I Ain’t Tripping

0:00 Brace yourself and buckle up. You are about to hear a life-changing, history-making, world-defining message from the New Birth Podcast. Tell everybody you know, things will never be the same. John chapter 14 pray for our first lady who's out preaching today i uh i told her this morning now enough of that already you got to come home now amen john john chapter 14 verse 27 I want us to read it together with uplifted voices, John 14 and 27. Everybody, let's read together.

0:52 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and don't be afraid. Let's read it together again with a little bit more vim, vigor, and vitality. Come on, let's read it again. Peace I leave with you. Thank you. I am each I give you. I do not give to you as the world is. Do not let your hearts and souls and do not give a word. Bless the Lord. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. I want to preach today using it as a subject. I ain't tripping. I ain't tripping. Look at the person beside you and tell them I ain't tripping at all. I ain't tripping at all. Look at the person on the other side telling me it is not that deep it is not that serious i ain't tripping I want to invite all of those who believe in brothers to visit this book that I read called Reinventing Masculinity. Reinventing Masculinity. I want you to get this book. All of our brothers, I want you to get it. Those of you who are raising young men, I want you to get it. Those of you who have a heart and a burden and a concern for men, I want you to get this book, Reinventing Masculinity.

2:31 In it, the authors opine that America makes men believe that they should keep their emotions to themselves, be self-sufficient, and disclose no vulnerability whatsoever. However, if men accept all of these attributes, it will put them in alignment with a distorted and dysfunctional understanding of what it means to be a man. and it subtly contributes to a lot of men having chemical codependency, violent tendencies, and sexual promiscuity. In order to medicate the unaddressed pain that is reserved for the only part of the population who never gets permission to bleed.

3:42 For men, the pendulum swings between two phrases. Those two phrases are boys will be boys, which justifies immaturity, and no homo, A phrase frequently used by insecure straight men to emphasize their sexual orientation, reducing emotions or vulnerability into only two different sectors. it suggests that emotions are regulated to a sex that being female or to a sexual orientation that being gay and if you don't fit in either then feelings are not appropriate for you at four years old black boys are threatened that they better not cry at 24 we are admonished keep it together at 74 it is assumed you must be ready to die I know you told your friends you ain't tripping but on the inside you are falling apart.

5:17 It's hard for you to come to grapple with the fact for men where is the safe space for men who've been cheated on. Where are men supposed to go when it is that they are the singular responsible parent? How do men unpack that they cannot find employment? Where are men supposed to go and how do they offer themselves invulnerability when they are dealing with depression? In Head Start programs that are about to be defunded, we learned Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

6:11 All the king's horses, all the king's men couldn't put Humpty back together again. The horses couldn't. The men couldn't. But the king can. and going viral all this week is can a hundred men fight a gorilla? and nobody has taken the time to ask what about that one monkey that's on a man's back but I came for men today men if you'll lift up your hands all of the men who are in the room lift up that hand I came to make a prophetic declaration from heaven for men that this month God is getting ready to put you back together again men keep that hand lifted god said this month i am going to address tears you couldn't cry i'm gonna address the rage that has been in the pit of your stomach i am going to in fact do plastic surgery on the places of your heart that you no longer recognize I am getting ready to handle the areas of resentment and fear and rejection.

7:42 And because you've had no space to identify that you have felt like a failure, God says, if you come to me, I'm going to put you back together again. sisters who identify wives and daughters and mothers who have been hoping for God to do something supernatural in the life of the man that you care about I dare you to give God thanksgiving in advance Nobody is giving you a formula. How do I get my 15-year-old to get out the room? How do I get my husband to open up and talk? How do I get my brother to take ownership and to take accountability?

8:36 the whole world just two weeks ago celebrated the resurrection of our loving Lord and Savior but very few took pause to consider the trauma that was connected to crucifixion I know we know him as Savior, we know him as Lord we know him as ruler, we know him as king, but have you ever thought about the trauma that was hefted on a 33 year old black man because he is omnipresent, because he is omniscient and knows everything. Did you think about how Jesus must have been haunted by being able to recognize the voices of those who said crucify him? Because he was God, he knew those were the same voices that said Hosanna.

