WEBVTT 00:00:16.359 --> 00:00:23.899 Turn to 2 Peter chapter 3 and we should take 00:00:23.899 --> 00:00:37.000 off. In 2 Peter 3 verse 18, the Holy Spirit speaks 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:41.079 to us through this wonderful man of God, this 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.420 apostle. And here's the word that's given to 00:00:44.420 --> 00:00:52.890 us. Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our 00:00:52.890 --> 00:00:55.909 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory. 00:00:56.070 --> 00:01:07.769 Everybody say now and forever. Grace. That presence 00:01:07.769 --> 00:01:11.549 of God. That divine influence. That power of 00:01:11.549 --> 00:01:19.290 God. Knowledge, not information. Everybody say 00:01:19.290 --> 00:01:23.849 intimate knowledge of God. Oh, in case you didn't 00:01:23.849 --> 00:01:25.930 know, I'm African American and we talk in church. 00:01:29.129 --> 00:01:31.310 And all of you are going to be people of color 00:01:31.310 --> 00:01:38.549 tonight. And I'm going to talk to you. You're 00:01:38.549 --> 00:01:40.469 going to talk to me. We're going to talk to God. 00:01:41.810 --> 00:01:45.180 And you're going to talk to each other. Are you 00:01:45.180 --> 00:01:49.319 with me now? And as I'm teaching the word, if 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.680 you hear a word and you got your neighbor beside 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:55.420 you and you know that's a word from the Lord 00:01:55.420 --> 00:01:57.099 for them, just say, girl, you know that's for 00:01:57.099 --> 00:02:03.599 you. Are you with me? And even if you want to 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:05.260 have a little fun, you can go, ooh, that's a 00:02:05.260 --> 00:02:08.939 good word for me. I take that right now. Now, 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:10.180 how many of y 'all going to talk to me while 00:02:10.180 --> 00:02:13.530 I'm talking to you? Now I'm going to hold you 00:02:13.530 --> 00:02:18.030 to it now. In fact, what am I doing up there? 00:02:25.830 --> 00:02:33.129 See, this, you know, I asked pastor, I said, 00:02:33.169 --> 00:02:35.430 now, you know, because, you know, we're here 00:02:35.430 --> 00:02:38.009 to help. So I said, what you been preaching on? 00:02:38.110 --> 00:02:41.009 He said, reach. Look at somebody say, you could 00:02:41.009 --> 00:02:45.430 use some of that. And, you know, I think it's 00:02:45.430 --> 00:02:48.370 Philippians 3 .13 where the Apostle Paul says, 00:02:48.469 --> 00:02:55.729 it's one thing I do. Right? I think the Greek 00:02:55.729 --> 00:02:58.870 word they're forgetting is epilentano, I think, 00:02:58.930 --> 00:03:02.150 which means, you know, to, it's interesting. 00:03:02.210 --> 00:03:04.610 It's an interesting word because it actually 00:03:04.610 --> 00:03:11.210 means to deliberately ignore what's in your past. 00:03:14.030 --> 00:03:24.050 To intentionally leave your past behind. To purposefully, 00:03:24.050 --> 00:03:30.409 thank you, now there you go. Follow his example. 00:03:34.710 --> 00:03:40.569 To purposefully consider your past as over with. 00:03:44.740 --> 00:03:46.800 And really, when you look at this Greek word, 00:03:46.860 --> 00:03:48.759 it means that your past, whatever it happens 00:03:48.759 --> 00:03:55.159 to be back there, it's now obsolete. This is 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:57.180 interesting. Paul says, this one thing I do. 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:02.979 So he was very focused on it. Look at somebody 00:04:02.979 --> 00:04:10.919 say, he's talking about growing up. So if I. 00:04:14.250 --> 00:04:18.170 You know, okay, I'm starting to, okay, it's already 00:04:18.170 --> 00:04:24.350 begun, okay. The man who's always looking at 00:04:24.350 --> 00:04:33.910 his past cannot see his future. And the enemy 00:04:33.910 --> 00:04:42.740 wants you to stay in your past. Because he knows 00:04:42.740 --> 00:04:47.819 he can't keep up with you if you reach for what 00:04:47.819 --> 00:05:06.019 is before you. You know, I find things interesting. 00:05:06.199 --> 00:05:09.459 You know, you ever heard anybody say, I'm fixing 00:05:09.459 --> 00:05:12.569 to go on a consecration? Raise your hands if 00:05:12.569 --> 00:05:14.990 you, you know. Is that language that they use 00:05:14.990 --> 00:05:21.949 over here? I'm not from around here. Do they 00:05:21.949 --> 00:05:23.990 ever say, I'm fixing to go on a dedication or 00:05:23.990 --> 00:05:26.850 consecration? If they use that language, you 00:05:26.850 --> 00:05:29.889 ever heard it, raise your hands. Okay, they don't, 00:05:29.910 --> 00:05:33.050 not many of y 'all heard that. Okay, when they 00:05:33.050 --> 00:05:34.810 talk about, I'm fixing to go on a consecration, 00:05:35.089 --> 00:05:41.329 I'm fixing to make a dedication. You know, I'm 00:05:41.329 --> 00:05:44.329 fixing, it's kind of like, it's kind of like 00:05:44.329 --> 00:05:48.490 to sanctify or to set yourself apart. Y 'all 00:05:48.490 --> 00:05:51.310 use that language over here. Raise your hands. 00:05:52.290 --> 00:05:55.069 Okay. Look at somebody said, this is an interactive 00:05:55.069 --> 00:06:03.310 service. So it's funny because I think about 00:06:03.310 --> 00:06:06.730 stuff because see, if I'm, if I'm gonna, if I'm 00:06:06.730 --> 00:06:09.180 gonna. go on a consecration, if I'm gonna go 00:06:09.180 --> 00:06:15.759 on a dedication, if I'm gonna go on to a time 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:19.519 of being set apart, I wonder if that means I'm 00:06:19.519 --> 00:06:33.879 gonna go off of it. Because anything you go on, 00:06:36.329 --> 00:06:47.449 You're going to get off. If you, John 8, if you 00:06:47.449 --> 00:06:56.470 continue in my word. Everybody say reach. If 00:06:56.470 --> 00:06:58.610 you continue in my word, you're my disciples 00:06:58.610 --> 00:07:01.589 in reality and you will know the truth and the 00:07:01.589 --> 00:07:04.649 truth will make you. The Greek word for free 00:07:04.649 --> 00:07:11.970 means exempt. Does anybody need to reach and 00:07:11.970 --> 00:07:16.269 continue in the word until what is affecting 00:07:16.269 --> 00:07:24.689 other people you are exempt from? Look at somebody 00:07:24.689 --> 00:07:32.930 say, reach your way into an exemption. Look at 00:07:32.930 --> 00:07:34.329 somebody say, he's talking about growing now. 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:46.600 I just wonder, I wonder if sometimes we can't 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:48.980 sleep or our sleep is disturbed not because of 00:07:48.980 --> 00:07:51.519 insomnia, but what if I was to say to you that 00:07:51.519 --> 00:07:55.000 maybe the reason your sleep is disturbed is because 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:07.759 the Lord is seeking you. Maybe it's not insomnia. 00:08:10.220 --> 00:08:13.360 Maybe you're being awakened for a revelation 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:24.480 that will bring an awakening. Has anybody had 00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:27.879 their sleep disturbed lately? Wave your hands 00:08:27.879 --> 00:08:33.299 and wave them. Oh, looks like we're talking awakening 00:08:33.299 --> 00:08:42.769 here. I just wonder. See, when I teach, I prophesy 00:08:42.769 --> 00:08:46.309 while I'm teaching. You know what I mean? And 00:08:46.309 --> 00:08:49.549 I like to do it with style. Look at somebody 00:08:49.549 --> 00:08:57.450 and say, it's a black thing. It's a black thing. 00:08:58.450 --> 00:09:04.370 You know, you got to prophesy with finesse. I 00:09:04.370 --> 00:09:10.809 wonder if, I wonder if, When the Holy Spirit 00:09:10.809 --> 00:09:13.610 comes upon you and you begin to feel the need 00:09:13.610 --> 00:09:22.470 to fast, if it is a signal that a previous season 00:09:22.470 --> 00:09:30.490 is coming to an end, and you're being called 00:09:30.490 --> 00:09:34.269 by the Spirit into a fast to get a new instruction 00:09:34.269 --> 00:09:43.049 that will bring you into a new season. I wonder 00:09:43.049 --> 00:09:51.750 if anybody has been feeling. I'm feeling like, 00:09:51.789 --> 00:09:56.730 you know, I need to push the plate back. Y 'all 00:09:56.730 --> 00:09:58.149 supposed to be talking to me. What happened to 00:09:58.149 --> 00:10:03.289 y 'all? Anybody been feeling that? Wave your 00:10:03.289 --> 00:10:05.669 hand unless you got a condition. We having a 00:10:05.669 --> 00:10:17.500 miracle service. Sunday night. Get somebody else 00:10:17.500 --> 00:10:25.100 to raise a hand for you, you know. How do I know 00:10:25.100 --> 00:10:33.379 I'm coming into the end of a season? I will exhaust 00:10:33.379 --> 00:10:40.970 the resources of that season. I keep a previous 00:10:40.970 --> 00:10:44.450 instruction for an old season until a new instruction 00:10:44.450 --> 00:10:50.450 comes that will usher me into a new season. Look 00:10:50.450 --> 00:10:58.610 at somebody and say, grow in the grace. Grow 00:10:58.610 --> 00:11:00.669 in the intimate knowledge of God. Well, wait 00:11:00.669 --> 00:11:03.669 a minute now. Wait a minute. Let me see if I 00:11:03.669 --> 00:11:10.570 got this right. So, you got saved. By Jesus Christ, 00:11:10.690 --> 00:11:13.690 because you had some kind of a God encounter. 00:11:25.529 --> 00:11:29.769 And when there's a divine God encounter, there 00:11:29.769 --> 00:11:40.480 is a divine impact. when there's a divine encounter, 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:45.639 there is the revelation and the impartation of 00:11:45.639 --> 00:11:54.779 a Holy Ghost treasure. Everybody say God encounter. 