Rico Sharp preaches that the divine spirit inside you is greater than any external opposition, grounding his message in 1 John 4:4. He urges listeners to stop hiding their gifts and instead speak their inner greatness into existence, seeing a higher version of every role they occupy: wife, mother, entrepreneur, prophet.
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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. That's right. All he need is an idea. All he need 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. You're of God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is he that is in you Amen. 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, 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. Uh, let me go 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 Though you are an evangelist right now, there's a greater evangelist within you. Though you are an 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. 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? 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've met the struggling me. You haven't met the anointed me. Is there anybody that realize that they have the greater one on the inside? Something great is getting ready to come out of your life. Woo! 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. One more time, tell somebody, you don't know me.
