Latest / LOH Church Archive / 04/18/26 - WYAA 2026 | Guest Speaker Panel
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- 0:00(MUSIC)
- 0:04I TOLD HER, I SAID, COME UP WITH A SKIT IN RECORD TIME. DID THEY
- 0:08NOT DO IT? BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, THAT IS WHY THEY SET UP FOR OUR
- 0:15PANEL, WE'LL GET OUR PANELISTS OUT HERE IN A MINUTE. I WAS JUST
- 0:18SITTING THERE THINKING, LORD OF ALL THE STUFF WE GET SO STRESSED
- 0:24OUT ABOUT AND GOD'S LIKE, "THERE WAS NO POINT. I JUST HAD THE
- 0:29PLAN ALL THE TIME." AND WHILE GOD MAY NOT HAND YOU A MAN IN A
- 0:33FLOWER JACKET AND A MANSION ALL IN ONE DAY, I'M LIKE, "OH MAN,
- 0:38THAT HOUSE, WOW." AND THE POOL AND EVERYTHING. BUT ISN'T GOD
- 0:44FAITHFUL? THAT'S WHAT THE WHOLE POINT OF THIS CONFERENCE IS
- 0:47ABOUT, IS JUST KNOWING THAT GOD IS, IF HE SAID HE'LL DO
- 0:52SOMETHING, HE WILL DO IT. HE IS A FAITHFUL GOD. AND SO I JUST
- 0:56WANT YOU TO BE ENCOURAGED BY THAT. PASTOR CHRISTY, I'M GOING
- 0:59TO WELCOME PASTOR CHRISTY, NICOLE, KAREN, ALL TO THE
- 1:05PLATFORM, OUR PANEL. GIVE THEM ALL A GREAT BIG HAND. YES, GIVE
- 1:11THEM A STAND AND AN APPRECIATION. THANK YOU GUYS FOR
- 1:20BEING PART OF ALL THIS. PRAISE THE LORD. PRAISE THE LORD. WELL,
- 1:25WE'RE JUST GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF PULL UP A CHAIR
- 1:27AND SOME DISCUSSION ALONG THE THEME OF THE CONFERENCE. AND IF
- 1:31YOU'RE JUST JOINING US THIS AFTERNOON, THE WHOLE THEME OF
- 1:36THIS IS CALLED, "WON'T HE DO IT?" IN OTHER WORDS, AFFIRMING
- 1:40OUR TRUST IN GOD THAT THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS WE BECOME ANXIOUS
- 1:44ABOUT, FEARFUL ABOUT, AND I GOT TO TURN A LITTLE BIT SO I CATCH
- 1:48ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEHIND ME, FEARFUL ABOUT, THINGS THAT
- 1:51WE JUST ALLOW THE ENEMY TO TALK TO US AND EVEN IF IT'S A REAL
- 1:57SITUATION, YOU KNOW, WE GO THROUGH REAL THINGS, DON'T WE
- 2:00LADIES? WE GO THROUGH HARDSHIP, SOMETIMES IN OUR LIVES WE GO TO
- 2:05WHAT WE THINK IS GOING TO HELL AND BACK AND BUT GOD IS FAITHFUL
- 2:11TO BRING US OUT OF THOSE THINGS AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO JUST
- 2:14DRILL DOWN IN OUR HEARTS THIS WEEKEND IS THAT WE CAN SEE THAT
- 2:18GOD BRINGS US ON THE OTHER SIDE. YOU KNOW HANK AND I SO MANY
- 2:21TIMES IN 30 YEARS OF PASTORING THIS CHURCH HOW MANY TIMES WE
- 2:27THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T MAKE IT ANOTHER DAY WE THOUGHT THE WORLD
- 2:30WAS FALLING APART AND IT JUST WOULD NEVER WE WOULD NEVER GET
- 2:35TO THE OTHER SIDE AND YET GOD WAS FAITHFUL AND NOW WE'RE HERE
- 2:40AND WE'RE STILL HERE ON THE OTHER SIDE AND SO IF HE'LL DO IT
- 2:44NOT AND SO WHAT I WANT TO PREFACE BY SAYING ALL OF US THAT
- 2:47ARE UP UP HERE WE DON'T LIVE IN A FAIRY TALE WORLD PEOPLE
- 2:52SOMETIMES THINGS THAT MINISTERS, SINGERS, PEOPLE ON THE PLATFORM
- 2:55LIVE IN THIS WORLD OF EVERYTHING GOES RIGHT YOU KNOW YOU SEE IT
- 2:59AS AT OUR BEST WITH OUR FALSE EYELASHES AND IN FACT I DOOR
- 3:05DASHED THESE THEY WERE SO BIG THEY WERE HITTING MY GLASSES I
- 3:07DON'T KNOW EXACTLY I SAID TO MATT LAST NIGHT I SAID MY LASHES
- 3:11ARE SO BIG I HOPE I CAN PREACH BUT THE POINT BEING YOU KNOW YOU
- 3:16SEE ALL OF THAT BUT IN BEHIND THE SCENES JUST LIKE YOU WE GO
- 3:23THROUGH AS YOU PREACHED ON TODAY REAL LOSSES YOU'VE USED COINED
- 3:27THE PHRASE SO MANY YEARS I'VE KNOWN YOU NIGHT SEASON WE'VE ALL
- 3:33GONE THROUGH DIFFICULTY THAT WE'VE HAD TO FACE AND AND I'LL
- 3:37SAY IT LIKE THIS AND A LOT OF AND ALL OF US HERE WHO HAVE A
- 3:41PUBLIC MINISTRY HAVE HAD TO FACE IT BEFORE THE WORLD AND SO I SO
- 3:46THIS IS A VULNERABLE MOMENT I'M NOT THAT WE'RE GONNA SHARE ALL
- 3:49OF OUR STORIES BUT THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT THIS MORNING THOUGH
- 3:52THAT WAS VERY ENCOURAGING AND WE VALUE THAT AND WE TAKE THAT BUT
- 3:58WE DO GO THROUGH REAL THINGS SO I WANTED TO JUST PUT TOGETHER A
- 4:02LITTLE BIT OF DISCUSSION FOR ALL THE PANELS JUST TO BRING YOU TO
- 4:06A PLACE OF FAITH THAT WHETHER YOU'VE GONE THROUGH A THING OR
- 4:11YOU PROBABLY LET ME JUST SAY, AND I'M NOT PROPHESYING IT, BUT
- 4:14I'M JUST SAYING YOU PROBABLY WILL. JESUS SAID IN THIS WORLD,
- 4:19YOU WILL HAVE TRIBULATIONS. BUT THEN THE END OF THAT IS BE OF
- 4:24GOOD CHEER, I'VE OVERCOME THE WORLD. SO I WANNA JUST TALK
- 4:29LADIES A LITTLE BIT JUST ALONG OUR QUESTIONS AND ANY OF YOU CAN
- 4:34JUST JUMP IN AT ANY MOMENT THAT YOU WANT TO. BUT LET'S IDENTIFY
- 4:38FIRST OF ALL SOME OF THE THINGS, AND WE SAW IT WITH LADY T UP
- 4:43HERE A FEW MOMENTS AGO AND HER SITUATION, AND IT WAS A HUMOROUS
- 4:47SIDE TO IT. BUT WHAT ARE THINGS THAT SOMETIMES WE ALLOW TO CAUSE
- 4:52US FEAR, ANXIETY, STRESS, THAT MAYBE WE DIDN'T NEED TO BE SO
- 5:01STRESSED OUT ABOUT? YOU KNOW, WE ALLOWED THESE THINGS TO COME IN
- 5:06AND WE DIDN'T DEAL WITH IT. WHAT ARE SOME COMMON CAUSES THAT WE
- 5:10COULD IDENTIFY THAT TRY TO CREEP IN THAT THE ENEMY BRINGS IN OUR
- 5:16LIVES? LET'S JUST TALK TO THAT SO THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IT AND
- 5:18GO, NO, THAT'S A PLAN OF THE ENEMY. WHAT ARE SOME COMMON
- 5:22THINGS THAT CAUSE US THESE KINDS OF ANXIETIES AND STRESSES? WELL,
- 5:26THERE IS A STATISTIC THAT SAYS THAT 95% OF THE THINGS THAT WE
- 5:32WORRY ABOUT NEVER HAPPEN. THE OTHER 5% THAT DO HAPPEN, WE HAVE
- 5:39NO CONTROL OVER. AND I THINK THE KEY WORD HERE IS CONTROL. A LOT
- 5:46OF TIMES WE FEAR WHEN WE CAN'T CONTROL A SITUATION. BUT THE
- 5:55SECRET IS WE NEVER WERE IN CONTROL. WE'RE NOT IN CONTROL.
- 6:00GOD IS IN CONTROL. AND HE'S A GOOD GOD. EVERY GOOD AND PERFECT
- 6:04GIFT COMETH FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHT. AND HE'S WORKING ALL
- 6:08THINGS FOR OUR GOOD, BUT THE ENEMY WANTS TO GET IN AND SAY,
- 6:12"IF I CAN'T CONTROL IT, IF I CAN'T MAKE IT HAPPEN, THEN IT'S
- 6:16NOT GONNA WORK OUT FOR MY GOOD." AND THAT'S A LIE OF THE ENEMY.
- 6:20SO I THINK FEAR OF THE FUTURE. I'M 65 YEARS OLD, MY CHILDREN
- 6:26ARE GROWN, BUT I USED TO BE VERY WORRIED ABOUT IF SOMETHING
- 6:31HAPPENED TO ME, WHO WOULD TAKE CARE OF MY KIDS? ANYBODY? AND I
- 6:39THINK THAT WE FEAR THE UNKNOWN. AND I CAN TELL YOU THE THINGS
- 6:45THAT I LOST SLEEP OVER WHEN MY KIDS WERE SMALL AND THE THINGS,
- 6:50EVEN IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, I WOULD LIE AWAKE AND WORRY, AND
- 6:55THEY NEVER HAPPENED. THE THINGS THAT I WORRIED ABOUT NEVER
- 6:58HAPPENED. SO I THINK CONTROL, THE FEAR OF LOSING CONTROL. I
- 7:05THINK ONE THING TOO IS THAT WE FEAR FAILURE. YEAH. SO SOMETIMES
- 7:11WE'RE AFRAID TO FOLLOW WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO, WHAT GOD
- 7:15HAS CALLED US TO BE BECAUSE WE EITHER GET CAUGHT UP IN
- 7:19COMPARING OURSELVES TO SOMEBODY ELSE, WHETHER WE MEASURE UP TO
- 7:24SOMEBODY ELSE, RATHER THAN HAVING THE MEASURING STICK THAT
- 7:27GOD HIMSELF HAS FOR US, WE MEASURE OURSELVES BY SOME OTHER
- 7:31HUMAN THAT HAS A DIFFERENT CALL AND THEN WE FEAR FAILING. SO
- 7:35SOMETIMES WE JUST DON'T LAUNCH OUT INTO THE DEEP BECAUSE WE'RE
- 7:39AFRAID THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT IF WE GET OUT THERE AND WE DON'T
- 7:41KNOW HOW IT'S GOING TO END, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, OR WHAT
- 7:45IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG? SO WE, YOU KNOW, WE SOMETIMES TRY TO
- 7:49PROTECT OURSELVES IN OUR SAFE ZONES SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE
- 7:54DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH FAILURE. WE DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE
- 7:59STRESS OF SOMETHING NOT BEING SUCCESSFUL. YOU KNOW, I THINK
- 8:03ALSO, I THINK WE CAN FALL INTO ANXIETY WHEN WE FEEL LIKE GOD
- 8:09SHOULD PLAY ACCORDING TO OUR SCRIPT AND OUR TIMETABLE. LIKE,
- 8:14I'VE PRAYED FOR THIS, AND SO GOD, YOU SHOULD COME THROUGH
- 8:17THIS WAY AT THIS TIME IN, YOU KNOW, THIS MANNER. AND WHEN
- 8:21THOSE TIMETABLES EXPIRE AND HE HASN'T DONE WHAT WE WANTED HIM
- 8:26TO DO WHEN WE WANTED HIM TO DO IT, THEN I THINK SOMETIMES WE
- 8:30CAN BE TEMPTED TO EITHER DOUBT HIM AND SAY, "WELL, I GUESS
- 8:34YOU'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT," OR "I'M GOING TO DO IT MY WAY," YOU
- 8:38KNOW, OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE. BUT GOD HAS NO OBLIGATION TO MY
- 8:43TIMETABLE. HE'S OBLIGATED TO HIS WORD. AND SO, I HAVE TO MAKE ALL
- 8:48DO THAT. WHEN WE'RE TRUSTING GOD, IT'S NOT, "I'M TRUSTING GOD
- 8:53TO DO IT MY WAY. I'M TRUSTING GOD JUST FOR WHAT I WANT, BUT
- 8:57I'M TRUSTING GOD." PERIOD. AND THEN I ALLOW HIM TO DO THINGS AT
- 9:04HIS PACE, IN HIS TIME, AND IN HIS WAY, JUST LIKE WE SAW IN THE
- 9:07SCRIPT. HE WENT ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL SHE EVER COULD ASK, THINK,
- 9:12OR IMAGINE, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS JUST A SCRIPT, BUT WE SEE, YOU
- 9:14KNOW, IT WAS NOT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS THE WAY WE THINK. AND SO
- 9:17WHEN IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OUR WAY, LET'S MAKE SURE, AND I HAVE TO
- 9:20CHALLENGE MYSELF OFTEN TO NOT TO THROW IN THE TOWEL, NOT TO
- 9:24ACCUSE GOD FALSELY, NOT TO THINK THAT MAYBE HE'S NOT GOING TO DO
- 9:28IT, BUT TO STILL TRUST HIM EVEN WHEN HE HASN'T DONE IT MY WAY.
- 9:33SO, YEAH. KAREN, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT? I DON'T
- 9:39KNOW IF I DO, IT'S ALL SO GOOD. I'M JUST AMENITY EVERYBODY.
- 9:43AND I LOVE WHAT THEY ALL SAID. CANDY, REALLY, THE
- 9:47PART ABOUT CONTROL, WHOA. SO I'M CONVICTED BY THAT RIGHT NOW. AND
- 9:53IT'S ALL BASED IN FEAR, YOU KNOW, THIS THING OF FEAR, WHICH
- 9:58I HATE AND GOD HATES. THE FEAR THAT REALLY IS, IT'S LEADS US
- 10:06INTO THE PLACE OF WORRY, WHICH IS ACTUALLY A GRIEVOUS SIN.
