Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / God Has Given You Permission to Get Back Up and Pursue What You Lost Bishop T.D. Jakes

Transcript

God Has Given You Permission to Get Back Up and Pursue What You Lost Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I have divine, supernatural, Holy Ghost permission. I'm not doing
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: this on my own. I'm not ego-driven. I'm not ambitious.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: I have permission. Let's pray together. Spirit of the living God,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: fall fresh on us today. I'm hungry to hear from you.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Oh God, allow me to deliver to them as you
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: delivered to me your word in such a profound and
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: didactic way that we are changed and altered forever by
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: the power and the intensity and the relevance of your word.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: And I pray that somebody's online who needs this word.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Somebody on this line, Lord, somebody that's streaming in, somebody
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: that came physically, needs his word in such a way
• 0:43
  Speaker 1: that it releases him to go after their destiny. And
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: I thank you for it in Jesus' name. Amen. You
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: may be seated. Get comfortable. Take your girdle off. People
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: ain't wore girdles for 25 years, have they? Lower them
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: spanks so you can breathe.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, glory to God. I think God made spanks. Spanks
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: are of God. Can you say amen? The frivolity of
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: life is common to us all. Life is strange. One
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: writer said life is a tale told by a fool.
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: It seems like it has no rhyme or reason. We
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: cannot depend on life to stay in either a good
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: place or a bad one. The moment you settle into bad,
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: good comes. The moment you settle into good, bad comes.
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: You don't know from one day to the next what
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: is going to happen. It shifts, it changes, it turns,
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: it twists. Always teachings Always teaching. Not just the good,
• 2:07
  Speaker 1: but even in the bad. Life is always teaching. Always
• 2:11
  Speaker 1: look for a lesson in everything you go through. That's
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: how it becomes profitable what you went through. It's always
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: teaching you something. With few breaks, few intermissions, few quiet places,
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: and seldom a time of recess, life is amazing. It
• 2:29
  Speaker 1: reminds me of going to Six Flags or something like that.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: Many people enjoy the entertainment of the rides and the carnival.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not speaking against Six Flags. Don't sue me. They
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: love the thrill of being turned upside down and flipped
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: over backwards. They love it. They scream their head off.
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: They love being scared out of their wits and their
• 2:49
  Speaker 1: jaws being pulled back to their ears and their eyes
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: being bucked at 10,000 feet in the air. They absolutely
• 2:56
  Speaker 1: love it. The more volatile the ride, the longer the
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: waiting line. They just line up for miles. They travel
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: for miles just to be shook up. But the moat
• 3:09
  Speaker 1: between nauseating and exhilarating is as short as the plank
• 3:13
  Speaker 1: of a pirate ship. Because what is exhilarating can also
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: be nauseating. I lean to the nauseating side. Life is
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: like that. It's crazy. It's tempestuous. I got on one
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: of them rides and we were going up. It was
• 3:34
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click. I
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: thought this is cool. We got all the way to
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: the top. We got on top. I was looking around
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: at how far I could see all over the place.
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: Look at the sights. And by the time I was
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: looking at the sight, something snapped and it started going down.
• 3:52
  Speaker 1: I said, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute,
• 3:54
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute. Give a brother a
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: warning or something like that. It went absolutely crazy. That's
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: the way life is. You're only one phone call, one email,
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: one text from either feeling exhilaration or nauseation can be
• 4:12
  Speaker 1: changed by a text. You can be laughing and dancing
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: and then everything change on you. In one text, it
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: makes you get up and run out of here and
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: have to go. And your life is changed forever by
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: one text or one phone call. You don't know from
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: moment to moment. That's why you ought not ever look
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: down your nose at anybody. Because until you've been through
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: what they've been through, you don't understand. And it can
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: leave you feeling some kind of way. And you have
• 4:39
  Speaker 1: all kind of feelings. I have all kind of feelings.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: But feelings aren't facts. Feelings aren't facts. Feelings aren't facts.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: Feelings aren't facts. And one of the great problems we
• 4:50
  Speaker 1: have today is we have a world full of leaders
• 4:55
  Speaker 1: who are leading by feeling. And I don't wake up
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: in the morning asking myself, how do I feel? Because
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: my feelings will fluctuate. Sometimes I feel the way I
• 5:10
  Speaker 1: feel because I ain't had no coffee yet. You understand?
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: And I might snap your head off over a cup
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: of coffee. Feelings are not facts. We have them. They're
• 5:23
  Speaker 1: a wonderful thing to have. But facts tend to be
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: stable while feelings fluctuate. I love facts. Give me the facts.
• 5:34
  Speaker 1: Give me the facts. Give me the car facts. Even
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: if you don't bring me the Fox, bring me the facts.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: I want to know what's going on because the facts
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: are going to stand. Two plus two is four. Don't
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: matter whether you're white, black, green, blue, yellow, educated, intellectual, illiterate.
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: Two plus two is still four in Africa, in Australia,
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: in Japan. It doesn't matter whether you're on the mountaintop
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: or in the valley. Facts are stable. It is what
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: it is. I absolutely have feelings, but I try not
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: to allow feelings to To have me. I am honored
• 6:16
  Speaker 1: that I am arrayed with a wonderful consortium of emotions.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: It makes me me. It gives me personality. It makes
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: me human. It's a wonderful thing that I can laugh
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: and cry and have an array of emotions that God
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: decorated my soul with feelings. And there are wonderful things
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: to have until the feelings have you. There is nothing
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: worse than being led by somebody who is being controlled
• 6:44
  Speaker 1: by moods. I have to get a grip on my
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: feelings as a leader. I can manage the facts, but
• 6:57
  Speaker 1: I cannot allow my feelings to abort my mission or
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: alter my plan or change the way I conduct myself
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: lest I become practically schizo to deal with. And you see,
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: when you're in a position of power, if you're schizo,
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: everybody who gets in your atmosphere has to suffer the
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: consequences of your indecisiveness, your aggravations, your mood swings, your attitudes.
• 7:23
  Speaker 1: And eventually people just wear you out because they're wearing
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: themselves out and you get caught in their orbit. Note
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: to self. Watch out for Marian people who are dramatic.
