warfare is
[00:45:47] because we're having such a major y'all know my conferences man are off the chain we have another one coming July 19th and 11th downtown I said this is what warfare is and I heard the Lord saying
[00:45:59] stop focusing on the warfare because if you focus on the warfare you're staying the warfare fighting someone all you can do call uber get out of the warfare by getting out of the situation that the
[00:46:13] enemy's trying to defeat you in because the enemy has no ties once i get up and leave within a couple of weeks i'm out to eat i meet this good looking man amen this man right here is a leader i'm the
[00:46:39] type of person instead of asking him I'll just change the light bulb because it's easier for me to change it than wait on him I started hearing the Lord say what I'm bringing into your life
[00:46:53] you're going to need to know how to submit you didn't do very well in the last relationships so that means just because you can change the light bulb don't mean you need to change the
[00:47:03] light bulb because he's going to come in your life and he's going to be a leader and men are natural leaders so if your husband isn't leading it's because you won't let him well i don't know how
[00:47:15] i don't know what to do sit your butt down and get you a little flower robe on with some tassels hanging off of it get you some little heels and walk around the house like this you start being
[00:47:26] a lady and you start talking to that man and letting him know he's the man of that house and that you love him get up off your bed take them sweats off and put you on something pretty so he
[00:47:37] knows he got to take care of you in that season what God was showing me I would have never allowed God to bring this into my life because I didn't want it I'd already been hurt too much and now
[00:47:49] I have a church I'm pastor and I sure can't mess up again but God knew that he was preparing me the only way he could prepare me was put me in a situation with some flat tires where I needed help
[00:47:58] you're trying to be a man and a woman and what I'm about to bring in your life you're gonna have to learn how to let this man be a man that means you got to take your hands off of manly things
[00:48:10] you see sometimes the doors that are shutting our lives are because God is getting us prepared and if we get mad in the situation we won't learn the lesson are you clocking it are you clocking it
[00:48:24] so in this season you don't know what God is about to do in your life so you have to learn the lesson so you don't stay in the valley longer than you should.
[00:48:40] Just because it feels like warfare don't mean it's warfare.
[00:48:44] Sometimes it's a pivot.
[00:48:45] Sometimes it's a shift.
[00:48:47] Sometimes it's getting up and getting dressed and not even wanting to get up, but showing up anyway.
[00:48:51] How many of you have to show up to work every day and you don't want to?
[00:48:55] But you do it, don't you?
[00:48:56] Why?
[00:48:57] Because you have to.
[00:49:00] So everybody lift up your hands like this.
[00:49:01] Lift it up.
[00:49:03] Say, God, remove every blockage that is not from you.
[00:49:09] Lord, get me ready for the blessings that you're bringing into my life.
[00:49:16] Lord, get me ready for those miracles that you're about to make happen for me.
[00:49:21] That I didn't even know you were going to make happen for me.
[00:49:24] Because God, I know they're better.
[00:49:26] They're better than what I prayed for.
[00:49:27] And I never want myself to get in the way of what you're doing.
[00:49:32] Say, Lord, make me hungry for your glory.
[00:49:44] Say, Lord, keep your hand on me.
[00:49:57] keep your hand on my family say Lord I don't want to lose myself when you begin to elevate me now I prophesy over you limitless that God is about to elevate you that he's heard your prayers
[00:50:14] all the tears you've cried he said in his word that I've numbered your tears and I've put them in a bottle and the enemy has had a heyday with some of you and you've quit praying

[00:50:27] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:50:27] you believe the lie you quit believing in yourself gave up you know how you know if you've given up on you

[00:50:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:50:48] let me tell you how you let yourself go you think that god ain't listening to you when your kids are bad you blame it on yourself when your kids alienate themselves from you you blame it on
[00:51:08] yourself when that man or woman cheats on you you blame it on yourself when you find yourself on the side of the street with a tire that's busted and nobody to help you you blame it on yourself
[00:51:20] but God just showed us if we begin to pray Jabez types of prayers and we believe them all things say Lord forgive me of my sins I repent of everything that I have done because I was
[00:51:46] tired of waiting on you forgive me for getting ahead of you and I know that you're even working out the mistakes that I made to work in my on my behalf come on talk to him now say Lord I give
[00:52:00] every single thing that's bothering me to you give me feet to my faith in Jesus name amen amen how many y'all feel it I'm through like you just like getting pulled back like a sleeve shot how many
[00:52:24] you excited about this month how many are you excited how many walked in here a little negative but now you feel like man i got this come on how many feel like life's beat the torah out of you
[00:52:37] but now you realize just because the enemy wants you to stop but you got something big for him what's that i'm gonna make him work for me for free right hey my baby preach no say it like you

[00:52:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:52:53] mean it breach kill yeah i need my clapper i'm gonna bring my clapper next week so we kind of we kind of swapped some things out the tires and the repairs what you did for me that nobody ever
[00:53:13] done for me tell me baby that i wake up in the morning that know who the father and the son and the whole and the holy ghost so when i go to the doctor and i went to the doctor 10 years ago
[00:53:30] And I had this pain in my toe And y'all know it's gout And they was like Go ahead and I'm going to fill you This prescription I said no I don't need it Just put that
[00:53:40] I got somebody to help me

[00:53:43] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:53:43] Jesus

[00:53:43] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:53:43] But I still have some pain Every now and then But it's being blocked Come on baby And I just keep I'm going to keep going

[00:53:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:53:52] So are you saying I helped you build your faith

[00:53:55] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:53:55] My faith I can wake up Come on I can wake up in the morning

[00:53:58] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:53:58] Y'all better Y'all better do that For your baby

[00:54:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:54:00] I'm about to get somebody behind you, on the side of you.
[00:54:07] Say that again.
[00:54:07] That's going to ride with you.
[00:54:08] Say that again.
[00:54:09] Get you a woman that's going to ride with you, beside you, and ride with you.
[00:54:13] Come on, baby.
[00:54:14] And then she'll let you leave.

[00:54:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:54:17] I'll let you leave later.

[00:54:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:54:18] Then she'll let you leave.