Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / Bishop TD Jakes - I will Fear no Evil
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- 0:03Speaker 1: I will fear no evil. How appropriate this word is
- 0:11Speaker 1: for the times that we're in right now. When the
- 0:15Speaker 1: Bible said that in the last days, men's hearts would
- 0:19Speaker 1: fail them for fear. Utter terror would saturate their lives.
- 0:26Speaker 1: That they would become.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Mesmerized or paralyzed by.
- 0:31Speaker 1: Fear in such a way that they were left helpless
- 0:34Speaker 1: to the enemy. The scripture says that the enemy goeth
- 0:38Speaker 1: about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
- 0:43Speaker 2: The purpose of the roar of the.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Lion is to paralyze his opponent. to terrorize them, to
- 0:51Speaker 1: leave them so helpless in fear that animals that had
- 0:55Speaker 1: the dexterity and the physical flexibility to be able to
- 1:00Speaker 1: escape forget to run because they are terrorized by the
- 1:05Speaker 1: roaring of the lion. The Bible said, your Bible and mine,
- 1:10Speaker 1: that the enemy goes about as a roaring lion seeking
- 1:14Speaker 1: whom he may devour. Now, if he's seeking whom he
- 1:18Speaker 1: may devour, there has to be someone that he cannot devour.
- 1:25Speaker 1: The difference between those that can and cannot be devoured
- 1:30Speaker 1: is predicated upon how we react to the roaring.
- 1:34Speaker 2: If life roars at you and you respond.
- 1:38Speaker 1: In utter terror and fear and forget who you are
- 1:43Speaker 1: and forget whose you are, and forget what God gave you,
- 1:48Speaker 1: and forget where God brought you from, then you become
- 1:52Speaker 1: a candidate for the lion's dinner. But if you will
- 1:56Speaker 1: remember who you are and whose you are in the
- 2:01Speaker 1: face of the roaring of the lion, can't stop him
- 2:04Speaker 1: from roaring, but refuse to be intimidated by the roaring,
- 2:09Speaker 1: then you can begin to reevaluate where you stand. Now,
- 2:14Speaker 1: we must admit, regardless of how much faith we have,
- 2:17Speaker 1: there are some things that shake you up. There are
- 2:21Speaker 1: some things that get next to you. There are some
- 2:23Speaker 1: things that concern you. And there's a difference between being
- 2:26Speaker 1: concerned and being petrified. There's a difference between being careful
- 2:32Speaker 1: and being intimidated. There's a difference between being cautious and
- 2:36Speaker 1: being negative and being paranoid and being where you are bound.
- 2:42Speaker 1: Fear binds you. We don't have to lock you in
- 2:45Speaker 1: the house. If you develop a phobia, you're not coming
- 2:49Speaker 1: out anyway. Without anybody handcuffing you, your fear limits you.
- 2:54Speaker 1: Fear can stop you from being able to do what
- 2:56Speaker 1: you could do. You can't speak when you're afraid. You
- 3:01Speaker 1: can't sing well when you're fearful. You can't play an
- 3:05Speaker 1: instrument when you're fearful.
- 3:06Speaker 2: You can't think straight when you're afraid.
- 3:08Speaker 1: And the enemy loves for you to be afraid. loves
- 3:15Speaker 1: for you to be afraid. We're dealing now, our headlines
- 3:18Speaker 1: all over the country, in fact, all over the world.
- 3:21Speaker 1: It's just terror, just terror. Whenever you turn on the television,
- 3:24Speaker 1: it's just utter terror, just terrorism, all about terrorism.
- 3:28Speaker 2: But terrorism is not new. It is not new. It
- 3:36Speaker 2: is not new.
- 3:38Speaker 1: It may be closer to your doorstep than you've ever
- 3:40Speaker 1: seen it before, but.
- 3:42Speaker 2: The act of terrorist is not new.
- 3:45Speaker 1: Has been existing in this world, around the country for years.
- 3:51Speaker 1: Has been existing in history for years. Goes all the
- 3:55Speaker 1: way back to the fall of Satan from heaven down
- 3:59Speaker 1: to earth.
- 4:00Speaker 2: He came here to terrorize whoever he could.
- 4:05Speaker 1: And while our nation discusses the complexities of a war
- 4:10Speaker 1: on terrorism. You must, as the church, understand that if
- 4:16Speaker 1: we are really going to declare war on terrorism, this
- 4:20Speaker 1: is not about aircraft or guns or bullets because fear
- 4:26Speaker 1: is a spirit.
- 4:30Speaker 2: You cannot shoot a spirit. Oh, you don't hear me.
- 4:34Speaker 1: You can't blow up a spirit. Now, let Congress do
- 4:40Speaker 1: what they will. Let Colin Powell do what he has
- 4:42Speaker 1: to do. But I want to talk to the church
- 4:45Speaker 1: that if we are going to defeat what the Bible
- 4:48Speaker 1: calls the spirit of fear. Fly anywhere you want to go.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Get on all the boats you will. But if you're
- 4:56Speaker 1: going to rebuke the spirit of fear, somebody's got to
- 5:00Speaker 1: get down on their knees and start pleading the blood
- 5:03Speaker 1: and rebuking the devil and casting out fear and every
- 5:07Speaker 1: high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
- 5:10Speaker 2: It's a spirit. It's a spirit.
- 5:18Speaker 1: September 11th, two planes crashed in the World Trade Center,
- 5:22Speaker 1: one into the Pentagon, one was aborted and crashed somewhere
- 5:25Speaker 1: in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
- 5:27Speaker 2: Tragedy, terrible, horrendous act. That passed.
- 5:32Speaker 1: But what happened afterward is what the enemy wanted. The
- 5:37Speaker 1: enemy didn't want the buildings, didn't want the lives. He
- 5:41Speaker 1: wants the fear.
- 5:43Speaker 2: That's why they call them terrorists, because they live off
- 5:46Speaker 2: of the fear. They don't need the money. They want
- 5:48Speaker 2: the fear.
- 5:51Speaker 1: Every one of you has got to decide, are you
- 5:54Speaker 1: going to live your life in terror? Because the devil
- 6:02Speaker 1: thrives off of fear like God moves off of faith. Oh,
- 6:13Speaker 1: he does things specifically to terrify you. In fact, the
- 6:20Speaker 1: enemy loves publicity. I'm from the old school. In the
- 6:26Speaker 1: old school, when we would deal with demonic spirits, they
- 6:29Speaker 1: wouldn't allow demonic spirits to take over a service. You
- 6:33Speaker 1: just couldn't come in and take over the service because
- 6:37Speaker 1: the enemy thrives off of publicity he wants to show.
- 6:41Speaker 1: And that's why whenever the enemy does anything against you,
- 6:44Speaker 1: he will always make sure you hear about it. You
- 6:50Speaker 1: ask Job, every time there was a disaster, there was
- 6:53Speaker 1: always somebody to come tell him what happened. Because the
- 6:56Speaker 1: enemy wants you to be terrified when you hear what happened.
- 6:59Speaker 1: And isn't it funny, no matter who talks about you
- 7:01Speaker 1: and who's fighting you, who's trying to kill you, there
- 7:03Speaker 1: will always be somebody who brings back, child, I hate
- 7:06Speaker 1: to call you with this.
- 7:12Speaker 2: And the reason they.
- 7:13Speaker 1: Got to deliver it to you because worse than what
- 7:15Speaker 1: the event is, is the terror that rises up against you,
- 7:19Speaker 1: the threat of the enemy, the complexities of his attack
- 7:23Speaker 1: as he leaves you paralyzed with fear because he's seeking
- 7:27Speaker 1: whom he may devour. You have to decide, are you
- 7:35Speaker 1: going to be a candidate for his dinner? Now the
- 7:40Speaker 1: Lord was honest and open when he talks about the church.
- 7:43Speaker 1: He doesn't call us giraffes. He doesn't call us elephants.
