1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Clifford's a special person and Kathy in our lives. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:08,160 We've been together a long time. 3 00:00:09,120 --> 00:00:12,080 We worked youth camp probably 20 years. 4 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:18,560 Went to, I remember back in the days of the early 90s, 5 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,040 we went through the MIP probably around 93, 6 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,000 I may be a little bit off, 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,560 but we went through the MIP together. 8 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:32,520 I was only one pastor during that time, 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,760 so I had people come and preach. 10 00:00:37,860 --> 00:00:41,220 Brother Clifford at that time was a redneck preacher. 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:46,720 Sister Kathy said, after service, 12 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:48,680 I wanted to climb under the seats, 13 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:53,680 but we had those little six foot strip pews. 14 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:58,680 We've served on boards together, 15 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:04,200 we've been on the state council together, 16 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,600 and he was just newly reelected. 17 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,860 Give it up for your pastor. 18 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:11,200 Amen. 19 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,300 We've served on the state ministries board together. 20 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:19,320 There's no telling how many years. 21 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:22,560 We've served on the youth board together 22 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,780 back before we got old. 23 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:28,160 They would vote for us to go on the youth board 24 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:32,340 if we went off two years, we went back on, 25 00:01:32,340 --> 00:01:34,980 after that two years was expired. 26 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,900 We have traveled all over the country, 27 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,200 together, laughed, had some wonderful times, 28 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:52,200 and I want to tell you, I love and honor 29 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,280 and respect your pastor. 30 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,620 You see, he isn't just a preacher according 31 00:02:01,620 --> 00:02:06,040 to the scriptures, and I'm gonna make mention of it 32 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,360 since that's not where I'm going this morning. 33 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,200 Paul said, your pastor is a gift, 34 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:17,200 and he gave some to be apostles and prophets, 35 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:27,920 evangelist pastors and teachers for the perfecting 36 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,860 of the saints, for the edifying of the body. 37 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,740 So that's what you've got. 38 00:02:35,740 --> 00:02:40,740 You've got a man that don't care to preach God's word. 39 00:02:44,260 --> 00:02:46,220 Do you know how blessed you are? 40 00:02:46,220 --> 00:02:49,380 He didn't ask me to, I've not talked to Clifford. 41 00:02:51,580 --> 00:02:56,140 Do you know how blessed this church is? 42 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,500 Now have a man of God. 43 00:03:02,660 --> 00:03:05,500 Now I'm not running him down, don't think that. 44 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:07,300 I don't want to kill the spirit. 45 00:03:09,820 --> 00:03:13,500 He's not one of them blue jean, 46 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:15,600 set on the stool preachers. 47 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:22,460 He's not one of those cool preachers, 48 00:03:23,460 --> 00:03:25,460 because he's gonna preach you the word. 49 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,500 If you amen or if you don't, 50 00:03:30,420 --> 00:03:33,660 and I don't say it's an honor, then I can go on and on. 51 00:03:33,660 --> 00:03:38,060 Brother Clifford was so good to my daddy, 52 00:03:39,180 --> 00:03:40,940 and I'll never forget that. 53 00:03:41,780 --> 00:03:45,380 Pap would go, they'd get together and go to West Tennessee 54 00:03:45,380 --> 00:03:50,380 and hunt rabbits and several of our pastors out there, 55 00:03:52,420 --> 00:03:55,020 they'd all get together and just have a big time. 56 00:03:55,020 --> 00:04:00,020 There's just so many emotional memories that I have, 57 00:04:04,860 --> 00:04:09,860 and I am honored to grace this pulpit today 58 00:04:11,740 --> 00:04:13,340 and preach God's word. 59 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:18,560 I'm blessed we got a few Dainty folks scattered out 60 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,860 around here that came this morning. 61 00:04:21,860 --> 00:04:26,700 We're glad you're here, but I'm here to preach 62 00:04:26,700 --> 00:04:30,500 the word of God, and you're only gonna get from me 63 00:04:30,500 --> 00:04:34,180 what I got out of my prayer closet all week long. 64 00:04:35,460 --> 00:04:39,500 That's all I have to go on, is my prayer closet. 65 00:04:41,060 --> 00:04:45,000 Because you see, I'm not well educated. 66 00:04:46,220 --> 00:04:47,880 I study and pray, 67 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:52,680 and I don't have a bunch of plaques. 68 00:04:52,680 --> 00:04:56,160 I've done leader labs, I've done MIP, 69 00:04:56,160 --> 00:04:59,120 I've done a few things, but what you get 70 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,120 is gonna come from the Lord this morning, 71 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:05,200 or what I believe is from the Lord this morning. 72 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:10,200 And I just wanna talk about living life the right way. 73 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:13,840 Living life the right way. 74 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:16,560 One more time, would you give it up for your pastor 75 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,520 and his wife and family? 76 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:22,520 Praise the Lord. 77 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:27,520 There's so many things I could tell you about youth camps. 78 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,520 I'm telling you, we had fun. 79 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:39,040 We would, I ran the kitchen for 20 years, 80 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,440 ordered the food, and we just had a big time 81 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,120 working together. 82 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,120 We had a group, you know, anymore there's always a shift 83 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,280 of different workers, but for years, 84 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:56,400 we had the same people in the kitchen. 85 00:05:56,400 --> 00:05:59,080 And we had the best time, we would laugh, 86 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:04,080 and Brother Clifford and Pap, who was my dad, 87 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:07,520 they would make the mashed potatoes. 88 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:10,440 They'd always say that, you know what, 89 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,480 you can put it in, but you can't take it out 90 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:13,320 once it's in. 91 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,120 So we gotta get this thing right with all that 92 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:22,120 big old blocks of taters and milk and pepper. 93 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:28,520 And so we had so many good times. 94 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,000 We had this one guy, you know, we'd always go take a nap 95 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,520 after we cooked breakfast. 96 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:35,680 Imagine that. 97 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,680 We'd go take a nap, and Hammer, 98 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:45,120 it'd take him a while to get all them dishes washed 99 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:46,720 because we didn't use paper plates. 100 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,200 You can be seated a minute. 101 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:55,640 And so we had just got to resting pretty good. 102 00:06:55,640 --> 00:07:00,640 And in comes Hammer thinking he's done something. 103 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,080 He forgot we had a key, a master key that fit, 104 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,080 it used to fit everything on the mountain. 105 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:15,400 And so he come in and made all kind of racket 106 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:20,400 and thought he'd done something, and we said, 107 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:22,480 well, just let him do it. 108 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:27,080 And we said, well, just lay here a few minutes, 109 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:32,080 let him get in his room with these little door locked, 110 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:35,400 feeling all safe and secure. 111 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:40,120 And so we, you know, he got heart trouble anyways. 112 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,480 We was young and ignorant at that time. 113 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:46,640 We slipped in and he was just all cuddled up 114 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:49,960 in his little blanket, all safe and secure. 115 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:53,560 We put his shoes up in the drop ceiling. 