0:10

Coming up on the Potter's Touch. Your

0:12

blessing is tied up and nobody's gonna get it until

0:14

you get to the place that

0:18

you're ready to receive it. You're not waiting

0:20

on your blessing. Your blessing is waiting on

0:22

you. This

0:30

is the first day of the Holy Week,

0:33

what we would call Holy Week today. They

0:35

didn't call it Holy Week then. They didn't

0:37

have that term at the time. This would

0:39

be normally what we would call

0:41

Palm Sunday. They didn't call it Palm Sunday then. That's

0:44

something that came much later. Jesus

0:47

did not do it to

0:49

create a ritual for

0:52

us. And

0:54

instead, the Bible is clear that Jesus

0:56

is on the precipice of the week

0:58

that would lead him to

1:01

Calvary. And he starts it off making

1:04

an entry into Jerusalem where

1:07

he knew his haters

1:09

had galvanized a strategy

1:11

to destroy him. And

1:14

as he prepares to enter into

1:18

Jerusalem, he controls

1:20

the moment by

1:22

telling them exactly what is

1:25

necessary in order for this to

1:28

be fulfilled. Jesus did

1:30

not do this so that you could get little

1:33

palms and make crosses and pin them

1:35

on your dress. He didn't do it so we could have

1:37

a day off from work. He didn't do it so we

1:40

could have an international holiday or

1:42

a spiritual memorial. Jesus

1:46

did it, the Bible is clear,

1:48

to fulfill prophecy. That

1:51

the prophecy had said that the king

1:54

would come in humbly riding

1:56

on an ass entering

1:58

into Jerusalem. Jerusalem

2:00

and to fulfill the

2:02

past in his present

2:05

he was intentional. God

2:10

is intentional. He could

2:12

have walked into Jerusalem. He

2:15

could have walked into Jerusalem. He

2:17

could have took a horse into

2:19

Jerusalem but he was intentional about

2:21

making sure that the word of

2:23

the Prophet did not fall, that

2:26

it came to pass. And

2:28

he was so intentional about

2:30

causing this moment to happen

2:33

that he sent him to

2:36

the village where they were not

2:38

at. Having left Bethage and headed

2:40

toward Jerusalem he said I want

2:42

you to take a detour and

2:45

go to the village. Now

2:47

understand what we talk about when we

2:49

look back at it. We look at

2:52

it through our religious eyes and through

2:54

our Western eyes and we get these

2:56

ideas about it and we think about

2:59

it in terms of holidays but the

3:01

truth of the matter is the early

3:03

church did not celebrate Palm

3:05

Sunday. It's about 4

3:08

BC before Palm Sunday ever

3:10

got celebrated so the early

3:12

apostles did not even celebrate

3:14

it because it wasn't so

3:16

much that Jesus was concerned

3:18

about setting in a religious

3:20

tradition as much as he

3:22

was fulfilling a prophecy. When

3:25

God gets ready to fulfill a prophecy

3:28

he is intentional about making

3:30

it come to pass. It

3:33

wasn't like he ran into the

3:35

donkey. He had to

3:37

make it happen. He

3:40

had to make it happen. There are

3:42

some things that God has promised to

3:44

you. He is so intentional

3:47

about them that they are not

3:49

in your path. He has to go get

3:51

them. There

4:00

has to be a synchronization between

4:02

the traveling pattern of the Messiah

4:05

and the cult

4:07

and the ass that were tied

4:09

up in another village. And

4:12

Jesus told two of his disciples, go

4:16

get them. Now first of all, before

4:18

I talk about the command, let me

4:20

talk about the fact that he knew

4:23

where the ass was. Because

4:27

here he is on the last

4:29

week of his life headed toward

4:31

Calvary and he knows

4:33

where the ass is. He

4:36

knows exactly, let me try to

4:39

get, they're getting ready to crucify

4:41

him and Jesus is thinking about

