Confessions - THE ANOINTING WITHIN

Good morning. >> They didn't do it. Let's see. Good morning. Welcome. Happy Thursday. Oh man, I get back. Okay, there we go. Happy Thursday. >> Good morning everybody. >> This is the day that the Lord has made. >> We will rejoice and be exceedingly glad in it because God is good and he is worthy to be praised.

Good morning. Good morning. >> He is. >> Those of you on Twitch, we've been away for a minute, but finally got reconnected. And um hey guys, all is well. as well in Jesus name. >> That's right. >> So, we woke up this morning and we were not negotiating with God about our identity.

We woke up in our identity. We woke up knowing that we are forgiven, >> knowing that we are righteous, that we are complete in Jesus, that we have been born into the family of God. And I'm we added one this past week and that we are anointed. We are acknowledging that that is as much as our identity as as everything else.

You are anointed now without having to strive or try to do something to get it. You are anointed. The Bible in 1 John uh 2:7 2:27 says that that anointing is in you. All right? It is already in you. And so, um, it's an awesome thing. And I hope all is well with, uh, with you guys. >> And, um, let's just, uh, see who's in the house.

We're going to say a few confessions. And we're going to talk about the anointing within today. And I'm going to share it from a personal perspective. if I went and found some notes of when I made my mind up to to uh do some things and understand some things >> and I'm going to share those with you today and we'll probably continue this on tomorrow and all in the next week.

So, we'll see. Anyway, uh let let us know where you are and uh we want to welcome you to the grace gang this morning. Uh Atlanta is in the house. Thank y'all for being in the house. you know, folks in your hometown. Jesus said he he didn't receive honor in his own hometown. >> Well, look at there.

We got people in our >> in our hometown. >> Hometown. >> Nebraska is in the house this morning. Kennesaw, >> Washington DC, >> Indianapolis, Jonesboro, St. Louis, >> Queens, New York, >> the International City, College Park, Georgia. >> That's right. St. Louis, >> Washington DC. Uh, Bangbridge, Georgia.

You ever heard of Bang Brain Bang? Have you? >> Uhhuh. >> Uh Atlanta is here. Praise God. >> Orlando, South Africa, the international >> Houston >> guests are coming in right now. We welcome you. Grand uh Prairie, Texas, >> Panama, Panama, >> uh Orlando, and Marietta and North Carolina is in the house with us.

And >> France, Lagos, >> France and Lagos is here. Uh see, if you weren't here, I would have missed that totally. I'm looking at the platforms trying to see who all in the house. >> Glad to be here. Iraq. >> Iraq is in the house in the name of Jesus. >> And um uh Corona, New York City. >> That's right. >> Daniel for France is in the house again with us.

Welcome. >> Norfolk, Virginia. >> Mansfield is in the house. Buffalo, New York. Chicago to Southside. >> Mhm. >> Clinton, Mississippi up in the house. >> Las Vegas. Las Vegas is in the house. Boy, we had a great meeting in Las Vegas this past last last p last week.

It was good. >> It was It was a lot of fun. >> Praise God. >> Lisa from South Africa. >> Welcome, Lisa. We look forward to seeing you next week. >> Mcdana, Georgia >> is in the house this morning. We welcome you guys to the Grace Gang, Tallahassee and New Jersey.

Um, >> someone said Dirty South, >> Grotown, Georgia. Uh we welcome all you guys. Nigeria, Kapala and East Africa is in the house with us today. >> England, South Africa. >> Amen. California is here. Philadelphia is here. >> Winnipeg, Canada. >> Tulsa is in the house. The Dominican Republic is in the house with us this morning.

Welcome to the Grace Gang, guys. Fagatville, Georgia. See, that's another hometown. >> Clinton, Utah. >> Irving and Nashville. Tampa, Chicago on the west side in the house and uh >> China >> China is up here in the house and uh Uganda uh is here and we are welcoming you guys.

Vancouver to happen, you're one of your favorite places in the house this morning >> and uh we welcome you guys. >> Barbados, >> Barbados is here and uh all is well. All is well. >> That's right. We are all here ready and blessed, anointed, ready to dig in and dive in the word. >> Okay, so let's say this out loud together.