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: Because when you marry somebody who has a lot of
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: drama going on, you get caught up in the orbit
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: of their drama. And whether you want to or not,
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: you become a victim, a captive, chained to their drama.
• 7:51
  Speaker 1: You're scared to go in your own house. I know
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: y'all can't nod because you sit beside somebody. Just keep
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: looking right ahead and wiggle your toe. People who lead
• 8:07
  Speaker 1: from their emotions are volatile and hard to follow. They're
• 8:11
  Speaker 1: hard to follow because you don't know from day to
• 8:13
  Speaker 1: day how they're going to feel today. I really try
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: not to make emotional decisions. I have emotions, but I
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: avoid emotional decisions. I've learned to wait. Beverly knows to wait.
• 8:30
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I get mad and I'll fire off a letter
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: and she'll type it up and then I'll call her
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: like five hours later and say, have you sent that yet?
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: She said, no, I thought I'd give you a date.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: Because right off the cuff, you know, you can flip out.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: So we got a 24-hour moratorium. This is true on
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: my letters. Because if I'm hot, I will let you
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: have it. And so Beverly just holds it 24 hours
• 9:04
  Speaker 1: till I come to myself. Because in the heat of
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: my emotions, I can, as my mother would say, cut
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: off my nose to spite my face. Did y'all's mama
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: say that too? Everybody's mama would say that, wave your hand.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: I thought my mama created that. You mean my mama
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: didn't create that? My mama act like she authored that statement.
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. Have
• 9:31
  Speaker 1: you ever cut off your nose to spite your face?
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: Emotions pass, but decisions linger. And a lot of times
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: in emotions, you do things that you have to live
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: with later. If I allow my ever fluctuating feelings to
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: lead my decisions, they will drive me over a cliff.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have made it 25 years at this church
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have made it 45 years in ministry I
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have made it almost 40 years in marriage if
• 10:10
  Speaker 1: I allowed my feelings to control my decisions I would
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: have wrecked everything lost everything Because in the heat of
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: a feeling, and the feeling can be brought about by
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: something that don't even have nothing to do with you.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: It ain't your fault that the toast burned in the toaster.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: But if you happen to call while it's burning, I
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: might not be ready for you. That cliff I'm talking
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: about going over the edge isn't literally driving your car
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: for cliff. It's that self-sabotaging behavior. It's the kind of
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: thing that Hagar did when she got mad and ran
• 10:57
  Speaker 1: out of Sarai's house. And she ran out of Sarai's
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: house and got out in the wilderness and almost died.
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: And God said, I provided for you in that house.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Go back to Sarai's house. And Sarai, Hagar didn't have
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: any reason to be mad. She was the one who
• 11:14
  Speaker 1: picked the fight. Read the story. She picked the fight
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: and then got mad and left. But it's hard to
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: see ourselves. Am I right about it? Right now we're
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: shooting a film in Canada, Seven Deadly Sins. We're doing
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: the last five anthology, the last five deposits on the
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: anthology of Seven Deadly Sins in Canada. Shameless plug. But
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: it's easy to make the kinds of decisions and the
• 11:44
  Speaker 1: kinds of moves that debilitate people. The reason I love
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: to do films is because when you see it on TV,
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: it's easy to see what's wrong with other people. Because
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: you can't see yourself. If I don't feel worthy, neither
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: moral support nor mighty sermons will enable me to get
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: up until I permit myself to. To go forward. Wait
• 12:13
  Speaker 1: a minute. If I don't feel worthy, if I don't
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: feel worthy for whatever reason, it doesn't matter what somebody preaches.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who supports you. Have you ever tried
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: to support somebody who had made up their mind not
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: to get up? It's frustrating, isn't it? It drives you
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: crazy because you say all the right things. I know
• 12:36
  Speaker 1: you can do this. You have the power to do this.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: You're created to do this. You're so gifted. You're so smart.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: You're so bright. And all the while you're trying to
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: fill them up, it's leaking out the bottom of them.
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: And it's impossible to support somebody who's made up their mind,
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy. And there's no sign
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: on their head that says I'm not worthy. It's no warning.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: It's just there. They may not even know that they
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: are self-sabotaging themselves. They'll shout over things that they'll never
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: possess because they have never given themselves permission to feel
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: worthy to be where they are. I know I am.
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: I know I am. I know I am. Because so
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: many people have lost love and lovers and people who
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: really cared about them only because they didn't agree with
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: being loved. And when you don't agree with being loved,
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: you won't rest until you find somebody who's hitting you
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: upside the head with a skillet. Because, I'm going to
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: mess with you now. I might make you mad a
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: little bit, but your feelings are going to be okay.