4:43

a cult. How

4:46

many of you facing the most

4:48

tragic week of your life are

4:50

thinking about menial things? Because

4:53

the difference between great men and

4:56

poor men is giving attention

4:58

to detail. Your

5:01

God is God of detail. Details

5:05

make a lot of difference. And

5:08

when God has willed something to

5:10

happen, he also has made provision

5:13

for that thing to happen. And

5:15

he says to the disciples, I

5:17

have a provision that is not in your

5:19

path. Yeah,

5:24

10 people got it in there. They're

5:27

going to get the blessing. He says

5:29

to the disciples, I

5:31

have a provision that is

5:33

not in your path, but

5:36

I know where it is. And

5:39

I've been holding it for you. And

5:42

I'm going to show you where to

5:44

get what you need to get to

5:47

fulfill that which has been prophesied unto

5:49

you. Don't be bothered

5:51

by the fact that you don't see it in your path

5:53

right now. Don't be bothered by what

5:55

you don't see and what's not around you and

5:57

what you don't have and what's not around you.

6:00

in your pocket and who's not in

6:02

your life and what happened? It's still

6:04

yours. Oh, God.

6:07

Oh, my God. Somebody ought to shout me down.

6:09

It's still yours. It's not in

6:11

your bank account, but it's still

6:13

yours. It's not in your purview,

6:16

but it's still yours. He hasn't

6:18

proposed, but it's still yours. You

6:20

haven't met him yet, but it's

6:22

still yours. The deal hadn't closed,

6:24

but it's still yours. The papers

6:26

haven't been signed, but it's still

6:28

yours. It's not under contract, but

6:30

it's still yours. The

6:33

tumor hasn't shrunk, but it's still

6:35

yours. Healing is the children's bread.

6:37

It's still yours. God says, I

6:40

know exactly what it takes to

6:42

bring it to pass. I've been

6:44

saving it for you. See,

6:51

see, see, I'm not so much right now.

6:53

I'm gonna focus on Jesus and I am

6:55

the ass and the cause who

6:57

has spent their lifetime to

7:00

oppose. I

7:03

want you to understand that God will tie

7:05

up your blessing. You

7:09

don't have to be up at night worried

7:11

about who's trying to get your blessing and

7:13

who's trying to take your blessing and who's

7:15

after your blessing. You can let all of

7:17

that go. God will tie up your blessing.

7:20

He will leave it tied up to

7:22

you. Get to the place that you

7:24

need to me. He will put it

7:26

on the hall. The hall doesn't know

7:28

why he's tied up. The ass doesn't

7:30

know why he's tied up. But God

7:32

has reserved it for such a time

7:34

as this. I want you to get two

7:36

things out of this one. I want you to know your

7:38

blessing is tied up and nobody's gonna

7:40

get it after you get to the

7:42

place that you're ready to receive it.

7:44

You're not waiting on your blessing. Your

7:46

blessing is waiting on you. Your blessing

7:48

is waiting on you to get to

7:50

the place in your journey that you're

7:52

now ready to receive on the level

7:54

that the blessing is going to take

7:57

you to. I want you to get

7:59

that out. the message. Number two, I

8:01

want you to get out of the

8:03

message. If you've been feeling a rope

8:05

around your neck, like your life was

8:07

tied up and your career was tied

8:09

up and your finances were tied up

8:11

and your future was tied up, I

8:13

want you to know that God has

8:15

you on reserve waiting on

8:17

the right place at the right time

8:19

and when he gets ready to loose

8:21

you, nobody can tie you up. When

8:23

he gets ready to set you free,

8:25

nobody can set you down. I want

8:27

you to know that God is a

8:30

conductor, an orchestrator, that he's

8:32

in control of everything and

8:34

he knows where everything is.

