Rico Sharp urges listeners to recognize and release the God-given gifts and greatness within them. He uses biblical metaphors like treasure hidden in the heart and a pregnant woman expecting twins to show that dying without manifesting your divine potential is the real tragedy. Sharp cites Jeremiah 29:11 and calls the audience to declare, "I am pregnant with greatness."
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heart brings forth good things. Say this with me, I have good treasure. I have good treasure. Within me. Within me. We've gone through life and we've brought out the bad stuff. Now it's time to bring out the good stuff. We brought out our weaknesses. Now it's time to bring out our strengths. We brought out our fears. Now it's time to bring out our faith. We brought out our low self-esteem, low self-value, low self-worth. Now it's time to bring out the mind and the attitude and the personality and the characteristics of Jesus whereby we realize where our help comes from. Amen. We brought out our lust. Now it's time to bring out our love. We brought out our anger and our lack of discipline. Now it's time to bring out that which God will be glorified by. And so we have this treasure But God says, "It's not there just to stay there. I placed it there so that you can bring it out, so that you can bring it out and extrapolate it, so that it can be applied to your families, to this ministry, to the kingdom, to your workplace, to your communities, to the society, and ultimately to the human race." Say this with me: I have more in store. See, the tragedy in life is not dying. The tragedy in life is dying full of what God planted in you without you having used it and brought it out. And then you take all that to the grave. Come on. And I say to you that the cemetery is the most wealthiest place in the earth, not in terms of gold and diamonds and silver and money, 'Cause I know some boys from the hood that will follow you to the cemetery and dig that up when it get dark. But I'm talking about the kind of stuff that refers to the level of creativity that you have, your brilliance, your intellect, businesses, your ingenuity, stuff that you have on the inside that you've not yet tapped into. And if you have tapped into it, you've not yet brought it forth because you're allowing for certain things and certain people and certain levels of mentality to keep you from giving birth to the greater you. And so people are born with greatness, and people are born with talent and born with skills and born with ideas, but yet never bring them out. So the tragedy in life is not dying, but it's dying full. It's dying before you empty yourself and pour out of yourself all that God has placed within you. It's dying knowing that you had dreams that you never saw come to fruition, visions that never got manifested, books that you never written, poems that you never written, songs that never got sang, ideas and businesses that never got a jump start. And you're taking all that to the grave. Selah. You're sitting in here right now and you're loaded. And some of you, you've been You've been frustrated because you know that you can do better than what you're doing and that you deserve better than what you have and you can give more than what you're giving and you can live better than what you're living, but you're stuck right now. And it's like a woman when she gets pregnant, she's expecting. She's not just pregnant, she's expecting. She's not just carrying, she's expecting. And God says in Jeremiah 29:11, That I would give you an expected end. I'll meet you at the level of your expectation. If you're carrying greatness and you know you have greatness within you, you have to expect that one day I'm going to push this thing out of me. One day I'm going to give birth. One day I'm going to give birth to twins. I'm going to give birth to triplets. I'm going to give birth to quadruplets. I'm going to give birth to septuplets. I'm going to give birth. Somebody shout, "I'm going to give birth." See, the Bible says in 1 John 4:4, you are of God, little children, which means you have God's Spirit, you have God's DNA. And if you know anything about God, God is a birther. He's, he's a creator. He don't need a whole lot to work with. All he needs is an idea. All he needs is a vision, a thought. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, let there be light, and there was. And God saw the light, that it was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. And the light he called day, and the darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Amen. He didn't need a whole lot. He knew that he was pregnant with some— something that he wanted to produce, and he started speaking to the thing that would produce what he wanted to have. And what you got to do is stop sitting there with all that power and sitting on all your greatness and sitting on all your gifts and all your anointings and all your talent and on all that grace and rise up and start speaking and decreeing and proclaiming and prophesying. Look at your neighbor and say, I'm going to do something in his house today. God help me, I'm going to do something. Hallelujah. You're of God, little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. Now we know from a surface level that that scripture is referring to the fact that God is saying, my Spirit in you is greater than the spirit of Satan, greater than the Antichrist, greater than the fallen angels, greater than principalities and powers and rulers of the darkness of this world. We understand that we have the Greater One on the inside of us, but can we go a little deeper? Can we dig for some oil today? Yes! Can we dig for some pearls and some diamonds and silver and gold? Let's, let's go a little deeper. Let's say that who you are right now as a husband, a father, a mother, a wife, an entrepreneur, a visionary, who you are right now as a preacher, an evangelist, apostle, pastor, teacher, whoever you are right now as a minister, You're good, you're great. You're who the world can see, you're who your family can see, you're who everyone knows. They see you, they know what you have to offer, they know what you can do, they know what you can produce. But the Bible says, but greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world, which means there is a greater you within you. Yes. Uh, let me go over here to this side. There, there is a greater you within you, which means that though you are a wife right now, there's a greater wife within you. Though you are a mother right now, there's a greater mother within you. Though you are a father right now, there's a greater father within you. Though you are an evangelist right now, there's a greater evangelist within you. Though you are entrepreneur right now, there's a greater entrepreneur within you. Though you are a prophet right now, there's a greater prophet, greater prophet is within you. Though you are a visionary right now, there's a greater visionary within you. Come on! Put your hand right here and say, the greater one is on the inside. The greater one is on the inside. Paul said in Philippians 1:6 to be confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you shall perform it. What does that mean? Something on the inside working on the outside, bringing about a change in my life. Can you look at somebody and tell them, you don't know me like you think you know me. Yeah, you, you've seen my goodness, but you haven't seen my greatness. You, you— what you've seen, you've seen the broke me, you haven't seen the rich me. You, you've seen the weak me, you haven't seen the strong me. You've met the depressed me, you haven't met the collect— calm, cool, and collective me. You, you've met the struggling me, you haven't met the anointed me. Is there anybody that realized that they have the greater one on the inside? Something great is getting ready to come out of your life. Put your hand right here, man and woman. Say, I'm pregnant with greatness. No, you didn't say it like you feel it. Shout, I'm pregnant with greatness! I'm pregnant with greatness! One more time, tell somebody, you don't know me. You don't know me.