116 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:57,200 Two of us got one on one end, one on the other, 117 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:58,800 and picked up the mattress and 118 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,160 throwed it out in the floor. 119 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,480 He about had a heart attack over it. 120 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:07,920 But there's all kind of stuff that we just enjoyed, 121 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,760 laughed, enjoyed one another's fellowship. 122 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,000 There's a lot of stress in ministry. 123 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:19,000 And it's good to have those times like that. 124 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,400 But I'll always cherish all the many, many, many 125 00:08:22,400 --> 00:08:24,840 memories that we have in the, 126 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:27,520 and what God has in store for the future. 127 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:31,960 If you got your Bibles, turn to Psalm 34. 128 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:38,240 Psalm 34, you know, I don't get to preach what I want to. 129 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,480 If I did, I would preach something that I preached 130 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:44,160 a thousand times. 131 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:47,920 But I don't get to do that. 132 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:50,480 So we're gonna try to keep this thing moving 133 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:53,720 because I don't get done in a few minutes. 134 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:57,840 And it's not my intention, it's never been my intention, 135 00:08:57,840 --> 00:08:59,800 but it just turns out that way. 136 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,440 If you'll stand for the reading of God's word. 137 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:11,400 David said, I will bless, verse one, I will bless, 138 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:16,400 I will bless the Lord at all times. 139 00:09:18,360 --> 00:09:23,360 And his praise shall continually be in my mouth. 140 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:31,240 Oh, my soul shall make boast in the Lord, 141 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:36,240 the humble shall hear thereof and be glad. 142 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:41,240 Oh, magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt 143 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:44,920 his name together. 144 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:50,800 I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me 145 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:55,800 out of all, all, my dad used to say, 146 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,520 A-L-L-O, all of my fears. 147 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:05,520 Lord, in Jesus' name, add your blessings to the word 148 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:08,160 and what is to be done and accomplished 149 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:13,080 will give you praise in Jesus' name, amen. 150 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,800 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. 151 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:20,800 You see, there's the run of the mill of people 152 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:22,840 that come to church every Sunday. 153 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:26,360 Church don't save you. 154 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,680 You see, you can live life the right way 155 00:10:29,680 --> 00:10:32,800 or you can live it the wrong way. 156 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:39,080 But when you magnify God, when you begin to praise God, 157 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:45,120 he said that was the key to my deliverance. 158 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:50,440 I love what he said, he delivered me out of all of my fear. 159 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:55,440 So many people are bound by fear. 160 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:00,440 There are 365 verses, one for every day, 161 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:04,480 that deals with fear. 162 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,480 But I wanna tell you, when you got a relationship 163 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:13,480 with the Lord, you don't have to walk around in fear. 164 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:17,000 You don't have to have a phobia, 165 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:21,120 you don't have to have a phobia, well, I wonder 166 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,320 how things are gonna work out. 167 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,400 Can I just preach a minute to you and tell you 168 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:31,400 out of my own experience and talk to you just a little bit 169 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:34,400 and if I get too loud, turn me down out there, 170 00:11:34,400 --> 00:11:36,920 but keep me here, amen. 171 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,320 Can I tell you, we can't control 172 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,560 what's going on outside of us. 173 00:11:41,560 --> 00:11:46,560 But we got complete control over what goes on within us. 174 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:52,440 Ever since he saved us, you see, you can create 175 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:57,440 an atmosphere for the presence and the glory of God 176 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:00,240 to work within you, amen. 177 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,320 You can't control what's going on, 178 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:05,320 but you can control the atmosphere. 179 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,320 You can control the atmosphere. 180 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:13,680 And the first thing I want you to notice, 181 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:18,120 the first step in living life the right way, 182 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:23,120 is you gotta create the right atmosphere. 183 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:27,440 And in one word, it's mentioned in our text, 184 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:29,920 and it's called praise. 185 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,120 It's called praise. 186 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:35,240 Oh, what do you mean, preacher? 187 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:39,240 What do you ever notice when you walk into a room? 188 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:47,480 You can tell if it's motivated, 189 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,920 that person's motivated by fear. 190 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:58,560 You can tell if they're motivated by anger, 191 00:12:58,560 --> 00:13:05,560 and anxiety, because it comes out of their spirit. 192 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:10,120 And you can recognize the atmosphere 193 00:13:10,120 --> 00:13:12,640 that is going on there. 194 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,840 But can I tell you, you can create 195 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:19,280 an atmosphere of thanksgiving. 196 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:23,360 You can create an atmosphere of gratitude. 197 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,440 And you can create an atmosphere 198 00:13:26,440 --> 00:13:31,440 of giving praise and glory and honor to the Lord. 199 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:33,960 Are you with me? 200 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:39,960 You see, God is a God that responds to the atmosphere, 201 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:47,040 the atmosphere of thanksgiving, the atmosphere of praise. 202 00:13:47,280 --> 00:13:51,360 You see, there is a little place in the Old Testament, 203 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:56,360 there was a man by the name of King Saul. 204 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 King Saul battled with depression. 205 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:06,440 And when he would get troubled, 206 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,440 he would say, go get that little shepherd boy. 207 00:14:12,680 --> 00:14:15,320 What's that shepherd boy been doing? 208 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,800 He's been on the hill, Judean hillside, 209 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,320 a man singing the Lord's my shepherd. 210 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:24,600 I shall not walt. 211 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,840 And David would come, and all David would do 212 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:33,760 was pluck his harp, come to the palace 213 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:36,800 where the king was seated on the throne. 214 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,800 And all David would do is pluck his harp 215 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:42,840 and praise the Lord. 216 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:47,280 But the room would be filled with the presence of the Lord. 217 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,280 And King Saul, amen, would experience peace again. 218 00:14:56,320 --> 00:15:01,320 That story's in 1 Samuel 16, 22 and 23. 219 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:09,040 You see, we can change the atmosphere 220 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:17,040 even when things have not changed situationally yet. 221 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:22,560 Things we're praying for, things we're believing God for. 222 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:28,040 You see, you don't have to walk around with your head down. 223 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,960 We've read this book enough times, 224 00:15:30,960 --> 00:15:33,720 we've heard it preached enough times, 225 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,760 we know what the say at the word of God, 226 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,400 how He'll never leave us nor forsake us, 227 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:42,680 how He's always there with us 228 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,320 right in the midst of our crisis, 229 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:47,400 right in the midst of our storm. 