Unfamiliar Faith
Jimmy Rollins | February 16, 2025
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I'm blown away by the spirit of the Lord that is in this place, and I know y'all are in a relationship series, but y'all mess with me singing that song. You've been like so good. That's all y'all get right there. And I asked Pastor Tim, can I have permission to preach what's in my heart? And he said, do what the Lord laid on your heart. So I don't have notes, but I'm going to preach what the Lord has been speaking to me individually. Me and my wife have been between a prayer and a promise. Been married 25 years, ma. It's been about the best 10 years ever.
And God has done just an amazing work in our marriage. And we have a ministry called two equals one. And you can go to the website. We got a book that just released in October called Two Equals one, A Marriage Equation of Love, laughter, and Longevity. But recently, and that book will highlight our story and why I say it's been about the best 10 years ever as I was a pastor, pastor of the church on inside of Baltimore called I Five City and is now called Union Church and Pastor Steven and z Chandler pastor that church and the Lord told us and called us. There was no falling or anything like that, but the Lord said, Hey, I want you to step off your stage and for the rest of your life, help marriages through the various stages that they go through. And we did that and we've been helping pastors and leaders and influencers and athletes and people all around the world and it's been great. But recently in last April, my wife got diagnosed with Lyme disease and it's been very difficult. She was supposed to be here this morning and I told Pastor Tim in the green room that I've been between a prayer and a promise and my wife's miracle is in process. Amen. And so y'all started having church before church. The sermon was before the message. And thank you worship team for pulling this word out of me.
And before I get started, I just want to honor your amazing pastor and what you're building here is special and I'm committed to being in your corner. I asked myself through my wife's diagnosis, we lived in West Palm Beach, Florida and we had to move overnight because of the moldy air and the humidity and the brain fog and we thought she had a tumor because she wasn't remembering sentences. And I asked God, why am I in Dallas? My oldest daughter is here, she goes to Shoreline City Church and has been on staff there with Earl Monika for three years. And so my wife just moved into her one bed apartment and I sold the house and moved us by ourselves and all the things. And I asked my God, why am I in Dallas? And so good for God to answer questions with bringing people like you into my life and 51 years old.
And I know what you're thinking, you man, his wife can't keep her hands off of him. I know that's what you'd be thinking, but I'm honored to be here and I never take these opportunities to share God's word for granted. I've been preaching on the road for 20 years, been in full-time ministry for 25 years and come on, somebody's finishing well and then so I want you to turn your Bibles with me. I don't know if they'll have the notes or not because I just jotted down some stuff and gave it to 'em during worship. But I want to preach this message to you. Turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 22 and then put your finger on Genesis chapter 12, and then we're going to go to Hebrews chapter 11 and I'm just going to share with you what the Lord has been sharing with me in my devotion time. Is that all right? And it says here in Genesis chapter 22, after these things, hold on, I got to put my readers on.
There it is. God tested. Somebody say tested. God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham, and he said, here I am. And he said, take your son. And if you're reading this passage of scripture and you understand what is going on in this text, he's only got one son. And it's amazing to me the redundancy of what God says to Abraham with him only having one. But clarifying how important what God's asking him to do is he says, take your son, your only son and then clarifies his name, Isaac. Now if I had one son, you don't have to tell me his name, you just said, take your son. I've only got one so there's no choice in what you're asking me to give up
Whom you love and go to the land of Mariah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I shall tell you. So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey. Somebody say donkey took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac, and he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. And then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar a love. When God gives us a task, an instruction, and we leave immediately, we respond immediately, but it's far off.
Has anybody ever had a direction from God with no. Lemme flip it. Has anybody ever had a directive from God but no directions on how to endure the middle? I want to talk to a real church today that's understands. Come on somebody, the frustration and the discouragement and the doubt that can take place when you are in between a prayer and a promise and you're trying to hold on to the promise, discourage, you're trying to hold on to the promise with a little bit of fear. Come on somebody. You got faith, you know how to worship. You are a tither, but if you're honest, sometimes you are tired in the middle.