- 7:47Speaker 1: He doesn't call us zebras. He calls us sheep. I
- 7:53Speaker 1: don't really like the metaphor. I would have rather been
- 7:56Speaker 1: another animal. I would rather been a gazelle because at
- 8:01Speaker 1: least I could run. You know, I would have rather
- 8:06Speaker 1: been a lion because at least I could bite. But
- 8:10Speaker 1: he calls us sheep. Sheep are vulnerable. They are intimidated.
- 8:17Speaker 1: They don't have many teeth. They can't chew well. They
- 8:21Speaker 1: can't fend for themselves well. They don't even think straight.
- 8:27Speaker 1: I don't want to be a sheep. I don't want
- 8:32Speaker 1: to be a sheep. I want to punch somebody out.
- 8:35Speaker 1: I don't want to be no sheep.
- 8:38Speaker 2: Pray for me.
- 8:39Speaker 1: I don't want to be no sheep. I want to
- 8:40Speaker 1: knuckle somebody. Well, you say, what? Who are you talking about?
- 8:50Speaker 1: And yet God said, I send you out as sheep
- 8:54Speaker 1: amongst wolves. Make no provision for yourself. Take no thought
- 8:59Speaker 1: where you're going to stay. I mean for you to
- 9:02Speaker 1: be vulnerable. Why would God make me sheep when he
- 9:06Speaker 1: knows I got to walk with wolves? And then not
- 9:09Speaker 1: even allow me to be terrorized. Telling me that he's
- 9:13Speaker 1: not giving me the spirit of fear but a power
- 9:15Speaker 1: and a love and sound mind. You don't want me
- 9:19Speaker 1: to be afraid? Give me a gun.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Give me a knife. Give me a pistol. Give me
- 9:24Speaker 2: some teeth or something. Give me some claws so I
- 9:27Speaker 2: can scratch my enemy.
- 9:28Speaker 1: But you didn't give me nothing to work with because
- 9:31Speaker 1: you know that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
- 9:34Speaker 1: but they're mighty through God. From the pulling down of strongholds,
- 9:46Speaker 1: casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself
- 9:50Speaker 1: against the knowledge of.
- 9:51Speaker 2: God and bringeth every.
- 9:53Speaker 1: Thought into captivity unto the obedience of Christ. So says
- 9:57Speaker 1: the word of God. the shepherd said I send you
- 10:04Speaker 1: out as sheep amongst wolves that's who Jesus is he's
- 10:09Speaker 1: the shepherd he said I am the good shepherd I
- 10:13Speaker 1: am the good shepherd And I send you out like sheep.
- 10:24Speaker 1: And every so often in the span of your life,
- 10:27Speaker 1: you will.
- 10:28Speaker 2: Encounter a wolf.
- 10:36Speaker 1: Every so often, whether they come through the air or
- 10:41Speaker 1: they come on the job, you will encounter The wolves
- 10:50Speaker 1: and the lions and the carnivorous attacks of the enemy
- 10:55Speaker 1: in your life. And whenever you encounter something that comes
- 11:01Speaker 1: to roar against you, to intimidate you, always remember the
- 11:08Speaker 1: 23rd Psalm.
- 11:12Speaker 2: I know you learned it when you were.
- 11:14Speaker 1: A child for Sunday school and you recited it for
- 11:18Speaker 1: Easter and it was cute and it was fun. But
- 11:21Speaker 1: you must understand that the 23rd Psalms is a lethal
- 11:25Speaker 1: weapon in the hands of a believing sheep. It's a
- 11:31Speaker 1: rock in a sure place. It's a nail in the
- 11:34Speaker 1: temple of the wicked one. The 23rd Psalms is powerful strength.
- 11:44Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
- 11:46Speaker 1: It begins with the divine revelation of who God is.
- 11:52Speaker 1: Because I cannot determine who I am if I don't
- 11:56Speaker 1: determine who he is. If I don't know who he is,
- 12:01Speaker 1: I'll glorify my enemy. And all of my conversation will
- 12:05Speaker 1: become about what my enemy is. And look what my
- 12:09Speaker 1: enemy did. And look how many people my enemy killed.
- 12:12Speaker 1: Look what my enemy might do. And my enemy might
- 12:15Speaker 1: put something in the water. And my enemy might put
- 12:17Speaker 1: something in the food. And my enemy might mess up
- 12:20Speaker 1: my job. And my enemy might take my husband. And
- 12:23Speaker 1: my enemy might take my wife. And my enemy's after
- 12:26Speaker 1: my position. And you'll spend all of your time talking
- 12:29Speaker 1: about your enemy.
- 12:30Speaker 2: Even when you get on your.
- 12:31Speaker 1: Knees, rather than talking about the greatness of God, you'll
- 12:34Speaker 1: get on your knees and start crying about the greatness
- 12:36Speaker 1: of your enemy. And God is saying, what about me?
- 12:38Speaker 1: What about me? What about me?
- 12:41Speaker 2: So David says, the Lord, the Lord is.
- 12:48Speaker 1: Nowhere in the entire complexity of the 23rd Psalm do
- 12:51Speaker 1: you hear.
- 12:52Speaker 2: Him speak about a wolf or a lion.
- 12:57Speaker 1: No, devil, you'll have no glory today.
- 13:05Speaker 2: The Lord is.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Not was, not used to be, not can be, not
- 13:11Speaker 1: will be, not ought to be, not I hope is.
- 13:14Speaker 2: The Lord is my.
- 13:16Speaker 1: Personal possession, belonging to me, going to work with me,
- 13:20Speaker 1: riding home with me, in the air with me, in
- 13:23Speaker 1: the boat with me, on the bus with me, in
- 13:25Speaker 1: the sea with me.
- 13:26Speaker 2: The Lord is mine. I don't know who you got
- 13:32Speaker 2: with you, but the Lord is mine. The Lord is
- 13:40Speaker 2: my shepherd. Oh, my.
- 13:45Speaker 1: I'm wrestling with the preacher down inside of me that
- 13:48Speaker 1: wants to just pick apart every little word in this text.
- 13:53Speaker 1: I don't have time to pick apart every little word,
- 13:56Speaker 1: but I'm fascinated with the complexities of every word that
- 14:01Speaker 1: the God who runs the universe would allow himself to
- 14:05Speaker 1: become a personal possession. I can understand that I would
- 14:12Speaker 1: be his. But real grace is that he would be mine.
- 14:20Speaker 1: It's fitting that the greater would own the lesser. But
- 14:26Speaker 1: look at God. He let the lesser own the greater.
- 14:31Speaker 1: And David says, the Lord is mine. It's not just
- 14:38Speaker 1: that I belong to him. It is that he belongs
- 14:42Speaker 1: to me. My personal shepherd. This is not just about groups, clubs,
- 14:51Speaker 1: or cliques. If there were nobody on the planet but me,
- 14:57Speaker 1: he'd still be my shepherd. Now look at David because
- 15:02Speaker 1: when David talks about this, I want to talk about
- 15:05Speaker 1: several phases. First I want to talk about the shepherd.
- 15:07Speaker 1: You must understand the reason that David uses the metaphorical
- 15:10Speaker 1: revelation of God being the shepherd is that David had
- 15:14Speaker 1: an experience himself being a shepherd.
- 15:18Speaker 2: He understood that there is.
- 15:19Speaker 1: Some relationship that evolves between the shepherd and the sheep.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Somewhere in the lambing fields, in the birthing grounds, in
- 15:31Speaker 1: working as a midwife for an animal, there is an
- 15:34Speaker 1: affection and an affinity that develops between a shepherd and
- 15:39Speaker 1: the sheep. David understood what it was to pull a
- 15:43Speaker 1: little lamb out of its mother's body. and to wash
- 15:47Speaker 1: it and to nurse it. He understood what it was
- 15:50Speaker 1: to watch the lamb gain its legs and.
- 15:53Speaker 2: Begin to walk.
