Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / Discerning the Right Moment - Bishop T.D. Jakes
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- 0:03Speaker 1: Welcome to the house. We are so glad you joined
- 0:06Speaker 1: us today. Choosing to tune in to this sermon was
- 0:10Speaker 1: not by accident. And I believe God has a word
- 0:13Speaker 1: just for you.
- 0:14Speaker 2: That's right. God is always using the people of this
- 0:18Speaker 2: house to speak his word. So whether you're watching from
- 0:21Speaker 2: across the street or maybe you are across the world,
- 0:25Speaker 2: you are not just a viewer. You are our family.
- 0:29Speaker 1: And we believe God That worship doesn't have walls and
- 0:33Speaker 1: experiencing the goodness of God's spirit doesn't always require a commute.
- 0:38Speaker 2: So are you ready to join us as we fellowship
- 0:42Speaker 2: and unite in spirit and in truth? I want your
- 0:45Speaker 2: hearts to be open because we are going to encounter
- 0:49Speaker 2: God together.
- 0:51Speaker 3: Amen.
- 0:52Speaker 1: We see you.
- 0:53Speaker 3: We love you.
- 0:54Speaker 1: And we believe this word is going to change your life.
- 1:01Speaker 3: It feels kind of churchy in here right now. I
- 1:04Speaker 3: said it feels kind of churchy in here right now.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Shouting and somebody. Get your Bibles and labor to your
- 1:13Speaker 3: feet as we prepare to crack the revelatory words of God.
- 1:17Speaker 3: That we might hear what the Spirit of the Lord
- 1:21Speaker 3: is saying to the church. He opens his mouth and
- 1:26Speaker 3: the mountains shake. He blows his breath and the wind ceases.
- 1:32Speaker 3: He is the sovereign Yahweh God. He's altogether lovely and
- 1:37Speaker 3: perfect within himself. He lacks nothing. God can think of
- 1:41Speaker 3: nothing that he needs that he can't create. He's never
- 1:46Speaker 3: been hungry for anything that he could not satisfy. He
- 1:49Speaker 3: is your God. Altogether lovely. The lily of the valley.
- 1:55Speaker 3: The bright and morning star. He's my peace. Michael, he's
- 2:00Speaker 3: my bulwark. He's my shield. And he's my buckler. Whatever
- 2:06Speaker 3: he's got to say to me, I want to hear
- 2:09Speaker 3: what the Spirit is saying to the church. Shout amen.
- 2:14Speaker 3: We're going quickly to the 10th chapter of the Gospel
- 2:17Speaker 3: of St. Luke, chapter 23 through 24. And then we're
- 2:22Speaker 3: going to jump down to chapter 38. But I want
- 2:26Speaker 3: you to pay close attention to all of it because
- 2:30Speaker 3: all of it is good. And he turned him unto
- 2:37Speaker 3: his disciples and said privately, blessed are the eyes which
- 2:44Speaker 3: see the things that ye see. This is for the
- 2:49Speaker 3: disciples now. This is for, see the secret of the
- 2:52Speaker 3: Lord is with them that fear him. he will show
- 2:55Speaker 3: them his covenant. When you walk with God, God will
- 2:58Speaker 3: show you things that other people do not see. And
- 3:03Speaker 3: he turned him unto his disciples and said privately, blessed
- 3:08Speaker 3: are the eyes which see the things that ye see.
- 3:12Speaker 3: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have
- 3:15Speaker 3: desired to see those things which ye see and have
- 3:18Speaker 3: not seen them. And to hear those things which ye hear,
- 3:23Speaker 3: And yet they have not heard them. Say amen. Now
- 3:29Speaker 3: right after this, he goes into a debate with an
- 3:33Speaker 3: attorney about who is your neighbor. They are battling over
- 3:38Speaker 3: the law. And he is declaring that the good Samaritan,
- 3:42Speaker 3: that God may use an unorthodox individual to get you
- 3:48Speaker 3: out of a situation that you can't get yourself out of.
- 3:52Speaker 3: So you have to watch being arrogant and pious and
- 3:56Speaker 3: self-righteous because God didn't promise to send you a priest.
- 4:02Speaker 3: He just promised to get you out of it. I
- 4:05Speaker 3: believe God's going to use the wealth of the unjust.
- 4:15Speaker 3: I believe that in some cases God's going to use
- 4:17Speaker 3: your enemy to bless you. You're going to be scared
- 4:21Speaker 3: to take it, but God's going to anoint them to
- 4:24Speaker 3: be a blessing in your life so that you know
- 4:27Speaker 3: that if it had not been for the Lord that
- 4:29Speaker 3: was on your side, you would have been swallowed up.
