Holding Patterns! – Bishop T.D. Jakes
Holding Patterns! – Bishop T.D. Jakes
You know what it feels like to be stuck — to be caught in the same tiring battles, stagnant relationships, and unfulfilling habits. It’s frustrating, and even lonely. Maybe you’ve been praying for God to break you out. Be at ease, because He knows right where you are and exactly when you’re ready to be loosed! His timing is never early and it’s never late. Remember, God has made everything appropriate in its time. He’s not holding you down. He’s bringing you to the runway for takeoff!
God is saying to you today,
“You’ve cried so many times in private. I’ve seen every one of your tears. Fear not, for I am with you. Continue to wait on Me. My hand is upon you. Be still and know that I am God .”
“You’ve cried so many times in private. I’ve seen every one of your tears. Fear not, for I am with you. Continue to wait on Me. My hand is upon you. Be still and know that I am God .”
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So you can be a part of that. Somebody say amen.
And if you don’t know what good soul is, it is an an intensive design to strengthen entrepreneurship so that you can grow your business, like you grow your soul, you grow your soul.
The Bible said, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in good health as your soul does prosper.
So God doesn’t just want you to have a spiritual experience with him and be out of line in other areas of your life.
He says, I wish above all things that you prosper.
Somebody shall prosper and be in good health even as your soul does prosper.
So the stronger your soul gets, the more God wants your resources to come into balance and alignment.
So you’re not stressed out about stuff.
And somebody say, amen, the real folks said amen because my God shall supply all of my needs, all of my customers, all my manufacturers, all my distributions, all my contracts, all my needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.
I don’t care what’s going on in the economy, what’s going on in the country.
I’m, I’m in the spirit and it’s done in the spirit. Say amen somebody.
This is Palm Sunday.
And whenever I think of Palm Sunday, I think of it as if I were a six year old when I walked in the service.
And when I walked in the building, I almost lifted up my lapel for somebody to put a little cross on my lapel.
Because every Palm Sunday in the church I grew up in, they put a little cross made out of uh sheaves and they put it on your lapel.
And uh this is Palm Sunday, but it’s about more then laying down shes before Christ.
This is the beginning of the holiest week of the year.
I was watching before I left the house, how the pope who had been sick and had some sort of bronchitis got out of the hospital and immediately went out to pray for the masses of people fresh out of the hospital.
This is only week. It’s no accident that you’re here on the holy week.
The time of change and transformation and new beginnings. I want you to understand that.
I don’t assume that everybody in the room is a Bible scholar and understands church.
And so as we delve into the text today, I have the challenge of feeding the mature and the newly converted.
But by God’s grace, we will get there.
I have preached on Palm Sunday for 46 47 46 years.
And so I’ve seen this creature upside down, sideways and criss cross.
And yet, when I looked at it, I saw something new March 11 and one.
And when they came now to Jerusalem unto Beth and Bethany at the mount of Hollows, he send forth two of his disciples watch carefully and sayeth unto them, go your way into the village over against you.
And as soon as she be entered into it, ye shall find a cult tired where never man sat loose him and bring him.
And if any man saying to you, why do ye this say ye that the Lord had leave him and straight away, he will send him hi there.
So Jesus starts out the week talking about the cult and they went their way and found the coat tied by the door without in a place.
Watch this in a place where two ways met and they lose him.
And certain of them that stood there said on them, what do you loosing the colds?
And they said unto them, even as Jesus had commanded and they let them go.
God’s getting ready to let you go.
Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
And they brought the colt to Jesus and cast the garments on him and he meaning Jesus sat upon him and many spread their garments in the way and others cut down branches of the trees and strawed them in the way.
That’s what the crowd did. And they, that went before and they, and they that went before and they that followed, cried saying Hosanna blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, blessed be the kingdom of our father David.
Watch that blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh in the name of the Lord Anna.
How I am the highest can the church say? Amen.
My fascination is give me that verse where the colt is tied one more time.
I think it’s verse. Yeah. Yeah. Verse four.
And they went their way and found the coat tied by the door without in a place where two ways met and they loosed him.
I wanna preach about holding patterns, holding parents spirit of the living God fall a fresh on us as we endeavor to extrapolate from the text that medicinal power that comes through the unveiling of revelatory truth.
We are so grateful for the opportunity to be fed inwardly, to be nourished on a cellular level of the body of Christ.
Until every joint in here, every part of us, every peace of us is renewed by your presence.
Thank you in advance for what you’re going to do in Jesus name. We pray.
Let the people of God shout, amen. You may be seated.
I must confess before I begin this message so that I will have the purity of heart and the cleansing that is necessary to be able to articulate the text that I am not the most patient person in the world.
I’m busy.
I got places to go and people to see I got things to do and I got a schedule that I am very disciplined about or I wouldn’t be who I was and I don’t right into my schedule time for breakdowns, mishaps and delays.
So if I am to catch a flight, for example, and the plane is delayed or the crew is delayed or the captain is delayed or they put us into a holding pattern, I have to go into prayer.
Yeah.
Yes, I have to go into pray sometimes completely into tongues, roll my eyes up in my head and chew on my tongue because I’ve, I’ve got places to go I missed an entire funeral.
The entire funeral couldn’t get the plane to move and miss the entire funeral.
When you’re busy, you get frustrated withholding patterns and, and, and so when, when we talk about holding patterns, we talk about it.
If it’s an aircraft, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s putting it in a holding pattern means it might be in the air and it has to circle around until the control tower gives a release for them to land or they might be on the ground getting ready to take off and they can’t take off because uh they’re in line to.
Have you ever been in line to take off? Have you?
Isn’t it shocking how long you can be in line and be in a holding pattern?
And after a while those peanuts don’t taste salty and, and the drinks don’t taste good and, and you have eaten all the Oreo cookies that you can stand to eat till you got black stuff in between your teeth and they’re still on the ground and you get frustrated because you are in a holding pattern.
And yet there are times in our lives that God puts us in a holding pattern.
A holding pattern is if something or someone is in a holding pattern, they remain in the same state or continue to do the same thing while waiting for something to happen.
There’s not a person in this room, regardless of how uh beautiful they may be how intellectual they may be how wealthy they may be, how poor they may be, how young they may be, how old they may be, how brown or, or, or light or bright or white or black, they may be.
There’s not one of us though, you appear on the outside as if we are always fluid and moving the reality is that all of us at some point in our lives go through holding patterns that are frustrating and we, we, we feel overlooked and we get tired of waiting for something to happen.
There’s a difference between relaxation which is important for renewal and revitalization. Relaxation is intentional holding.
But when my intention is to move and I feel restricted, it produces a different reaction though.
I’m still in the same state.
There is an anxiety that builds up in the human spirit that exists in a petro obsession of the frustration associated with stagnation.
I’m not moving. I’m not getting anywhere. I’m not, I thought I’d be married by now.
I thought, I thought I would have a job by now. I thought I would have my degree.
Oh Y’all not talking to me by now. I, I, I thought things would be better by now.
Somebody’s saying I thought I’d be married and somebody else is saying I thought I’d be divorced by now and I’m, I’m not meddle with it, but whatever it is that you’re, that you’re waiting on.
Mhm. I’m just being funny. I’m just playing, I’m just playing.
I’m just playing, stagnation is irritating whether we’re stagnated by our own mindsets, our own attitudes, we self sabotage ourselves or some of us are in a state of stagnation because of our sinful behavior has caused us to become stagnant in a situation that we’re participatory in but not enjoying it like we did at first.
But we are habitually stuck into it because we don’t want to make anybody else uncomfortable.
We are willing to participate in something that is no longer gratifying and we are in a state of stagnation.
Sometimes the stagnation is brought about in our lives uh because of internal turmoil.
Uh We, we, we, we just can’t, we can’t get it together. We just can’t get it together.
We just can’t get out of this rut. We just can’t get up.
There’s, there’s invisible ropes tying us, but we are tied in.
We can get a, all of us can relate to seasons of non productivity.
It seems like I’m not going anywhere. I’m not going anywhere on this job.
I’ve been passed up three times for promotions.