9:32 How much trauma had been inflicted upon him? Knowing the scorching reality that he had fed 5,000 with two fish and five loaves of bread. But when he whimpered, I thirst, nobody showed up with a Coke and a smile. He saved the woman caught in adultery. But when they laid him down to nail him to the cross, nobody tried to stop the hammer. the man whose ear was replaced never opened his mouth to be a character witness, the woman with the issue of blood never showed up to clean up his, there's a bunch of sideway things that have happened to you that you have never discussed and you have never addressed, but it didn't mean that it didn't bother you, because I didn't say anything it doesn't mean I don't talk to myself there's a whole lot of things that are inside of not just men but women as well that are combustible and you gotta pull God up and say God for real, for real you gonna let all of this happen to me when you called me you chose me you anointed me but people gonna handle me grimy and sideways and act like I ain't nothing and talk to me reckless and feel as if they as free as they want to be to do me dirty and they don't fear any repercussions or any consequence God I'm trying to hold it down I'm trying to keep it together but folk don't know the days I gotta sit in the car and give myself therapy they don't know when it is that I gotta stop myself from crying they don't know that I gotta train myself not to cry they don't know how I don't want to break down in front of my kids they don't know that I had an alternative and an option on how

11:40 to pay people back but I'm keeping it together the best way that I can and you got the nerve to be looking me up and down about what I got on in my hair I don't even care about my hair I'm trying not to lose my hair. Jesus models remarkable grace, and he does so in an exemplary fashion that he had to withstand and walk through abuse because they spit on him, gambled for his clothes, left them for dead and his only crime was trying to help people. I can't talk to everybody in the room but I'm telling you betrayal is only reserved for people you know. You can't get betrayed by strangers. I'm telling you your greatest level of affliction did not come from people with MAGA.

12:53 It did not come from Elon, but it came from Negro that got your last name. Folk that been in your car, people that walked in your house, people your children call aunt and uncle. Those were the ones that stabbed you in the back. And folk don't understand why you shut down and why you quiet. It ain't that you are introvert. It's just hard for you to trust people because you tried to open up. And folk took it for granted? He was abused at the cross when Jesus was crucified. Thousands upon thousands should have been there. And he's left just there with his mama and a woman with an alabaster box. He has been betrayed and he doesn't even have a strand of bitterness. After dealing with all of that, coming up from the cross, I want you to lean in and hear what Jesus said.

13:54 Peace be unto you. peace be unto you last time he said peace it was to a storm and now he's saying it to people what a statement to make peace be unto you after the government declared war on his body peace be unto you after he had to battle to breathe peace be unto you after being terrorized because of his theology but he had the strength to say peace be unto you i want you to say that to just three people around you peace be unto you peace come on say that to three people i want you to have peace i want you to walk in peace i want you to live in peace i want you to have peace i mean that from my heart peace be unto you i don't want you to go through the warfare I've had to go through. I don't want you to have the fights that I've had to fight. I don't want you to be in the battles that I've had to succumb to.

15:03 Peace be unto you. he was at peace. He was at peace because they meant it for evil. But God was working it out for his good. He was at peace because all things work together for good to those who love him and are called according to his purpose. He was at peace because he found out, if I forget those things which are behind, I can press towards the mark of the high calling. And there are five of y'all in this room. Maybe 50 of y'all in the room. Maybe 500 of you in this room. You ain't got everything, but you got peace. You know you are at peace when you ain't even interested in what they doing now. You know you are at peace when you can leave the text message on read.

16:01 You know you are at peace when you are legitimately happy that they got somebody else. You know that you are at peace. he's at peace because his secret sauce was resurrection and not revenge let me let that hang right there his secret sauce is resurrection and not revenge they tried to kill you but look at you living your best life ain't no reason for you to be mad or to be upset when you got favor and they got jealousy No weapon formed against you has been able to prosper, so there's no reason for you to pick up bullet cases.

17:04 what your enemy has had to learn in the last 18 months your enemies had to learn the hard way is just because you hurt me it doesn't mean you got power over me pain is not an indication of power in fact it's not power if it did not accomplish its goal the goal was to keep jesus dead and the goal was to keep you sidelined but if you can hear my voice that is evidence you walked over every trap you survived every rumor you outlived every scandal you are able to say greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world why because it has no power over you be seated please i am not asking you to deny your pain i'm not asking you to not acknowledge what was done to you was diabolical and out of order in error and wrong all i am trying to underscore is that it wasn't strong enough to wipe you out.

18:33 Ain't no reason for you to sit in here this morning and act like Wonder Woman and Superman, like you ain't never been through any pain. Hallelujah, folk got you all twisted. Just because you see me shouting don't mean I ain't had no sad days. Just because you see me dancing don't mean I didn't have to dance with the devil. And I found myself between a rock and a hard play. but I sing because I'm happy I sing because I'm free his eye is on the sparrow You owe it to yourself to make an acknowledgement that you have henceforth denied, but you owe it to yourself to acknowledge what you've been through. It ain't your neighbor's business.

