The Repair Shop

Name: The Repair Shop
Uploaded: 2024-12-12
Channel: Kenneth Leonard; Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Description: In 'The Repair Shop,' Kenneth and Tasha Cobbs Leonard teach on moving from emotional trauma and habitual bondage into total restoration by aligning with God's m

Kenneth Leonard; Tasha Cobbs Leonard Preached on 12/12/2024Psalms 13

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Summary

In 'The Repair Shop,' Kenneth and Tasha Cobbs Leonard teach on moving from emotional trauma and habitual bondage into total restoration by aligning with God's methods, staying submitted to local leadership, and trusting His sovereign timing.

Key points

•The Repair Shop concept: When you bring one specific broken area to God, He often goes 'under the hood' to fix everything holistically, addressing roots rather than just symptoms.
•Closing generational doors: Personal healing requires taking responsibility for spiritual and natural growth to ensure generational curses (like patterns of health issues or emotional trauma) do not have continued access.
•Trusting God's way vs. His will: We often accept God's promise (His will) but try to force it through our own methods. True faith is trusting His timing and His specific 'how' even when it differs from our expectations.
•The Danger of Multiple Voices: Spiritual fatigue often comes from 'eating at too many tables.' Staying submitted to the specific spiritual leaders God has placed over you prevents confusion and ensures you receive the 'seasoning' meant for your growth.
•Handling Offense and Church Hurt: The enemy uses disappointment with people to create distance between believers and God's bride (the Church). Restoration requires choosing Glory over being right.

Scripture

Restoration

Healing

Faith

Obedience

Authority

Life application

This week, audit your 'spiritual diet' by identifying whose voices you are allowing to influence you via social media or podcasts; commit to prioritizing the word from your local pastors to avoid spiritual confusion. When faced with a delay in a promise, pray specifically for God to show you 'His way' rather than forcing your own timeline.

Reflection questions

What is an area of 'under the hood' trauma or habit that you have been hiding while only asking God to fix surface-level problems?
Are there promises from God that you have become bitter about because they didn't happen the way you planned? How can you surrender the 'how' back to Him?
Is there someone in the 'bride of Christ' (the church) you are currently offended with? How is that offense hindering your ability to experience God's glory?
Who are the voices at your 'table'? Do they push you further toward your purpose or further toward your past?

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0:00Hallelujah I came out tonight on a

0:02Wednesday night because I got a good

0:05feeling on Sunday but there's one one

0:07feeling but there are many refills and

0:10on tonight I came to get everything that

0:12God has for me I just want to know you

0:15you could just wave at me if you say I

0:18came I got a praise and I came to get

0:20some principles and when I leave here

0:23tonight I won't be here the same way

0:26that I came I I came for everything that

0:30he has with me I just need you to look

0:32at your neighb and say I'm not leaving

0:34without everything I I'm filling up the

0:37tank I'm filling it up with everything

0:38that he came for me and so father God

0:41you do just that you fill us again fill

0:44us again somebody just made that your

0:47confession God fill us again God we

0:51empty ourselves out so that we can hear

0:54from you we need a word from you a word

0:57that will change our hearts a word that

1:00will change our minds a word that will

1:02change our walks a word a right now word

1:06that when I walk back into my house

1:08today I w't be walking into the same

1:12place and so God release your joy

1:15release your power release your spirit

1:18and we count it all done as your glory

1:22and the train fills the temple let's

1:25signify by screaming and giving God the

1:29biggest

1:30praise you

1:34got we praise

1:37you we praise

1:39you we praise you on

1:42tonight somebody take your

1:45seat and just declare over your row

1:48God's getting ready to do something

1:50incredible just for you tonight oh my

1:54God cuz it could have been

1:57me outo

2:00everybody got a testimony with no

2:03food no

2:05clothes all left

2:09Al without one friend or just another

2:14number I feel that in the room with a

2:16tragic

2:18end we're here at the end of the year

2:20and God didn't

2:23see to let none of these things be and

2:28every day by his power

2:30he keeps on blessing me you ought to

2:33throw your hands up and tell him thank

2:35you

2:39[Music]