- 10:09WORRY IS ACTUALLY A GRIEVOUS SIN AGAINST GOD BECAUSE IT'S ROOTED
- 10:12IN FEAR AND UNBELIEF. AND THE REASON UNBELIEF IS, WE THINK OF
- 10:17UNBELIEF AS LIKE, OH, YOU KNOW, MY MAMA WAS FEARFUL AND I'M
- 10:20FEARFUL. BUT ACTUALLY IT'S REALLY, REALLY BAD. WITH GOD, I
- 10:26THINK IT'S IN SOME OF THE WORST CATEGORIES BECAUSE UNBELIEF IS
- 10:30REALLY QUESTIONING THE CHARACTER OF GOD AS TO WHETHER OR NOT HE
- 10:34WILL ACTUALLY KEEP HIS WORD. SO FOR GOD, UNBELIEF IS LIKE A
- 10:39REALLY BIG DEAL. IT QUESTIONS HIS CHARACTER, THE VERY ESSENCE
- 10:43OF WHO HE IS. IT'S KIND OF LOOKING AT GOD SAYING, I DON'T
- 10:46KNOW IF I CAN TRUST YOU. YOU KNOW, IF MY CHILD LOOKED AT ME
- 10:50AND SAID, "MOM, I CAN'T TRUST YOU." THAT WOULD BE LIKE A
- 10:54DAGGER. LIKE, "YOU CAN'T TRUST ME." WHOA, THAT HURTS. AND YET
- 11:00WITH GOD, WE'RE KIND OF LIKE THAT. I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF I
- 11:03CAN TRUST YOU. WHOA, AS TO WHETHER OR NOT YOU'LL KEEP YOUR
- 11:07WORD. AND THEN THAT'S WHAT LEADS US INTO WORRY. AND THAT'S WHY
- 11:11WORRY IS REALLY A BIG DEAL TO GOD. AND WE'VE GOT TO GET RID OF
- 11:15IT. BRENDA, WHATEVER IT TAKES. I LOVED THAT YOU SAID ABOUT
- 11:18UNBELIEF AND I WANTED TO TOUCH A LITTLE ON THAT LAST NIGHT. THAT
- 11:23THE LORD BEGAN TO TAKE ME ON A JOURNEY ON THAT TOPIC. THAT
- 11:27UNBELIEF, WE THINK OF WORRY AS AN INNOCENT, JUST A FEAR. IT'S A
- 11:35TYPICAL HUMAN RESPONSE, RIGHT? LIKE, YOU KNOW, HUMANS SHOULD
- 11:38FEEL THAT. BUT YET, IF YOU LOOK IN THE BIBLE, ANYTIME ANYONE
- 11:42WOULDN'T DEAL WITH THAT WORRY, OR THAT ANXIETY, OR THAT
- 11:46FEARFULNESS. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING. IT TYPICALLY TRIES
- 11:49TO HIT YOU AT NIGHT. WE TALKED ABOUT LAYING AWAKE AT NIGHT, AND
- 11:53THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE... THREE IN THE MORNING MEANS THREE. WHAT IS
- 11:56IT WITH THREE? IT IS. IT'S A NIGHT... BUT LOOK AT... THAT'S
- 12:00IN THE WORD. THE BIBLE CALLS IT A NIGHT TERROR. AND IT'S WRITTEN
- 12:06IN PSALM 91. "I WILL NOT BE AFRAID OF THE TERROR THAT COMES
- 12:09AT NIGHT." YOU SING ABOUT IT. IT TYPICALLY... SO WE HAVE TO,
- 12:14FIRST OF ALL, NOT BE IGNORANT OF THE DEVIL'S DEVICES. WORRY
- 12:17UNCHECKED, TO YOUR POINT. WE SEE IT THROUGH THE CHILDREN OF
- 12:21ISRAEL. THE BIBLE SAID THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF
- 12:24UNBELIEF. NOW, IT STARTED OUT AS INNOCENT, WHAT WE THINK IS
- 12:27INNOCENT FEAR, TO YOUR POINT. BUT THAT GRIEVOUS SIN, GOD
- 12:31FINALLY SAID TO ISRAEL, HE SAID, "YOU HAVE GRIEVED ME THESE TEN
- 12:35TIMES." HE KEPT COUNT OF THEIR FEAR THAT THEY WOULDN'T DEAL
- 12:40WITH. AND IT EVENTUALLY TURNED IN, AND WHAT DID THE BIBLE CALL
- 12:43ISRAEL? IT CALLED THEM STIFF-NECKED. IT SAID THEY
- 12:47BECAME, IT WAS A STIFF NECK, THEY REFUSED TO BELIEVE. SO,
- 12:51LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS FEAR, THESE WORRIES, 'CAUSE LIKE ALL
- 12:55OF US, I'VE HAD NIGHTS, YOU LAY AWAKE, THINK ABOUT YOUR
- 12:59CHILDREN, YOUR FAMILY, PEOPLE YOU CAN'T CONTROL PEOPLE'S
- 13:03ACTIONS OR YOU CAN'T, YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL HELPLESS TO DEAL WITH
- 13:07THAT PERSON THAT HAS SOME CONDITION IN THEIR BODY THAT YOU
- 13:10KNOW OR LOVE OR SOME ISSUE THAT YOU, YOU KNOW, THE ENEMY IS JUST
- 13:14TRIES TO IMPALE YOU. COME ON, LET'S BE REAL. THERE'S BEEN
- 13:17TIMES YOU SAT THERE AND THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, MY STOMACH IS IN
- 13:20KNOTS. I REMEMBER YEARS AGO, OUR FATHER, HE WAS JUST 55. HE'S IN
- 13:25HEAVEN NOW, BUT HE LIVED TO BE A FULL AGE. BUT AT THAT TIME HE
- 13:29WAS ONLY 55 AND WE HAD GOTTEN THE CALL, CHRISTY AND I. OUR SON
- 13:33JOHN WAS JUST A LITTLE BABY. I WAS STILL NURSING HIM AT THE
- 13:36TIME. LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH WAS I THINK TWO YEARS OLD AND WE GOT
- 13:40THIS CALL THAT HE WAS IN A SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITION. HIS
- 13:44BOWEL HAD LITERALLY EXPLODED AND THERE WAS DIVERTICULITIS AND
- 13:50EVERYTHING WENT WRONG. ALL HIS ORGANS WERE INFECTED. WE GOT THE
- 13:53CALL THAT HE MAY MAKE IT OR NOT. AND SO WE JUST DID WHAT WE KNOW
- 13:59TO DO. WE WENT TO THE PRAYER BATTLE. HANK HAD STAYED, PASTOR
- 14:03HANK HAD STAYED BACK HERE WITH THE BOYS. WE TOOK OFF. WE WENT
- 14:06TO DES MOINES AT THAT TIME. HE WAS IN THE HOSPITAL. AND I AND
- 14:11THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO IDENTIFY. I REMEMBER IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
- 14:13NIGHT, JUST FEAR LIKE MY STOMACH, I COULD NOT TURN OFF
- 14:20THE BUTTERFLIES. ANYBODY EVER BEEN THERE? I COULD NOT TURN OFF
- 14:24MY HEAD. I JUST KEPT LAYING THERE. AND I REMEMBER QUOTING
- 14:29THE WORD OF GOD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, QUOTING IT. IF I
- 14:33STOPPED QUOTING, ALL OF THAT WOULD FLOOD BACK. AND I JUST
- 14:38REMEMBER LAYING THERE, I WENT BACK TO BROTHER HAGIN, I JUST
- 14:41SAID, "GOD, YOU SAID WHATSOEVER THINGS I DESIRE WHEN I PRAY,
- 14:45"BELIEVE I RECEIVE IT AND I'LL HAVE IT. "GOD, WHATSOEVER MY DAD
- 14:49WILL NOT." AND YOU KNOW, I COMBATED THAT AT NIGHT TERROR.
- 14:54LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT ARE THINGS WE CAN DO TO COMBAT THE NIGHT
- 14:58TERROR, THE THINGS THAT HIT US IN THE MIDDLE OF
- 15:00THE NIGHT. BE NOT DISMAYED, THAT'S OUR THEME
- 15:03SCRIPTURE, FOR I AM THY GOD. BE NOT DISMAYED, DON'T
- 15:08BE IN THIS NERVOUS PANIC. LADIES, WHAT ARE SOME THINGS WE
- 15:11CAN DO TO COMBAT THE SPIRIT, IT'S DEMONIC, THE SPIRIT OF FEAR
- 15:17THAT TRIES TO COME AGAINST OUR LIVES. ANY OF YOU CAN SAY. SO, I
- 15:20MEAN, ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD SAY IS FIRST OF ALL, EPHESIANS
- 15:22CHAPTER 6 SAYS THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE UP THE SHIELD OF FAITH
- 15:25WHERE WE QUENCH. SO QUENCHING MEANS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STOPPING.
- 15:33I MEAN, YES, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE DARTS, THAT THE
- 15:35FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED AREN'T COMING AGAINST US. BUT WHEN
- 15:39WE'RE TAKING UP THE SHIELD OF FAITH, WE'RE USING THAT TO
- 15:43QUENCH THE FEAR, QUENCH THE ONSLAUGHT. BUT YOU KNOW, I TRULY
- 15:48BELIEVE THAT OUR FAITH IS BUILT OUT OF UNDERSTANDING THE
- 15:53CHARACTER OF GOD AND WHO HE IS. AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WORSHIP
- 15:58IS ALL ABOUT. WHEN WE LACK IN WORSHIP, WE LACK IN FAITH. WHEN
- 16:02WE LACK IN THE WORD, WE LACK IN FAITH. BECAUSE THE WORD DEPICTS
- 16:06THE CHARACTER OF GOD. WHEN WE COME INTO A PLACE OF WORSHIP,
- 16:10PSALM SAYS, "OH, MAGNIFY THE LORD WITH ME. "LET US EXALT HIS
- 16:14NAME TOGETHER." THAT WHAT MAGNIFICATION MEANS, WE'RE
- 16:16MAKING GOD BIGGER THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT IS HAPPENING. WHEN
- 16:21WE'RE MAKING GOD BIGGER THAN ANYTHING ELSE THAT'S HAPPENING,
- 16:23THEN WE'RE SAYING THAT EVERYTHING ELSE HAS TO BOW UNDER
- 16:28THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE ONE THAT SITS UPON THE THRONE, THE GOD
- 16:32THAT REIGNS. WE'RE SAYING EVERYTHING HAS TO BOW TO THAT
- 16:35BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU QUOTED IT TODAY, "I KNOW IN WHOM
- 16:39I HAVE BELIEVED, THAT HE IS ABLE TO DELIVER ME." SO THAT IS ONE
- 16:44OF THE WAYS I THINK WHEN WE ARE IN FEAR, IT'S GETTING IN THE
- 16:48WORD, IT'S CHOOSING A PLACE OF WORSHIP. I REMEMBER, I'LL TELL A
- 16:52REALLY QUICK STORY. WHEN I WAS YOUNG, MY PARENTS WERE MOVING
- 16:57AWAY AND YOU GUYS WERE MOVING TO A DIFFERENT CITY AND I DIDN'T
- 17:02KNOW WHERE I WAS SUPPOSED TO GO. AND I WAS LIKE, "WELL, GOD, DO I
- 17:05GO HERE? DO I GO THERE? WHAT DO I DO?" OUR LIFE WAS BEING TORN
- 17:10APART. AND I HEARD THE LORD SAY, YOU KNOW, JUST GET IN THERE AND
- 17:13WORSHIP. AND I REMEMBER LAYING ON THE FLOOR IN MY BEDROOM AND I
- 17:18WAS TRYING TO WORSHIP. I WAS TRYING. AND IT WAS THE FIRST
- 17:24TIME I EVER SAW A VISION AND I SAW THESE FEET AND THEY WERE
- 17:26DANCING. AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, GOD, I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS,
- 17:29BUT I CAN'T DANCE RIGHT NOW. LIKE YOU'D SEE I'M SAD. LIKE I'M
- 17:32SAD. I'M HAVING A MOMENT. AND I REALIZED THAT THEY WERE THE FEET
- 17:39OF JESUS. AND HE WAS SAYING, "LISTEN, IN YOUR WEAKNESS, I AM
- 17:44STRONG. THAT IS WHY WE HAVE TO WORSHIP HIM, EVEN WHEN WE DON'T
- 17:50FEEL LIKE IT, BECAUSE THAT WILL TURN ON YOUR FAITH IGNITION."