230 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:52,400 But you can control the atmosphere around you. 231 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:59,160 Paul and Silas, you would have thought 232 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,760 they would have praised them for what they were doing. 233 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:05,760 Instead, they beat them half to death. 234 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:11,920 Threw them not just in prison, but in the inner prison, 235 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:16,920 in the lower vessels of the prison. 236 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:24,360 Paul and Silas could mope around and look at theirself. 237 00:16:27,360 --> 00:16:31,680 We have so many people that I know there's none at Hopewell 238 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:34,080 that act like that, but want to say, 239 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,960 I don't know why this is happening to me. 240 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,560 I don't know why I'm going through this. 241 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,040 I don't know why I've got this pain. 242 00:16:42,040 --> 00:16:44,880 I don't know why I've got this affliction. 243 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,440 But I want to tell you, Paul and Silas, 244 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:50,200 the Bible said in Acts 16, 245 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,040 they just stuck up some praise and worship 246 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:55,280 and began to pray at midnight. 247 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:59,120 And the Holy Ghost showed up and ranked sinners 248 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:03,680 who would have wanted in any other situation 249 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,280 to leave the prison. 250 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,760 Nobody left, because I want to tell you 251 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:12,600 that when you have the captivating atmosphere 252 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:15,240 of the presence of God in your life, 253 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:20,040 and you know who God is and what he's done in the past 254 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,480 and what he's doing in the present 255 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:34,160 and what he's doing in the future, you can control the atmosphere. 256 00:17:34,160 --> 00:17:39,000 It's just like working. 257 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,920 Not only that, let's move quickly if we can. 258 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:54,080 We can understand the atmosphere of our life. 259 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,840 What kind of people are you hanging out with? 260 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:06,480 You want to control negative atmospheres, 261 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:09,400 negative thoughts, 262 00:18:09,400 --> 00:18:15,520 what kind of people do you hang out with? 263 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:22,400 Are they negative or positive? 264 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:29,200 Are they faith-filled or are they fearful? 265 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,600 Not only that, what kind of music? 266 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,200 You see, it don't matter. 267 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:41,800 I got a church to go pastor when I get done. 268 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:45,560 What kind of music are you listening to? 269 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:50,640 What kind of things are filling your mind? 270 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:58,360 Because all of that creates an atmosphere. 271 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,120 It creates an atmosphere, 272 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:08,640 and God is either drawn to the atmosphere or withdrawn. 273 00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:12,240 Abimelech is after David, 274 00:19:12,240 --> 00:19:16,040 but David said, I'm going to bless the Lord. 275 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:18,560 I'm going to bless the Lord. 276 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:21,760 Everything ain't just ideal in my world, 277 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:24,200 and I don't get everything I want, 278 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:27,320 but I want to tell you one thing I'm going to do. 279 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:32,280 I'm going to bless the Lord, and I'm going to bless Him all the time. 280 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:38,120 His praise is going to continually be in my mouth, 281 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:46,440 not just in my heart, but in my mouth, 282 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:54,040 creating the right kind of atmosphere. 283 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:57,280 I'm just a country boy from Dunlap. 284 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:01,360 Don't plan on changing. 285 00:20:01,360 --> 00:20:05,440 So I'll just be comfortable. 286 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:05,920 Amen. 287 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,960 Not make myself at home, but be comfortable. 288 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:14,000 David said, I'm going to bless the Lord. 289 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,520 Oh, He's delivered me. 290 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:17,600 He's delivered me. 291 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,400 I want to tell you, sometimes we get in the mullet grubs, 292 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:26,280 and we fail to think about all that God's already done for us. 293 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:29,960 Oh, I was reminiscing why Brenda was driving us 294 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:34,920 to this meeting this morning, and just in awe at all 295 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,120 that God has provided, and all that God has done, 296 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:43,160 that we can get in this won't mentality. 297 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:47,160 I don't have this, and I don't have that, 298 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:50,320 but I'd rather have Jesus. 299 00:20:50,320 --> 00:20:56,440 I'd rather have Jesus than anything. 300 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,800 Oh, you can keep your silver. 301 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:01,080 You can keep your gold. 302 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,680 Oh, just give me some Jesus. 303 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:13,760 A few weeks ago, I was just thinking and reminiscing. 304 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:20,120 It came to my mind that there are certain things you don't 305 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:26,920 have, but the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, 306 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,120 have I not heard of you? 307 00:21:29,120 --> 00:21:35,800 But the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, have I not always? 308 00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:44,560 Giving you everything that you need. 309 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:52,720 I'm telling you, you'll drive the enemy out of your home. 310 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:55,640 You'll drive the enemy out of your marriage. 311 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,800 You'll drive the enemy out of your children. 312 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:04,000 When you start creating an atmosphere of worship and 313 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,000 praise, some of you can't even praise Him when you get to 314 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:11,840 church on Sunday morning because you've not created a 315 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:16,000 place for the presence of God to dwell, to speak, 316 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,720 to minister to you. 317 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,000 You're just stuck where you're at. 318 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:22,160 You're stuck in your depression. 319 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:24,840 You're stuck in your ugly attitude. 320 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,560 When the Lord didn't come to leave you like you are, 321 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,880 He came to bring you out. 322 00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:35,120 Oh, He brought me out of the horrible pit and out of the 323 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:41,240 miry clay, and He set my feet upon a rock and established 324 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:42,720 my going. 325 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:54,720 And oh, He's given me a song, a song of praise in my mouth. 326 00:22:54,720 --> 00:23:02,520 Atmosphere, what kind of atmosphere are you creating? 327 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:09,760 I need to hurry up, my Lord. 328 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:15,960 You've got to have the right energy source in your life. 329 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:19,200 The flesh can't fight flesh. 330 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,280 You're going to get defeated. 