In the name of Jesus, >> In the name of Jesus, >> I am righteous. >> I am righteous. >> I am forgiven. >> I'm forgiven. >> I'm one with Christ. >> I'm one with Christ. >> I'm completed in Christ. >> I'm completed in Christ. >> I'm seated with Christ. >> I'm seated with Christ. >> I'm the mirror image of Christ. >> I'm the mirror image of Christ.

And I declare >> And I declare >> according to 1 John 4:17 >> according to 1 John 4:17 >> As he is >> As he is >> so am I. >> So am I. >> In this world >> in this world >> I am redeemed. >> I'm redeemed. >> I have wisdom now. >> I have wisdom now. >> I am holy now. >> I am holy now. >> I'm sanctified now. >> I'm sanctified now. >> I'm everything God says I am. >> I'm everything God says I am. >> And I receive it. >> And I receive it >> and agree with it. >> And agree with it >> in Jesus name. in Jesus name. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> Hold on to your identity.

Hold on to your identity. Now, let's look at some things here. We we've already gone over 1 John 2:27. Uh now, here's the thing, and these are the notes I look at for myself, okay? >> To to keep me in remembrance of it. So, uh the very top of the page, it says, "This is my mindset."

Now, I'm I'm asking you to listen today and make it your mindset. And and and then I have a colon to live from the anointing already within me. That's my mindset. To live from the anointing already in me. Say that out loud. My mindset >> My mindset >> is to live >> is to live >> from the anointing >> from the anointing >> that's already in me. >> That's already in me. >> Okay.

So, you know, we talked yesterday about does fasting and spending a lot of time with God increase the anointing. The answer was no. But what it does is it makes you more aware of the anointing that you already have. Okay? And uh the reason why sometimes it seems like people are more anointed than you are, they're not more anointed than you are, or neither do they have more anointing than you have. uh they just are more aware of that anointing.

They are more confident in in that anointing. They they yield to the anointing of the spirit of God that's in them. Um and they're not ashamed of it, you know. >> And so it's never the thing of, oh, it's not working for me because God didn't give me more than he gave them.

No, he measured it out. I mean uh just like you have faith, he measured out to every man the measure of faith. And same thing is with the Holy Spirit. Somebody didn't get more of the Holy Ghost than you got. Right? >> So what happens is when you fast and spend time with God, it makes you more aware of what you already have.

It makes you more sensitive to what you already have. And so your mindset needs to be that I'm going to live from the anointing. uh that's already within me. It's there. And so uh spending time praying makes you more aware. Um and so I am anointed because Christ is in me.

All right. Say that. I am anointed. >> I'm anointed >> because Christ is in me. >> Because Christ is in me. >> Now somebody asked us a long time ago um you know my very first book taffy was on the anointing. >> And um they said, "Well, what's Jesus's last name?"

Christ. No, Christ is not Jesus's last name. Christ means the anointed one and his anointing. Okay? And so I am anointed because Christ is in me. I am anointed because the anointed one is in me. I am anointed because the anointing is in me. >> We come up with all kinds of wild, ridiculous things to try to get more of the anointing.

It's almost like you're trying to see if you can get more of God's forgiveness. God has given you all the forgiveness you ever going to need, you know, and you just got to become aware of it. You got to line yourself up with it. And so, there are four things I declare uh when it comes to the anointing.

Uh when I'm doing these uh tours, I I I don't have the the benefit of a lot of things. I like to get up and and and speak um straight from the anointing, straight from my heart, and let the spirit of God lead us. The whole the the whole meeting is about showing people how to sit in the nearness of God and in the presence of God and just trust him for everything.

And so the first thing and you can write this down. You might want to start doing it yourself. Number one, I am anointed because Christ is in me. All right, we talked about that. Number two, here's the next declaration. I say this to me. I expect God to work through me now, not later.

Mhm. >> I expect God to work through me now, not later. Okay. So, I don't know if you're coming from work. I don't know if you're going somewhere, but expectation is the breeding ground for supernatural things to happen. And expect for God to work through you. All right.

Say that. Say, I expect for God to work through me now. >> I expect for God to work through me now. >> Not later. >> Not later. >> Okay. Okay. Now, here's the third thing I want you to be sensitive to. I will step out when prompted. When prompted.

