Delayed Blessings Often Look Like This!

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]Trust God.

[00:00:03]Trust God.

[00:00:05]Capacity.

[00:00:06]Capacity is that word I hear God saying to you and I today.

[00:00:11]I pray that you are blessed, my brother and sister. I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ has blessed you today. Listen, I just want to ask you a question.

[00:00:18]What if God has a million clients for you and you haven't even started the business?

[00:00:24]What if God has a million book sales for you and you haven't even written a book?

[00:00:30]What if God has a million followers for you, a bunch of brand deals, UGC, the normal brands that you see floating around here on YouTube, TikTok, partnerships, but you haven't even posted the first piece of content?

[00:00:45]>> [snorts] >> What if God has the dream job that you've been asking him for, that you've been praying and you're asking, but you haven't even submitted the application or the resume?

[00:00:55]You know what's crazy? Some of you have been praying for increase for years.

[00:01:00]For years. You started this year, new year, I'm going in this year, I'm going to believe God, and I'm going to do powerful things.

[00:01:07]But if God answered the prayer tonight, you wouldn't even have the structure to hold the blessing.

[00:01:13]You wouldn't.

[00:01:14]And that's not condemnation, [clears throat] my brother and sister, that's revelation. Because God began showing me something recently that honestly changed the way I looked at obedience, favor, opportunity, all of it.

[00:01:27]He said, "I cannot bless what you refuse to build."

[00:01:32]I can't bless what you refuse to build.

[00:01:34]The word of God in Deuteronomy 28 says, "God will prosper everything you put your hands to."

[00:01:41]What are you putting your hands to?

[00:01:44]What?

[00:01:46]Are you even putting your hands to anything?

[00:01:48]Uh Proverbs 16:1 says, "To humans belong the plans of the heart, but from the Lord comes the the answer of the tongue."

[00:01:57]What are you giving God to work with?

[00:02:00]What?

[00:02:02]Are you even trying or or has fear crept in?

[00:02:05]We got a new week coming up.

[00:02:09]Capacity.

[00:02:11]I've been sent to just share with you pray for capacity.

[00:02:16]Pray for capacity.

[00:02:19]God wants you to release things in your life, but you need to plan, you need to strategize, you need to put together the plan.

[00:02:26]>> [snorts] >> You need to put together the blueprint.

[00:02:30]Walk through Proverbs. Proverb is full of wisdom on telling you how to get wealth, how to do things in God's way.

[00:02:37]Remember, Solomon had wisdom.

[00:02:40]Richest man on earth.

[00:02:42]See, we love saying I'm waiting on God.

[00:02:45]I'm It's God's timing. If it's meant to be, God will do it. But, what if heaven has already responded and now God is waiting on you?

[00:02:54]He is waiting on you to move. What if the delay is in spiritual warfare? What if the delay is in the devil cuz you know we quick to say oh the devil is busy. Oh the devil is doing this.

[00:03:05]What if the delay is the fact that you haven't showed up? You haven't moved.

[00:03:10]You haven't put together the plan for God to breathe on it.

[00:03:14]He's giving you the vision. He's giving you the idea. You keep looking at but I don't have the resources. You keep looking at all your limitations and what you don't have. You know what that mean?

[00:03:23]That's pride. You are saying now the outcome of this is dependent on me.

[00:03:29]It's not dependent on you. It's dependent on God. You are in covenant with him. You are walking hand in hand with him. There's your part to do and then there's God's part to do. You haven't done yours.

[00:03:42]You haven't.

[00:03:44]You haven't even moved.

[00:03:46]This week that is coming up, I am going to challenge you you move in that thing that God has placed in your heart to do.

[00:03:52]Now, listen, it's not going to be for everybody. So, there's many of you going to say, "Well, I don't know what God wants me to do." Then you need to go back to the drawing board and pray and ask God through the spirit to reveal to you, "Lord, what is your plan for me?

[00:04:04]What is your purpose for me? What is your call What is it that I'm supposed to be doing, Lord?" But, [snorts] for those of you who already know, you heard through the spirit something you supposed to be embarking on, but fear, lack, how it's going to work out, all of the thoughts, all of the what ifs are keeping you from moving in what God is telling you to. I need you, starting tomorrow, to get going in what God is calling you to.

[00:04:30]Because, listen, God is waiting on you now.