I’m tired of being in a state of stagnation and what was a blessing has become an irritation because I’m stuck on this job and I’m not going, going anywhere and it’s getting on my nerves because I’m getting older and I’m training people that end up in positions that I train them to do.
I wish there were some people in the room that would be real with me when you don’t see a way to get up and you don’t see a way to go forward.
It is perplexing to your mind. How could I be stopped?
I’m not tortured, I’m not abused, I’m not mutilated.
I’m just stagnated, but stagnation is torture to a person who is motivated to go forward.
I want all the progressive people in here to make some noise.
Then there is the guilt that goes along with the fact that first of all, I’m, I, I’m a progressive person stuck in a stagnant situation.
A stagnant relationship, a stagnant marriage, a stagnant church, a stagnant ministry, a stagnant business, a stagnant situation that is driving me crazy.
A stagnant conversation. I can’t, I can’t keep talking to people who, who don’t read.
I can do it a little while.
We can make some small talk, talk about the weather, talk about something for a little while.
But eventually I wanna know that you, that your conversation is growing or I lose interest in the conversation and make an excuse to move away.
Because if, if you’re not, if you’re not adding to me, you’re subtracting from me.
If you’re not an asset, your liability.
I like to be in a room so smart that I have to think twice before I say anything.
I like to be in a room so smart that I’m intellectually stimulated and I’m I’m on fire I don’t wanna be in a nonproductive situation.
Some of your old friends, you love them but they’re boring.
They are talking about stuff.
You were talking about 20 years ago and you can do it for about 30 minutes or so.
Do you remember Jack? Do you remember Jim? And do you remember friend after a while?
You get tired of remembering and you wanna start talking about something that’s moving and going forward.
Then there is the embarrassment of being stuck living in this fast paced world that we’re living in where everything is going at.
Break neck speed. It, it is obvious to others that you’re stacked.
That it’s one thing for me to know I’m sta that.
But it’s another thing for you to observe the fact that I am still where I was and I start making excuses.
I know I know the house still ain’t clean but you know, I’ve been so busy child. Come on in.
If you can get in, somebody, get ready to get in your car, move them cups and the at mcdonald’s bag from last week.
Come on. Come on in child. I’ve been busy. It’s, it’s, I’m, I’m stepping on some toes.
I can feel toes crunching under my feet while I’m talking.
I, I it’s embarrassing for people to get to see that I’m stuck, that I’m stagnant.
It’s, it’s an indictment against me. There’s, there’s pressure on me to be productive.
What, what, whether you’re held back by poor skills or, or childhood trauma or just being self sabotaging in your belief systems, you’re watching time pass away.
And if you are stuck around people that are moving, it becomes obvious that you’re stagnated, you can only hide that so long.
You can only preach the same sermon so long before the congregation is finished in point B and Point C and point D.
After a while, we’re gonna know that you’re not growing A as an orator and you’re stuck.
The text opens up in the most mysterious way because Jesus now is dealing with us about stagnation.
The stagnation that he’s talking to us about is something that we can relate to because everybody in here has some area in your life that you wish were further along.
Yeah, I wish when I was 40 I would have prepared for being 70.
Oh, no, no, no. Sit there. I’m gonna get you.
I’m gonna get you before I leave.
I, you know, I wish I had, didn’t have quite as many fur coats and hats and had a little bit more.
Yeah. In my 401k plans and in my mutual funds and, and, and now I’m ready to sell these hats because I, I, I need some groceries up in the air.
I, I wish when I was 20 I would have started putting back.
I wish somebody would have sent something back before because now that I’m getting older, I’m wanting more than a hot date.
I want more. I want real estate. I want property. I want development. I want security.
I don’t wanna get married because I’m broke. I wanna get married because I’m in love.
I, I, I, I, I wish I, I’m tired of watching people marry people’s wallets.
You marry the wallet but you go home with the man and all of a sudden you find yourself stuck being in this building is fine because as long as you know, you can leave, you’re comfortable.
But the moment I get up here and announce on the loudspeaker that all the doors are jammed and we’re stuck.
All of a sudden the whole atmosphere changes just with the information that I can’t get out, all of the men would start pushing against the glasses in the window and the women would take off their heels and start hammering against the glass because we got to get out of here.
Why we gotta get out because we’re stuck the moment, you know, you’re stuck, that is torturous is barbaric.
It’s frustrating, it’s intimidating and it’s stressful.
Your adrenaline glands starts secreting fluids that if you don’t activate them and don’t use them, they turn against you in the body and start working out diseases in your flesh because you stress, you have such stress on the inside that you can’t get out of your predicament.
Being stuck is expensive of being stuck. Can cause you to be hypertensive, being stuck.
Can cause you to have diabetes being stuck, can cause you to have uh heart malfunctions, being stuck can affect you mood swings, physical disorder because you are stuck.
And Jesus starts out the dialogue dealing with an animal in another village, in another village.
He’s not even in his neighborhood, but Jesus knows he’s stuck good car out of here.
I was uh recently I had the privilege of being a speaker uh at the Lake nona uh impact for, I’ve never been there before.
Never heard of it before. I did my research on it and found out I should be honored that they would ask somebody like me to be on a platform like that.
And when I walked in there, the Prime Minister, former Prime Minister, Great Britain was speaking with Sanjay Gupta and I thought mm I had a decision to make.
The choices were either urinate down my leg and run out the door because that’s what I felt like doing or faint in the floor.
And I, like I had developed some sort of COVID attack and needed an ambulance or man up, gun up and stiffen up and walk in the room and give him what I had.
It was amazing. The room was so brilliant.
They were talking about rearranging the DNA of bees and they were talking about uh creating hearts from cells for heart replacement on a level that was beyond human comprehension.
And their reason for wanting to create hearts from cells.
I remember when they did the first open heart surgery and the heart train plants and how, how, how they stumbled into progress until they got good at it.
And, and now they’re talking about creating hearts.
They said we’re tired of being vulnerable to the weather because we had three hearts on a plane trying to reach a patient that because of the ice storm, the plane was stuck and it was stuck so long that the hearts died on the runway.
And the patients who were waiting on them are in a holding pattern because the hearts were in a holding pattern and they went home sick because they couldn’t get the hearts to the people who needed them in time.
Holding patterns can be dangerous because there is an expiration date on how long I can wait.
I’m waiting on him to ask me to marry him.
But there is an expiration date on how long I’m willing to sit here and wait on this to happen.
I’m waiting on them to offer me a promotion, but I can’t sit here till I’m 60 waiting on a promotion to.
If you’re gonna offer it, you better offer it now.
That’s why the Bible says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up on wings like eagles and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint because it’s dangerous to have to wait too long.
Stop in a holding pattern.
My, my, my, my brothers and sisters, I wanna get to this whole issue because Jesus starts talking about the cult.
And so I’m gonna divide it into three quick points and move quickly out of your way.
The cult uh the I, I, let me, let me do it this way.
Let me start with the crowd, the Christ and then the cult, the, the crowd, the Christ and the cult because I believe first of all that, the cult becomes a symbolic of the entire narrative in the story, let me start with the crowd.
The the the the cult is tied. But whether you know it or not, the crowd is also tied.
You see, Jerusalem is part of Roman colonialism.
Colonialism did not start with, with Europe and America or even Europe and Africa colonialism goes all the way back to Israel.
They had set up what we would call colonialism today and taking control of the region.
And these group of Jews are now captive to a degree or at least controlled by Roman powers.
They are tied to Rome. And so when they see Jesus coming, Jesus comes and every time you hear them, call him the son of David, they’re not just referring to him as the messiah, but they’re also acknowledging him as their king and they saw him as their king as a great Liberator that would emancipate them from the bondage of Rome.
So the crowd though we see them in a state of jubilation singing Hosanna to the son of David.
Their jubilation is a bit uh misconstrued because they are worshiping him because they think he’s about to take the throne.
And if he takes the throne, he’s gonna take them out from under the rope that’s tied around their neck called Rome that is holding them in captivity.
And they’re looking for Jesus to be an emancipator and a Liberator and they’re singing a praise.
Imagine what it feels like for these people who have been oppressed in their own country.
