I wanna get into the word and I wanna get out of the way so God can do whatever it is.
He has decided to do in this place. Thank you Jesus.
We welcome you in this place.
I’m gonna be in John two verse one through 10.
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I’m gonna start in verse one where it says on the third day, there was a wedding in Can of Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there.
Now, both Jesus and his disciples were invited to the wedding.
And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, they have no wine.
Jesus said to her woman. What does your concern have to do with me?
My hour has not yet come. His mother said to the servants, whatever he says to you do it.
Now, there were set there, six water pots of stone according to the manner of purification of the Jews containing 20 or 30 gallons apiece.
Jesus said to them, fill the water pots with water and they filled them up to the brim and he said to them, draw some out now and take it to the master of the feast.
And they took it when the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine and did not know where it came from.
But the servants who had drawn the water knew the master of the feast, called the bride groom.
And he said to him, every man at the beginning sets out the good wine.
And when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior you have kept the good wine until now my subject for this evening is draw it out.
So God, we just invite you to take complete control of this room.
If you would have me to throw out this text and throw out these notes, that would be a OK with me.
Because at the end of the day, we came to hear from you and God, there is nothing that we can do without your presence.
Only your presence can change lives, only your presence can perform miracles. So God, we humble ourselves under your voice.
God, and I ask that you would meet every person who came in with the need and that you would give them clarity, that you would give them vision, that you would give them strength and power and focus and wisdom.
God, that you would order their steps is only you can do take control of this place.
Oh Great God that you are. And as for me, I turn myself over to you.
Let there be no nerves, no fear, no anxiety, just your strength, your power, your anointing, standing tall in me until chains are broken and fear bows down because that’s what you do.
When you enter a room in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
You guys can get seated and be comfortable if I could get a little power in the microphone.
That would be beautiful because you know, I’m soft spoken in Jesus name.
I was thinking as I was coming down here, that one of the best ways that I could even help us set up a parallel between what is happening in this text is to explain to you a few things about being in relationship with people and your surroundings and environment in such a way that it draws something out of you.
I learned this personally about two years into my marriage with your pastor pastor to can we thank God for pastor tore the visionary of this house.
That’s my man. That’s my name. Everything I am is because of him.
Um And two years into our marriage, I realized that um I was being more vulnerable because you know, I used to be like, people don’t like when I say I was a thug, but I was like an emotional thug.
Um I have never killed anyone. I don’t think it was just emotionally, I just had this wall.
I just didn’t want to let people in.
And all of a sudden, about two years into our marriage, I started getting very vulnerable and I would share my feelings and emotions and, and I thought that I was doing it because I had just grown and decided to be vulnerable.
And I realized in the middle of pastor and I having a conversation that what was actually happening was that PT has started leading the witness in such a way that I thought I was being vulnerable.
But he was really just asking questions to make me become vulnerable, which is a powerful, powerful gift and talent to have.
Um when we use it on our Children, when he uses it on me, I take issue with it.
If pastor had not been a pastor, he would have been a lawyer.
And so I peep game about two years into our marriage.
And so now when he starts asking me questions, I’m like, don’t lead the witness that’s rude.
When I’m ready to open up, I’ll open up.
Don’t start asking me no questions, but he leads the witness because I realize that he’s trying to draw something out of me and because he’s trying to draw something out of me, there is nothing that he won’t do no path, no avenue that he won’t take to draw something out of me.
And I couldn’t help but think about how that reflects so greatly my relationship with God.
As I look back over my life, I thought that I was making my own decisions.
I thought that I was living life my own way.
But now I look back over my life and I see how each of those circumstances were set up in such a way that it would draw something out of me.
Yes. So that it would draw out my insecurities so that ultimately, I could confront them and overcome them.
God has this way of drawing things out of us. And it’s not always comfortable when he does that.
But when we look back over it, we recognize that had it not been drawn out of us, then we would have never realized what was in us, not just the negative, but the powerful, the strength.
I don’t know if I’m the only person in this room who looks back over their life and say, I know that situation didn’t work out the way that I wanted to.
I know it broke my heart, but it really actually drew something out of me because when everything was said and done and the dust had finished settling, I was stronger than I thought I was.
I had more wisdom than I had before I lost the job. But I learned how to budget.
It drew some responsibility out of me. It drew some wisdom out of me.
