Chosen to Become 10.19.25

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Chosen to Become
October 19, 2025

https://www.wordupinc.org/
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1 Peter 2:9
Mark 8:36
Zechariah 4:6

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00:06:00The vision of Word Up Ministries is to receive the word of Yahweh in a way that there is no other way to go but up.

00:06:08Word Up.

00:06:09Oh, he's calling, he's calling, he's calling me.

00:06:19He's calling, he's calling me, he's calling me, he's calling me, he's calling me and I'm calling you, he's calling me to love me.

00:06:32Hello Kingdom citizens, welcome to Word Up Ministries.

00:06:54Here are our announcements for today.

00:06:57Join Evangelist Melinda Vaughan on Tuesdays, October 14, and 28, 2025 at 1pm in Islin, New

00:07:09Jersey for Kingdom Study.

00:07:12Located at Jesus Book and Gift Store at 675 US Highway 1 South, Suite 3-4.

00:07:22For details go to wordupinc.org and click on Special Events.

00:07:28Dates are subject to change.

00:07:32Join Pastor James in Newark on Saturday, November 1st, 2025 at 9.30am for Straight Talk.

00:07:41A Ladies Pajama Gathering Hosted by Apostle Dr. Sarah Duncan

00:07:49Ladies you are encouraged to wear pajamas.

00:07:53The event takes place at United Fellowship Ministries in Christ.

00:07:58For further details go to wordupinc.org and click on Speaking Engagements.

00:08:06Join Pastor James in North Brunswick for her speaking engagement.

00:08:11It will be on Thursday, November 6th, 2025 at 7pm.

00:08:18Located at Bread of Life Kingdom Fellowship, 1501 Livingston Avenue, North Brunswick, New Jersey.

00:08:27The theme is Altercation, Worship and Warfare Experience.

00:08:34For details go to wordupinc.org and click on Speaking Engagements.

00:08:40For details go to wordupinc.org and click on Speaking Engagements.

00:08:57Without further ado, please welcome Patty James.

00:09:00All right, greetings wordup everybody.

00:09:06Yes, we are having some great sunshine here.

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00:09:18We greet you in the wonderful name of Jesus.

00:09:21Kingdom citizens to each and every one of you.

00:09:23Hey, welcome first time viewers.

00:09:25Thank you for joining us.

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00:09:29All right.

00:09:30Evangelist Melinda Vaughn, blessings unto you, dear woman of God,

00:09:33and all those that are joining you.

00:09:35Pastor Dorothy Gatman, holding it down in East Orange.

00:09:38Blessings unto you, woman of God.

00:09:40And Stephanie Blue, Evangelist Stephanie there in North Carolina in the Southland.

00:09:44Thank you, on-site shepherds and all those that are joining you.

00:09:48Blessings unto each and every one of you.

00:09:51Also, you know those three things I ask you to do each time we come together.

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00:10:23Praise God.

00:10:24So blessings unto you.

00:10:26All right, Jamel.

00:10:27Bless you, man of God.

00:10:28Son of God.

00:10:29Awesome man of God.

00:10:31Love you so much.

00:10:32All right.

00:10:33And each and every one of you, you know we love you.

00:10:35We thank God for you.

00:10:36I'm still getting a lot of birthday wishes.

00:10:41So appreciative of each and every one of you just that you should think of me.

00:10:45But I'll tell you again.

00:10:46My gift is you.

00:10:47Praise God.

00:10:48You're my present.

00:10:49Praise God.

00:10:50And I thank God for each and every one of you in Jesus name.

00:10:53All right.

00:10:54Shout out birthdays.

00:10:55Look at that.

00:10:56My brother Willie.

00:10:57My elder brother.

00:10:58You all know brother James.

00:10:59Many of you do anyway.

00:11:01A blessing of a hundred and twenty unto you.

00:11:03My dear brother.

00:11:04Liking unto Moses.

00:11:06Blessings unto you.

00:11:07And many more in Jesus name.

00:11:09And then my firstborn son, Justin Bell.

00:11:12Blessings unto you.

00:11:13Justin, a hundred and twenty.

00:11:15Be unto you.

00:11:16Liking unto Moses.

00:11:17We thank God for you.

00:11:18And gone, but not forgotten.

00:11:21Chinetta Purnell.

00:11:23Glory be unto the woman of God who is blessing God in the very presence of our Lord and Savior.

00:11:29Gone, but not forgotten.

00:11:31We remember those.

00:11:32And we thank God for the time that we did have with them in Jesus name.

00:11:37All right.

00:11:38We are in the word of God.

00:11:40As you can see, chosen to become.

00:11:43We continue in this vein because I think there's so much more that you need to hear.

00:11:50God has put it in our spirit.

00:11:53And we are not going to let it go until he says so.

00:11:56So I pray that you get your pen and paper on hand.

00:11:58Be ready to take notes if need to.

00:12:00But mostly listen and get it in your spirit.

00:12:03Guess what?

00:12:04You may have to teach this someday.

00:12:06You may have to help someone and get a good grip on what God has for them in their life in Jesus name.

00:12:11All right.

00:12:12Let's pray and go right in spirit of the living God.

00:12:15We sure do.

00:12:16Thank you for this wonderful opportunity.

00:12:18Thank you for this beautiful morning in this bright sunshine in Jesus name.