It’s one thing for me to be abducted and you take me to a strange place.
But it’s another thing to be held hostage in my own house.
And here I am, it’s my living room, but it’s not my living room.
It’s my refrigerator, but it’s not my refrigerator and I’m stuck.
And here comes Jesus healing the sick and raising the dead and turning water into wine and he becomes a prime candidate to liberate them from the captivity that has besieged him.
So yes, they are dancing and yes, they are singing and yes, they’re throwing their coats down and yes, they’re throwing palms down in the road, but they are throwing palms down because they see a crown.
They see a king. They’re looking for the Messiah. They’re looking for a political revolution.
They’re looking for liberty and emancipation. They’re looking for restoration. They’re looking for reparations.
They’re looking for everything to be restored back like it was and they’re singing and they’re dancing and Jesus has to deal with the fact that the dancing of the crowd is for something that he is not going to do at that time.
Have you ever had people expect things from you that were not on your agenda?
You don’t hear what I’m saying to you.
And so Jesus has to walk through the, through the palms knowing that what they’re expecting him to do is not the first thing that he’s going to do that.
He is headed for a cross. But they are shouting about a crown.
See too many times in church, we shout about crowns, but we go home to crosses because nobody has the nerve to tell you that on your way to the crown, you’ve got to go through your cross.
So there you are, y’all hear what I’m saying to you.
There you are shouting about the crown, but then you go home to the cross and you feel like the cross is the devil.
So you rebuked it and you pleaded the blood and you anointed it with all and is still standing there in front of you because you don’t recognize that the cross is a part of God’s strategy to get you to your next crown.
I don’t know who I’m talking to today, how you but God has not forgotten your crown just because he put a rest up at a cross.
Jesus has to walk through their lofty expectations just like you have to live with all the people who think that you’re super human and they think you never get tired and they think you never get weary.
I wanna talk to the strong folks in here, the strong people that everybody calls whenever they’re in trouble, the wise people that everybody calls when they want advice and they think you never get tired and they think you are on call 24 7 to be there for everybody else.
But you and you have to walk through their expectation. You don’t get tired, you don’t need a bath.
You don’t need encouragement. You don’t need to be uplifted every time they call you, they’re in trouble.
Be careful of one sided relationships where they always take and never give.
Eventually you’re gonna become depleted because it’s all about what can you do for me and sooner or later you get tired of people that only call you when it’s about them.
Can I have a 32nd praise break for some people that are tired of always being the what?
I don’t mind getting you out of trouble but I don’t live to get you out of trouble.
I don’t mind helping you, but I’m not just sitting by the phone waiting on you to bring me another crisis.
By the way, I had some crisis before you called.
So Jesus is surrounded by people who are tied up and the crowd is tied up and they’re shouting over the idea that this may be it.
I was reading through uh the non canonical book of gospel according to Judas, which is not even in the scriptures and in the gospel according to Judas.
So it is non canonical. It is yet informative.
It says that Judas didn’t really call himself betraying Jesus, but pushing Jesus into a place that he would take over the kingdom.
This you, the pressure was so great for change.
So desperate, the Judas start stop healing people and start the revolution.
And so the supposition is made that perhaps if I put him in a precarious predicament, he’ll have to show who he is.
He who walked on water and he who healed the sick and he who raised the dead.
Charlotte, you can overthrow the oppression that we’re under.
And since you are distracted by the needs of the people, I’m gonna call the showdown between you and Rome.
I just want you to see, I don’t want you to even evaluate uh the authenticity of the gospel according to Judas though I’ve read it.
I do want you to see how desperate the people were to get out of it.
This is good when you want out, you want out enough of this rope around my neck, enough of this.
I want out, I want out, I, I want out if you, if, if, if spiritual problems would materialize you’d be shocked how many nooses are in this room.
Yeah, I’m gonna say it again.
If spiritual problems would materialize, you’d be shocked at how many nooses are in this room.
That’s something that’s pulling against your neck.
And you can only go so far and you pulled around in the same ground over and over again.
Five steps up and five steps back because you keep getting pulled back because you can’t get out and you’re frustrated and you want out.
The crowd was tired with the Roman rope and they’re throwing down the palms and calling him the son of David, which recognizes his kindliness.
Holds that a blessing. Is he that cometh in the name of the Lord is about their expectation.
Come on with me. Don’t, don’t leave me now.
You, you know, it’s a terrible thing when people’s expectations don’t line up with your assignment.
Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me because everybody in here knows what it’s like for somebody to expect more from you than what you’ve been assigned to do.
And Jesus is walking through the palms knowing that he’s not going to take the crown.
He’s going to take the cross enough for the crowd. Let’s talk about the Christ.
He too is tired because he’s gone to the garden of Yosemite already trying to get loose from this father.
It could be thy wheel. Pass this bitter cup for me three times.
Jesus prayed, Jesus didn’t have to pray three times to raise letters from the dead.
Jesus didn’t have to pray three times to heal the woman with the issue of blood.
Jesus didn’t have to pray three times to open up the blinded eyes of about a man.
Jesus didn’t have to pray three times to raise up the widow of names, son.
But when it come to what he was tied to Jesus prayed three times trying to get this rope off of his neck.
Finally pass the spitter cup, pass this cup.
I can’t, I can’t, I can do anything else, but I don’t want this.
Then he submits to the time being tied to the will of the father by saying not my will but then be done.
So my brothers and sisters, we have a tired crowd and a tad Christ who then speaks about a tied coat and Jesus says to the colt, I don’t know how long he’s been tired.
The Bible doesn’t tell us, but the Bible does tell us that no man has ever sat on him.
So evidently he’s been tied a long time and the Bible tells us that he is tied between two roads.
So he’s died in traffic.
I’m wondering if there’s anybody in here that’s tied in traffic and you have to watch everybody else moving.
But you, everybody else is buying a house but you, everybody else is getting married but you, everybody else got a new job.
But you everybody else got invited.
But you, but you are tired where two roads join together and you are stuck in a place of movements.
Oh, if that’s your story, holler at your boy.
And no matter how much I love him, I’m stuck.
No matter how much I praise him, I’m stuck. I’ve gone to therapy but I’m stuck.
I took night classes but I’m stuck.
I’m taking a linkedin class but I’m stuck and I can’t get this rope from around my neck.
We got a tight crowd. We got time Jesus and then he brings up a tied coat and he says to them, watch this, watch his show.
He says to his disciples, oh and now the village, there is a cult tied to a post in the other village.
This tells me if Jesus was aware now, don’t nobody need this.
But the folks who are tied up and some of the folks that are tied up can’t act like they tied up because they sit next to what they tied up to.
But, but that’s OK. Just sit up here. Come on, come on, breathe in, breathe out.
We’re gonna make it through this in a minute.
So you gotta act confused and act like you don’t know what I talking about.
But you know this is God getting a word to you because you’re tired in that situation.
It’s just three rolls back, but you’re tired in a situation. It’s just over.
Wait on you at the house, but you’re tired in a situation, son.
And God says, I know where you are.
What in the world is Jesus doing even thinking about a coat on his way to the cross.
What is man that thou are mindful of him or the son of man that thou visited him?
There’s a cult over in the other city in the other village who is tied and he knows exactly where he is in between two roads.
And the Lord told me to tell you, I know exactly where you are.
You’ve been trying to explain to me where you’re at, but I know exactly where you at.
You’ve been going to therapy trying to get them to help you figure out where you’re at.
But God says, I know exactly where you’re at.
That’s enough to make me praise the Lord right now because if somebody just knows where I’m at, sometimes I feel invisible, sometimes I feel forgotten.
Uh Sometimes I feel embarrassed. Uh sometimes I feel rejected, but it helps me to know that God knows, to know that God know, to know that God knows it.
It made me feel a little better to know that I’m on his mind.
It makes me feel better to know that he sees me.
It makes me feel better to understand that he has a plan for my pain. A fix for my problem.
Uh an answer to my crisis, a deliverance for my dilemma.
I don’t know who this message is for, but I came to preach this word to somebody.
You’ve been in a holding pattern, but you’ve been cleared for take off.