- 15:55Speaker 1: He understood what it was to protect the lamb in
- 15:59Speaker 1: its infancy and even in its embryonic stages that it
- 16:03Speaker 1: might develop. He understood that there is a bond that
- 16:05Speaker 1: exists between the shepherd and the lamb that goes beyond
- 16:09Speaker 1: just being an animal.
- 16:10Speaker 2: And a man.
- 16:11Speaker 1: It goes closer than that. He understands that the shepherd
- 16:14Speaker 1: himself is lonely enough out in the field that he
- 16:17Speaker 1: develops camaraderie with the lambs, that he has no friends
- 16:22Speaker 1: around him. David being the eighth son of Jesse, knowing
- 16:25Speaker 1: what it was like to be rejected by his brother,
- 16:27Speaker 1: alienated by his father, the only company he had was
- 16:31Speaker 1: the lambs. He sang his songs to the lambs. He
- 16:34Speaker 1: wrote his poetries to the lambs. He quoted his land
- 16:37Speaker 1: he fed the land and when the enemy came up
- 16:40Speaker 1: against David in his own life in his maturity and
- 16:44Speaker 1: David felt vulnerable to the attack of the enemy he
- 16:46Speaker 1: said wait devil do you know who the Lord is
- 16:50Speaker 1: to me The Lord is to me what I was
- 16:55Speaker 1: to those animals. The Lord is my shepherd. Oh, I
- 16:59Speaker 1: got to leave that verse alone, but I can stay
- 17:02Speaker 1: there all day because God has a way of revealing
- 17:05Speaker 1: himself on your level. He'll reveal himself in a way
- 17:10Speaker 1: that you can relate to. He'll come down. That's why
- 17:13Speaker 1: you can't explain God. He must be revealed. And God
- 17:17Speaker 1: will reveal himself in a way that your mind can conceive.
- 17:22Speaker 1: If you're a shepherd, he'll show up as a shepherd.
- 17:25Speaker 1: If you're nailing him, he'll show up as a carpenter.
- 17:28Speaker 1: If you're laying block, he'll show up as the chief cornerstone.
- 17:32Speaker 1: If you're thirsty, he'll be water out of rock. If
- 17:35Speaker 1: you need some food, he'll be manna falling down from heaven.
- 17:39Speaker 1: God has a way of showing up in a form
- 17:42Speaker 1: that you can relate to. And if you get confused
- 17:44Speaker 1: and try to lock him down to your little revelation,
- 17:47Speaker 1: he'll break out of that and say, I am that
- 17:49Speaker 1: I am. I can do what I want to do.
- 17:51Speaker 1: I can be whatever I want to be.
- 17:53Speaker 3: Oh my God, the Lord is my shepherd.
- 18:08Speaker 1: So in the first sense, he talks about the shepherd.
- 18:11Speaker 1: And he says, I shall not want. I refuse to want.
- 18:18Speaker 1: I won't want with no teeth. No bite, and I
- 18:25Speaker 1: still won't be hungry. No defense, and I won't be intimidated. Vulnerable,
- 18:31Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen from day to day,
- 18:33Speaker 1: but I'm going to rest in the Lord.
- 18:35Speaker 2: As my shepherd. I shall not want.
- 18:40Speaker 1: And then for the next four terms, he talks about
- 18:44Speaker 1: things that he did. Things that God did. The big he.
- 18:48Speaker 1: The big he. The big he. The Lord is my shepherd.
- 18:51Speaker 1: And then he breaks down into the big he. He
- 18:53Speaker 1: maketh me. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Even when I didn't have the sense to lay down.
- 19:04Speaker 1: He made me lie down. Thank you, Lord, for making
- 19:09Speaker 1: me lie down. When I was nervous, you made me
- 19:14Speaker 1: lie down. When I couldn't sleep, you made me lie down.
- 19:17Speaker 1: When I had insomnia, you made me lie down. When
- 19:19Speaker 1: I felt vulnerable, you made me lie down. When I
- 19:22Speaker 1: thought I picked up the scent of an enemy about
- 19:24Speaker 1: to attack me, you made me lie down. And look
- 19:27Speaker 1: at where you made me lie down. You made me
- 19:28Speaker 1: lie down in green pastures. Have you ever had God
- 19:34Speaker 1: just put you in green pastures? You don't even know
- 19:38Speaker 1: how you got there. And the issue is he's making
- 19:42Speaker 1: me to lie down in green pastures. He brings you
- 19:45Speaker 1: to a point where he has to teach you how
- 19:47Speaker 1: to rest in abundance. Because when you've been on the
- 19:51Speaker 1: run all your life and God finally gives you some
- 19:53Speaker 1: green pastures, there's something in you that's not even comfortable
- 19:57Speaker 1: in your blessing. Have you ever had God bless you
- 20:00Speaker 1: and then he had to make you lie down in
- 20:02Speaker 1: what he gave you? You knew that God gave it
- 20:06Speaker 1: to you, but you were so afraid that it might
- 20:08Speaker 1: not last and you were so afraid that something might happen.
- 20:11Speaker 1: You were so afraid that somebody might take it. You
- 20:13Speaker 1: were so afraid that you might go through this. You
- 20:15Speaker 1: were so afraid that God had to say, shh, lie.
- 20:20Speaker 4: Down.
- 20:21Speaker 1: Oh, David said, I pray then because he maketh me
- 20:25Speaker 1: lie down in green past. Touch, touch, just touch anybody
- 20:29Speaker 1: and say, lie down, lie down, lie down. He leadeth me.
- 20:36Speaker 1: Not only does he maketh me, but he leadeth me.
- 20:40Speaker 1: He leadeth me beside the still.
- 20:43Speaker 2: Oh, wait.
- 20:44Speaker 1: He leadeth me. Not he pushes me. He leadeth me.
- 20:50Speaker 1: He pushes me means I have to go first. But
- 20:52Speaker 1: if he leadeth me, that means that he's going in
- 20:55Speaker 1: front of me. Somebody forgot my subject.
- 20:59Speaker 2: Just tell him, I will fear no evil. Why should
- 21:04Speaker 2: I fear when he's up front?
- 21:09Speaker 1: Whatever I'm going through, he leadeth me.
- 21:13Speaker 2: He leadeth me. He didn't push me. He leadeth me.
- 21:18Speaker 1: All I have to do is get in his footsteps.
- 21:22Speaker 1: Now the little boy, the old folks used to say,
- 21:23Speaker 1: footsteps of Jesus. treading the way footsteps of Jesus by
- 21:27Speaker 1: night and by day sure if I follow life would
- 21:30Speaker 1: be switched y'all remember that old stuff just to get
- 21:32Speaker 1: in the footsteps of Jesus I know that he leadeth
- 21:34Speaker 1: me and not just anywhere he leadeth me beside the
- 21:37Speaker 1: still waters see he knows see a good shepherd knows
- 21:41Speaker 1: that sheep are kind of dumb I didn't really want
- 21:47Speaker 1: to be no sheep but that's what he said I
- 21:52Speaker 1: don't know what he's trying to say about me but
- 21:54Speaker 1: It's kind of dumb. And the instinct to drink will
- 21:59Speaker 1: overwhelm their sensitivity to the environment. And if the currents
- 22:03Speaker 1: are rapid in the process of getting the water, the
- 22:07Speaker 1: sheep with all of his wool will plunder over into
- 22:10Speaker 1: the water and drown in the rapid currents of the water.
- 22:13Speaker 1: So a good shepherd doesn't just find water, but he
- 22:16Speaker 1: finds still water. So that when I get ready to drink,
- 22:25Speaker 1: I want to thank you, Lord, for not giving me
- 22:27Speaker 1: nothing that was too fast for me. Don't give me
- 22:32Speaker 1: nothing I can't handle. Don't give me a job I
- 22:35Speaker 1: can't handle. Don't give me a woman I can't handle.
