The Nomadic Life - Touré Roberts

57:47 I want to show you something real quick. Jump over to Psalms chapter 16 real quick. I'm about to land this. I'm going to tie it up. I'm going to make it plain, and then we're going to go home. Psalm 16 and 5 says, Oh, Lord, you are the portion of my inheritance and my cup. Here it is right here. He says, you maintain my lot. You maintain my lot. then it goes on to say the lines have fallen to me in pleasant places so this means that the shepherd jesus the shepherd who is also the lamb because he's both leading and following is not moving ignorantly he's moving with an understanding of where our inheritance and where our portion is.

58:42 Before you showed up into the world, there was a portion. There was an inheritance. There are lines with your name on it. Your provision has already been secured. God is not trying to find your provision. He has already established your provision before the world began. But we have to come to a place where we trust the shepherd and know that we are not just wandering aimlessly, but the Lord who is my shepherd, I shall not wander. Uh-oh, there's a revelation. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Uh-oh, uh-oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. This recolors Psalm 23.

59:34 Because in Psalm 23, we claim a lot of promises. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I'll fear no evil, for you are with me. you will prepare a table for me in the presence of my enemies you will anoint my head with oil and my cup will overflow goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life you will restore my soul wait a minute wait a minute we claim those promises but don't realize the context the context is in Psalm 23 and 1 where it says the Lord is my I wish somebody would catch it to say the Lord is my shepherd is to confess that I am a nomad To say the Lord is my shepherd is to say I am bought with a price.

1:00:39 My life is not my own. I have a leader. I have a guide. That's why he says you will lead me in the path of righteousness for my name's sake. So we claim the promise without the posture. You can't claim goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life without claiming that the Lord is your shepherd. You can't claim that he'll prepare a table for you in the presence of your enemies unless you proclaim that the Lord is your shepherd because he's leading you to where the table is. Goodness, Marashah, and mercy is not following you if you're not following him. Goodness and mercy is a sign to the path that God, your shepherd, has preordained for you.

1:01:45 The oil, Lady Brenda, is not just anywhere. He doesn't just anoint you anywhere. You've got to be in the right place at the right time with the right attitude. Those promises have a context. And that context is the posture of a nomad. David was a nomad. Abraham was a nomad. Paul was a nomad. The Holy Ghost is nomadic. You're like, what are you talking about?

1:02:41 Study your Bible. In John chapter 3, when Jesus is trying to articulate to Nicodemus about the Holy Ghost, he describes it like the wind. You don't know where it's going from or where it's coming. Oh, PT, I need more Bible. Okay, in the very beginning, the Bible says that the Spirit of God was hovering, was moving over the face of the deep. So if I'm filled with the Holy Ghost, if I'm led by the Holy Ghost, then I am nomadic. And so... I want to pray for some people today. The Lord told me to pray these 10 blessings

1:03:31 straight from Psalm 23 over those who are committing, watch this, to surrender to God in such a way. that you would consider yourself a nomad. I know it's scary. The deception, comfort is very deceiving. it's very deceiving because with one computer glitch you can go from comfort to chaos with one storm you can go from comfort to chaos so then the question becomes where is safety in the will of God in the will of God in the word of God in the path of the shepherd Family, I'm not here to tickle your fancy.

1:04:30 I'm not here to entertain you. I have no desire. I'm from L.A. I'm from Hollywood. I've had enough entertainment. I have no desire whatsoever. to use the gift and the grace that's on my life to entertain you. My wife and I, Bishop, First Lady, and really all the pastors and ministers and leaders of this church, we're serious about you. We're serious about you. That's why we take our time.

1:05:09 Because we want to pack into this time with you together everything that God has told us, sometimes right on the spot that you need to be okay. If you're not okay, we're not okay. And we weep for you and we cry for you and we pray for you every single day. And we are committed to growing because you can't go beyond us. I mean, you can, but you understand what I'm saying. We can't be your lid. So we're in a secret place and we're asking God, God, what are you saying? Every single day, 16-page prayer. Every single day, God, what are you saying to your people? and I'm telling you without any hesitation without any ambiguity without anything other than absolute clarity God is saying embrace the posture of a nomad that's what Jesus was getting across that's what he was trying to teach them and that's why he used such extreme examples let the dead bury the dead that seems kind of harsh but it was dramatic when Jesus is trying to get something across he uses a dramatic if you don't hate mother he doesn't want you to hate mother he's being dramatic because he's saying hey I need to disrupt you I need to disrupt you with this truth Walking with Jesus necessitates periodic disruptions in how we think and how we are postured.

1:06:52 If Jesus doesn't disrupt your status quo, you haven't met him. You have a distant relationship with him. You know of him, but you do not know him. The Lord will disrupt you in the most holiest way because there's a you that's beyond the you that you are. So he has to disrupt this you to get you to the you that he knew before he put you in your mother's womb. If you are committed to embracing the identity of a nomad, I'm not asking you to do anything other than to say, I heard the word. And the young man argued it straight out the scripture.

1:07:34 Verse by verse, line by line, with supporting evidence. And I believe that God is your testimony. If you're watching via live stream, this is you. I'm telling you, there is safety in living a nomadic life. Noah was a nomad. I'm going to pray this blessing on everybody. If you are inclined, I'm going to sow into this because I believe it. I need God's help. And if you're compelled, I want you to sow in increments of 23. It could be $23. If $23 is nothing to you, then sow in increments of 23. It actually means something to you. It could be $230. It could be $2,300, $23,000. It could be $2.3. I don't know where you're at. But if this resonates, if it resonates, you believe that God spoke to you.