- 17:54YEAH, THAT'S GOOD, THAT'S GOOD, LADIES. AMEN, YES. POWERFUL. I
- 17:59WAS QUOTING THAT SCRIPTURE EARLIER TODAY, "WHEN WE ARE
- 18:01WEAK, HE IS STRONG." AND EVERY TIME BEFORE I COME OUT ON STAGE,
- 18:05I'M ALWAYS SAYING TO THE LORD, I SAID, "OKAY, LORD, THAT'S YOUR
- 18:07PROMISE." AND SO I BRING TO YOU MY WEAKNESSES. I BRING THEM TO
- 18:10YOU. AND SIR, I EXPECT FOR YOU TO SHOW UP AND BRING YOUR
- 18:13STRENGTH. AND SO, YEAH, SO, AND WHERE WAS I GONNA GO? I WAS
- 18:18GONNA GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. SO HOLD UP, HOLD UP, HOLD UP. I'M 59,
- 18:20GIVE ME A MINUTE. GIVE ME A MINUTE. I SAID, I'M 59. NO, I
- 18:27SAID, GIVE ME, YES. I'M CATCHING UP WITH ALL Y'ALL, OKAY? I'M
- 18:31GROWN, OKAY? OH, YOU'RE VERY KIND. I FOUND OUT NICOLE AND I
- 18:35ARE THE SAME AGE. I KNOW, AND I'M A LITTLE BIT OLDER. YOU ARE
- 18:39A FEW MONTHS OLDER. SO I'M BIG SISTER, YOU'RE LITTLE SIS,
- 18:40YOU'RE LITTLE SIS. SHE'S MY BIG SISTER THEN. YEAH, BUT WHAT I
- 18:44WAS GONNA SAY IS THAT REALLY, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU
- 18:47MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SING WHAT YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL LIKE, OKAY, IT'S
- 18:51HARD FOR ME TO UTTER THE WORDS OF TRUTH. WE LIVE IN A AGE WHERE
- 18:59WE CAN HAVE OTHER PEOPLE SING FOR US TO TURN ON THAT IGNITION,
- 19:02LIKE SHE'S SAYING, CHANGE THE DIAL, GET YOUR LITTLE PHONE OUT
- 19:06OR BEGIN TO SING, BEGIN TO HUM WHAT YOU DO KNOW. YOU KNOW,
- 19:10SOMETIMES IT MAY NOT BE, YOU KNOW, THE SANDY PATTY BALLAD OR
- 19:14YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOU
- 19:16KNOW, IT MIGHT BE THE LITTLE WHISPER OF REMEMBERING. YOU ARE
- 19:21MY HIDING PLACE. YOU ALWAYS FILL MY HEART WITH SONGS OF
- 19:28DELIVERANCE. WHENEVER I AM AFRAID, I WILL TRUST IN YOU. AND
- 19:36SOMETIMES YOU MAY HAVE TO CRY IT OUT. I WILL TRUST IN YOU UNTIL
- 19:41YOU GET STRONGER. LET THE WEAK SAY I AM STRONG IN THE STRENGTH
- 19:53OF THE LORD. AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, HIS WORD IS GOING TO SPRING
- 19:57UP. YOU ARE MY HIDING PLACE. HIS WORD NEVER EXPIRES. YOU ALWAYS
- 20:08FILL MY HEART WITH SONGS OF DELIVERANCE. WHENEVER I AM
- 20:21AFRAID, I WILL TRUST IN YOU. CHANGE THE CHANNEL. GIVE US SOME
- 20:32POINTERS ON OVERCOMING THIS EXPERIENCE. I FORGOT THE
- 20:35QUESTION AFTER I GOT LOST IN HER SONG. THAT WAS SO GOOD. SO GOOD.
- 20:42NO, I LOVE THAT. IT IS CHANGING YOUR PERSPECTIVE. IT'S
- 20:46EVERYTHING. THAT IS THE KEY TO IT FOR ME TOO. EVEN LAST WEEK, I
- 20:49JUST FELT THE LORD TELLING ME THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FIRE.
- 20:52IT'S JUST, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING AT THE
- 20:56MESS, AND I WAS LOOKING AT THE IMPOSSIBILITY, AND I WAS LETTING
- 21:00THE PAIN JUST OVERWHELM. AND I WAS JUST SITTING THERE STARING,
- 21:04LOOKING AT IT, AND JUST THINKING THERE'S NO ANSWERS. AND THE PAIN
- 21:10WAS JUST ALL CONSUMING. IT WAS LIKE HE JUST SAID TO ME, "KAREN,
- 21:14WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?" AND THEN I BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT
- 21:18WHERE HE IS. ISN'T IT EPHESIANS THAT SAYS HE'S SEATED FAR ABOVE
- 21:25ALL POWERS AND PRINCIPALITIES, EVEN SAYS IN EVERY NAME THAT IS
- 21:28NAMED. AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, AND I'M SEATED WITH CHRIST
- 21:32IN THE HEAVENLY PLACE, BUT I'VE GOT TO CHANGE THAT PERSPECTIVE
- 21:35AND REMEMBER WHERE I'M SITTING WITH CHRIST AND GET TO THINKING
- 21:38ABOUT IT. IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID, NICOLE? IT'S JUST, OH, I'VE GOT
- 21:42DIFFERENTLY. SO I DID LAST WEEK, I BEGAN TO SING. YOU REIGN ABOVE
- 21:47IT ALL. YOU REIGN ABOVE IT ALL. HERE'S MY MESS ALL DOWN HERE
- 21:52THAT I'VE BEEN STARING AT FOR HOURS, BUT YOU REIGN ABOVE IT
- 21:55ALL. YOU REIGN ABOVE IT ALL. YOU'RE OVER THE UNIVERSE AND
- 22:00OVER EVERY HEART. COME ON. HE'S ABOVE IT ALL. HE'S ABOVE IT ALL.
- 22:04AND WHEN I LOOK AT HIM, THIS LOOKS TINY. THIS LOOKS LIKE
- 22:07NOTHING. THIS LOOKS LIKE CHAFF IN THE WIND. AT THE GLORIOUS
- 22:11GOD. IT'S THE SHIFT OF PERSPECTIVE TO SEE HIM INSTEAD
- 22:17OF THAT. AMEN. WELL, I WANT THESE TWO TO GO HOME WITH ME AND
- 22:21SING TO ME WHEN I HAVE BAD DAYS. OH, GOODNESS. EVERYBODY ON THIS
- 22:27PLATFORM CAN SING BUT ME. OH MY GOODNESS. BEAUTIFUL VOICE. SO I
- 22:33SAID THIS TO YOU LAST YEAR WHEN I WAS HERE ABOUT SCRIPTURAL
- 22:38MEMORIZATION. THAT HAS BEEN A GAME CHANGER FOR ME AND IF I
- 22:41COULD RECOMMEND A BOOK TO YOU, IT'S A MINDSET FREE BY BROTHER
- 22:46JIMMY EVANS AND IT'S ONE OF THE MOST PROFOUND, IT'S JUST A
- 22:50LITTLE SHORT READ AND IF YOU'RE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH THOUGHT
- 22:55PROCESSES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND. IT'S SO
- 22:59WONDERFUL. AND SO, AND IT IS ABOUT SCRIPTURAL MEMORIZATION
- 23:04AND SO I STARTED LEARNING LIKE OUR SISTER NICOLE TO MEMORIZE
- 23:11CHAPTERS OF THE BIBLE AND YOU KNOW, EVEN THE LORD'S PRAYER.
- 23:15JESUS SAID THIS, HE SAID, "MY WORDS ARE SPIRIT AND THEY ARE
- 23:20LIFE." AND SO MANY NIGHTS, MOST, MOST EVERY NIGHT I LIE IN BED AT
- 23:29BEDTIME BECAUSE THE ENEMY COMES AT, AT, WHEN YOU'RE THE
- 23:33TIREDEST. HE DOESN'T PLAY FAIR WHEN YOU'RE THE MOST VULNERABLE,
- 23:37WHEN YOU'RE THE WEAKEST, YOU'VE HAD A LONG DAY. AND SO I LIE IN
- 23:42BED AND I'LL QUOTE PSALM 1 OR PSALM 23 OR PSALM 100 OR PSALM
- 23:4827 OR JUST QUOTE AND, AND IMMEDIATELY THE FEARS WILL GO
- 23:55AWAY AND I'LL GO TO SLEEP. SO IT'S A WONDERFUL TOOL BECAUSE IT
- 23:59IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD. IT'S NOT SHAKESPEARE. YOU'RE NOT
- 24:02MEMORIZING SHAKESPEARE. YOU'RE MEMORIZING THE SPIRIT OF GOD
- 24:07THAT WORKS INSIDE YOU. BUT I DID. I FOUND SOMETHING RECENTLY
- 24:11THAT HAS BEEN LIFE-CHANGING TO ME, AND IF I COULD JUST SHARE IT
- 24:13WITH YOU VERY QUICKLY. I JUST FINISHED A BOOK, READING A BOOK
- 24:19BY A DOCTOR. IT'S NOT A DOCTOR, I DON'T THINK, BUT HE'S GONE ON
- 24:22TO BE WITH THE LORD, DALLAS WILLARD, AND "A LIFE WITHOUT
- 24:27LACK," AND HE'S EXPOUNDING ON THE 23RD PSALM, WHICH I LOVE.
- 24:33BUT IN THIS BOOK, HE SAYS, HE STUDIED OTHER RELIGIONS AND
- 24:39OTHER, THE ISLAM, THEY PRAY FIVE TIMES A DAY. AND THEY START
- 24:48PRAYING AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND THE LAST TIME THEY
- 24:52PRAY IS AT NINE O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. AND SO FOR ME, THAT WAS A
- 24:56MIC DROP MOMENT BECAUSE I REALIZED THAT THE BIBLE SAYS,
- 25:03ADMIT YOUR FAULTS ONE TO ANOTHER. SO I FELT REALLY GOOD
- 25:06ABOUT MYSELF, ABOUT HAVING MY MORNING DEVOTION, MY MORNING
- 25:09PRAYER TIME, AND THEN GO ON ABOUT MY BUSINESS ALL DAY LONG.
- 25:13AND SO, BROTHER DALLAS WILLARD WAS TALKING ABOUT TRAINING YOUR
- 25:19HEART TO GO TO THE THRONE OF GOD MANY TIMES A DAY. AND SO, WHAT
- 25:26HAPPENS, AND I'M NOT A PSYCHOLOGIST OR A PSYCHIATRIST,
- 25:32BUT WHAT HAPPENS IS WE GET IN RUTS IN OUR THINKING, AND IT'S
- 25:37CALLED NEURO PATHWAYS. IT'S THE HIGHWAY THAT YOUR THOUGHTS GO
- 25:42DOWN. AND SO YOU GET USED TO THINKING IN CERTAIN WAYS, AND I
- 25:49DID. AND SO WHEN YOU TRAIN YOUR MIND TO GO TO GOD SEVERAL TIMES
- 25:56A DAY, IT CHANGES YOUR NEURO PATHWAYS. AND SO WHEN I WAS A
- 26:03LITTLE GIRL, I WAS RAISED IN LOUISIANA, AND THE PLACE WHERE
- 26:06WE BAPTIZED AT THE BAYOU WAS A DIRT ROAD. AND WE WENT DOWN THIS
- 26:12DIRT ROAD AND THERE WERE BIG RUTS IN THE DIRT ROAD. PEOPLE
- 26:17HAD DRIVEN ON IT WHEN IT WAS MUDDY AND WHATNOT. AND SO YOU
- 26:21HAD TO GET IN THE RUT TO GET TO THE BAYOU. AND SO THEN YOU
- 26:26REALLY HAD A PROBLEM IF YOU WEREN'T IN THE RUT. AND SO
- 26:29THAT'S THE WAY WE GET IN OUR THINKING. WE GET IN RUTS AND
- 26:33FEAR AND ANXIETY. AND SO WHEN YOU BEGIN TO TURN YOUR HEART TO
- 26:39GOD SEVERAL TIMES A DAY, AND I GOTTA TELL YOU AT FIRST, IT WAS,
- 26:45PAUL SAID, "EXERCISE YOURSELF UNTO GODLINESS." EXERCISE IS
- 26:49HARD. AND SO IT TOOK ME A WHILE TO GET IN THE HABIT, DRIVING MY
- 26:54CAR, EATING LUNCH, MOPPING THE FLOOR, GROOMING THE DOG. TURN MY
- 27:00HEART TO GOD, REALLY TURN MY HEART TO GOD. BUT HERE'S THE
- 27:07KEY, ISAIAH SAID THIS, HE WILL KEEP IN PERFECT PEACE, HIM WHOSE
- 27:18MIND IS STAYED ON HIM. WATCH THIS. I FOUND OUT THAT MY
- 27:28PATHWAYS WERE CHANGING. I WAS CARVING OUT NEW ROADS. AND THAT
- 27:34IF I TURNED MY HEART TO HIM, HE IS OBLIGATED TO KEEP, TO FIGHT
- 27:41FOR MY SANITY, TO FIGHT FOR MY PEACE, TO FIGHT. HE WILL KEEP.
- 27:45LOOK UP THE WORD KEEP WHEN YOU GET HOME. LOOK UP THE WORD
- 27:48BECAUSE IT IS A FIGHTING WORD. HE'S FIGHTING ALL THE DEMONIC
- 27:55FORCES THAT WANT TO COME AGAINST YOU WITH ANXIETY AND FEAR AND
- 27:59COMPARISON AND ALL THOSE THINGS. GOD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU. JUST
- 28:03TURN YOUR HEART TOWARDS HIM. YES. YES. YES. YOU KNOW ONE
- 28:07THING, GIVE THAT A CLAP. ONE THING I'M HEARING AND THIS IS A
- 28:10COMMON THREAD IS, WELL I'LL GIVE A LITTLE EXAMPLE. OUR SON MATT,
- 28:15HE EVERY YEAR MAKES US FILL OUT THE BASKETBALL BRACKET. IF
- 28:18YOU'VE BEEN HIT UP BY HIM, I APOLOGIZE. ANYWAY, SO, BUT I DO
- 28:23IT EVERY YEAR. IT IS FUN AS A FAMILY, BUT THEN WHEN THE TEAMS
- 28:26THAT I DON'T WANT, YOU KNOW, THAT I WANT TO WIN DON'T WIN, I
- 28:30HAVE ANGER ISSUES, BUT ANYHOW. SO, YOU KNOW, BUT I HAD TO
- 28:36REMEMBER, JUST THIS YEAR WE WERE WATCHING OUR TEAMS GET
- 28:40ELIMINATED AND I REMEMBERED, HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER LARRY BIRD
- 28:43BACK IN THE DAY, PLAYED BASKETBALL? AND IT JUST REMINDED
- 28:47ME, AND THERE'S A SPIRITUAL PRINCIPLE WITH THIS, IT REMINDED
- 28:50ME THAT HE WOULD GO INTO THE GYM, HE WOULD SAY, I DON'T KNOW,
- 28:55FOR HOURS BEYOND ANY OTHER PLAYER AND JUST SHOOT FREE
- 28:58THROWS, JUST PRACTICE THEM. AND I REMEMBERED WHEN ONE OF OUR
- 29:02TEAMS, I THINK IT MIGHT'VE BEEN NEBRASKA, BUT THEY WERE LOSING.