- 22:37Speaker 1: Don't give me a friend I can't handle. Don't give
- 22:39Speaker 1: me a child I can't. Oh, y'all don't hear me.
- 22:42Speaker 1: Can I preach in here a little bit? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 22:47Speaker 1: Give me something my speed.
- 22:49Speaker 2: Yeah. It's slow, but it works for me. Oh, yeah.
- 22:54Speaker 1: He needed me beside to steal what? See, that's why
- 23:02Speaker 1: you shouldn't covet what God gave somebody else. Because God
- 23:06Speaker 1: knows what speed you can handle without falling in. When
- 23:11Speaker 1: you start coveting other people's blessing, you start falling in
- 23:13Speaker 1: the things that will take you under. So you want
- 23:16Speaker 1: God to lead you beside still ones. Make it where
- 23:21Speaker 1: I can drink it. Make it where I can stand it. Lord,
- 23:26Speaker 1: don't put anything on me that I cannot bear.
- 23:29Speaker 2: He leadeth me beside. Can I go a little bit
- 23:31Speaker 2: deeper into this? He restoreth my soul.
- 23:42Speaker 1: So even if the enemy did roar against me and
- 23:47Speaker 1: even if I did forget and even if I did
- 23:50Speaker 1: fail and even if I did fall
- 24:16Speaker 1: The reason I got to praise him
- 24:22Speaker 1: anyway is that he kept on restoring my soul. I
- 24:25Speaker 1: wish there was somebody that God had restored a time
- 24:28Speaker 1: or two ago. Oh, I know you had never been restored,
- 24:31Speaker 1: but somebody who's been restored ought to give him some praise.
- 24:37Speaker 1: Every time that devil thought he had you, God stepped
- 24:40Speaker 1: in and restored your soul. Every time he roared and
- 24:44Speaker 1: thought he was going to devour you, God said, oh no,
- 24:47Speaker 1: he restores. I want somebody who's been restored to just
- 24:59Speaker 1: pat your name and say he restored me. I wouldn't
- 25:03Speaker 1: have made it, but he restored me. I would have died,
- 25:05Speaker 1: but he restored me. I would have fainted, but he
- 25:08Speaker 1: restored me. I would have collapsed, but he restored me.
- 25:11Speaker 1: I thought I was losing my mind, but he restored me.
- 25:14Speaker 1: I was nervous, but he restored me. I almost quit,
- 25:16Speaker 1: but he restored me. I almost left, but he restored me.
- 25:20Speaker 1: I almost walked away, but he restored me. I almost
- 25:22Speaker 1: flipped out, but he restored me. I almost cussed him out,
- 25:26Speaker 1: but he.
- 25:26Speaker 2: He restores my soul. Oh, devil, you thought you had.
- 25:38Speaker 1: Me, didn't you?
- 25:40Speaker 2: Oh, but he restored.
- 25:43Speaker 1: Oh, somebody ought to go to bragging on God up
- 25:45Speaker 1: in here, up in here, up in here.
- 25:57Speaker 2: I'm just talking about the big he tonight. He leadeth me.
- 26:04Speaker 1: In the paths of righteousness. You know righteousness is a path.
- 26:10Speaker 1: He kept me on the path. When I was crossing
- 26:13Speaker 1: the line he pushed me back over on the path.
- 26:18Speaker 2: He led me in the path of righteousness.
- 26:20Speaker 1: I wasn't naturally righteous. I didn't feel like being righteous.
- 26:24Speaker 1: I didn't even want to be righteous. I got up
- 26:26Speaker 1: that morning and didn't plan to be righteous. But even
- 26:29Speaker 1: when I tried to get out, something hooked me. And
- 26:32Speaker 1: he put me back on the path. I wish I
- 26:34Speaker 1: had a good old backslider that he puts you back
- 26:36Speaker 1: on the path. See, when you've really been saved, you
- 26:45Speaker 1: begin to find out that you can't do what you
- 26:47Speaker 1: want to do even when you want to do it.
- 26:50Speaker 1: You begin to find out that your body is the
- 26:51Speaker 1: temple of the Holy Ghost and that the Holy.
- 26:53Speaker 2: Spirit owns you.
- 26:54Speaker 1: And even when you get ready to just get really
- 26:56Speaker 1: wild and get down and get funky and get loose.
- 27:01Speaker 1: Have you ever gone out to, I know you can't
- 27:03Speaker 1: hold your hand up now, but have you ever gone
- 27:05Speaker 1: out to do something around and he wouldn't even let
- 27:07Speaker 1: it work?
- 27:09Speaker 2: They wouldn't even answer the telephone. Wasn't nobody even at
- 27:12Speaker 2: the house. He leaders me. He cut my feet from falling. Yes, Lord,
- 27:26Speaker 2: I thank you. Oh, I know you can't praise him
- 27:29Speaker 2: right now. You got to act like you don't know
- 27:31Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. But I wish I had some
- 27:33Speaker 2: real people up in here. He leads me.
- 27:54Speaker 1: In the first verse, he talks about the shepherd. In
- 27:56Speaker 1: the second verse, he goes into the sermon. And in
- 28:00Speaker 1: the sermon, he goes into the big he. He talks
- 28:03Speaker 1: all about the big he in the sermon. In the
- 28:05Speaker 1: first verse, he talks about the shepherd. In the second verse,
- 28:09Speaker 1: he goes into the sermon. And when you go into
- 28:11Speaker 1: your sermon, you always preach about who God is. And
- 28:14Speaker 1: what God can do. And what God did in your life.
- 28:17Speaker 1: That's your sermon. That's your testimony. I think everybody ought
- 28:20Speaker 1: to preach a little bit. I mean if you never
- 28:24Speaker 1: have a revival. Even if you haven't been called to preach.
- 28:28Speaker 1: You ought to just preach a little bit. You ought
- 28:31Speaker 1: to preach a little bit. If you're going to deal
- 28:33Speaker 1: with your fear. You got to be able to preach
- 28:36Speaker 1: a little bit. If you don't learn how to preach
- 28:39Speaker 1: a little bit. Fear will overtake you. But you got
- 28:42Speaker 1: to be able to preach a little bit. If you
- 28:43Speaker 1: don't do nothing but preach in the shower, get in
- 28:45Speaker 1: the shower and say, the devil is alive. And I
- 28:48Speaker 1: come against you in the name of Jesus. Greater is
- 28:52Speaker 1: he that is in me than he that's in the world.
- 28:57Speaker 2: He said his word. And his word healed. Didn't he heal?
- 29:05Speaker 2: Didn't he heal? Didn't he heal? Didn't he heal? Didn't he?
- 29:17Speaker 2: Look at somebody tell him, I preach a little bit.
- 29:20Speaker 2: I preach a little bit. I got to preach a
- 29:22Speaker 2: little bit.
- 29:23Speaker 1: I got to preach when sickness is coming after my body.
- 29:26Speaker 1: I got to preach a little bit. When I get
- 29:28Speaker 1: laid off my job, I got to preach a little bit.
- 29:30Speaker 1: When I hear noise in the house and nobody's in
- 29:32Speaker 1: the house but me, I gotta preach a little bit.
- 29:42Speaker 2: He goes from.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Talking about the shepherd in verse 2 he talks about
- 29:46Speaker 1: the sermon in verse 3.
- 29:48Speaker 2: He talks about the shadow yea though I walk.
- 29:54Speaker 1: He says now I'm still talking about he let me
- 29:57Speaker 1: talk about me Because of the difference between talking about
- 30:01Speaker 1: the he and the me. By the third verse, he's
- 30:06Speaker 1: talking about the me. Yea, though I walk. I have
- 30:10Speaker 1: to admit this. Nothing that I learned about the big
- 30:15Speaker 1: he stopped me from the realities of the little me.
- 30:21Speaker 1: He is the great shepherd. But I'm still the dumb sheep.
- 30:29Speaker 1: And knowing him does not negate the reality of who
- 30:33Speaker 1: I am and what a privilege it is to be me.