Now, if you haven’t been in a holding pattern then being cleared don’t mean nothing for you.
But if you’ve been in a holding pattern, what I just said, uh release something off your neck.
Somebody saw you. Yeah. So, yeah, I know.
It sounds silly and it’s a little bit Pentecostal of me, but kind of shake your neck around and let the devil know.
I’m coming out of this. I’ve been tied in my mind. I’ve been tied in my emotions.
I’ve been tied in my thinking.
I’ve been tiding my finances, but I’m coming out of this rope because Jesus knows where I’m at and he’s coming to loose me and let me go slap somebody and say loose here.
Hm.
Yeah.
This, see, you gotta realize you thought you were restricted.
But the truth is you were reserved.
Have you ever gone to a restaurant and wanted to sit down at a table?
And the sign said you reserved the reason you’re restricted from sitting there is because the table has been reserved.
The cot thought he was restricted, but he was really reserved because Hania said that in the last days, behold, your king will come riding on the coach.
So the condition of the cult was prophesized.
It was God’s will for the cult to be tied up because sometimes God will put you in a holding pattern, waiting on all the conditions to be right to loose you and let you go.
You’re not there because you did something wrong. You’re not there because you’re stupid.
You’re not there because you’re inadequate. Huh? You’re not there because you’re insufficient.
But because God works all things after the counsel of his own will.
He had to wait till the right time to loose the rope from around your neck.
Shot somebody and tell them I’m about to come out of this. This message is my witness.
This is my confirmation. This is an answer to my prayer. I’m about to get a release.
Somebody give him 30 seconds of crazy praise.
Beware of people who only dance for you when there’s something in it for them.
How were the people saying Hosanna when he got to the cross?
They were only saying Hosanna because of what was in it for them.
But when they saw it wasn’t a crown but a cross, none of them were singing or praising or praying anymore.
Some of the folk that are dancing around you are not really for you, but God is still gonna use them to lose you for what He’s about to do in your life.
I feel like I’m talking to somebody. You might be online right now, but I’m talking to you.
You’ve been in a holding pattern long enough. But God said I’m gonna loose.
Ok.
So the, the go till you find the colts and then lose him from what he was restricted by what he was tied to.
And if anybody tries to stop you, tell him the Lord, the Lord has need of you.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait a minute.
How could this be possible? It would have been enough for anybody to want the colt since he spent his whole life with nobody wanting it.
But he goes from nobody to the Lord. Y’all don’t get it.
He goes from being stuck in a holding pattern, ignored and overlooked, stuck in traffic with nobody warning him and he gets loose because the Lord.
And isn’t it funny? How don’t nobody want you to?
The Lord wants you and the moment the Lord wants you now, they want to know what y’all doing over there fully with the cold.
Well, why did you say something all that time? I was tied up.
If you wanted me, you should have said something before now.
But the moment somebody else wants you all of a sudden, oh I feel like running.
I feel like leaving. I feel like shouting because just when you thought it was too late for your purpose, God’s gonna set you smack dab in the middle of his wheel.
Huh? This is your day. This is your time. This is your message.
This is your moment and can’t no devil in hell.
Look at your neighbor and say you can’t stop this.
You can talk about it but you can’t stop this.
You can run your mouth but you can’t stop this.
Ask all the questions you want to but you can’t stop this.
This is a lot and it’s in my, wow.
I felt some breaks. I felt some loose because OK.
Yeah, if you hear what I’m preaching, there would be a great liberation in the because everything that had your mind tied up, everything that had your emotions tied up everything that had your finances tied up.
God said, I’m about to lose you and it’s gonna be a sudden change. The last shall be first.
I’m gonna switch you from the background to the forefront.
You’ve been hidden in a small village, but I’m about to put you on full stage here.
Come this coat from a small town, coming into a big place.
Pull on your neighbor’s hair. It’s gonna be big. That’s why you had to hold so long.
That’s why you had to wait so long. Type it on the line. It’s gonna be big.
That’s why you had to wait so long. That’s why the enemy tried to fight you so long.
Tell you that it’s gonna be big. That’s why all hell broke loose. That’s why you almost afraid it. Huh?
That’s why you almost gave up. Look at somebody and say it’s gonna be big.
I didn’t wait this long for a little thing. I didn’t wait this long for a little thing.
I didn’t wait this long for a small thing. What God has for me is worth the wait.
What God has for me is worth the tears.
What God has for me is worth the agony weeping may endure for a night.
But joy comes in the morning.
Somebody throw your head back at the holy, right.
I’m gonna ride into it because I got Jesus on my back.
I’m gonna go through it because I got Jesus on my back.
He’s gonna prepare away for me because I got Jesus on my back.
Slap your neighbor say I got Jesus on my back.
I’m going to a new place because I got Jesus on my back.
I’m gonna see heights I never saw before because I got Jesus on my back.
Tell the other day I got Jesus on my back.
So I wanna point out one more thing about Colton, I’m done.
So the text says that they started laying their coat down in the way and others laid down branches, but Jesus wasn’t walking on the coat or the branches, the coat to every person in here.
Realize this, you’re the cult.
Jesus is going to ride in on and because you have Him on your back.
It’s gonna be your hoofs that walk on coats and branches.
Well, let me say it this way.
He’s prepared a table for you in the presence of your enemies.
And so the Lord told me that this morning was to be a morning of loosing you from holding patterns.
You’ve been faithful in a holding pattern.
You praise God in a holding pattern.
You sang in the choir, but you was in a holding pattern. You came to church though.
You were in a holding pattern.
You’ve been watching online in spite of the fact you’ve been in a holding pattern and you thought this was his palm Sunday.
No, this is loose Sunday. Hey, this is loose Sunday.
Every restriction that you believe in for is about to be released.
If you consecrate yourself this week, this is holy wage.
If you fast and pray and believe God this week, it’s not just about Jesus having a resurrection.
Every dead dream in your life is about to be resurrected by the power of God, but don’t start walking till you get Jesus on your back.
There are some people in here that can tell you that they came through some stuff that they thought they couldn’t go through.
But because Jesus was on their backs, they made it through some things dangerous, seen and unseen, tough places and hard places, places that normally would have broke them down.
But because Jesus was on their back.
They made it over, get a hold of someone by the hand and squeeze them just a little bit tight.
The person you’re touching has in some way been in a, it don’t look like it on the outside, but on the inside, emotionally, spiritually, financially, maritally relation, occupationally in some area of their life, they’ve been in a, a holding pattern.
They watched other people be successful where they failed and, and felt inadequate because they fail, embarrassed because they fail because they were in a, a holding pattern.
They couldn’t do what they really dreamed to do because they were in a holding pattern.
Squeeze their hand. They, they’ve been tied up for a long time and they’re amazing that they made it as far as they did with as many ropes as they had around their neck.
But God is about to ease the restriction.
I don’t want you to let go of Him yet. I want you to pray for Him first.
I want you to pray that every yolk would be broken, that every yoke would be broken.
I’m praying for people online all across the world that every yoke in your life and every strong hope in your life and every, every no in your life and every, every attitude in your life and every stubbornness and every self sabotaging ideology in your life and every philosophy in your life would be broken, utterly destroyed by the power of God.
Pray for them. Pray for them, pray for them.
They’re always giving to other people but nobody ever really prays for them.
Pray for them, pray for them, pray for them, pray for them, pray for them, squeeze their hand and pray for them.
Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray on the, on the count of three, I want you to lose them.
And when you lose them, I want every person in this room to count it as I’ve been cleared, I’ve been released for take a one.
You’ve been waiting a long time for it and the enemy made you think it would never happen.
The devil told you you were too old and it was too late and that you never have freedom and never have happiness and never have joy and never have fulfillment.
But the devil is a lie too.
The Lord has been trying to encourage you to just hang on in there. You’ve been frustrated.
But God said hang on in there. Something good is about to happen in your life.
And God has reserved it for such a time as this.
When I holler three of three, I came here.
Yeah.
Right. I feel a shout of deliverance. I feel a shout of deliverance.
I feel a shout of deliverance. Deliberate, deliberate, deliberate deliverance will come.