I'm tell somebody real today, I didn't come to play church. I don't have time. I'm going through too much to not hurt your feelings this morning, but I want to talk to some real people who come to church. Come on somebody. You've got all the i's crossed, all the T's you have set yourself apart, but if you are honest, sometimes you don't want to lay hands, you want to throw hands where y'all at? Where y'all at? Where y'all at? And then they have nerve to sing a song like you've been so good and you're trying to hold on to the words of that psalm and you see people shouting and dancing as if they're walking in their promise, but could it be that they are just speaking those things that be not as if they already are. Could it be that they're praising their way? Come on, somebody onto the thing that God has told them that they're going to walk in. Could it be a mom in here today that's praying for a wayward son or a wayward daughter? Could it be that there are some people who got more money than they got money and they are standing in between a prayer and a promise? Could there be some single people in the room that you set yourself apart but you don't know how long you can hold on because the urges that you feel is in the middle?
What do I do in the middle?
He saw the place far off. Then Abraham said to his young men, stay here with the donkey. Me and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you. Another version that says, and we will be right back. I want to preach to you from this topic or this idea that I have found myself in the zone. I don't even want to call it a season because if I'm honest, sometimes I'm realizing is this a season or a sentence? Is there anybody in here that says, I feel you. I understand what you're talking about. I want to preach a message called unfamiliar faith. Not uncommon faith. I know that's what I gave them, but unfamiliar faith, father, would you do something amazing in this place today? Would you blow our minds? Father, would you allow the spirit to lead us and guide us and encourage us today?
Can we find hope when everything is happening in Jesus name? And everybody said a good amen. Thank you so much. It was in 2002 that me and my wife, my pregnant wife with our first child was in South Carolina and we were accompanying my parents who were looking for furniture for their new house in Maryland. And so we drove down at an eight hour drive and we were going to this place called Furniture Land South and this is the place where it's literally like six home depots in size and they sell discount furniture. Thank you. You're welcome.
And I remember being so excited about this trip. However, I was also managing my family. I'm the family manager. I have an older sister, but I'm the family manager. I'm making sure that my diabetic dad always has an apple. Come on somebody, you can laugh. I'm making sure that I got my wife with me who is pregnant with something and she looks like she's about to deliver. I'm managing her attitude. Jesus and then also with me as my religious mother who I love dearly but will faith things away as if emotions are from the enemy.
Jesus was emotional. Jesus negotiated with his purpose in a garden called G enemy. When he says, father, I don't know if I can do the hard thing that you have asked me to do, but nevertheless the Bible says that Jesus wept, he embraced, he fully embraced his emotions. I would offer to you that the woman with the issue of blood, although she had an issue of blood of 12 years, what kind of emotional state Tim is she in 12 years? No hugs, 12 years, no affection, 12 years, no touch, 12 years stuck in the house. I could offer to you this morning that before she ever encountered the crowd to get to Jesus, she first had to deal with the crowd that was in her head.
Has your pain ever talked to you? Has your frustration ever kept you up late at night? Come on somebody. Have you ever been to a state where having no answer brought anxiety and fear and you came to church and people says, how you doing blessed and God is good but really you're stressed. Come on somebody. If somebody cut you off in traffic this time, you ever had a whole lot of attitude to give somebody who ain't really bothered you much, but if they the wrong button at the wrong time, come on somebody. They about to out punt their coverage.
So we found ourselves in furniture land south and we went to the discount. Come on somebody. How many of y'all know that the discount section is always in an isolated section? And so we had to go up an elevator and we looked at the elevator and we can tell that this elevator had not been frequently visited. And so we got on the elevator and I have somebody on the elevator who's hungry? My father, he needs to be fed. I have somebody on the elevator who's expecting something. My wife and I have somebody on the elevator who old time religion I know ain't good enough. Come on somebody. What I'm trying to tell you is if you always want what you've always had, then do what you've always done. But if you want something new, it's going to require you to do something new. I had the person who was comfortable with where they've been and as we got in the elevator, I started to count because the capacity, I noticed the sign Tim that said capacity 800. Oh, when you on an elevator with some people, you got to can't lie where you are. You can't lie with how much weight you are under.
So I started counting. Come on, somebody 270, come on y'all. How many y'all know it's hard to count your mother's weight, but it's crazy how you can be in church so long that you can faith the way the weight that you're under. So I got somebody hungry on the elevator. I got somebody who needs an outpouring of God, they need revival but would never say they need revival because then I got to admit that something is dead and then I have somebody who's pregnant with purpose and as we are going up, as I'm counting the capacity of the weight that we are under, the elevator started to creak and when the elevator started to creak all of the sudden in an isolated place, it got stuck in between two seasons.