2:42Lord yeah sit down sit down sit

2:45down oh we're so excited to be here can

2:48we do this can you put your hands

2:50together and give God praise for

2:53Bishop come on how do we honor we honor

2:56you Bishop we honor you Bishop we honor

2:59you

3:00thank y'all for having us enjoy your

3:02time on vacation listen we understand we

3:06we we will see you at the conference

3:07though y'all

3:09coming all right y'all going to get them

3:11registrations done it's going to be

3:13absolutely incredible um while we're

3:16honoring can we give it up for my

3:17brother Pastor

3:19Joel Tasha Pastor Tasha I love you man

3:23that's my name sake I know y'all can

3:25give it up better than that

3:29he wore his tight sweater the night and

3:31everything oh my goodness it's the

3:34banter it's the it is ridiculous y'all

3:38all right we love the Lord we like to

3:40have fun we're GNA um we want to share

3:42something with you that the lord gave us

3:44tonight uh we going we might laugh a

3:47little bit we might cry a little bit but

3:49at the end of the day um God is going to

3:51be glorified tonight um we were praying

3:53about this moment and we're here at the

3:56end of the year and all throughout the

3:58year we have fast throughout the year we

4:00have prayer we have prayer revivals at

4:03our church so we do prayer revivals

4:05every quarter and just all of these

4:07things um to make sure that our spirit

4:09man is sharpened um but just to be

4:11honest I was just telling you a few

4:13moments ago both of us we grew up in

4:14church we are uh PKS you know pastors

4:18kids all that kind of stuff so we know

4:20we know church we know the language we

4:22know the lingo you know I just sung that

4:24song I Knew y'all was going to jump up

4:26and start

4:27screaming you know you we know these

4:30things but the truth of the matter is we

4:32have to be intentional about our

4:35responsibility as it pertains to our

4:38growth both spiritually and naturally

4:41and so here at the end of the year we

4:43just want to take one more shot at it

4:45and so we want to welcome you to the

4:47repair shop repair

4:49shop yeah look at your neighbor say

4:53welcome to the repair shop welcome

4:54welcome to the repair shop welcome

4:56anybody ever had to take your car to the

4:58repair shop and

5:00the mechanics come out you go in to get

5:02one tire fixed and they come out telling

5:04you oh you need four new tires the

5:05engine about to blow transmission going

5:08on listen I didn't come here to spend,

5:091500 I got 150 on

5:12it the thing that's so amazing about God

5:15is you take him one thing and he fixes

5:17everything oh come on he say it's all

5:20it's all cover yes yes so we bringing it

5:24all tonight we're going to lay it all

5:26down at the altar and there are some

5:28there are some areas in particular that

5:30we're going to cover tonight that we

5:31believe holistically will speak to this

5:34room um and so God Have Your Way um as

5:37we as we enter the repair shop y'all got

5:39to shake it off shake it off all right

5:41um one of the we wanted to start with

5:43this and this is a personal testimony

5:45for me um you can kind of see a physical

5:49transformation with me physically your

5:51girl you look

5:54amazing delicious scr thank you honey

5:57all right we in Florida I know it's nice

6:00and warm to be but U

6:03that I told y'all that was just not you

6:07know hey I want to look flat I want to

6:08look better it's an intentional decision

6:10on my part that I had to make for myself

6:13number one that I didn't want to travel

6:15the world Minister the Gospel of Jesus

6:17Christ but be bound in certain areas and

6:20so about two about three years ago my

6:23doctors told me they said Tasha we see

6:25your cholesterol levels are you know

6:27they're increasing every single time we

6:28do your blood work work and uh for me it

6:31was much more than hey Tasha you just

6:33have cholesterol issues this was a

6:35generational curse that has been chasing

6:37my family down for years and so for

6:40years my father had high blood pressure

6:42and died from a heart attack my father's

6:44father had high blood pressure blood

6:45pressure and died from a heart attack

6:47I've had several cousins first cousins

6:49who had high blood pressure and

6:51cholesterol problems and died for from a

6:53heart attack and I realized then that I

6:55can come down to the altar I can get

6:57healing I can go to every prayer Revival

7:00and and experience the healing I could

7:02even take the medications that the

7:04doctors give me and experience healing

7:06but if I don't do what I am responsible

7:09to do in order to keep that door closed

7:13then that generational curse has access

7:15into me all right and so I had to make a

7:18conscious decision that I'm going to go

7:19to the repair shop and I'm going to find

7:21out what this is that keeps me running

7:23back to this cheese these pizzas and

7:26this Fried

7:28Chicken so that I can get to the root of

7:30the thing so that I can close that door

7:32in my life and so we want to make sure

7:35that we're dealing with these things at

7:37the root it is so easy to mag to magnify

7:40one thing one area where oh man I have I

7:43have really grown in this area y'all

7:45need to applaud me but it it's the

7:47things that's under the under the rug

7:50right under the hood those things that

7:51we keep hidden that keeps us Bound in

7:55certain areas of our our lives but we

7:57going to bring those things to the

7:58repair shop tonight amen

8:00amen and so um we got some note takers

8:03y'all wave at me I know we got plenty of

8:04note takers here oh abely everybody yes

8:08um and so uh we have a couple of focuses

8:11that we want to start and we just this

8:13is kind of how um our ministry started

8:16in in the pandemic so was nobody coming

8:18to church we was God decided for us to

8:21start a church virtually and literally

8:23my wife and I would set up on Zoom every

8:26Thursdays for two years and uh

8:29literally just get teach whatever God

8:32gave us and so this is kind of at home

8:34y'all gonna make us feel at home

8:37tonight all right so this this first

8:39area is emotional healing and

8:42restoration Oo we starting deep

8:46yeah write that down emotional healing

8:48and restoration and uh our focus is

8:51overcoming emotional wounds trauma and

8:55learning to trust again God told us this

8:58that he does not want his people to

9:00enter 2025 bound with

9:03trauma come on somebody ought to make

9:05that their confession down here I'm not

9:07entering

9:082025 bound with

9:10trauma I'm not giving trauma control and

