0:10

Coming up on the Potter's Touch. If Jesus

0:12

pushes through this moment, it's

0:15

going to establish His ministry. This is not

0:17

the same push of a 12-year-old boy. This is a push of a 30-year-old

0:19

man. This

0:22

is a push that will determine whether or not

0:25

He can be the Savior. This is the push that

0:27

will determine whether or

0:29

not He's qualified for the call. This

0:31

is the push that will determine if the

0:33

devil that got Adam and Eve will

0:36

be the devil that got Him. This is

0:38

the push that will break the generational curse. This

0:40

is the push. I don't know who you are, but

0:43

I wanted to let you know that this is the push that's

0:45

going to define your family. This

0:47

is the push that is going to define how you connect

0:49

and how you engage. This...is

0:52

push.

1:01

Sin... was

1:06

not the

1:08

opening. The

1:11

sin was not that they were open. The

1:14

sin was what they did when they were open.

1:19

That's why when David says, search my heart, I

1:22

don't really know who I am when I'm open. Maybe

1:28

I'm bitter. Maybe

1:31

I am hard to be connected with. I don't really know

1:33

who I am when I'm open. And the

1:35

thing is about being open is

1:37

that sometimes that stress

1:39

breaks us open. Sometimes disappointment

1:41

breaks us open. We got to understand

1:44

those areas in our lives where we

1:46

experience those separations because

1:49

when the enemy exploits it, we think often that the

1:51

problem with what happened with

1:54

Eve in the garden is when she ate from

1:56

the fruit,

1:57

and that is not what the problem is. The

2:01

problem started and she told us out of

2:03

her own mouth in Genesis 3. She

2:05

said, the serpent deceived me and

2:07

then I

2:08

ate. The

2:13

serpent found an opening

2:15

and he did not give her a command. He gave

2:17

her a thought.

2:19

I

2:24

don't have to tell you to sin. I

2:27

don't have to tell you to betray yourself. I

2:29

don't have to tell you to give up on your destiny. The

2:32

serpent doesn't even have to tell you to kill yourself. He

2:34

just has to

2:35

give you a thought that this world would be better

2:37

without you in it. I just have to give you a

2:39

thought. Your thought life is more powerful

2:42

sometimes than even your prayer life

2:44

because your thought life, if you don't get

2:46

a hold of it real good, then you'll end up in

2:48

a situation where the thoughts of

2:50

the enemy have taken root and produced

2:52

fruit in your life. And then when you recognize

2:55

that your thought life is under attack, you

2:57

go into your prayer closet with a different

2:59

strategy. God, I don't need you to change.

3:01

I need you to help me get my head

3:04

together. God, I'm not going to walk away

3:06

from the very thing that

3:07

you called me to because something got

3:10

in my head. I've got to be careful in

3:12

certain seasons because you

3:15

in my head. Oh God,

3:18

the one place you cannot be is

3:20

in my head because I'm trying to be

3:22

transformed in my mind. If

3:25

I let you in my head, my mind

3:27

is so malleable that it can turn

3:29

in the direction of destiny or it

3:31

can turn in the direction of destruction.

3:34

And all of a sudden I'll go from thinking I'm

3:36

called and anointed to thinking that there

3:39

is no use for my voice in the world. All

3:41

of a sudden I'll think that I can do this,

3:43

but because you got in my head,

3:49

get out of their head. Get

3:52

out of their mind. God,

3:54

we claim it back. We lay

3:56

it at the altar. Sometimes I

3:58

got to lay my spirit up. Sometimes I gotta lay

4:00

my mind out. My mind is telling

4:03

me that I'm not peacefully and wonderfully made.

4:05

My mind is telling me that the weapons are transferred.

4:08

My mind is trying to tell me that there is no use

4:10

for me. But say you know what, you in

4:12

the name of Jesus. Say that I've

4:14

heard you in eviction notice. We

4:16

don't have to wait till the end of a sermon

4:19

to get to an altar call. I hear God

4:21

saying, I'll call out your mind right now.