Now, that's the key. It's not trying to make something happen or or try to, you know, make a show happen. I will step out when prompted. Somebody says, "What does he mean step out?" Well, sometimes I'm prompted to pray. You may go to the store and God may prompt you to pray for somebody in aisle three. >> That's true.

You may, you know, you know, I you you do it when you're prompted to do it. You don't force it. All right? Remember yesterday, we don't force, we flow. >> Okay? And uh another thing you might be prompted to do, you might be prompted to speak. There may be something that God will say, say this.

Okay? And you know it. Stop negotiating with doubt. Okay? Don't negotiate with doubt. When you're prompted to say something, say it. you know, and that doesn't mean you you you uh neglect all the manners. You don't just go up in somebody's face and >> right, >> you know, you might want to approach and say, you know, uh, excuse me, uh, my name is such and so such and so.

May I I have a word the spirit of God has just prompted in my heart for you. May I release that to you? >> And then they say, "Yeah." Now, I'm going to tell you something. Sometimes you somebody some say, "No." Then you got to be fine with that.

You can't be all, "Well, I'm anointed. But I'm going to say what I'm going to say anyway cuz the Lord told me, "Hold on now, girl. Hold on. Put a muzzle on that mouth." Okay, you were prompted to do it and they decided they didn't want to receive it and you, you know, kick the dust off your feet and keep going.

Um, and then the last thing is that you might be prompted, that's it's really not the last thing, but you might be prompted to declare some things. Declare some things over your own life. I mean, you could be by yourself and be prompted. I I need to say this, okay?

Or if you're in the ministry, you might be prompted to make a declaration. Or you might be in one of your departmental meetings and prompted to declare something. You're you're releasing something. And so those three areas, pray, speak, declare. The whole point is you step out when prompted. >> I was trying to think of a word the other day, Taff, maybe you can help me.

I wanted to tell people to get acquainted with the spontaneity. It just came. >> Spontaneity. >> The spontaneity of the Holy Spirit. >> That's good. >> That's the word. I I was trying to get that word uh this past week and it it just came up. Thank God.

I believe as grace faithbased people. We've got to become acquainted with spontaneity. See, the Holy Spirit is not going to send you a memo and then you give you some time to go and fast and to pray and and you know, we got to become >> spontaneous. >> Spontaneous.

And and that's the walk with the Holy Spirit, >> being spontaneous, being being um >> flexible. >> Well, flexible, >> adapt, adaptable, >> yielded. >> But when he says so, you know, you might say, "Well, I do I do it next week." Well, the window for that anointing is already gone. >> Uh, >> that's true. >> You know what I'm saying? >> There's a time and a place. >> Yeah. >> Where you have to instantaneously >> Oh, yeah.

You know, so you got to you got to you got to become spontaneous. You know, spontaneity, I think, is a key word >> for developing u uh a relationship with the Holy Spirit. And uh so then the last one is uh I have no pressure to perform. I just respond. >> Mhm. >> Say that.

I have no pressure to to to perform. >> I have no pressure to perform. >> Just respond. >> Just respond. >> Okay. So what happens sometimes is people feel this pressure especially people in the ministry and maybe you're in front of people. You feel the pressure to to to perform.

All right. I told him the anointing is going to be here. So, I feel pressure to come up with something and that's forcing that's forcing the anointing and >> that's forcing, you know, something to happen. That's that's performancebased. That's striving based. That's uh what the Bible talks about dead works trying to do something to to feel like you deserve something, right?

Um but you've got to understand there won't be any fear if you just make your mind up, I'm going to respond. And that response is whatever the prompting is, I'm going to respond to it. Whatever the voice is is, I'm going to respond to it. I'm I'm just going to respond.

So, you're not forcing and and and there's there's no pressure to perform. And that's a good key, Tathy. If you have pressure, if you think you have you have pressure to prophesy, you have pressure to lay hands on folks, if you have pressure to, you know, write a a show to so people can can, you know, I don't even know what to say, but it's not about performing. >> It's not the Holy Spirit.

If you feel pressured, >> you respond. >> Yeah, you respond. >> And that that's a key thing. So those four things >> they kind of get my my mind and my spirit in tune >> with going into these meetings on this uh on this grace life tour. Uh so if I if I wanted to put each each step in one word, I would I would say number one is acknowledge, number two is expect, number three is act, and number four is rest.

