Touré Roberts - It's Time to Expand

God has given some of you your song back; some of you lost your song, and God is giving it back to you right now. You control the score of your life; you control the soundtrack of your life. Don’t make your soundtrack a horror movie. The devil is a liar! Your soundtrack is a comeback story; your soundtrack is an amazing story; your soundtrack has a happy ending. Come on, somebody! It’s trying to change the song; it’s trying to change the song. I’ve been praying, I’ve been sowing, I’ve been crying. Uh-huh! I’ve got seed in the ground. Come on, somebody! If you know you’ve been sowing, come on! If you know you’ve been praying, you know you’ve been sowing, and God will honor every seed. You need to understand that He will honor every seed, especially the seeds that you shed in tears when you didn’t have anything to give, but you gave it anyway. Sometimes you sowed faith; sometimes you sowed belief where there was nothing to believe in. Who am I talking to? There are some people in here right now, and you drove here. It took all of the belief you had in you to even get here today, to even get here. Some of you right now, God has sustained you, and you didn’t even know it. But if you look back, you should have quit a long time ago. You should have quit and gone back in the other direction a long time ago, but there was a fight in you that you didn’t even know you had. It took situations to manifest that fight. I want to read something to you. I believe with all my heart that God is speaking to some people in here right now, and He’s saying the change has come. But here’s the thing: the scripture says, «Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.» However, the morning is not when the breakthrough comes; it’s not when the manifested thing comes into your being. That’s not when the morning comes. The morning comes when you get a revelation that God is going to honor and bring harvest to every seed, every prayer, and every tear that you have invested. That’s when the morning comes. I believe that God is bringing a daybreak to some of you right now because some of you have been in a dark season for too long. You’ve been in a holding pattern, and you called it a holding pattern, but really it was a development pattern. I want to read something to you out of Isaiah 54: this is for you. Your morning is here; your morning is now. It’s been dark for too long! Oh God, I feel it. It’s been held back; I saw it. It’s been held back and delayed for too long. You were running out of gas; you started literally, your life started sputtering. You used to, but just, you know, in that last stretch, and you’ve just been starting to slow down, and your steps have gotten heavier. Who the heck am I talking to this morning? I just see it so clearly. Your steps got real heavy, like at the end of a workout. But you know that there are two ends to a workout, right? There’s the end that you think, and there’s the real end. The end that you think is actually right before the wind comes to take you to the next level in your workout. I don’t have enough people that work out to understand what I’m talking about. You know how, right before you get ready to quit, right when you want to quit, you’re about there, and you think, «Oh man, I wish it was over.» But something in you allows you to kick in! It usually only takes that window of about a minute. You’re like, «Oh man, you know what, I should go now. I have things to do; I should get out of here.» Then you get distracted by something, and you press through that minute. The next thing you know, you’ve got your drive back! I believe that God has brought you here for a divine distraction because you aren’t about to quit; you’re just getting started! God is about to move in your life in ways you could never imagine. But I want to read this to you because we’re talking about love. So here’s a word to you: «Sing, O barren!» Now, first of all, that’s crazy because who wants to sing when they haven’t been able to produce? «Sing, O barren!» Oh, I should be crying because I’m barren. I’ve been trying to produce, and I can’t produce. I’ve been trying to birth things, but I can’t birther them. It seems like I get close to it, and then it evades me. Has anybody ever been there? It seems like it’s so close! You invested so much faith, and then it just disappears. But God says in His word, «Sing, O barren!» In other words, it’s your time to sing. Everybody has to sing! I hear God saying, «I will never overlook you; I will never forget about you.» I know you’ve been barren for a while, and I know you’ve had expectations. I know you’ve believed things for a while, but I’m telling you, I will not overlook you. The way that you move into this is to start singing. To sing says, «I’ve got expectations.» To sing says, «I may not be exactly where I want to be in this moment, but I’m singing.»