9:13uh here's our scriptural reference is

9:15Psalms 13 147 verse3 this is one of my

9:20favorite scriptures uh over the LA last

9:24uh decade or so I'm just falling in love

9:26with the word of God anybody just

9:27falling in love with it

9:30I love the word it says this he heals

9:34the

9:35Brokenhearted and binds up their

9:39wounds he heals the

9:42Brokenhearted and binds up their wounds

9:46yeah we're going to go into some

9:47questions I want to ask you um how do

9:50past hurts affect our relationship with

9:53God and I want to ask this question

9:56because a lot of times we'll be thinking

9:58no I I'm just not talking to her this

10:00ain't got nothing to do with me and

10:01God what this got to do with me and God

10:03my grandfather used to say this to us

10:05all the time oh me and God good me and

10:07God

10:08good but traumas wounds and and having

10:13trust issues can affect your

10:14relationship with God so how um I'm

10:17thinking through a couple of things um

10:20first thing is is is this

10:23um it's it's real good when God is doing

10:26stuff that we call good but

10:30sometimes God will do things his way

10:32that ain't our way has it anybody that's

10:36ever wanted God to do it a certain way

10:38and when he didn't do it that way we get

10:41disappointed we get

10:43heartbroken we get can we go ahead can

10:46we keep Pastor Joel can I keep it right

10:48okay we get mad we get mad with God yes

10:51anybody ever had a Psalms 9 moment where

10:53it's like God look I'm about to empty it

10:55out I'mma empty the clip cuz you didn't

10:57do so uh personal testimony my wife and

11:01I I guess it's our personal testimony uh

11:03several years ago uh we kept getting

11:05these prophecies that we were going to

11:07have a baby we going to have a baby

11:09we're going to have a baby and we

11:11received it and my God we went it fell

11:13out in everything you know you fall out

11:15hit the floor you got to fall out we did

11:17all of that churchy

11:20stuff and our faith was strong we believ

11:23it is anybody ever got a word and you

11:26believed it thank you and so we went and

11:30did all the things you do to make a

11:37baby come

11:39on and and we kept coming up short and

11:43so God didn't see fit to do it that way

11:45we spent years going to see the best

11:48doctors we used to fly to Houston every

11:51month for a year and uh to to fix some

11:55things and then we even went to IVF and

11:58so we get to I IVF and I'm still holding

12:01on to this word and I know it's it's

12:03getting ready to happen and we go to IVF

12:05and we get ready to do the uh

12:08implantation and we do the implantation

12:10and the doctor says something that I I

12:12wasn't expecting him to say this I

12:15wouldn't expect him to say this he said

12:17well it's in God's hands

12:20now wait a

12:23minute I mean I know it's in God's hands

12:26it's been in his hands but it's kind in

12:28your

12:29right I had no idea that it was even a

12:32possibility that this was going to fail

12:34and so we were getting ready to go

12:36release um the album royalty we were

12:38going to record it and uh two days

12:41before we were to leave to record it the

12:43doctor called and gave her the news that

12:46the transfer failed we had one shot one

12:51embryo one shot at this and he said it

12:55failed and we both got mad with God and

12:59it caused a scar and a trauma that that

13:02allow that placed us in a place where

13:05our faith was broken is it anybody

13:08that's ever been there where it's like I

13:11kind of don't believe like I've been

13:15sacrificing I've been sewing I've been

13:18showing up to church I've been giving to

13:20others when I didn't even have it I I

13:23and you you said you was giving me a

13:26child I I need to understand what it is

13:29that that's going on here and this is

13:31what happened

13:33over God is so good uh God showed me

13:37that I'm building your faith so that you

13:39have no other choice but to trust in

13:42me before we came here God showed me

13:45that there some people in this room that

13:48God has given you a word and there have

13:50been some things that happened that

13:52fractured your faith some things some

13:54people that came and fractur your faith

13:56some situations that came and fractured

13:58your faith and God sent me here to tell

14:01you to get up again trust again have

14:06faith again because here's here's the

14:10end of the story uh uh after the

14:12transfer failed we went and we did the

14:14recording God Lord knows that took all

14:16the faith that we had and I watched my

14:18wife I'll let you tell this part but I

14:20watched my wife go through literally

14:23having to rebuild her faith and one of

14:25the things that I was so impressed by

14:27was her honesty with God

14:29wow that her repair started by being

14:33honest and I was sitting at the table

14:35and God just dropped this into me like

14:37what about

14:38adoption I told you I would give you a

14:41child but you didn't wait to hear the

14:46way I told you I would give you the

14:49business but you didn't wait to he away

14:52I told you I would give you favor I

14:54would give you the connections I would

14:56give you the meetings I would give you

14:59the wife I'd give you the husband I'd

15:02give you the ministry I told you I would

15:04do that you just got to wait to hear the

15:05way cuz I what I learned is God is

15:08Sovereign and he can do what he wants to

15:11do when he wants to do it how he wants

15:14to do it is it anybody that can testify

15:16with me and say I've experienced the

15:18fact that he's Sovereign I thought he

15:20was the one but he brought me something

15:22better I thought that job was the one

15:24but he brought me something better I

15:26thought that was the right City but he

15:28placed me in a Gyra that gave me

15:30everything that I needed can we take 5

15:33seconds and celebrate God's

15:37way it's his way Jesus Bible says that

15:41my thoughts are higher my ways are

15:44higher such as the Heaven from the earth

15:48sometimes we have to trust his way and

15:50what God gave because we want his will

15:51our way

15:54ooh somebody say bars

16:00no we do and then we what happens is

16:02when we do it our way and it fails we

16:04get mad with

16:06God when God is saying you you fell out

16:09you received the word you cried and you

16:11snotted when I gave you the will and I

16:14made the promise but you didn't seek my

16:16way and so I'm not going to put favor on

16:20your way if it's not my

16:23way and a lot of times we've gone