You know, >> acknowledge >> acknowledge >> expect >> expect >> expect God to work through you. Act >> act. >> Step out to the prompings. And then rest >> rest. >> Don't need to perform. Just respond. Just rest. >> Acknowledge. Expect >> acknowledge. Expect act. >> Act >> and rest. >> And rest. >> No pressure. just rest in knowing uh that you're ready to to move in the spontaneity of the Holy Spirit. >> No striving, just responding. >> I like that.

Right. >> I do too. That's really good. >> No striving. >> I got a couple of scriptures. >> Go ahead. >> First John, it goes with the first one. Um you may have read this. I don't think I heard you read it though. I am anointed because Christ is in me. 1 John 2:20.

Um, it is um, no, I'm sorry, that's not the right one. Pardon me. To whom God would make known, I'm reading from Colossians chapter 1 verse 27. To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

So, I was thinking that when you talked about Christ being in us, um, is it Christos? Yeah, Christ, >> the anointed one and his anointing Christ in us, >> the hope of glory. >> And then um the second >> So that that anointing is going to be what's responsible for the manifestation. >> Uh yeah, >> the hope of God's glory, the hope of God's goodness, the hope of manifestation, >> Christ in us. >> Yeah. >> Um and then uh first John Chapter 2 verse 20 when you were talking about being prompted.

Number three, the third step. I will step out when prompted. Um refers to the anointing and talks about you have an uncction from the holy one and know all things. So just being prompted and some people refer to that as an uncction. >> An uncction to function. You remember that?

You remember conjuncts conjunction? What's your function? Hooking up phrases and clauses. But that's what the anointing is. It's the uncction uh to to to do something. It's the prompting or the uncction to respond to to something that comes from the Holy Spirit. >> And I think the Old Testament, if I remember correctly, it meant to rub on. >> Yeah.

Yeah, the the Old Testament >> anoint rub >> because they rub the oil and stuff on and and to do that and we've always trying to make the distinction between what was happening in the Old Testament rubbing on versus in the New Testament within you know transformation flowing instructions flowing uh all of the things like are flowing because you have the anointing in you.

Don't nobody need to rub nothing on you now. >> Because under the Old Testament, there were men and women of God, Old Testament prophets who the spirit of the Lord would come upon them. >> Mhm. >> And they would do mighty things >> and then it would leave. >> There was one in particular who um outran the chariot. >> Mhm. >> And the spirit of might came upon him, >> Elijah.

And he was able to do that. >> Yeah. >> Because the spirit of the Lord came on him, right? Not within him like we have today. >> And so what happens is we keep looking for something to come on us while we ignore what's the same that same anointing in in us.

And that anointing comes from out outside. We're not, you know, you're waiting on anointing to come on you so you can see this manifestation. And you the anointing moved in you. The anointing lives in you. It's not an anointing that comes and goes. Okay? When you go to bed, this anointing, the Holy Spirit sleeps with you.

You wake up, that anointing wakes up with you. Even if you go somewhere you ain't got a minute going, that anointing is going with you. That might be why you're still alive at the end of that situation. that anointing. If you would see all of the blessings that flow out of the anointing that lives in you, uh people can't understand why you got peace and everybody else look like they about to go crazy.

That's flowing from from the the spirit of God that's in you. The anointed one that lives on the inside of you. Now, that anointed one who lives on the inside of you, if you need anointing on physical body, that you have access to it. If you if you need anointing on your mind, you have access to it.

You have wisdom. If you need anointing for relationships or for business, you have access. You have 24hour day access of that anointing. And so maybe sometimes you do need to go on a fast and spend a lot spend some time with God so you can become more aware of what you already have.

And remember, it begins to line you up uh with what you already have. and some and and and it and deals with unbelief. I mean, fasting and spending time with God, it lines you up. It gets you you you you all kinds of things. It it helps the awareness that sometimes we don't have.

And we love quoting, >> you know, just like Old Testament stuff about what they did, what you know what we got it better, folks. >> We got we under a better covenant. This is what I'm trying to convince people are. We are under a better covenant. But some people, if you don't know the better about the covenant that we're under, you keep going back to to something that was average, something that the Bible calls obsolete because you don't recognize that you know what Jesus has done.