I want to talk to the people for a little bit who you know not where you used to be. You're not who you used to be, you're not where you used to be but you're not yet where the place that God has called you to be and there's nothing worse than being stuck in between two places and we got stuck in between two floors too late to go back, but not sure we have what it takes to get to the next place. Is there anybody who'll be real enough that says, pastor, I know exactly what you you're talking about. I've spent prayer and time and fasting and friendships and accountability just to get here. I've cried tears just to get here. I said no. What I used to say yes to just to get here. I have set myself apart just to get here. I got a job.
Come on. Somebody that I'm not even qualified for and the faith that it took just to get here. Come on somebody. I got here. I dragged myself here. I cried myself here. I prayed myself here. I cussed myself here. Is anybody grateful that you got here? Come on somebody. I know right now that I'm not where I'm supposed to be, but I'm grateful for where I am right here. Come on somebody. I'm going to pray. I can't lift my hands this high, but thank God I can just lift my hands this high. Come on somebody. You're grateful that you got here, but you know that where you are is not where you're supposed to be and it's unfamiliar. Unfamiliar in between two places. Come on. An old commissioned song they used to sing. How can we sing when we're in a strange land? How can we face at versa? T come on somebody. I'm here and I know here is comfortable. Here is casual here. There's a lid here. There's average. Come on somebody. Come on. Single people. Maybe I'll just settle for here.
It's crazy. There's some single people might even be in the room sitting next to average single people I came to preach to you today, people who've been through the voice I came to preach to you today. Just because it's your second time doesn't mean that God has second best for you. I can't stay here. It's almost like a long flight and he done. I remember when I flew to Nairobi, Kenyan, we had a layover in Heathrow airport in London or they had a Gordon Ramsey restaurant. Come on, somebody. I don't know if you can tell 'em a professional eater.
They had massage chairs. They had a mall. Come on, somebody I got so comfortable with halfway I forgot about the final destination. Is there anybody that's gotten comfortable with halfway? Come on, somebody. Hey, you can't go to the barbershop and get a half shape up. Me, my mother and my father, pastor Tim, we were stuck between two floors and I knew it was up to me. In other words, I couldn't stay here because more was at stake than my destiny. We got too many parents staying at average not realizing that they are showing their kids only how to get halfway. I can't stay here because too much legacy is at stake. I can't stay here because generational curses and strongholds won't get broken. I can't stay here because my kids need a good model of how to take a licking and keep on ticking. I can't stay here.
Come on somebody because my kids, they don't know the words to greatest thy faithfulness, but they need to see the actions of great is thou faithfulness. Come on, touch three people and says we can't stay here. God has more important for us. God's got more in store for us. My latter days are going to be, come on, somebody greater than the former days. I can't stay here. Come on somebody. No weapon that is formed against me. It's going to prosper. I can't stay here. Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the wild. I can't stay here.
Unfamiliar faith stuck between Genesis 12 and Genesis 22. I remember Abraham when God called me in Genesis 12 and he said Abraham and Abraham said, what's up? And God said, Abraham, I want to break generational curses. I know your daddy was an idol worshiper. I know. Come on somebody that you have gone through. See nothing seasons, but you can't stay where your daddy stayed. You can't settle for where your ancestors settled because I want to bless them through you, but I got to take you on an unfamiliar faith journey. So the next instructions was Abraham, I want you to go to a place that I am going to show you. I love when God calls me and tells me where the directions are to the destination. But I don't like when God gives me a promise and I don't know how to get there. What you mean? You're going to show me what you mean. You're going to tell me how you going to tell me to leave something and not give me indication of what you have for me.
I'm preaching to myself this morning, Tim Strange. Show me my God. Show me. Leave this job or you're going to show me. Leave that mindset and you're going to show me. Leave that path and you're going to show me unfamiliar, faith, unfamiliar feet, unfamiliar friends, unfamiliar finances, unfamiliar family, unfamiliar, frustration. Oh, I'm preaching today to some people. I want to know. I know he's been so good, but I want to talk to the people right now that says, how can I sing when I'm in a strange land? Show me what you going to show me. Well, let me tell you why I am calling you out. I'm going to bless you.