16:25through heartbreaks and unnecessarily if

16:28we we would have just done it his

16:31way his

16:34way look at your neighbor and say do it

16:36his way his way his way is better his

16:39way is better it's going to save you a

16:41lot of time if you do it his way and and

16:43and and so here was here was how he

16:45showed up we got a phone call we we went

16:48through it we agree with doing the

16:50adoption process and we got a phone call

16:52that there was a mother expecting a

16:54child and um when we got that phone call

16:58we was like wow she was expecting a

17:00child in a month we ended up figuring

17:03out that we were spiritually

17:06pregnant and she never had to

17:08carry a child and when I tell y'all the

17:13child that God gave us

17:17is

17:19100% me and 100%

17:23Tasha he look like us he act like us he

17:27walk around the house preaching he

17:29playing all the instruments can somebody

17:32he Bouie like his daddy whoa

17:36whoa he he y'all would have seen him

17:38tonight but at the last minute he

17:39decided he would he didn't want to go to

17:41church yeah so he at the hotel with

17:43Grandma right y'all say hey Ash watching

17:48we got a three-year-old man of God that

17:51God built just for us literally we did

17:54it when we decided to do it God's way

17:57and so we want to encourage you to press

17:59past those moments in life and here's

18:03God is so forgiving and gracious that

18:05even when we make a decision to do

18:07something our way he's right there with

18:09his arms wide open waiting up on us to

18:11run back to him even though I was in

18:13that place and my faith was shattered

18:15and I was asking hard questions y'all I

18:17mean like hard questions I would tell

18:19them and our pastors listen I don't know

18:21if I believe what I've been preaching

18:22for 30 some years because God promised

18:26us this it was until I had to face

18:28myself

18:29and realize that my faith wasn't as

18:31strong as I had been preaching that it

18:34was that that's really what that season

18:36was about that Tasha you've been

18:38preaching this and preaching that but it

18:39just one thing one thing caused you to

18:42turn on me just like

18:44that many times we have to revisit those

18:47moments we so we off on to something

18:48else but I believe that this is a

18:49blessing that many times we have been

18:51broken in areas where we've caused

18:54trauma on ourselves and we blamed God

18:56and we got to go back to the feet of

18:58Jesus and get get that right

19:01wo where we at yeah and I agree with

19:05that like we just have to operate in

19:07forgiveness um I think that one of the

19:11things that the enemy likes to do

19:13through disappointment is create

19:18distance he wants to create that's what

19:21sin is creating distance between us and

19:25our relationship with God and he'll use

19:28use trauma use hurt to create distance

19:33um and cause us to uh not want to not

19:38want to get closer to God one of the

19:40most common ways he does that and keep

19:43looking straight one of the most common

19:45ways he does that is through something

19:47we've labeled Church hurt

19:52oh keep looking

19:55straight some of us have been in in

19:59situations where we've encountered hurt

20:02through people at church and the enemy

20:06caused us to indict the

20:09church when a lot of times our challenge

20:12has been mislabeling and understanding

20:16the role people play in our

20:20lives we we notice sometimes we see some

20:23people get buddy buddy a little bit too

20:25quick some people begin to become

20:28friends friends a little bit too quick

20:30and you'll give somebody some

20:34information that you really shouldn't

20:36trust them with just yet oh God and when

20:39you see it on Facebook and Instagram and

20:42Tik Tock and X the next day we'll say

20:46well they were supposed to be church

20:47people see I knew it wasn't

20:50but what the enemy does is create a

20:55breach between us and them yeah one of

20:58the of the things one of the things that

20:59God showed me in this and um this was

21:02just it was so good to me because a lot

21:04of times we can say you know I got

21:06church hurt I got church hurt but I'm

21:08good with

21:09god well the truth is when I see it this

21:12way honestly I love what you just said

21:14because the church didn't hurt you

21:16somebody you encountered at church hurt

21:17you somebody you encountered and if we

21:20be honest we look we should be looking

21:22for sick people in a hospital oo say

21:25that again A lot of times we show up to

21:26church and expect it per Perfect People

21:29when ain't nothing in here but imperfect

21:33people and so when an applauded person

21:36does something I don't like the Bible

21:38actually says for us to go to our

21:40brothers and

21:42sisters and make sure we get that thing

21:44right A lot of times we don't like to do

21:46that because some of us just a little we

21:47got a little Hood in us

21:49still so when somebody come to us we

21:52automatically defensive we got to check

21:54that because the word of God says that

21:57we are to have these heart conversations

21:59that PK was just talking about one of

22:01the things that the Lord said to me is

22:03it's it's kind of challenging to say I

22:05have a relationship with God when I'm

22:08offended with his

22:10bride the Bible says that the church is

22:13the bride of Christ and so if one of

22:16y'all got a problem with me right now

22:18you come run up these stairs and try to

22:19hit me you don't want to do that I

22:22promise you don't cuz if you got a

22:23problem with me then you got a problem

22:26with him so if I got a problem with

22:29God's bride then I have an issue with

22:32him because we can expect favor from God

22:36when we can't look our brothers and

22:38sisters in the eye woo I'm about to walk

22:41through here a little longer cuz y'all

22:42real

22:43quiet so I'm going to speak from the

22:45standpoint of a worship leader one of

22:47the things that I love about in

22:49scripture is when we when we talk about

22:52the the Ark of the Covenant that's the

22:53place where um The Mercy Seat dwell well

22:56The Mercy Seat I know we think is a

22:58chair but it's really the glory of God

23:01where The Mercy Seat sits you see that

23:03there are two cherubim who face one

23:05another without them facing one another

23:08there was no glory

23:11woo so we're expecting glory in our

23:15worship experiences but we sitting by

23:17beside people that we ain't spoke to in

23:18three

23:21weeks when God is saying I'll give you

23:23glory when you talk to your sister I'll

