Dharius Daniels - I Want Out

I want to talk about this subject during our time together today. I want out; somebody that’s ready to go to the next level. Don’t wait until the battle is over, but if you’re getting ready to step out from one level into the next, give God a prophetic praise right here. I want our family to ease into this introduction today with a quote that I think is critically important and salient for this series of sermons we’ll be sharing throughout this entire month. For my note takers, the quote is as follows: What you are able to walk into is determined by what you are willing to walk out of. I’m going to say that one more time: What you are able to walk into is determined by what you are willing to walk out of. In other words, you cannot say hello to something new unless you’re willing to say goodbye to something old. I believe there are some people who are seated in this sacred space and watching us online who could honestly admit that God has perfected your goodbye. Thank you. People who don’t understand your experiences have misinterpreted your conviction as callousness. They think you are hard-hearted; they think you do not feel; they think you’re temperamental; they think you are a person absent of empathy. But they don’t understand that you have gained a revelation because you’ve been through situations where you realized that entrances into new seasons are preceded by exits from old ones. If I am not willing to walk out of something old, I won’t be able to walk into something new. I want to know, am I talking to anybody that feels new in you? I’ll say that one more time: Am I talking to anybody that feels new in you? Remember not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. Shall you not perceive it? What you are able to walk into is determined by what you are willing to walk out of. I know in culture and in Christianity, there is an obsession with entrances: what I’m getting ready to walk into, what God is getting ready to do, the doors that are about to be opened. But I want you to know, ladies and gentlemen, that if you master the art of the exit, you will never have to worry about an entrance. Watch this, because you cannot walk out of one room without walking into another. The enemy is aware of this reality, and he, therefore, attempts to inhibit our advancement by using strategies to keep us stuck. I want you to know that Satan not only specializes in sin; he specializes in being stuck. Talk back to me, 12 o’clock! I said, Satan not only specializes in sin; he specializes in stuck. He realizes and recognizes that being stuck leads to suffering, and being stuck leads to stagnation, while suffering causes you to operate at a degree and a dimension that is less than God’s best. He orchestrates stuckness—not just personally, but socially. He orchestrates it not just socially, but spiritually, so that stuckness becomes a social norm. And if stuckness is a social norm, I feel normal even though I’m stuck. Did you hear what I just said? I said, if stuckness becomes a social norm, I feel normal even though I am stuck. But I believe I’m talking to some people today who have a revelation that you are not saved just to be stuck. I believe I’m talking to some people today who will say the pain in my past has created a passion in my present to pursue everything that God has for me. That my suffering raised my standard. Please hear me: There would be some things I would have been okay with had I not been through what I’ve been through. But going through everything that I went through, if you think I’m going to settle for anything less than God’s best for me, the devil is a liar! All of these tears I’ve shed, all of this heartache I’ve endured, everything I had to bounce back from and recover from—the devil is a liar! The devil has to pay me for this pain. My Bible says if I sow in tears, I will reap in joy. Am I making sense? I said, am I making sense? I believe I’m talking to some people who have a holy discontent and anointed agitation with where you are. If that’s you, I want you to make this proclamation today. I want you to say it with fervor, conviction, and enthusiasm: say, I want out! You know what? Let’s shift that. Let’s say it with a little more faith and adjust that affirmation. Let’s make a prophetic proclamation without saying, «I want out.» I’m going to see who has faith. Somebody say, «I’m already out!» The devil shouldn’t have let me get to church today because I got my head out, and once my head gets out, everything else has to follow. I want you to praise God like you’re already out! I will not be able to walk into something new if I am not willing to walk out of something old. Our heavenly Father understands how important and imperative exits are. Exits are so important to God that He wrote a whole book on them. There is an entire book of the Bible, and we’re going to sit in this book all month long. We’re going to be in this book ten toes down all month long because by the time God gets through with you in this month of August—this month of new beginnings—you’re going to be out of Egypt! Whatever your Egypt is, you’re going to be out of Egypt and on your way to your Canaan. Exits are so…