And everything leads to Jesus and we live in him. And so, um, here's the here's the thing that that I say, and I I've already said it to you. You got to stop negotiating with doubt. Say this out loud. I will not negotiate with doubt. >> I will not negotiate with doubt. >> So where's the doubt?

The doubt is is is doubting that God is going to do what he said. >> And and that's the greatest fear of a Christian. The greatest fear of a Christian is you know will what God said will it come to pass in my life? >> And so you know let's just say if you're in the ministry and there's a prompting that's happening and you start negotiating with doubt.

Yeah. But but if I say that right now or yeah but if this right bro and so that's why somebody else looks like they have more anointing than you do not because they have more anointing is fact that they are they are ready to respond to that anointing instead of negotiating with that doubt.

And so a prompting comes and um instructions coming and you see something and God's telling you what to do and you decide well you want to go to God with all this doubt. Stop negotiating with doubt. >> I see things right now sometimes I just I don't even give it time.

If I see something and I and I have in my spirit the Lord said pray for them or tell them to come up. I tell them to come up quick and then believe God to tell me what to tell them once they get there. you know, um, uh, it's so important to do that.

I do that in my preaching. Sometimes I step away from my notes because the spirit of God says, "All right, I want to say something. Step away. I want to say something." I just think it's so important that we we recognize where we are negotiating with doubt and then stop the negotiation.

Mhm. And it's similar to what you said on Sunday when you were talking about how Jesus was um I guess questioned to step away from his identity when dealing with Satan. And the more that we're confident, I saw someone put that the confidence causes us to to to to not yield to dealing with doubt.

You know what I'm saying? the more we're practicing and we're responding and we're intentionally following the leading of the Holy Spirit and his spontaneity. Yeah. >> As opposed to >> having some side conversation in our thoughts uh where the enemy is trying to cause us not to do the things that God wants us to do. >> And so what happens is that's called living. >> This is this what we're talking about.

What's going to build confidence is living it. Mhm. living it. Living it every >> day. You're you're When we talk about living it, that is your practice. >> Mhm. >> You're living it. You're not You're not taking, well, I'm going to go downstairs and practice. No, no, no.

It's it's in your getting up. It's in your going to work. It's in your fellowship and people you meet. You until it becomes a life, it's never going to become a reality. And that's the thing that Christian people are not getting. you're trying to make this a a subs stop or something in life, you know, and that's not how the the God's not dealing with us, you know, in a closet for an hour and then that's it, you know.

He wants to he wants to transform your life and at the same time transform somebody else's life. >> That's right. >> Because we're living it. Mhm. >> We're not sitting up here debating about who's right or wrong or my Bible tells me or >> No, no, no. Living it.

I don't want to talk about, you know, it's living it. Like somebody said, it's a lifestyle. And and if you're not styling like that, then it's you're not going to have confidence. You never have confidence picking this up once a a month. Well, praise the Lord. Let me see if the Holy Ghost saying something.

Well, let me see. Let's see. Who am I in Christ? Well, I I need I I Let me see what they talking about at church. Bro, no. This has got to be a life when you not at church. This has got to be something you do when you're not around Christians.

This has got to be something that you operate in. Something that you make your mind up that I'm going to live this way and live this way and live this way. If you don't, you won't know it. and you will allow yourself to connect with, you know, people who don't know it either.

And then y'all will convince each other of something that it's not according to the word. And so you got to be willing to live it. Live the life uh of grace. We call it the grace life. Live that grace life and keep it moving. >> Keep it moving and keep it going.

You know, every time somebody comes to me and they say stuff like, "Oh, life is hard." Or, "Oh, they're talking about me." Or, "Oh, it's just not comfortable." Or, "Oh, I hear what you tap saying, but it's just hard." You're missing out on on a on a serious blessing.

Somebody said, "What's that blessing?" The blessing to mature. The blessing uh that there is some discomfort showing up in your life so you can mature in that discomfort. I mean, come on, guys. Somebody talking about you. Is that the is that the is that so discomfort? See, the thing that you can grow out out of this is you can learn how not to you one day you can wake up and that don't even bother you no more. >> That's true. >> Uh because you you've grown in the midst of discomfort.