- 30:39Speaker 1: I refuse to allow anybody to stop me from being me.
- 30:53Speaker 1: That's why I am going somewhere.
- 30:59Speaker 2: I'm going.
- 31:01Speaker 1: As long as they flying, I'm going. When they start
- 31:05Speaker 1: the buses on, I'm getting on the bus. Can't get
- 31:09Speaker 1: in the bus, I'm getting in the car. Can't get
- 31:11Speaker 1: in the car.
- 31:20Speaker 2: I got to go.
- 31:22Speaker 1: I got places to go. I got people to see.
- 31:26Speaker 1: I got things to do. I'm going, if I'm nervous,
- 31:30Speaker 1: I'm still going.
- 31:32Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know why?
- 31:34Speaker 1: I'm used to terror. Been terrorized all my life. I
- 31:40Speaker 1: know I've been threatened all of my life.
- 31:43Speaker 2: I'm used to terror.
- 31:44Speaker 1: If you think about it, all of us have dealt
- 31:45Speaker 1: with some kind of terror one way or the other,
- 31:48Speaker 1: but you got to keep going.
- 31:49Speaker 2: I know some of you play into all of this,
- 31:51Speaker 2: but I don't do it. I don't do it.
- 31:53Speaker 1: If you eat sacred, you got cancer. If you eat equal,
- 31:57Speaker 1: you lose memory cells. If you eat the sugar, you're
- 32:00Speaker 1: going to be a diabetic. Look, I got to have something.
- 32:05Speaker 1: I got to have something. I got to have something.
- 32:10Speaker 1: I got to have something. Don't drink the carbonated because
- 32:13Speaker 1: it ain't good for you. Don't drink the juice because
- 32:15Speaker 1: it's got too much sugar in it. Don't drink the
- 32:16Speaker 1: water because they're going to put something in the water.
- 32:18Speaker 1: Now you can't drink water. Couldn't eat red meat. Now
- 32:23Speaker 1: you can't eat chicken. Now you can't eat fish. Now
- 32:26Speaker 1: we're down to vegetables. Can't eat the vegetables because they
- 32:28Speaker 1: sprayed the vegetables. I'm going to eat something. I'm going
- 32:31Speaker 1: to eat something. An enchilada of chitlin, great nut cereal.
- 32:36Speaker 1: I got to eat. I got to live.
- 32:51Speaker 2: Somebody say live.
- 32:55Speaker 1: Jesus said, I come that you might have life and
- 32:58Speaker 1: have it more abundantly. And I refuse to stand here
- 33:00Speaker 1: with my shame sanctified. Holy, go fill yourself and let
- 33:04Speaker 1: the devil push me back till I'm locked up in
- 33:06Speaker 1: the closet in my own house. If God gave me
- 33:09Speaker 1: the house, I'm going all through the house.
- 33:11Speaker 2: I'm getting in the car. I'm going right down the road.
- 33:14Speaker 2: If I die, I'm going to die rolling.
- 33:22Speaker 1: For God has not given us a spirit of fear,
- 33:25Speaker 1: but of power.
- 33:26Speaker 2: And of love and of a sound mind. Can I
- 33:30Speaker 2: talk to you tonight? Yea, though I walk. He said,
- 33:34Speaker 2: I'm in the valley of the shadow of death, but
- 33:35Speaker 2: I'm walking.
- 33:41Speaker 1: Tell somebody to say, walk through it. Yea, though I walk.
- 33:51Speaker 1: I know where I am. He said I knew the shepherd.
- 33:57Speaker 1: I knew the sermon. And I know the shadow. I
- 34:02Speaker 1: understand the shadow. I know that I'm walking through the valley.
- 34:07Speaker 1: Of the shadow.
- 34:09Speaker 2: Of death. See. See my. I just put my shadow.
- 34:16Speaker 2: On Marcus.
- 34:19Speaker 1: He didn't feel it. But I put my. Shadow on him.
- 34:27Speaker 1: It didn't affect him. My shadow hit him. My shadow
- 34:34Speaker 1: punched him in the mouth. He's still smiling.
- 34:44Speaker 2: A shadow is an image.
- 34:46Speaker 1: It's an impression.
- 34:48Speaker 2: It's a caricature. It's a shape. And David said, I
- 34:51Speaker 2: had to learn how to walk. In the shadow.
- 34:57Speaker 1: The shadow wouldn't leave. But I had to keep walking.
- 35:02Speaker 1: I had to learn how to read the paper and
- 35:03Speaker 1: keep on walking. A thousand may fall. On your left side.
- 35:13Speaker 1: Ten thousand may fall on your right side. But I
- 35:16Speaker 1: had to keep on walking. Even though I walked through
- 35:19Speaker 1: the valley of the shadow. And we're in a shadowy
- 35:21Speaker 1: time right now. This is a dark little period. It's
- 35:28Speaker 1: a dark little period. You almost don't even want to
- 35:31Speaker 1: read the paper. And yet you find yourself just reading anyway.
- 35:35Speaker 1: Reading anyway.
- 35:35Speaker 2: You say, I'm not going to watch it. You find
- 35:36Speaker 2: yourself watching anyway.
- 35:38Speaker 1: And then you cut it off and it's still going
- 35:40Speaker 1: in your head. The image is still in your head.
- 35:43Speaker 1: The picture is still in your head. You get in
- 35:45Speaker 1: the car, you can see it. If you're working a skyscraper,
- 35:47Speaker 1: you can see it. If you're going in a plane,
- 35:49Speaker 1: you can see it. You can see the images in
- 35:51Speaker 1: your head.
- 35:52Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 35:53Speaker 1: And I know, I know, I've heard all the great
- 35:55Speaker 1: teachers about faith, and they say that we shouldn't confess anything.
- 36:00Speaker 2: So they say, just don't confess anything. Don't confess it.
- 36:04Speaker 2: Don't confess it. I ain't got no cold. I don't
- 36:11Speaker 2: have no cold.
- 36:11Speaker 1: Just don't confess it. Don't confess it. And that's fine
- 36:16Speaker 1: if you want to do that. Don't confess it. But
- 36:17Speaker 1: don't sneeze on me either. I know you don't have
- 36:21Speaker 1: no cold, but don't sneeze on me. I don't have
- 36:35Speaker 1: this mono. No, don't kiss me. Not today. I believe
- 36:40Speaker 1: God with you, but I don't want no sugar. Yeah,
- 36:45Speaker 1: the reality is, David said, yeah, I'm walking through the valley.
- 36:49Speaker 2: It's real.
- 36:50Speaker 1: 6,000 people dead, that's real.
- 36:56Speaker 2: This is a shadow.
- 37:00Speaker 1: And I am the generation that was chosen to walk
- 37:03Speaker 1: through this shadow. God knew this shadow was here. before
- 37:09Speaker 1: my daddy met my mama. He could have let me
- 37:13Speaker 1: be born at any time, but he handpicked me to
- 37:16Speaker 1: be a part of the generation who walks through the
- 37:20Speaker 1: valley of this shadow. If these are the final moments
- 37:27Speaker 1: of history, then we are the generation that's been selected
- 37:30Speaker 1: to walk through it. And he knew who I was
- 37:34Speaker 1: when he called me. And he knew about the shadow
- 37:37Speaker 1: when he called me. And he knew about the wolf
- 37:39Speaker 1: when he called me.
- 37:40Speaker 2: And I wouldn't be.
- 37:41Speaker 1: Able to stand it if it wasn't for the shepherd.
- 37:45Speaker 1: The shepherd is my defense against the shadow. Yea, though
- 37:50Speaker 1: I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
- 37:58Speaker 1: I will fear no evil.
- 38:04Speaker 2: Let me tell you something. Every time you say that,
- 38:06Speaker 2: something starts rumbling. Can y'all feel it?
- 38:09Speaker 1: Something starts rumbling down in my spirit, in my soul.