331 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,880 People try so hard to walk in victory, but they're trying to 332 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:30,040 do it in a humanistic way. 333 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,840 They're still forgot. 334 00:23:32,840 --> 00:23:40,800 They done forgot that they have been born with a supernatural 335 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:44,720 birth from the Holy Ghost, and they were never called to walk 336 00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:45,800 in the natural. 337 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,920 They were never called to walk in the natural. 338 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:52,920 They were never called to fight battles in the natural anymore. 339 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:54,680 They're still trying to fight. 340 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:59,840 They're still trying to prove a point, and it isn't just flesh 341 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:01,440 you're dealing with. 342 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:06,720 Paul said in Ephesians 6 and 12, for what we wrestle against 343 00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:11,640 is not flesh and blood only, but it's against principalities 344 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:19,520 and powers, against spiritual wickedness, in hierarchy, 345 00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:21,640 in high places. 346 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:30,640 But we've got a supernatural energy source. 347 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:38,120 Paul said in 2 Corinthians 10, 4 and 5, for the weapons of our 348 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:39,760 warfare. 349 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:46,000 They are not fleshly, and they are not carnal, but they're 350 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:47,320 mighty. 351 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:53,920 They are mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds 352 00:24:53,920 --> 00:25:00,560 and casting down imaginations and every high thing that 353 00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:04,280 exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing 354 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:09,680 every thought into captivity, bringing it into the obedience 355 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,280 of Christ. 356 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:13,200 When it comes, you pull it down. 357 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:18,440 When it's impure, when it's not right, when it's envious, when 358 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,840 you've got jealousy in your heart, pull it down. 359 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,320 Pull it down. 360 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,040 He give you power. 361 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:30,000 I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions and over 362 00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:38,880 all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means 363 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,880 prosper. 364 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,600 Oh, you better stay with the message, preacher. 365 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,400 People be walking out. 366 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:53,080 We have a supernatural power. 367 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:57,160 It's our energy source. 368 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,360 That's why the Bible talks about praying in an unknown 369 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:04,880 time. 370 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:10,120 When you pray in the Spirit, you pray in the language that 371 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:12,120 He gives. 372 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:16,800 Oh, preacher, we don't believe that. 373 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,200 Well, it's part of the Bible. 374 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:20,280 It's part of the Bible. 375 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,560 1 Corinthians 14 and 2, he that speaketh in an unknown tongue 376 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:30,280 speaks not to men, but rather they speak unto God, for no 377 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,080 man understands him. 378 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,920 I somehow bet in the Spirit he's speaking mysteries. 379 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:39,720 You see, sometimes we're all messed up. 380 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,920 Sometimes we're overwhelmed by trials. 381 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:47,160 Sometimes we're overwhelmed by situations, and we're trying to 382 00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,920 figure out how am I going to deal with this, and how am I 383 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:52,600 going to handle this? 384 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:57,120 But he said when you pray in the Spirit, you bypass your 385 00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:03,360 mind, you bypass your opinion, and you bypass everybody else's 386 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:07,960 opinion, because when you get in the Holy Ghost, you start 387 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:13,760 speaking and praying the will of God, not what you like or 388 00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:17,520 dislike, not what you want and don't want. 389 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:23,760 You start speaking the will of God. 390 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,280 I don't care about man's opinion. 391 00:27:28,280 --> 00:27:31,840 When you pray in the Spirit, you bypass all of that. 392 00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:42,400 Paul said, in my prayer life, I pray in the Spirit, and I pray 393 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:46,800 in an unknown tongue. 394 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,760 1 Corinthians 14, 39, wherefore, brethren, covet to 395 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:59,120 prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. 396 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:02,960 Oh, but religion says you can't do that. 397 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,560 But it's in the Bible. 398 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:09,840 It was in the upper room in Acts chapter 2, when the day of 399 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,480 Pentecost had fully come, 500 heard. 400 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:17,960 But there's only somewhere around about 120. 401 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:23,000 But when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all, 402 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,000 all of them were one accord in one place. 403 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,280 And suddenly, I got to hurry, suddenly there came a sound. 404 00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,080 There came a sound. 405 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,400 I don't care how good you sing. 406 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,400 I don't care how good a musician you are. 407 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:39,880 I want to hear a sound from heaven. 408 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:42,160 I want heaven to come down. 409 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:44,480 I want heaven to come down. 410 00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:46,520 I want heaven to come down. 411 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:48,960 There came a sound from heaven. 412 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,080 It wasn't a Russian mighty wind, but it was like one. 413 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,840 And it filled all the house where they were sitting, and 414 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,360 cloven tongues like as a fire set upon them. 415 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,320 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and again to 416 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,280 speak with other tongues. 417 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:11,120 As the Spirit give the uttered chest, it's in Acts chapter 19, 418 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:17,240 where Paul said, have you received the Holy Ghost since 419 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,280 you believed? 420 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:24,360 Well, we've not even heard, will there be any Holy Ghost 421 00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,320 or not? 422 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,480 And he said, what were you baptized in? 423 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,200 They said, John's baptism. 424 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,920 But he laid his hands on them and told them to receive the 425 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:37,520 Holy Ghost. 426 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:42,120 You know, we have a large life recovery. 427 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,280 You know, we didn't do anything to get them. 428 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,360 We inherited them. 429 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:53,080 During 2020, we were doing parking lot services. 430 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,240 A man had come because where he had been attending church, 431 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,400 they didn't want Lazarus House. 432 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:07,040 Lazarus House has over 100 men in Lazarus House. 433 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:08,400 And they started coming. 434 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,720 And when we went back in the building, we didn't wait long. 435 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:15,600 They said, did you know you got 20 people that's got COVID? 