00:11:56.440 --> 00:12:02.440 Supernatural impact. A God -given treasure. Everybody 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:10.870 say grace. But after the encounter, where I get 00:12:10.870 --> 00:12:17.629 this treasure, I find myself at some point in 00:12:17.629 --> 00:12:25.850 a trial. Look at somebody and say, he's warming 00:12:25.850 --> 00:12:34.830 up now. I have this encounter with God and then 00:12:34.830 --> 00:12:37.870 I find myself in a process. Everybody say process. 00:12:40.279 --> 00:12:46.379 I really love the encounter. Not so crazy about 00:12:46.379 --> 00:12:55.960 the process. The encounter is wonderful. It's 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:59.539 glorious. The problem with it is it's too brief. 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:07.299 But the process, the problem with it is it's 00:13:07.299 --> 00:13:18.590 too long. If you're like me, you read the Bible, 00:13:18.669 --> 00:13:20.570 but you don't pay attention sometimes to what 00:13:20.570 --> 00:13:27.169 you read. Everybody say treasure, trial, encounter, 00:13:27.629 --> 00:13:34.429 process. You know, we read Psalm 23, the Lord 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:36.210 is my shepherd, like it's the beginning of the 00:13:36.210 --> 00:13:38.110 psalm, not understanding that it's a conclusion 00:13:38.110 --> 00:13:43.389 written during the Feast of Tabernacles, representing 00:13:43.389 --> 00:13:48.840 the presence and the glory. The Lord is my shepherd, 00:13:48.879 --> 00:13:52.379 I shall not lie. He makes me to lie down in green 00:13:52.379 --> 00:13:56.120 pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:01.779 He be restoring, black English, he be restoring 00:14:01.779 --> 00:14:08.480 my soul. It pops out on me, sometimes I can't 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:16.600 control it. He leads me in the path of righteousness. 00:14:17.340 --> 00:14:30.559 For his namesake. Yay. Everybody say yay. Yay? 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:37.740 Really? About what comes next? Yay? Yes? Yes? 00:14:37.940 --> 00:14:42.019 Not yay. Because though I walk through the valley 00:14:42.019 --> 00:14:46.120 of the shadow of death, man, I want to run through 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:49.259 that valley. Look at somebody and say, it's a 00:14:49.259 --> 00:15:00.580 valley you can't even run through. Yea, though 00:15:00.580 --> 00:15:05.240 I walk, everybody say, through the valley. You 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:10.100 know, I can get so caught up in what I'm going 00:15:10.100 --> 00:15:13.899 through that I leave sight of who and where I'm 00:15:13.899 --> 00:15:19.340 going to. And when I lose sight of who and where 00:15:19.340 --> 00:15:23.820 I'm going to, and I get caught up and too focused 00:15:23.820 --> 00:15:29.980 on what I'm going through, I never get through. 00:15:32.860 --> 00:15:35.779 I stay someplace that I was destined to leave. 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:49.919 Though I walk through the valley of the shadow. 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:53.039 You ever been out and you saw a shadow and it 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:58.860 kind of scared you a little bit? The shadow of 00:15:58.860 --> 00:16:03.879 death. I will fear no evil. Now that's very interesting. 00:16:06.419 --> 00:16:15.440 You with me? You're Roger Staff. protection, 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:20.159 your correction. Your word, your spirit is with 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:26.500 me. You set a table of communion before me in 00:16:26.500 --> 00:16:30.000 the presence of my enemies. Not just my enemy, 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:34.600 but my enemies. Then you anoint my head with 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:40.580 oil. Then my cup runs over. Okay, I want y 'all 00:16:40.580 --> 00:16:43.450 to, okay. I know what to do. I know how to handle 00:16:43.450 --> 00:16:46.529 this. Everybody say, survey says. Survey says. 00:16:47.029 --> 00:16:48.370 How many of y 'all been praying for a greater 00:16:48.370 --> 00:16:50.350 anointing? Raise your hands. Raise your hands. 00:16:50.529 --> 00:17:01.830 That's why you got enemies. You set a table before 00:17:01.830 --> 00:17:05.829 me in the presence of my enemies, and then you 00:17:05.829 --> 00:17:13.019 anoint me. Look at somebody and say, in the trial, 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:18.259 you get a brand new anointing. Look at somebody 00:17:18.259 --> 00:17:22.400 and say, a brand new intimacy with God. A new 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:27.259 knowledge of God. A new grace of God that you 00:17:27.259 --> 00:17:36.940 didn't have before. You're gnawing my head with 00:17:36.940 --> 00:17:38.940 it or my cup runs over. Surely, goodness and 00:17:38.940 --> 00:17:40.539 mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. 00:17:40.579 --> 00:17:44.799 I'm going to be in the presence. Hmm. Everybody 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:48.720 say treasure. Treasure. Trial. Trial. Everybody 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:56.940 say encounter. Encounter. Process. Process. You 00:17:56.940 --> 00:18:00.460 know, what I do is I look in the Bible and I 00:18:00.460 --> 00:18:06.369 see these patterns. Let me see if you can relate 00:18:06.369 --> 00:18:15.369 to this. So Joseph is about 17 and he has a revelation 00:18:15.369 --> 00:18:19.089 of visitation and encounter. And he sees his 00:18:19.089 --> 00:18:23.789 future. Everybody say birth of a vision. Everybody 00:18:23.789 --> 00:18:30.650 say faith. And as soon as he declares what he 00:18:30.650 --> 00:18:38.430 sees. Everybody say, the process begins. The 00:18:38.430 --> 00:18:52.849 process begins. His brothers throw him into a 00:18:52.849 --> 00:18:55.390 pit. Because this brother, you know, Joseph talking 00:18:55.390 --> 00:18:58.769 about the sun, my daddy, the moon, my mama, the 00:18:58.769 --> 00:19:00.750 11 stars, all you, my brothers, y 'all going 00:19:00.750 --> 00:19:02.750 to be bowed down to me. He goes from that to 00:19:02.750 --> 00:19:07.309 the pit. Everybody go from the treasure into 00:19:07.309 --> 00:19:12.069 the trial. From the encounter into the process. 00:19:13.910 --> 00:19:18.230 Hmm. Y 'all gonna all bow down to me. Me, me, 00:19:18.230 --> 00:19:22.710 me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Then they 00:19:22.710 --> 00:19:30.950 Jewish. We can't make no money just throwing 00:19:30.950 --> 00:19:33.130 him in the pit. Let's sell this brother and make 00:19:33.130 --> 00:19:44.150 some money. Now, you got to understand, my pastor 00:19:44.150 --> 00:19:46.589 is Jewish, believer in Jesus. I work with Jewish 00:19:46.589 --> 00:19:50.349 people. I like how they think. I mean, they like 00:19:50.349 --> 00:19:53.109 2 % of the population and got like 40 % of the 00:19:53.109 --> 00:19:55.450 wealth. Look at somebody and say, you could use 00:19:55.450 --> 00:20:03.049 some Jewishness. Just saying. Ain't trying to 00:20:03.049 --> 00:20:07.190 start no trouble. Just saying. So let's tell 00:20:07.190 --> 00:20:10.750 this brother to make some money. The Bible, the 00:20:10.750 --> 00:20:14.220 narrative says this. Then Joseph was brought 00:20:14.220 --> 00:20:17.579 down to Egypt. Everybody say trial. Process. 00:20:19.940 --> 00:20:23.339 Wait a minute. Everybody say birth of a vision. 00:20:24.160 --> 00:20:28.420 By revelation and visitation. And encounter. 00:20:29.180 --> 00:20:32.759 Everybody say death of a vision. Now you in the 00:20:32.759 --> 00:20:49.869 process. Encounters brief. He spends, I don't 00:20:49.869 --> 00:20:53.049 know, 10, 12, 13 years, whatever it was. It's 00:20:53.049 --> 00:20:55.089 interesting that the Lord puts him in Potiphar's 00:20:55.089 --> 00:20:58.490 house and makes him a servant. And so he's got 00:20:58.490 --> 00:21:01.910 to be bowing down. Isn't that interesting? The 00:21:01.910 --> 00:21:05.450 Lord wanted him to know what it felt like before 00:21:05.450 --> 00:21:10.170 everybody was bowing down to him. Look at somebody 00:21:10.170 --> 00:21:12.890 and say, you really bowed down in the process. 00:21:17.349 --> 00:21:20.009 Look at somebody and say, the process of pain 00:21:20.009 --> 00:21:34.109 is not the place of your presentation. Growing 00:21:34.109 --> 00:21:41.730 the grace. Intimate knowledge of God. I'm persuaded 00:21:41.730 --> 00:21:47.660 that when Joseph went through this process, He 00:21:47.660 --> 00:21:52.119 was growing in the presence of God and the power 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:55.859 of God and the intimate knowledge of God and 00:21:55.859 --> 00:22:05.920 that he was losing me. Everybody say birth of 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:10.440 a vision. Faith. Everybody say death of a vision. 00:22:11.700 --> 00:22:16.890 Frustration. I wonder if he ever passed through 00:22:16.890 --> 00:22:20.230 the place of fear where he feared this will be 00:22:20.230 --> 00:22:38.329 my life forever. Hmm. I remember when I was pastoring 00:22:38.329 --> 00:22:40.529 in Illinois, there was a woman, her name was 00:22:40.529 --> 00:22:42.109 Catherine, and she was really going through. 