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: But because they reflect how you feel about you, you
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: are only comfortable with negativity. Because you have not felt
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: worthy of somebody being enamored with you. And you say,
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: he's all right. She's kind of nice, but she's kind
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: of like a sister. Anytime they relegate you over to
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: the sister brotherhood lane, you are disqualified from anything else.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Come on, that's the kind of language y'all give when
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: y'all don't want to be bothered with that. Oh, he's
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: a good man, but he kind of like a brother. Translation,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: he loves me in a way that feels strange. And
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to receive that kind of love.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: And rather than wrestle with my insecurity, I relegate him
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: to a column that requires nothing of me. I'm going
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: to talk to you about five things today. I want
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: you to jot these down. These are very important. I'm
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: going to go through these five things and I'm going
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: to paint them on the canvas of the story. I
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: want to talk to you about the ability to pivot.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: That's good right there. Because if life is going to
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: keep changing, you got to be able to pivot. You
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: got to be able to pivot without warning. You got
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: to be able to pivot on a dime. We were
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: planning a couple of years ago to have a leadership conference.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Everything was a go. We had 12,000 people registered for
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: the leadership conference. Everything was set up. The place was allocated.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: We paid the deposits. We had the hotels. Everything was
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: in place. And then all of a sudden COVID came along.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: You got to pivot. It doesn't matter how much you're
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: invested in it. You got to pivot. You can't just
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: get mad and blow up and explode and set the
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: building on fire. You got to pivot. When life changes,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: you got to pivot. So I'm going to talk to
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: you about the ability to pivot. Number two, I'm going
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: to talk to you about the paralysis of pain. The
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: paralysis of pain. How hard it is to function when
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: you hurt. How it will shut you down. How it's
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: hard to think when you're in pain. How it's hard
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: to move forward when you're in pain. How it's hard
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: to accept opportunities when you're in pain. The paralysis of pain.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Number three, the permission to prevail. The permission to prevail.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: The permission to prevail. If you don't have permission to prevail,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: you can do nothing without permission. Even Jesus, before he
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: started his ministry, got permission. John identified him, behold the
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: The heavens opened up and the Father spoke, this is
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. That
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: kind of permission enables you to be able to go
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: do what you've got to do. Jesus went to the
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Garden of Gethsemane and prayed, Father, if it be thy will,
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: pass this bitter cup for me. Then he comes back
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: and tells the disciples, sleep on, I'm okay now. I'm
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: not worried about anything. Why? I got permission. I'm not
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: scared of the cross because I got permission. I'm not
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: scared of the nails because I got permission. I'm not
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: scared of being laid in a tomb because I got permission.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I got permission that says if I pursue, I will prevail.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: So nails, I don't believe you. And cross, I don't
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: believe you. And pain, I don't believe you. Because God
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: has given me permission that even if I have to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: hurt to get there, when all of this is over,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I will rise again and And still I rise. Be
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: careful of people who keep getting up again. Be careful
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: of people who arise every time you put your foot
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: on them. Be careful of people that you try to
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: destroy and they bounce back up again. Those people are
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit. God dwells
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: with those people. Some of them are in this room
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: right now. There are some people in this room that
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: have been through hell and back. And every time the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: devil counted them out, they jumped back up like Jason.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: They came through fire. They came through flood. They came
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: through burning buildings. They have the permission to prevail. The
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: fourth thing I'm going to talk to you about is
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: the danger of pettiness. Oh, I'm loaded this morning. I'm
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: loaded this morning. The danger of pettiness. It's all in
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: this text. And number five is trashing the party. Yeah, man. Yeah, man.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: I got something for you this morning. Let's get down.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: When you start the story at the chapter that I
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: started in, you don't really get the power of And
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the context of where David is in his life. David
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: is in this strange midlife crisis. I call it midlife
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: crisis because he's in the middle of his life. He
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: has been a part. He is an Israelite. He is
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: a Hebrew. He is a child of God. He is
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: a part of Saul's leadership and his army but him
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: and Saul have fallen out and because him and Saul
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: have fallen out he has had to feign himself to
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: be mad and start hanging out with the Philistines and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: now David who is a Philistine killer incidentally Is now
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: living with the Philistines. Because sometimes your enemies become safer
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: than your friends. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Sometimes your enemies become safer than your friends. Because you
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: don't defend yourself against your friends. And you look around
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and you never would have thought that somebody who had
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: adopted you as a son would be throwing a javelin
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: at you. I know to be careful when I'm with
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the enemy, when I'm with the Philistine, but I thought
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I could relax around you. So David is now hiding
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: amongst the Philistines. He has 600 men that he has
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: gotten out of nowhere. Raggedy, ruffian, wild, distorted, disoriented men.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: No longer having access to Saul's army, he's had to
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: make an army out of misfit men. These are his soldiers.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: These are his warriors. And they dwell in Ziglag, which
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: is a camp in the Philistinian area of control, hiding
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: from Saul. And the Philistines have come against Saul and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: they're going down to kill him. And as they make
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: their way down to kill him, David wants to go
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: with them. And he speaks to a Clish who is
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the head of the sons of Gath and says to him,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: he's been living amongst them for years. And he says
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to him, I will go down and fight with you.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: And we don't know for sure whether David was going
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: with them To fight with them or whether he was
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: going to turn and kill them. Because there's such a
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: thin line between the friends and the enemies. That we
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: don't really know what he had in mind. We don't
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: know whether he's being shrewd and he's going to come
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: in from the rear and attack them. Or whether he's
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: going to go through with killing them. If he went
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: through with attacking Saul. then David would have lost the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: chance to be king of Israel. So God allowed him
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: to be rejected because even though Achlish wanted him to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: go with him and Achlish was the king in charge,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: his princess said, are you crazy? You don't know him
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: like that. He sound like my wife. Ain't nothing like
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: a woman to tell you, you don't know them like that.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: You're so naive. You just take people in so easily.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You need to watch them a while. You must be crazy.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: You must be out of your mind. I love you, honey.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: But the princess says, you don't know him like that.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: And they were right. You don't know him like that
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: to let him come in from the rear. Suppose he
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: attacks us and kills us. And all of a sudden,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: David's plans are aborted. He doesn't get to fight with
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the Philistines against Israel no matter what his intention was.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: He has to pivot. He had to pivot to go
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: be with them. And then he had to pivot again
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: to be rejected by the people that he had to
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: pivot to go into. Life is crazy. Look at your life.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Look at how many times you've had to pivot. Look
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: at how many times you've had to turn. Look at