436 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,560 I said, yeah. 437 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,120 But they're at home. 438 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,080 They're not at church. 439 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,880 So we just had church. 440 00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:28,880 Amen, ain't no need worrying about that. 441 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:31,520 They can watch online. 442 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:36,080 But when we went back in, Lazarus House had about 45 443 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,040 to 60 people in it then in 2020. 444 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,080 Now there's about 110 in the program. 445 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:46,400 I had Jimmy Talley. 446 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:49,440 Renee had spoke at the ladies' conference. 447 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:50,560 They'd had a great conference. 448 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:54,840 And I had Jimmy on Sunday morning. 449 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:57,200 Jimmy is supposed to preach. 450 00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,440 He didn't. 451 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:03,960 There was a powerful presence of God that came down. 452 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:06,880 I've never done this all the years I've been in Pentecost. 453 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,000 Some of them guys come up. 454 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:15,560 I said, you want Holy Ghost? 455 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,400 They said, yeah, we want it. 456 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:19,160 I said, you only got to do one thing. 457 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,600 That's all you got to do. 458 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:22,680 They said, what's that? 459 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,040 I said, open your mouth. 460 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,400 And I'm talking about guys that had never 461 00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,360 been brought up in Pentecost. 462 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,720 I'm talking about young men since they 463 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:35,600 was 9 to 11 years old, their parents have been on drugs. 464 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,680 And they done drugs. 465 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,960 And they don't even know what church is all about. 466 00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:41,880 I said, open your mouth. 467 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:45,640 I said, get over here, brother Jimmy, my God. 468 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,040 People receiving the Holy, as soon as they opened their mouth, 469 00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,680 they started speaking in tongues as the spirit gave 470 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:53,920 the utterance. 471 00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,480 They didn't even fully understand it. 472 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:01,000 But I want to tell you, honey, I don't fully understand it yet. 473 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,040 But I know it's real. 474 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:07,560 And I want to tell you, it's my supernatural energy source. 475 00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,880 And when I can't push my way through a mountain, 476 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:14,880 I can pray my way through to the Holy Ghost 477 00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:16,760 and get victory over it. 478 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:20,920 Supernatural. 479 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:25,960 We don't have a cap on it. 480 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,960 But it's available. 481 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:29,960 It's for you. 482 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:33,640 Somebody say, I got to get the Holy Ghost to go to heaven. 483 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:36,240 Honey, you need it here. 484 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,800 You need it here. 485 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,480 You're going to do some supernatural stuff. 486 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,920 No, you ain't going to get all the recognition. 487 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,720 And people ain't going to always pat you on the back 488 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,760 because you're not here for that. 489 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,920 You've been equipped by the power of the Holy 490 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,520 Ghost to do supernatural signs. 491 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:55,920 And wonders. 492 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,200 And the Holy Ghost are going to do the work. 493 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,920 All you've got to do is be obedient and submissive 494 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:02,920 and surrender to the Holy Ghost. 495 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:09,040 I'm glad we got a supernatural source. 496 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:12,760 But religion says you can't have it. 497 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,640 But I'd rather have what the Bible says. 498 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:21,480 When you pray in the Spirit, it is 499 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,720 your supernatural energy source. 500 00:33:24,720 --> 00:33:30,920 And if Isaiah, 700 years before Christ, can prophesy 501 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:37,920 of Him, he can prophesy that with stammering lips 502 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:43,400 and other tongues, will God speak? 503 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,160 We're worried about all the different languages. 504 00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:50,000 We need to tap into the language of the Holy Spirit. 505 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:53,440 And walk in the power of the Spirit. 506 00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:57,880 Because I want you to understand that your supernatural energy 507 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:02,720 source called the Holy Ghost, he's got a mind to think 508 00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:06,080 and a mouth to speak. 509 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,480 Likewise, I go in and pray with a Sunday school 510 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:10,600 class every Sunday. 511 00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,360 And sometimes I just preach to them. 512 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,560 I told them, I said, you know what? 513 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,040 What's wrong with the church? 514 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,200 It isn't that they don't pray. 515 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:29,760 They get up and going to pray what they want to pray. 516 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:31,040 That's not a prayer of the Spirit. 517 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,360 I said, let me tell you something. 518 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,680 God's doing something great in the land today 519 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,880 in spite of all the evil. 520 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,880 Seemed like over the last month to six weeks. 521 00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:45,120 And I don't know why. 522 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:51,000 But God, even in the middle or end of our altar services, 523 00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,760 God starts using me to speak prophetically. 524 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,720 And I pray for people. 525 00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:58,960 And word of knowledge comes. 526 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:01,960 But I don't just get up. 527 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,200 The Holy Spirit told me to tell people 528 00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,960 that the atmosphere is so clouded 529 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,400 by the presence of the Lord. 530 00:35:11,400 --> 00:35:24,280 If you will come before Him and say, Holy Spirit, here I am. 531 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,840 I said, the Holy Ghost will show up. 532 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,600 Can I tell you, I go in the same place. 533 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:30,600 It's my place. 534 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:31,760 It's my happy place. 535 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:35,280 It's where I walk, prayer walk. 536 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,120 And I pray for people. 537 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:42,200 And I go in the same place, it's where I walk, prayer walk. 538 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:46,160 But I never just walk in to pray. 539 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,520 And there's nothing wrong with using helps. 540 00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,560 But whatever song is in my spirit, 541 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,160 I just begin to walk the sanctuary and pray. 542 00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:02,840 And the Holy Ghost shows up and starts speaking. 543 00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:07,840 I'm going to take my iPhone and get in my notes. 544 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,240 What He's speaking and what He is saying. 