- 38:13Speaker 1: It's almost like something is leaping up inside of me.
- 38:17Speaker 1: Just every time I say it.
- 38:18Speaker 2: Let's say it again. I will fear no evil.
- 38:30Speaker 1: This is personal now. You can't say the choir will
- 38:34Speaker 1: fear no evil.
- 38:36Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no.
- 38:38Speaker 1: You can't say Lenexa Christian Center will fear no evil
- 38:41Speaker 1: because you can't speak for other people. This is a
- 38:43Speaker 1: personal conviction that you have in your spirit. You have
- 38:47Speaker 1: got to face life every day and say, I will
- 38:52Speaker 1: fear no evil. I refuse to worry myself to death.
- 38:59Speaker 1: Wonder if I'm going to get the same disease my
- 39:01Speaker 1: grandparents got. Wonder if I'm going to die at the
- 39:03Speaker 1: same age my mother did. Wonder if I'm going to
- 39:06Speaker 1: get what my father got. Wonder what people think about me.
- 39:09Speaker 1: Wonder if I'm going to be able to keep my job.
- 39:11Speaker 1: Wonder if I'm going to be able to power the house.
- 39:12Speaker 1: Wonder if I'm going to be able to pay the car.
- 39:13Speaker 2: Wonder, wonder, wonder. Wonder do they really like me. Wonder
- 39:16Speaker 2: who I can really trust. Wonder, wonder, wonder.
- 39:18Speaker 1: Oh, you spent all of your life going crazy. And
- 39:21Speaker 1: every time the devil hands you some of that garbage,
- 39:24Speaker 1: you remember what I preached tonight and you look him
- 39:26Speaker 1: in the face and say.
- 39:27Speaker 2: I will fear.
- 39:30Speaker 1: No evil remember this if you have to write it
- 39:33Speaker 1: on your computer remember if you have to write it
- 39:36Speaker 1: in your automobile if you have to write it on
- 39:38Speaker 1: your refrigerator put it where you can see it every
- 39:40Speaker 1: time the devil tries to intimidate you look him right
- 39:43Speaker 1: in the face and say I will fear Fear no evil.
- 39:47Speaker 1: Come hell or high water. Come sickness, come plagues, come disease.
- 39:51Speaker 1: With a job, with no job. With a husband, no husband.
- 39:54Speaker 1: With a wife, no wife. If all the kids live,
- 39:57Speaker 1: I will fear no evil. If you're watching in the
- 40:01Speaker 1: hospital room, pull yourself up, hit the button and sit up.
- 40:04Speaker 2: In the bed.
- 40:05Speaker 1: Tell the devil, I will fear no evil. What's going
- 40:17Speaker 1: to keep me from fearing evil?
- 40:22Speaker 2: You're with me.
- 40:26Speaker 1: You're with me in the shadows. You're with me when
- 40:31Speaker 1: the lion roars. You're with me in the hospital. You're
- 40:37Speaker 1: with me in life. You're with me in death. Either
- 40:42Speaker 1: way it goes, thou art with me. Thou art with me.
- 40:48Speaker 1: Look at somebody and tell them, God is with me.
- 40:52Speaker 1: Don't you tell all your enemies, warn all your enemies,
- 40:57Speaker 1: don't mess with me. I know I don't have no teeth,
- 41:04Speaker 1: but don't let this gum fool you. Because God is
- 41:08Speaker 1: with me. I know I do dumb stuff, but don't mess.
- 41:11Speaker 2: With me because God is with me.
- 41:14Speaker 1: I know I get my head in stuff that's too
- 41:16Speaker 1: big for me, but don't you try to drag me
- 41:18Speaker 1: under because God is with me.
- 41:20Speaker 2: If you're going to fight me, you got to.
- 41:22Speaker 1: Fight God because God.
- 41:24Speaker 2: Is with me. And if God be for you.
- 41:38Speaker 1: Who can be against me look at your neighbor and
- 41:41Speaker 1: say you can't win if you fight me you gotta
- 41:45Speaker 1: fight God there is no way you can win there
- 41:50Speaker 1: is no way you can win there is no way
- 41:52Speaker 1: you can win you see the wonderful thing about me
- 41:55Speaker 1: getting to be the sheep is that when I get
- 41:57Speaker 1: to be the sheep he gets to be the shepherd
- 42:01Speaker 1: and when David starts talking about the shepherd he says
- 42:04Speaker 1: thy rod is And thy staff, they comfort me. Now
- 42:09Speaker 1: let me bust your bubble a little bit because you
- 42:11Speaker 1: all think in our society that a shepherd is passive.
- 42:17Speaker 1: But it is not so. A shepherd can fight. The
- 42:22Speaker 1: reason he has his rod and his staff is so
- 42:27Speaker 1: that when the wolf comes against you, it is the
- 42:30Speaker 1: shepherd that fights for you.
- 42:35Speaker 2: Have I preached too long?
- 42:39Speaker 1: Because if I had a few minutes, I would tell
- 42:43Speaker 1: you how good the shepherd can fight.
- 42:49Speaker 2: He can fight so good that.
- 42:53Speaker 1: I don't even worry when the enemy comes in like
- 42:57Speaker 1: a flood. I don't have to worry because the Spirit
- 43:02Speaker 1: of the Lord lifts up a standard against it. He
- 43:07Speaker 1: can fight so good that I've stopped arguing with my enemies.
- 43:12Speaker 1: He can fight so good that I stopped defending myself.
- 43:18Speaker 1: God can fight so good that I don't even open
- 43:23Speaker 1: up my mouth because God has a way of fighting
- 43:28Speaker 1: for me. And when I used to try to fight,
- 43:31Speaker 1: he'd say, be still and know that I am God.
- 43:35Speaker 2: And I start moving.
- 43:36Speaker 1: He says, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
- 43:40Speaker 2: I put up my.
- 43:41Speaker 1: Fist to fight and say, the battle is not yours.
- 43:46Speaker 1: It belongs to God. He can fight. Touch somebody and say,
- 43:50Speaker 1: God can fight. He can fight. He can fight cancer.
- 43:56Speaker 1: He can fight diabetes. He can fight hypertension. God can fight.
- 44:02Speaker 1: He can fight racism. He can fight injustice. God can fight.
- 44:08Speaker 1: Look at somebody and say he can fight. He can fight.
- 44:16Speaker 1: He can fight. And so when you see the church
- 44:18Speaker 1: begin to assemble, and when you see her begin to pray,
- 44:23Speaker 1: you need to understand that prayer is the fighting position
- 44:27Speaker 1: of the saints. When I start praying, you better get
- 44:31Speaker 1: out of my way. Because when I'm praying, I'm calling
- 44:35Speaker 1: on the shepherd. And whenever the shepherd comes, ain't no
- 44:39Speaker 1: way you can whip me out. If I was out
- 44:42Speaker 1: there by myself, you could wear me out. But if
- 44:45Speaker 1: I can call the shepherd, somebody holler, come here, Jesus.
- 44:51Speaker 1: If you call Jesus, he will answer you. The Bible says, oh,
- 44:56Speaker 1: I feel like preaching now. The Bible says, whosoever calleth
- 45:02Speaker 1: on the name of the Lord shall Whosoever calleth on
- 45:14Speaker 1: the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's why
- 45:20Speaker 1: the devil don't want us to call that name anymore.
- 45:24Speaker 1: He don't want us to call that name. Yes, he's
- 45:28Speaker 1: letting us pray a little bit. Yes, they're letting us
- 45:31Speaker 1: pray in public. Yes, they're letting us pray on TV.
- 45:35Speaker 1: But they don't want us to say the name of Jesus.
- 45:38Speaker 1: There must be something about that name. Somebody say Jesus.
- 45:43Speaker 1: The power is in the name of Jesus. Demons tremble
- 45:48Speaker 1: at the sound of his name. I wish I had
- 45:51Speaker 1: some old prayer warriors that.