19:27 You ain't even got to go into the gory details, but I need somebody out loud to just shout, it hurt me. I don't want to move past that too fast. I need that to marinate right through there. I need you to say it out loud again. It hurt me. Hallelujah. Folk got no idea the weight that has been on you. They got no idea what you survived. But I need you to just shout it out loud again. It hurt me. now after you done said that would you declare out loud but I survived it now I gotta pause right here cause some of y'all only shout over money and material stuff but if you survived something that left you in a corner sucking your thumb but you were able to shake yourself loose you ought to thank God I survived it I survived it.

20:36 Has the fact I survived it by the hand of my chinny chin chin. I survived it. I didn't do everything right, but I survived it. I said some stuff I regret. but I survived you may be seated Stop giving energy to the one who hurt you and start giving glory to the one that raised you.

21:34 I just said something right there. Can you just give God glory for bringing you out of something you didn't think you would survive? Your assignment won't let you stay upset. Your anointing won't let you stay angry. My destiny is stronger than their deeds. And this joy that I have, the world didn't give it. And the world can't take it away. Need you to clap your hands right through here you survived childhood trauma clap your hands survived molestation survived the rape survived domestic violence survived abuse survived neglect survived not having a present father survived an alcoholic mother survived poverty survived toxic cycles of behavior, survive not being able to finish school. I survived it!

22:50 Let's be clear. Having peace doesn't mean I'm okay with what you did. but I'm not going to renew the lease to let you stay rent free in my head. Giving peace is taking your power back. I want to say something to you. Somebody better write it down. Somebody needs to drop it in the thread. I needed you to hear it because when God gave it to me, it messed me up. Here's what I wanted to tell you. Forgiveness is not your only option. best thing I done said all day forgiveness is not your only option I give peace because I'm not a victim I'm a survivor Jesus was a victim when he was on the cross and he offered the thieves forgiveness but when he got off the cross he didn't offer forgiveness he offered peace Victims can't give you peace.

24:10 Survivors can. God, I can't hear nobody. Do you know how much authority you have when you are able to look the people in the eye who did you dirty and say, I give you peace. I wish you the best. I want your mama to be all right. I hope everything works out for you. I give you peace. the difference between giving people forgiveness and giving people peace is all based on how you see yourself When you have peace, you don't have any problem showing your scars.

25:02 Doubting Thomas had just walked up on Jesus and said, I won't believe until I see the hole in your hand. See where they pierced you in the side and Jesus never flinched. A scar, I need somebody to write this down. a scar is where the wound used to be. You can't have a scar unless you've been wounded. A scar is the evidence that I healed from something I should have bled out on. Victims have wounds, but survivors have scars. Y'all didn't hear what I just said. I said victims have wounds, but survivors have scars. When they saw Jesus again, he was healed from the betrayal, healed from the abandonment, healed from the abuse. And he needed them to know, I am now releasing peace.

26:10 Jesus said, what I've got to give to you on my way to my seat, my peace. Here's the catch. I leave you. I have so much peace that I don't need to hang around you. God, some of you need just enough peace to leave, folk. I have no false obligation to stay with you for appearances. God, give me enough peace to walk away and trust you to start all over again. Jesus forgave them, but he never hung out with them. I need peace! I am giving you peace so you never feel like you got to sit at their table I got enough peace I don't need to be in your text thread I got so much peace don't send me no more dumb DMs we do not need to sit down and talk you know what you did you know what happened y'all ain't saying nothing I am not looking for reconciliation I just want you to have peace go on with the rest of your life and let me live mine I want to be healed enough to go on.

27:54 Would you be seated for the last time today? Hallelujah. softly minstrels I'm leaving said my peace I give you Hallelujah. there's a scripture I often quote but I need to do an autopsy on he was wounded for my transgression watch this wounded past tense bruised for my iniquities past tense the chastisement of my peace is upon his shoulders by his stripes here's the catch I am healed something amazing is getting ready to happen in this room today I know some of y'all want to shout I know some of y'all want to dance some of you want to holler all I got is a declaration and the declaration that God has charged me to speak over your life is I am healed it's the worst news that satan ever wanted to hear god i can't hear nobody i'm not telling nobody you're a millionaire i'm not telling you you're debt free i'm not telling you you are famous but God said because you showed up you are healed hallelujah don't wait till the battle is over you gotta shout right now I'm healed I'm healed from what they said.

29:59 I'm healed from what was done. I'm healed from what I internalized. I'm healed from childhood trauma. I'm healed from the secrets I can't discuss. hallelujah I got a pause right here this isn't even where I was going but I'm here hallelujah I just need somebody to wave your hand because you don't even understand that God is getting ready to perform open heart surgery May have some trials. I am healed God help me Disappointments but I am healed it took me years to get to this point but I'm healed from it I'm tired of bleeding on my children.