4:23

I wanna talk to somebody whose mind

4:26

has been playing tricks on ya. I wanna

4:28

talk to somebody whose mind has been

4:30

making you think that you are not calling

4:32

and doing things or you're testing

4:34

your mind and saying you can't believe that

4:37

your gift doesn't matter. Your mind is making

4:39

you believe that you cannot break the

4:41

generational curse. But I came here

4:44

to tell you, let

4:48

this mind be in you. That

4:51

was also in Christ Jesus. I feel like going

4:53

to war in this place. I got on this dress

4:55

and I'm trying to be pretty. But I feel

4:57

like going to

4:58

war with the mind and for

5:00

all God, baby. Did

5:08

you say that

5:11

the weapons of our warfare are

5:13

not carnal, but they are mighty

5:15

through God. Put the pulling

5:17

down, a stronghold. That

5:21

word stronghold actually

5:23

means

5:24

a fortified argument.

5:26

That means that the weapons of our warfare

5:28

are not carnal, but they are mighty

5:31

through God. Put the pulling down,

5:33

a fortified argument.

5:35

Ever since it was little, they've been

5:38

in your head. That argument is

5:40

so fortified. But I came here

5:42

to tell you, I got a weapon stronger

5:44

than the argument. I got a weapon

5:47

stronger than what they said. I

5:54

got a weapon for that. I

5:56

got a prayer for that. I got a

5:58

worship for that. I got a. Jesus

6:00

for that. I know what you said

6:02

about me, but do you know what Jesus

6:05

did for me? Jesus did

6:07

something that is both pain and

6:09

doom. Jesus did something.

6:16

See? The

6:32

Lord is here.

6:36

Warfare.

6:40

Warfare. Jesus.

6:47

Jesus. Okay.

6:52

Oh God. That's

6:56

why the serpent had to get in your head. Because

6:59

if he gets in your head, he can separate you. And

7:02

if he can separate you from God, he can separate

7:04

you from you. You

7:07

don't even know who you are. That's

7:09

why I had to attack your mind when you were young. Because

7:12

if I started when you're young, you

7:14

may not ever find out who you really are. But

7:18

I think, God, that he still

7:20

closed the door.

7:21

Because even though you got me when

7:24

I was young, God says

7:26

I'm going to close the door. But

7:28

then I'm going to open the door. So

7:31

I can throw them anyway. I'm

7:34

going to throw them with an open door, who

7:36

they are. I'm going to throw you with an open

7:38

door when I speak about you. You're

7:41

supposed to knock my thoughts. And I think

7:43

God for that. Your ways are not

7:45

my way. God.

7:56

God.

7:59

All right.

8:11

This is what happens, right? The

8:18

serpent separated

8:22

them. The

8:25

enemy separated you with

8:29

one thought, two thoughts,

8:34

echoed

8:34

by people who

8:36

had their own thoughts.

8:45

I still got a long way to go, so I don't... Adam

8:49

and Eve are

8:52

in the garden and they've been separated.

8:59

And what they do with this separation, is

9:02

what so many of us do, they

9:05

move into an avoiding

9:08

attachment. They

9:12

say to themselves,

9:14

I'm going to just keep pushing through.

9:19

I'm going to avoid who I should have been.

9:22

I'm going to avoid what I should have done, and

9:27

I'm going to just push through. What

9:30

they call pushing through,

9:33

is actually

9:36

pushing away.

9:37

They

9:43

got their fig leaves,

9:46

but when God is walking through

9:48

the cool of the garden and he asks,

9:50

where are you? It

9:53

lets us know that they were avoiding having

9:56

to be in relationship with God, but

9:58

they were not avoiding...

9:59

I wish I could say that.

10:03

You

10:08

see, some of you are

10:10

patting yourself on the back because

10:13

you're still in the vicinity even though you

10:15

aren't in position.