I'm going to bless those who bless you. I'm going to bless you prosperity. I'm going to bless those who bless you, inheritance legacy in you. All the families of the earth will be blessed. I'm going to make you a well when you feel like you don't even have water. I'm preaching to myself. Watch this. I'm going to curse those who curse you. I'm going to take care of your enemy. I'm going to take care of your haters. Don't kick them to the curb. Keep 'em close just like Jesus. This is a foreshadow of come on somebody of what's going to happen in the New Testament. This is a foreshadow. Don't you dare cut Judas off. You need him to get to your purpose. You need him to get to your destiny. You going to need people like Peter to deny you three times. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying? I am so sick of hearing preachers talking about kick people to the curb and cut 'em off and you don't need them in their lives. Yes, you don't need them, but they need you.
God doesn't call you away from something and not empower you to go back and change it. Influence and impact in you. All the families of the earth will be blessed. I'm going to show you something. Problem. Problem. I'm impotent problem. I'm old problem. My wife is barren shield. She's beyond child. Birthing age problem. I'm not from a good family problem. Those before me have been idle worshiping problem. Come on somebody. Sometimes I keep looking over my shoulder and people around corners. My mind is playing tricks on me. Problem, problem. I don't always think right problem. I can't spell problem. I got a learning disability problem. Come on somebody. My family tripping problem. Problem. God says No. I'm going to show you. I am going to keep you unfamiliar with everything in your life so that you stay more familiar with me.
Weight loss has a kryptonite fried chicken. Are y'all hear me? Are y'all hear me? Flying has a kryptonite. Gravity, unity in a church has a kryptonite. Gossip, marriage has a kryptonite. Infidelity. Are y'all going with me now? Are y'all with me now? Blessing has a kryptonite. Isolation, healing has a kryptonite only going to church and not be in the church. Faith has a kryptonite. Familiarity. The kryptonite of faith is familiarity. You prayed for God to bring that man or woman of God into your life and now they're in your life and you don't hate 'em.
It is not that you can't stand them. You just got familiar with what you prayed for. Come on y'all. You prayed to get that job. Now you can't stand the boss. Do you think that God's answered prayer was about you? Do you think that Paul and Silas went to the inner prison because of them? No. There was a suicidal prison guard. The one who locked them up, the one who bound them with chains went to work suicidal. And sometimes you have to be falsely accused in order to get to the people with no faith. Sometimes you got to go through a bad job in order to get to a mean boss. Come on, somebody who ain't got hope. You knocked there because of you. You are not there because of a paycheck. There's a purpose check on the other side of that that requires you to go there. I don't know why I'm in Dallas, but maybe I'm in Dallas today to tell somebody that being struck in between two places. It's not where God has called you to be. God wants you unfamiliar. God wants you unfamiliar in your marriage. God wants you unfamiliar on your job. Come on somebody. You died to get to this church. You ask God to bring you to a life-giving church. But now come on somebody. You are not obedient. You got an opinion, familiarity. I'm going somewhere.
I'm unfamiliar with this season. My pastor last week told me something that made me mad. I don't need it. He said, I hate what this season is for you and Irene. I hate that she's sick. I hate that you're a caretaker. I hate that you got a lot of weight, but I love what it's doing to you.
Shut up.
I came to preach to myself and preach to you. If it took faith for you to get it, it takes faith for you to keep it. Amen. Faith wasn't an acquisition method. Faith wasn't to put something in your hands. It was to change your heart. Faith doesn't complete its work at a promise. How do I know Abraham never walked in what he was promised, but yet he's in the hall of fame of faith. I'm preaching right here. We have to stop equating God's promise with man's deliverance methods and delivery methods. How do you know that you ordered something from Amazon? Is when it shows up on your doorstep. How do you know when you order something from FedEx that they have completed their delivery is when it shows up on your doorsteps. But how do you know that God's promise? Come on. Somebody shows up on your doorsteps is when you can't track it to your generation, but you track it to your kids' kids generation.
It might not show up on your doorstep, but it's going to show up. Come on, somebody. 2000 years later in the same three day process that Abraham had to walk through to get to Mariah was the same three day journey that Jesus had to go to hell and get the keys to the kingdom and unlock. They thought that Jesus was dead. He wasn't dead. He was serving an eviction notice for Satan to get out of your house. How in the world are you going to allow Satan to keep you up late at night in your house when the joker ain't even got keys to his own house? Somebody get up on your feet and say, get out of my house. Get out of my marriage. Get out of my family. Get out of my finances. I can't stay here. I'm going to need an organ player. I can't stay here. I can't stay here. I done been through too much to stay here. I heard that the promises of God are yes and amen. I can't stay here. Come on, touch five people and tell 'em we can't stay here. We got to go, Tim. We need bigger buildings, Tim. We need more people. Servings. Tim. We need to go to another level. This ain't good enough for me. I can't stay here. Hell, high water.