00:22:42.619 --> 00:22:44.319 So she started praying. Look at somebody and 00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:45.200 say, when you're going through, you're going 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:50.680 to really pray. So she said, Lord, get me out 00:22:50.680 --> 00:22:52.380 of this. Lord, get me out of this. One night, 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:54.279 the Lord comes to her in a dream, calls her by 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:57.220 name and says, I am not going to take you out 00:22:57.220 --> 00:23:05.480 of this. I'm going to walk you through it. What's 00:23:05.480 --> 00:23:15.309 the Lord been walking you through? Pastor Brad, 00:23:15.430 --> 00:23:17.109 you know, some people don't think I'm anointed. 00:23:17.269 --> 00:23:18.869 Can I tell you why they don't think I'm anointed? 00:23:19.289 --> 00:23:23.529 Ask me why. Because they want me to pray them 00:23:23.529 --> 00:23:32.210 out of their process. I can't pray you out of 00:23:32.210 --> 00:23:33.930 your process. Look at somebody and say, you better 00:23:33.930 --> 00:23:44.930 pray your way through your process. If Jesus 00:23:44.930 --> 00:23:50.349 had an encounter with the living Father and the 00:23:50.349 --> 00:23:53.170 Holy Ghost, heaven opens, the Holy Ghost falls, 00:23:53.410 --> 00:23:55.710 and he's given a treasure, you're the son of 00:23:55.710 --> 00:24:00.930 my love, in whom I'm well pleased, and he gets, 00:24:00.990 --> 00:24:06.009 there's a divine impact of the Father, and he 00:24:06.009 --> 00:24:08.670 receives the Spirit, he's full of the Spirit, 00:24:08.769 --> 00:24:12.339 Luke 1, he's led by the Spirit, Luke 1. And he 00:24:12.339 --> 00:24:16.180 goes immediately into a trap. And he's the pattern's 00:24:16.180 --> 00:24:20.680 son. And he couldn't escape it. Look at what 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:36.619 somebody said. And he said, follow me. You know 00:24:36.619 --> 00:24:38.339 what? At this point, I think I'll mess with you 00:24:38.339 --> 00:24:41.490 just a little bit because I can. And because 00:24:41.490 --> 00:24:45.609 y 'all not entertaining me enough. So I have 00:24:45.609 --> 00:24:49.730 to entertain myself. And I'm going to give you 00:24:49.730 --> 00:24:51.569 a scripture just for my own personal entertainment. 00:24:52.390 --> 00:24:54.430 Look at somebody say pray for him. He's just 00:24:54.430 --> 00:25:04.009 not right. First Peter chapter two. Verse 21. 00:25:06.089 --> 00:25:11.609 For to you. To this you have been called because 00:25:11.609 --> 00:25:13.990 the Messiah, the Hamashiach, suffered for you, 00:25:14.109 --> 00:25:16.910 leaving you an example that you should follow 00:25:16.910 --> 00:25:20.549 in his steps. Everybody say example. This is 00:25:20.549 --> 00:25:24.069 an interesting Greek word. Hupo gramos. Everybody 00:25:24.069 --> 00:25:28.150 say hupo gramos. Let me give you the word picture 00:25:28.150 --> 00:25:31.329 in the Greek. The word picture in the Greek is 00:25:31.329 --> 00:25:34.049 of a series of students, we'll call them disciples, 00:25:34.269 --> 00:25:38.420 and a teacher who is writing Hebrews. 22 words, 00:25:38.500 --> 00:25:42.779 right to left. And he's writing the letters of 00:25:42.779 --> 00:25:47.140 the alphabet. And each disciple is watching the 00:25:47.140 --> 00:25:51.740 teacher write the letters of the alphabet. Look 00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:55.819 at somebody that said, the disciples are watching 00:25:55.819 --> 00:26:04.019 what the teacher is doing. As the teacher writes 00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:10.789 the word. Hupo gramos means that each student, 00:26:10.930 --> 00:26:17.410 each disciple painstakingly tries to replicate 00:26:17.410 --> 00:26:23.789 and duplicate each letter of the alphabet and 00:26:23.789 --> 00:26:37.559 tries to make it exactly like his teacher. Look 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:40.059 at somebody and say, you're called to replicate 00:26:40.059 --> 00:26:55.259 Jesus. When I put application to revelation, 00:26:55.480 --> 00:27:03.420 I replicate Jesus. And I have a Jesus life and 00:27:03.420 --> 00:27:09.160 in some way I have a Jesus. It's interesting 00:27:09.160 --> 00:27:11.339 that when Jesus receives the Spirit, he's full 00:27:11.339 --> 00:27:14.180 of the Spirit. And he's led by the Spirit. He 00:27:14.180 --> 00:27:17.380 goes immediately into process. It's very interesting 00:27:17.380 --> 00:27:22.319 what Jesus does. The first thing Jesus does is 00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:28.619 he uses his faith on his own flesh to obey the 00:27:28.619 --> 00:27:33.579 word of the Father. Not to heal the sick. Not 00:27:33.579 --> 00:27:41.420 to cast out devils. not to do wonder works. Look 00:27:41.420 --> 00:27:48.180 at somebody and say, follow in his steps. And 00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:50.660 he thinks, Joshua 1 and 8, it is written, he 00:27:50.660 --> 00:27:52.859 speaks, it is written, he sees to it that he 00:27:52.859 --> 00:27:55.720 does, it is written. James 1 .22, be a doer of 00:27:55.720 --> 00:27:59.079 the word, poetes, creative flair. Whatever you 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:01.160 hear the word, think of creative ways to put 00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:03.079 the word of God into practice. This is what Jesus 00:28:03.079 --> 00:28:07.450 does. Jesus uses his faith on his flesh to obey 00:28:07.450 --> 00:28:10.210 the word of the Father. Jesus receives the Spirit. 00:28:10.329 --> 00:28:11.890 He's full of the Spirit. He's led by the Spirit. 00:28:11.950 --> 00:28:14.730 But Luke 4, 14 says Jesus, after that, returns 00:28:14.730 --> 00:28:16.289 into, everybody say, the power of the Spirit. 00:28:17.549 --> 00:28:20.509 Everybody say, receive the Spirit. Full of the 00:28:20.509 --> 00:28:27.170 Spirit. Led by the Spirit. Hupo gramos. Everybody 00:28:27.170 --> 00:28:30.230 say, the power of the Spirit. Now, isn't it interesting 00:28:30.230 --> 00:28:34.450 that Mark 1 says, Jesus fasted for 40 days and 00:28:34.450 --> 00:28:38.210 40 nights and angels attended him. And Matthew 00:28:38.210 --> 00:28:42.329 says that angels attended. As if there's a relationship 00:28:42.329 --> 00:28:44.250 between angelic ministry and the power of the 00:28:44.250 --> 00:28:48.470 Spirit. So Jesus uses his faith on his flesh 00:28:48.470 --> 00:28:50.630 to obey the word of the Father. After that, you 00:28:50.630 --> 00:28:53.069 see Jesus using his faith to get answers to prayer. 00:28:53.250 --> 00:28:56.049 You see Jesus uses faith to move in the gifts 00:28:56.049 --> 00:28:58.289 of the Spirit. You see Jesus uses faith to manifest 00:28:58.289 --> 00:29:00.430 the glory. Look at somebody and say, he's the 00:29:00.430 --> 00:29:03.940 pattern son. Look at somebody and say, follow 00:29:03.940 --> 00:29:12.180 his steps. What's going on in the process? Nothing 00:29:12.180 --> 00:29:23.160 can be trusted until it's first tested. Look 00:29:23.160 --> 00:29:25.559 at somebody and say, whatever can be tested can 00:29:25.559 --> 00:29:29.380 be trusted. Now here's what Paul knew in his 00:29:29.380 --> 00:29:31.279 day when he talked about saved by fire and every 00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:33.160 man's work will be tried by fire. One of the 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:35.299 things Paul knew is, everybody say tried by fire. 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:40.059 When they had ceramic, the designer would put 00:29:40.059 --> 00:29:43.559 a design in it. Look at somebody and say, the 00:29:43.559 --> 00:29:48.980 ceramic piece had an encounter. But the more 00:29:48.980 --> 00:29:52.769 valuable the piece, the more often they would 00:29:52.769 --> 00:29:55.730 put it in fire so that the temporary design, 00:29:55.789 --> 00:29:58.309 when it got fired up, would become a permanent 00:29:58.309 --> 00:30:06.109 imprint. So when I have this encounter with the 00:30:06.109 --> 00:30:08.269 living God, there's an impact. But when I walk 00:30:08.269 --> 00:30:10.329 through the process successfully, thinking the 00:30:10.329 --> 00:30:12.289 word, speaking the word, doing the word, the 00:30:12.289 --> 00:30:20.700 impact becomes an imprint. With the Father's 00:30:20.700 --> 00:30:25.960 thought in mind that I am to manifest Jesus in 00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:33.660 the earth. If I get far enough in this process, 00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:42.680 when I speak the word, there is no delay. Just 00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:44.559 like the angel said and said, there'll be no 00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:46.319 more delay. In the Greek, it means time will 00:30:46.319 --> 00:30:48.279 be no longer. Look at somebody and say, when 00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:52.779 you speak the word, heaven opens and kisses earth. 00:31:00.019 --> 00:31:04.220 Everybody say, birth of a vision, faith. Death 00:31:04.220 --> 00:31:10.720 of a vision, frustration. I got saved in 72, 00:31:10.859 --> 00:31:14.170 start preaching in 74. I was a new pastor, five 00:31:14.170 --> 00:31:15.910 -year associate pastor, 20 years, been a senior 00:31:15.910 --> 00:31:18.690 pastor. I passed a pastor. It's got a network. 00:31:23.849 --> 00:31:27.309 I've been a pastor. No, no, no, I've been a leader. 00:31:27.609 --> 00:31:29.730 Let me tell you the test of leadership. It's 00:31:29.730 --> 00:31:32.069 how much frustration can you tolerate and still 00:31:32.069 --> 00:31:46.339 love God and still love people? Oh, no, no, no, 00:31:46.339 --> 00:31:47.900 no, no, no, no. I want to make some things real 00:31:47.900 --> 00:31:49.319 clear to you. Look at somebody and say, he's 00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:52.000 getting ready to make it clear. See, some trials 00:31:52.000 --> 00:31:58.079 you were born into. Some trials you related to. 00:32:01.940 --> 00:32:07.359 Some trials you married. Some trials you gave 00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:15.539 birth to. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, put on your seatbelt. 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:18.140 Come on, just play with me. Put on your seatbelt. 00:32:18.480 --> 00:32:22.720 Okay. Do you know the child that you have the 00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:31.319 most trouble with is the one most like you? The 00:32:31.319 --> 00:32:33.180 parent you had the most trouble with is the one 00:32:33.180 --> 00:32:37.579 that you most like? Look at somebody and say, 00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:39.220 you got to pray it out of you to pray it out 00:32:39.220 --> 00:32:52.579 of them. saying nothing to me. And everybody's 00:32:52.579 --> 00:32:54.579 smart enough to go, you know that was a word 00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:57.640 for you. You didn't have to do that. They just 00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:06.000 know. The brother ends up in prison, accused 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:09.319 of a crime he didn't commit. And a butler and 00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:17.559 a baker have a dream. Everybody goes resurrection 00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:25.920 of a vision. Everybody go fulfillment. Everybody 00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:30.900 say birth of a vision. Death of a vision. Resurrection 00:33:30.900 --> 00:33:35.059 of a vision. Everybody say faith. Frustration 00:33:35.059 --> 00:33:44.539 and even fear. And fulfillment. know what I'm 00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:45.980 really doing is I'm trying to get you to see 00:33:45.980 --> 00:33:50.079 where you are. And I'm also trying to get you 00:33:50.079 --> 00:33:52.779 to see that even if you're in the death of the 00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:58.839 vision, ain't nothing wrong with you. Because 00:33:58.839 --> 00:34:01.720 you can be doing everything right and be frustrated. 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:11.699 And frustration is the birthplace for resurrection. 00:34:19.789 --> 00:34:24.949 Everybody say process. Process. Now, you could 00:34:24.949 --> 00:34:27.550 also say it this way. Birth of a vision, faith. 00:34:27.929 --> 00:34:31.070 Death of a vision, hope. If you could see your 00:34:31.070 --> 00:34:38.789 way, hope that's seen ain't hope. When God brings 00:34:38.789 --> 00:34:41.170 Joseph out and he's second in command of Egypt, 00:34:41.429 --> 00:34:47.710 he has love. He has forgiven his brothers. Wait. 00:34:48.809 --> 00:34:58.190 He did it in the process. When he comes out and 00:34:58.190 --> 00:35:00.429 Pharaoh says, I hear you can give me revelation, 00:35:00.550 --> 00:35:03.409 his response when you go back and read the negative 00:35:03.409 --> 00:35:06.789 is, he says, the answer is not in me but God. 00:35:08.989 --> 00:35:10.809 Before he said, y 'all gonna bow down to me. 00:35:12.789 --> 00:35:16.429 Then he says, the answer is not in me but God 00:35:16.429 --> 00:35:25.920 will give you. Still with me? Now you say, why 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:27.420 do you make us repeat? Because the father of 00:35:27.420 --> 00:35:30.739 all learning is repetition. And if I can get 00:35:30.739 --> 00:35:35.199 you to preach this message with me and I repeat 00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.679 it, you're going to remember it. It isn't because 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:40.980 I don't have anything else to say. I got more 00:35:40.980 --> 00:35:46.059 to say than what we got time for. I really do. 00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:57.690 I mean, trust me. Just trust me on that. Moses 00:35:57.690 --> 00:36:00.329 is 40. He has the birth of a vision that he's 00:36:00.329 --> 00:36:02.650 called by God to be a deliverer, and he tries 00:36:02.650 --> 00:36:05.949 it on his own and fails. Look at somebody and 00:36:05.949 --> 00:36:10.150 say, failure ain't no big deal. Now, I want you 00:36:10.150 --> 00:36:11.730 to be African -American. Look at your neighbor 00:36:11.730 --> 00:36:16.550 and say, quit tripping over your failures. Now, 00:36:16.610 --> 00:36:19.050 look at your other neighbor and say, what's the 00:36:19.050 --> 00:36:23.110 big deal? Now, look at him and say, is it like 00:36:23.110 --> 00:36:34.440 it hasn't happened to you before? I need to fail 00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:38.739 so that when success comes, I know it's God. 00:36:41.559 --> 00:36:45.219 And I'm gaining wisdom by my mistakes and God 00:36:45.219 --> 00:36:51.980 is turning my mistakes into his miracles. So 00:36:51.980 --> 00:36:56.320 Moses has the birth of a vision and he had self 00:36:56.320 --> 00:36:58.780 -confidence because the Bible says in the book 00:36:58.780 --> 00:37:02.179 of Acts, he was mighty in words and acts. And 00:37:02.179 --> 00:37:05.139 then he goes into a death of a vision. Everybody 00:37:05.139 --> 00:37:09.059 say 40 years. And then he has a bush on fire. 00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:13.079 Look at somebody and say, my bush is on fire. 00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:18.940 He has the resurrection of a vision and he becomes 00:37:18.940 --> 00:37:22.639 a deliverer. Isn't it interesting? The first 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:25.920 40 years of his life, he's a somebody. The next 00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:29.079 40 years, he's a nobody. The last 40 years, he's 00:37:29.079 --> 00:37:34.030 a yielded body. Isn't it interesting that God 00:37:34.030 --> 00:37:36.969 meets him on Mount Horeb, which is the place 00:37:36.969 --> 00:37:40.590 of desolation? Look at somebody and say, emptiness 00:37:40.590 --> 00:37:46.510 comes before fullness. Isn't it interesting that 00:37:46.510 --> 00:37:53.710 the trial has a way of making room for fullness? 00:38:01.739 --> 00:38:05.619 I don't know how far I should go. Ah, okay, you 00:38:05.619 --> 00:38:11.980 sure? Are any of you sure about this? Remember 00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:14.780 I told you about visitations? So Jesus appears 00:38:14.780 --> 00:38:22.940 to me. This is about 97, 98. Face to face, he 00:38:22.940 --> 00:38:25.539 tells me that he is going to take me through 00:38:25.539 --> 00:38:29.820 something. I could tell by the tone it wasn't 00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:40.619 going to be good. So I said no. No. I let him 00:38:40.619 --> 00:38:42.260 know in the clearest possible terms he communicated 00:38:42.260 --> 00:38:45.320 to me, I'm not for this. Because I know it's 00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:58.059 going to hurt. And I really like me. Everybody 00:38:58.059 --> 00:39:03.309 say God encounter. Process. Everybody say impact. 00:39:03.829 --> 00:39:07.369 Impact. Imprint. Everybody say treasure. Treasure. 00:39:07.369 --> 00:39:10.650 Trial. So I told him, no, no. I let him know. 00:39:10.730 --> 00:39:14.510 No. This is why he looks at me like this. He 00:39:14.510 --> 00:39:16.929 goes face to face. He goes by my ear and says, 00:39:17.110 --> 00:39:21.829 I quote, I'm going to do it anyway. Stands back, 00:39:21.849 --> 00:39:26.170 looks at me, and disappears. This is when I discovered 00:39:26.170 --> 00:39:32.469 that God is the Godfather. And the Holy Ghost 00:39:32.469 --> 00:39:37.670 is a hitman. And there was a contract put out 00:39:37.670 --> 00:39:48.530 on my carnality. And look at somebody saying, 00:39:48.650 --> 00:39:53.050 you can run, but you can't hide from the Holy 00:39:53.050 --> 00:40:03.079 Ghost hitman. know what I'm really saying because 00:40:03.079 --> 00:40:06.940 I shared a little bit about my background. 1%. 00:40:06.940 --> 00:40:22.940 1 % club. I've worked with some colorful characters 00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:26.300 that you don't want to meet during the day or 00:40:26.300 --> 00:40:34.150 the night. Look at somebody and say, criminals, 00:40:34.269 --> 00:40:45.110 gangsters, killers. So, you know, anyway, this 00:40:45.110 --> 00:40:47.929 is what I heard. The Holy Ghost is a hit man. 00:40:48.929 --> 00:40:51.550 Now, I'd like to be able to tell y 'all that 00:40:51.550 --> 00:40:56.510 I said, oh, to Jesus, I surrender. I'd be lying. 00:40:58.409 --> 00:41:06.519 I'm a Gentile. I squealed like a pig all the 00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:14.380 way through to my death. This is what I found 00:41:14.380 --> 00:41:22.039 out. God does MMA. This is what I found out. 00:41:22.119 --> 00:41:27.880 God is like a sumo wrestler. He will pin you 00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:37.530 down until you say, Okay. Now I'm in the ministry, 00:41:37.590 --> 00:41:59.949 y 'all. When this happened. When I got whipped. 00:42:02.030 --> 00:42:06.710 Into submission. Because Joseph, look, Jacob 00:42:06.710 --> 00:42:08.469 didn't wrestle with the angel. The angel was 00:42:08.469 --> 00:42:13.309 wrestling with Joseph. And see, when God was 00:42:13.309 --> 00:42:14.909 done with that brother through the angel, he 00:42:14.909 --> 00:42:30.070 walked with a limp. When I got to the end of 00:42:30.070 --> 00:42:34.570 it, I was like really happy. I was full of joy. 00:42:35.969 --> 00:42:37.409 Look at somebody and say, when you get through 00:42:37.409 --> 00:42:40.590 this process, you're going to be really happy. 