And so in this text, we see the fullness of who Jesus has been called to be being drawn out of Him.
And God uses his mother Mary, who God partnered with to bring Jesus into the world to draw something out of Him.
This is a point where Jesus is gonna go from being a miracle to performing miracles.
Everyone wants a miracle but no one recognizes that having received a miracle, we have a responsibility to then perpetuate those miracles in our life.
I received grace so I can give grace where I’m from.
They will say I’m blessed to be a blessing.
Culture would have us to believe that we need a miracle so that we can look good.
But kingdom says that I need a miracle so that I can be a miracle so that I can end some things in my community so that I can break some generational curses.
You see, God isn’t just interested in healing you for the sake of you being He, he wants your life to be a monument of His glory and of His grace so that I can perpetuate what he’s done in my life.
I don’t get up and speak because it’s easy.
I get up and speak because God has done something for me.
And I’m crazy enough to believe that I can show you what he’s doing in your life.
I’m trying to perpetuate what he’s done in my life.
You’re not just writing a movie, you’re perpetuating what God has done in your life.
You’re not just writing a book, you’re not just in a marriage, you’re not just raising Children.
You are perpetuating what God has done in your life.
So when you’re trying to figure out what to reproduce in this earth, start with what God has planted down on the inside of you because that is the only thing that is worthy of reproducing in this earth.
That’s, that’s a whole word. It’s a whole, ok?
It’s a whole word because I don’t wanna recreate anyone else’s success.
And at the end of the day, only what we do for Christ is gonna last.
That’s the only thing that’s gonna withstand rejection. That’s the only thing that’s gonna withstand people not validating it.
So God, what is it that you have done in my life that you saved me?
That I was on the edge of suicide?
But you ended up helping me put the gun down that I was going through depression and now I’m not battling anymore.
I wanna to perpetuate that thing in my life.
I wanna help someone who went through what I went through to not have to go through what I went through because I came out on the other side.
I don’t wanna just look good.
I know I don’t look like what I went through, but I still go back to what I went through because it’s somebody who needs to know that you can make it out on the other side, I got to say that thing so that it gets down in somebody’s spirit real good.
I wanna prepare, perpetuate what you’ve done in my life.
And if you want power and you want authority and you want passion, you can’t look at the world to give it to you.
God gave it to you when he saved you, God gave it to you.
When he created an opportunity for you to make it to the next dimension. It wasn’t for a dollar signs.
It wasn’t for your name and on in life, it wasn’t for Instagram.
It was so that you could perpetuate what he’s done. He’s looking for a tunnel.
Heaven is looking for a tunnel to earth.
And I just wanna know if you’re gonna be in, I just wanna know if you’re gonna be the one that heaven can look down on and say they’re clear enough and open enough and free enough and flexible enough for me to use them for what I wanna do in the earth.
I wanna be a vessel. I’m sorry. That’s just me. That’s just the way I do what I do.
I just want people to look at me and see Him. That’s it.
And so Jesus and I really believe prophetically that you and I are going from this place of being a miracle to perpetuating and producing and performing miracles.
It’s a miracle. I’m still here. It’s a miracle. I still have my mind. It’s a miracle I could forgive.
It’s a miracle. I still have joy. It’s a miracle. I still have peace.
But I don’t wanna just rest in my miracle. I wanna spread this thing.
God, I need it to ricochet throughout the earth because everybody else is making everything else ricochet.
I see everything else in culture, moving things that can’t, that can’t give God any glow story.
So if he’s gonna use anybody, why won’t he use the one who’s most passionate about what he’s done in their life?
I’m not talking about being weird. I’m talking about being real. I’m not talking about being crazy.
I’m talking about, look, you can still be dope and love God.
I’m talking about, you can still make music that glorifies God and do it for the kingdom.
I’m talking about something real that this earth hasn’t seen.
And I wanna know who wants to break the norms of what it means to be traditional in church and go out into the world and say yes, I love God.
Yes, I’m still flying. Yes, I will cast out a devil. Yes, I will rebuke some cancer.
Yes, I will make demons go trembling and yes, I can still kick it and not judge you and still love you and still look at you the way that God loves you because that’s who I am and that’s what he’s done for me.
Activate, activate L A.