10:16

I'm

10:22

attached, but I'm

10:23

not

10:25

connected the way I once was.

10:31

I'm in the marriage, but I'm not

10:34

connected the way I'm just pushing through.

10:39

In the business, but I'm not connected,

10:42

I'm just pushing through. But you're not pushing through,

10:44

you're actually pushing away.

10:49

Because pushing through requires

10:51

an element of confrontation.

10:55

And if you think pushing through

10:57

is how can I avoid it, or

11:00

how can I punish

11:01

it,

11:03

then you never are offered the opportunity

11:05

to be secure again.

11:09

Because you're pushing away and not through.

11:18

If you have a hot-two mentality

11:20

with God, you don't understand who

11:22

God is. You ought to have a want-to

11:25

ministry with God. Can

11:28

you imagine coming home to your wife saying, I don't have

11:30

to kiss you. We still

11:32

going to be married whether I kiss you or not. I

11:34

don't have to. No, you don't have to, but you're supposed

11:37

to want to. Love is

11:39

about giving, and love is about sewing,

11:41

and love is about understanding,

11:44

reciprocity. It's not just give me God,

11:46

give me God, give me God, it don't ask

11:49

me for anything. Real

11:51

love makes you want to give something,

11:54

makes you want to do something, makes you want

11:56

to say something. That's why little kids come

11:58

up in their handmama drawing.

11:59

and don't nobody know what it is but

12:02

Mama and God, but she pins

12:04

it up on the refrigerator because

12:06

love will find something to give.

12:09

It must express itself

12:11

or it's not legitimate. If anybody tells

12:13

you they love you and they don't ever give you anything,

12:17

be suspicious.

12:23

We are coming

12:26

into a point in the earth where

12:29

we need people who understand the difference

12:33

between pushing through and pushing away.

12:35

God

12:37

help me. He

12:40

showed me

12:42

that until we're willing to have a confrontation

12:46

with what happened to

12:48

us when we

12:49

were separated,

12:53

that we cannot become secure enough

12:55

to be in position.

12:59

Man,

13:00

everyone talks about how Martha was so

13:03

busy that she couldn't serve Jesus. Well,

13:05

Martha was so busy that she couldn't receive

13:07

from Jesus, so busy serving

13:10

that she couldn't receive.

13:12

They don't give her enough credit, however,

13:15

for when her brother was dead

13:16

and she was

13:19

the first one to come up to Jesus and

13:21

she said to him, had you been

13:24

here, my brother would not have

13:26

died. She got confrontational

13:29

with Jesus because it is better to

13:31

be confrontational than to avoid

13:33

him altogether. You see, some

13:35

of us are in here not because everything

13:37

is going the way we wanted to.

13:39

We're in here because I need to have a confrontation

13:42

because I

13:43

trusted you and I want to understand can

13:45

you bring this thing back to

13:46

life? I want to understand what your

13:48

next plan is for me. Some of us came

13:50

in here to celebrate. Others of us came

13:53

in here to have a confrontation because

13:55

Martha says I got to push through what

13:57

I'm feeling right now so that I can...

13:59

have a confrontation

14:01

with

14:05

Jesus. She's

14:09

confronting him because

14:12

connection is more important than separation.

14:16

And God cannot comfort

14:19

what you will not confront.

14:28

Can't fix it in the marriage. I

14:31

can't fix it in your mindset. I

14:34

can't fix it in the kids.

14:37

If you don't confront it, I can't

14:39

comfort it. I know you're insecure and

14:41

I know you want everyone to think that you have it all

14:43

together. But I'm telling you, I cannot

14:46

comfort it if you are not willing to confront

14:48

it. Because that same Jesus told

14:50

Martha that your brother is going

14:53

to live. And she said, no,

14:53

he's not alive, but he could have been

14:56

alive. I know that you're still able. And he

14:58

says, listen, you talk to God. If you just

15:00

stay in this tension with me, you'll see

15:03

that I have a plan outside of this.