00:42:43.289 --> 00:42:44.530 Look at somebody and say, you're going to be 00:42:44.530 --> 00:42:52.829 full of the joy of the Lord. Look at somebody 00:42:52.829 --> 00:43:03.710 and say, squeal on. The Lord has no problem with 00:43:03.710 --> 00:43:08.909 you squealing. Look at somebody. Sooner or later, 00:43:09.050 --> 00:43:17.989 you're going to resign. Because he's got no problem 00:43:17.989 --> 00:43:26.949 saying to you, I'm going to do it anyway. Look 00:43:26.949 --> 00:43:31.420 at somebody and say, he's faithful. Everybody 00:43:31.420 --> 00:43:35.019 say birth of a vision. Death of a vision. Resurrection 00:43:35.019 --> 00:43:37.320 of a vision. You don't have to repeat now. Faith. 00:43:39.059 --> 00:43:42.599 Frustration. Fulfillment. Everybody say encounter. 00:43:43.860 --> 00:43:46.860 Everybody say process. Everybody say treasure. 00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:51.940 Trial. When you get to the end of the trial, 00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:58.840 there's a greater treasure. Why are you being 00:43:58.840 --> 00:44:13.539 processed? Because this generation is going to 00:44:13.539 --> 00:44:17.840 need to see more of God than any generation before 00:44:17.840 --> 00:44:30.239 to be converted. Jesus comes, birth of a vision. 00:44:30.659 --> 00:44:33.539 Jesus is crucified, death of a vision. Jesus 00:44:33.539 --> 00:44:36.480 is resurrected, comes back to life, the fulfillment 00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:43.210 of a vision. See, I'm thinking about this. And 00:44:43.210 --> 00:44:48.550 I'm thinking, now there are trials that God could 00:44:48.550 --> 00:44:54.889 stop, but he don't. See, there's a scripture 00:44:54.889 --> 00:44:58.690 that I have yet to live up to. I'm just honest. 00:44:59.530 --> 00:45:01.489 Like, you know, James had a brother, Jesus. He's 00:45:01.489 --> 00:45:04.369 talking this stuff. Like, count it all joy when 00:45:04.369 --> 00:45:06.530 you fall into different temptations. Look at 00:45:06.530 --> 00:45:07.849 somebody and say, you need to pray for him because 00:45:07.849 --> 00:45:13.929 he ain't there. When? Now I may have joy after, 00:45:14.050 --> 00:45:21.349 but during? Look at somebody say, you think he's 00:45:21.349 --> 00:45:25.650 talking about himself only? I can say this with 00:45:25.650 --> 00:45:32.170 great confidence, I am not alone. Count it all 00:45:32.170 --> 00:45:34.289 joy, not if you fall into different trials, but 00:45:34.289 --> 00:45:35.989 when you fall into different trials, knowing 00:45:35.989 --> 00:45:37.889 this, the trying of your faith, not your patience. 00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:40.079 People say, you're trying to patience. Look at 00:45:40.079 --> 00:45:42.320 somebody saying, ain't you patience? Look at 00:45:42.320 --> 00:45:48.380 somebody saying, it's your faith. Trying of your 00:45:48.380 --> 00:45:50.659 faith works patience. Patience have its full 00:45:50.659 --> 00:45:52.880 effect that you may be complete and mature, lacking 00:45:52.880 --> 00:45:55.239 nothing, which means prior to the trial, there's 00:45:55.239 --> 00:46:00.619 something I'm lacking. If any man lack wisdom. 00:46:00.719 --> 00:46:05.400 So Joseph got a wisdom through his trial that 00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:08.349 he needed. to save Egypt and the sons of Israel. 00:46:10.989 --> 00:46:12.690 Look at somebody and say, you're getting some 00:46:12.690 --> 00:46:18.030 wisdom in this trial that's going to save others. 00:46:22.869 --> 00:46:31.369 Okay. How, now listen to me, how do I get through 00:46:31.369 --> 00:46:39.880 the trial? I get through the trial by waiting. 00:46:44.219 --> 00:46:51.320 How do you overcome sin? Waiting. Every trial 00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:57.539 has a time limit. All I have to do is wait. Every 00:46:57.539 --> 00:46:59.380 temptation has a time limit. All I got to do 00:46:59.380 --> 00:47:08.400 is wait. Time is the poison to the trial. Temptation 00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:10.500 isn't always there. It comes and it goes. All 00:47:10.500 --> 00:47:18.980 I got to do is wait. They that wait upon the 00:47:18.980 --> 00:47:22.900 Lord. Previous to that, it says the Lord isn't 00:47:22.900 --> 00:47:26.300 weary. He doesn't faint. And then you wait and 00:47:26.300 --> 00:47:27.860 you exchange your weakness for his strength. 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:29.840 And then it says you're going to mount up like 00:47:29.840 --> 00:47:32.260 with wings like an eagle. You're going to run 00:47:32.260 --> 00:47:34.820 and not be weary. You're going to walk. So while 00:47:34.820 --> 00:47:50.159 I'm waiting, I'm. getting an imprint. As many 00:47:50.159 --> 00:47:52.320 as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the 00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:55.059 mature sons of God. What is Jesus like? Well, 00:47:55.219 --> 00:48:11.070 he's like me. Because I'm like him. And then 00:48:11.070 --> 00:48:12.969 in the ministry of Jesus, there was no delay. 00:48:17.090 --> 00:48:20.949 Isn't this interesting? He waits to get to the 00:48:20.949 --> 00:48:40.559 place of no delay. Here's the thing. The Lord 00:48:40.559 --> 00:48:44.539 always gives you a butler, a baker, and a pharaoh 00:48:44.539 --> 00:48:47.420 to help you get into destiny because people are 00:48:47.420 --> 00:48:54.719 your escorts into destiny. A butler is somebody 00:48:54.719 --> 00:48:57.599 that God gives you to open up the door for you. 00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.460 It may be a door of foresight. a door of insight. 00:49:04.599 --> 00:49:06.960 It may be a door of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. 00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:11.400 It may be a door of revelation. It may be a door 00:49:11.400 --> 00:49:19.820 of motivation. Say, Father, I thank you for my 00:49:19.820 --> 00:49:24.820 butler. Then the Lord always gives you a cupbearer. 00:49:24.900 --> 00:49:29.980 He always gives you a baker, somebody to care 00:49:29.980 --> 00:49:33.599 for you. to protect you, to save you from hurt, 00:49:33.619 --> 00:49:36.239 harm, and danger. Somebody who helps put things 00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:42.099 together for you. Look at somebody that's kind 00:49:42.099 --> 00:49:50.059 of humbling. And then he always gives you a Pharaoh, 00:49:50.159 --> 00:49:54.679 somebody in a position of power to help you step 00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:58.460 into what the Father always destined for you. 00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:01.199 So what's going on here? First of all, I have 00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:05.960 this problem. So now, why do I have this problem? 00:50:07.000 --> 00:50:09.480 Because I'm supposed to grow in the grace and 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:14.420 the intimate knowledge of God. So how can I know 00:50:14.420 --> 00:50:19.820 the Father and Jesus more intimately? Oh, the 00:50:19.820 --> 00:50:25.079 problem. Look at somebody and say, the problem 00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:30.210 is design. So you know Jesus more intimately. 00:50:35.989 --> 00:50:39.050 Okay, let me say it to you another way. When 00:50:39.050 --> 00:50:41.070 they discovered there was oil in the ocean, somebody 00:50:41.070 --> 00:50:43.730 said, how can we mine the wealth? Somebody said, 00:50:43.789 --> 00:50:47.730 let's build a platform. Say it, let's build a 00:50:47.730 --> 00:50:51.349 platform. That's how they got the treasure out 00:50:51.349 --> 00:50:56.630 of the darkness. The problem or problems you 00:50:56.630 --> 00:51:03.579 are facing, are the platform that enables you, 00:51:03.639 --> 00:51:07.360 by your intimate knowledge of God, walking through 00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:13.559 the problem to be able to reach people. Because 00:51:13.559 --> 00:51:18.139 if you never had a problem, I won't even let 00:51:18.139 --> 00:51:30.000 you talk to me. No, no, no. You platform your 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:35.639 ministry based upon the problems that Jesus has 00:51:35.639 --> 00:51:41.159 brought you through. Successfully, you platform 00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:47.099 your ministry based upon where God has brought 00:51:47.099 --> 00:51:50.980 you from. You platform your ministry based upon 00:51:50.980 --> 00:51:53.619 what Jesus has saved you from, healed you from, 00:51:53.699 --> 00:51:55.900 delivered you from. You platform your ministry 00:51:55.900 --> 00:51:58.420 based upon where Jesus has been in your life 00:51:58.420 --> 00:52:08.079 more than a conqueror and an overcomer. Still 00:52:08.079 --> 00:52:11.639 with me? Are you all right? You're not overwhelmed, 00:52:11.780 --> 00:52:14.079 are you? Okay, good, good, good, good, because 00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:21.340 that means I can go on. Okay, let me ask this 00:52:21.340 --> 00:52:24.059 question. How many of you used to drink alcohol, 00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:25.679 but because of Jesus, you don't drink alcohol 00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:27.440 anymore? Stand to your feet. Stand to your feet. 00:52:27.460 --> 00:52:28.579 Stand to your feet. You've been sitting for a 00:52:28.579 --> 00:52:30.699 while anyway. Stand to your feet. Because of 00:52:30.699 --> 00:52:32.940 Jesus, you don't drink no more. Let's give these 00:52:32.940 --> 00:52:34.579 folks a big hand clap. Look around the room. 00:52:40.260 --> 00:52:42.639 Every day you don't drink, you're a walking miracle. 