545 00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:16,680 You don't have to push down the gates of hell for hours. 546 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,600 We are in a dimension. 547 00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:23,800 We are in a realm in the Holy Ghost. 548 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,800 If you will make yourself available 549 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:29,880 and make sure if there's any sin in your heart, 550 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,080 you open up your spirit to the Lord 551 00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:36,880 and you open up your spirit man to the things of God. 552 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:41,280 He's going to show up and He's going to start speaking 553 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:42,920 and empowering you. 554 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,920 And you're going to see into the spirit realm 555 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,160 like you never have before. 556 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:52,520 Because we're approaching the coming of the Lord. 557 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,360 But God is not done with our assignment. 558 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,200 God is not done with the church. 559 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,600 We're in a burning, dying world. 560 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,200 And we can't do it on our reputation. 561 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,200 We can't do it on the name of the church of God alone. 562 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:08,840 We got to do it in the Holy Ghost. 563 00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:09,840 Amen. 564 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:15,680 Equipped, empowered, and prompted by the Spirit. 565 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,680 I won't charge you for that. 566 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,200 But they looked at me real funny. 567 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:27,200 I think Brother Andre was in there that morning. 568 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,200 He was 28. 569 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,200 Likewise, the Spirit helps our infirmities. 570 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:35,200 Eight and 26. 571 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:38,200 Well, we don't even know. 572 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,200 I've had people go, I don't even know how to pray. 573 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,200 You don't even have to know. 574 00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:51,200 If you know Jesus, you give yourself to Him. 575 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,200 We don't know how to pray. 576 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,200 Our infirmities affects our thoughts and affects us. 577 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,200 In different ways. 578 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:04,200 We don't know how to pray like we're supposed to. 579 00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:09,200 But the Spirit helps us. 580 00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,200 Makes intercession for us. 581 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,200 With groanings cannot be uttered. 582 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,200 Verse 27, I love it. 583 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,200 Because He that searches the hearts 584 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:24,200 knows what is the mind of the Spirit. 585 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,200 Because the Spirit. 586 00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:31,200 You see, we're trying to pray and bypass the Spirit. 587 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,200 I will pray and eventually I'll get in the Spirit. 588 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,200 No, honey, any hell it works. 589 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,200 Because you're just going to pray what you want. 590 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,200 I really need this, God. 591 00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,200 You know my situation. 592 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,200 And there's nothing wrong with that. 593 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,200 But I'm trying to tell you if you will make yourself 594 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,200 available to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit's going to 595 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,200 pray through you. 596 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:56,200 And He's not going to pray what you like or dislike. 597 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,200 He's going to pray in alignment with what falls in line 598 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,200 with the will of God. 599 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,200 You want to get your prayers answered, 600 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,200 you let the Spirit pray through you. 601 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:07,200 Amen. 602 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,200 And you submit to that. 603 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:10,200 And you obey that. 604 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:12,200 And you watch Him work. 605 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:14,200 And then you can get to verse 28 and say, 606 00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,200 well, we know that all things are working together 607 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,200 for good with Him that loved God. 608 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:22,200 They called according to His purpose. 609 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,200 And they called Him a musician. 610 00:39:24,200 --> 00:39:26,200 I've got four more. 611 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:29,200 I've got five more points, to be honest with you. 612 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,200 But I'm not going to do it. 613 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:36,200 I quit a lot of times on Sunday morning at my church. 614 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,200 I study all week. 615 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:42,200 It's hard not to just have all kind of stuff that you want 616 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:46,200 to say, but you've got to have enough wisdom to shut up 617 00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,200 and save it for another Sunday. 618 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,200 I've not learned that yet. 619 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:53,200 I just got a church that loves me. 620 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:57,200 And when I preach an hour or an hour and 15 minutes, 621 00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,200 now, a lot of them would like to tell me that, 622 00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:02,200 but only my wife tells me. 623 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,200 And I said, honey, I understand you. 624 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,200 I get it. 625 00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:16,200 Pray that I'll be able to shut it down instead of keep going. 626 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:22,200 You see, when we get filled with the Spirit, 627 00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:24,200 what does America need? 628 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:28,200 I know we think we need Trump. 629 00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:34,200 I sure know we don't need Kamala. 630 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:38,200 But I can tell you what we do need. 631 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,200 Amen. 632 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,200 Sorry, Brother Clifford, I apologize. 633 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:45,200 No, I don't. 634 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:50,200 America needs a Holy Ghost. 635 00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:55,200 Not just the church, but America needs a Holy Ghost. 636 00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,200 There's too much racism. 637 00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:01,200 There's too much hate in the world. 638 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:07,200 America needs to receive the Holy Ghost. 639 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,200 The Holy Ghost will make you love one another. 640 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,200 The Holy Ghost will make you want to be there for one another. 641 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,200 The Holy Ghost will make you want to be supportive 642 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,200 and love one another. 643 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:23,200 Is this, is anybody here? 644 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,200 Too much hate. 645 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,200 Too much flesh. 646 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:34,200 We need the power of the Holy Ghost. 647 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:39,200 Because, you see, the devil helped you never learn it. 648 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,200 And some people live all their life and never learn it. 649 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:48,200 You don't have to play fair with the devil. 650 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:51,200 You don't have to play fair with the devil. 