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: how many times you unpacked your bags and had to
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: pack them back up again. Look at how many times
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you call somebody a friend and they slit your throat.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Look at how many times you thought somebody was an
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: enemy and they came to see about you when your
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: friends didn't come to see about you. Look at how
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: many times you've had to turn around and change the game.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: You cannot survive in this world if you don't develop
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the ability to pivot. I don't want to be married
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to anybody who can't pivot. I don't want to hire
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: anybody who can't pivot. I don't want to work with
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: anybody who can't pivot. People who are rigid are dangerous
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: because the world keeps changing. It's up today, it's down tomorrow.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: It's east and then it's west. And you got to
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: be able to pivot on a dime. You got to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: be able to lead and follow. You got to be
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: able to be key and serve. You got to be
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: able to be a base and a bound. You got
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to be able to pivot. And if you don't learn
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: how to pivot, you're going to miss what God has
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: for you because you lack the flexibility. To pivot. So
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: he goes back to his 600 soldiers who are all
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: dressed up to fight. They're ready. They got their swords.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: They got their shields. They're trained. They've been exercising. They've
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: been stretching. They've been doing Pilates. They've been doing everything.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: They're ready to go fight. And he says, we got
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to pivot. We got to pivot. We got to go
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: back home. And so they head back to Ziglag. And
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: when they head back, Back to Ziglag. It's always a
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: good feeling to go home when you're a soldier. Have
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you watched those little commercials and stuff on TV where
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the dad show up at school and the son starts
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: crying and they set him up and there I am
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: sitting up here with my old self trying to cry.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Take that off the tape because I don't want people
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to say that. The older I get, the mushier I get.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I'm a person if like I'm the little boy or something.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know who I am. I don't know whether
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I'm the father or the son, but it's so touching
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to see. And he runs out and he hugs him
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and he cries. And the reception is amazing. And I
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: feel like, you know, yes. And I think you ain't
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the soldier or the kid, but perception is important. Reception
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: is important. Reception determines everything. Footnote, if you give men
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: great reaction, they will give you anything. If a man
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: stops giving you, it is because you stopped giving him reaction.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: We are suckers for reactions. We are suckers for reaction.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: If I got two bags of groceries and my wife
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: starts bragging me, you so strong, I say, oh, give
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: me that other bag. About to break my back carrying
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the bag. Give me the bag, girl. That ain't nothing.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: That ain't nothing. I bring in all the groceries at
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: one hand. I'll shovel a bag on my foot. Come on, fellas.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Don't leave me hanging out there. And I don't think
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: it's just about men. I think it's about women too.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: If she cooks a good dinner or she goes to
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: work and she comes home and she's available to you
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: or whatever she does that's amazing to you and you
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: sit there and grunt. You got to learn how to
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: be grateful. You got to learn how to be appreciative.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: You got to learn how to give great reaction. Great
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: reaction is great encouragement. The greater your ability to respond,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the more you're going to get of what you respond.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Whatever you respond to, I'm going to do it again.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going to do it again. If I buy you
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: a coat and you make a big fuss about it
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: because you see what I'm talking about. You see? I
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: got something for you, too. I got something for you, too.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I got something for you. See, that's what I'm talking
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: about right there. That right there. That right there. You
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: see right there? That right there. That right there. I
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: bought that coat. That's what she's spinning around in that coat.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I got something else, too. Because anything make you spin around,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I'm going to buy another one. Yeah, baby. Do the spin.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Do the spin. Rock and reel. Show it off. Because reaction...
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Take notes, ladies. Take notes. Take notes. Take notes. Take notes.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Reaction creates response. So the men are coming home from
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: battle unexpectedly. And they're expecting the little boy to run
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: out to meet them. And maybe the women will dance
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: and sing. And maybe they'll smell the smell of fresh
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: bread or venison being cooked in the backyard in a pot.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: But the closer they got... To Ziglai. They heard no
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: sounds of music. They saw no children running. In the
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: past the women had sung. David has killed. Saul has
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: killed his thousands. But David has killed his tens of thousands.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Where is the music? Strike up the band. We're back.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: But there was no sound of music when they came
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: to Ziglai. And they smelled smoke. They smelled smoke in
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the air. But it was not the smoke that smells
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: like food. It was the smoke of devastation. It didn't
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: even look like home. What happened to the village? That's
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: what I think sometimes about America.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: What happened? to my country come fire the smoke is
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: burning the ashes are where the houses used to be
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: and it is in this atmosphere that David returns now
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: you have to feel this this is not just an
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: ugly picture Where is my wife? Where is the Henna Ham?
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Has anybody seen Abigail? Abigail! Abigail! Abigail! There was no
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: sign of a Henna Ham or Abigail. And all the
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: men are running through the debris looking for their children.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Lifting up burning embers trying to find their sons and daughters.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: And they had stepped into pain. The kind of pain
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: that paralyzes you. the kind of pain that shuts you down.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: The women and the children were taken captive. Their homes
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: were destroyed. Now the men he trained, the men that
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: he had trained himself and invested in and poured into
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and brought from nothing to something were so filled with
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: pain and anger that they thought let's stone him. Now
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: look at the setup. David as a leader cannot go
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: to Saul because Saul wants to kill him. He can't
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: go to the Philistines because the Philistines just rejected him.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: He can't turn to Abigail Because she's gone. And I
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: can't find her. And he turns to the men that
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: he has put so much into. And they're looking at
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: him and their eyes are red and tears are running
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: down their face. And he sees hatred in their face.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: And there's nothing like seeing hatred in the face of
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the people you raised. Amen. I know you can't act
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: like you know what I'm talking about. But somebody in
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: here knows what I'm talking about. To pour a lot
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: into a person who goes into attack mode. You gonna
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: stone me? You gonna stone me? At my weakest, most
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: vulnerable moment? This is the paralysis of pain. I want
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to speak to somebody right now who has been through
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the kind of pain that has created paralysis. It has
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: shut down your senses. It has limited your ability to
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: respond or retaliate. It has brought you down to your knees.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It has so upset you on the inside that you
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: don't even have words to articulate the magnitude of the
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: trauma you're experiencing. And all you do is sigh or
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: cry or groan within yourself because it looks like everywhere
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: you turn there is pain and rejection. And suffering. And
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: you might be a leader. But you are alone. I'm
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: not talking about being lonely. That's a feeling. I'm talking
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: about alone. That's a fact. Lonely you can get over
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: in a day or two. Alone is alone. And you
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: can't turn back. in either direction and.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: Find nobody, nothing, no one, not an encouraging word. Everybody
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: in your life needs you, but nobody in your life