15:05

This

15:11

element of confrontation

15:15

requires that we push

15:18

through

15:19

instead of pushing away. No one

15:23

got anything done in the Bible without

15:26

pushing through. Not

15:29

avoiding it, going right

15:31

up the gut of it. That's no country.

15:36

You got to go right up the gut of this thing. You

15:40

got to face it head on. You

15:42

say greater is he that is in you than he that

15:44

is in the world. But if you don't put that greatness

15:47

in a position to be great, then how

15:49

can you ever understand that

15:51

greatness

15:51

is working on your behalf? You

15:53

got to push through.

15:56

The woman with the issue of blood had to push

15:59

through.

15:59

Blind Bartimaeus had to push through.

16:02

There are people in this room who've had to push

16:04

through and push through. It wasn't that it was easy,

16:06

but I pushed my way through. I had

16:08

to lose a few friends. I had to have some

16:11

hard conversations, but I pushed through

16:13

because I believed that on the other side of my

16:15

push was a miracle. I believed that on

16:17

the other side of my push was God's presence.

16:19

I believed that on the other side of that push was

16:22

a new revelation of my identity and who I am and who

16:25

I just didn't have to get up here. I pushed

16:27

my way through. Somebody else's going to show

16:29

me that I'm using all

16:31

the energy I'm raising my way

16:32

towards the mark. It's not easy

16:35

for me to do it, but I'm pushing.

16:41

Not just for what I want,

16:45

but what I'm pushing for is connected to

16:48

God's

16:48

presence. When

16:55

we find Jesus

16:58

in the text, he

17:02

is pushed through. Jesus. He

17:08

was 12 years old in the temple, but

17:12

Luke tells us

17:14

that when Mary had Jesus,

17:17

that he grew in wisdom and

17:19

stature and favor with God and men. You

17:22

don't get wisdom and stature and favor with

17:24

God and men unless you

17:26

push through something.

17:31

I have to tell you, I find this fascinating

17:35

because I think we have done such a good job

17:37

at exalting the divinity

17:40

of Jesus

17:42

that we miss out on what makes him our kinsman

17:44

redeemer.

17:45

That

17:48

he, like you, had

17:51

to grow with wisdom and stature

17:54

and favor with God and

17:57

men.

17:59

push through some immaturity. Mary

18:03

had to go back and get him. He

18:05

had to push through understanding who he was

18:08

in the context of the world. He had to

18:10

push through 18 years

18:12

of something before he could even be used. He had

18:15

to push through some things. And

18:19

yet, when we find him in the text, this

18:22

push is different. This

18:27

push is a defining

18:29

push. I believe God gave me this message

18:33

because there is someone, and

18:36

maybe it's just me, standing

18:40

at one of the most pivotal pushes

18:43

in

18:46

their life.

18:48

They're having to push through in

18:50

a way that they've never had to push through

18:52

before. This

18:55

push is different because if Jesus pushes

18:57

through this moment, it's going to break

19:00

open a dam. If Jesus pushes

19:02

through this moment, it's going to establish

19:04

his ministry. This is not the same

19:06

push of a 12-year-old boy. This

19:09

is a push of a 30-year-old man. This

19:11

is a push that will determine whether

19:13

or not he can be the Savior. This is

19:16

the push that will determine whether or not

19:18

he's qualified

19:18

for the call. This is the

19:20

push that will determine if the devil

19:22

that got Adam and Eve will be the devil

19:25

that got him. This is the push that

19:27

will break the generational curse. This

19:29

is the push that will know who you are. But

19:31

I wanted to let you know

19:33

that this is the push that's going to

19:35

define your family. This is the push

19:37

that is going to define how you connect

19:39

and how you engage.

19:42

This push,

19:45

oh, God, Adam

19:47

and Eve

19:50

are in the garden with the serpent

19:52

in Genesis. Jesus

19:55

is in the wilderness with

19:58

Satan and Matthew.