I can't stay here. Somebody in my house is pregnant with purpose. Somebody in my
House needs to be fed somebody in my house. I need to fra what God is. I can't stay here. I can't stay here. I can't stay here. I can't stay here. I can stay here. I'm speaking to your spirit. You can stay here. My kids, everybody in my household will be saved. We can stay here. I'm breaking every a generational curse. We can't
Stay here. Come on. I got more in me. I can't stay here. I got something on the inside of me that still needs to be a break
Through our check. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Sit down.
Thank y'all.
I didn't know what church I was coming to today. I had a little preach, little marriage shoot sermon. Come on. I had a headset. I was going to communicate, but I can't stay here. Maybe I put my tennis shoes on this morning, Tim, because I got to jump a little bit. I can't stay here. I need to expand. Let's go capacity. I can't stay. Somebody need to be there. Somebody might need to stretch right now because you about to dance because you can't stay here. Matter of fact, everybody get up on your feet and we going to put about a 32nd praise break on this stage. I can't stay
Here. Didn't do too much. I can't stay here. I can't stay. God has more. That what Jesus said when he went to hell. He said, I can't can somebody, can somebody jump? Can somebody clap
Me? Watch me. Y'all have your seat. Some of y'all might want to double dip today. Come back to the next service. I can't stay here. I got seven minutes. I can't, can't stay
Here. Watch this. Watch this. Take your son, your only
Son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Mariah and offer him there as a burnt sacrifice in the same area that Jesus will be resurrected. Watch it. So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He expedited God's word. He didn't wait till next week. He didn't say this time next year. He didn't wait until 2026 comes for a new resolution. It's kind of the same thing that God told Joshua to go to the promised land for tomorrow. I will do wonders among you. Is anybody tired of waiting? I just need you to make the decision right now.
Tomorrow, somebody shout tomorrow. Tomorrow I'm setting myself apart. Tomorrow I'm clearing out my dms. Tomorrow I'm going to forgive people that don't need to be forgiven, that don't deserve to be forgiven. Tomorrow I'm going to say I'm sorry. Tomorrow I'm going to write the business plan. Tomorrow I'm going to apply for the loan Tomorrow I'm stepping into my promise. Matter of fact, I might need to pack bags because tomorrow I'm going to a place that God is going to show me. I ain't got a ticket. I don't know where it is, but God says he going to show me something tomorrow. So every day Monday, I'm waking up. God, show me something. Tuesday I'm waking up. God, show me something. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I'm waking up. God, show me something because you said that your mercies are new every single morning. I believe in this place right now at Embassy City that God has something new to show you every day.
If you just wake up and say, God, show me something today.
Watch me by donkey, by donkey,
Donkeys at top speed. Walk three miles an hour. Quick decision by donkey. I want a Ferrari. I want a Tesla by donkey. Slow faith 70 miles to Mariah by donkey. If I had a ferra, it'll take me 30 minutes by donkey. God, you want to give me a promise by donkey? Come on. Who am I talking to?
This promise is taken too long. This healing has taken too long. This
Is taking too long. This grief has been around for too long, these emotions, 12 years with
An issue of blood. Mary, Martha, you not coming now by donkey. Donkey, faith.
Are you kidding me? You want to heal my wife of alcoholism and she's nine years, three months and four days sober today and now Lyme by donkey.
Come on. Come on.
This marriage ain't
Working
By donkey.
God give me donkey faith. Give me the kind of long faith that I notice you while not allowing what you called me to lay down to talk to me.
Oh, I love this word. He's talking to me. He called me to sacrifice this attitude. But it's talking
To me. You call me the sacrifice. Come on single people, that relationship, but he keep talking to me.
He's talking to me. He is talking to me, her sinner. So they went together and Isaac said to his father, dad, I see the fire. I see the wood. But where's the sacrifice? Stop talking to me, son. Stop talking to me. God called me to do something hard. Stop talking to me. You keep talking to me. I can't keep my eyes on what God called me to do. The elevator will talk to you. The last season will talk to you. The bad marriage will talk to you. The temptation will text you. That anger will talk to you. That fear will talk to you and it'll cause you to miss the provision that God has for you.