00:12:23Lord, let your revelation knowledge flood our souls.

00:12:26Let the eyes of our understanding be enlightened that we may receive all that you have for us in Jesus mighty name.

00:12:35Amen and amen.

00:12:37So, yes, we have been talking about the realm of what it is to be chosen.

00:12:41Let me just begin with the scripture.

00:12:43Very familiar passage for some, but maybe new for others.

00:12:46So let's take a look at first Peter chapter two and verse nine.

00:12:51So that again, we can stay within the context of what is being taught here.

00:12:56Uh, and first Peter two and nine says this, but you are a chosen generation.

00:13:04Now, some translations will say you are chosen people.

00:13:07You are the chosen ones of many of the translations.

00:13:11It says you are a chosen one, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people that you should

00:13:21show forth the praises of him who has called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light.

00:13:31So this is so powerful because again, over and that's just one of many scriptures that we've been sharing so that you can understand what it is to be chosen.

00:13:42We need to create a balance.

00:13:44Okay.

00:13:45Because when you say chosen, people always look on the wonderful side, all the good things, all the happy things.

00:13:51And yes, that's there.

00:13:53But to be chosen also has its side of challenge.

00:13:57And we want to make sure there's a balance.

00:13:59We were talking about what it is to be chosen and some of the things that happen.

00:14:03We talked about the very fact that because you're chosen, one of the greatest attacks of the enemy will be through relationships.

00:14:13Because relationships always have such an impact on us.

00:14:17And he uses them to really, he would hope that we would be destroyed and utterly shut down by bad relationships.

00:14:26And so we had to begin there because some people just don't understand why.

00:14:31Why did I have to go through that horrible divorce?

00:14:34Why the separation?

00:14:35Why am I still alone after all these years?

00:14:38Why am I single?

00:14:39Why am I single?

00:14:40And you know, the world system treats a single person as though they have some kind of disease or something, something that's wrong.

00:14:46So we need to create a balance.

00:14:48You know, we believe in divine connections that God can bring people together, but we don't seem to want to deal with the side where it's a divine disconnection.

00:15:00But there's got to be balance.

00:15:02If you can believe in a divine connection, then you ought to be able to deal with a divine disconnection.

00:15:08God removes certain people from our life.

00:15:12But what he removes, guess what?

00:15:15He also restores.

00:15:17And so we want to continue teaching in this realm of chosen to become, because despite of all of what you're going through, it's not to focus on what you're going through, but what you're becoming while you're going through.

00:15:35And that's what we want to look at as we venture into a little further in this study.

00:15:42We talked about what it means when you're unequally yoked, when two individuals come together, if they are not complete within themselves, that foolishness of thinking someone can complete you.

00:15:55Again, the adversary uses so many lies that people, and they sound good, but again, there is a way that seems right, but the end thereof is destruction.

00:16:05When two whole individuals, we want to understand that as God is developing you, as God is growing you and grooming you into what he intended for you to be, not what you want to be or what someone thought you should be or think you should be,

00:16:23but what his purpose and his plan is when two whole individuals come together.

00:16:28As we said before, love is an addition, not a necessity.

00:16:35It's just something that flows with the whole nature of those two individuals.

00:16:42They come together, not out of desperation, but out of choice.

00:16:47Okay?

00:16:48Not built on neediness.

00:16:51You know, I need someone to make me happy.

00:16:54That is one of the biggest lies that was ever told about relationships.

00:16:58For you to wait for someone or even believe that someone can make you happy, that's folly.

00:17:05That's foolishness, okay?

00:17:07You decide on your happiness and your joy.

00:17:11That comes from you and your relationship with the Lord.

00:17:15All right?

00:17:16And so, again, you don't get into relationships based on the neediness, but you have a mutual respect one for another.

00:17:25You know, they always say the scripture, wives submit to your husband.

00:17:29They'd never read the verse just before that, where it says submit one to another.

00:17:34So there's always this off balance that we have to deal with because many of you, I'm sure you've heard the passage, wives submit to your husband.

00:17:41But if they would just read one verse up, it starts out saying, you know, submit yourselves one to another, meaning a mutual respect must take place.

00:17:52Okay?

00:17:53A shared purpose and genuine companionship.

00:17:56This is what you want for your life.

00:17:58Wholeness is not just preparation for love, but a foundation of what, how long that love is going to last.

00:18:06You want a lasting love.

00:18:08Okay?

00:18:09And that's what is built.

00:18:10So even solitude is misunderstood.

00:18:14Solitude and a relationship driven world because the world just dry.

00:18:19And so solitude is supposed to be something not good when it's one of the most wonderful things.

00:18:24In fact, to maximize your alone time is so valuable.

00:18:29That's an investment.

00:18:31Solitude is an investment within yourself, in your emotional wholeness, in your emotional maturity, your emotional mentality.

00:18:40These areas have been so taught against when indeed it's time for us to bring out the truth so that people can understand why you're alone.

00:18:49Why did the separation take place?

00:18:52Why was there the divine disconnect?

00:18:55Again, having balance and understanding God's purpose.

00:19:00Singleness is not a waiting room.

00:19:03It's a classroom.

00:19:05Waiting implies passivity.

00:19:08Oh, you're just trying to get through it.

00:19:10While becoming is an active journey.

00:19:14And that's what we're talking about today.

00:19:16You were chosen to become.