[00:04:34]He's waiting on you.

[00:04:35]He cannot bless what you don't put together.

[00:04:39]I started realizing something. A lot of us are asking God to send provision to places we were never prepared. We have You haven't prepared the bank account to receive. What do I mean by that? You haven't even put together the business plan. You haven't sought out the brick-and-mortar place that you're going to use. You haven't built the website.

[00:04:57]You haven't figured out, "Okay, I'm going to do t-shirts. Where am I going to get the t-shirts from? How much am I going to charge for the t-shirts?" You haven't done any of that.

[00:05:07]You haven't done any of that. Okay, you're praying and asking God, "I want to be married." But, have you healed that inner child that has been broken?

[00:05:15]Have you worked with God and the Holy Spirit to heal the broken parts of you so that God can present your boy as to you?

[00:05:22]Or God can present your rib to you? You have not done your part yet. See, we keep thinking faith is passively sitting and waiting on God to do everything. No, we walk in covenant with God. You got to do your part. He wants to give you your boy as. He wants to give you your wife.

[00:05:37]He wants to give you the business. You want clients, but there's no business.

[00:05:42]You want influence, but you keep deleting your content every time fear hits it and say, "Well, this looks stupid. That don't sound right. How am I showing Look how I show up."

[00:05:52]My thing is to honor God, to serve you all. I'm like Jesus, I'm washing feet.

[00:05:57]I'm serving.

[00:05:59]I don't come pretty every day. I I don't come all eloquent every day. I just want to honor God. So, I am doing I'm strategizing. I put together the plan. I do the research. Lord, what do you want me to tell your people?

[00:06:13]He gives me a subject matter. He give me scripture, and I do the best that I can to articulate it.

[00:06:19]God has to give the increase. God has to touch you all for you to receive it in the way that God wants you to receive it. I don't have that power.

[00:06:26]But see, you think everything that God is calling you to is hands-on you. Stop letting fear keep you. You want a husband, but you still run from vulnerability and healing. You won't be vulnerable enough with that man to tell him the broken places in your life. Hey, I experienced this as a child. I experienced this from a previous relationship. These type of things trigger me.

[00:06:48]You want financial overflow, but you still haven't learned how to steward the little you have.

[00:06:54]How What did Jesus say? He who is faithful in little will be blessed with more. You will be able to steward more.

[00:07:01]If you can't steward the little you got now, why do you think God would give you more?

[00:07:05]>> [snorts] >> Help me understand that.

[00:07:07]You want opportunities, but nobody even knows what you do yet. Nobody knows your skill. Nobody knows what you're good at.

[00:07:16]Nobody knows the anointing that God has placed on your life. And that's a hard truth that a many of us don't want to face. And I think sometimes people misunderstand faith. Faith is not sitting passively [clears throat] hoping something magically appears. God ain't raining manna down from heaven like he did for the children of Israel in the wilderness.

[00:07:34]He's not doing that anymore. Faith moves. Faith builds. Faith prepares.

[00:07:39]Faith creates rooms.

[00:07:42]Noah built the ark before rain showed up. He got a word from God. He did the best that he could. He didn't understand why. He just knew what God told him and he moved. Moved. Think about that. Rain had never even happened before. People probably thought he looked ridiculous.

[00:07:59]People going to think you look ridiculous. You don't think my family and people that I know thought I was crazy to tell them that God led me to do a YouTube channel.

[00:08:07]I started out on TikTok.

[00:08:09]Did I look crazy to them? I had no clue about anything. My background is accounting. That's what I do.

[00:08:17]I'm a CPA.

[00:08:18]So, if I would have said something to them in that line, they could have understood that. Yeah, they could have celebrated that, all the things, cuz that's what I do.

[00:08:25]This is not what I did. None of this.

[00:08:28]But, I obeyed the voice of God that I heard.

[00:08:32]Noah understood something that you have to understand. Obedience creates capacity. I told you the word that God gave me capacity cuz God has been telling me since 2004 to pray for capacity.

[00:08:45]To pray for capacity. Some of you are praying for rain while refusing to build the boat. You're not building the ark.

[00:08:51]You keep asking God, "Where's the opportunity, Lord?" And God is asking you, "Where's the structure?"

[00:08:58]God, where's the resources?