651 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:58,200 We can go straight in to the throne room of God. 652 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:06,200 Let us come boldly into the throne of grace 653 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:15,200 that we might obtain mercy and find grace 654 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:20,200 to help in a time of need. 655 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:28,200 You see, I can't help what's happened to me. 656 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:34,200 I was brought up in the Church of God 657 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:37,200 when they'd stay half of the night 658 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,200 praying people through to the Holy Ghost, 659 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:44,200 casting out demons, doing the work of God. 660 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,200 I've been left at church 661 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:56,200 where I was just a little fella and fell asleep underneath one of the pews. 662 00:42:56,200 --> 00:42:59,200 Daddy Pastor Griffith Creek at the time, 663 00:42:59,200 --> 00:43:02,200 and they were on their way home in 20 minutes 664 00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:06,200 and left back to Dunlap and said, 665 00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:13,200 Janice, Terry, where's David? 666 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:20,200 Cars pitch black dark. We don't know where he's at. 667 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,200 Well, they came back and I never knew they were gone. 668 00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:27,200 Thank God. 669 00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,200 What are you trying to tell me, preacher? 670 00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,200 I'm trying to tell you we have an energy source 671 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:38,200 that we're not tapping into. 672 00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,200 It's available to the church. 673 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:47,200 It will make a weak man strong. 674 00:43:47,200 --> 00:43:54,200 It will make a person who is bound and addicted set free. 675 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:59,200 I'm so excited about the ministry 676 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:04,200 because we've got all kinds of folks that's been through recovery. 677 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,200 We have done everything for them. 678 00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:14,200 All they've got to do is walk down the center aisle and say, I do. 679 00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,200 They're living together, shackin' up, 680 00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:20,200 but they're still coming to church. 681 00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:26,200 We've married about four couples in the last year. 682 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:33,200 They knew they wasn't doing right, but they're in a situation. 683 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:38,200 And the Holy Ghost kept getting them under conviction. 684 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:45,200 I got a lady over the events in the church. 685 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,200 She'll decorate it up real nice, 686 00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:51,200 decorate the sanctuary up real nice, 687 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:56,200 and all they've got to do is walk down the aisle and say, I do. 688 00:44:56,200 --> 00:44:58,200 What are you saying, preacher? 689 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,200 We're getting a bunch of messed up people. 690 00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,200 They're messed up. 691 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:05,200 They've been drug addicts. 692 00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,200 They've been addicts. 693 00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,200 Some of them received the baptism in the Holy Ghost 694 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:15,200 because I want to tell you Jesus don't want just good people. 695 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,200 He wants a bunch of messed up people 696 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:23,200 that's been kicked to the curb and rode off by their families 697 00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:24,200 and rode off. 698 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:28,200 I don't like the way they look. 699 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:35,200 Some of them's got tattoos on their face, their head, their neck. 700 00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,200 I ain't into all that stuff. 701 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,200 I'm 59 years old. 702 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:46,200 My Lord, that man buys steak. 703 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:50,200 Man buys steak with all that ink spread all over. 704 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:53,200 Now, I got a bunch that's got that ink spread all over them, 705 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,200 but they done that ink and sin. 706 00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,200 God's delivered them. 707 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:04,200 Can I tell you the Holy Ghost is doing a special work in this day, 708 00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:09,200 and we are so focused on the election and everything. 709 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:14,200 Can I tell you, you can only be responsible for your vote. 710 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,200 You can't change the election. 711 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:21,200 You should go vote and exercise your right to vote as an American citizen, 712 00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:27,200 but I want to tell you you can do something better than that. 713 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:32,200 You can get in the presence of the Holy Ghost 714 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:36,200 and pray conviction on your community. 715 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,200 Pray conviction on the leaders. 716 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:47,200 What would happen if the mayor and some of the leaders just walked in the church 717 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:51,200 under the convicting power of the Holy Ghost, 718 00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:54,200 and nobody had to persuade them? 719 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,200 Somebody touched heaven. 720 00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,200 Somebody got in the presence, 721 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:04,200 and the spirit realm went to working for God's people, 722 00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:12,200 and people started getting saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost. 723 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:21,200 Can I tell you, you don't have to grow old and get lukewarm on God after you get saved. 724 00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,200 Receive the Holy Ghost. 725 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:27,200 Walk in the Holy Ghost. 726 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:31,200 Come to the altar to receive the Holy Ghost. 727 00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:41,200 Get in your prayer chamber and open up yourself to the Holy Ghost, 728 00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:44,200 and he will fill you with an energy source, 729 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:49,200 and all of a sudden you're thinking, my Lord, this was tough, 730 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,200 but now I can look at those addictions, 731 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:58,200 and I can look at those things in the power of the Holy Ghost, 732 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:02,200 because you see the Holy Ghost don't just make you shout. 733 00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:11,200 The Holy Ghost gives you power to throw off what the enemy's trying to put on you. 734 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:16,200 I want everybody to stand all over the house. 735 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:20,200 I wanted to talk about what are you taking in? 736 00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:23,200 What are you taking in? 737 00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:27,200 Time won't let me do it. 738 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:33,200 You can't fool with garbage and expect to have a rose garden, can you? 739 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:36,200 Amen. 740 00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:37,200 Amen. 741 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:44,200 Are you moving in the power of the Spirit where he's calling you to go? 742 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:46,200 Elijah broke the plow. 743 00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:53,200 Elisha broke the plow when he was to follow Elijah. 744 00:48:53,200 --> 00:49:00,200 Elisha had had some inconsistencies over the history of his life. 745 00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:02,200 Elijah said, you asked me for a hard thing, 746 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:10,200 but I want to tell you, you be with me when I'm taken up. 747 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:12,200 You see, Elisha didn't want what he had. 748 00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:19,200 He wanted double to what he had. 749 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,200 You can have it. 750 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,200 You can have it. 751 00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:27,200 Then there's old Brother Job. 752 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:38,200 Brother Job was covered up in boils, and it looked as though he would die. 753 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:49,200 But the Bible said that when he got his focus on his friends, 754 00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:54,200 then the battle turned for him. 755 00:49:54,200 --> 00:50:01,200 You see, sometimes you're so self-inwardly focused. 