00:19:18Becoming means you do not shrink yourself to fit someone else's expectation, but you rise to the fullness of your potential.

00:19:29And if you see that around someone, the only way you can be comfortable or they can be comfortable is you've got to shrink and make like you're less than so they can feel good about themselves.

00:19:41That's not a good relationship.

00:19:43That's not a relationship.

00:19:45That's bondage.

00:19:46So becoming means you do not shrink yourself for the sake of getting with someone else.

00:19:55OK, and understand that because so many do that.

00:19:59Sometimes you're not even aware you're doing it.

00:20:01You can like a person so much that you just want them to be happy and comfortable with you and so on.

00:20:06And can I tell you, if they're not already happy, you're not going to make them happy.

00:20:10So get that out of your mind and don't let them tell you that, oh, you make me happy.

00:20:15You let them know, no, you chose to be happy.

00:20:17And as long as you continue to choose happiness, you'll be happy.

00:20:21If you're waiting around and thinking that all the time somebody's I'm going to make you happy, then you are being self deceived.

00:20:28All right.

00:20:29Now, you're never late when you're walking in God's divine timing.

00:20:36And I believe divine disconnections work with God's divine timing.

00:20:45When God says enough, he really means that and he's ready to move, you know, towards his plan and his purpose for your life.

00:20:55All right.

00:20:56And so his time, God's time is it's not it's not bound to human schedules.

00:21:03He doesn't deal with our schedule again.

00:21:06Proverbs says many other plans of a person, but it's God's purpose that's going to prevail.

00:21:13So, you know, what what seems like a delay, you know, which is we don't even realize that's divine protection.

00:21:22We don't realize how, you know, mindful of us that God is and a divine protection is preserving you for the greater for what's greater before you.

00:21:36And a premature blessing becomes a burden.

00:21:40It will never work.

00:21:42And so God is not about premature blessings.

00:21:45What you think is a blessing, if it's not of God, it's premature and it becomes a burden.

00:21:50It becomes a problem.

00:21:51So trusting divine timing means surrendering your control.

00:21:57Don't try and control it.

00:21:59Don't try and control it.

00:22:00Nothing in God's hands is ever going to be missed when it's in God's hands.

00:22:05He misses nothing.

00:22:06He knows exactly what he's doing.

00:22:09And the sooner we start realizing that and believing it, I think we know it.

00:22:14But somehow we just let that get away from us that God really does know what he's doing.

00:22:20All right.

00:22:21So you trust his divine timing.

00:22:23And guess what?

00:22:24Stay faithful, focused, and you'll be fulfilled.

00:22:31This is a part of becoming faithfulness and being focused and fulfillment.

00:22:37That is a part of your becoming.

00:22:39And you can sense that, you know, when you are becoming something that only God could make.

00:22:46Life is a journey, people of God.

00:22:49It's a journey of transformation.

00:22:51No wonder the scripture says, you know, don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed.

00:22:57That begins with the renewing of the mind, which is exactly what we're doing right now.

00:23:01Every step is a step bringing you closer to becoming who you were originally created to be.

00:23:10And that's what is happening even right now.

00:23:12Today, you are stepping into yet a greater level of your becoming.

00:23:17Holding on to your, you know, who you were is something that's going to be a challenge because you're so used to being who and what you think you should be.

00:23:28And that becomes a challenge.

00:23:30And it can hinder, it hinders who you were meant to become because you're used to who you're, you know, feeling like that's who you are.

00:23:40And the truth of the matter is a whole lot of what you think is who you are is not at all who you are.

00:23:46Your comfort zone is often your greatest obstacle.

00:23:53See, the outside world is not always the greatest battle.

00:23:59OK, most of the time, the greatest battle is from your inside, your inner world, your inner being you.

00:24:08OK, and because that comfort zone, that's where we're comfortable and that's where we want to be.

00:24:14We don't like change, especially abrupt changes.

00:24:17That's why many times God has to step in.

00:24:20And it's what I call divine disconnections.

00:24:23It's when he begins to remove certain people from our lives.

00:24:27And guess what? You know, whether it be a confrontation or falling out or a breakup or a divorce, whatever it is, you know, it feels bad.

00:24:35As we said, it's like, you know, spiritual surgery.

00:24:38But God knows what he's doing. All right.

00:24:41And you have to trust him. OK.

00:24:44You know, the obstacles that confront us.

00:24:49It's really difficult. I don't dare, you know, act as though they're not.

00:24:56But again, it's all a part of it's what we're talking about today.

00:24:59You were chosen to become you were chosen to become something greater than you can see, greater than those around you can understand.

00:25:06And many times as the more you become, you're going to notice you are going to notice your circle gets smaller.

00:25:12You're going to notice certain people are just not comfortable around you.

00:25:16And that's the test to not try and change to make them comfortable.

00:25:20When God starts bringing you into who he made you to be, certain people are just not going to be comfortable.

00:25:27They're going to automatically leave. You need to leave it alone.

00:25:30Let it be. Let them go. God knows what he's doing.

00:25:34It's focusing on what your purpose of even being here is all about.

00:25:40All right. And so, again, your comfort zone is often the greatest obstacle.

00:25:45It stands between you and the life you desire. You have this desire.

00:25:51Can you sacrifice your past and embrace your future?

00:25:55Can you let go what was and start focusing on what is coming and what is to be?