All right. Now, the first time you experience that, oh my gosh, these people are so mean. Oh my gosh, I can't believe. No, no, no, no, no. Well, I'm going to leave now. So, you want to make a unnecessary adjustment and step out of the opportunity to grow. >> We have opportunities to grow, ladies and gentlemen.

And we need to I like what Taffy says. Taff, you can explain it, but she talking about, you know, you got to sit in your pain a little bit so you can you can you can discover the wisdom that's there. >> Sometimes we we're looking we're looking to run away from discomfort.

And you got to be careful because you'll start being you'll start preparing yourself to be ready for anything that's comfortable and that might be an addiction. You know, you're so discomforted. So, I'm going to go and I'm going to smoke weed again. Oh, you know how that was before. >> And you're not growing. >> And you're not growing maintaining. >> Just maintaining.

And you keep running from the test. You keep running from the pressure. Everything is always got to be so spiritually deep instead of you saying, "Hey, this thing is here, so I need to grow from this. I'm going to be better the next time this thing comes around in my life." >> In most instances, you're going backwards.

You're not even going forward. >> Yeah. >> So, >> yeah, it's just >> it's the discomforting times that are awkward um that we have to make sure that we're confident that God is even with us in those times. and um not to allow doubt to rob us of this moment.

It's like, okay, I know my emotions are going everywhere. My mind's going everywhere. This is unfamiliar, but Lord, I know you're with me. >> I have learned. >> You have to talk to yourself. >> And the Bible says that speaking to yourself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, you got to talk to yourself. >> David did that.

He encouraged himself in the Lord when he went through what he had gone through. >> And and you know, you look at what David went through. We come back and you know everybody missing and people dead and you trying to figure out and they all then they turned around and blamed him for everything. >> Man, you got to learn how to grow through the stuff you go through. >> Somebody says, "Well, you must not be living right."

Well, you you must be you might be getting ready to live better than you've ever lived. You might be getting ready to to grow. You might be getting ready to to to receive an an uncction and and an anointing to do some things that you were not prepared for that this unfortunate situation, you took advantage of it instead of it taking advantage of you.

And now you're maturing. >> Yeah. Promotion is on the other side. >> I don't I don't uh I'm amazed of the number of Christians that keep running away from trouble when the Bible says, "They that live godly shall suffer persecution." >> I mean, it's not easy. We We get it.

We have people, you know. >> Yeah. Well, what does that mean? It's not easy. >> A lot of it. But >> yeah, >> we just >> you grow. You grow through it. >> You grow through it and you just >> Hey, anchor down and >> let her rip. >> Yeah.

Let her rip and hold on to >> the word and you got everything that you need inside of you. You got Christ in you. Yeah. You have to remind yourself of that. Yeah. all the things that you've been studying and and preparing for, this is what you needed in those moments >> for living.

For living. There was a lady at one of the uh uh tour destinations. She said, um, you know, I I was listening to the word and I got in the word. She said, I just felt like nothing wasn't going to change. She said, but I just made my mind up to stay there and then I started living it.

And she said, the transformation, I could see the transformation taking place in my life. A lot of times we we quit too quickly >> and we give up, we cave in and we quit. >> Abort the process. >> Yeah, that's good. That's good. We'll abort something that's getting ready to happen to us to make us better. >> But if you keep every time the opportunity to grow shows up and you keep hearing this word, well, the Lord telling me to do this now.

Oh, that happened. What the Lord tell me. Well, hold on a minute. when when I'm I look forward to hearing somebody say one day, Lord told me to stay here and trust him in the midst of this. >> Stay here and trust I don't know what I need to hear that Lord told me to stay right here and trust this in in the midst of this and and I'm a lot of times when we say the Lord said it it can be a form of manipulation like we talked about before >> and fear. >> Well, yeah, being afraid >> running from the or you're lying fear to to motivate you.

Um it's all kinds of things. Not to say that that's every situation, but it can be. It really can. Yeah. >> You can run because you're afraid that this is something that um I've never experienced before. And so I'm going to avoid it and um instead of just I can't even begin to describe how many times the Lord has told us just to stay >> just sit >> be still >> and know >> and know be steady >> and know >> and continue to just trust me that you are where you're supposed to be. >> Yep.