31:26 I'm tired of lashing out at people and they ain't done nothing. I am healed. Thank you.

31:49 It is amazing that you are walking around with congestive heart failure. it's been hard for you to love it's been hard for you to be happy it's been hard for you to be available but God says today you are healed I don't even know who I'm preaching to today. I don't know where y'all are. I hope I'm not wasting my time of yours. But that's the only thing God told me to tell somebody in this room. You don't even realize it, but you healed today. Be healed.

32:43 Be set free. Be delivered. But today you are healed. Hallelujah. and as a consequence the healing power of God is now resting on you I'm finished God knows I am I'm finished because I feel like ministry is happening in this space right through here I need you to find hear me I need you to find two people in the room who you don't know whose name you don't know whose testimony you don't know not your neighbor because I don't want you to be forced into the clutches of your abuser. I don't want to push you into the instrument that has inflicted the greatest amount of pain I want you right where it is that you are find two people real quick who you don't know you got no history with I need you to embrace them firmly and just speak over them you are healed Be strong Hi I am healed.

33:55 Oh, I am healed. Oh, yes, I am. I am healed. The chest tied with my sin was a boy. I am healed Oh, am I a stride With this stride I am I am I am healed You healed me I am healed With His stripes I am healed Come on With His stripes I am healed Oh, I am healed.

34:55 You heal me from every disease, yeah. I am healed. From heartbreak and disappointment, yeah. I am healed. Come on, sing it. With his stripes. With his stripes. I am healed. Come on, oh. Oh, I am healed. Oh, yes, I am. I am healed. I am healed. Oh, yeah. I am healed. Oh, I am healed. With this tribe, with this tribe. With this tribe. I am healed. Listen to me. softly musicians on two instances on two instances Jesus healed the individuals in the Gospels watch this and he uses something that a lot of preachers have overlooked and omitted and have not really bored down the into here's um what the Gospels record that they were healed don't miss it from the spirit of of infirmity.

36:16 What was going on in their spirit affected their body. The clinical term is it was psychosomatic. What happened in their mind was impacting their physicality and their strength. They weren't able to stand upright. They weren't able to walk because they had no idea what they were carrying was so toxic that it begin to break down their bodily functions and structure. There are those of you who are in this room that need healing in the realm of your physicality. I don't know what's going on with you physically, but I'm telling you that God just freed you from some stuff. and because you got healed in your spirit, you are now getting ready to get healed in your body. Those of you in this room, the doctor says, the doctor says you are carrying cancer cells.

37:18 I want you to come touch this altar as quickly as you can. Those of you who are in this room that are dealing with heart issues, and you need God to intervene on your behalf, I need you to just come quickly and touch this altar. Those of you who are wrangling through type 2 diabetes, I want you to just come touch this altar. I only need you to say two words. The two words are, I am healed.

37:46 New birth, I need you to worship God as they're coming. Healing is taking place. come on I'm believing it for you from the top of your head to the sole of your feet I am healed Circumstances I'm still here Disappoint me I am here. They have some stories. I am here. I am here. I am here. Come on, put a bounce on it. Come on.

38:38 I am here. I am here. With this smile, I am here. Come on. Oh. Oh. I am here. Come on, make it a whole bop. Come on, everybody. I am healed. I am healed. Oh, I am healed. I am healed. With this love. With this love. I am healed. They have some scars. I am healed. I am healed.

39:30 Circumstances. Circumstances. I'm still here. I'm still here. There's someone there. I am here. May have some, may have some, I am here. I am here. Oh, I am here. Come on, New birth. Come on, lean on it. I am here. Come on, lift your hands and sing it. I am here. I am here. Hey, come on. With his trust. With his trust. I am here. One more time, everybody. Oh, I am here. Yes, I am.

40:25 Yes, I am. Yes, I am. I am. I am healed. Come on, baby, get it, sing. I am healed. With His Son. With His Son. I am healed.

40:49 Come on, clap your hands if you claim your healing for yourself. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a museum, it's a hospital. We don't come to look pretty. We come to be set free and to be healed and to be delivered. Come on clap your hands if you know transformation is in this space. I hope you are energized that you don't need an energy drink. What you just heard should have you off and running, chasing your dreams, persisting pursuing your purpose, and answering your call. If this was a blessing, share it with somebody else. Don't be selfish. This is what God gave you so that you can be a blessing to somebody who needs it worse.