00:26:01It's going to take courage. It's going to take discipline and an unwavering commitment.

00:26:07OK, this is what's required for your becoming. Becoming is not just for yourself.

00:26:13It's for all those inspired by your journey and your becoming who watch you, who believe in you.

00:26:20Everybody is not against you.

00:26:22There are some people might be a very few, but there are some people that actually believe in you, that they are they want you to succeed.

00:26:31They are looking forward to your success. All right.

00:26:35Everyone is not, you know, against you.

00:26:38So it's important to realize that your becoming is not just for you.

00:26:44Many times I share with different ones to let them know, OK, this is where, you know, God has called you on your place.

00:26:52God strategically places us in situations and he wants you to know your presence is just as important.

00:27:03OK, as who you are around and where you are, you know, strategically placed, whatever the need is there.

00:27:10OK, God will meet your need through that place or that situation, that work situation, whatever it is.

00:27:16But know that your presence is just as important as, you know, them as well as yours.

00:27:22So leaving your old self is not denying your history.

00:27:26We don't, you know, act like nothing that we don't want to do that.

00:27:30It's simply redefining it.

00:27:33OK, past lessons can fuel new growth.

00:27:37It helps you to learn from the pain, the mistakes.

00:27:42These are things that you should never allow to define you.

00:27:46Understand that's a refining.

00:27:48It's refining you.

00:27:50Malachi talks about God being the refiner.

00:27:53He still refines and brings you out as pure gold.

00:27:57So the past is not something that we, you know, want to condemn and totally cast aside.

00:28:05No, it was a part of your making.

00:28:07I always say, I thank God as difficult.

00:28:10Oh, my God.

00:28:11As it was, I don't condemn my foundation.

00:28:14You know, I thank God for the foundation.

00:28:17And yes, I move forward, but I don't condemn the history or the, you know, the foundation that I came from.

00:28:24All right.

00:28:25So understand as you're becoming, you're leaving your old self and you're becoming this different person.

00:28:31You can already see some of it.

00:28:33I do hope you can understand that right now.

00:28:35Some of you already see that you already understand that you are very different, even from as much as last year up until now this year.

00:28:45OK, so as you become many will no longer.

00:28:50Watch this now.

00:28:51See, I don't know if you're ready.

00:28:52Many will no longer deserve access to your presence.

00:28:58OK.

00:28:59The whole purpose of what God is doing.

00:29:04It's between you and him.

00:29:07You don't get to decide now.

00:29:09This is this is God's doing.

00:29:11You realize that you don't get to decide.

00:29:14It's God's doing God is doing something.

00:29:17Then you realize, OK.

00:29:19Hands off.

00:29:21Let God be God.

00:29:23I'm going to stay in my lane and let him do what he does.

00:29:27OK.

00:29:28And that's what happens.

00:29:29Certain ones.

00:29:30It actually gets the more you become.

00:29:33You get to see people so much better.

00:29:35You get to see them so much more clearly for who they really are.

00:29:40OK.

00:29:41And so, again, they won't have this access.

00:29:44OK.

00:29:45To who you're becoming.

00:29:47Growth often requires pruning.

00:29:51OK.

00:29:52You know what pruning does.

00:29:53It's a cutting away to make room for the new growth.

00:29:57Glory to God.

00:29:59It that's that's a part of your becoming.

00:30:02It there will be some cutting away.

00:30:04You are not meant again.

00:30:06Again, when you look at certain people that you did so much to try and be with these people or this person or whatever.

00:30:14And it was never enough.

00:30:16It was never.

00:30:17Don't you see that was never meant for you.

00:30:19You were never meant to shrink and bend and twist and try to be what someone else wanted you to be.

00:30:25That was never God's plan.

00:30:27That's why you need to learn how to recognize a divine disconnection as much as you recognize a divine connection.

00:30:39I'm just saying because we got to have balance here.

00:30:42We can believe that God can have a divine connection and connect you to the right.

00:30:47Yes, he can.

00:30:48But he also can have a divine disconnect and get certain people out and away from your life.

00:30:54Cutting away pruning.

00:30:56You were not meant to shrink to make others feel comfortable.

00:31:00God is trying to elevate you and you're trying to be something else.

00:31:04It doesn't work.

00:31:05Don't allow the old to hold you hostage.

00:31:09Okay.

00:31:10God is bringing you into something newer and something much better.

00:31:14And you will see it in his timing, not yours.

00:31:17God is not working on a human schedule.

00:31:20So when someone comes in your presence, it's not just a casual.

00:31:25It's not even casual.

00:31:27You know what?

00:31:28You are walking in the divine purpose and will of God.

00:31:31When people come in your presence, it's not casual.

00:31:35It becomes accountable.

00:31:36They have to give an account for how they behaved and how they treated you.

00:31:41You got to realize that.

00:31:42I told you, God is a system.

00:31:44It is just, and it will not be denied the principles that it stands for.

00:31:52All right.

00:31:53So today, God is trusting you with more.

00:31:57Did you hear me?

00:31:58Today, God, as you are, this is a word that as you receive it and take it in, it allows God to trust you with more.

00:32:09Your presence tells the truth before anyone can even speak.

00:32:15Glory to God.

00:32:17Your presence.

00:32:19This is why God is so concerned about you.

00:32:22This is why your chosenness is important to God.