00:52:43.940 --> 00:52:45.699 How many of y 'all used to get high, but because 00:52:45.699 --> 00:52:47.559 of Jesus, you don't get high no more? Stand to 00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:53.599 your feet. Stand to your feet. Jesus, the miracle 00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:58.380 worker. How many of y 'all used to smoke cigarettes? 00:52:58.420 --> 00:53:00.380 Don't smoke cigarettes no more because of Jesus. 00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:08.539 Stand to your feet. Stand up, stand up. Have 00:53:08.539 --> 00:53:11.239 a sit down. How many of you, you ain't dealt 00:53:11.239 --> 00:53:15.239 no drugs, you ain't sold no drugs since Jesus 00:53:15.239 --> 00:53:19.219 come in your life? Stand to your feet. Come on, 00:53:19.239 --> 00:53:25.039 give God a praise. Now, let me really take you 00:53:25.039 --> 00:53:28.559 somewhere. How many of y 'all ain't robbed nobody 00:53:28.559 --> 00:53:32.940 since you came to Jesus? Let me stand up on that 00:53:32.940 --> 00:53:45.480 one. Let's give them a big hand clap. How many 00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:47.639 of you have been tempted to do any of those things, 00:53:47.699 --> 00:53:52.380 but because you waited, you overcame it? Raise 00:53:52.380 --> 00:54:03.739 your hands. Okay. Everybody say problem. So you 00:54:03.739 --> 00:54:06.719 get a promise from God. You can be exempt. You 00:54:06.719 --> 00:54:11.179 can be free. The power of your testimony because 00:54:11.179 --> 00:54:16.760 of what Jesus has done. Everybody say, problem. 00:54:17.800 --> 00:54:21.780 Promise. Everybody say, provision. Everybody 00:54:21.780 --> 00:54:25.019 say, prosperity. Now I'm moving toward my close. 00:54:25.360 --> 00:54:26.840 Have you ever noticed that preacher's minutes 00:54:26.840 --> 00:54:32.440 are always longer than regular minutes? Whenever 00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:36.599 the Lord is getting ready to provide, there's 00:54:36.599 --> 00:54:40.360 always one or more of five things that happen. 00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:47.260 He gives you a person. There's a place. There's 00:54:47.260 --> 00:54:52.079 a revelation or an idea. There's a thing and 00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:59.840 there's an act. Everybody say a person. A place. 00:55:00.539 --> 00:55:08.059 A revelation. A thing. Or an act. Now, the reason 00:55:08.059 --> 00:55:11.090 the Lord walks us through this. It's because 00:55:11.090 --> 00:55:14.110 in this, we are growing in the grace and the 00:55:14.110 --> 00:55:17.969 intimate knowledge of Jesus. And he's teaching 00:55:17.969 --> 00:55:22.809 me how he's going to work in and actually through 00:55:22.809 --> 00:55:27.670 me so I can minister his grace, his presence 00:55:27.670 --> 00:55:29.630 and his power to others and bring them into this 00:55:29.630 --> 00:55:32.630 intimate knowledge of Jesus. Let me show you 00:55:32.630 --> 00:55:36.460 this. This will make you think. You know, Adam 00:55:36.460 --> 00:55:39.820 hasn't even sinned yet, and the Lord says to 00:55:39.820 --> 00:55:41.559 him, it ain't good for the brother to be alone. 00:55:43.000 --> 00:55:45.380 I want a woman to look at a man and say, even 00:55:45.380 --> 00:55:54.059 before sin, you needed help. Now look at him 00:55:54.059 --> 00:55:55.880 and smile and say, heaven knows you need help 00:55:55.880 --> 00:56:04.440 now. The brother had a problem. God had a promise. 00:56:04.539 --> 00:56:07.940 Let us make man a helpmeet for him. Provision. 00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:13.820 Watch this. The Lord puts the man to sleep and 00:56:13.820 --> 00:56:18.559 has the answer inside of him and brings it out 00:56:18.559 --> 00:56:24.179 and presents it to him. Look at somebody and 00:56:24.179 --> 00:56:29.300 say, the revelation's already in you. Christ 00:56:29.300 --> 00:56:31.639 in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1 .27, 00:56:31.920 --> 00:56:37.219 Galatians 2 .20, Christ lives in me. Interesting. 00:56:37.500 --> 00:56:42.139 Everybody say provision. Prosperity. Interesting. 00:56:42.579 --> 00:56:46.679 When Moses in Exodus 3 is getting ready to be 00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:50.980 the deliverer of the sons of Israel, he gets 00:56:50.980 --> 00:56:54.619 called by God and the Lord says, what's in your 00:56:54.619 --> 00:57:03.889 hand? He didn't know that what was in his hand 00:57:03.889 --> 00:57:09.650 was going to destroy demonic thrones, dominions, 00:57:09.650 --> 00:57:15.449 principalities, and powers. Look at somebody 00:57:15.449 --> 00:57:19.349 and say, it takes a revelation and a visitation 00:57:19.349 --> 00:57:24.849 for you to find out what's already in you and 00:57:24.849 --> 00:57:34.070 God has already put in your hand. The sons of 00:57:34.070 --> 00:57:36.369 the prophets, one of them died and had a wife 00:57:36.369 --> 00:57:38.929 and she was left in debt. And she goes to the 00:57:38.929 --> 00:57:42.210 senior prophet and says, you know, they get ready 00:57:42.210 --> 00:57:44.030 to take away my sons. I'm getting ready to be 00:57:44.030 --> 00:57:47.210 destitute. Here was the prophet's question. What 00:57:47.210 --> 00:57:49.250 do you have in your house? Her first response 00:57:49.250 --> 00:57:52.130 is, I have nothing in my house. And then she 00:57:52.130 --> 00:57:54.250 thinks for a minute and says, wait a minute, 00:57:54.309 --> 00:57:57.130 I have a pot of oil. Look at somebody and say, 00:57:57.250 --> 00:58:01.579 what's in you? What's in your hand? What's already 00:58:01.579 --> 00:58:15.300 in your house? She didn't even know. All she 00:58:15.300 --> 00:58:18.239 was waiting for was a revelation and an instruction 00:58:18.239 --> 00:58:21.960 that she followed. So whenever God's getting 00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:24.219 ready to do the miraculous, he gives you an instruction. 00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:26.559 And when you follow that instruction, you see 00:58:26.559 --> 00:58:35.719 the manifestation of the miraculous. 5 ,000 men 00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:37.940 plus women and children, 4 ,000 men plus women 00:58:37.940 --> 00:58:40.059 and children. Where are we going to get bread 00:58:40.059 --> 00:58:43.579 to feed all these people? Wrong question. Jesus 00:58:43.579 --> 00:58:47.219 says, what is here already? Look at somebody 00:58:47.219 --> 00:58:55.059 and say, the miracle answer is close by. It wasn't 00:58:55.059 --> 00:59:02.139 a lad. It wasn't a boy. Person, place. Turn eastward 00:59:02.139 --> 00:59:05.599 back to antiquity, 1 Kings 17. Go to the brook 00:59:05.599 --> 00:59:08.440 Cherith. I commanded the ravens to feed you there. 00:59:08.980 --> 00:59:11.079 It's interesting. God will always meet you in 00:59:11.079 --> 00:59:22.519 the place he told you to be. Jeremiah, I don't 00:59:22.519 --> 00:59:25.599 care if you're a prophet. I'm not talking to 00:59:25.599 --> 00:59:27.400 you anymore until you get to the potter's house. 00:59:28.219 --> 00:59:32.920 I will speak to you there. Ezekiel, I know you 00:59:32.920 --> 00:59:35.400 saw the Merkaba. I know you saw the moving throne 00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:37.420 of God, the four living creatures and the glory 00:59:37.420 --> 00:59:39.900 of God and the man on fire from his loins down 00:59:39.900 --> 00:59:42.179 and up. But you better get to the plain because 00:59:42.179 --> 00:59:44.519 the glory of God, you're going to experience 00:59:44.519 --> 00:59:58.619 it there. Place. Elijah, get to Zarephath. I've 00:59:58.619 --> 01:00:00.800 commanded a widow woman to sustain you. Everybody 01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:07.320 say. their place. Idea. Open up the windows of 01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:12.960 heaven. Bring the tithes and the offerings into 01:00:12.960 --> 01:00:14.599 the house. See if I will not open up the windows 01:00:14.599 --> 01:00:16.360 of heaven. What's a window? It's something you 01:00:16.360 --> 01:00:20.179 see your way out of and into. See, what we do 01:00:20.179 --> 01:00:27.599 is you know, this is what we think. We think 01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:29.639 I pay my tithes and my offerings, I should prosper. 