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: feeds you.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: What do you do when people only want you when
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: you have the answer? They only want you when you
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: fix stuff. And then when you're backed up against a
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: wall and you can't fix it, they forsake you. And
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you are there alone. It was against the backdrop of
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: this kind of atrocity that David has to grapple with.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's over. I can't go to Israel. Saul has
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: shut the door. His godless behavior and his loss of
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: anointing has made him mad. And I can't go to
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Achlish because Achlish has listened at his princes and rejected
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: me from being amongst the Philistines. And the worst part
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: about it is I can't go home. What do you
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: do when you can't go home? You ought to always
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: be able to go home. David can't go home. My God,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I need Marcus. David can't go home. My mama told
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: me you can go home when you can't go nowhere else.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: And he is paralyzed by pain. And it was at
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: this point that he made the most profound decision. If
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Abigail doesn't encourage me. If Ahiniam doesn't encourage me. If
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the Philistines don't encourage me. If the Israelites don't encourage me.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: And I don't have nobody to count on but me.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: then before I lay down and die in this spot,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: then I will encourage myself. I will encourage.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Myself.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I wonder if there's anybody on the line or in
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: the room or in the church or in a family
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: or in a marriage or in a business or in
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: a situation where you couldn't get what you needed, where
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: you thought you'd be able to find it and you
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: had to encourage yourself. Because if you didn't encourage yourself,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: you were going to die. If you didn't encourage yourself,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: you were going to backslide. If you didn't encourage yourself,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: you were going to quit. If you didn't encourage yourself,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: you were going to faint. I'm wondering am I talking
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: to anybody that's had to go look yourself in the
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: mirror with tears in your eyes and say you're still
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: going to make it. You're still going to make it.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know when. I don't know where. I don't
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: know how. I know you're going to make it. I
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: know you're going to make it. I know you're going
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: to make it. I know you're going to make it.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: You're hurting, but you're going to make it. You're lonely,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: but you're going to make it. You're broke, but you're
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: going to make it. You're disturbed, but you're going to
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: make it. If you know what I'm talking about, take
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: 30 seconds and praise God like you lost your mind.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The courage you need to survive must come from
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: within you. When it doesn't come from around you, it
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: must come from within you. Out of your belly shall
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: flow rivers of living water. Out of your soul, out
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: of your spirit, there has to come something that says,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: though he slay me, yet shall I trust him. There
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: has to come a fight back that says it was
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: good for me that I had been afflicted. If I
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: weren't afflicted, I'd never see the glory of God. There
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: has to be something that rises up and say, cancer,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: you ain't gonna whip me. COVID, you ain't gonna whip me.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: There has to be something in you that makes you
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: fight back And David encouraged himself. This is not something
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: that God does for you. This is something that you
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: must do for yourself. Stop sitting back waiting on an
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: angel to fly in the window and get you out
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: of your paralysis. The devil is a lie. You have
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: to furnish the fight to say, I will not die today. Amen.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I'm going to encourage myself. I'm taking myself out to dinner.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be my valentine. Y'all not going to
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: help me. I'm going to be my valentine. I'm going
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: to get myself used to being treated good. So when
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Boaz comes, I've already set the standard in my life.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I don't go below this, baby. I don't go below this.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: It starts right here. Because I was doing this good
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: when you met me. Because I learned how to encourage myself.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to date you because I need you.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to date you because I want you. Because
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: I learned how to encourage myself. I learned you ain't
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a man until you learn how to encourage yourself. You're
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: not a grown woman until you learn how to encourage yourself.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: I don't care how old you are. But until you've
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: gone through something that stripped you of all other resources
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: and backed you in a corner where you had to
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: come fighting out of there and say, I will not
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: die today. Tell hell you're a liar. I'm getting back up.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: If I got to crawl on my knees, if I
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: got to take one step at a time, if I
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: have to push myself, if I have to roll in
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: a wheelchair, if I have to walk on a walker,
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: if I have to get on crutches and hop in,
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: I will not die right here. I'm coming out Somebody,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: anybody make some noise in this house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: You might not even feel it yet. It may not
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: be in your feelings because we're not living by our feelings.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: We're leading by the facts. But I want you to
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: say it by faith. I'm encouraged. Fist bump somebody and
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: tell them I'm encouraged. The devil thought he was going
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: to kill me with all this smoke. He thought he
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: was going to destroy me with all of this fire.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: He thought he was going to take me out. I
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: lost my job, but I didn't lose my courage. I
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: lost my house, but I didn't lose my courage. I
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: lost my friend, but I didn't lose my courage. God,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I wish I had somebody who understood the words that
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: are coming out of my mouth. You see, what you need,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: what you need to stop the paralysis of pain is
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: the tenacity to believe it will not stop right here.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: You're watching online. There's a reason God's got you online
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: right now so that you could get this word. You
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: desperately need this word. You've been in a state of disappointment.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Some of you have been in a disappointment for years.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: You have gone over and over how much right you
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: have to get support from people that are no longer
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: there and no longer with you. You cannot spend another
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: day complaining about the past. You have to come into
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: the present. If you're going to change the future, forgetting
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: those things which are behind and reaching to those things
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: which are before, you have to make up in your mind,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: if you don't encourage me, I'll encourage myself. I'll hug
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: myself in the bed. I'll lay in the bed and
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: wrap my arms around myself and tell myself I love you.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I will encourage myself. I'll take myself out to dinner.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I'll buy myself a Valentine's gift. I'll lift up my
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: own head. I'll put on songs that make me feel happy.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I will encourage myself. And if anybody ever does come,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: welcome to the party. But the party's already started. Set
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: it off in here. Set it off in here. Set
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: it off in here. Set it off in here until
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: demons turn you loose, until hell breaks loose, until trouble
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: breaks loose. Set it off in here. The Lord said,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: this is to be your turning point. This is to
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: be your resurrection moment. This is to be the moment
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: that you come to yourself. This is to the moment
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: that you say, I'm better than this. Some of you
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: heard me tell you about the time I walked in
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: my house and my lights was off and my water
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: was off and they repossessed my car. And I walked
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: in the house and nobody was in the house with me.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: And I started talking to the house, Anita. I told
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the house, I told the house, and now you want
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: to treat me, don't you? But I told the house,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I talked to the house like it was a person.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: And I said, you're a liar. The paint was coming
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: off the walls. The gas didn't work. The water was off.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: The phone was off. I said, you're lying on me.