It must come, it shall come, gotta talk, you gotta talk belongs to me.
Emirates is fine. He home the sun have set free is free.
Indeed. I need 1000 free folk to jump out in the aisle and let hell know I got the message.
This is my word and I’m free today. 1235.
Yeah.
But also we’re going to make available to you the opportunity to watch Good Soil online.
So if you’re an entrepreneur and you couldn’t get away and you want to get some of the information, you can get good soil online and here’s a caveat.
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If you do wanna register, I do have a few seats left and you need to carry on.
So you can be a part of that. Somebody say amen.
And if you don’t know what good soul is, it is an an intensive design to strengthen entrepreneurship so that you can grow your business, like you grow your soul, you grow your soul.
The Bible said, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in good health as your soul does prosper.
So God doesn’t just want you to have a spiritual experience with him and be out of line in other areas of your life.
He says, I wish above all things that you prosper.
Somebody shall prosper and be in good health even as your soul does prosper.
So the stronger your soul gets, the more God wants your resources to come into balance and alignment.
So you’re not stressed out about stuff.
And somebody say, amen, the real folks said amen because my God shall supply all of my needs, all of my customers, all my manufacturers, all my distributions, all my contracts, all my needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus.
I don’t care what’s going on in the economy, what’s going on in the country.
I’m, I’m in the spirit and it’s done in the spirit. Say amen somebody.
This is Palm Sunday.
And whenever I think of Palm Sunday, I think of it as if I were a six year old when I walked in the service.
And when I walked in the building, I almost lifted up my lapel for somebody to put a little cross on my lapel.
Because every Palm Sunday in the church I grew up in, they put a little cross made out of uh sheaves and they put it on your lapel.
And uh this is Palm Sunday, but it’s about more then laying down shes before Christ.
This is the beginning of the holiest week of the year.
I was watching before I left the house, how the pope who had been sick and had some sort of bronchitis got out of the hospital and immediately went out to pray for the masses of people fresh out of the hospital.
This is only week. It’s no accident that you’re here on the holy week.
The time of change and transformation and new beginnings. I want you to understand that.
I don’t assume that everybody in the room is a Bible scholar and understands church.
And so as we delve into the text today, I have the challenge of feeding the mature and the newly converted.
But by God’s grace, we will get there.
I have preached on Palm Sunday for 46 47 46 years.
And so I’ve seen this creature upside down, sideways and criss cross.
And yet, when I looked at it, I saw something new March 11 and one.
And when they came now to Jerusalem unto Beth and Bethany at the mount of Hollows, he send forth two of his disciples watch carefully and sayeth unto them, go your way into the village over against you.
And as soon as she be entered into it, ye shall find a cult tired where never man sat loose him and bring him.
And if any man saying to you, why do ye this say ye that the Lord had leave him and straight away, he will send him hi there.
So Jesus starts out the week talking about the cult and they went their way and found the coat tied by the door without in a place.
Watch this in a place where two ways met and they lose him.
And certain of them that stood there said on them, what do you loosing the colds?
And they said unto them, even as Jesus had commanded and they let them go.
God’s getting ready to let you go.
Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
And they brought the colt to Jesus and cast the garments on him and he meaning Jesus sat upon him and many spread their garments in the way and others cut down branches of the trees and strawed them in the way.
That’s what the crowd did. And they, that went before and they, and they that went before and they that followed, cried saying Hosanna blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, blessed be the kingdom of our father David.
Watch that blessed be the kingdom of our father David that cometh in the name of the Lord Anna.
How I am the highest can the church say? Amen.
My fascination is give me that verse where the colt is tied one more time.
I think it’s verse. Yeah. Yeah. Verse four.
And they went their way and found the coat tied by the door without in a place where two ways met and they loosed him.
I wanna preach about holding patterns, holding parents spirit of the living God fall a fresh on us as we endeavor to extrapolate from the text that medicinal power that comes through the unveiling of revelatory truth.
We are so grateful for the opportunity to be fed inwardly, to be nourished on a cellular level of the body of Christ.
Until every joint in here, every part of us, every peace of us is renewed by your presence.
Thank you in advance for what you’re going to do in Jesus name. We pray.
Let the people of God shout, amen. You may be seated.
I must confess before I begin this message so that I will have the purity of heart and the cleansing that is necessary to be able to articulate the text that I am not the most patient person in the world.
I’m busy.
I got places to go and people to see I got things to do and I got a schedule that I am very disciplined about or I wouldn’t be who I was and I don’t right into my schedule time for breakdowns, mishaps and delays.
So if I am to catch a flight, for example, and the plane is delayed or the crew is delayed or the captain is delayed or they put us into a holding pattern, I have to go into prayer.
Yeah.
Yes, I have to go into pray sometimes completely into tongues, roll my eyes up in my head and chew on my tongue because I’ve, I’ve got places to go I missed an entire funeral.
The entire funeral couldn’t get the plane to move and miss the entire funeral.
When you’re busy, you get frustrated withholding patterns and, and, and so when, when we talk about holding patterns, we talk about it.
If it’s an aircraft, it’s, it’s, it’s, it’s putting it in a holding pattern means it might be in the air and it has to circle around until the control tower gives a release for them to land or they might be on the ground getting ready to take off and they can’t take off because uh they’re in line to.
Have you ever been in line to take off? Have you?
Isn’t it shocking how long you can be in line and be in a holding pattern?
And after a while those peanuts don’t taste salty and, and the drinks don’t taste good and, and you have eaten all the Oreo cookies that you can stand to eat till you got black stuff in between your teeth and they’re still on the ground and you get frustrated because you are in a holding pattern.
And yet there are times in our lives that God puts us in a holding pattern.
A holding pattern is if something or someone is in a holding pattern, they remain in the same state or continue to do the same thing while waiting for something to happen.
There’s not a person in this room, regardless of how uh beautiful they may be how intellectual they may be how wealthy they may be, how poor they may be, how young they may be, how old they may be, how brown or, or, or light or bright or white or black, they may be.
There’s not one of us though, you appear on the outside as if we are always fluid and moving the reality is that all of us at some point in our lives go through holding patterns that are frustrating and we, we, we feel overlooked and we get tired of waiting for something to happen.
There’s a difference between relaxation which is important for renewal and revitalization. Relaxation is intentional holding.
But when my intention is to move and I feel restricted, it produces a different reaction though.
I’m still in the same state.
There is an anxiety that builds up in the human spirit that exists in a petro obsession of the frustration associated with stagnation.
I’m not moving. I’m not getting anywhere. I’m not, I thought I’d be married by now.
I thought, I thought I would have a job by now. I thought I would have my degree.
Oh Y’all not talking to me by now. I, I, I thought things would be better by now.
Somebody’s saying I thought I’d be married and somebody else is saying I thought I’d be divorced by now and I’m, I’m not meddle with it, but whatever it is that you’re, that you’re waiting on.
Mhm. I’m just being funny. I’m just playing, I’m just playing.
I’m just playing, stagnation is irritating whether we’re stagnated by our own mindsets, our own attitudes, we self sabotage ourselves or some of us are in a state of stagnation because of our sinful behavior has caused us to become stagnant in a situation that we’re participatory in but not enjoying it like we did at first.
But we are habitually stuck into it because we don’t want to make anybody else uncomfortable.
We are willing to participate in something that is no longer gratifying and we are in a state of stagnation.
Sometimes the stagnation is brought about in our lives uh because of internal turmoil.
Uh We, we, we, we just can’t, we can’t get it together. We just can’t get it together.
We just can’t get out of this rut. We just can’t get up.
There’s, there’s invisible ropes tying us, but we are tied in.
We can get a, all of us can relate to seasons of non productivity.
It seems like I’m not going anywhere. I’m not going anywhere on this job.
I’ve been passed up three times for promotions.
I’m tired of being in a state of stagnation and what was a blessing has become an irritation because I’m stuck on this job and I’m not going, going anywhere and it’s getting on my nerves because I’m getting older and I’m training people that end up in positions that I train them to do.
I wish there were some people in the room that would be real with me when you don’t see a way to get up and you don’t see a way to go forward.