23:26give you glory and I'll let you

23:27experience Miracles cuz we're going to

23:29experience Miracles at we're going to

23:31experience miracles in Faith Center and

23:33we're going to experience Miracles at

23:35this conference that's coming up and so

23:38the maybe the prophetic in me is saying

23:40some of us need to go to our sisters and

23:42brothers and say you know what I'm sorry

23:44I shouldn't have said that to you that

23:45way I shouldn't have done that that way

23:47because I want Glory more than I want to

23:49be right

23:52oh I want to experience Glory more than

23:55I want to be right and I'm going just

23:57sit here and tell tell you after being a

23:59church for 43 years you going to keep

24:00running into flawed people will your

24:03response at this church be the same as

24:06it was at the last church because what

24:09we do is we leave another church go to

24:11another church and because our

24:13expectation now is that that leader is

24:16going to do the same thing that Pastor's

24:17going to do the same thing we only give

24:2050% I'm only going to give 50% to myself

24:23because I expect y'all to do the same

24:24thing the last Church did and then we

24:27end up having churches full of people

24:28who don't give their all because they

24:31never got

24:32healed from that thing that hurt them

24:35the last time look at your neighbor say

24:36not in here not in here not in here I'm

24:39giving 100% because I want Glory more

24:43than I want to be

24:45right

24:47woo some of us need to pick that thing

24:49up and go sign up for the groups go go

24:52you go get your get your talent so that

24:55you can serve sign up for your for your

24:57serve teams and get connected because

25:00what the enemy wants to do is keep you

25:02away from a person that was designed to

25:05push you further towards purpose

25:09purpose it's no inconsequential

25:12relationships they either push you

25:13further towards pain or further towards

25:16purpose but in the faith inent in 2024

25:18cuz we still got a couple weeks left and

25:212025 we pushing towards purpose we

25:24maximizing our potential and we're going

25:26to get ready to see God do exceeding

25:29abundantly above all we could ask think

25:32or

25:33imagine and I don't want to I don't want

25:35to ignore the fact that many of us have

25:38experienced trauma in my in our lives

25:40and it was something that was deep I'm

25:42talking about from molestations or to

25:45abuse and the truth is we have to trust

25:48that God is

25:51just somebody write that down I know

25:53that don't feel good I know that don't

25:55feel good because some of us got that

25:58get back

26:00Spirit come on now y'all don't leave me

26:03out here by myself some of us got that

26:06thing like hey God I love you and

26:07everything but I'm going to deal with

26:09this

26:10myself but we got to lay it down some of

26:13those things we got to lay at the feet

26:15of Jesus because many of us are controll

26:17I lost something okay many of us are

26:20controlling I'm be honest I'm I'm a

26:21control kind of person I don't like to

26:23lose control and if you did something to

26:26me trust me I'm witty enough to get you

26:28back but God is saying I I have never

26:31called you to get back I need you to

26:33trust that vengeance is

26:37mine you don't know the emotional trauma

26:40the mental trauma that that person who

26:42hurt you has gone through in the last 10

26:44years W you don't know you don't know

26:47how how much they've had to go through

26:49how much therapy they might have had to

26:51have over what happened to them when

26:53they were younger you got to trust God

26:56to be just I don't know who I'm talking

26:58talking to in the room but I feel that

27:00we got to trust that God knows how to

27:02handle that situation better than you do

27:05because one of many of us are trying to

27:07be God in this

27:08situation like I can trust you to heal

27:11and I can trust you to set free but I

27:13can't trust you to deal with them

27:15right that needs to be dealt with a

27:17certain way I think a big some of the

27:20challenges some of us would look at that

27:23and and what if God's just is not doing

27:28anything

27:30oh what if he what if what if I trust

27:35that God leaves them exactly where they

27:37were J what if me

27:40trusting um what if me trusting looks

27:43like waiting on God to do

27:47something that he never intends to do um

27:51let me flip it a little bit because a

27:54lot of times when we when we look at the

27:56story and when we tell the story we are

27:59the

28:01protagonist in the

28:04story but sometimes we ain't always in

28:08the right sometimes we the antagonist

28:12uhhuh sometimes we

28:16Goliath teach here it's quiet in this

28:19Methodist

28:23Church sometimes God may be using them

28:25to show us something about us

28:29and we still got to trust that God is

28:31just because the same thing that we

28:34wishing on somebody else they might be

28:36Wishing on

28:38us look at somebody and say give me a

28:40little Grace give me a little Grace he's

28:42still he's still working all right we

28:44got to move we got to move we got to

28:45move got was that a

28:48blessing all right the second thing we

28:50want to talk about is freedom from

28:52bondage freedom from bondage and our

28:55focus is Breaking Free from spiritual

28:59emotional and

29:01habitual bondage cuz some of us got some

29:04habits that's just keeping us some of us

29:07don't know when to

29:09hush my my my my

29:13my some of us don't know when to say

29:15what to say or how to say some of us are

29:19are experiencing the same challenges in

29:21this this marriage that we did in the

29:23first marriage because we didn't change

29:25some things that needed to be changed in

29:27US

29:29oh

29:30man I want y'all to love

29:33me so we going to talk about breaking

29:35free from spiritual emotional and

29:37habitual bondage our SC scriptural um

29:40reference is Galatians 5

29:43And1 I love this scripture y'all it says

29:45it is for Freedom that Christ has set us

29:49free stand firm then and do not let

29:52yourself be burdened again by a yoke of

29:55slavery one one version says a yoke of

30:00bondage so let's talk about this um what

30:03keeps people in bondage y'all tell us I

30:06want you I want to hear from you what

30:07keeps people in

30:08bondage unforgiveness everybody said

30:11that unforgiveness what

30:14else fear she said fear

30:18procrastination anger I love this

30:22yep Comfort that's strong

30:28po did somebody said poverty what keeps

30:31people in