- 29:06I'M LIKE, "STOP MISSING YOUR FREE THROWS." YOU KNOW, I'D BE
- 29:10SO MAD. THEY'D MISS, I THINK THIS SHOULD BE ELEMENTARY,
- 29:13RIGHT? AND WHAT I'M HEARING HERE, THERE'S NO LIKE BIG
- 29:18EXPLOSIVE ANSWER, BUT TO MAKE OUR FREE THROWS. EVERY SINGLE
- 29:26TIME. IT'S ROUTINE THINGS THAT WE DO TO COMBAT, YOU MENTIONED
- 29:34SCRIPTURE MEMORIZATION, KNOWING THE WORD. IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE
- 29:38WORD, YOU'LL HAVE NOTHING, THERE'LL BE NO BREAD IN YOUR
- 29:40SOUL TO FIGHT WITH. YOU HAVE NO WEAPON. THERE'S WORSHIP WAS
- 29:45MENTIONED. WE TALKED ABOUT OUR EYES BEING ON. THESE ARE
- 29:48STANDARD FREE THROWS THAT EVERY CHRISTIAN MUST PRACTICE AGAIN
- 29:54AND AGAIN EVERY DAY SO THAT WE ARE ARMED FOR THE DAY OF BATTLE.
- 29:59AND WHEN THE NIGHT TERROR COMES, WE'RE ALREADY FULL. WE ALREADY
- 30:03CAN MAKE THE FREE THROW. SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES AS
- 30:08CHRISTIANS WE'RE LOOKING FOR THAT BIG ANOINTING MOMENT. WE'RE
- 30:12GONNA GET IN BROTHER SO-AND-SO SERVICE AND WE'RE GONNA FALL OUT
- 30:16AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING. AND I'M NOT SAYING GOD CAN'T DO
- 30:20THOSE THINGS. HE DOES USE THAT. HE DOES USE A CONFERENCE LIKE
- 30:24THIS. BUT THEY'RE ONLY MOMENTS EVERY DAY MAKING THOSE FREE
- 30:29THROWS OF PUTTING THAT WORD IN. YOU KNOW, DECLARING IT. IT'S ONE
- 30:33OF THE REASONS I ACTUALLY WROTE THE DECREE BOOKS IS BECAUSE I
- 30:37WANTED PEOPLE IN THEIR DARKEST NIGHT TERROR, NIGHT SEASON
- 30:41MOMENTS TO BE ABLE TO TALK RIGHT. BECAUSE THE HARDEST THING
- 30:45TO DO, AND WORDS IS ANOTHER ONE, OF THOSE SIMPLE FREE THROWS, IS
- 30:50TO BE ABLE TO TALK RIGHT AND DECLARE RIGHT AND SPEAK RIGHT
- 30:53WHEN YOUR MOUTH DOES NOT WANT TO. OKAY, YOU KNOW, YOU'D THINK
- 30:57IT WOULD JUST BE THE EASIEST THING TO TALK FAITH WHEN THERE'S
- 31:00ALL THIS JUNK GOING ON IN OUR LIVES SOMETIMES. BUT IT'S
- 31:04SIMPLE, OUR MOUTH CAN DO IT. BUT WHAT PREVENTS US SOMETIMES, YOU
- 31:09KNOW, OF SPEAKING HEALING WHEN THERE'S A SICKNESS. SPEAKING
- 31:15LIKE LADY T WHEN THE FINANCES ARE LOW TO SPEAK FAITH. I DON'T
- 31:20KNOW. WE LOVE, WE'RE ADDICTED SOMETIMES TO SPEAKING THE WRONG
- 31:24THINGS. YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. BECAUSE WE'VE NOT PRACTICED OUR
- 31:28FREE THROWS. SO I'M HEARING FROM US TODAY THAT THIS IS A PRACTICE
- 31:33LIFE OF OVERCOMING THESE FEARS. NOT JUST A BIG AHA MOMENT, BUT
- 31:39IT'S BECAUSE WE KEEP DOING IT. ONE OF THE THINGS AS YOU'RE
- 31:44SAYING THAT, IT COMES TO MY MIND. WE'RE ENTERING PLANTING
- 31:48SEASON HERE IN NEBRASKA, RIGHT? WHERE FARMERS ARE GETTING READY
- 31:51TO PUT SEED IN THE GROUND. WE'RE GETTING READY TO PLANT OUR
- 31:53FLOWERS, DO ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DO. HOWEVER, THE SEED, LIKE
- 31:57THE CONFERENCE HERE IS THE SEED. YES. WHAT WE DO WITH THE SEED
- 32:03THOUGH, IF WE DON'T DO WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, IF
- 32:07WE DON'T ADD THE WATER, THE FERTILIZER, AND TEND TO THE
- 32:11PLANTS THAT ARE BEING PLANTED, GUESS WHAT, THEY'RE NOT GONNA
- 32:14SPRING UP, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BEAR FRUIT. AND SO IT IS THE
- 32:18CONTINUAL THING, AND IT IS US CHOOSING TO KEEP OUR EYES ON THE
- 32:23LORD. WHEN I WROTE THE SONG, GOD OF MIRACLES, MANY OF YOU GUYS
- 32:27KNOW THAT SONG. WE SING, WE'RE BELIEVING FOR MIGHTY THINGS,
- 32:30WE'RE BELIEVING FOR MIRACLES, BUT THE BRIDGE OF THAT SONG
- 32:34SAYS, "HOW MIGHTY, HOW MARVELOUS YOU ARE, MIRACULOUS, HOW GREAT."
- 32:39BECAUSE AGAIN, WE CAN SAY WE'RE BELIEVING, BUT IF WE DON'T KNOW
- 32:44THE GOD THAT IS MORE THAN ENOUGH, IF WE DON'T KNOW THE
- 32:48CHARACTER OF WHO GOD IS, WE CAN SAY WE'RE BELIEVING ALL DAY
- 32:52LONG. NOTHING IS GONNA HAPPEN UNTIL WE SEE THE GOD THAT SITS
- 32:55UPON THE THRONE, AND WE KNOW THAT HE HEARS WHEN WE CALL.
- 33:00AMEN. NICOLE, YOU HAD SOMETHING. YES, AND AMEN. YOU KNOW, I WANNA
- 33:04SAY THIS TOO, IS THAT FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS, IT'S REALLY BEEN
- 33:07HEAVY ON MY HEART TO MAKE SURE THAT I PUT INTO SONG THE WORDS
- 33:12OF THE WORD, TO PUT THE PSALMS. AND SO THAT'S MY LOVE. AND SO I
- 33:17WANNA THANK YOU TOO, LAST YEAR, FOR LAST YEAR WHEN YOU GAVE THE
- 33:20WORD TO ME AND I JUST BROKE A SISTER DOWN WITH AN UGLY CRY.
- 33:24BUT ANYWAY, BUT NO, BUT PART OF THE WORD THAT THE LORD USED YOU
- 33:28TO GIVE TO ME WAS ABOUT SONGWRITING AND PRETTY MUCH
- 33:31STIRRING BACK UP THAT GIFT THAT HAD KIND OF BEEN PUT TO THE SIDE
- 33:34A LITTLE BIT. AND SO OVER THE PAST YEAR, I FOUND MYSELF
- 33:38WORKING ON SONGS AND WRITING MORE SONGS WHEN EVEN AT THE TIME
- 33:44YOU GAVE THE WORD, I DIDN'T SEE IT AS, NOT THAT I DIDN'T SEE IT
- 33:47AS A POSSIBILITY, IT WASN'T SOMETHING IN THE FOREFRONT OF MY
- 33:50MIND. AND SO THAT WAS A PART OF THE WORD. I BELIEVE THE LORD
- 33:53USED THAT TO DROP IT AS A SEED TO BEGIN TO GROW AGAIN IN ME.
- 33:56BUT MY POINT ALSO IS THAT I LOVE IT BECAUSE I MEAN, WE SING SONGS
- 34:00ALL THE TIME. YOU KNOW, YOU GO THROUGH A STORE, YOU FIND
- 34:02YOURSELF SINGING SOMETHING AND SOMETIMES YOU FIND YOURSELF
- 34:05SINGING NONSENSE BECAUSE THE MELODY WAS SO CATCHY AND YOU'RE
- 34:08LIKE, "OH, WHAT AM I SINGING?" AND I THOUGHT, "HOW MUCH BETTER
- 34:11IS IT THEN IF BEFORE I KNOW IT, I'M WAKING UP AND I'M SINGING
- 34:14THE WORD OR IT'S SINGING TO ME OR I'M WALKING THROUGH THE STORE
- 34:17AND SO I WANT TO PUT IT TO MUSIC AND TO MELODY THAT'S CATCHY
- 34:21ENOUGH THAT IT'S KID TESTED MOTHER APPROVED. YOU KNOW WHAT
- 34:26I'M SAYING? SO THAT'S MY AIM AND THAT'S MY GOAL AND SO THE SONGS
- 34:29WE'VE BEEN SINGING TODAY AND LAST NIGHT A LOT OF THESE SONGS
- 34:33ARE STRAIGHT FROM THE WORD. YOU KNOW YOU ALL KNOW I'VE DONE
- 34:35PSALM 91 THE WHOLE CHAPTER. YOU GOT FIVE SONGS AND YOU SING IT,
- 34:41YOU SING THE WHOLE CHAPTER. AND IF YOU MEMORIZE THE SONGS,
- 34:44YOU'VE MEMORIZED THE CHAPTER AND THE SAME WITH PSALM 139 THAT
- 34:48WE'RE WORKING TO PUT OUT. BUT I'M JUST SAYING, SO MY HEART IS
- 34:52FOR US TO USE IT BECAUSE IF WE DON'T HAVE THE WORD, LIKE YOU
- 34:55WERE SAYING, CHRISTY, WE'RE JUST SAYING, "THUS SAITH ME," OR YOU
- 34:59JUST MAKING UP WORDS TO TELL THE DEVIL TO GET BEHIND YOU. AND
- 35:02HE'S NOT OBLIGATED TO YOUR WORDS. HE'S NOT. HE'S OBLIGATED
- 35:05TO THE WORD. SO IF WE DON'T KNOW THE WORD, WE DON'T HAVE THE
- 35:09POWER TO FIGHT AND TO WIN. SO WE NEED THE WORD. SO GOOD. WISHING
- 35:13IS NOT FAITH. NO. IT'S NOT. I LIKE THAT. NO, IT ISN'T. IT'S
- 35:17NOT. AND INSULTS ALONE WON'T MAKE THE DEVIL LEAVE. I CAN
- 35:21INSULT HIM ALL DAY LONG, BUT IF I'M NOT USING THE WORD OF GOD,
- 35:25IT IS WRITTEN, EVEN AS CHRIST SAID, IT IS WRITTEN, THERE'S NO
- 35:28AUTHORITY IN MAKING HIM LEAVE. SO I NEED THE WORD AND I NEED TO
- 35:32KNOW THE WORD IN ORDER TO USE THE WORD IN ORDER TO WIELD THE
- 35:34SWORD THAT HE GAVE US. SO THAT'S MY TWO CENTS. ALL RIGHT. OH, I
- 35:38LOVE THAT. SO JUST LET'S TALK ABOUT, LADIES, HOW DO WE DEAL
- 35:45WITH THIS? THIS THING CALLED OUR THOUGHTS THAT LIKE TO JUST COME.
- 35:52SOMETIMES IT'S LIKE A FIRE HOSE. THESE THOUGHTS JUST KEEP COMING
- 35:56AND COMING AND COMING. AND I THINK SOMETIMES, I DON'T KNOW, I
- 35:59FEEL LIKE WOMEN TEND TO BE EVEN MORE SUSCEPTIBLE. MAYBE IT'S
- 36:04'CAUSE WE'RE MORE EMOTIONAL, I DON'T KNOW. I'M NOT SAYING THE
- 36:06GUYS AREN'T, BUT TO DEAL WITH THESE THOUGHTS THAT WON'T SEEM
- 36:10TO TURN OFF. HOW MANY OF YOU EVER BEEN THERE? WHERE IT JUST,
- 36:13YOU SEEM LIKE IT'S NOT GONNA SHUT DOWN. AND I THINK THAT'S
- 36:16WHY THE DEVIL USES THE NIGHT TERROR, THAT 3 A.M. TIME. IN
- 36:20FACT, I HEARD SOMEBODY SAY THERE'S A, IT'S KIND OF THAT
- 36:24HOUR THAT THE DEMONIC IS MOST ACTIVE, AND IT'S USUALLY THAT
- 36:28BETWEEN TWO AND FOUR. THAT'S WHEN THE OCCULT IS THE MOST
- 36:33ACTIVE, IS THAT 2 A.M. TO 4 A.M. THEY CALL IT THE WITCHING HOUR.
- 36:38THE WITCHING HOUR. IT'S A REAL THING, AND SO THAT'S THE DEMONIC
- 36:43TIME, AND SO WHAT CAN WE DO TO COMBAT THESE THINGS THAT LIKE TO
- 36:49HIT US, EVEN ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT, BUT ANY TIME OF THE DAY,
- 36:52YOU KNOW, AND I WILL SAY, NOT THAT I WANNA JUST CAMP ON THE
- 36:56NIGHT HOUR, THAT WITCHING HOUR, BUT IT IS IMPORTANT. MY MOTHER
- 37:01USED TO SAY YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW, YOU'D BE STRESSED OUT, GO TO
- 37:05BED, WORKED UP AT NIGHT, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL HAVE EVER
- 37:08HAD THIS HAPPEN. YOU'LL THINK, "WELL, THIS COULD HAPPEN, "AND
- 37:10THAT COULD HAPPEN." I DON'T KNOW. YOUR MIND RACES ON LIKE
- 37:13EIGHT DIFFERENT THINGS THAT COULD GO WRONG, TO YOUR POINT,
- 37:16AND MOST OF THEM DON'T EVER HAPPEN. BUT THEN YOU GET UP IN
- 37:19THE MORNING AND GO, "OH NO, THAT WASN'T EVEN A PROBLEM." IT'S
- 37:21JUST DEMONIC. BUT WHAT DO WE DO TO DEAL WITH OUR HEAD? LET'S
- 37:25TALK ABOUT THAT. TALK ABOUT THAT. GO AHEAD, KAREN. GOD GAVE
- 37:33US SOMETHING THAT IS A PRECIOUS GIFT. IT IS THE GIFT OF CHOICE.