It is perplexing to your mind. How could I be stopped?
I’m not tortured, I’m not abused, I’m not mutilated.
I’m just stagnated, but stagnation is torture to a person who is motivated to go forward.
I want all the progressive people in here to make some noise.
Then there is the guilt that goes along with the fact that first of all, I’m, I, I’m a progressive person stuck in a stagnant situation.
A stagnant relationship, a stagnant marriage, a stagnant church, a stagnant ministry, a stagnant business, a stagnant situation that is driving me crazy.
A stagnant conversation. I can’t, I can’t keep talking to people who, who don’t read.
I can do it a little while.
We can make some small talk, talk about the weather, talk about something for a little while.
But eventually I wanna know that you, that your conversation is growing or I lose interest in the conversation and make an excuse to move away.
Because if, if you’re not, if you’re not adding to me, you’re subtracting from me.
If you’re not an asset, your liability.
I like to be in a room so smart that I have to think twice before I say anything.
I like to be in a room so smart that I’m intellectually stimulated and I’m I’m on fire I don’t wanna be in a nonproductive situation.
Some of your old friends, you love them but they’re boring.
They are talking about stuff.
You were talking about 20 years ago and you can do it for about 30 minutes or so.
Do you remember Jack? Do you remember Jim? And do you remember friend after a while?
You get tired of remembering and you wanna start talking about something that’s moving and going forward.
Then there is the embarrassment of being stuck living in this fast paced world that we’re living in where everything is going at.
Break neck speed. It, it is obvious to others that you’re stacked.
That it’s one thing for me to know I’m sta that.
But it’s another thing for you to observe the fact that I am still where I was and I start making excuses.
I know I know the house still ain’t clean but you know, I’ve been so busy child. Come on in.
If you can get in, somebody, get ready to get in your car, move them cups and the at mcdonald’s bag from last week.
Come on. Come on in child. I’ve been busy. It’s, it’s, I’m, I’m stepping on some toes.
I can feel toes crunching under my feet while I’m talking.
I, I it’s embarrassing for people to get to see that I’m stuck, that I’m stagnant.
It’s, it’s an indictment against me. There’s, there’s pressure on me to be productive.
What, what, whether you’re held back by poor skills or, or childhood trauma or just being self sabotaging in your belief systems, you’re watching time pass away.
And if you are stuck around people that are moving, it becomes obvious that you’re stagnated, you can only hide that so long.
You can only preach the same sermon so long before the congregation is finished in point B and Point C and point D.
After a while, we’re gonna know that you’re not growing A as an orator and you’re stuck.
The text opens up in the most mysterious way because Jesus now is dealing with us about stagnation.
The stagnation that he’s talking to us about is something that we can relate to because everybody in here has some area in your life that you wish were further along.
Yeah, I wish when I was 40 I would have prepared for being 70.
Oh, no, no, no. Sit there. I’m gonna get you.
I’m gonna get you before I leave.
I, you know, I wish I had, didn’t have quite as many fur coats and hats and had a little bit more.
Yeah. In my 401k plans and in my mutual funds and, and, and now I’m ready to sell these hats because I, I, I need some groceries up in the air.
I, I wish when I was 20 I would have started putting back.
I wish somebody would have sent something back before because now that I’m getting older, I’m wanting more than a hot date.
I want more. I want real estate. I want property. I want development. I want security.
I don’t wanna get married because I’m broke. I wanna get married because I’m in love.
I, I, I, I, I wish I, I’m tired of watching people marry people’s wallets.
You marry the wallet but you go home with the man and all of a sudden you find yourself stuck being in this building is fine because as long as you know, you can leave, you’re comfortable.
But the moment I get up here and announce on the loudspeaker that all the doors are jammed and we’re stuck.
All of a sudden the whole atmosphere changes just with the information that I can’t get out, all of the men would start pushing against the glasses in the window and the women would take off their heels and start hammering against the glass because we got to get out of here.
Why we gotta get out because we’re stuck the moment, you know, you’re stuck, that is torturous is barbaric.
It’s frustrating, it’s intimidating and it’s stressful.
Your adrenaline glands starts secreting fluids that if you don’t activate them and don’t use them, they turn against you in the body and start working out diseases in your flesh because you stress, you have such stress on the inside that you can’t get out of your predicament.
Being stuck is expensive of being stuck. Can cause you to be hypertensive, being stuck.
Can cause you to have diabetes being stuck, can cause you to have uh heart malfunctions, being stuck can affect you mood swings, physical disorder because you are stuck.
And Jesus starts out the dialogue dealing with an animal in another village, in another village.
He’s not even in his neighborhood, but Jesus knows he’s stuck good car out of here.
I was uh recently I had the privilege of being a speaker uh at the Lake nona uh impact for, I’ve never been there before.
Never heard of it before. I did my research on it and found out I should be honored that they would ask somebody like me to be on a platform like that.
And when I walked in there, the Prime Minister, former Prime Minister, Great Britain was speaking with Sanjay Gupta and I thought mm I had a decision to make.
The choices were either urinate down my leg and run out the door because that’s what I felt like doing or faint in the floor.
And I, like I had developed some sort of COVID attack and needed an ambulance or man up, gun up and stiffen up and walk in the room and give him what I had.
It was amazing. The room was so brilliant.
They were talking about rearranging the DNA of bees and they were talking about uh creating hearts from cells for heart replacement on a level that was beyond human comprehension.
And their reason for wanting to create hearts from cells.
I remember when they did the first open heart surgery and the heart train plants and how, how, how they stumbled into progress until they got good at it.
And, and now they’re talking about creating hearts.
They said we’re tired of being vulnerable to the weather because we had three hearts on a plane trying to reach a patient that because of the ice storm, the plane was stuck and it was stuck so long that the hearts died on the runway.
And the patients who were waiting on them are in a holding pattern because the hearts were in a holding pattern and they went home sick because they couldn’t get the hearts to the people who needed them in time.
Holding patterns can be dangerous because there is an expiration date on how long I can wait.
I’m waiting on him to ask me to marry him.
But there is an expiration date on how long I’m willing to sit here and wait on this to happen.
I’m waiting on them to offer me a promotion, but I can’t sit here till I’m 60 waiting on a promotion to.
If you’re gonna offer it, you better offer it now.
That’s why the Bible says they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up on wings like eagles and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint because it’s dangerous to have to wait too long.
Stop in a holding pattern.
My, my, my, my brothers and sisters, I wanna get to this whole issue because Jesus starts talking about the cult.
And so I’m gonna divide it into three quick points and move quickly out of your way.
The cult uh the I, I, let me, let me do it this way.
Let me start with the crowd, the Christ and then the cult, the, the crowd, the Christ and the cult because I believe first of all that, the cult becomes a symbolic of the entire narrative in the story, let me start with the crowd.
The the the the cult is tied. But whether you know it or not, the crowd is also tied.
You see, Jerusalem is part of Roman colonialism.
Colonialism did not start with, with Europe and America or even Europe and Africa colonialism goes all the way back to Israel.
They had set up what we would call colonialism today and taking control of the region.
And these group of Jews are now captive to a degree or at least controlled by Roman powers.
They are tied to Rome. And so when they see Jesus coming, Jesus comes and every time you hear them, call him the son of David, they’re not just referring to him as the messiah, but they’re also acknowledging him as their king and they saw him as their king as a great Liberator that would emancipate them from the bondage of Rome.
So the crowd though we see them in a state of jubilation singing Hosanna to the son of David.
Their jubilation is a bit uh misconstrued because they are worshiping him because they think he’s about to take the throne.
And if he takes the throne, he’s gonna take them out from under the rope that’s tied around their neck called Rome that is holding them in captivity.
And they’re looking for Jesus to be an emancipator and a Liberator and they’re singing a praise.
Imagine what it feels like for these people who have been oppressed in their own country.
It’s one thing for me to be abducted and you take me to a strange place.
But it’s another thing to be held hostage in my own house.
And here I am, it’s my living room, but it’s not my living room.
It’s my refrigerator, but it’s not my refrigerator and I’m stuck.