30:32bondage right okay let's talk about it

30:36um yeah I think that uh it's a a lot of

30:39things that keep us in bondage I think

30:42fear is one of those big

30:44things fear uh I heard somebody use the

30:48acronym false expectations of appearing

30:50real yeah that most of the time when we

30:54encounter something that we are afraid

30:57of that when we finally pushed past that

31:00we found out it was nothing to really be

31:02afraid of we've been waiting to send the

31:04application all this time and then we

31:07got picked and was like man I should

31:08have sent that anybody ever been there

31:10was like man I should have did that a

31:11long a long time ago where we had to

31:15confront our fear and uh trust God I

31:19think that's a huge huge thing where we

31:21have to uh learn our faith in God over

31:24the last few years God has been training

31:26my faith to the point where I start to

31:29sound like my mom and my grandma that

31:31raised me you can't make me doubt them I

31:33know too much about much anybody got

31:36that testimony I I know too much

31:38sometimes he just want us to step out

31:40there so he could prove to us that he's

31:43going to hold us that he's going to keep

31:45us that no matter how tight it gets and

31:48how tough it gets that when a rubber me

31:51the rooll God is going to be right there

31:52to carry you through is it anybody in

31:55here that can has a testimony that he's

31:57kept me

32:01um I love the scripture that we read

32:03though and it says the back end says do

32:06not let yourself be burdened

32:10again look at your neighbor and say

32:11don't go back again don't go go back

32:13there don't back again don't go back

32:16again because a lot of times um we tend

32:20to break

32:22free but we go back into the familiar

32:27because we don't know the

32:30unfamiliar that unknown that there's uh

32:34sometimes they they have this thing I'm

32:35not sure what it's called but when

32:36people are released from prison they do

32:38stuff to go back into prison because

32:40it's like I I know that I could deal

32:42with that but when when God sets us free

32:46he wants to place us into something new

32:48I believe that's what March is going to

32:50be about too that when we get to March

32:52we going to meet a new us that we

32:54haven't met before God says for I know

32:57the plans that I have for you that you

32:59don't know them and so that when by the

33:01time you get to March you're going to

33:03meet a new you that you have never met

33:06before that you going to look in the

33:08mirror and be like I don't even

33:09recognize me and if you if you were

33:11growing up in my time say I looked at my

33:13hands and my hands look new uh but but I

33:18believe that there are things that we

33:20can do that will cause us not to go back

33:23and the scripture says to be not conf

33:27form Med to this world but be ye

33:30transformed

33:32transformed by the

33:34renewing of your mind any change that's

33:38going to happen for us happens head

33:39first yes it's going to start right here

33:42in in our mind and um I believe that

33:45sounds really really deep sometimes but

33:48like like how do we how do you change

33:51your mind like how do I shake my head

33:53real hard

33:55and oh no something something new Pops

33:59in there um I can give you something

34:01really really

34:03practical check your

34:08circle check

34:09it check your circle Bible says uh in

34:14Proverbs 13 it says walk with the wise

34:16and become wise for a

34:19companion of food

34:22suffers we can avoid suffering Again by

34:26checking the circle and there some

34:28people that cause us to get into some

34:30situations like we did before that if we

34:32could just break away if we could just

34:35get into a new space and so I believe

34:37that uh Freedom sometimes looks like

34:39changing your circle changing your

34:41environment checking your timeline my

34:44God because we think it's harmless right

34:47it's just all these suggestions and all

34:50of these varying opinions and weird

34:53theologies and next thing you know we

34:55burning sage and praying

34:58crystals what's your sign what's your

35:01what's your what's your sign come on but

35:03I refuse to be subject to the Moon

35:07because one thing I know that the moon

35:09has to be subject to the sun let's

35:13go the Bible says we take captive every

35:16thought that rises up every pretention

35:19that rises up and take it captive and

35:22call it subject to the word of God and

35:25don't care what the moon say he says

35:27said I'm free I don't care what the moon

35:29said he says I'm above and not beneath

35:31he says I'm A lender and not a borrower

35:35I want to know if there anybody in here

35:36that says it don't matter what anybody

35:38else says all that matters is what he

35:41says he and anytime anything starts to

35:44rise up in your life you start replacing

35:46it with the word of God I'm beautifully

35:48and wonderfully made I am the heal of

35:52God and I know I may be looking at the

35:54truth at the facts and the facts say I

35:56ain't got enough my bank account but the

35:59truth says I'm A lender and not a

36:01barer listen let me tell you this the

36:04facts can't change the truth but the

36:06truth can change the facts you keep

36:09speaking it until you say it you keep

36:11speaking the truth the Bible says that

36:13God is not a man that he should Li the

36:16son of man that he repent if he said it

36:20that's it that settlement he's so

36:22committed to making sure that you win

36:25that he watches over his word to perform

36:28it that means I don't have to use my

36:31words all I got to do is use his word

36:34somebody had to do a prophetic J just

36:36start watching just start watching I'll

36:39make a red sea rise up to make sure that

36:42my I'll make a mountain move matter of

36:45fact I'll give you the authority to

36:46speak to a mountain and not only tell it

36:49to move but tell it where to go some of

36:52us need to start assigning some

36:53destinations to some

36:55mountains I'm telling I'm telling my

36:58finances where you need to go I'm

37:00telling I'm not broke no more you need

37:02to get out of here I'm telling some some

37:04generational curses where you need to

37:08go I'm not going to end up like my daddy

37:11I'm not going to end up like my mama I'm

37:12not going to end up like my

37:15community God I'm a member of the

37:17Kingdom he has the final say somebody

37:20say he has he has the final say the

37:23final say yes

37:25Lord somebody ought to give give God a

37:28praise right

37:29[Applause]