- 37:37SO WE CHOOSE WHAT WE THINK ABOUT. THAT IS UP TO US. WE
- 37:44CHOOSE WHEN WE PICK UP THAT PHONE AND STAY ON PINTEREST FOR
- 37:47HOURS. WE CHOOSE WHEN WE'RE ON FACEBOOK FOR HOURS. THAT'S OUR
- 37:51CHOICE. WE CAN CHOOSE TO STAY THERE. AND I LEARNED SOMETHING
- 37:54IN MY LIFE, I'M SURE YOU HAVE TOO, THAT WHAT YOU MEDITATE ON
- 37:57IS WHAT YOU BELIEVE. BECAUSE I KEPT HEARING THE LORD TELLING ME
- 38:00ABOUT, "BELIEVE THE WORD, KAREN, BELIEVE THE WORD." AND THEN I
- 38:02WAS LIKE, "WELL, LORD, EVIDENTLY I'M NOT BECAUSE YOU KEEP TELLING
- 38:05ME TO DO IT. SO EVIDENTLY I'M NOT DOING IT BECAUSE YOU KEEP
- 38:08SAYING, 'BELIEVE, KAREN.'" SO I SAID TO THE LORD, "HOW DO I
- 38:10BELIEVE?" AND HE SAID, "WHAT YOU MEDITATE ON IS WHAT YOU
- 38:13BELIEVE." SO WHAT YOU MEDITATE ON IS YOUR CHOICE. IT'S MY
- 38:16CHOICE, IT'S YOUR CHOICE. WE CHOOSE WHAT WE MEDITATE ON. SO
- 38:20IF WE MEDITATE ON FACEBOOK, THEN WE'RE GOING TO BELIEVE ALL THAT
- 38:24GARBAGE-Y JUNK OF FACEBOOK. IT'S NOT GOING TO FEED OUR SPIRIT.
- 38:27IT'S NOT GOING TO STRENGTHEN OUR SPIRIT ONE IOTA. WE'RE NOT
- 38:30GOING TO BE CHANGED. WE'RE GOING TO BE DRAINED AND MIND NUMB.
- 38:35YES. AND SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE TARGET, TO THE ARROWS OF THE
- 38:40ENEMY. WHEN OUR MIND GETS NUMB, WE ARE JUST SUSCEPTIBLE TO
- 38:44ANYTHING HE WANTS TO THROW AT US. RIGHT? AND THAT IS ONE OF
- 38:47THE THINGS THE ENEMY IS DOING TO OUR GENERATION RIGHT NOW, IS TO
- 38:50KEEP US SO DISTRACTED THAT WE ARE UTTERLY SPIRITUALLY NUMB. WE
- 38:55CAN'T HEAR THINGS, FEEL THINGS. WE CAN'T EVEN PRAY ANYMORE
- 38:58BECAUSE WE'RE SO JUST DEAD OF SPIRIT. SO WE'VE GOT TO CHOOSE.
- 39:02I'M GOING TO TURN OFF FACEBOOK. I'M GOING TO TURN OFF THIS
- 39:05PINTEREST. I'M GOING TO TURN OFF INSTAGRAM AND I'M GOING TO GET
- 39:07IN THE WORD. THAT'S MY DECISION. I'M GOING TO DO IT. AND I'M
- 39:11GOING TO MAKE MY MIND THINK ABOUT THIS WORD. IT'S MY CHOICE
- 39:15AND THIS IS WHAT I CHOOSE TO DO. AND JUST PUT IT IN YOUR FACE AND
- 39:18THEN STAY THERE AND THINK ABOUT IT UNTIL YOU BELIEVE THAT MORE
- 39:22THAN WHAT YOU SEE. YOU BELIEVE THAT MORE THAN WHAT YOU BELIEVE,
- 39:26WHATEVER THE DEVIL'S TRYING TO TELL YOU. SO IT'S THE CHOICE I
- 39:29MAKE, I'M GONNA DO IT. SAY IT IN JESUS' NAME, I'M GONNA DO IT.
- 39:32AMEN, I'M GONNA DO IT. MY CHOICE, MY CHOICE. SO KAREN, CAN
- 39:36I PIGGYBACK ON THAT? BECAUSE IN FACT, GOD HAS HAD ME ON THIS
- 39:41JOURNEY ABOUT HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS A HUGE, IT'S BECOME A HUGE
- 39:47DISTRACTION FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND IT IS BECOMING A LOT OF
- 39:51PEOPLE'S GOSPEL. AND SOME OF IT IS JUST ROOTED IN IDOLATRY, YOU
- 39:57KNOW, PREACHERS, I MEAN, SELFISM. IT'S ROOTED IN GOSSIP.
- 40:03IT'S ROOTED IN LIES AND HALF PERSPECTIVES. AND IT'S ROOTED
- 40:08AND IT'S, AND HONESTLY, IT'S TURNED THE BODY OF CHRIST INTO A
- 40:12FIGHTING MACHINE RATHER THAN PEOPLE THAT KNOW HOW TO WALK IN
- 40:16LOVE AND SELF-CONTROL. SO, IN FACT, I DID A WHOLE, NOW ALL OF
- 40:20YOU THAT WATCH LORD OF HOSTS ON FACEBOOK, YOU CAN WATCH US HERE,
- 40:23BUT GO TO OVTV. BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY, HANK AND I ARE ON A
- 40:28LITTLE BIT OF A CAMPAIGN TO KEEP FACEBOOK, OR NOT JUST FACEBOOK,
- 40:32ALL SOCIAL MEDIA, BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE SO MANY OF THESE PLATFORMS
- 40:36TO KEEP IT HOLY, BUT IT CANNOT BECOME OUR LIFE. AND I'LL BE
- 40:42HONEST WITH YOU, AND I JUST WANT TO ATTEST TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING,
- 40:46I MADE A DECISION TO BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA LESS. NOT OPENING
- 40:51THE APPS, NOT LOOKING, NOT POSTING, AND I LIKE TO, I'M ALL
- 40:55FOR POSTING FUN THINGS. I LOVE TO COOK AND POST PICTURES AND DO
- 41:01FUN THINGS LIKE THAT. WE LOVE TO POST THE BIBLE, RIGHT? BUT WE'RE
- 41:04ALL SUSCEPTIBLE TO WHAT THOSE PLATFORMS SUGGEST TO YOU.
- 41:09THERE'S PLENTY OF THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN SUGGESTED TO ME I WISH
- 41:11I DIDN'T SEE. AND THERE'S PLENTY OF THINGS, AND THE OTHER DEMONIC
- 41:16PART OF SOCIAL MEDIA IS THE SCROLL. YOU KNOW, IT'S A
- 41:21DANGEROUS PLACE TO BE. AND SO, I MADE A DECISION JUST AS LAST
- 41:27YEAR THAT I WOULD SPEND A LOT LESS TIME OPENING ANY SOCIAL
- 41:31PLATFORM. AND THERE ARE, I MAKE SURE OF IT, THAT THERE ARE DAYS,
- 41:36AND YOU KNOW, ALL OF US WHO ARE IN THE PUBLIC MINISTRY KNOW YOU
- 41:39DON'T LIKE TO READ EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU ANYWAY. AND, BUT THE
- 41:44FACT IS, MY PEACE LEVEL WENT HIGHER. AND JUST READING ABOUT
- 41:52OURSELVES. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT. I'M JUST, OUR BRAINS ARE
- 41:56NOT MADE TO READ EVERY BAD STORY, EVERY INFIGHTING IN THE
- 42:01BODY OF CHRIST. COME ON, THAT STUFF'S GOING TO END. EVERY
- 42:05LITTLE TRAGIC THING, EVERY ACCIDENT, FIRE ISSUE, FALLEN
- 42:10PREACHER, COME ON SOMEBODY. AND I CHOSE, I DECISION THAT I
- 42:17NEEDED NOT TO BE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON LIKE
- 42:20THAT. AND YOU KNOW WHAT I FOUND OUT? MY PEACE, MY COMFORT, MY
- 42:25TRUST IN GOD, JUST IN THAT DECISION ALONE. FIRST OF ALL, IT
- 42:30WASN'T A DISTRACTION, BUT JUST ELIMINATING THAT ONE
- 42:34INTERFERENCE ALLOWED ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHUT MY MIND OFF
- 42:40FROM EVERYTHING GOING ON, THAT CIRCUS THAT'S OUT THERE. I
- 42:44BELIEVE THE DEVIL HAS USED, I MEAN, LOOK WHAT IT'S DOING TO
- 42:48THE YOUNG GENERATION RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE CONFUSED, THEY'RE GENDER
- 42:52CONFUSED, THEY DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE, THEIR IDENTITY IS
- 42:55UPSIDE DOWN, THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO, THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW,
- 42:59BECAUSE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, THE NAME OF THEIR GOD. I DO BELIEVE
- 43:04YOU'RE ONTO A THING, THAT SOCIAL MEDIA HAS KEPT OUR MIND LIKE
- 43:09THIS. IT'S LIKE THIS LOTTO MACHINE THING THAT'S JUST, AND
- 43:13WE CAN'T... AND THE DEVIL WILL TARGET YOU WITH STORIES. THAT HE
- 43:19KNOWS YOU LIKE. WELL, THAT HE KNOWS WILL PUT YOU IN FEAR. OH
- 43:23YEAH, YEAH. BECAUSE I PROMISE YOU NOT, CAN I TELL ON MYSELF?
- 43:26OF COURSE. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS CONFESS YOUR FAULTS. I'VE
- 43:29GOT A DAUGHTER THAT'S GETTING READY TO DRIVE. AND I'M GONNA BE
- 43:34REAL. I'VE HAD SOME ANXIOUS MOMENTS. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE
- 43:39SENDING YOUR PRECIOUS BABY, IT'S OUT TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE. AND
- 43:45YOU KNOW, AND ON TOP OF THAT, PASTOR BRENDA AND I WENT THROUGH
- 43:48A CAR WRECK, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THEN EVERYBODY OUT THERE, I'M
- 43:50LIKE, NOBODY KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE. I CAN'T, I DON'T WANNA SEND MY
- 43:53BABY OUT 'CAUSE ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE DRIVING, THEY DRIVE CRAZY.
- 43:56AND THEN I PROMISE YOU, THE MINUTE I STARTED TO ENTERTAIN
- 43:59THAT EVERYTHING ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA BEGAN TO BE THE SEX
- 44:06TRAFFICKING TARGETING AND ALL OF THE THINGS AND THOSE WERE COMING
- 44:10TO MY FEET. IT'S NOT THAT I ASKED FOR THEM TO BE THERE. I
- 44:12DIDN'T ASK FOR THEM, I DIDN'T EVEN LOOK THEM UP. THEY STARTED
- 44:15COMING INTO MY FEET BECAUSE IT WAS A TARGET FROM THE DEVIL. AND
- 44:19THAT'S WHERE WE DO, I AGREE, WE HAVE TO TURN SOME OF THOSE
- 44:23THINGS OFF BECAUSE THE DEVIL WILL USE THAT MEDIUM TO KEEP US
- 44:27OUT OF FAITH, TO KEEP US IN FEAR, SO THAT THAT'S ALL THAT WE
- 44:30SEE. I REMEMBER WHEN PASTOR, WITH THE 2020 PROPHECIES, AND IT
- 44:36DID NOT LOOK LIKE HIS WORD WAS GONNA COME TO PASS, AND
- 44:39EVERYTHING WAS TO THE CONTRARY, AND I MEAN, SOCIAL MEDIA WAS
- 44:42BLOWING UP, AND I MEAN, THEY WERE CENSORING SOCIAL MEDIA. YOU
- 44:45COULDN'T EVEN SAY, "LET THE EARTH BE FILLED WITH THE GLORY
- 44:48OF GOD," AND YOUR FACEBOOK WOULD TARGET YOUR POST AND PULL IT
- 44:51DOWN, AND I MEAN, IT WAS NASTY STUFF. AND I REMEMBER, YOU KNOW,
- 44:55ALL THE NEWS OUTLETS, NOBODY WAS IN AGREEMENT WITH THE WORD OF
- 44:58THE LORD. AND I FINALLY, I WAS LIKE, I TURNED OFF THE NEWS FOR
- 45:03A WHOLE YEAR. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I WENT BACK AND I WAS LIKE, NO,
- 45:06GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT? I KNOW THE CHARACTER OF THE PROPHET THAT
- 45:09YOU PUT IN THIS HOUSE. I'VE SEEN THE TRACK RECORD. SO WHILE IT
- 45:12DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THIS, I TURNED ALL OF THAT OFF. I KEPT LOOKING
- 45:15AT THE LORD. AND SUDDENLY WE JUST KNEW THAT WE JUST KNEW IT
- 45:18DIDN'T MATTER WHAT ANYBODY SAID. IT DIDN'T MATTER IF THEY SAID
- 45:21ALL THE PROPHETS MISSED IT. WE FOUND OUT, CANDY, THEY DIDN'T
- 45:24MISS IT. YOUR HUSBAND DIDN'T MISS IT. THEY WERE RIGHT ON.
- 45:29IT'S JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, SOMETIMES TO THE POINT THAT YOU
- 45:32SAID, HE DIDN'T DO IT IN THE TIMELINE, WE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS
- 45:34GOING TO DO IT. BUT BOY, HE SURE EXPOSED SOME THINGS ALONG THE
- 45:36WAY, DIDN'T HE? WELL, BUT YEAH, AND I AGREE. AND I JUST THANK
- 45:41YOU FOR BRINGING UP THE INTERNET, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE
- 45:45IT HAS BEEN A PRIMARY TOOL TO JUST SATURATE OUR BRAINS WITH
- 45:51THE WRONG, AND IT'S KEEPING US, IT'S BECOME MORE OF A
- 45:55DISTRACTION THAN A HELP. AND SO I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE ANYBODY
- 46:01HERE, NOW IF YOU'RE COMING SPECIFICALLY TO TURN ON THE
- 46:05STREAM HERE, MANY OF YOU ARE E-MEMBERS THAT ARE OUT THERE,
- 46:09AND E-MEMBERS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE THING. BUT MY KEY IS, IS I
- 46:15HAVE BECOME WHERE I'M JUST, I'M NOT, I DON'T OPEN INSTAGRAM. I
- 46:20MEAN, IT'S NO SURPRISE. OUR TEAM POSTS TO MY PAGE. I DON'T EVEN
- 46:23DO IT. I JUST DON'T. AND HOLLY DOES A GREAT JOB. ALL OF HER
- 46:28TEAM, THEY'RE SO GOOD. AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO SAY THAT. I AM.
