Keion Henderson - Average Traps

I want to start something today that I will continue, and I hope this will be a life-transforming series. We’re going to begin a series today called «Overcoming Average.» Today, I want to set you up to win, and I hope that in the upcoming weeks, if I do nothing else, I will introduce you to yourself so that you will finally recognize how much is inside of you. You can then begin to use all of yourself because the only thing you will ever accomplish is what you commit your entire self to. I want you to overcome every label that has either been placed on you or that you’ve placed on yourself. I want to break down the barrier of every lie that the enemy has ever told you about yourself. This is the turning point in your life; it is high time that you finally walk into the year of your elevation.

Today, we’re going to take a walk through the life of Joseph. We’ll start in Joseph 's chapter in Genesis chapter 37. I’m going to read four verses. I can sense that many of you are open to a move of God. I can tell; I really can tell that your spirit is ready for a shift. I don’t know if I’ve ever felt this before here; it’s almost like what Peter must have felt on the day of Pentecost when they were all of one accord. I sense today that you and your neighbor are in agreement that enough is enough.

I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t believe it. This isn 't just church talk; you’ve been with me long enough. The glory is in this place. You 've been through enough hell. Somehow, I don’t know why today, and I don’t know if it’s because it’s 9/11, but the strongholds are coming down. Mmm, I promise you, it’s a spirit; it’s something that God has released on the earth. I want you to take advantage of this moment because it may never happen again. Let the record show that I said I’ve never felt this type of move. What I love about it is, it isn 't a shouting move; it isn 't a slain-in-the-spirit move. This is an intellectual move of God. You are fully cognizant and aware of what God is about to do. You are so committed and ready to go that this is the last day you will ever be average. This is the last day you will ever achieve average results. You are about to walk into the newness of life. No more average!

Somebody shout «Overcoming!» today! Hallelujah! If you’re ready to provide for your family on another level, you’re ready to be healthy. Your time to be sick, anxious, or depressed is over. Some of you have even had this conversation with yourself before you got here today, and you cannot believe I’m even saying this because this is what you were telling yourself today. Everybody has been looking at you from the outside, thinking your life is in order, that everything is fine and that you’re good, and you don’t know how to tell them it isn 't what it looks like. What it looks like today is getting ready to become what it actually is; it’s getting ready to match what you’ve been praying for. You 're about to see what you 've been fasting for. You 'd like to see what you can dream. That was your dream; put yourself in it.

The scripture says, «And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger.» I talked about this on Sunday. Where was the place? Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob; Joseph, being 17 years old-oh God, wait a minute, has it been 17 years? I swear to you, that was not planned. No, no, no, seriously, it just came to me; it’s been 17 years since the Twin Tower attacks. Oh God! Oh God! I wish I could just fake it and act like I thought of that on purpose.

Joseph, being 17 years old-thank you, Holy Ghost-was feeding the flock with his brothers. The lad was with the sons of Bilhah and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought to his father their evil report. Now, Israel loved Joseph-talking about Jacob-more than all his children because he was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many colors. When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all their other brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.

I want to talk to all of you on this subject: «Overcoming.» It is a sermon about overcoming, and what are you going to overcome? I want you to overcome that average trap. Average is a trap, and it has many of us in its grip. Before I finish this sermon today, I’m going to teach you how to get out of the average trap. You may be seated in the name of Jesus. I have never, in my entire life, met a person who did not have a dream. I don’t care if they were rich, poor, Christian, atheist, Black, White, Latino, Asian, Muslim, or Catholic because it’s not relegated to religion.