37:34there we have to re we have to renew our

37:37minds and I remember a few years ago I

37:40was just traveling traveling traveling

37:41traveling and I found myself for very

37:43fatigued and not just naturally

37:47spiritually I was empty I mean I was

37:49going all over the world pouring pouring

37:51pouring pouring and I say this to

37:53worship leaders everywhere I go don't be

37:55a dry heing worship leader at that point

37:57I was just dry heaving I didn't have

37:59anything more to give so I'm just

38:01regurgitating what I was saying 10 years

38:03ago that could be a stale word now and

38:05you always got to have something fresh

38:07and so I remember one of our friends we

38:09were in conversation with them years ago

38:11and she said one thing about her uncle

38:13she was like you know Uncle Dwayne he's

38:15a word guy she said he could be standing

38:17beside you if we waiting to get on a

38:18plane and she says he has his earbuds in

38:21he's always constantly listening to the

38:23word of God that was one of those

38:25nuggets one of those things that I

38:26sponged I took that thing in and so I

38:29found myself listening to the word of

38:31God I don't know how many know but you

38:32can turn on the Bible app and play it

38:34and so even today when I'm getting

38:36dressed preparing for my day I turn on

38:38the word of God and I play it because a

38:40lot of times our lives are busy we got

38:42to go to work you got to pick up the

38:43kids you got to take them kids do

38:45everything now you got to take them to

38:46band practice you got to take them to

38:48basketball anybody know what I'm talking

38:49about y'all got kids you didn't stop

38:51signing up for stuff until you get a

38:54license I didn't sign up for this I

38:57signed to feed you and give you

38:59some but our days are filled with so

39:03much and we will look back and find

39:04ourselves it's been three or four days

39:06before we've been in the presence of God

39:08it's been three or four days do I have

39:09an honest church since we since we've

39:11read the word of God and so I started

39:14finding practical ways to feed my spirit

39:17man so that I wouldn't find myself

39:19fatigued and so I listened to the word

39:21of God I'm listening to worship all the

39:23time I'm finding different um uh

39:26different worship songs that speak to me

39:28I speak to that this is very key and

39:30we're going to get into this a little

39:31bit I listen to certain

39:34voices say that part again that I

39:38know have been called to speak unto

39:42me that's good all

39:45right so I'm turning on uh I'm turning

39:48on B the word from Sunday I miss it

39:52because I was working in children's

39:53church and so I'm going to turn on the

39:55word from Sunday so I can receive from

39:57the man of God that God has placed over

39:59me or I'm turning on what uh what Pastor

40:02Joel spoke last week because I needed to

40:04hear this word cuz all of us we can't be

40:07listening to everybody

40:09podcast all right let me just let me

40:12just let me is come on we can't we can't

40:16get everybody's 21 steps mama and them

40:19used to tell us you don't eat at

40:20everybody table you don't know what they

40:22putting in their food we want to know

40:24why we walking around spiritually

40:26confused is because we receiving words

40:28from all of these people that we have

40:29not been called to sit at their tables I

40:32know we living in this free world where

40:34everybody can get online get on

40:36Instagram get on these podcast and hear

40:38everything from everybody but I don't

40:40know what offended you and what what

40:42what tribe you went and connected with

40:44and what your theology really is to be

40:46pouring into me and now I can't

40:48understand why I'm tired in the

40:51spirit because we're listening to

40:53everybody if God calls you to Faith

40:55Center then Faith Center has done all

40:58that that they can to get this word to

41:00you you log on to YouTube you get on

41:02Instagram you listen at the clips you

41:04listen at the 60 seconds I don't have to

41:06turn on

41:08everybody I ain't got to turn on the

41:10last popular preacher the last am I

41:12doing too much no the last last popular

41:16podcaster who is your pastor who is your

41:19pastor who is your pastor who are you

41:21submitted to while you trying to pour

41:23into

41:25me let me hush

41:29but there is a reason that God sent you

41:32to Faith Center and I'm not going to let

41:34any other voice get me off track from

41:37the place where God has planted me if if

41:40there's a word that he's trying to get

41:42into me he going to get it through my

41:45Bishop he's going to get it through the

41:48pastors and the leaders that God has set

41:50in place at the place where he planted

41:51me we got to get back to I know it's old

41:54school and we don't hear this a lot no

41:56more but we got to get get back to the

41:57table where God set us at I ain't eating

42:00at everybody table because the type of

42:02seasoning you use might not be good for

42:04my

42:05stomach who table you've been sitting at

42:08that might be why you feel like cussing

42:09so much this

42:11week who table You' been sitting at that

42:13might be why you and your spouse can't

42:15get along because you got all kind of

42:17spirits speaking to

42:22you Lord have mercy we're trying to

42:25figure out how to get away from bondage

42:28many of us are running to voices that we

42:30are have not been called to speak into

42:32our lives and we're not receiving the

42:34word to help us detach from the things

42:37that are keeping us in bondage we have

42:40pastors who are after God's Own Heart

42:42they sit and they labor at the feet of

42:45Jesus every single week so they can get

42:47a word to you to help take you into

42:49purpose and free you from

42:51bondage somebody we we allow offense

42:55sometimes to keep us away from that the

42:57enemy can be so strategic with tools he

42:59made you get mad at the sister that was

43:01sitting six rows down from you because

43:03he knew that the word that Bishop had

43:05for you that Sunday was going to free

43:06you from the Yoke of bondage that had

43:08been over your life he'll use offense

43:11and everything to keep us in bondage but

43:13I'm not going to let that happen in my

43:15life there's a man of God that has been

43:17called to speak into your life men and

43:20women of God in this church and I'm not

43:22going to allow anything or anyone to

43:24keep me from getting what God has for me

43:26at this church I don't know what in the

43:28world that just happened but we break

43:30that whatever that spirit is that's been

43:33trying to get us to pull away and say to

43:35the next greatest whoever is up right

43:38now no no no no no it's my

43:43Bishop people like to come to you at

43:45work girl did you hear what such and

43:46such and such no no no but I know my

43:48Bishop PR preached that

43:50Sunday and it was good to

43:53me sorry y'all we pastors we had to if

43:57you love your

43:59pastors somebody ought to stand up on

44:01your feet Yes and bless God that he

44:06thought enough of us to send us some

44:08pastors after his own heart yes

44:11Lord yes Lord um while you standing on

44:15your feet one of the things that I

44:17believe that we are Most Blessed by

44:19through Pastor Tasha's Ministry is that

44:21she is an intercessor I believe what we

44:23hear through the songs is the gift of

44:27intercession that she has on our lives

44:29we just got 28 seconds but is it all

44:32right if we just do a moment of

44:34impartation for those that will receive

44:36it can you just begin to raise your

44:38hands and Apostle surrender begin to

44:41lift your heart to God so from your

44:44heart to his ears begin to raise a sound

44:47and raise a praise a worship that pulls

44:51him

44:52close

44:54Hallelujah I feel like I'm feeling that

44:56I'm feeling it myself spirit that there

44:57are a few groups of people in the room

44:59tonight that we're ministering to but

45:01there is one group and you've been

45:04really really saying in your heart I

45:06don't want to go into

45:072025 carrying this

45:10baggage this is the last year that I

45:13want this to affect me the way that it

45:15has and we told the testimony about how

45:18we how we had to walk out our faith

45:21after losing the baby but I believe that

45:23there are some people you feel like you

45:25lost something that was promised to you

45:27and the truth be told you've been a

45:28little bit upset with God I want those

45:31people I'm sorry I'm real I'm real old

45:33school can you just press towards the

45:35altar if I'm talking to you come on just

45:38press towards the altar if it's

45:39something that you saying man that was a

45:41promise that was spoken over on my life

45:43and I'm really really challenged with

45:45the fact that I haven't seen it

45:48[Music]