00:32:26You become that mirror that people, you know, when you look in a mirror, you say what you want to say.

00:32:32That's you.

00:32:33Glory to God.

00:32:34Okay.

00:32:35Okay.

00:32:36And people, they, you know, you become that mirror and they can say and act out whatever they want to, but this is a mirror.

00:32:44This, this mirror does not flatter.

00:32:46Okay.

00:32:47This is the kind of mirror that clarifies clarity always creates a point of decision.

00:32:53And when people see around you and they see that mirror reflects them and they see themselves what they could be and should be and what they're not and how they're, you know, behaving themselves and conducting themselves in your presence.

00:33:06They don't even realize that becomes accountability to them.

00:33:10Not you because you're simply being what God has given you to be.

00:33:14And many times you have to realize that people need, some people need that mirror.

00:33:19They need to be in your presence so that you can be that reflection.

00:33:23So they get, get to see themselves, see yourself and see, you never said a word.

00:33:28That's why some people will have problems.

00:33:29That's why I keep telling you, you don't even realize what your presence does to certain people.

00:33:34Okay.

00:33:35Glory to God.

00:33:37Glory to God.

00:33:38They'll either listen or they'll leave.

00:33:40That's the bottom line.

00:33:41Like it's, you know, your presence becomes like a smoke alarm.

00:33:45Okay.

00:33:46You know what?

00:33:47Smoke alarms are not set off by drama.

00:33:49You can holla and make all the noise.

00:33:51It has to be something real, real smoke sets off a smoke alarm.

00:33:56Okay.

00:33:57It's something real.

00:33:59When you come in the reality and people have to deal with the reality of your presence.

00:34:06It's like a smoke alarm for them and it goes off.

00:34:09And, and yes, it becomes, you become a problem too.

00:34:12That's their problem.

00:34:13Not you, not you, not you.

00:34:16Okay.

00:34:17Now some will appreciate your presence.

00:34:19They'll feel safety and peace around you while others become uncomfortable, agitated, you know, aggravated, annoyed because they cannot pretend in a genuine presence.

00:34:33And that alarm goes off and there's nothing they can do about it.

00:34:39Okay.

00:34:40So the, so the, the careless access to you ends with their own consequences and regrets.

00:34:52You have to understand certain people no longer have access to you.

00:34:57I have seen that in my life over and over again.

00:35:01The more I sought to become what God had called me to be.

00:35:05And I knew there were certain changes that were taking place that I had no control over.

00:35:11And I realized that when God determines who, you know, you got to understand you, but he chose you.

00:35:17He said, you look, you didn't choose me.

00:35:19He said, I chose you.

00:35:20And when God chooses you, he determines your access.

00:35:24Glory to God.

00:35:25That's his, not yours.

00:35:27All right.

00:35:28And so, and people need to understand that you had access to this person.

00:35:33What was your, what would you do?

00:35:35What was your problem?

00:35:36You obviously did not understand or appreciate, couldn't comprehend what presence you had came in and now you've lost it.

00:35:44So that's your problem.

00:35:46That's your regret.

00:35:47Okay.

00:35:48You know, when, when someone treats your, your presence, you know, as like, it's common, like you ain't nothing, you know, you know, there's a spiritual response.

00:35:59You can't toy with God's chosen.

00:36:03You don't toy with God's chosen ones.

00:36:06You want to treat them any kind of way.

00:36:08You're going to suffer the consequences of that.

00:36:10You're, you're not just someone that they think that they know, well, I know so-and-so, I know who so-and-so is.

00:36:19They're, they're just, they think they're so safe or they're so, let them do all of that.

00:36:24You got nothing to do with that.

00:36:27You are on an assignment.

00:36:30Your presence is like a signal because you were not designed to blend in.

00:36:36You'll never blend in with them.

00:36:38And they know that.

00:36:39And some just can't stand you for it.

00:36:41And, and even though they know it's a God thing and there's nothing they can do about it, it's, it's, it becomes a problem.

00:36:49And I'm trying to help you to understand how important it is.

00:36:52No, both sides have chosen.

00:36:54Don't just see the code of many colors.

00:36:57It's beautiful.

00:36:58It's wonderful.

00:36:59But my God, when you put it on and really wear it, I want you to understand that.

00:37:04I want you to understand some things.

00:37:07Okay.

00:37:08Your presence, hear me now.

00:37:11Your presence is an imprint that refuses to be reduced.

00:37:17Now you might want to write that down because I'm trying to help you today.

00:37:21I'm listening.

00:37:22I don't get to preach anything that I haven't had to live.

00:37:25And if I can live it and, you know, master it, I can share it and let somebody know.

00:37:31So I'm going to say it again.

00:37:32Your presence is an imprint that refuses to be reduced.

00:37:39And so then now that war on your members start having, because you're trying to be less than to help, make somebody happy and make someone feel comfortable with you to be with you and make like you and all.

00:37:51You're going to start having problems because your presence is resisting that.

00:37:56Your presence is, your presence is an imprint.

00:37:59It's already imprinted.

00:38:00You can't change that.

00:38:02Okay.

00:38:03What God has given you to be, he will not withdraw, but he's going to perform it against that day.

00:38:10Access to you is by permission, not assumption.

00:38:14Oh God, you should write that down too.

00:38:18Access to you is by permission, not assumption.

00:38:22No one should assume they can just come up in your face.