20:00

From the outside looking in the scene probably

20:02

looks the same But

20:05

before Jesus could step into his

20:07

call

20:08

He had to fight a devil that wasn't

20:10

even his own

20:13

He

20:30

had to fight him now, so then when

20:32

I released him He told himself

20:34

that he just knew he was dead And that he

20:36

was not the same kind of woman And

20:39

that he was not the same kind of man I gotta use

20:42

something different Cause I'm not gonna

20:43

let the same thing that

20:45

took them out It's

20:49

not the same You

20:53

can't step in the destiny until

20:56

you pass the test After

20:58

feeding the devil that told him it was all

21:01

to you You cannot

21:03

step into the destiny until you pass the test

21:06

Of recognizing what's the fear

21:09

This is not about you This

21:11

is about the devil that were here before

21:13

you But maybe

21:13

when they ran into you They

21:16

ran into a prop Yeah

21:23

When Satan,

21:26

when Satan ran up on Jesus

21:27

Jesus

21:29

was armed

21:31

Cause he already knew the devil's tricks

21:34

He already knew he wanted in his head

21:36

He already knew he wanted him

21:38

to suck You better study that

21:40

generational curse you wanna break If

21:42

you don't study it, you don't know where

21:44

the openings are

21:46

You

21:51

know Jesus

21:58

The good Jewish boy that he was

22:02

understood what happened in the garden.

22:05

So before he could launch his ministry,

22:10

he had to defeat

22:13

the devil that was there before

22:16

he said yes. Oh,

22:18

God.

22:22

You're right.

22:24

There have been devils waiting for

22:27

you to get in position. You

22:30

are right. Oh, hell, let's break

22:32

it loose. I've been waiting for

22:34

you to get here, said the devil. But

22:36

the devil didn't know I was waiting to get

22:38

here, too. I

22:47

was

22:47

waiting to get here, too. I

22:49

bet in my word, I bet

22:51

in my prayer, I was...

22:53

I've

22:58

been waiting for this, because the

23:00

weapons of my warfare are

23:02

not hard enough, but they are

23:04

mighty, too. I

23:08

was waiting. I

23:11

fastened it for this. I

23:13

prayed for this. I was waiting

23:15

on you. I got a word

23:18

before I got here that they were

23:20

on the way.

23:23

I

23:32

was waiting. I

23:45

was waiting. We

23:47

almost done. We

23:50

got it done.

23:53

Ladies, who's waiting on us?

23:56

I fastened it. I

23:59

prayed for this. I

24:01

already know

24:02

what to do, but

24:04

I already know who I am.

24:06

He didn't just run up on the devil. He

24:09

had the Holy Ghost. How could the Son

24:12

of God need the Holy

24:14

Spirit to follow him? Because

24:16

even the Son of God needed the Spirit

24:18

of God to follow him. Because

24:21

the devil he had to fight

24:22

was going to require everything

24:25

he had, and bring him he didn't even

24:27

know he had.

24:39

So what we see in

24:44

the text of

24:47

the people, is

24:51

the devil and Jesus

24:55

having an exchange of roles. Unlike

25:01

the woman who

25:04

tried to reason with the devil.

25:09

Jesus let's him

25:11

talk his talk. But

25:14

every time he gave a word, Jesus

25:17

gave a better word. I

25:22

hate to sound like a church mother, because

25:25

I'm not there yet. I got 20 more years till

25:27

my church air. But I'm telling

25:29

you the most powerful thing about this book,

25:32

is when you run out of words, this

25:35

book has a better word. When

25:37

you don't know what to

25:38

say back to those talks, this

25:40

book has a better word. It's

25:43

one thing to hear a scripture, it's

25:45

another thing to proclaim a scripture

25:48

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25:50

same power that raised

25:52

Jesus from the grave

25:55

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25:57

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