45:50yet I want to minister to those whose

45:53Faith your faith has been broken it's

45:55been shattered can we just be honest

45:58I've been there it was it was one of the

46:00hardest places I've ever been but it was

46:02one of the greatest experiences for the

46:04place of faith that I walk in right now

46:07and I speak that same thing over your

46:08life that this is not going to kill you

46:12you will not die in this place of

46:15questioning if God's promises to you

46:18will come to pass I prophesy that you're

46:20going to see it with your eyes come on

46:23lift your hands if you're at this

46:25altar lift your hands hands at this

46:28altar God I pray this prayer from a very

46:30personal place that you would reveal

46:35yourself as a God who gives peace that

46:38surpasses all understanding that even in

46:42even in those nights when they're laying

46:43in the bed they're crying they're asking

46:45questions and they don't understand

46:47where they're still in this season my

46:49prayer is that your peace would

46:51overshadow them in the name of Jesus God

46:55my prayer even now is that you would

46:57silence the voice of the enemy the Bible

46:59says that your sheep know your voice and

47:02a stranger's voice they will not follow

47:04and so tonight we shut up every voice of

47:06the

47:08strangers God I ask now that your voice

47:10would come through

47:12piercing through any other voice that

47:15they might hear that's not speaking your

47:17word God I thank you now that you would

47:19visit them in the Midnight Hour and

47:21reassure them that your word is true and

47:25that if you spoke it it's it's going to

47:27come to pass God my prayer tonight is

47:30that you would continue to give them

47:32strength that in this season they will

47:34not fall and they will not fail and they

47:36will not throw in the towel God I thank

47:38you now that you're releasing strength

47:40on this altar to withstand this season I

47:43even speak now in the name of Jesus for

47:45everything that you that you've called

47:47for them to learn and to grow from in

47:49this season that they will get it

47:51quickly in the name of Jesus I speak to

47:54there are many of you on this altar I

47:56see it in the spirit that this season is

47:58going to end very soon but my prayer is

48:01that it doesn't end before you get what

48:03you need I know that's hard but my

48:05prayer tonight God don't end it until

48:07you get everything that you need the

48:09process doesn't feel good but it's

48:11working for your good and so God I thank

48:13you now that you're reassuring them that

48:16this too is working for your good and

48:19God everything that you spoke over their

48:21lives God I thank you now that it's

48:23going to come to pass that your will

48:25will be done and God that you do it your

48:27way somebody just begin to release that

48:29prayer at this altar God do it your way

48:31show me your way I tried to do it my way

48:34but God now show me how to do this your

48:36way show me how to raise these children

48:38your way show me how to how to how to

48:42have this marriage your way show me how

48:44to have this career and build this

48:46business I want to do it your

48:49way I thank you for your

48:51grace I thank you for your grace to

48:53manage this season well

48:58thank you for the grace to manage this

48:59season

49:01well that's our prayer in Jesus name I

49:05even pray now for those who have

49:07experienced trauma in their lives I'm

49:09not even going to ask you to come to the

49:10altar those who have experienced deep

49:12Trauma from abuse

49:17molestation that I speak in this room

49:19now that same

49:22piece that it would visit them in the

49:24Midnight Hour in that place where they

49:25have been stomped

49:27may it been five or 10 years ago God I

49:30thank you now that you're going to that

49:32place and dealing with it at the

49:35root deal with the rejection at the

49:39root deal with the hurt and the pain at

49:42the

49:43root because you're even the god over

49:46our

49:47experiences those places where we feel

49:49like we can't we can't move forward

49:51because that experience it stomped me

49:55but God is saying I'm the god God even

49:58over

50:01experiences teach me how to make even

50:03that experience work for my good whether

50:06it be I if I have to be a spokesperson

50:09for those who have experienced trauma in

50:11their life God show me why I had to go

50:15through that that's our prayer

50:19today and I even sense this this is the

50:21last portion of this prayer the last

50:24portion is of this prayer we're going to

50:26release a word worship of

50:29Thanksgiving that when I should have

50:31died

50:32there when I should have thrown in the

50:34tower there you were the God who kept me

50:37oh somebody release a worship in this

50:41room because he's a keeper come on open

50:44your mouth and begin to release a

50:46worship in this room lift your hands and

50:49begin to magnify his

50:52name lift your hands and begin to

50:54magnify his name come on this is a tool

50:56this is a tool this is a tool that when

50:59the enemy tells you that you're not

51:01going to survive this season yes I will

51:04I'm going lift up my hands and I begin

51:05to worship what I found is that while

51:07I'm worshiping I start forgetting what

51:09I'm going through while I'm worshiping I

51:12concentrate on how good and how faithful

51:14and how kind he is somebody just begin

51:17to worship the G worship the Lamb of God

51:20who was slain come on worship the Lamb

51:23of God God we give you glory thank you

51:26for being faithful thank you for being a

51:28Healer thank you for being a friend

51:30thank you for being my keeper anybody

51:32know his name thank you for being my

51:34father thank you for being a teacher we

51:38give you glory I'll give you glory even

51:40in the midst of this come on release

51:42that worship I give you glory even in

51:45the midst of this at this altar this is

51:47your posture I give you worship even in

51:50the midst of this

51:52[Music]

52:00and it is

52:01so it is

52:04so it is so I declare that before 2025

52:08enters some of y'all going to smile

52:10again for

52:11real H I felt that you going to laugh

52:15again for real that the joy of the Lord

52:19is your strength and though you've been

52:21feeling weak I speak Joy over your life

52:24in Jesus name you going to smile for

52:26real

52:27real oh God look at somebody and tell

52:29them you going to smile again for real

52:31baby it won't be long now it won't be

52:35long now it won't be long

52:38now hallelujah it's in Jesus name we

52:42pray amen amen amen can you just hug

52:45somebody around you and tell them it

52:47won't be long now it won't be long now

52:50you got this you got this you got

52:53this you got this oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

52:57yeah yeah yeah you got this you got this

53:01oh yeah yeah yeah yeah Faithful is our

53:06God Mighty Is Our God somebody give him

53:12glory Faithful is our

53:15God Mighty Is Our

53:18God Holy Is Our

53:21[Music]

53:25God yeah

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