00:38:25This is, we got to start realizing the power of our presence and what we carry in the precious blood of Jesus Christ and the very presence of the Holy Spirit of the only true and living God.

00:38:39You're listening to me, glory to God, your presence.

00:38:43This is why people have problems, even family members who you thought supposed to know better or save folk who you thought supposed to know better.

00:38:53They are, but that doesn't stop their fleshly realm and the foolish things that they believe and take on, especially when it's envy and jealousy and they want to be something.

00:39:03They're not willing to pay the price for it.

00:39:05They like what they see, but they are not willing to pay to be.

00:39:11So access to you now is by permission only.

00:39:15Glory to God and not assumption.

00:39:17Understand what your presence activates.

00:39:21Understand that, yes, there are people under the influence of the demonic realm.

00:39:27And when you come around, they're going to act a fool.

00:39:30Those devils are going to act up and you're going to think there's something wrong with you.

00:39:33It is not you.

00:39:35Glory to God.

00:39:36Your purpose is too important to be sacrificed for a bunch of foolish folk.

00:39:42I almost said fools, I caught myself, but I'm trying to show you what God is saying to this people this day to his chosen ones.

00:39:50And you need to hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying on to the church.

00:39:55Glory to God.

00:39:57Understand that your presence activates spirits, activates things.

00:40:03Glory to God.

00:40:05Your presence is important to God and he's not going to change that so somebody can feel good around you.

00:40:12Glory to God.

00:40:14Glory to God.

00:40:15To become the person you were meant to be, you must pay the ultimate price.

00:40:25You've paid.

00:40:26Some of you, Lord, have mercy.

00:40:28If we were to listen to some of the things you've had to live through, you had to endure, you had to muscle your way and sometimes you didn't even know if you were going to make it or not.

00:40:40The times when things were so scarce, nothing was working for you, everything was going against you.

00:40:46Don't you understand?

00:40:47When you pay for something, God absolutely will never let not one ounce of it go to waste.

00:40:55He will not.

00:40:57That means letting go who you once were and who certain folks still are and not going to change.

00:41:06You have to let go.

00:41:08Sacrifice is never easy and transformation requires a deep commitment to what's greater than your present state.

00:41:16And God always has greater.

00:41:19Whatever he removes, he restores.

00:41:21Trust God for that.

00:41:23Does it take a while?

00:41:24That's not for you to decide.

00:41:26What God is making only you can understand as you get closer to him.

00:41:33Bring in that relationship closer to God so that you can realize how important your relationship is to him and with him.

00:41:42Holding on to the past will cost you too much.

00:41:45It'll cost you.

00:41:46Holding on to the past will cost you your future.

00:41:49It'll cost you your very desires.

00:41:52But what?

00:41:53Moving forward is not difficult because you lack strength.

00:42:02It only becomes difficult when you don't let go.

00:42:07Think of somebody looking backwards and trying to move forward.

00:42:11I was coming to the parking lot and this person is backing up and she looking in a different direction, almost hitting.

00:42:19You can't look one way.

00:42:21You have to focus now.

00:42:24Focus on what God, you know God is doing something in you.

00:42:28Stay focused.

00:42:30Holding on to the past costs you too much.

00:42:33Glory to God.

00:42:35And like I said, moving forward is not difficult because you lack the strength, but because you carry the past luggage, you carry out.

00:42:44Let all that stuff go.

00:42:46Ask the Holy Spirit to deliver you from every evil work.

00:42:49That's a wonderful scripture.

00:42:51I say that passage of scripture every day, every night before the Lord deliver me from every evil work.

00:42:58And I'm telling you, he will do just that.

00:43:00Just that deliver me from every evil work.

00:43:04Six words for six, the number of man.

00:43:07Deliver me from every evil work.

00:43:10Get that in your spirit and watch him do just that.

00:43:12And once you find yourself having less flashbacks from the past, less looking back and start looking forward.

00:43:19All right.

00:43:21Transformation is not partial.

00:43:22It's total.

00:43:23It requires a complete surrender.

00:43:26Surrender who you once were and allow the person that you're becoming to emerge.

00:43:31Allow the fullness of who God is making you to come forth in Jesus name.

00:43:37Glory to God.

00:43:38Remember, like I said, I am not talking something I heard or what I thought or any of those things.

00:43:43You have to live these things.

00:43:45This is why your ministry, your life is so powerful.

00:43:48The things that you've lived becomes real ministry for the lives of God's people.

00:43:54And God is pushing you.

00:43:56He's bringing you into that.

00:43:57And it's going to be greater than you could ever imagine.

00:44:00Glory to God.

00:44:02The greatest battles are the ones fought within yourself.

00:44:07And this we know those, those, those eternal ones and external victories.

00:44:13They don't even that external victories are wonderful.

00:44:16You can gain everything.

00:44:18You can gain the work, the relationship, the finances, everything.

00:44:24Okay.

00:44:25But if your inner is not delivered, if you haven't overcome those inner battles, you know what it is.

00:44:34You see people get to a very wonderful place of success.

00:44:37And then some inner battle that they did not conquer brings them right back down.

00:44:43That goes to Mark, you know, Mark chapter eight and 36 real quick.

00:44:49It simply says, for what shall it profit a person if, if he or she shall gain the whole world and lose their soul.

00:44:57That's that inner body.