Stop talking to me. Being set apart will talk to you that alcohol will talk to you. That weed will talk to you. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying? That vape will talk to you temporary relief. That glass of wine will talk to you. Woo. That old relationship will talk to you. Come on, somebody. Stop talking to me because there's a ram in the bush that I'm missing. Stop talking to me because I'm thinking about not doing what God has called me to do. Stop talking to me in me. Stop talking to me. Get out of my face. Get out of my head. Get out of my past. Get out of my mind. Get out of my heart. Temptation. Stop talking to me. When Jesus was in the garden of guest enemy, the devil talked to him. Sometimes you just don't need to say, Satan, get behind me. Sometimes you need to say, Satan, shut your mouth. Get your mouth off my promise. Get your mouth off of my healing. Get your mouth off of my deliverance. Because if I keep letting it talk to me, I'll come into agreement. And when I come into agreement and the power of life and death is in my tongue, I got to be canceled. That I'm not saying what the sacrifice is saying back to me. I got to keep my eyes on what God says to me. Somebody
Say, God, talk to me. God, walk with me. God, share with me. God be beside me. I came to a church today that
I know you had a good worship service. But I want to know is there about 500 people that will worship outside of
Church so that God can keep talking to me? God talk to me. God, walk with me. God be with me. God me. Show me something. God talk to me.
So we just to the place of sacrifice
And he is got the knife in one hand, but that's not the only hand that's filled. He's got the fire of the Holy Spirit. In the other hand, I'm telling you what doubt will talk to you. Fear will talk to you. But one thing it can't do that the Holy Spirit can do. The Holy Spirit intercedes for you. Tell. I don't know what to pray in this season, but I'm praying that the Holy Spirit pray for me. My doubt is talking too much. So I just need to shut my mouth. Come on somebody. The Bible says that when Jericho and Joshua, when they circled, come on somebody, when they circled them to conquer Jericho, that for six days they went around one time, but on the seventh day they had to go around seven times, which means the last day was six times harder. Could it beat Tim that six times harder actually means six times closer.
I came to tell you, I know it's hard right now, but talk to me. Jesus. Talk to me purpose. Talk to me. Now I know why God tried to silence Moses with a stutter so that Moses wouldn't talk, but God gave him two words to say when you don't know what to say. I grew up with a stutter and I think it's funny that God called me to speak all over the world. But what I can say is I am. Don't know how much I stutter, but I am. I don't know what my purpose is, but I am the righteousness of God. I am the head and not the tail. I am above and not beneath. I am first to not last. Come on somebody. Get up on your feet and say, holy Ghost
Talk to me.
So he goes to sacrifice and God says, hold up. This is just a test. Oh, Tim, when I was on that elevator, I was looking around at capacity. I was looking around at who was hungry, but I stopped looking at what am I going to do about it. So what I did was after an hour, I just decided, ain't nobody going to open this elevator for us. I'm going to have to use the strength of where I've been. When you can't see God in front of you, just look behind you and says, if it had not been for the Lord who is on my side, I don't know where I'd be. Has anybody got a testimony of God's faithfulness in your past? Come on, somebody. You should have died in the accident. Come on somebody. But you came out without a scratch. Look over your life. Is there anybody that says, God's been too good to me. He's been better to me than I've been to myself.
I'm out your way because the parking lot is full. God says, homie, don't sacrifice your son. It was just a test. Look behind you. There's a ram caught in the bush. Timus says, if it was behind me, I passed it. I just didn't notice it because I was letting the wrong thing. Talk to me. Look behind you. There's a praise stuck in the bush which says there is something that God has done in your past that you have not given him enough gratitude for. You have not given him enough credit for. You had come on, somebody. You died to get it, and then you got it and just moved on. But I came to wake up. The praise that was on that was locked up in the last season. I came to tell you, unlock the, come on somebody. One more thought. So I want you to go back and read Hebrews chapter 11 because Abraham knew something. How does he give up his one and only to unlock many? He says
Something. This is the kind of unfamiliar faith. He said, ready. There's either going to be a
Ram or resurrection, but I'm not coming back empty handed. My wife is going to get healed. God's either going to replace it or resurrected, but you're not coming back empty handed. When you have unfamiliar faith, you can be between two seasons and just like God bid, I got my fingers inside of that elevator and because I got a glimpse of what was ahead with the courage and the strength of what was behind, I unlocked. Come on somebody. The place that I was stuck and I prophesy to you right now. God, give us the strength to not stay
Here. Everybody, lift your hands. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that we would have unfamiliar faith in an unfamiliar season. In Jesus name, amen.