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: I do not accept this. I'm better than this. I
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: told my sister I'm getting up. When you make up
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: your mind to get up, no devil in hell can
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: hold you down. I don't care if it's racism, sexism, governmentism.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: I don't care what's going on. When you make up
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: in your mind, I'm going to get up. I don't know.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking nonsense. to somebody in this room.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Encourage yourself. Encourage yourself. Encourage yourself. Stop blaming everybody who
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: didn't and encourage yourself. You ain't got time to be bitter.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: You got to make it to better. You got to
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: get to better. If you got to crawl on your belly,
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: I got to encourage myself. Notice that it was only
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: when he encouraged himself that he got high enough to
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: hear from God. Oh, you can get so low that
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: you cannot hear from God. He does not seek Thummim
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: and Urim before he encourages himself. Because he has to
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: encourage himself to get high enough to receive a good word.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: And once he got through encouraging himself, you got to
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: do this. I found out it's too much weight to
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: put on your mate. To expect the person you married
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: to lift you. You're too heavy. You know them pictures
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: where the husband bring in the bride and carry her
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: over the threshold? You can only do that if she's
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: a size 5. When she a size 50, baby, you
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: got to walk across this door yourself. I'll hold your
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: hand or something like that. But a brother can't be
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: busting his back trying to be romantic. You a 50.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: The girl on TV was a 5. Come on in, baby.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Come on in. You got to encourage yourself. You are
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: too heavy for anybody else to carry. You've been through
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: too much drama. You've been through too much hell to
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: put the full weight of your recovery on another person.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: I don't care whether it's a man or a woman
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: or a dog or a cat. You got to encourage yourself.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm talking to somebody. God wouldn't have
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: me preaching like this if something wasn't about to happen
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: in your life something that you lost is about to
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: come back something that got out from under your foot
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: you're about to get it back again and this is
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: your boot camp that's giving you step by step by
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: step by step by step how to get back what
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: the devil stole from you if I'm talking to you
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: give God 30 seconds of crazy Holy Ghost praise You
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: got ten seconds. You got five seconds. You got three seconds.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: You got one second. If the kids don't bring you
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: no roses, get yourself some roses. If they don't send
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: you no card, get yourself a card. Encourage yourself. You
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: can't spend another year talking about what did I do wrong?
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: Why don't they love me? Why don't they respect me?
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: You are losing life. You can't spend another year trying to...
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: You can't make nobody love you. You can't make nobody
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: respect you. You got to encourage yourself. I really need you.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: You can only apologize so long if I said anything,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: if I did anything, whatever I did. I'm sorry. I
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: want back. I want you to understand. I was going
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: through something. You can only explain so long. Sooner or later,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: you got the makeup in your mind. Maybe their no
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: is no to them, but it's still yes to me.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: And if you don't want me, I still want me. Amen. Said,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: I still want me. House on fire, smoke everywhere, everything
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: burning up, but I still want me. Make me want
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: to do my happy dance. Don't you know demons tremble
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: when you start talking like that? Hell gets nervous when
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: you start talking like that. The devil thought he had
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: you in a full Nelson. Thought he had you locked
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: down and you weren't going to get up. And you
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: just jumped up and hollered, I still want me. Demons tremble.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Hell gets frustrated. Witches lose their power. Somebody's shouting out,
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: I still want me. If you ain't on my side,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: I'm still on my side. If you ain't got my back,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I got my own back. If you don't stand up
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: for me, I'll stand up for myself. When he got
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: through encouraging himself, Pastor Michael, then he asked God, what
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: say ye? Go get Thurman and Urim. And let's see
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: what the Lord is saying. Should I go up? Should
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: I overtake them? I'm not going up if I'm not
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: going to win. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. I
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: didn't come this far to lose. I'm too old to lose.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I can't take another loss. Should I overtake them? And
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: the Lord said... The Lord said, pursue. Somebody shout, pursue.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: Type it on the line, pursue. In the middle of COVID, pursue.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: In the middle of crisis, pursue. Up under attack, pursue.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: Going to a divorce, pursue. Pursue. For thou shalt surely
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: overtake them. God said, thou shalt surely, not maybe, surely
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: overtake them. And without fail, recover all. I don't know
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: why you ain't dancing. I don't know why you ain't praising.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know why you're not rejoicing. I don't know
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: why your belly ain't leaping up and down. Because when
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: God said.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: It, now I got permission. Hey!
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Up until then, all I had was encouragement. You can
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: get encouragement from a motivational speaker, but you can only
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: get permission from God. And the Lord said, oh God,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: I feel like preaching. The Lord said, I've given you permission.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: Who am I preaching to? You better help me pray
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: to them.
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: I got permission.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: I was in Florida, April. And a news reporter was
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: interviewing me. And he said, you're a pastor. He said,
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Doing blockbuster films. He said, you
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: got all these books, 12 books on the New York
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Times bestsellers list. One of them has been on for
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: 16 weeks. But you're a pastor. You're a pastor. You're
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: dabbling in real estate, but you're a pastor. He said,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: why are you doing it? I said, because I can.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: If I couldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. But
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: if God gives you the grace to pursue, then you
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: ought to go for it. I release you to go
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: after your dream. God said you have permission. You don't
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: have to fit in the box that anybody made for
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: you and describe you and incarcerate you to their opinion
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: of what you ought to do. God has given you permission.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: Shout it. I have permission. I have permission. I have permission.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: Give him 30 seconds of praise. The permission to prevail.
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: The permission to prevail. The permission to prevail. Trauma can
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: dismantle one's courage to fight. It can make you give up.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: It can make you angry. And depression is nothing but
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: anger turned inside. It can strip you of your fight.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Take away your fortitude and your resilience. Your creativity and
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: your thinking and your innovation is disrupted by trauma. You
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: can't be innovative and traumatized.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Help!