- 46:32I'M NOT. IF IT'S A COOKING PICTURE. IF IT'S A COOKING
- 46:35PICTURE, WELL, HOLLY STILL HAD TO HELP ME PUT IT OUT. BUT MY
- 46:38POINT IS, IS I WAS ABLE TO GET MY OWN THOUGHTS IN ORDER AND MY
- 46:43PEACE BACK BY JUST TURNING OFF THE INTERNET. AND CAN I
- 46:47ENCOURAGE ONE MORE THING, AND I WANT THESE LADIES TO TALK. DON'T
- 46:51JUST LET YOUR BIBLE BE ON A DEVICE. GET A GOOD OLD FASHIONED
- 46:56BOOK BACK OUT. OPEN A BOOK, PUT YOUR PHONE IN THE OTHER ROOM.
- 47:01AND YOU KNOW, MY KIDS GO CRAZY. THEY'RE LIKE, MOM, I CAN'T GET
- 47:04AHOLD OF YOU. I'M LIKE, I KNOW, I LEFT MY PHONE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
- 47:07PURPOSEFULLY, I JUST SOMETIMES NEED THAT. AND SO I THINK THAT
- 47:11WAS SO, YES, I THINK THAT WAS SO GOOD THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT OUT
- 47:15BECAUSE IT IS A KEY ISSUE WHY WE CAN'T CONTROL WHAT WE THINK.
- 47:20IT'S HUGE. ANYBODY ELSE? IT IS. I WOULD LOVE TO PIGGYBACK ON
- 47:24THAT TOO, BECAUSE I BELIEVE, UM, WELL, I'LL TELL YOU THIS. I WAS
- 47:27READING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IT WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW THE
- 47:31CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THINK IT WAS WHEN THE ASSYRIANS CAME AND TOOK
- 47:34OVER AND IN SAMARIA AND THEY WORSHIP GOD, BUT THEY STILL
- 47:38SERVED IDOLS. AND WHEN I READ THAT IT WAS LIKE INSTANTLY I
- 47:42THOUGHT ABOUT OUR PHONES AND HOW MANY TIMES DO WE GO TO THAT
- 47:47PHONE FOR THE ANSWER? HOW MANY TIMES DO WE FORGET TO GO TO THE
- 47:51LORD AND WE'RE LIKE, WELL, LET ME JUST SCROLL AND FIND IT
- 47:53MYSELF HOW MANY TIMES DO WE EAT FROM THE TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE
- 47:57OF GOOD AND EVIL? YOU BETTER BREATHE. HOW MANY TIMES? AND
- 48:01I'VE BEEN GUILTY MYSELF. SO I'M NOT JUST TALKING TO YOU. AND SO
- 48:05THE LORD HAS BEEN CHALLENGING ME AND IMPRESSING ON ME, EVEN LIKE,
- 48:10YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND NOW THE TREE OF
- 48:14THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL IS SAYING, EAT ME FIRST. CHECK
- 48:18ME FIRST, COME HERE FIRST. AND SO THE LORD HAS BEEN LIKE, NO,
- 48:23SEEK ME FIRST. AT NIGHT BEFORE I GO TO BED, FOR ME, THIS IS WHAT
- 48:28HE'S BEEN CHALLENGING ME TO DO. I PUT MY PHONE IN AIRPLANE MODE,
- 48:32PUSH IT A LITTLE BIT AWAY FROM ME. AND IN THE MORNING, THE ONLY
- 48:35THING I'M LOOKING AT IT FOR IS TO, WHAT TIME IS IT? AND NOW I'M
- 48:39NOT CHECKING ANYTHING YET UNTIL I TALK WITH MY FATHER, TILL I'VE
- 48:43SPENT TIME WITH HIM, TILL I SEEK HIM FIRST. HIS KINGDOM, HIS
- 48:46RIGHT WAY OF DOING THINGS, HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND THEN AT THE
- 48:50APPROPRIATE TIME, THEN NOW I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A LITTLE MORE
- 48:53DISCIPLINE IN MY FLESH TO LOOK AT IT WITHOUT IT BEING THE
- 48:58UNHOLY DISTRACTION FOR THE REST OF THE DAY. BECAUSE IT CAN BE. I
- 49:01MEAN, ALL OF US, WE KNOW, YOU CAN START LOOKING AT IT AND IT'S
- 49:04SOMETHING GOOD. THAT FRUIT IS GOOD, BUT IT'S SPIKED WITH SOME
- 49:09EVIL, BUT YOU DON'T TASTE THE EVIL YET. AND BEFORE YOU KNOW
- 49:12IT, 15 MINUTES HAS TURNED INTO 30. 30 HAS TURNED INTO AN HOUR.
- 49:17AN HOUR HAS TURNED INTO TWO. TWO HAS TURNED INTO THREE. AND
- 49:21BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU'VE WASTED ALL THE TIME THAT GOD
- 49:23COULD HAVE BEEN USING US TO DO SOMETHING GOOD FOR THE KINGDOM.
- 49:27AND SO FOR ME, I JUST FEEL LIKE WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL LEST IT
- 49:31BECOMES OUR NEW IDOL. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? LIKE, WE DON'T
- 49:34HAVE... AND I THINK IF WE WERE TO SHOW OUR DEVICES TO THE MEN
- 49:39AND WOMEN OF OLD BACK IN THE BIBLE, WOULD THEY NOT SAY IT WAS
- 49:44SORCERY? I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT IS. I'M JUST SAYING, BUT WOULD
- 49:46THEY NOT THINK OF IT IN THAT WAY? ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO. NO,
- 49:49WOULD THEY NOT THINK OF IT? AND I LIKE IT. I THINK, BUT MY POINT
- 49:52IS, MY POINT, I THINK WE ARE CALLED TO USE IT WITHOUT IT
- 49:55USING US. WHEN IT USES US, IT'S IMPROPER. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
- 50:00SAYING? BUT WHEN WE USE IT FOR THE RIGHT WAY AND IN THE RIGHT,
- 50:03WITH THE RIGHT DISCIPLINE, THEN WE CAN USE IT AS A TOOL.
- 50:07OTHERWISE IT'S USING US AND WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T WORSHIP GOD AND
- 50:11SERVE IDOLS. WE JUST CAN'T DO BOTH. WE CAN'T DO THAT. KAREN'S
- 50:14GOT HER MIC IN HER HAND. WELL, I JUST COULDN'T HELP IT WHEN SHE
- 50:17SAID THAT TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL THING. I MEAN,
- 50:20MAYBE THERE'S A REASON THAT APPLE'S ON THE BACK OF THAT
- 50:23PHONE WITH A BITE ON IT. I MEAN, I'M JUST WONDERING. I'M JUST, I
- 50:29JUST WONDER. DON'T YOU WONDER? COME ON. I DON'T KNOW, BUT YOU
- 50:34KNOW, IT'S WEIRD BECAUSE THERE'S NO OTHER GENERATION EVER SINCE
- 50:38ADAM THAT'S DEALT WITH THIS IDOL, THAT'S DEALT WITH THIS
- 50:42THING THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. NO OTHER GENERATION HAS BEEN
- 50:44DEALING WITH THIS BUT US. AND IT'S JUST BEEN THE LAST FEW
- 50:48YEARS. AND IT'S WEIRD THAT THIS AI VOICE IS GETTING
- 50:51LOUDER AND LOUDER. AND JESUS SAID IN JOHN 10, "MY SHEEP KNOW
- 50:54MY VOICE AND A STRANGER'S VOICE THEY WON'T FOLLOW." BUT HE SAYS,
- 50:57"BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THE STRANGER'S VOICE." BUT WE'VE
- 51:00BECOME SO FAMILIAR WITH THE STRANGER'S VOICE THAT IT'S THE
- 51:03FATHER'S VOICE THAT'S STRANGE AND THE STRANGER'S VOICE THAT'S
- 51:07COMMON. AND IT'S WEIRD. I WAS THINKING THE OTHER DAY ABOUT AI,
- 51:11AND I DON'T KNOW, I AM NO EXPERT ON THIS, BUT DON'T YOU FIND IT
- 51:14FASCINATING THAT THAT VOICE OF AI IS GETTING LOUDER AND LOUDER
- 51:19AND WE ARE BECOMING MORE AND MORE DEPENDENT ON THAT VOICE.
- 51:22AND IT'S REALLY JUST THE CULMINATION OF ALL THE KNOWLEDGE
- 51:26OF MEN. IF YOU WERE TO COMBINE ALL THE KNOWLEDGE OF MEN THAT'S
- 51:33EVER AND THEY ARE PUTTING IT INTO THAT DEVICE AND THAT THING
- 51:38SPITS OUT THE KNOWLEDGE OF MEN, WHICH IS BASICALLY BACK TO THE
- 51:42TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL. AND I DO THINK IT IS A
- 51:44SOURCE OF OUR FEAR. IT'S FEEDING FEAR. IT'S FEEDING ANXIETY. SO
- 51:50OUR CHILDREN ARE GRIPPED WITH ANXIETY. OUR CHILDREN ARE
- 51:52GRIPPED WITH SUICIDE AND CONFUSION. AND SO ARE WE
- 51:56BECAUSE WE'RE FEASTING ON THIS MESS. ANYWAY, JUST A
- 51:59THOUGHT. YOU GOT IT GOING NOW. WE'RE IN A SNOWBALL
- 52:03EFFECT BECAUSE NOT ONLY IS IT FEEDING THIS CONFUSION,
- 52:09THESE DEVICES, THEY'RE ALSO IMPACTING JUST THE
- 52:16GENERAL WAY THAT WE VIEW GOD. WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, I SEE MEMES
- 52:23SOMETIMES, AND THEY SOUND GOOD. THEY PAINT A PICTURE OF GOD.
- 52:30IT'S LIKE YOU SAID, WE SING CAN SING NONSENSE 'CAUSE THE TUNE IS
- 52:32CATCHY. WE DO THE SAME THING ON OUR PHONES. AND THERE'S SOME OF
- 52:36THEM ARE NOT BIBLICAL. THEY'RE NOT BIBLICAL. NOW I DON'T MEAN
- 52:40TO, YOU KNOW, IN LORD OF HOSTS WE'RE PRETTY SEMI-BOLD HERE, BUT
- 52:44I WILL TELL YOU, THIS JESUS, HE GETS US MOVEMENT THAT'S OUT,
- 52:50THAT IS MAKING JESUS OUT TO BE JUST THIS SOCIAL PHILANTHROPIST,
- 52:56THAT EVERYTHING THAT HUMANITY DOES, JESUS JUST ADAPTS TO IT.
- 53:03YEAH, YEAH. THAT IS NOT THE GOD OF THE BIBLE. THAT'S RIGHT.
- 53:06JESUS' VERY FIRST SERMON, THIS IS NOT WHAT YOU'LL SEE ON
- 53:10SOCIAL. JESUS' VERY FIRST SERMON IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW WAS,
- 53:16"REPENT, FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND." IN OTHER
- 53:20WORDS, TURN FROM WHERE YOU ARE. AND I THINK SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE
- 53:26INTERNET IS TEACHING US THE VERY OPPOSITE. THAT GOD'S GOT TO
- 53:30SOMEHOW ADAPT TO US. WE ARE IN A VICTIM, VICTIM CULTURE NOW.
- 53:37WE'RE IN A CULTURE THAT WANTS EVERYTHING ON ITS TERMS. AND
- 53:40THIS IS WHAT OUR PHONES ARE SATURATED WITH? IT IS. IT IS AN
- 53:44ANTI-BIBLICAL, ANTI-CHRIST. IT IS. NOW, I UNDERSTAND. YOU'VE
- 53:48GOT TO USE YOUR PHONE FOR YOUR ALARM CLOCK AND YOUR CALENDAR. I
- 53:51UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT THE OTHER AREA THAT I'M HIGHLY CONCERNED
- 53:55ABOUT THAT SOCIAL IS DOING, IT IS DESTROYING IN SOME MEASURES
- 53:59THE BODY OF CHRIST. YES. PASTOR AND I HAVE TALKED ON THIS MANY,
- 54:03MANY TIMES ABOUT THE DUMPSTER FIRE OF ARGUING, INFIGHTING IN
- 54:09THE CHURCH. THAT IS, I MEAN, PEOPLE, LET'S JUST SAY IT. CAN
- 54:14I, CAN WE, WE'RE JUST BEING HONEST HERE. GO AHEAD. PEOPLE
- 54:17SAY THINGS IN COMMENT SECTIONS, YOU WOULD OUT A LETTER AND A
- 54:23PIECE OF PAPER AND FOLD IT UP AND GO BUY A 20, WHAT ARE STAMPS
- 54:29NOW, 30, 40 CENTS, THAT YOU WOULD GO, SEE WE DON'T EVEN
- 54:33KNOW, THAT YOU WOULD GO FOLD UP AND PUT IN AN ENVELOPE AND SEND
- 54:38TO A PREACHER AND HIS MINISTRY. NOW WE CAN JUST HURL OUT ANY
- 54:43COMMENT, TAKE UP ANY STORY, AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, HALF
- 54:47THE STORIES ABOUT THE MINISTERS ON SOCIAL MEDIA ARE HALF-TRUTHS.
- 54:54THESE WATCHDOGS, OKAY, I'M GOING TO GET GOING NOW. YOU START IT.
- 54:58THESE WATCHDOG GROUPS OUT THERE THAT ARE OUT THERE TO JUST HONE
- 55:06IN ON SOMEONE'S MISFORTUNE, SOMEONE'S CHALLENGE, SOMEONE'S
- 55:10DIFFICULTY, AND TRY TO DESTROY THEIR NAME IN THE NAME OF QUOTE
- 55:15"PHARISAICAL RIGHTEOUSNESS" IS BEING FUELED ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND
- 55:20SOMEWHERE THE BODY OF CHRIST HAS TO STAND UP AND SAY NO JESUS
- 55:24SAID LOVE ONE ANOTHER, DEFEND ONE ANOTHER. GOD, GOD, YOU THINK
- 55:32ABOUT DAVID WOULD NOT EVEN PUBLISH THE DEATH OF SAUL. HE
- 55:37SAID LEST THE PHILISTINES REJOICE, LEST THEY REJOICE.