It’s not so that we can have a tent meeting in here and go out and be undercover in the world is so that we can be empowered in here to be authentic out there so that our light can shine so bright that it makes people curious about who we are and like, so they can be like, what are you on?
Like no matter what’s happening at work, you keep your peace, you keep your joy.
It is that I just wanna know what it is.
And that’s when I’m gonna tell him that I know a man named Jesus.
And when y’all start getting on my nerves, I start asking him to give me a mind like him.
Yes, I should have lost my mind. Yes, I should have been in Brokenness.
I should be drunk out of my mind somewhere. But I met this man named Jesus.
I’m sorry, I feel like being a church girl tonight because when I think about the goodness of Jesus and all he has done for me, my soul cries out my soul cries out.
Hallelujah to the risen king. Hallelujah to the savior.
Hallelujah to the one who saw fit to save a wretch like me.
I’m wretched and wretched and he still loves me.
He did something down on the inside of me.
I don’t even know when it happened. I just looked up one day and my faith couldn’t be shaken.
I just looked up one day and I felt anointed. I felt equipped.
I really felt like greater is he that is in me?
And when fear started talking to me, I started reminding fear. I’m anointed.
I’ve been anointed since I was been broke in this. But I messed around and got awakened to that anointing.
And now I live my life in such a way that it’s protecting the anointing that he has given me.
So I keep my mind clear and I keep my circle tight because I’m trying to produce miracles and I can’t do it if I’m connected to toxicity.
All right.
So when we find Jesus in the text, he has gone throughout and recruited disciples, he’s been baptized, he is fully aware of who he is, but he has not yet activated that into the earth in a way that it exposes who he is to the world.
He’s uh waiting to strike.
If you will, he’s waiting for the opportunity to see when he should unleash his anointing specifically, he’s waiting for a need that is worthy of his power so that his anointing can be exposed.
And so he thought that he was coming to a wedding and he thought that he was just supposed to be attending the wedding and celebrating with other people, not realizing that as he was attending the wedding, that it was actually gonna be the moment in which his anointing is unleashed.
So the wedding is running out of wine and darkness is running out of time because he’s about to go from being a miracle to performing miracles.
He’s about to go from being of the of the heavens and in earth to establishing the heaven on earth.
So at the same time, I love this text because I just saw it so clearly.
The wedding is running out of wine. In Jesus. The true vine.
The true vine has put darkness on notice God help me Jesus.
What do you say again? The wedding is running out of wine.
The environment that would produce Jesus. Anointing was beginning to have a need.
The need came before his anointing was unleashed.
He created the need before he unleashed his power.
A lot of us want to unleash our power, but we don’t have the need yet.
And so we just wanna unleash the power to show that we’re powerful.
But God says, I’ve got to create the need because if I create the need and your power meets the need, then it will send out an echo into the earth.
So be patient. I know you’re anointed. I know you’ve got your disciples.
I just want you to stay ready to strike at any given moment.
You know what you gotta do to stay ready, how you gotta be ready to strike at any moment at any moment.
God could call upon my anointing.
So I have positioned my life in such a way that I’m ready to strike at any given moment.
God, I don’t know when you’re gonna do it. I don’t know when the phone is gonna ring.
I don’t know when I’m gonna get the finances, but when you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.
So I stay prayed up. I stay waiting for you to tell me God.
Is this the opportunity God, is this the relationship? Because I’m ready to strike?
Because I feel fire shut up in my bones and I don’t wanna waste my fire on someone else’s opportunity.
I wanna unleash my fire where it’s gonna have the most impact. I’m waiting to strike.
Somebody needs to let hell know. I’m waiting to strike. I’m not just sitting down, twiddling my thumbs.
I’m waiting to strike. I’m waiting for God to say now is time.
I feel that for somebody you’ve been waiting for a confirmation.
And God said you’ve been ready and I’m telling you now, I’m ready for you to strike.
I’m ready for you to unleash it. I’m ready for you to meet the need that you’ve been looking at.
That’s not for everybody but that is for somebody. It’s time for you to strike.
It’s time for you to strike. You’re in alignment. I got you in the right city.
You’re in the right room, you’re connected to the right people.
And I hear heaven saying now is the time for you to strike and unleash the fullness of your anointing.
Not just this baby infant size version of who you are. But the fullness of who you are.
My husband and I, we preach Jesus. We holy ghost field. Listen.