- 45:53Speaker 2: Would start calling on the name of Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
- 46:03Speaker 2: Can I tell you something?
- 46:04Speaker 1: Because y'all, mostly y'all from the new church.
- 46:09Speaker 2: And in the new church, when you call Jesus... You say, Jesus.
- 46:17Speaker 1: But back in the old church, you know what I'm
- 46:24Speaker 1: talking about. Back in the old church, back when you
- 46:29Speaker 1: didn't have the two dresses and you got ready to
- 46:33Speaker 1: call Jesus, you would say, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus. You say, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus.
- 46:44Speaker 2: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
- 46:45Speaker 1: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
- 46:47Speaker 2: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus!
- 47:16Speaker 1: Touch a neighbor and say, call Jesus. If you call
- 47:20Speaker 1: on Jesus, let me tell you what he'll do. He'll
- 47:25Speaker 1: prepare a table before you. In the presence of your enemies,
- 47:32Speaker 1: he'll fix you some food as they sit down and eat.
- 47:36Speaker 1: I'm going to bless you while they talk about you.
- 47:39Speaker 1: I want to say to the church, it's time to
- 47:42Speaker 1: have some dinner. The more the devil fights you, the
- 47:46Speaker 1: more God will bless you.
- 47:48Speaker 2: I wish I had a witness. God said, I'll.
- 47:51Speaker 1: Prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies.
- 47:57Speaker 1: Look at somebody and tell them I'm eating good.
- 48:01Speaker 2: I'm eating good.
- 48:02Speaker 1: That's why I thank God for my enemies. I appreciate
- 48:06Speaker 1: my enemies more than I do my friends. Because I
- 48:09Speaker 1: didn't even get dinner until somebody hated me. But when
- 48:13Speaker 1: God saw how they hated me, he blessed me anyway.
- 48:17Speaker 1: When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all
- 48:22Speaker 1: that the Lord has done for me, my soul.
- 48:27Speaker 2: Cries out hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.
- 48:31Speaker 1: You saved me. You saved me. You saved me. You
- 48:37Speaker 1: saved me. Thou preparest a table before me in the
- 48:49Speaker 1: presence of my enemies. Look at your neighbor and say,
- 48:51Speaker 1: he blessed me. No, no, no, no, no, not y'all.
- 48:56Speaker 1: I mean the folks who got some enemies. Turn to
- 48:59Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, he blessed me. I've been through
- 49:03Speaker 1: hell and high water, but God blessed me. They didn't
- 49:08Speaker 1: think I was going to make it, but God blessed me.
- 49:12Speaker 1: If God brought me through that, he can take me
- 49:16Speaker 1: through this. He's the same God.
- 49:19Speaker 2: Yes, he is.
- 49:20Speaker 1: Is yes he is yes he is yes he is
- 49:25Speaker 1: somebody pray that any Can I go just a little
- 49:39Speaker 1: bit further? And then he said, he anoints my.
- 49:45Speaker 2: Head with oil.
- 49:49Speaker 1: One writer said that when the shepherd anoints the sheep,
- 49:55Speaker 1: he anoints their head with oil because the sheep are
- 49:58Speaker 1: so dumb that they're in the process of eating grass.
- 50:05Speaker 1: they'll stick their nose in a hole in the ground,
- 50:10Speaker 1: not knowing that there's a snake in the ground. But
- 50:14Speaker 1: the shepherd so loves the sheep that he anoints their
- 50:18Speaker 1: head with oil because the shepherd knows that the oil
- 50:22Speaker 1: is a serpent repellent. And I want to praise God.
- 50:28Speaker 1: I want to praise God. Because I know I stuck
- 50:32Speaker 1: my nose in some stuff that should have killed me.
- 50:36Speaker 2: But I thank God for the.
- 50:38Speaker 1: Anointing of the Holy Ghost that even when I stuck
- 50:43Speaker 1: my nose in it, no weapon formed against me.
- 50:48Speaker 2: Shout! Shout! Shout!
- 50:56Speaker 1: It ain't gonna prosper. It ain't gonna prosper. Have you
- 51:00Speaker 1: ever stuck your nose in something? But God protected you anyway.
- 51:04Speaker 1: High five somebody and tell them God protected me.
- 51:09Speaker 2: I could have been dead.
- 51:11Speaker 1: But he protected me. I could have lost my mind.
- 51:15Speaker 1: But he protected me. Should have had a nervous breakdown.
- 51:19Speaker 1: But he protected me. Should have died of AIDS. But
- 51:24Speaker 1: he protected me. That's why I will bless the Lord
- 51:28Speaker 1: at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth,
- 51:34Speaker 1: my soul. Touch somebody and say, my cup runneth over.
- 51:47Speaker 1: Tell them I'm getting ready to run over on you.
- 51:50Speaker 1: If you're nervous, you better move. If you don't like praises,
- 51:54Speaker 1: you better move. If you don't like noise, you better move.
- 51:58Speaker 1: I'm getting ready to run over on you. When I
- 52:01Speaker 1: think of where God brought me from, when I think
- 52:04Speaker 1: of where God has taken me to, I'm getting ready
- 52:07Speaker 1: to run over on you. I'm not going to let
- 52:10Speaker 1: nobody stop me from praising God.
- 52:13Speaker 2: I will bless the Lord at all times. He's crazy.
- 52:24Speaker 2: Somebody give me five minutes of crazy praise. Pray them.
- 52:47Speaker 2: Pray them. Pray them. Pray them.
- 52:51Speaker 1: Pray them like you have no fear. Pray them like
- 52:56Speaker 1: you have no doubt.
- 52:57Speaker 2: Pray them like you have no worry. Pray them. Hallelujah.
- 53:11Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
- 53:12Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 53:15Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
- 53:15Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I dare you to pray them. Give
- 53:22Speaker 2: them glory tonight. Pray them out of your belly. Pray
- 53:28Speaker 2: them out of your spirit.
- 53:30Speaker 1: Let everything they have breath.
- 53:36Speaker 2: Praise you the Lord.
- 53:45Speaker 1: Well? Well? Well, the devil is saying, I know that
- 53:53Speaker 1: ain't her praising God. I know that's not him praising God.
- 53:58Speaker 1: Not with all you going through. I know you're not
- 54:01Speaker 1: going to give God no praise tonight. Not with all
- 54:04Speaker 1: the shadows in our lives. Not with what you're dealing
- 54:07Speaker 1: with on your job. Not with what you read in
- 54:10Speaker 1: the paper today. The devil is saying, I know you're
- 54:12Speaker 1: not going to praise God. Look at somebody say, the
- 54:15Speaker 1: devil is a liar.
- 54:18Speaker 2: I will pray. I'll pray.
- 54:22Speaker 1: Yes, I will.
- 54:23Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, I will. Yes, I will. Yes, I will. Yes,
- 54:32Speaker 2: I will.
- 54:37Speaker 1: Can I tell you one more thing? I'm not praising
- 54:43Speaker 1: him about the shadow. I'm praising him in the shadow.
- 54:52Speaker 1: I'm not praising him for the shadow. But I'm praising
- 54:57Speaker 1: him because I know that in the midst of the shadow,
- 55:02Speaker 1: there's one verse left. Touch a neighbor and say, you
- 55:10Speaker 1: got one verse left? If you've been in the shadows,
- 55:15Speaker 1: you've got one verse left.
- 55:18Speaker 2: And the last verse said.
- 55:20Speaker 1: Surely, surely, surely, surely, surely, surely, goodness and.
- 55:34Speaker 2: Mercy shall follow me. Somebody give him a praise.
- 55:52Speaker 5: Somebody give him.
- 56:10Speaker 4: A praise.
- 56:11Speaker 1: Give me a favor.
- 56:16Speaker 2: All you folks, I know some of you are dignified.
- 56:18Speaker 2: Just put up with me. I'll be gone tomorrow.