And here comes Jesus healing the sick and raising the dead and turning water into wine and he becomes a prime candidate to liberate them from the captivity that has besieged him.
So yes, they are dancing and yes, they are singing and yes, they’re throwing their coats down and yes, they’re throwing palms down in the road, but they are throwing palms down because they see a crown.
They see a king. They’re looking for the Messiah. They’re looking for a political revolution.
They’re looking for liberty and emancipation. They’re looking for restoration. They’re looking for reparations.
They’re looking for everything to be restored back like it was and they’re singing and they’re dancing and Jesus has to deal with the fact that the dancing of the crowd is for something that he is not going to do at that time.
Have you ever had people expect things from you that were not on your agenda?
You don’t hear what I’m saying to you.
And so Jesus has to walk through the, through the palms knowing that what they’re expecting him to do is not the first thing that he’s going to do that.
He is headed for a cross. But they are shouting about a crown.
See too many times in church, we shout about crowns, but we go home to crosses because nobody has the nerve to tell you that on your way to the crown, you’ve got to go through your cross.
So there you are, y’all hear what I’m saying to you.
There you are shouting about the crown, but then you go home to the cross and you feel like the cross is the devil.
So you rebuked it and you pleaded the blood and you anointed it with all and is still standing there in front of you because you don’t recognize that the cross is a part of God’s strategy to get you to your next crown.
I don’t know who I’m talking to today, how you but God has not forgotten your crown just because he put a rest up at a cross.
Jesus has to walk through their lofty expectations just like you have to live with all the people who think that you’re super human and they think you never get tired and they think you never get weary.
I wanna talk to the strong folks in here, the strong people that everybody calls whenever they’re in trouble, the wise people that everybody calls when they want advice and they think you never get tired and they think you are on call 24 7 to be there for everybody else.
But you and you have to walk through their expectation. You don’t get tired, you don’t need a bath.
You don’t need encouragement. You don’t need to be uplifted every time they call you, they’re in trouble.
Be careful of one sided relationships where they always take and never give.
Eventually you’re gonna become depleted because it’s all about what can you do for me and sooner or later you get tired of people that only call you when it’s about them.
Can I have a 32nd praise break for some people that are tired of always being the what?
I don’t mind getting you out of trouble but I don’t live to get you out of trouble.
I don’t mind helping you, but I’m not just sitting by the phone waiting on you to bring me another crisis.
By the way, I had some crisis before you called.
So Jesus is surrounded by people who are tied up and the crowd is tied up and they’re shouting over the idea that this may be it.
I was reading through uh the non canonical book of gospel according to Judas, which is not even in the scriptures and in the gospel according to Judas.
So it is non canonical. It is yet informative.
It says that Judas didn’t really call himself betraying Jesus, but pushing Jesus into a place that he would take over the kingdom.
This you, the pressure was so great for change.
So desperate, the Judas start stop healing people and start the revolution.
And so the supposition is made that perhaps if I put him in a precarious predicament, he’ll have to show who he is.
He who walked on water and he who healed the sick and he who raised the dead.
Charlotte, you can overthrow the oppression that we’re under.
And since you are distracted by the needs of the people, I’m gonna call the showdown between you and Rome.
I just want you to see, I don’t want you to even evaluate uh the authenticity of the gospel according to Judas though I’ve read it.
I do want you to see how desperate the people were to get out of it.
This is good when you want out, you want out enough of this rope around my neck, enough of this.
I want out, I want out, I, I want out if you, if, if, if spiritual problems would materialize you’d be shocked how many nooses are in this room.
Yeah, I’m gonna say it again.
If spiritual problems would materialize, you’d be shocked at how many nooses are in this room.
That’s something that’s pulling against your neck.
And you can only go so far and you pulled around in the same ground over and over again.
Five steps up and five steps back because you keep getting pulled back because you can’t get out and you’re frustrated and you want out.
The crowd was tired with the Roman rope and they’re throwing down the palms and calling him the son of David, which recognizes his kindliness.
Holds that a blessing. Is he that cometh in the name of the Lord is about their expectation.
Come on with me. Don’t, don’t leave me now.
You, you know, it’s a terrible thing when people’s expectations don’t line up with your assignment.
Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me because everybody in here knows what it’s like for somebody to expect more from you than what you’ve been assigned to do.
And Jesus is walking through the palms knowing that he’s not going to take the crown.
He’s going to take the cross enough for the crowd. Let’s talk about the Christ.
He too is tired because he’s gone to the garden of Yosemite already trying to get loose from this father.
It could be thy wheel. Pass this bitter cup for me three times.
Jesus prayed, Jesus didn’t have to pray three times to raise letters from the dead.
Jesus didn’t have to pray three times to heal the woman with the issue of blood.
Jesus didn’t have to pray three times to open up the blinded eyes of about a man.
Jesus didn’t have to pray three times to raise up the widow of names, son.
But when it come to what he was tied to Jesus prayed three times trying to get this rope off of his neck.
Finally pass the spitter cup, pass this cup.
I can’t, I can’t, I can do anything else, but I don’t want this.
Then he submits to the time being tied to the will of the father by saying not my will but then be done.
So my brothers and sisters, we have a tired crowd and a tad Christ who then speaks about a tied coat and Jesus says to the colt, I don’t know how long he’s been tired.
The Bible doesn’t tell us, but the Bible does tell us that no man has ever sat on him.
So evidently he’s been tied a long time and the Bible tells us that he is tied between two roads.
So he’s died in traffic.
I’m wondering if there’s anybody in here that’s tied in traffic and you have to watch everybody else moving.
But you, everybody else is buying a house but you, everybody else is getting married but you, everybody else got a new job.
But you everybody else got invited.
But you, but you are tired where two roads join together and you are stuck in a place of movements.
Oh, if that’s your story, holler at your boy.
And no matter how much I love him, I’m stuck.
No matter how much I praise him, I’m stuck. I’ve gone to therapy but I’m stuck.
I took night classes but I’m stuck.
I’m taking a linkedin class but I’m stuck and I can’t get this rope from around my neck.
We got a tight crowd. We got time Jesus and then he brings up a tied coat and he says to them, watch this, watch his show.
He says to his disciples, oh and now the village, there is a cult tied to a post in the other village.
This tells me if Jesus was aware now, don’t nobody need this.
But the folks who are tied up and some of the folks that are tied up can’t act like they tied up because they sit next to what they tied up to.
But, but that’s OK. Just sit up here. Come on, come on, breathe in, breathe out.
We’re gonna make it through this in a minute.
So you gotta act confused and act like you don’t know what I talking about.
But you know this is God getting a word to you because you’re tired in that situation.
It’s just three rolls back, but you’re tired in a situation. It’s just over.
Wait on you at the house, but you’re tired in a situation, son.
And God says, I know where you are.
What in the world is Jesus doing even thinking about a coat on his way to the cross.
What is man that thou are mindful of him or the son of man that thou visited him?
There’s a cult over in the other city in the other village who is tied and he knows exactly where he is in between two roads.
And the Lord told me to tell you, I know exactly where you are.
You’ve been trying to explain to me where you’re at, but I know exactly where you at.
You’ve been going to therapy trying to get them to help you figure out where you’re at.
But God says, I know exactly where you’re at.
That’s enough to make me praise the Lord right now because if somebody just knows where I’m at, sometimes I feel invisible, sometimes I feel forgotten.
Uh Sometimes I feel embarrassed. Uh sometimes I feel rejected, but it helps me to know that God knows, to know that God know, to know that God knows it.
It made me feel a little better to know that I’m on his mind.
It makes me feel better to know that he sees me.
It makes me feel better to understand that he has a plan for my pain. A fix for my problem.
Uh an answer to my crisis, a deliverance for my dilemma.
I don’t know who this message is for, but I came to preach this word to somebody.
You’ve been in a holding pattern, but you’ve been cleared for take off.
Now, if you haven’t been in a holding pattern then being cleared don’t mean nothing for you.
But if you’ve been in a holding pattern, what I just said, uh release something off your neck.
Somebody saw you. Yeah. So, yeah, I know.
It sounds silly and it’s a little bit Pentecostal of me, but kind of shake your neck around and let the devil know.