[00:09:00]Have you done all the paperwork, all the legwork, finding out about the permits, all the things that you need to build the business? Because favor never Favor needs somewhere to land.

[00:09:11]Woo!

[00:09:13]Favor needs somewhere to land. That's why some people miss what God was trying to do in their lives. Not because God didn't have it for them, but because fear, procrastination, your insecurity, your perfectionism, your overthinking, your fear about people's opinions of you and what they're going to say and how they're going to feel. Am I going to look stupid to them? I don't have this and I don't have that. Lord, I don't know how to do this. God is never going to call you to do something that he doesn't already know that you have the skill and the ability to do.

[00:09:42]Some of you have ideas from God sitting in notebooks right now. Sitting on a dresser, sitting in the cupboard.

[00:09:49]Businesses, books, podcasts, coaching programs, content, ministries, courses, community groups, prayer groups, online stores.

[00:09:57]And every day you keep talking yourself out of it. I'm not ready. I don't have enough. What if nobody supports me? What if my family laugh at me? What if I fail? What if it doesn't work out? Can I tell you something honestly?

[00:10:11]You're already failing by never starting. You're already failing by doubting yourself. You're already failing by allowing fear to drive.

[00:10:21]Buried potential helps nobody. There are people waiting for you to get in position.

[00:10:27]And I think this is season where God is trying to break people out of this passive type faith. Especially his children.

[00:10:36]You cannot pray for for visibility while you're hiding.

[00:10:40]You asking God, Lord, help me start the channel. Lord, help me start the podcast. Lord, help me get that job over at the hospital. You ain't did nothing to make yourself known. That you even exist. People don't know nothing about you. You can't pray for increase while refusing the responsibility of stewardship of what you have. You cannot pray overflow while avoiding obedience.

[00:11:05]At some point you have to move. You have to give God something to breathe on.

[00:11:10]Something to multiply.

[00:11:12]And no, it does not have to be perfect.

[00:11:14]God is not asking you perfect. He's asking you to just move and to trust him. I think that's where people get stuck. You think it's got to be perfect.

[00:11:22]You think all the eyes got to be dotted, all the tees got to be crossed. You think because it's small God can't use it. You think because you've made too many mistakes God can't use you. You think because you a felon, I'm a felon, God use me?

[00:11:35]What does that mean?

[00:11:38]All throughout scripture, God constantly multiplies small things. A little oil, a few fish, a few loaves of bread, a shepherd boy with stones, mustard seed.

[00:11:49]God has never needed perfection. He just needed participation.

[00:11:55]That's why Ecclesiastes 11:4 says, "He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap." In other words, if you wait for the conditions to feel perfect before you move, or everything to look right to you, cuz you want to be safe, and you want it to be comfortable for you, you will stay stuck forever. You will never move.

[00:12:16]Some of you are waiting to feel confident before posting, waiting to feel ready before you start the business, waiting to feel qualified before you obey. Confidence usually comes after your movement, not before it. Honestly, I think fear Fear has convinced you that preparation is wisdom.

[00:12:37]Sometimes preparation is just procrastination wearing a spiritual outfit.

[00:12:42]Because there's always another video to watch, another course, another reason to wait, another excuse.

[00:12:49]That vision keeps coming back because heaven never changed its mind about what God is calling you to do, about what was placed in you. It is yours. Woohoo! It is yours. I think this is the part people need to hear.

[00:13:04]Obedience to God unlocks the provision.

[00:13:08]He's not going to give you the provision before you take the move of faith. Not perfectionism, obedience.

[00:13:15]Obedience is all that God is looking for.

[00:13:19]Build the thing. Start the thing. Post the content. Write the book. Launch the business. Submit the application or the resume, create the structure, give God something to bless. Give God something to breathe on.

[00:13:36]He's waiting on you. You're not waiting on God because I really believe there are people listening to me right now and your next season is waiting on your move, your step of obedience. Not tomorrow, not next year, now.

[00:13:49]Now is the appointed time. Ecclesiastes 3:1.

[00:13:54]Now.

[00:13:55]When you finally move, you're going to realize God already had provision waiting on the other side of your yes.

[00:14:02]Just simply move. Listen, I pray that you were blessed by this. I pray that you receive this by faith.

[00:14:07]I pray that you receive this.

[00:14:09]If this blessed you and you know this was about you, I want you to drop obedience down in the comments. Shalom.