8:36

And now in this moment,

8:41

this is the moment

8:43

where God starts pulling everything

8:46

together. This is the

8:48

moment where crazy things start to make

8:50

sense. This is the moment where

8:52

you begin to understand why you had to

8:54

go through, what you had to go through

8:56

to get where you are. This is the

8:58

moment where you understand why you've been on

9:01

hold for years. Nobody

9:03

has chosen him. Nobody's worried being on

9:05

him. Nobody's ever telling you, this is

9:07

the moment that you begin to understand

9:09

why you're anointed but you haven't been

9:11

used. God said, I had you tied

9:13

up and when I'm getting ready to

9:15

loose you, I don't know who this

9:17

is for, but God said, I had

9:19

you tied up but I'm getting ready

9:21

to loose you. Don't worry about the

9:23

bands around your neck. Don't worry about

9:25

the restrictions on your life. Don't worry

9:27

about where you can't go and what

9:29

you can't do. When I get ready

9:31

to loose you, no devil in hell

9:33

can stop you from being loose because

9:35

I'm God all by myself. And when

9:37

I get ready to make it happen,

9:40

I will make it happen. There

9:50

is a term called the pilgrimage of Etheria

9:52

and the pilgrimage of Etheria is

9:56

a documentation that was done in the

9:59

about the fourth century that

10:01

begins to talk about this

10:04

woman traced back when people

10:06

at the early church

10:08

started to commemorate this moment.

10:12

It is after the resurrection. It

10:14

is after the life and the death of

10:17

the apostles that the early church really

10:19

started to commemorate in

10:21

a major way this

10:24

moment in retrospect.

10:27

In hindsight, we

10:29

look back at this moment and

10:32

we understand that this was

10:34

a magnanimous moment, a huge moment,

10:36

a moment of massive proportion. How

10:38

many times in your life did

10:40

you hear the moment and you

10:42

didn't really appreciate the moment till

10:44

in retrospect and you look back

10:46

at your life and say, Oh

10:48

my God, that was a moment.

10:51

Hallelujah. Now you start talking

10:53

about those were the days, but when you were

10:55

in the days, you didn't know they were the

10:57

days. Now when you

10:59

look back and you got something to

11:02

compare it with, you had different appreciation

11:04

in retrospect than you did in real

11:06

time. Are you hearing what I'm saying

11:09

to you? Well, this

11:11

text is a convergence of

11:13

the past prophetic content,

11:15

the present crisis and

11:18

the futuristic outcomes all

11:21

galvanize themselves and collide

11:23

in this one simple

11:25

text. The

11:27

past prophecies,

11:30

the present crisis and

11:33

the futuristic outcomes all collide in

11:35

this text. Well, it's just an

11:37

ass and a coat. Yeah, yeah,

11:40

yeah, yeah, yeah. But Jesus isn't

11:42

doing this so you can have

11:45

a religious ceremony. He

11:47

is illustrating his ability to

11:50

put his finger on whatever

11:53

you need and

11:56

to pull it to you. the

12:02

timeline would go get it, go get it, go get it, go

12:05

get it, go get it, go get it. It's

12:07

not going to come to you. You

12:10

have to go get it. Never

12:18

have we needed your support more vitally than

12:20

we do right now because we are on

12:22

the move for God. And if you have

12:25

not been on the move for God, I

12:27

want to challenge you to get busy and

12:29

get on the move doing what God created

12:31

you to do in whatever field you're in.

12:34

God planted you there for a reason

12:36

to be the salt of the earth.

12:39

All ministry is not about pulpits. All

12:41

ministry is not about singing in the

12:43

choir. All ministry is not

12:45

about clapping your hands in church. Whatever

12:47

you're doing to help lift, change,

12:50

fortify, strengthen people, you are in

12:52

the ministry. Everybody who's got a

12:54

ministry stand up on your feet.

12:59

That ought to get everybody, yeah.

13:01

We are laborers together with

13:03

God in Christ Jesus. How

13:06

many of you are believing God to bless

13:08

your ministry, whatever it is? If

13:11

it's doing hair, if it's putting on

13:13

makeup, it's still a ministry. There

13:22

is a moment coming to

13:25

many of you for

13:27

which you have been waiting on all

13:30

your life. Everything

13:33

else you did was

13:36

just how you kept you tired of. How

13:41

many people in this room sense

13:45

that God has something else for you?

13:50

Everything else you've been doing is just

13:53

how he kept you tired up. How

13:55

he kept you occupied. How he kept

13:57

you doing something. How he kept you

13:59

moving. God is about to

14:01

give you a moment. Nudge

14:03

your name and say, all I need is a

14:06

moment. I don't

14:08

want to die till I had my

14:10

moment. I don't want

14:12

to collapse till I've had my moment. I

14:16

was created for such a time

14:18

as this. And so they

14:20

got their ass, they got their

14:22

ass untied. They

14:24

got the cults untied. And

14:27

they brought him to Jesus.