00:44:58That's those battles that you have to conquer inside.

00:45:01Everyone has them.

00:45:02You know, I thank God I've been delivered from many, but I know there's still more.

00:45:06There's still certain ones that I'm still fighting and I will absolutely win.

00:45:10I will conquer because I won't stop.

00:45:12And again, you will never lose if you don't quit.

00:45:16Only, only the, you know, quitters lose.

00:45:21Glory to God.

00:45:25What victory is, is what you're becoming.

00:45:31Okay.

00:45:32If you're still enslaved by old fears and insecurities, true victory is when you silence those lies from the inside.

00:45:43Silence those voices that keep coming after you.

00:45:46Shut them down and silence it in Jesus name.

00:45:52Understand this because God is moving on your behalf.

00:45:56He's not waiting for you to think whether it looks like it or whether it feels like it.

00:46:01He simply does.

00:46:02Destiny doesn't knock.

00:46:05It calls.

00:46:06It simply shows up today.

00:46:08It's calling you to what is the greater for your life.

00:46:13It's a higher place of praise.

00:46:15It's a higher place.

00:46:17It's sacred.

00:46:18It's sacred.

00:46:19It's where you belong.

00:46:21Glory to God.

00:46:22Glory to God.

00:46:23There are, listen, so many areas in your life that you have overcome and conquered.

00:46:29And God is 100% with you in doing that.

00:46:33All right.

00:46:34Because he, the real you, he wants the fullness of who he made you to be.

00:46:39You know, coming around this so-called Halloween time, you know, all the costumes.

00:46:44There are costumes and there are crowns.

00:46:47You are dealing with a crown.

00:46:49You are not dealing with a costume.

00:46:50You're not faking it, trying to become someone else.

00:46:53You are becoming what God has called you.

00:46:55You are the living proof that real power doesn't need a big spectacle.

00:47:01It doesn't need a bunch of people's approval.

00:47:04It doesn't need validation.

00:47:06When you are genuine in who you are, you don't need all those things.

00:47:11Glory to God.

00:47:12People will be honored to be in your presence.

00:47:15You don't have to try to be around them.

00:47:17They'll be looking to try to be around you.

00:47:19You have history.

00:47:20You have value.

00:47:21You have accountability.

00:47:23The priceless presence teaches.

00:47:27This is your priceless presence that's teaching people how to approach you.

00:47:33You have become in such a manner that people are going to have to learn how to come before your presence.

00:47:40How to learn when you are a royal priesthood.

00:47:43Okay.

00:47:44You learn how to come before, but you got to let them learn.

00:47:48Don't just let people fall upon you.

00:47:50Just, you know, this, this is why God has to actually limit the access of certain people to you.

00:47:58Some have come to realize that they misused who you were.

00:48:05Okay.

00:48:07God has sent you as a benefit for their life and they messed it up.

00:48:13So now it's just too late.

00:48:16They touched what they didn't treasure.

00:48:20And God had to move on.

00:48:23And that's just the way it is.

00:48:25And some people, like I said, they may, you may be a friend from a distance.

00:48:30You may deal with them from a, you know, a distance, but that closeness is, it's, it's a wrap.

00:48:37It's done because they didn't respect.

00:48:40You got to see this beyond you.

00:48:43You got to see this from the divine realm of God almighty.

00:48:46You don't disrespect what God protects.

00:48:50Glory to God.

00:48:51Glory to God.

00:48:54Glory to God.

00:48:55It's not about revenge.

00:48:57It's about restoration.

00:49:00God restoring balance.

00:49:02Remember we started out saying is about balance.

00:49:05Okay.

00:49:06When God marks you, when he marks someone, he also monitors who touches your life.

00:49:15Okay.

00:49:16Glory to God.

00:49:18And it's time for you to stop feeling like the bad one, the guilty one and realize.

00:49:23You know, what has actually taken place.

00:49:26God's protection is present yet.

00:49:29It doesn't need to make a big announcement.

00:49:31You don't have to allow this.

00:49:32And I'm saying, that's why I said, you know, the whole title thing needs to be over.

00:49:36You don't need the title.

00:49:37Your presence will speak for you.

00:49:39Glory to God.

00:49:40Glory to God.

00:49:42God's protection is present.

00:49:44It's upon you.

00:49:45The results will speak for itself.

00:49:47Just let it.

00:49:48The proof of your self.

00:49:51Restraint and all that you had to hold back and, you know, make yourself quiet.

00:49:57All of that.

00:49:59Okay.

00:50:00That becomes proof for who you have become.

00:50:04Okay.

00:50:05And that proof is louder than any lie.

00:50:08That proof will silence those who think they're so powerful and realize they were weaker than they ever.

00:50:17I said, you know what?

00:50:18When you find yourself under attack, just remember this.

00:50:21The weak always attack the strong.

00:50:24And the proof of your self.

00:50:27Restraints and discipline and all that you would is far louder than any lie that they could ever tell.

00:50:34Silence.

00:50:35Hear me now.

00:50:36Because you don't have to speak.

00:50:38You don't have to defend yourself.

00:50:39You owe nobody nothing.

00:50:41Glory to God.

00:50:42Silence is a powerful display of emotional intelligence.

00:50:47Emotional intelligence.

00:50:48You talk about emotional intelligence.

00:50:50That's the, you know, by word nowadays.

00:50:53That's the thing.