01:00:30.179 --> 01:00:34.340 Okay. But there's a word, there's an idea, there's 01:00:34.340 --> 01:00:37.420 a revelation that's coming out of heaven where 01:00:37.420 --> 01:00:43.139 God's going to tell you what to do. I was telling 01:00:43.139 --> 01:00:45.760 the pastor, the meeting I wish I would have been 01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:52.139 in. Look at somebody saying, water is supposed 01:00:52.139 --> 01:00:57.420 to be free. The meeting I... wanted to be in 01:00:57.420 --> 01:00:59.539 was when these guys got together and said, I 01:00:59.539 --> 01:01:02.840 know what we should do. We should sell what's 01:01:02.840 --> 01:01:13.840 free. Everybody say, sell water. I know what 01:01:13.840 --> 01:01:22.800 we'll call it. Smart water. Spring water. Look 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:25.369 at somebody. Somebody made millions. and maybe 01:01:25.369 --> 01:01:37.530 billions off of water? Really? You are one idea, 01:01:37.730 --> 01:01:44.269 revelation away. See, let me tell you what our 01:01:44.269 --> 01:01:47.210 problem is. Look at somebody say, that good looking 01:01:47.210 --> 01:01:52.869 preacher says you got a problem. Here's what 01:01:52.869 --> 01:01:56.920 we do. We make noise and we go home. Oh, no, 01:01:56.960 --> 01:01:59.739 no, no, no, no. I want to worship God through 01:01:59.739 --> 01:02:04.619 my worship, inventions, ideas, come out of heaven 01:02:04.619 --> 01:02:06.519 into the atmosphere of the earth, and I want 01:02:06.519 --> 01:02:09.260 to catch them. Because when they come out of 01:02:09.260 --> 01:02:11.539 heaven, they're in the earth, and anybody who 01:02:11.539 --> 01:02:13.900 pays attention to what's in the spiritual realm, 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:22.050 saint or sinner, can't pick it up. Oh, let me 01:02:22.050 --> 01:02:24.070 help you. George Washington Carver. I don't know 01:02:24.070 --> 01:02:26.329 if you knew this. He was saved. Did you know 01:02:26.329 --> 01:02:29.250 he would read the Bible, bring up a notebook, 01:02:29.429 --> 01:02:33.789 pray in the spirit, and God would... George Washington 01:02:33.789 --> 01:02:36.309 Carver said, Lord, show me the secrets of the 01:02:36.309 --> 01:02:38.289 universe. God says, little man, you're too small 01:02:38.289 --> 01:02:40.570 for the secrets of the universe. I'm going to 01:02:40.570 --> 01:02:44.510 show you 72 to 100 ways. I can't remember if 01:02:44.510 --> 01:02:47.690 it was 72 or 100, of how you can utilize the 01:02:47.690 --> 01:03:00.179 peanut. He came up with a tire for Ford. God 01:03:00.179 --> 01:03:04.900 gave him revelation about plastic, oil. They 01:03:04.900 --> 01:03:09.659 invited him to the White House. They talked with 01:03:09.659 --> 01:03:12.960 him about agriculture. They invited him to Congress 01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:16.880 to talk about tariffs. A black man in that day, 01:03:16.980 --> 01:03:18.420 look at somebody saying, it don't matter what 01:03:18.420 --> 01:03:27.340 color you are when you got the Holy Ghost. In 01:03:27.340 --> 01:03:29.500 England, they gave him a rarity for anybody. 01:03:33.599 --> 01:03:39.739 God would talk to this man. Idea. Okay. Thing. 01:03:40.659 --> 01:03:51.820 Act. God can tell you to do something. I'll share 01:03:51.820 --> 01:03:53.460 this and then I'm going to come to a close because 01:03:53.460 --> 01:04:12.179 somebody said we got barbecue. doing this church 01:04:12.179 --> 01:04:19.280 service. And this woman dies. It was a husband 01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:21.960 and wife pastor, Richard. He's since gone on 01:04:21.960 --> 01:04:26.119 to be with Jesus. And Donzella, she's been saved 01:04:26.119 --> 01:04:29.219 by 60 years. The woman is clinically dead. No 01:04:29.219 --> 01:04:32.440 breath, no pulse. Now most folk would call, you 01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:38.460 know, initiate CPR, call 911. Not Donzella. She's 01:04:38.460 --> 01:04:42.429 been saved 60 years. Call them for what? We have 01:04:42.429 --> 01:04:46.309 a church. So she calls the whole church to pray. 01:04:46.369 --> 01:04:48.030 I'm there to do a revival. I'm just innocent. 01:04:50.329 --> 01:04:54.369 So they prayed for her. Sister girl dead. Look 01:04:54.369 --> 01:04:57.510 at somebody that said dead. So Don Zeller walks 01:04:57.510 --> 01:04:59.030 up to me and says, will you pray for my sister? 01:04:59.429 --> 01:05:01.510 Like I got something else to do right about now. 01:05:04.630 --> 01:05:12.329 So I want to see if she's really dead. Y 'all 01:05:12.329 --> 01:05:14.369 think I'm playing. I am serious as eternal life. 01:05:19.349 --> 01:05:23.969 So yeah, ain't no pulse. Yeah, ain't no breath. 01:05:24.030 --> 01:05:28.050 She dead. You know, I'm qualified to know if 01:05:28.050 --> 01:05:37.789 they dead. That's for sure. Yeah, she dead. So 01:05:37.789 --> 01:05:43.260 anyway, so I'm wondering. Look at somebody and 01:05:43.260 --> 01:05:47.179 say, when you don't know what to do, ask Jesus. 01:05:48.739 --> 01:05:52.360 So I figured, here I am. So I said, what do I 01:05:52.360 --> 01:05:55.619 do? He said, stand over the body. So I stood 01:05:55.619 --> 01:05:58.280 over the body. He says, say, Satan, the Lord 01:05:58.280 --> 01:06:01.500 God rebuke you. So I obeyed. Then he said, put 01:06:01.500 --> 01:06:03.679 your hand on her body so that whatever calls 01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:05.760 her to die is healed. So I did that. Then the 01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:08.619 Lord says this to me, because, you know, I'm 01:06:08.619 --> 01:06:11.179 a little prophetic, so we have, you know. Prophetic 01:06:11.179 --> 01:06:16.739 people are not normal. So the Lord actually says 01:06:16.739 --> 01:06:18.400 this to me. He says, you don't even know the 01:06:18.400 --> 01:06:22.900 woman's name. Find out what her name is. God 01:06:22.900 --> 01:06:25.800 didn't know the woman. So I said, what's this 01:06:25.800 --> 01:06:28.820 woman's name? They said, Ida. The Lord says, 01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:36.400 tell Ida to get up. So I says, Ida, get up. When 01:06:36.400 --> 01:06:40.789 I say, Ida, get up, her stomach goes. Look at 01:06:40.789 --> 01:06:46.989 somebody and say, this is a good sign. So, then 01:06:46.989 --> 01:06:50.889 she started breathing. Then she gets up. I think 01:06:50.889 --> 01:06:53.269 we started in the morning. I think we got done 01:06:53.269 --> 01:06:55.409 in that service about what, Deborah, was that 01:06:55.409 --> 01:06:58.050 five or six? And I think the next service started 01:06:58.050 --> 01:07:07.389 at seven. This is when I learned. One of the 01:07:07.389 --> 01:07:10.780 patterns for miracles is. Somebody or some people 01:07:10.780 --> 01:07:15.619 cry out to God. Exodus 2, Exodus 3, somebody 01:07:15.619 --> 01:07:20.219 hears God. Exodus 3 and following, somebody obeys 01:07:20.219 --> 01:07:23.460 God. Exodus 3 and following, the miracle happens. 01:07:25.500 --> 01:07:27.079 Look at somebody and say, you don't need the 01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:32.280 power until you need it. And for me, you know, 01:07:32.320 --> 01:07:34.659 that's like number five. I've seen five people 01:07:34.659 --> 01:07:36.820 raised to life. Every single time was a different 01:07:36.820 --> 01:07:39.780 way. Because look at somebody and say, because 01:07:39.780 --> 01:07:47.099 you got to hear and obey. Okay, closing. Problem. 01:07:49.159 --> 01:07:54.940 Promise. Provision and prosperity. Okay, let's 01:07:54.940 --> 01:08:04.480 review. Everybody saying counter. Process. Treasure. 01:08:06.119 --> 01:08:15.139 Trial. Impact. Imprint. Birth of a vision. Death 01:08:15.139 --> 01:08:19.380 of a vision. Resurrection of a vision. Faith. 01:08:20.319 --> 01:08:25.060 Fear and frustration. Fulfillment. Everybody 01:08:25.060 --> 01:08:31.000 say, now abides three things. Faith. Hope. Love. 01:08:34.220 --> 01:08:46.039 Yeah, give Jesus a big hand clap. So now I'm 01:08:46.039 --> 01:08:54.840 looking at this thing. And I'm looking at it 01:08:54.840 --> 01:08:58.260 and I'm going, okay, I've got to be processed. 01:09:01.420 --> 01:09:04.319 Because here's what I have learned. I have learned 01:09:04.319 --> 01:09:11.439 if I can wait and walk with Jesus through the 01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:22.260 process, When I come out the other side, to some 01:09:22.260 --> 01:09:27.260 degree more, I will grow in the grace and the 01:09:27.260 --> 01:09:30.000 intimate knowledge of my Lord and Savior, Jesus 01:09:30.000 --> 01:09:37.220 Christ. If I can wait and walk with Jesus through 01:09:37.220 --> 01:09:42.720 the process, when I come out, I will move in 01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:46.180 some power of the Spirit I had not known. moved 01:09:46.180 --> 01:09:51.520 in before. If I can wait and walk with Jesus 01:09:51.520 --> 01:10:01.600 through the process, I will see God manifest 01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:09.619 himself in the now. And I'm not just talking 01:10:09.619 --> 01:10:13.739 about in church. I'm talking about in the restaurant. 01:10:14.569 --> 01:10:17.449 I'm talking about in the mall. I'm talking about 01:10:17.449 --> 01:10:22.750 in the street. I'm talking about in the drug 01:10:22.750 --> 01:10:25.390 treatment facility. I'm talking about with the 01:10:25.390 --> 01:10:31.789 criminals. Some of the most exciting miracles 01:10:31.789 --> 01:10:35.250 I've seen are with people who have been shot. 01:10:42.829 --> 01:10:44.909 I'm like excited if somebody's got a bullet. 01:10:51.710 --> 01:10:53.489 I remember one guy, he'd been shot in the leg, 01:10:53.529 --> 01:10:55.289 had it for 30 years, and the bullet dissolved. 01:10:58.329 --> 01:11:01.149 Bullet in the knee dissolves. Bullet in the ankle 01:11:01.149 --> 01:11:05.689 dissolves. I remember a guy from Mexico. He worked 01:11:05.689 --> 01:11:09.810 for one of the cartels, and his job was to bury 01:11:09.810 --> 01:11:13.020 the bodies that they had killed. Law enforcement 01:11:13.020 --> 01:11:15.479 comes on him, charges him with mercy. He was 01:11:15.479 --> 01:11:17.880 not a killer. They throw him in jail forever. 