If we could shout, we would tear this church up and we are talking to mainstream industry about our Jesus.
We didn’t have to shrink. We didn’t have to act like something.
We weren’t, we didn’t have to just go inspiration and universe in the energy.
We preach Jesus and the door is still open. We preach Jesus and the network called us.
We were sitting at home minding our holy ghost business and the network called us.
You can do this thing for the kingdom and still bust the doors open in the culture. Yes, I’m here.
No, I’m not going nowhere because he’s ordering my steps.
We’ve been waiting to strike, we’ve been waiting to strike. They said reality.
We said we can’t do reality because we wanna make sure we preserve our integrity.
So we passed up checks and we passed up opportunities.
But that was ok with us because we understand the fullness of our anointing can’t just be unleashed in any environment.
It needs to be unleashed in an environment that recognizes who we are and what we carry.
And if you don’t get it, that’s cool because I’m gonna carry it by myself. I’ll do my own stuff.
If I have to. We’ll log up in here on a Thursday night and set hell on fire because I don’t need nobody else’s help.
To do it. I’m me with or without you. What’s up? L A?
Y’all got me feeling some kind of way here tonight and I didn’t even come here to play with y’all tonight, but I’m just trying to let you know that he is not a man that he shall lie.
You don’t have to pretend to be anybody else to activate this city for his glory.
I’ll do it flat footed preaching the king of kings and the Lord of Lord.
And I watch doors swing open on my behalf. I watch way where he said it was over.
Don’t, don’t start with us tonight. OK? I didn’t even.
All right.
I’m gonna just get to the point because I see that my three points and my stanza and my haku is not gonna hit it tonight cause y’all came to be activated.
So Jesus is waiting to strike and God uses Mary to tell him this is where it’s supposed to happen.
And there are water pots laying around and he says, take the water pots and fill them with water.
He says to take what you already have lying around and fill them with the resource you already have.
I’m gonna do the miracle with what you already have lying around and a resource that can never run dry.
I kept wondering to myself, why is it that of all the things that could have ran out that they ran out of wine?
I know child I was like, Lord, the saint is gonna think I’m saying to drink wine.
First of all, don’t try me and don’t send me no letters. That is not what I’m saying tonight.
I wondered they could have ran out of meat, they could have run out of bread, they could have run out of anything.
Why is it that they ran out of wine?
And I realized that they had to run out of wine because wine is something that cannot be easily replaced, that wine can only be produced in seasons that it takes time to replace wine.
And so he had to use wine because he wanted to defy human knowledge and human reasoning.
And he wanted to use what they already had laying around and a resource that could never, never run out to replace the wine.
And he says to them, fill the water pots with water to the brim and Mary says, whatever he says, do it and they fill the water pots with water.
This is when I realized that the most powerful character in this story besides Jesus was the servants who knew that there was no wine but filled the water pots with water.
You see, because it would be the servants who would take the water and give it to the master of the feast.
It would be the servants who would then have to put their neck on the line when everyone else is asking for wine and all they had was water.
When everyone else was asking for us to be naked on Instagram, we were the ones who started putting up scriptures.
We were drawing, I’m drawing from water. You see, not everyone gets to draw from more wine.
Not everyone gets to just go out and get more wine.
Some people in this room have been drawing from water. I didn’t have any resources.
I didn’t have the family that everyone else had.
I’ve been drawing from water and everyone is asking me for wine. I’ve been drawing from water.
I’ve been drawing from water and I hear God say if you draw from water, I’ll turn it into wine that if you draw it out, I’ll draw out the wine that’s better than y’all fully understand because the servants had to be willing to draw from the water and serve it to the master knowing that it started with water.
But trusting that somewhere along the way that Jesus was gonna turn it to wine.
All I came here to tell you on this great Thursday evening in Los Angeles is that you’ve been drawing from water and I hear God saying, if you keep drawing, I’m gonna turn it into a miracle.
If you keep drawing, I know you don’t have it the way you want to.
I know you don’t feel like you are connected as you should be.
But I’m telling you, I’m drawing something out of you and I want you to keep drawing so I can keep drawing.
The more that you draw, the more that I pour.
Yeah.
He said draw some out now. Yes. Draw it out now.
I know it looks like water. I know.
It looks like what you’re working with isn’t enough to sati satisfy the need. God help me.