I’m coming out of this. I’ve been tied in my mind. I’ve been tied in my emotions.
I’ve been tied in my thinking.
I’ve been tiding my finances, but I’m coming out of this rope because Jesus knows where I’m at and he’s coming to loose me and let me go slap somebody and say loose here.
Hm.
Yeah.
This, see, you gotta realize you thought you were restricted.
But the truth is you were reserved.
Have you ever gone to a restaurant and wanted to sit down at a table?
And the sign said you reserved the reason you’re restricted from sitting there is because the table has been reserved.
The cot thought he was restricted, but he was really reserved because Hania said that in the last days, behold, your king will come riding on the coach.
So the condition of the cult was prophesized.
It was God’s will for the cult to be tied up because sometimes God will put you in a holding pattern, waiting on all the conditions to be right to loose you and let you go.
You’re not there because you did something wrong. You’re not there because you’re stupid.
You’re not there because you’re inadequate. Huh? You’re not there because you’re insufficient.
But because God works all things after the counsel of his own will.
He had to wait till the right time to loose the rope from around your neck.
Shot somebody and tell them I’m about to come out of this. This message is my witness.
This is my confirmation. This is an answer to my prayer. I’m about to get a release.
Somebody give him 30 seconds of crazy praise.
Beware of people who only dance for you when there’s something in it for them.
How were the people saying Hosanna when he got to the cross?
They were only saying Hosanna because of what was in it for them.
But when they saw it wasn’t a crown but a cross, none of them were singing or praising or praying anymore.
Some of the folk that are dancing around you are not really for you, but God is still gonna use them to lose you for what He’s about to do in your life.
I feel like I’m talking to somebody. You might be online right now, but I’m talking to you.
You’ve been in a holding pattern long enough. But God said I’m gonna loose.
Ok.
So the, the go till you find the colts and then lose him from what he was restricted by what he was tied to.
And if anybody tries to stop you, tell him the Lord, the Lord has need of you.
Wait a minute. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait a minute.
How could this be possible? It would have been enough for anybody to want the colt since he spent his whole life with nobody wanting it.
But he goes from nobody to the Lord. Y’all don’t get it.
He goes from being stuck in a holding pattern, ignored and overlooked, stuck in traffic with nobody warning him and he gets loose because the Lord.
And isn’t it funny? How don’t nobody want you to?
The Lord wants you and the moment the Lord wants you now, they want to know what y’all doing over there fully with the cold.
Well, why did you say something all that time? I was tied up.
If you wanted me, you should have said something before now.
But the moment somebody else wants you all of a sudden, oh I feel like running.
I feel like leaving. I feel like shouting because just when you thought it was too late for your purpose, God’s gonna set you smack dab in the middle of his wheel.
Huh? This is your day. This is your time. This is your message.
This is your moment and can’t no devil in hell.
Look at your neighbor and say you can’t stop this.
You can talk about it but you can’t stop this.
You can run your mouth but you can’t stop this.
Ask all the questions you want to but you can’t stop this.
This is a lot and it’s in my, wow.
I felt some breaks. I felt some loose because OK.
Yeah, if you hear what I’m preaching, there would be a great liberation in the because everything that had your mind tied up, everything that had your emotions tied up everything that had your finances tied up.
God said, I’m about to lose you and it’s gonna be a sudden change. The last shall be first.
I’m gonna switch you from the background to the forefront.
You’ve been hidden in a small village, but I’m about to put you on full stage here.
Come this coat from a small town, coming into a big place.
Pull on your neighbor’s hair. It’s gonna be big. That’s why you had to hold so long.
That’s why you had to wait so long. Type it on the line. It’s gonna be big.
That’s why you had to wait so long. That’s why the enemy tried to fight you so long.
Tell you that it’s gonna be big. That’s why all hell broke loose. That’s why you almost afraid it. Huh?
That’s why you almost gave up. Look at somebody and say it’s gonna be big.
I didn’t wait this long for a little thing. I didn’t wait this long for a little thing.
I didn’t wait this long for a small thing. What God has for me is worth the wait.
What God has for me is worth the tears.
What God has for me is worth the agony weeping may endure for a night.
But joy comes in the morning.
Somebody throw your head back at the holy, right.
I’m gonna ride into it because I got Jesus on my back.
I’m gonna go through it because I got Jesus on my back.
He’s gonna prepare away for me because I got Jesus on my back.
Slap your neighbor say I got Jesus on my back.
I’m going to a new place because I got Jesus on my back.
I’m gonna see heights I never saw before because I got Jesus on my back.
Tell the other day I got Jesus on my back.
So I wanna point out one more thing about Colton, I’m done.
So the text says that they started laying their coat down in the way and others laid down branches, but Jesus wasn’t walking on the coat or the branches, the coat to every person in here.
Realize this, you’re the cult.
Jesus is going to ride in on and because you have Him on your back.
It’s gonna be your hoofs that walk on coats and branches.
Well, let me say it this way.
He’s prepared a table for you in the presence of your enemies.
And so the Lord told me that this morning was to be a morning of loosing you from holding patterns.
You’ve been faithful in a holding pattern.
You praise God in a holding pattern.
You sang in the choir, but you was in a holding pattern. You came to church though.
You were in a holding pattern.
You’ve been watching online in spite of the fact you’ve been in a holding pattern and you thought this was his palm Sunday.
No, this is loose Sunday. Hey, this is loose Sunday.
Every restriction that you believe in for is about to be released.
If you consecrate yourself this week, this is holy wage.
If you fast and pray and believe God this week, it’s not just about Jesus having a resurrection.
Every dead dream in your life is about to be resurrected by the power of God, but don’t start walking till you get Jesus on your back.
There are some people in here that can tell you that they came through some stuff that they thought they couldn’t go through.
But because Jesus was on their backs, they made it through some things dangerous, seen and unseen, tough places and hard places, places that normally would have broke them down.
But because Jesus was on their back.
They made it over, get a hold of someone by the hand and squeeze them just a little bit tight.
The person you’re touching has in some way been in a, it don’t look like it on the outside, but on the inside, emotionally, spiritually, financially, maritally relation, occupationally in some area of their life, they’ve been in a, a holding pattern.
They watched other people be successful where they failed and, and felt inadequate because they fail, embarrassed because they fail because they were in a, a holding pattern.
They couldn’t do what they really dreamed to do because they were in a holding pattern.
Squeeze their hand. They, they’ve been tied up for a long time and they’re amazing that they made it as far as they did with as many ropes as they had around their neck.
But God is about to ease the restriction.
I don’t want you to let go of Him yet. I want you to pray for Him first.
I want you to pray that every yolk would be broken, that every yoke would be broken.
I’m praying for people online all across the world that every yoke in your life and every strong hope in your life and every, every no in your life and every, every attitude in your life and every stubbornness and every self sabotaging ideology in your life and every philosophy in your life would be broken, utterly destroyed by the power of God.
Pray for them. Pray for them, pray for them.
They’re always giving to other people but nobody ever really prays for them.
Pray for them, pray for them, pray for them, pray for them, pray for them, squeeze their hand and pray for them.
Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray, pray on the, on the count of three, I want you to lose them.
And when you lose them, I want every person in this room to count it as I’ve been cleared, I’ve been released for take a one.
You’ve been waiting a long time for it and the enemy made you think it would never happen.
The devil told you you were too old and it was too late and that you never have freedom and never have happiness and never have joy and never have fulfillment.
But the devil is a lie too.
The Lord has been trying to encourage you to just hang on in there. You’ve been frustrated.
But God said hang on in there. Something good is about to happen in your life.
And God has reserved it for such a time as this.
When I holler three of three, I came here.
Yeah.
Right. I feel a shout of deliverance. I feel a shout of deliverance.
I feel a shout of deliverance. Deliberate, deliberate, deliberate deliverance will come.
It must come, it shall come, gotta talk, you gotta talk belongs to me.
Emirates is fine. He home the sun have set free is free.
Indeed. I need 1000 free folk to jump out in the aisle and let hell know I got the message.
This is my word and I’m free today. 1235.
Yeah.
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