00:50:54Understand the power of silence.

00:50:56That is the greatest display of emotional intelligence.

00:51:01Your strength is not the kind.

00:51:04You didn't have that kind of strength that was loud and boastful and making a big deal.

00:51:09That wasn't your.

00:51:10That wasn't the strength.

00:51:11Your strength simply outlast the foolishness.

00:51:14You were able to maintain.

00:51:17You have that outlasting stuff.

00:51:19It outlasts the storms.

00:51:21It outlasts the lies.

00:51:22It outlasts the gossip.

00:51:24It outlasts the betrayal.

00:51:26It outlasts the abuse.

00:51:29Your, you, that's the kind of strength that God was dealing with from the very beginning.

00:51:34People feel you before they even see you.

00:51:38Hear what I'm saying.

00:51:39The atmosphere adjusts to your presence.

00:51:42Glory to God.

00:51:43It releases a divine signal.

00:51:45Okay.

00:51:46Someone just stepped in the room.

00:51:47Someone just stepped in this situation.

00:51:49You don't require defense.

00:51:51Only your presence.

00:51:53Endurance never expires.

00:51:57You keep on standing and keep being who you know you are.

00:52:01Understand that.

00:52:03Understand that.

00:52:04You don't require any defense to anybody.

00:52:08Glory to God.

00:52:09Let me tell you something about decisions because we make so much a big deal.

00:52:14In fact, I even said, you know, you make a decision.

00:52:16You got to live with it for the rest of your life.

00:52:18That's not really true.

00:52:20In other words, decisions.

00:52:22We studied decisions too much.

00:52:25Don't study the decisions.

00:52:26Study the consequences.

00:52:28Because it's really not the decision that you're living with for the rest of your life.

00:52:31For the rest of your life.

00:52:32It's the consequences.

00:52:33And you have the power to make the decision.

00:52:36You know, as you are hearing and being built up into who God has made you to be.

00:52:41This battle within will test you.

00:52:43It will challenge you.

00:52:45And dictate your past to you.

00:52:48But this is a battle worth fighting.

00:52:50The inner is not going to overcome the power of who you are.

00:52:55Again, Zachariah 4 and 6.

00:52:57I'm about to close now.

00:52:58I'm closing out Zachariah 4 and 6.

00:53:00He says again, not by might nor by power.

00:53:02But by your spirit says the Lord.

00:53:04It is by the spirit of God that you have become this.

00:53:07Without the spirit, you could never become who you are.

00:53:10You know, in your inner battle, don't fight against the Holy Spirit.

00:53:15Because he's the one there fighting for you and with you.

00:53:18He helps you to conquer the flesh.

00:53:21And bring you into the freedom to become everything you were meant to be.

00:53:26Your growth has purpose beyond yourself.

00:53:30Your strengths are not wasted.

00:53:32Your sacrifices are not in vain.

00:53:34All are part of a greater story for others to learn and glean from you.

00:53:40Transformation extracts the wisdom from your pain and redefines what once was as a stepping stone.

00:53:50Your past was not a prison for pain, but the power to learn.

00:53:55It was your classroom.

00:53:56The past had a role in getting you to where you are now.

00:54:00But it cannot take you where you're going.

00:54:04So you let it go and you realize that you use that it's under your feet.

00:54:09You're stepping over it.

00:54:10Relationships that once provided comfort may now be stifling your spirit and your growth and can no longer be a part of your purpose.

00:54:22Trust what God removes that he can restore what he has done.

00:54:28Now, carry forward the strength that you gained and every lesson that you have learned and the power of who you are becoming.

00:54:44Those decisions will all be different now.

00:54:50Because they're not based on who you once were, but who you are becoming.

00:54:58So trust God.

00:55:00Trust God for what he is doing in your life.

00:55:03Know that whatever it was, it was beyond your control.

00:55:07And thank God that he stepped in.

00:55:10And don't try and bring people back in who God has taken away their access.

00:55:19Understand that your becoming is so important to God that he will not compromise.

00:55:25He will continue to fast forward what he has made you to be and the glory of God.

00:55:32This is how God gets glory.

00:55:34When we become exactly what he has made us to be.

00:55:39When he is able to shape and mold us.

00:55:44He is the potter and we are the clay.

00:55:47Spirit of the living God, I thank you for the word that is powerful.

00:55:51That it is changing.

00:55:52It is life changing.

00:55:54This helping us to see the greater of who we are.

00:55:58We no longer walk in any state of condemnation or guilt or blame, but we step into the very presence of who we are.

00:56:08Our becoming is so glorified in heaven as we become everything that you have called us to be.

00:56:16Thank you, God, that we continue to grow in Jesus mighty name.

00:56:22Well, God bless you.

00:56:24We have so much people of God that God wants to share and he wants to actually impart.

00:56:30Again, it's greater, you know, you can hear and you can say you receive, but an impartation is so much greater because it embraces your inner man and equips you and helps you to move forward in such a way that you realize we got to have balance.

00:56:47Just as sure as there are divine connections, there are also divine disconnections, but God never removes what he doesn't replace in Jesus name.

00:57:02God bless you.

00:57:03Hey, Wednesday night.

00:57:04Yes, we're right back at it again.

00:57:06And I look forward to our time together in Jesus name.

00:57:09Bless you.

00:57:10Love you.

00:57:11See you then.

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