756 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:05,200 When God wants you to get your eyes off of you, 757 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:12,200 get your eyes on Jesus, get focused on the Lord 758 00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:18,200 and other people, somebody's messed up, somebody's hurting, 759 00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:23,200 make an attempt, be led by the Spirit, make an attempt, 760 00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:29,200 because when Job started ministering to his friends, 761 00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:34,200 his trials turned for him. 762 00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,200 A woman's gathering a few sticks. 763 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,200 You've heard the story. 764 00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:42,200 Her and her son, she's going to die. 765 00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:47,200 Here comes a man of God, and Brooks dried up on him. 766 00:50:47,200 --> 00:50:51,200 He said, hey, woman, make me a cake first. 767 00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:55,200 She said, you ought to understand I'm gathering sticks. 768 00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:58,200 I'm going to mix up this little cone of cornbread, 769 00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:02,200 and we're going to eat and die. 770 00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:07,200 But he said, you're not going to die. 771 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:11,200 You're not going to die until God does what he says he will do. 772 00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:15,200 And the woman said, I've got a choice to make. 773 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:21,200 I can focus on me and my son and our needs only. 774 00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:28,200 You see, the woman had a seed, and the man of God had a need. 775 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:35,200 And when she focused on the need, 776 00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:41,200 God fulfilled what he said he would do. 777 00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,200 Can I tell you something? 778 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,200 I wear my church out on this stuff, 779 00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,200 and I don't mean to wear them out. 780 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,200 But we do a lot of outreach in the church, 781 00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:55,200 and I'm always asking them to sow. 782 00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,200 Sow $20. 783 00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,200 Sow $50. 784 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:06,200 You see, when you start focusing on other people and their need, 785 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,200 and you start sowing, and you open your hand to God 786 00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,200 and the needs of others, 787 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:17,200 God will open up the windows of heaven 788 00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,200 and pour out a blessing. 789 00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:23,200 I pray I never do what some retired people do, 790 00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,200 and you don't do it, so thank God. 791 00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,200 They retired, so I don't have to pay retires no more. 792 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:31,200 I worked on my life. 793 00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:33,200 Yeah, you do. 794 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,200 You pay your tithes, you honor God. 795 00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:39,200 Well, I may run out of money. 796 00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:45,200 How did you get what you've got? 797 00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:50,200 Take your eyes off of you and your foreign no more, 798 00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:54,200 and get the focus on the needs of your community 799 00:52:54,200 --> 00:53:00,200 and hurting people, and watch God start blessing. 800 00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:02,200 I had a young man. 801 00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:06,200 He was poor as poor could be. 802 00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:10,200 I said, we're doing grocery cards, $50 grocery cards. 803 00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,200 We got $50 envelopes up here. 804 00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,200 Come get your envelope. 805 00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,200 We're going to seven or eight different grocery stores, 806 00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,200 and we're going to walk the aisles, 807 00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:22,200 and we're going to find hurting people, 808 00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,200 and we're going to say we're from Dainty Church of God, 809 00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:26,200 God's storehouse. 810 00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:30,200 A boy took his last $50 and put it in that little envelope. 811 00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,200 He hadn't been saved too long. 812 00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,200 He called me on Monday. 813 00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,200 I said, you know what, preacher? 814 00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,200 I said, well, he said, it took, I mean, 815 00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:44,200 all the way down to the pennies for me to come up that $50. 816 00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:46,200 But he said, you know what? 817 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:52,200 I got a $2.50 raise on the hour Monday morning 818 00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:55,200 as soon as I walked into work. 819 00:53:55,200 --> 00:54:01,200 You're talking about provision when you focus on others. 820 00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:08,200 If you're here this morning, you want prayer, need prayer, 821 00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:11,200 I can't wait to get to pray with you. 822 00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,200 I can't wait to come in agreement with you 823 00:54:14,200 --> 00:54:18,200 for whatever it is you need God to do. 824 00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:21,200 This isn't the way I planned on ending this sermon, 825 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:25,200 but I thought I'd give you grace on three and a half points. 826 00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,200 Amen, everybody needs some grace. 827 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,200 I need it. 828 00:54:29,200 --> 00:54:33,200 But if you're here this morning, you say, I'm in a situation, 829 00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:39,200 I've got a battle, and I need to pray through to some victory 830 00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:44,200 in my life so that I have the wisdom of the Holy Spirit 831 00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:46,200 on how I need to deal with this. 832 00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,200 Or maybe you're here and say, preacher, 833 00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,200 I've not been walking in the Spirit. 834 00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:56,200 I've been walking, but I haven't been walking in the Spirit. 835 00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,200 And I want to renew myself. 836 00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:04,200 I want to renew myself in the Holy Ghost. 837 00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:09,200 Now, you may think you don't need it, but I, every morning, 838 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:16,200 I'm glad Tim Hill, one of the purposes for the two years 839 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:19,200 is for restoration. 840 00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:24,200 I pray restoration and renewal over me every morning. 841 00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:27,200 I need to be renewed. 842 00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:32,200 You can get in habits, and you can get stuck in a rut, 843 00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:37,200 and the Holy Spirit will renew you and your experience with Him 844 00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,200 if you want to be renewed. 845 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:41,200 Now, you can stay where you're at, 846 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:45,200 but you're going to get old like me one of these days, 847 00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:49,200 and you're going to look back over your life and say, 848 00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:54,200 did I give all of me to the Lord so that His purpose 849 00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:57,200 could be done in my life? 850 00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:01,200 I don't want to end it with regret, do you? 851 00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:04,200 It's your time. It's your opportunity. 852 00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:08,200 And I'm going to turn it back over to your pastor here in a minute. 853 00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:11,200 But if you want prayer, need prayer, you need healing. 854 00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:16,200 Yes, we preach, the Church of God believes in divine healing. 855 00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,200 He is the healer. 856 00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:22,200 He will heal you. 857 00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:26,200 Lora baharabu hurabahataya. 858 00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,200 He is the healer. 859 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:39,200 He sent His Word, and He healed them and delivered them. 860 00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,200 Yes. 861 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:46,200 He said, I am the God.