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: I've fallen and I can't get up. Many people who
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: love the idea of victory cannot accept it because they
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: get stuck in the pain. All of those are the
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: reasons that David had to encourage himself. I want you
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: to do something right now. I want you to throw
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: your arms around yourself and hug yourself. And I want
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: you to walk from side to side and say, I
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: got you. I got you. In this season you're in,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: in your life, hug yourself, say, I got you. I
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: got you. You're going to get through this. I got you.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Your heart is broken, but I got you. Your feelings
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: are crushed, but I got you. Your home is in shambles,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: but I got you. Your house is on fire, but
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: I got you. Squeeze yourself and say, I got you.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: And then say, not only that, God's got me too.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: I got divine permission. I got permission to pursue. I
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: got permission to get up. I got permission to fight back.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: Why is permission important? Because without permission, you won't accept
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: help even when you get it. Because you don't feel,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: you have not given yourself permission to be better. And
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: I don't care how much I preach. You can call
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: some of them and you're them all you want. But
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: until you encourage yourself to get high enough to receive
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: this word, you cannot pursue what you do not believe.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Can I go a little bit deeper? Let me go
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: a little bit deeper. The enemy is after your belief system.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: He wants you to believe the smoke and the fire
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: more than you believe the word of God. He wants
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: you to believe the word of men and the word
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: of Saul more than you believe the word of God.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: He wants you to believe your situation more than you
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: believe the word of God. But the devil is a liar.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: The devil is a liar. The devil is a liar.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: Somebody is coming up. I can feel you coming up
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: in this room. While I'm preaching to you, look like
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: to me you're getting taller. I don't know what it is,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: but something is leaping up inside of you, reminding you
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: that you have permission. If I give you the position
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: and you don't have the permission, You will lose the
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: position because you'll never take ownership of what you don't
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: believe you have a right to have. Can I go
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit deeper? Self-permission led to God's permission. I
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: don't care if you got to get counseling. I don't
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: care if you got to get therapy. I don't care
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: if you got to counsel yourself. I don't care if
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: you got to walk around the house and say something
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: over and over again till you cancel out negative thinking.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: I don't care if you have to change the way
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: you talk to yourself. I don't care if you have
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: to rehearse it and at first you start saying it
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: and you don't even believe it, but you keep saying it.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: You keep saying I'm better than this. I'm better than this.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: I was in that raggedy house saying I'm better than this.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: I was broke. I said I'm better than this. My
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: gas was off. I said I'm better than this. My
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: phone didn't work. I said I'm better than this. They
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: repossessed my car. I said I'm better than this. I'm out.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: I got out. As a man thinketh it is hard,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: so is... David doesn't lack the power or skill to
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: turn around the situation. He has the power. He's a fighter.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: David bad, y'all. David killed the Philistines and cut off
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: their foreskins and threw them at Saul's feet. David bad.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: David's been killing giants since he was a boy. David
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: is bad. It is not that he didn't have the skill.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: He didn't have the permission. Today, Jermaine, I give you
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: permission to pursue. I give you permission to prevail. I
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: give you permission to be. To be, not just to do.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: You're good at doing. I give you permission to be. Today,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: I give you permission to live and not die. Today,
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: I give you permission that your latter day shall be
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: greater than your former day. Today, I give you permission.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: If you're watching online, God had me preach this word
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: so that you could get confirmation of his permission. God
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: has given you permission to go after that thing that
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: looks impossible to you. Roll it, I'm almost done. Here's
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: the challenge. Here's the challenge. Don't miss this. All he
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: had to fight with was men who had hurt him.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: This is the danger of pettiness. The men he had
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: to fight with were the same men who said they
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: were going to stone him. And a lot of us
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: cannot prevail because we are petty. Pettiness will destroy purpose.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: The most successful people I have ever met have always
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: regarded purpose over pettiness. Watch this, watch this, watch this.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: Y'all don't get this, y'all don't get this. In the
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: same chapter, in the same scene, these men were getting
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: ready to stone him. But when he got permission, he said,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: come on, let's fight. Do you have the capacity to
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: let people in That you have locked out. If you
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: don't develop the capacity. To let people in. That you
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: have locked out. Your pettiness. Will destroy your purpose. How
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: do you fight with folks. Who was getting ready to
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: stone you. You cannot do this if you are petty.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: That's why petty people never make great kings. Because they
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: are too vindictive and spiteful to be aligned with purpose.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: I want you to see this if you miss everything else.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: David's army... was made of his detractors. And a lot
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: of times God wants to use people that you are
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: still mad at. And if you are still angry with him,
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: your pettiness, your pettiness is going to destroy your purpose.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: The whole victory depended on David not to be petty.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: Y'all was shouting good. I lost y'all. The only reason
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: Hagar didn't die in the desert is because God healed
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: her from pettiness. Said swallow your pride and go back
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: to Sarai. Pettiness would have caused the prodigal son to
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: die in the hog pen. Anytime you can't make up,
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: you can't move on. I'm talking about the danger of pettiness.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Don't worry, I'm almost through. I'm down to almost my
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: last point. I hate to be the one to tell
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: you this. It's not the devil that's holding you back.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: It's not demonic warfare that's holding you back. It's not
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 1: a satanic attack that's holding you back. It's because you
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: are petty. You are stuck in victim mode. And you
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: don't feel strong enough to rethink your position. I'm a
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: victim over here. I'm a victim over there. I'm a
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: victim with Saul. He didn't treat me right. I'm a
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: victim with the Philistines. They didn't treat me right. I'm
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: a victim at home. I got home and they weren't
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: there for me. I'm a victim, I'm a victim, I'm
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: a victim. And yet God calls me to pursue and
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: then asks me to use the men who were going
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: to stone me. Here is the test of your character.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: Can you get over your pettiness to see the real
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: battle is within yourself to see beyond the pain of betrayal.
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that you can continue to walk with
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: people you can't trust. There are some people you have
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: to dismiss. But it does mean if you dismiss everybody
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: who lets you down, you will have nobody. Nobody. Nobody.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: That's why you got nobody now. You got nobody because
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: you write people off. And you have written off so
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: many people, you ain't got nobody. Because you write off
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: everybody who ain't perfect. And ain't nobody perfect, so you
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: got nobody. And then you end up writing off yourself
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: because you ain't perfect either.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Petty people demand more of other people than they can
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: supply themselves. You forgive yourself for stuff you hold me
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: hostage for. Oh, don't stop dancing now. Don't stop dancing now.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Why did David take the men? They were tried and true.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: They were trained by him. They knew how to fight.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: He also is placed in a position. There are two
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: things he had to do. I want you to get these.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: These are important for every leader, every influencer in the room.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: Two things he had to do. He had to be
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: over his pettiness to the point that he could let
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: people back in that he had locked out. And the
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: second thing the text reveals is that he had to
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: trust new people God sends into your life. Those are
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: two different kinds of tests. You remember the Egyptian slave
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: that they found that was about to die in the text?