And you live it out. And that's what this is. This is living out the things that we're learning. >> Yeah. >> It's living it. It's not just knowing it. >> Don't uproot. >> Um I I I let me say this and then we'll close. I I I wrote this down.

Confidence grows by doing, >> not just knowing. >> Yes, >> it grows by doing, not just knowing. Every step of faith is a is a win even before you see the results. But here's the thing. We're we think that we we're growing because we know. Mhm. >> Yeah.

You can know a lot of things and you can grow intellectually. >> Mhm. >> But confidence grows by doing what you know. >> That's right. >> Not just knowing what you know. >> Y'all hear what I'm saying? >> It's about doing what you know. Not just knowing. And I I see people, well, I I got 10 pages of notes.

Woo. Praise the Lord. Well, right. So, how much confidence do you have in those notes? Well, you ain't gonna know that until you start doing those notes, doing and living those notes. It's a strong thing. >> Philippians 1 verse 6 says, "Being confident of this very thing, that he which began a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ." >> That's a powerful thing.

So I I think what what I'm one of the things I believe that we're trying to do is get people out of this religious bubble and get you to understand are you learning how to live this like on a day-to-day basis? Cuz if you can just quote a scripture to me and have no evidence of it in your own life, why what you talking about, brother?

What you talking about? And uh you know it's just so much just just want to debate about this. Well, I believe this no go in the kitchen and cook. Well, I believe that this is the recipe that'll make these cookies. I don't Do you know it? Well, I believe it.

Well, have you cooked it? No, I haven't cooked it. Well, how you know? >> And that's what you can walk away from um debates. >> Oh, yeah. >> Um contests. >> Yeah. >> Over scriptures with people because you already know. >> Yeah. You already know cuz you cooked it. >> You Yeah.

You you know what God can do. You know what he's done in your life. you know, and you've seen it firsthand. So, it's like >> I don't >> I don't have to debate with this. >> I don't have to debate. It's like like Jesus like I ain't got to turn these stone into bread.

I already know who I am. And so, likewise, when you live this stuff and you see it day in and day out, you you don't need to be debating with somebody. The only person that want to debate you is somebody not not sure of it themselves. They're afraid that what you somebody saying might be the truth because they don't know.

Man, we got to start living this thing. We have to start living it. Okay? It's it's good to know it because that's a step into living it. All right? But we got to move from you because confidence is everything. >> Everything. >> And confident grows. It grows if you want to grow in the confidence of this anointing.

It grows by doing. It grows by stepping out to those prompings. It grows by neglecting the pressure to perform and just respond. It grows. Thank God that you got out the car and God told you to do something that you're growing. That's how you grow in your living. >> Yeah.

But when you feel like you've got to prove something to someone, baby, >> you're pressuring yourself. Yeah. And you're performing and you're trying to get someone else's um affirmation. And it's not about that. still in in approval addiction, you know, and just like I can't we can't talk.

We can't explain to you how free it is for us to live the way we're living. And if we wanted to, we could, you know, we could be all we could we could line our lives up with all the bad circumstances, all the negative slander, all of the stuff, but we just it's like when you know what you know, you don't need to respond to that, >> you know?

You you >> no pressure. >> I don't have any pressure to say anything or to respond to none. They can say whatever they want to say. I I you keep doing that. That happens by living this doing is growing. >> Um anyway, >> make it a life. >> Make it a life. >> Yeah, >> that's the key.

Make this grace a life. Make this grace a life. Not just uh >> something you do at church. >> Something you do at church. >> Yeah. something that you do amongst the fellowship. You know, this is what the Lord showed me. Well, what did the Lord show you?

Well, I you want to share? Share, bro. I mean, I ain't got no no problem with that. But I'm just saying, when are we going to move from sharing to living? When are we going to move from knowing to living? When are we going to lose move from prophesying or prophesying, whatever, to living the the truth?

I mean, come on, y'all. That's a thing with me. That's that's like my whole that you want to get me going, you know, get arrogant about what you know and then ain't doing nothing. And I'm like, >> and you know what? People will see it. You don't even have to tell some people. >> Yeah. >> You see the peace, you see the prosperity over their life.