01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:20.920 He gets saved. Somebody says to him, if you ask 01:11:20.920 --> 01:11:25.039 the Lord, he'll get you out. Whoever the president 01:11:25.039 --> 01:11:27.199 of Mexico has three names come before him, this 01:11:27.199 --> 01:11:32.000 is one of the guys. So he comes to San Antonio 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:35.220 to work with a Pastor Luis who, you know, works 01:11:35.220 --> 01:11:41.939 with people like this. The guy's got part of 01:11:41.939 --> 01:11:44.720 his stomach is rubber. A number of people in 01:11:44.720 --> 01:11:50.840 pastor's church had metal. And the metal disappears 01:11:50.840 --> 01:11:54.739 and dissolves. I mean, I've seen God do some 01:11:54.739 --> 01:11:56.699 stuff like, there was a guy, he was shot in the 01:11:56.699 --> 01:11:58.579 chest, had fragments. They thought they were 01:11:58.579 --> 01:12:00.899 going to have to amputate his arm. His last two 01:12:00.899 --> 01:12:04.500 fingers were artificial. The fragments in his 01:12:04.500 --> 01:12:06.739 chest disappeared, been in pain 10 years. His 01:12:06.739 --> 01:12:08.300 last two fingers that were artificial become 01:12:08.300 --> 01:12:14.359 real fingers and he can move them. I mean, we, 01:12:14.479 --> 01:12:18.199 this is when you know it's crazy. When you go 01:12:18.199 --> 01:12:20.420 through security because of the metal and it 01:12:20.420 --> 01:12:23.739 goes off, God dissolves the metal and you go 01:12:23.739 --> 01:12:27.260 through security and it don't go off. Look at 01:12:27.260 --> 01:12:31.119 somebody say, it speaks for itself. So I'll share 01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:32.560 this part. Now I'm going to, I'm trying to close. 01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:36.180 This is what's crazy. Sometimes God will dissolve 01:12:36.180 --> 01:12:39.380 the metal, turn it into bone. Sometimes God will 01:12:39.380 --> 01:12:42.239 make the metal act like bone. So I'm doing this 01:12:42.239 --> 01:12:46.050 meeting. And this woman had metal from here to 01:12:46.050 --> 01:12:48.529 here, so she couldn't do this. And she's in pain. 01:12:48.609 --> 01:12:50.770 The pain disappears. She still feels the metal, 01:12:50.829 --> 01:12:53.590 but it don't hurt. She does this. Don't hurt. 01:12:53.810 --> 01:12:55.510 Guy comes out of the congregation. He says, that's 01:12:55.510 --> 01:12:58.350 a miracle. I said, really? Yeah. I said, how 01:12:58.350 --> 01:13:00.010 do you know? Because he says, I'm a doctor. That's 01:13:00.010 --> 01:13:02.350 my patient. And it's impossible for her to do 01:13:02.350 --> 01:13:08.590 this. So I'm in Arkansas. A woman has an arm 01:13:08.590 --> 01:13:10.529 four inches short. It grows out. She has metal 01:13:10.529 --> 01:13:12.649 from here to here. This arm is a different color. 01:13:13.310 --> 01:13:15.170 African -American, and the arm changes color. 01:13:15.289 --> 01:13:19.670 Her metal disappears, becomes bone. In that same 01:13:19.670 --> 01:13:23.390 set of meetings, a woman who had cancer. This 01:13:23.390 --> 01:13:24.750 is the only time I've ever seen God this. He 01:13:24.750 --> 01:13:26.670 left the growth but took the cancer out for the 01:13:26.670 --> 01:13:29.550 doctor. They both had the same doctor. When the 01:13:29.550 --> 01:13:31.470 doctor examines this woman, the metal's gone, 01:13:31.609 --> 01:13:35.609 and it's bone. The doctor comes to see me. Oh, 01:13:35.630 --> 01:13:37.149 no, no, no, no, no, no. You ain't heard the best 01:13:37.149 --> 01:13:39.189 part. So we're doing a healing service. So I 01:13:39.189 --> 01:13:47.369 have her examine people before I pray. like to 01:13:47.369 --> 01:13:51.369 mess with the doctors. Because I've had doctors 01:13:51.369 --> 01:13:53.949 examine people, pray for them, and then God does 01:13:53.949 --> 01:13:57.989 a miracle, and now what you going to do? This 01:13:57.989 --> 01:14:00.369 doctor said, you have made a believer out of 01:14:00.369 --> 01:14:06.470 me. That's what she said to the pastor. I wonder 01:14:06.470 --> 01:14:11.229 if it had anything to do with that trial that 01:14:11.229 --> 01:14:17.159 I went through. Now, so I can take you some places 01:14:17.159 --> 01:14:19.979 that will make your head spin. I ministered to 01:14:19.979 --> 01:14:23.500 a woman in Branson who had a glass eye that God 01:14:23.500 --> 01:14:27.840 turned it into a real eye and she saw out of 01:14:27.840 --> 01:14:31.100 it. Look at somebody and say, God, he can do 01:14:31.100 --> 01:14:39.819 what he want to do. And see, I ain't got nothing 01:14:39.819 --> 01:14:41.960 to do with it. I was ministering in New York. 01:14:42.000 --> 01:14:43.840 There was a radiologist. He had a neck fusion. 01:14:44.600 --> 01:14:46.000 But it didn't hurt. And I said, I'm only going 01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:47.659 to pray for people with metal if it hurts. He 01:14:47.659 --> 01:14:49.819 says, it don't hurt. So I says to him, I ain't 01:14:49.819 --> 01:14:51.899 praying for you. As soon as I said that, God 01:14:51.899 --> 01:14:54.680 healed him. He had full mobility. Look at somebody 01:14:54.680 --> 01:14:56.300 and say, God don't even listen to the preacher. 01:14:59.760 --> 01:15:01.899 No, no, no. I'm praying for a woman. She got 01:15:01.899 --> 01:15:04.140 a growth on her leg. How many of you ever had 01:15:04.140 --> 01:15:06.699 those days where your faith, you misplaced it 01:15:06.699 --> 01:15:09.300 and you can't find it? Let me be the first to 01:15:09.300 --> 01:15:12.699 raise my hand. I was having one of them days. 01:15:12.739 --> 01:15:17.739 She got growth. This big. I gave her a courtesy 01:15:17.739 --> 01:15:24.340 prayer. That means I don't believe nothing's 01:15:24.340 --> 01:15:27.939 going to happen. Oh, I trust me. I know I'm not 01:15:27.939 --> 01:15:32.340 by myself. So I pray for this woman and she starts 01:15:32.340 --> 01:15:36.180 yelling and her growth explodes and disappears 01:15:36.180 --> 01:15:41.819 and she's healed. Well, I remember when I wasn't 01:15:41.819 --> 01:15:45.119 saved. You know, I had something called acid. 01:15:50.619 --> 01:15:56.039 And you can have flashbacks. I thought I was 01:15:56.039 --> 01:15:59.680 having a flashback, y 'all. Because that growth 01:15:59.680 --> 01:16:06.039 exploded and just went nowhere. Gone. Look at 01:16:06.039 --> 01:16:09.119 somebody say he's God. If he wants to do it, 01:16:09.119 --> 01:16:17.199 he will. See, some people, well, what if they 01:16:17.199 --> 01:16:21.180 don't get healed? Jesus said to his apostles, 01:16:21.399 --> 01:16:24.140 I sent you to reap where others have sowed. You've 01:16:24.140 --> 01:16:26.159 entered into their labors. When you pray for 01:16:26.159 --> 01:16:27.880 somebody, they don't get healed. You just sowed 01:16:27.880 --> 01:16:33.659 for their healing. Prayers don't have a shelf 01:16:33.659 --> 01:16:38.079 life. Look at somebody say they stayed before 01:16:38.079 --> 01:16:42.600 the throne. So you can get prayed for by ten 01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:45.100 people. Nine of them, it looks like nothing happened, 01:16:45.239 --> 01:16:46.979 but the tenth, look at somebody and say, they 01:16:46.979 --> 01:16:51.220 reap where others have sown. Look at somebody 01:16:51.220 --> 01:16:57.460 and say, just love people. Pray for them. You 01:16:57.460 --> 01:17:00.779 may be the one who sows. You may be the one this 01:17:00.779 --> 01:17:05.359 time who reaps. I'm making sense to you. But 01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:11.550 let me say this to you. As We get closer to the 01:17:11.550 --> 01:17:14.750 end of the age and we're getting there. You're 01:17:14.750 --> 01:17:25.210 going to see more and more miracles now. Look 01:17:25.210 --> 01:17:28.210 at somebody and say, I'm looking for miracles 01:17:28.210 --> 01:17:41.130 right now. Stand to your feet. I want you To 01:17:41.130 --> 01:17:50.390 know this, the Lord is faithful. He's just not 01:17:50.390 --> 01:17:54.369 taking you through a process for you. He's taking 01:17:54.369 --> 01:17:57.689 you through a process to those he's going to 01:17:57.689 --> 01:18:02.590 send you to. And you're going to be able to say, 01:18:02.609 --> 01:18:03.890 listen, let me tell you what I've been through. 01:18:06.590 --> 01:18:11.659 And they're going to connect with you. And you 01:18:11.659 --> 01:18:14.180 will have grown in certain areas of the grace 01:18:14.180 --> 01:18:17.500 and the intimate knowledge of God. Where you're 01:18:17.500 --> 01:18:19.840 going to be able to release the kingdom, the 01:18:19.840 --> 01:18:27.340 power, and the glory. Here and now. Look at somebody 01:18:27.340 --> 01:18:33.420 and say, it's yours. And let me say this, because 01:18:33.420 --> 01:18:37.560 I have to say this. My ego is not attached to 01:18:37.560 --> 01:18:39.890 this. If somebody gets healed, I don't take the 01:18:39.890 --> 01:18:41.130 credit. If they don't get healed, I don't take 01:18:41.130 --> 01:18:43.529 the blame. It's not my success or my failure. 01:18:44.050 --> 01:18:48.189 My job is to love God and love people. Look at 01:18:48.189 --> 01:18:58.010 somebody and say, get over yourself. We're going 01:18:58.010 --> 01:19:03.630 to spend a few minutes in prayer. Here's what 01:19:03.630 --> 01:19:07.270 I want you to know. The Lord has confidence in 01:19:07.270 --> 01:19:10.579 you. even if you don't have confidence in yourself. 01:19:14.060 --> 01:19:16.159 And some of us are getting ready to find out 01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:18.680 just how much confidence God actually has in 01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:22.079 you. Look at somebody and say, he chose you. 01:19:25.939 --> 01:19:35.039 So that means he saw something. Simon, Greek, 01:19:35.159 --> 01:19:37.319 unstable as water, sinks towards lower level. 01:19:38.390 --> 01:19:44.149 can get hot, angry, vaporize, can be cold as 01:19:44.149 --> 01:19:47.430 ice. And Jesus says to him, they call you Simon 01:19:47.430 --> 01:19:50.470 now, but you're going to be as strong and as 01:19:50.470 --> 01:20:04.770 solid as a rock. You just keep watching. If you 01:20:04.770 --> 01:20:07.529 are interested in hearing other podcasts or contacting 01:20:07.529 --> 01:20:11.329 Life Bible Church, go to www .lifebiblechurch 01:20:11.329 --> 01:20:16.109 .org or call us at 541 -995 -8282.