1:08:31 And one of the ways you know is because it challenges you. A word that doesn't challenge you is a word that you probably need to listen to again because you missed something. Foxes have holes. Jesus, I'll follow you wherever. Oh, really? All right. I don't even have a hole. You still going to follow me? I don't even have a nest. You still going with me? I don't even have a place to lay my head. But I'm kind of like the Levites. I didn't get the inheritance of land I got the whole enchilada if you are a nomad it doesn't mean that you have nothing it means that you have postured yourself to have everything If you're here, I'm going to pray these blessings over you. I want everyone to stand. If you're sowing into this, instructions are on the screen. Our PMTs are in the aisles.

1:09:30 Lift your hands. If God spoke to you. If you don't feel like he spoke to you, I'm not talking to you. But if God spoke to you and he challenged you. See, prophecy is a gift. It's a gift to the hearer. I couldn't serve a God that wouldn't send me prophetic words to prepare me, to establish me. That's not love. That's not love. It's not love to see the evil coming and not say anything. That's not love. Love is the same way we raise our kids. Do this. Don't do that. Hey, let me show you why this, you know what I'm saying? That's love. This is love. We could be talking about anything.

1:10:22 I'm telling you right now. God is saying your superpower in this season will be your agility. Some of you are going to have to take a minute. Take two or three days and go somewhere and pray. And suspend, suspend your allegiance. Watch this. your allegiance to sameness. your allegiance to sameness I'm thinking about our bishop, our founder from West Virginia.

1:11:02 And not just from West Virginia to here, levels in West Virginia, place to place. Watch this. Not just geographically. So, of course, we came here. Industry to industry. From a preacher, watch this, profession, to a filmmaker, to real estate. I'll be whatever I have to be. in order to stay safe. We have a nomad as our example. Here are the ten blessings. I'm filled with so much joy because I'm telling you, these are not just words.

1:12:00 If you receive this, and put some seed in the ground on this. In fact, hold on. Hold up. I feel and I don't just throw words out there I'm very careful but I feel divinity over this blessing I really do Father, we're standing in unison here today.

1:12:44 Even those who are watching via live stream. And we're standing, God, with obedient hearts. willing hearts, willing, willing. There is no resistance in us toward you, for to resist you is to resist life. We will not harden our hearts. We're coming to you in willingness, knowing God that if we're willing and we're obedient, you will ensure that we eat the good of the land. and God before we receive this blessing Lord forgive us for our stubbornness forgive us for our doubt forgive us to what we have clung to believing almost idolizing and making monuments out of that which was only a moment of provision Lord where we worship the gift and not the gift giver forgive us and God we worship you and we recognize that you are the good shepherd and if we're led by you we will never lack so God we commit today here in your house and in your presence we will be who you've called us to be surrendered subjects of the most high God we recognize that in you we live and move and have our being it's in you you are our shepherd hallelujah in Jesus name If you have seed, if you're compelled to do so, I want you to just hold it up as I speak these things over you.

1:14:40 Here are the 10 blessings from Psalm 23. There are more, but these are the 10 that he highlighted for me to speak over you today. Because you're embracing your identity as sheep, as nomadic sheep following the chief shepherd, one, you will have no lack. the Bible says the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want there's another translation that literally says I have no lack I have no lack I have no lack how can you have lack if the Lord is your shepherd number two you will make it to the next green pasture Here we go. you will make it to the next feeding place hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah there's some and it has been brittle and it has been dry and it has been dead but the lord told me to tell you according to psalm 23 he leads me Thank you.

1:15:49 green pastures you will make you will not die you will not fall off you will not expire before you get to the next green pasture that's what the lord told me to pray over you that's number two number three you will have divine direction you will not be wondering you will not be trying to figure it out. You will not be, you know, hey, is this the way or is that the way? You'll hear him whisper in your ear, this is the way. Walk ye in it.

1:16:30 You will have divine direction because he is your shepherd. Number four, your soul will be perpetually restored. He restored my soul. as you follow him he's going to lead you to water spots of restoration he's going to lead you to wisdom and revelation and there will be breakthrough for everything that vexes your soul he's going to restore you he's going to build you from the inside out and make you whole perpetually as you walk Barasheba you're going to be healed as you go Thank you. you're going to be healed as you go. As you embrace the identity of a nomad, just walk, just follow him.

1:17:23 You're going to be healed as you go. You're going to be healed in motion. You're going to look for the pain. You're going to look for the anxiety. You're going to look for the trouble and you won't be able to find it because he's going to heal you. He is going to perpetually restore your soul. Number five, you will have peace along the way. Peace that passes all understanding. He leads me beside the still waters. You will have peace. Thou will keep us in perfect peace if our mind is stayed upon you. That's shepherd language. As I look at the shepherd, as I focus on the shepherd, you're going to have supernatural peace. even when number six you have to walk through the darkest of times number six you will have assurance in the darkest of times you will have and and this too shall pass in your spirit even as you walk through the valley of the shadow of death there's going to be a divine insurance you're going to know you're not going to fear any evil because you will literally