I mean, it doesn't even require um all these things that we think in order for us to um represent what we're talking about today, the living. I mean, it it's >> the water. It's it's it's in the with the wet with the water. >> Yeah. There's certain >> this inseparable. >> There's certain things I've said.

There are certain books that I'm getting ready to release. There it is. You take it right now. It's like remember Paul said that I might win some. That's it. Some Some will take it and some won't. But I'm not going to lose no sleep. Not because I don't love people.

I love people. I want it. I want the whole world to get it. But I'm not going to sit up there and debate with you about something I've been cooking every day. >> Right. >> You know how you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? I know how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. >> Right. >> Okay.

I ain't got to debate it all your life. I ain't got to debate about how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Oh, glory to God. We got to get out of here, man. We >> We got to get out of here. Do like Jesus did. Go to bed and go get you a pillow and go rest and let the everybody else deal with every the drama. >> Yeah.

Don't get the debates. >> Don't get into that. >> The fussing. >> Don't get into that. >> That's That's not you. >> How what they call it? Snap back. >> Mhm. >> You don't clap back. Snap back. You don't need to snap back. Clap back. Just rest. You know what I'm saying?

Snap back. You don't have to do that because when you know what you know because you've been in the kitchen cooking the recipe >> bloop the the greatest thing you can give some people is silence. I ain't saying that I'm good. >> Somebody said the best revenge is what? >> Success.

Yep. And that um you know. So Amen. Anyway guys, we love y'all. Uh Taffy and I are packing, man. We getting ready to go to Grace Life 2026. Grace Life 2026, April the 9th through the 11th. >> Mhm. >> Satch is going to be a special guest singer there.

Uh she'll be there on Friday. >> Incredible. >> We've got a leaders ministers uh session at 2:00 on Friday. Mhm. >> Taffy and I on Saturday morning are be are going to come together and do a combined men and women's fellowship where we're going to talk about some big issues on relationships.

Um, uh, Taffy and Bish McClennon is going to do the morning sessions. I'll be doing the night sessions. >> Praise God. >> Uh, Jordan's going to help out with the music and and Jordan's going to be singing and and >> destroying. >> We we just we're just gonna go and just >> we trust God. light a fire. >> That's right.

You pray for us. >> Yeah. You pray for us and >> pray for the meeting. >> And uh pray for the meeting. And uh this coming Friday, uh we're going to be celebrating Good Friday at World Changers Church. If you're in the uh Atlanta area, >> I'm telling you, >> it is going to be >> time to celebrate, >> man.

You talking about we're going to be baptizing. We going to have uh all kinds of events. It's it's it's this is more of a celebration like a feast. Mhm. >> Uh we're not it's not a church service, but it's a it's it's a celebration. It's a feast. It's um prayer.

It's baptism. Uh >> it's worship. >> It's food. >> Glory to God. >> All ages. >> So, it is it is a a a really really really good time. >> Yes. And uh >> be a great time. Just communion. >> Oh, somebody somebody just put this online. Taffy.

Uh y'all was asking me about the live pay-per-view. They just put it at April 9th through 11th. Uh yeah. >> So scan the QR code. >> We will be streaming to the United States. It'll only be going to the United States. So you can you can uh scan the QR code if you're on Streamyard >> or or I'm sure you can go to the website or something.

But yeah, so they'll be doing that. I'll talk to you more about that. That just kind of popped up. So uh yeah, so we will be uh streaming the uh Grace Life South Africa 2026 uh over here into the over here in the United States. So amen. Um pray for our uh soldiers.

Pray for uh people that are in war right now that God will deliver them out. But anyway, the the the Friday Good Friday service, >> it starts at you know what time it starts? >> It starts um pretty early. 6 o'clock. 6:00 p.m. >> the activities. >> It's going to be good.

And then we invite you out to our Easter service >> on this coming Sunday. >> This coming Sunday and it's going to be >> going to be real good. Anyway, our time's gone. We've been on here for about 40 minutes. >> Rich, rich, rich. >> 43 minutes. We got to let y'all go, man.

God bless you. We love you so much. Remember, Jesus is Lord. >> Oh, you're getting understanding. God bless you. I'll see you on tomorrow. Bye bye everybody.