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: They didn't know him. They said, who are you and
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: to whom do you belong? They had to trust somebody new.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: And because you are so hands-on, so skeptical, or so
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: cynical when new people come into your life you can't
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: let them in because they're new and if David had
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: not let the Egyptian slave in he would have never
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: gotten the victory because the slave didn't have a sword
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: he didn't have a knife he hadn't eaten for days
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: he was about to pass out he had been left
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: for dead the slave had one thing going for him
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: he knew where the treasure was Hey, God said, I'm
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: going to bring somebody into your life who knows where
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: the treasure is. You won't have a background with them.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: You won't have a comfort with them. They won't be
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: somebody that grew up with you. They won't be somebody
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: you're familiar with. But God said, I'm going to bring
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: a stranger into your life. And look, they had to
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: trust each other. The slave said, I'll tell you, but
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: promise me you won't kill me. Promise me you won't
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: kill me and promise me you won't turn me over
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: to my master and I will tell you. So David
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: had reason not to trust the slave, but the slave
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: also had reason not to trust him. What helped them
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: to come together is David fed him. Do you feed
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: new people or stare at them? Lord, I'm losing them, Jesus.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: I had them good. I'm losing them now. I'm losing them.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: That's all right. I'm just teasing. I don't need your response.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: I brought mine with me. I also know my church
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: well enough to know that when you get quiet, you
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: are thinking. And I know you are cerebral enough to
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: challenge your own behavior and to take this as the
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: word of God and to ask yourself, who am I
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: holding at bay because they're new and who have I
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: locked out because they hurt me? Those two groups of
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: people are going to carry you into your destinies. Watch this,
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: I'm almost finished. Give me five minutes, I'll wrap it up.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: He fed the slave that the Amalekites discarded. The slave
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: was there when they burned Ziglag down. And David is
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: feeding somebody who was complicit in the problem. Look at
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 1: David's capacity to be pivotal. He's feeding the slave... Even
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: though he's hungry and he's sick... He was there... When
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: they were burning down the city... And taking away the children...
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean he's not useful now.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: Because he has something I need... To win... He knew
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: where they were... So David says to him... Show me
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: where they are... And when they got down... To where
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: they were. The slave let them down. The Bible said.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: That the Amalekites were throwing a party. They were living
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: it up. They were laying around. The women were dancing.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: They were drinking. They were having a good time. My
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: last point. Is David trashed the party. God said. Your
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: enemies are celebrating what they took from you. But God
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: said the devil is alive. You're getting ready to trash
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: the party. I don't know who I'm preaching to. I
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: don't know who I'm preaching to. I don't know if
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: you're healed enough to hear what I'm saying to you.
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: But God said he's given you permission to trash the party.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: You're going to go in the party. And number one,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: you're going to crash the party. Number two, you're going
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: to defeat your enemies. Number three, you're going to recover
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: everything that the enemy stole from you. Whoever I'm talking to,
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: hear me real good. Your stories look bad for a
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 1: long time. But everything is about to change. This is
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: not just a Sunday morning message. This is a prophetic utterance.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: God said you have permission. Go in the party. Kick
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: open the door and tell them I'm here. to take
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: back what the devil stole from me. I'm here to
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: take it back. I'm here to grip my destiny. I'm
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: here to lay hold on my future. Give me my
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: wife back. Give me my sons back. Give me my
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: daughter back. Give me my gold and give me my silver.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: Somebody turn around in a circle. God said he's going
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: to turn the whole thing around. what the devil meant
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: for evil. God is going to make it good. I
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: better quit because I feel like preaching now. And when
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: I feel like preaching now, the Holy Ghost stands up
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: and me. The Lord said, you're going to get it back.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: The Lord said, you're going to get it back. I
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: don't know what your it is, but whatever the enemy
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: stole from you, God said, you're going to get it back.
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: Kick your foot. Kick the door open. Tell hell I'm coming.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: I'm coming after my job. I'm coming after my future.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: I'm coming after my finances. I'm coming after my destiny.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: I'm coming after my ministry. I'm coming after my purpose.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: Glory to God. I won't stop till I recover everything
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: that the devil stole from me. Whoever I'm preaching to,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: I want you to praise God like you already got
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: it back. Praise him like you got it back. Praise him.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. You don't hear what I'm saying. This
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: is an act of faith. Praise him like you already
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: got it back. I got it back. I got it back.
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: I got it back. I got it back. I got
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: it back. I have permission to get it back. I'm
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: going to get my walk, my talk, my finances, my power,
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: my anointing, my consecration, my ministry, my gifting. I'm going
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: to get it back. You thought you had me, but
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: the party is over. I declare war. On hell's party,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: somebody lift your voice and shout out to God, I
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: have permission. Shout it out again, I have permission. Shout
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: it out again, I have permission. Shout it out again,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: I have permission.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: I have permission.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Lift your hands and open your mouth and begin to
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: praise God in whatever way you're comfortable let the Holy
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: Spirit speak to you right now that you have been
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: given this morning you're watching online you picked the right
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: week this morning you have permission you have permission you
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: have permission You have permission. If you sit there, it's
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: your fault. If you stay there, it's your fault. If
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: you wallow in your pain, it's your fault. If you
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: stay in the paralysis of your past, it's your fault.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: Lift your hands and start talking to God. Tell him
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: what you're going after. Tell him what you're going after.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: Say it out loud. Give it a name. Speak it.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: Declare it. Lift your hands and open your mouth and
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: tell your God, I'm going after it. I'm going after it.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: I'm going after it. I'm going after it. It might
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: be a degree. It might be a course. It might
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: be a master's. It might be a doctorate. I'm going
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: after it. It might be a business. It might be
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: a church. It might be a ministry. I'm going after it.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Lift your hands and name it. I'm going after it.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: I have permission. I have permission. I am enough. I
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: have enough. I've got enough. I have permission. I'm not
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: accepting any more excuses. Devil, you might as well stop
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: talking to me about what I can't do and what's
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: too late. And what's over? Because this Sunday morning, I
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: receive permission. Now praise him like you got it.