- 55:42SOCIAL MEDIA IS ALSO DESTROYING US, THE CHURCH. WHILE WORLDLY
- 55:47PEOPLE, PASTOR HANK SAID THERE WAS AN ISSUE AND YOU'VE HEARD
- 55:50HIM PREACH ABOUT IT, THOSE OF YOU THAT GO HERE. YEARS AGO HE
- 55:54PREACHED ABOUT SOME BIG ISSUE THAT WAS IN THE BODY OF CHRIST
- 55:58AND EVERYBODY HAD WANTED HIM TO COMMENT. AND HE SAID I WENT TO
- 56:02THE LORD. AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GOOD SO IT SEEMED FOR ME TO
- 56:09COMMENT, BUT I WENT TO GOD AND I SAID, "LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME
- 56:12TO SAY?" AND THE LORD SAID, "I DON'T WANT YOU TO SAY ANYTHING.
- 56:16I DIDN'T ASK YOU TO BE THE SPIRITUAL AMBULANCE TO EVERY
- 56:20TOPIC THAT COMES UP." AND HE SAID, "OKAY." AND SO PEOPLE
- 56:26PRESSED US. THEY WROTE TO THE MINISTRY. THEY CALLED. THEY
- 56:31SAID, "WHAT DOES PASTOR HANK SAY?" THEY PUT IT IN THE
- 56:33COMMENTS AND HE SAID, "THE LORD SAID, 'DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. I
- 56:37DON'T WANT YOU TO.'" AND AS IT TURNED OUT, HE SAID, "BECAUSE
- 56:43THE LORD SAID, 'IF YOU DO, IT'LL ONLY CREATE MORE DIVISION IN THE
- 56:47BODY OF CHRIST.'" BECAUSE WHAT'S HAPPENED NOW, THIS IS WHAT
- 56:50SOCIAL IS DONE, FOLKS. THIS IS WHY I BELIEVE, AND IT MAY SEEM
- 56:54LIKE WE'RE GOING ON A LITTLE BIT OF A RABBIT TRAIL, BUT I BELIEVE
- 56:58THIS IS A ROOT CAUSE. YOU OPENED SOMETHING, KAREN. AND SO HE
- 57:04SAID, "IT'S ONLY GOING TO WORSEN THE DUMPSTER FIRE, AND IT'S ONLY
- 57:09GOING TO MAKE IT MORE." BECAUSE HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENED NOW IN
- 57:13THE CHURCH. NOW IT'S, AND THERE'S AN OLD BAD PHRASE TO SAY
- 57:17IT, "YOU'RE DARNED IF YOU DO, AND YOU'RE DARNED IF YOU DON'T."
- 57:21NO MATTER WHAT WE SAY ANYMORE, AS BELIEVERS, AS PREACHERS, COME
- 57:26ON, YOU AS CHRISTIANS, YOU CAN PUT ANYTHING IN THE COMMENTS,
- 57:30ANYTHING. YOU COULD TRY TO QUOTE GOD, MAKE YOUR HEART HURT, AND
- 57:35SOMEBODY'S GOING TO COME AROUND WITH ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE AND
- 57:38SHOOT IT DOWN AND HIT IT, AND THEN LET'S JUST FORGET, LET'S
- 57:43NOT FORGET TO MENTION ALL OF THE TROLLS AND THE BOTS THAT ARE OUT
- 57:47THERE. SO, FOLKS, THERE IS SOMETHING, I GHOST. THERE IS A
- 57:53CAMPAIGN THAT GOD WANTS TO HAPPEN THAT WE NEED TO DO
- 57:58SOMETHING BETTER WHEN IT COMES TO THE HANDLING OF THE INTERNET.
- 58:01YOU MENTIONED IDOLATRY, SOCIAL FOLKS THAT'S FILLED WITH
- 58:06HALF-TRUTHS, AND THIS NEEDS TO BE A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE IN
- 58:11THE KINGDOM OF GOD IF WE WANT TO GET OUR PEACE BACK AND, TO YOUR
- 58:16POINT, OVERCOME FEAR AND ANXIETY. YOU MENTIONED AI, AND
- 58:21LET ME TELL YOU, I BELIEVE AI IS REALLY STRAIGHT FROM THE PIT OF
- 58:24HELL. AND I'LL TELL YOU WHY I THINK, I MEAN, IT CAN BE A TOOL
- 58:27IN SOME THINGS, I'M NOT SAYING, BUT REALITY IS, ANYMORE, PEOPLE
- 58:32AREN'T GETTING BEFORE THE LORD TO STIR UP THEIR OWN WELL OF
- 58:36ANOINTING. THEY'RE GOING TO AI TO HELP THEM FIGURE OUT HOW TO
- 58:39BE CREATIVE HERE. THEY'RE USING IT FOR SONGWRITING. THEY'RE
- 58:42USING IT FOR THEIR OWN WORDS. THEY'RE NOT LETTING THOSE THINGS
- 58:46FLOW OUT OF THE WELL OF ANOINTING THAT WE'VE DONE
- 58:48BECAUSE WE WANT IT RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T WANT TO SPEND TIME PRAYING
- 58:52IN THE HOLY GHOST, WAITING ON GOD, HEARING FROM THE VOICE OF
- 58:56GOD. NO, WE WANT TO GO TYPE IT INTO CHAT GPT AND IT'S GOING TO
- 58:59GIVE US A LIST OF ALL OF THE THINGS. AND SEE, THOSE KIND OF
- 59:02THINGS DON'T BUILD YOUR FAITH EITHER. IF WE DON'T LEARN TO TAP
- 59:04INTO THE ANOINTING THAT'S ON THE INSIDE OF US, WE WILL NOT BE
- 59:07PEOPLE OF FAITH. IF WE LET THE WORLD OR AI THAT HAS NO EMOTION,
- 59:12NO SOUL, IT DOESN'T HAVE AN ANOINTING ON IT. SO IF WE'RE
- 59:18ADDICTED TO AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WHERE ARE WE
- 59:21PULLING ON THE ANOINTING OF GOD TO KEEP US STRONG IN THE POWER
- 59:26OF HIS MIGHT? SO THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. THERE'S
- 59:30THESE THINGS, AND THEY CAN BE TOOLS, BUT OUR RELIANCE CANNOT
- 59:36BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA. IT CANNOT BE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. IT
- 59:39CAN'T BE ON CHAT GPT. LISTEN, IF YOU CAN'T SPEAK WITHOUT CHAT
- 59:43GPT, THEN I THINK WE SHOULD GO BACK AND TALK TO MOSES. MOSES
- 59:48WAS LIKE, "GOD, I STUTTER. I CAN'T STAND BEFORE THE PEOPLE."
- 59:51WE WANT, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING TOO, WE'RE
- 59:56LETTING SOCIAL MEDIA AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BECOME
- 1:00:01OUR PERSONA. IT'S BECOMING HOW WE SHOULD DRESS, HOW WE SHOULD
- 1:00:05BE, HOW WE SHOULD ACT. YOU KNOW, AND THIS WHOLE THING THAT WE'VE
- 1:00:10BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN FEAR, I'M REMINDED OF THE RON CANOLE SONG,
- 1:00:13"WHOSE REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE? WE SHALL BELIEVE THE REPORT OF
- 1:00:17THE LORD." YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HEAR THE REPORT OF THE LORD BY
- 1:00:20RELYING ON THIS DEVICE ALL OF THE TIME. AND AI, IT CAN SOUND
- 1:00:24ANOINTED. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT WAS THE RIGHT ANSWER. JUST
- 1:00:30BECAUSE IT SOUNDED GOOD IN YOUR EARS. MY GOODNESS, LADIES.
- 1:00:34CANDY, WHAT SAY YOU? WELL, I MEAN, YOU GUYS ARE BLOWING MY
- 1:00:38MIND. I THINK THIS IS AMAZING. KAREN STARTED IT. KAREN, IT'S
- 1:00:43YOUR FAULT. SHE JUST POKED THE BEAR, I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW.
- 1:00:50WELL, I WANNA GO BACK TO WHAT YOU GUYS WERE SAYING EARLIER
- 1:00:54BECAUSE IN 2026, JOB SAID THIS, HE SAID, "I HAVE MADE A COVENANT
- 1:01:02WITH MY EYES." AND SO IN 2026, THE THING THAT THE LORD SPOKE TO
- 1:01:09ME WAS TO MAKE A COVENANT WITH MY EYES THAT I WOULD NOT SCROLL
- 1:01:14MY PHONE, I WOULD NOT USE SOCIAL MEDIA UNTIL I HAD READ GOD'S
- 1:01:19WORD. AND SO FIRST THING IN THE MORNING, I GO GET MY COFFEE AND
- 1:01:24SIT WITH MY CHIHUAHUAS AND WE READ OUR BIBLE TOGETHER AND WE
- 1:01:28PRAY. SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, BUT I HAVE FOUND THAT MY MIND IS A LOT
- 1:01:37QUIETER THROUGH THE DAY. AND, YOU KNOW, YES, IT'S IMPORTANT TO
- 1:01:44TAKE EVERY THOUGHT INTO CAPTIVITY, THINK ON THESE
- 1:01:47THINGS, WHATEVER IS GOOD. AND IT'S WONDERFUL TO DO THAT. BUT
- 1:01:52WHAT IS IT MY GRANDMOTHER USED TO SAY ABOUT AN OUNCE OF
- 1:01:56PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN A POUND OF CURE. AND SO THE SMALL
- 1:02:04THINGS OF MEDITATING AND BEING STILL BEFORE GOD, I FIND THAT
- 1:02:12WHEN I STARTED MY DAY, AND I DID IT FOR YEARS, I STARTED MY DAY
- 1:02:17SCROLLING MY PHONE, AND I FOUND THAT MY MIND SCROLLED ALL DAY
- 1:02:22LONG. AND SO JUST FLIPPING ALL DAY LONG, BUT I FOUND THAT I
- 1:02:28COULD BRING EVERY THOUGHT INTO CAPTIVITY, AND THAT I COULD
- 1:02:33THINK ON THESE THINGS, BECAUSE I HAD ALREADY BEEN STILL BEFORE
- 1:02:39GOD. MY MIND WAS IN A STILLER PLACE. WHAT IS IT PSALM 1 SAID?
- 1:02:45"BLESSED IS THE MAN THAT WALKETH NOT IN THE COUNSEL OF THE
- 1:02:47UNGODLY, OR STANDETH IN THE WAY OF SINNERS, NOR SITTETH IN THE
- 1:02:50SEAT OF THE SCORNFUL." BUT HIS DELIGHT IS IN THE LAW OF THE
- 1:02:56LORD. AND IN HIS LAW DOES HE MEDITATE DAY AND NIGHT. AND HE
- 1:03:04SHALL BE LIKE A TREE PLANTED BY RIVERS OF WATER THAT BRINGETH
- 1:03:10FORTH HIS FRUIT IN HIS SEASON. AND SO WE AS BELIEVERS, NOT TO
- 1:03:17QUOTE MORE SCRIPTURE, BUT HEBREWS 10, PAUL WRITES THIS AND
- 1:03:23HE SAID, WE THINK PAUL, SAID, "I BESEECH YOU THEREFORE, BRETHREN,
- 1:03:30BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, THAT YOU PRESENT YOUR BODIES AS A LIVING
- 1:03:38SACRIFICE." AND SOMETIMES IT IS A SACRIFICE TO PUT GOD FIRST, TO
- 1:03:47TITHE YOUR MOURNING. AND SOME OF YOU GET UP SO EARLY TO GO TO
- 1:03:51WORK OR YOU HAVE RESPONSIBILITIES. BUT, AND SO
- 1:03:55MAYBE IT'S NOT THE FIRST THING, BUT WHEN WE PUT GOD FIRST AND
- 1:04:00MEDITATE ON HIS WORD, THEN WHEN TEMPTATIONS OF FEAR AND ANXIETY
- 1:04:07AND ALL THOSE THINGS COME, THEN IT'S MUCH EASIER TO LIVE IN
- 1:04:14PEACE AND TO BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY
- 1:04:20SUBMITTED OUR MINDS TO GOD. SO... CAN I THROW ONE OTHER
- 1:04:24THING OUT WHILE WE'RE ON THIS THING ABOUT THE INTERNET? WHAT
- 1:04:28COMES ALSO TO MY SPIRIT IS THE SPIRIT OF DECEPTION. I THINK WE
- 1:04:33STARTED ON IT A LITTLE BIT, BUT JESUS IN MATTHEW 24, HE TAUGHT
- 1:04:39ON THE END TIMES. AND A LOT OF TIMES WE FOCUS ON THE WARS, THE
- 1:04:43RUMORS OF WARS AND THOSE THINGS. BUT THREE TIMES IN THAT CHAPTER,
- 1:04:47HE EMPHASIZED THE PHRASE, "SEE THAT NO MAN DECEIVES YOU." THAT
- 1:04:52WAS THE KEY. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT
- 1:04:54WOULD EARMARK THE LAST DAYS WOULD BE DECEPTION. AND IT'S
- 1:04:59EASY TO SEE NOW THAT WE HAVE THESE THINGS, THAT THERE ARE
- 1:05:04DECEIVERS EN MASSE ONLINE. YOU KNOW, THE NEWS MEDIA USED TO BE,
- 1:05:11YOU KNOW, IT WOULD JUST, YOU KNOW, THEY USED TO SAY SMITH
- 1:05:14WIGGLESWORTH WOULDN'T ALLOW A NEWSPAPER IN HIS HOUSE BECAUSE
- 1:05:18HE WOULD SAY THE HEADLINES ARE GOING TO MISLEAD YOU. AND HE
- 1:05:22WOULDN'T ALLOW. AND SO THAT WAS THEN WHEN THEY ONLY HAD THE
- 1:05:28LOCAL PAPER. AND NOW I THOUGHT OF THAT AND I THOUGHT, WELL,
- 1:05:32LORD, OUR THUMB IS DOING THIS ALL DAY AND WE'RE GETTING ALL
- 1:05:38THESE STORIES. I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU, CAN I GIVE YOU A GOOD
- 1:05:40EXAMPLE? HOW MANY OF YOU WERE HERE WHEN PASTOR HANK A FEW
- 1:05:44WEEKS AGO, AND I'M NOT SAYING THIS FOR OUR OWN SELF-PITY, BUT
- 1:05:48I'M JUST SHOWING YOU AN EXAMPLE OF HOW DECEPTIVE THE INTERNET
- 1:05:51IS. AND HOW MANY OF YOU WERE HERE WHEN PASTOR HANK SAYS, I
- 1:05:55NEED HELP WITH THE TRAVEL FUND SO I CAN GO TO SOME OF THESE
- 1:05:58FLASH POINTS AND AVOID THE AIRPORTS BECAUSE I CAN'T GET
- 1:06:01THERE AND GET BACK ON SUNDAY TO PASS FOR YOU. I'M TELLING YOU,
- 1:06:06THE LIBERAL MEDIA HAD A HEYDAY WITH THAT. AND THERE WAS A QUOTE
- 1:06:10UNQUOTE CHRISTIAN OUTLET, WHO SAID, PASTOR ASKED HIS
- 1:06:16CONGREGATION TO BUY HIM AN AIRPLANE.