14:32

Provesing is

14:34

coming to the

14:36

prophet. The

14:40

prophet knew where he was. The

14:42

disciples went to get him. Now

14:44

the Provesing is coming to

14:46

the prophet. And when the

14:48

Provesing comes to the prophet,

14:52

there is a clouding of destiny. If

14:58

you've been asked to talk, he would

15:00

say, all of my life,

15:05

I've been waiting on this moment. And

15:12

Jesus is saying, all of my life, I've

15:19

been waiting on this moment. And

15:23

when two things collide that have

15:25

been waiting on this moment, and

15:28

they share that moment together,

15:34

see, the problem with you is you had moments

15:37

and brought people into moments who didn't appreciate the

15:39

moment you were pulling them into. And

15:43

you got to drag them into the moment

15:45

because they have no appreciation of what it

15:47

costs you, how long you

15:49

waited to have the moment. And

15:51

you are unequally yoked. And

15:53

many times they polluted the moment from being everything

15:56

that it could be because

15:58

they didn't have the appreciation for the moment. the

16:00

moment you're in, but the ass is

16:02

just as happy as the master is

16:04

because Jesus has lived for this moment. I'll

16:06

prove to you that he lived for this

16:08

moment. He called

16:10

Judas his friend. And

16:14

when Peter tried to stop the crucifixion,

16:16

he said, get the hence behind me,

16:18

Satan. For this purpose came

16:20

I into the world. I

16:23

didn't come into the world to play with your

16:26

fish sandwiches. I

16:29

didn't come into the world to heal

16:31

two or three people's diseases. I

16:34

came into the world to save the world from

16:37

their sins, to

16:39

annihilate the enemy called death, to

16:42

take the sting out of death and

16:44

the victory out of the grave. I

16:48

did not come into the world to heal 10 lepers.

16:54

That's just stuff I was doing while I was waiting. But

16:58

for this purpose came I

17:00

into the world to do a job

17:02

that nobody can do but me. There

17:06

are no competitors at being you.

17:12

There are

17:14

no competitors

17:16

at being you. You are

17:19

in a class all by yourself.

17:22

Stop being intimidated. Stop

17:24

being intimidated by

17:26

other people. Ain't nobody

17:29

in the world beat you and

17:31

beat you like you. You can do you like nobody

17:33

else can do you. It

17:36

couldn't have been another ass and

17:39

it couldn't have been another Jesus. They were made for each other.

17:43

They were waiting for each other. And

17:45

when they met, both of them had been

17:47

on reserve for

17:49

this one moment. This

17:54

one defining moment. This

17:57

one prophetic moment. All

18:00

you need is one moment. Can

18:05

I go a little bit deeper? The

18:08

Bible says in Malachi, I bring you all the

18:10

tithes and offerings into the storehouse, that

18:12

there might be meat in my house. And

18:14

prove me now herewith, saith

18:17

the Lord of hosts, if I

18:19

will not open up the windows

18:21

of heaven, the word windows of

18:23

heaven properly translated, it's the floodgates.

18:26

The floodgates of heaven. You don't

18:29

open up floodgates and expect what

18:31

happens next. He said to

18:33

pour you out a

18:35

blessing. I

18:40

open up the whole floodgates for

18:43

you to get a blessing. All

18:46

you need is one. The

18:51

one blessing is going to be so big,

18:53

you won't have room enough to

18:56

receive everything I'm going to bring

18:58

out of that one, that

19:01

one meeting, that one

19:03

connection, that one individual,

19:06

that one decision, that

19:08

one touch, that

19:10

one change, that one

19:13

know. I open up the

19:15

floodgates to give you

19:17

one thing. We

19:23

destiny collide, moments

19:26

are born. This

19:31

is a defining moment, not only

19:33

for its prophetic value, not

19:36

only for its futuristic value, but

19:39

in its present tense reality. Being,

19:43

oh God, stop. He

19:45

keeps feeding me, I'm trying to shut up and

19:47

he keeps feeding me. Be present in the moment.

19:51

Some of you live in the past, others

19:53

of you worry about the future. Few

19:56

of us are present in the moment. I

19:58

spent all last year in a... I'm working on

20:01

it still this year, on being where I am.