- 56:22Speaker 1: I know I'm kind of loud and crazy, but to
- 56:24Speaker 1: y'all that are just as crazy as I am, look
- 56:27Speaker 1: over your shoulder and seek goodness and mercy.
- 56:50Speaker 2: Goodness and mercy.
- 57:01Speaker 1: And the devil says, you mean you're going to stand
- 57:03Speaker 1: here in the midst of all of these shadows and shout? Yeah, devil,
- 57:10Speaker 1: I'm going to shout. I'm going to shout. I'm going
- 57:14Speaker 1: to shout if I want to. I'm going to shout
- 57:17Speaker 1: it because I know what's coming next. I know what's
- 57:20Speaker 1: about to overtake me.
- 57:22Speaker 2: Goodness and mercy. So follow me.
- 57:37Speaker 1: All the days of my life. remember this behind every
- 57:57Speaker 1: shadow there's a surely and if you can just stand
- 58:04Speaker 1: the shadow If you can just stand, I don't know
- 58:07Speaker 1: who I'm preaching to. I don't know, but somebody has
- 58:10Speaker 1: been going through some dark shadows.
- 58:12Speaker 2: If you can just stand.
- 58:19Speaker 1: The shadows. Behind every shadow, there's a surely. And when
- 58:33Speaker 1: your blessing comes, somebody knows what I'm talking about. Your
- 58:37Speaker 1: blessing always feel like it just overtake you. Have you
- 58:41Speaker 1: ever had a blessing just come up from nowhere and
- 58:43Speaker 1: tackle you? Just when you thought it wasn't going to
- 58:46Speaker 1: get no better. Just when you thought you wasn't going
- 58:48Speaker 1: to get no help. You know why? Goodness and mercy
- 59:01Speaker 1: were following you. all the days of your life. And
- 59:10Speaker 1: though the enemy roars, he won't be able to devour you.
- 59:16Speaker 1: If you can look him right in the face, right
- 59:20Speaker 1: while he's roaring, and say, I will.
- 59:25Speaker 2: Fear no evil. Say it again. Say it again.
- 59:34Speaker 4: Say it again.
- 59:37Speaker 1: Shout it.
- 59:38Speaker 2: I will fear no evil. Shout it.
- 59:39Speaker 6: I will fear no evil.
- 59:44Speaker 2: Shout it. I will fear no evil. No evil. One
- 59:59Speaker 2: more time. I will fear no evil. Give God praise.
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 1:00:55Speaker 6: Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
- 1:01:46Speaker 7: I will fear no evil. Fear is a terrible thing.
- 1:01:54Speaker 7: It's a terrible thing. Afraid to live. Some people are
- 1:02:02Speaker 7: afraid to love. Some people are afraid to fly. Some
- 1:02:09Speaker 7: people are afraid to try again. Some people are afraid
- 1:02:14Speaker 7: to have relationships. Some people are afraid to talk to people.
- 1:02:19Speaker 7: Some people are afraid to open up. Fear is a
- 1:02:21Speaker 7: terrible thing. Some people are lonely, but they're afraid to
- 1:02:25Speaker 7: let anybody in. Some people have gifts and talents, but
- 1:02:29Speaker 7: they're afraid of rejection, so they don't use them. And
- 1:02:33Speaker 7: you can be saved and sanctified and.
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: Filled with the Holy Spirit and still allow fear to
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: control your life. If you don't put the word on
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: your fear, it will overtake you. It will control you
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: and it will rob you of precious moments that we
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: will never see again.
- 1:02:52Speaker 4: I will fear no evil. I will fear no evil.
- 1:03:04Speaker 2: Say it again.
- 1:03:04Speaker 4: I will fear no evil.
- 1:03:13Speaker 2: I want you to do me a favor. Wait, wait, wait.
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: I want you to reach out and join hands with somebody.
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: Somebody's really been in distress. They've just been in distress. Anxious.
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: Disturbed. Worried.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: Perplexed. Somebody's got a threat on their job. Somebody's got
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: a threat with their finances or in their marriage. Somebody
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: threatened by the terrorism that's happened in our country. And
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: you've never seen days like this, and I haven't either.
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: And you're worried for your children. Somebody's sons and daughters
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: have gone off to war, and you don't even know
- 1:04:04Speaker 1: where they're at. You try to talk faith, you lay
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: down at night, and the cold bitter taste of fear
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: rises up in your mouth. Your stomach flicks over, your
- 1:04:17Speaker 1: food hasn't been digested well, you haven't been sleeping good.
- 1:04:21Speaker 1: Lord sent me here for you. God bless this church
- 1:04:27Speaker 1: to be built so that it might be a hospital.
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: So that the wounded and the hurting could come here
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: and recover and be healed. And tonight in this place,
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: somebody is going to completely lose the spirit of fear.
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: God's going to replace it with power and love and
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: a sound mind. It's going out of your spirit right now.
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: It's going out of your spirit right now. It's going
- 1:05:02Speaker 1: out of your spirit right now. You haven't been able
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: to shake it for days, for weeks, but it's going
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: out of your spirit right now. The Bible said he
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: sent his word and his word healed him. It's going
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: out of your spirit right now. couldn't get it off you.
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: You couldn't sing it out. You couldn't shout it out.
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: You couldn't get on the phone and talk it out,
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: but it's going out right now. The word is going
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: to drive it out right now. He sent his word
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: and healed him. It's going out of your spirit right now. Anxiousness, anxiety, worry, distress.
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: All kinds of images running.
- 1:05:35Speaker 2: Through your mind. God said, I will fear no evil.
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: Squeeze that hand you're holding. A miracle is happening right
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: in that person right now. Right now, right now, right now,
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: right now, right now. Not later, right now. Right now,
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, the anointing of the Holy
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: Ghost is restoring and renewing and releasing.
- 1:05:54Speaker 2: Them right now by the power of God.
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: .
- 1:06:02Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. This is your time.
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: This is your time. This is your time. This is
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: your time. Receive deliverance. Receive it. Receive it.
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: Receive it in your life, in your personal life, in
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: your finances, in your emotions.
- 1:06:16Speaker 2: Receive it now.
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: Pray for that person whose hand you hold right now.
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: Squeeze your hand and start praying in.
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: The Holy Ghost. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: Yes, Lord. Yeah, for the children. Yes, Lord, over their children. Yes, Lord,
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: over their finances. Yes, Lord, over their marriage. Yes, Lord,
- 1:06:47Speaker 1: over their job. Yes, Lord, over the stock market. Yes, Lord,
- 1:06:51Speaker 1: over every anxiety. Yes, Lord, over tumors and lumps and
- 1:06:55Speaker 1: tissues and swelling.
- 1:06:56Speaker 2: Yes, Lord.
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: Yes, Lord.
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: Yes, Lord, over x-rays. Yes, Lord, over cancer tests.
- 1:07:01Speaker 4: Yes.
- 1:07:01Speaker 2: I will fear no evil.
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: No evil.
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: No evil.
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: No evil.
- 1:07:05Speaker 7: No evil.
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: Not a lie. I won't fear.
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: Gotham, I won't fear. Romas, I won't fear. Fatigue, I
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: won't fear it. Symptoms in my body, I won't fear it.
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: Getting older, I won't fear it. Losing companions, I won't
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: fear it. Children going to.
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: College, I won't fear it.
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: Young men going to war, I won't fear it. Terrorists,
- 1:07:40Speaker 1: I won't fear it. Conflict, I won't fear it. Confrontation,
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: I won't fear it. Here comes my perfect peace. Here
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: comes my perfect peace. Here comes my perfect peace. Here
- 1:07:54Speaker 1: comes my perfect peace. Here comes my perfect peace. I
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: receive it right now. Now, loose those hands and open
- 1:08:02Speaker 1: your mouth and give God the best praise you got.
- 1:09:23Speaker 6: How many of you had an area in your life
- 1:09:28Speaker 6: that the Holy Spirit spoke to you about tonight?