I know, I know these last few weeks haven’t been easy.
I know the demand that’s been on you.
And I know they keep asking for joy and they keep asking for forgiveness and they keep asking for peace in the middle of the storm.
But they don’t know. I’m not drawing from wine.
I’m drawing from water which means I don’t even have what you’re asking me.
So I’m just praying that somewhere along the way, when I draw from the water that he’s gonna turn it into wine.
And somewhere along the way, the servants decided to listen to what he said and they took it to the master of the feast and he tasted the water that was made wine.
But the servants who had drawn the water knew that it didn’t start as wine.
Yes. Snack on start is wine.
Wine is um spirit. It is what creates life in a party.
Some would have you believe some not me.
Make sure y’all mama and grandmothers know that because I’m not saying that that’s what it is.
But I’m saying it was the absence of a spirit that gave the spirit in Jesus room to be unleashed.
And so when they started drawing from the water, he transformed it in the middle of it.
And all I was doing is I was praying and asking God what it is that you want me to say to your people tonight and what it is that you want them to know above all it was that I know you’re drawing from water.
I know that you’re drawing from something that doesn’t seem like enough.
But I hear God saying for you and for me and for everyone watching that I have you drawing from the water because I have a plan to do something miraculous.
But I can only do it if you’re willing to serve the water and trust that it’s gonna turn into wine.
You see the servants didn’t taste the water and wine first. They didn’t taste it.
They didn’t give it to lower level people.
They took that thing that they knew was water and still served it to the highest person at the feast.
So they had so much trust in what God said that he was gonna do that.
He just believed that the moment it touches their lips that they’re gonna see one where I once saw water.
I know the idea isn’t fully fleshed out. I know the business plan isn’t all the way together.
But I hear God saying that if you trusted that I gave it to you and you’re gonna do exactly as I say, do I’m telling you to serve it to the highest person in the room.
Don’t go to your friend circle on this one.
Go to someone higher who’s not connected to your feelings or emotions, but who’s gonna tell you the truth so that they can tell you just how excellent it is.
I hear God saying that somewhere in the midst of the struggle that you forgot how special your anointing is and that He is gonna create scenarios and situations that demand that you draw it out so that He can show you that you and Him are a winning combination.
Draw it out.
God help us to draw it out and to serve it like we trust that it’s gonna turn into what you said it was.
God helped me to draw out every idea, every plan, every mission, every concept, God help me to draw out peace, help me to draw out forgiveness, help me to draw it out of water.
God because I don’t really have it to give.
I feel the presence of God in this place that life has been demanding something out of you that you don’t even know if you have it to give.
And God says I’m not asking you for the finished product.
I’m asking you for what you have now because if you will give me what you have now, then I can take care of the finished product.
I want it on your level. Right now, discombobulated and disorganized. Give it to me right there on that level.
Broken and shattered. That’s it. I want you to draw it out now because when it’s time for you to serve it, it’s gonna go through the process of transformation.
And before I put you in a room that’s bigger than you. A miracle is gonna touch that idea.
I feel the presence of God in this place for somebody who’s been wondering and believing that God is gonna take them not enough and turn it into more than enough.
And I just wanna prophesy in this place to everyone who has been feeling like they’ve been drawing from water, that life has been ahead of them and they can hardly keep up.
I wanna prophesy in the name of Jesus that God He would give you the strength to draw from what you have to pull from the resources that you have laying around.
God. Open our eyes right now in the name of Jesus that we will see water pots waiting to be filled, that we will see water where we want so bear in this so that we can see your miracle working power take place in our lives.
God, you’ve been asking for many of us more than we have to give.
But it is so that you can show us that the more that we give, the more that you feel.
And so God, we surrender in this moment to who you have called us to be to the identity that you have declared would be ours from the day that you formed us in our mother’s womb.
And God, I ask that you would give us trust in you, that you would give us faith in you like never before.
And that you would take every single idea that exists in this room, every passion, every purpose, every desire and that you would transform it in a way that only you can do I prophesy acceleration, acceleration God where it would take wine seasons to come into being right?
That you would take water and do with it overnight.
What it took years for others to accomplish because our heart was in the right place and because our trust was where it would need to be God.
We receive every part of this word that is for us.
And we ask that it would take root and produce fruit in our lives like never before now, can we worship for just a minute?
Can we worship?