- 1:06:18(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:06:22WELL, THAT IS NOT EVEN REMOTELY WHAT IT WAS. NOW, THEY NEVER
- 1:06:25SAID THAT IN THE ARTICLE. AND IT HIT ME, THEY NEVER SAID IT IN
- 1:06:29THE ARTICLE, THEY JUST SAID IT IN THE HEADLINE. AND HERE'S WHAT
- 1:06:32HIT ME. MOST OF THESE HEADLINES, AND I'M JUST USING THAT ONE AS
- 1:06:37AN EXAMPLE, WE DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY. YOU KNOW, THEY CAN
- 1:06:41BLOW IT OUT THEIR EAR FOR ALL I CARE. I'M LIKE, I DON'T CARE,
- 1:06:46YOU JUST SENT PASTOR HANK TO THREE FLASHPOINT TRIPS, I'M FINE
- 1:06:49WITH THAT. SO HE COULD BE A PROPHET TO THE NATION THAT'S IN
- 1:06:55FEAR. BUT IT DID HIT ME, HOW MANY OF THESE CLICKBAITS ARE
- 1:07:04THERE? THEY HAVE THEM WITH OUR HEALTH? AND HAVE YOU EVER JUST
- 1:07:10PAUSED TO GO PAST THE HEADLINE AND ACTUALLY READ THE ARTICLE?
- 1:07:14AND IT'S DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE HEADLINE SAYS. TOTALLY
- 1:07:18DIFFERENT. IT'S THIS CLICKBAIT. IT'S A DECEPTION. BECAUSE
- 1:07:22THEY'RE BANKING ON THE FACT YOU'LL NEVER READ THE FACTS.
- 1:07:26THEY'RE BANKING ON THE FACT YOU'LL JUST LOOK AT THE HEADLINE
- 1:07:28AND FORM A BELIEF AND MOVE ON. TAKE HEED, JESUS SAID, THAT NO
- 1:07:33MAN DECEIVES YOU. I ALSO THINK WHAT'S KEY NOW IS IN OUR MINDS
- 1:07:38TAKING CONTROL OF ANXIETIES AND FEARS AND TRUSTING GOD IS
- 1:07:44WARDING OFF THE SPIRIT OF DECEPTION. AND THIS IS A
- 1:07:48DECEIVED CULTURE. I THINK THAT'S WHY... YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY,
- 1:07:50JESUS KNEW BEFORE. THAT IN THE LAST DAYS, PERILOUS TIMES WILL
- 1:07:57COME. AND THIS CULTURE'S LACED WITH DECEPTION. I JUST WANNA ADD
- 1:08:02ONE QUICK LITTLE THING, AND I'LL GET IT RIGHT BACK TO YOU. BUT
- 1:08:06THIS IS SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW. THIS HAS COME UP IN MY
- 1:08:08SPIRIT, AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS. THAT THERE ARE BILLIONS OF
- 1:08:15DOLLARS SPENT ON PSYCHIATRISTS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS TO LEARN HOW
- 1:08:22TO WORK YOU. ALL RIGHT, AND SO, WATCH THIS. SOCIAL MEDIA WILL
- 1:08:29PLAY ALL THESE WARM PUPPY VIDEOS AND MAMA CATS NURSING BABY LAMBS
- 1:08:35AND ALL, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, TO GET YOU ALL WARM AND
- 1:08:39FUZZY. I LOVE THOSE PUPPY VIDEOS. BUT AFTER THREE OR FOUR
- 1:08:45OF THEM, THEN WILL COME THE ADVERTISEMENT OF THE THING YOU
- 1:08:49LIKE TO CLICK ON. BLOOMINGDALE'S, NORDSTROM,
- 1:08:53SEPHORA, ZARA, WHATEVER IT IS. AND YOUR GUARD IS DOWN. YOU'RE
- 1:08:59ALL WARM AND FUZZY, AND YOU'RE MORE APT TO BUY THEIR ARTICLES.
- 1:09:07YOU'RE GONNA SPEND MONEY THAT YOU DON'T HAVE BUYING SOMETHING
- 1:09:10YOU DON'T NEED TO IMPRESS PEOPLE THAT YOU DON'T LIKE.
- 1:09:13(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:09:16DID I SAY THAT?
- 1:09:17(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:09:28I AM, I AM, I AM SO SORRY. MY FILTER, I DON'T KNOW WHAT
- 1:09:37HAPPENED. YOU JUST READ EVERYBODY, THAT PSYCHOLOGY.
- 1:09:40SORRY. JUST TAPPED EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM. SORRY, BUT IT'S TRUE.
- 1:09:45SO JUST BEWARE, BE CAREFUL, OKAY? ON THE WARM AND FUZZY
- 1:09:49VIDEOS, HERE'S GONNA COME THE THING TO GET YOUR MONEY, OKAY?
- 1:09:55ALL RIGHT, SO HERE'S WHAT I WANNA DO. GUYS, LET'S TAKE ABOUT
- 1:10:0260 SECONDS EACH OF YOU, WOULD YOU? AND JUST PRAY FOR THE
- 1:10:06LADIES HERE. ARE WE STREAMING, ARE WE STREAMING? GIVE ME A
- 1:10:10THUMBS UP, I DON'T KNOW, ARE WE STREAMING? YES, PRAY FOR THE
- 1:10:13PEOPLE HERE AND ONLINE, JUST IN WHAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, TAKE 60
- 1:10:17SECONDS EACH OF YOU, WE'LL START WITH KAREN OR CANDY AND WE'LL
- 1:10:20WORK AROUND. FATHER, YOU'RE EVERYTHING TO US. YOU ARE OUR
- 1:10:26LIFE, OUR STRENGTH. LORD, WE ARE ASKING YOU AND I AM ASKING YOU
- 1:10:31FOR EACH ONE OF THESE WOMEN IN THIS ROOM AND ONLINE THAT YOU
- 1:10:36WOULD HELP US. OH, SPIRIT OF GOD, HELP HER. HELP US TO FOCUS.
- 1:10:42HELP US TO HEAR YOUR VOICE. FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU'RE
- 1:10:47GIVING US THE STRENGTH TO NOT WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING, BUT TO
- 1:10:51PRAY ABOUT EVERYTHING AND TO TRUST YOU FULLY WITH ALL OF OUR
- 1:10:56HEARTS. LORD, ANOINT THESE WOMEN, ANOINT THEIR MIND TO
- 1:10:59RECEIVE, ANOINT THEIR HEARTS TO BE CHANGED. IN JESUS NAME WE
- 1:11:03WANT TO FOLLOW YOU. AMEN. CANDY. SO, FATHER, IN THE NAME OF
- 1:11:08JESUS, LORD, I ASK YOU TO BE A SHIELD. THOU ART A SHIELD ABOUT
- 1:11:14US, OUR GLORY AND THE LIFTER OF OUR HEAD. AND SO, LORD, I ASK
- 1:11:19YOU TO BE A SHIELD ABOUT ALL THESE LADIES THAT ARE IN THE
- 1:11:23ROOM AND THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING ONLINE AND ALL OF THOSE EVEN
- 1:11:26THAT ARE CONNECTED WITH US AND WITH LORD OF HOSTS. FATHER, THAT
- 1:11:31WE WOULD NOT BE DECEIVED IN THE LAST DAYS. LORD, YOU SAID THAT
- 1:11:34EVEN THE VERY ELECT, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE. SO GOD, I PRAY TODAY
- 1:11:39THAT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE THAT WE WOULD BE DECEIVED. BUT LORD,
- 1:11:42THAT YOU WOULD GIVE US DISCERNMENT. LORD, THAT YOU
- 1:11:45WOULD ENLIGHTEN THE EYES OF OUR UNDERSTANDING, OH GOD, THAT WE
- 1:11:50WOULD KNOW AND SEE. AND LORD, THAT NOT ONLY WOULD WE KNOW AND
- 1:11:54SEE, BUT LORD, THAT WE WOULD BE A LIGHT IN A DARK GENERATION,
- 1:11:59THAT WE, GOD, WOULD BE A LIGHT, A CITY WHO IS SET ON A HILL THAT
- 1:12:04CANNOT BE HID. USE US FOR YOUR GLORY IN THIS TIME AND IN THIS
- 1:12:08SEASON. I WANNA THANK YOU THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US THIS
- 1:12:12REVELATION, THAT YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO US TODAY, THAT YOU GUIDED
- 1:12:16THIS CONVERSATION SO THAT WE WOULD BE WISER AND KNOW, AND
- 1:12:20GOD, WE JUST THANK YOU FOR IT IN JESUS' NAME. IN JESUS' NAME,
- 1:12:24NICOLE. LORD, I THANK YOU THAT EVEN AS MY SISTERS HAVE PRAYED,
- 1:12:28LORD, I PRAY THAT EVEN MY SISTERS WHO ARE LISTENING, LORD,
- 1:12:30THAT YOU WOULD CONTINUE TO GIVE THEM STRATEGY, LORD, TO KNOW HOW
- 1:12:35TO ORDER THEIR DAY AND TO DO THOSE THINGS THAT THEY ARE
- 1:12:37HEARING YOU TO TELL THEM TO DO, LORD. AND I PRAY THAT AS THEY
- 1:12:41TAKE THEIR STAND, LORD, THAT THEY WOULD CONTINUE TO STAND IN
- 1:12:44TRUTH, THE BELT OF TRUTH AROUND THEIR WAIST, LORD. I PRAY THAT
- 1:12:48THEY WOULD STAND IN SHOES OF PEACE. I PRAY THAT THEY WOULD
- 1:12:52STAND IN YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS, LORD, THAT THEY WOULD STAND IN
- 1:12:54YOUR SALVATION. THEY WOULD STAND IN FAITH, LORD. I PRAY THAT THEY
- 1:12:59WOULD ALSO STAND IN YOUR WORD, LORD, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE
- 1:13:01WOMEN OF PRAYER. SO LORD, I PRAY THAT THEY WOULD BE BLESSED AND
- 1:13:04THAT THEY WOULD DO THOSE THINGS THAT YOU SHOW THEM TO DO AND
- 1:13:08THAT THEY WOULD STAND IN THE POSITION THAT YOU'VE CALLED THEM
- 1:13:10TO STAND IN AND THAT YOU WOULD BLESS THEM IN JESUS'S NAME.
- 1:13:14PASTOR CHRISTY, BRING IT HOME. AMEN. NOW, FATHER, WE THANK YOU
- 1:13:17THAT YOU HAVE NOT GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF FEAR, BUT OF POWER,
- 1:13:20LOVE AND A SOUND MIND. AND FATHER, WE DON'T SERVE A SMALL
- 1:13:23GOD. WE SERVE THE GREAT GOD JEHOVAH. SO FATHER, TODAY OF WHO
- 1:13:28YOU ARE. AND RIGHT NOW I SPEAK TO EVERY DEMON OF FEAR, EVERY
- 1:13:33DEMON OF DECEPTION, EVERY DEMON OF DEPRESSION THAT HAS BEEN
- 1:13:36BINDING ANYONE'S MINDS RIGHT NOW. ANY SPIRIT OF FEAR THAT HAS
- 1:13:41ATTACKED ANYONE IN THE NIGHT SEASON, IN THE DAY SEASON, AT
- 1:13:44ANY HOUR, WE BREAK YOUR POWER IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. WE SAY
- 1:13:49THAT THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY IS UPON US, THAT THE ANGELS OF THE
- 1:13:53LORD ENCAMP AROUND ABOUT US AND WE WILL NOT DASH OUR FOOT
- 1:13:56AGAINST THE STONE. WE WILL LIVE STRONG IN THIS EARTH. WE WILL
- 1:13:59LIVE MIGHTY IN THIS EARTH. WE WILL FULFILL THE CALL OF GOD
- 1:14:03THAT IS UPON OUR LIFE. WE WILL NOT GO TO THE RIGHT, WE WILL NOT
- 1:14:06GO TO THE LEFT, BUT WE CHOOSE TO SEE THE GOD WHO IS SEATED UPON
- 1:14:10THE THRONE. LORD, WE LIFT OUR EYES TO THE HILLS WHERE OUR HELP
- 1:14:14COMES FROM AND WE SERVE THE LORD GOD OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, OUR
- 1:14:18CREATOR, OUR MIGHTY ONE, OUR HOLY ONE. YOU, OH GOD, DESERVE
- 1:14:23THE GLORY. YOU, OH GOD, DESERVE THE HONOR. AND YOU WILL NOT BE
- 1:14:27MOVED. AND SO, FATHER, WE WILL NOT BE MOVED, BECAUSE WE WILL
- 1:14:31HIDE OURSELVES IN YOUR SHELTER, IN YOUR SECRET PLACE, AND IN
- 1:14:35YOUR REFUGE. AND WE STAND UPON THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION, AND
- 1:14:39WE SAY, "GREAT IS OUR GOD AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED." AND IN
- 1:14:43THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS, WE SHALL LIVE STRONG. HALLELUJAH.
- 1:14:48COME ON, I THINK YOU OUGHT TO STAND TO YOUR FEET. COME ON,
- 1:14:51GIVE GOD A GREAT BIG PRAISE. COME ON, TELL HIM ONE MORE TIME,
- 1:14:56WON'T HE DO IT? WON'T HE DO IT? WOO, GIVE THESE LADIES A HAND.
- 1:15:03GOD BLESS YOU, BLESS YOU, BLESS YOU. THIS WAS SO GOOD. WELL,
- 1:15:09WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A SHORT BREAK AND THE AFTERNOON SERVICE
- 1:15:12STARTS IN 15 MINUTES. SO GO OUT, GO POTTY, COME BACK.