20:07

Just being where I am. Because

20:11

if I'm not careful, I'll always be

20:13

planning where I'm going at

20:16

the expense of missing. The

20:23

other pathology that's equally as dangerous

20:25

is you can't enjoy where you

20:27

are for grieving over where you've

20:29

been. Either

20:32

way, the enemy is stealing the

20:34

present moment. And

20:36

it is only a moment, let

20:39

me show you this, it's only a

20:41

moment. If you

20:43

miss your moment, you

20:45

are not guaranteed a

20:48

repeat opportunity. We

20:53

were talking, we were talking, some friends

20:55

of mine were talking and said, it's

20:58

amazing, she's a personal friend of mine,

21:00

every time I hear a song by

21:03

her, it touches my heart because I knew her and

21:05

loved her and appreciated her. But

21:07

if Aretha were to start singing today,

21:12

there is no guarantee that she would be

21:14

the queen today. Because

21:18

soul music is

21:21

not even valued. It's not even

21:23

selling in a hip hop world.

21:27

She had one moment. If

21:33

you miss this window, can

21:36

I shout now that here on the side, if

21:40

you miss this window that God has opened up for you and

21:44

you fool around and let that window close, you

21:47

may not ever have the right convergence of

21:51

circumstances to have the impact that

21:53

you need to do

21:55

what you're trying, if Harlan Sanders opened up,

22:00

today he go

22:02

bankrupt because

22:05

he would show you a home-cooked meal

22:07

and we would want to know is

22:09

it gluten-free I'm a bacon I'm

22:12

a pescatarian I don't eat that I

22:14

don't eat this I don't eat the

22:16

other but at the time the window

22:18

was open not

22:20

your neighbor and say this is your

22:22

moment don't

22:25

miss your moment this

22:28

message is a warning

22:30

do not miss your

22:32

moment the

22:34

window is open on your

22:36

moment somebody holler out this

22:38

is my moment when

22:56

it was their moment everybody

22:59

knew it watch this the

23:02

disciples laid their coats

23:05

on the back of the coat Jesus

23:08

climbed on top

23:10

of the coach and

23:13

began to ride to

23:15

fulfill scriptures the

23:17

crowd almost as if on cue

23:20

started laying their garments in the

23:22

street without anybody

23:25

instructing them to they

23:28

start cutting down limbs and branches

23:30

and laying them down in the

23:33

street nobody choreographed

23:35

this every

23:40

person in here that's ever had an

23:42

amazing moment in your life go

23:44

back and remember nobody

23:46

choreographed no

23:52

human hand taught everybody how

23:54

to react to you you

23:57

just did something and

23:59

it just Can

24:03

I get a witness? Would

24:06

you tell them I'm not crazy? I think some of them think I'm crazy. Tell

24:09

them I'm not crazy. When

24:11

God is in the moment, when

24:17

God, if I tried to do

24:19

MegaFest right now, if

24:23

I tried to fill the Georgia Dome,

24:25

the World Congress Center, and the Phillips

24:28

Arena right now, everybody

24:32

would say you are crazy in

24:36

a pandemic. There's

24:39

a window. This is your

24:41

time. This

24:46

is your moment. There's

24:51

a few things I want you to get. Number one,

24:53

your blessing is tied up for the moment. I want

24:55

you to walk away with that. I want

24:57

to be sure you get that. Number

25:00

two, it's been tied up all your life.

25:05

You have not seen the Shaddai,

25:08

O Shaddai. You have not

25:11

seen your greatest moment in

25:16

spite of what the enemy tells you, in

25:19

spite of all the miracles you've done in your

25:21

past. In spite of all

25:23

the doors that have been open, you have not

25:25

seen your greatest moment. You are

25:27

on the precipice of your greatest

25:29

moment. It has been tied

25:31

up all your life. Number

25:35

three, I want you to understand that

25:38

you have never been, it

25:40

has never been chosen in

25:43

your lifetime. This is

25:45

for overlooked people. You

25:48

know how many people walk past this

25:50

donkey? Until

25:58

the donkey felt like, maybe I don't have it. I'm

26:04

getting ready for

26:06

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