- 4:32Speaker 3: Thanks be unto God who gives us the victory through
- 4:36Speaker 3: Jesus Christ our Lord. Finally, in verse 38, he says,
- 4:42Speaker 3: Now it came to pass as they went that he
- 4:46Speaker 3: entered into a certain village. And a certain woman named
- 4:51Speaker 3: Martha received him into her house. And she had a
- 4:56Speaker 3: sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet. Oh,
- 5:06Speaker 3: and heard his word. But Martha was comforted about with
- 5:11Speaker 3: much serving and came to him and said, Lord, does
- 5:15Speaker 3: thou not care that my sister died? have left me
- 5:19Speaker 3: to serve alone? Did her, bid her therefore that she
- 5:26Speaker 3: help me? And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha, girl, Martha,
- 5:36Speaker 3: what's wrong with your head? Martha, Martha, Martha, thou art careful.
- 5:43Speaker 3: Thou art careful and troubled about many things But one
- 5:49Speaker 3: thing is needful, and Mary hath chosen that good part,
- 5:56Speaker 3: which shall not be taken away from her. Can you
- 6:01Speaker 3: say amen? Amen. I want to spend a few moments,
- 6:06Speaker 3: remain standing. I'd like the privilege of praying with you.
- 6:10Speaker 3: Both of these women are in a moment. But then
- 6:16Speaker 3: what to do with the moment is the issue. Some
- 6:23Speaker 3: of you are praying for God to do something and
- 6:25Speaker 3: all God's going to do is give you a moment.
- 6:29Speaker 3: And you're going to have to walk with him daily
- 6:31Speaker 3: to get where your eyes are open wide enough and
- 6:35Speaker 3: your ears are clear enough to discern the right moment.
- 6:41Speaker 3: That means that something that didn't work in the wrong
- 6:44Speaker 3: moment will work in the right moment if you know
- 6:50Speaker 3: what to do in that moment. It's just going to
- 6:53Speaker 3: be a moment. There's going to be a great shaking
- 6:57Speaker 3: coming upon our nation and upon our world and upon
- 7:00Speaker 3: our generation, but God's going to give you a moment.
- 7:04Speaker 3: And if you find yourself moving in the right direction
- 7:08Speaker 3: at the right moment, God's going to open the windows
- 7:11Speaker 3: of heaven and bless you like you've never been blessed before.
- 7:17Speaker 3: He did it for the Rockefellers in the middle of
- 7:19Speaker 3: a depression. God doesn't have to wait for everything to
- 7:23Speaker 3: be right in the newspaper for him to bless you
- 7:26Speaker 3: out of his word. If God says I'm going to
- 7:29Speaker 3: bless you, I will bless you if you have an ear.
- 7:34Speaker 3: Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. In fact,
- 7:38Speaker 3: if you're bold about it, touch somebody and say God
- 7:41Speaker 3: is talking to me. You may be seated in the
- 7:46Speaker 3: presence of the Lord. He's talking to me about discerning
- 7:50Speaker 3: the right moment. He's talking to me that I need
- 7:53Speaker 3: to be a little closer to him. He's talking to
- 7:56Speaker 3: me that I can't just come to him when I
- 7:58Speaker 3: need him. I have to be in close proximity to
- 8:01Speaker 3: God to be able to do what God would have
- 8:05Speaker 3: me to do. He's talking to me with power and
- 8:08Speaker 3: with clarity. The text before us today is written by Luke.
- 8:16Speaker 3: It is called, therefore, the Gospel of Saint Luke. Luke
- 8:20Speaker 3: is not an apostle, as it were. He is an evangelist.
- 8:27Speaker 3: He is a disciple. He is a physician. He is
- 8:31Speaker 3: an author, but he is not an apostle. Still, he
- 8:36Speaker 3: is allowed to creep into the Gospels. because of the
- 8:40Speaker 3: profundity of his ability to articulate what he sees. He
- 8:47Speaker 3: not only writes about the doings of Jesus, he also
- 8:51Speaker 3: continues to walk with Paul over into the book of
- 8:56Speaker 3: Acts and records for us the book of Acts so
- 9:00Speaker 3: that we might understand the revolution and evolution and the
- 9:04Speaker 3: twist from the Son to the Holy Spirit. God entrusted
- 9:09Speaker 3: all of that in his hands, knowing that he was
- 9:12Speaker 3: able to give us that kind of information. In fact,
- 9:17Speaker 3: if you really study it closely, the book of Luke
- 9:20Speaker 3: and the book of Acts are actually Siamese twins. They
- 9:25Speaker 3: are connected in such a way that he continues what
- 9:30Speaker 3: he says from the last sentence in Luke to the
- 9:33Speaker 3: first sentence in Acts. The former treaties have I made,
- 9:37Speaker 3: O Theophilus, Of all that Jesus began both to do
- 9:41Speaker 3: and to teach, he keeps right on talking. He goes
- 9:44Speaker 3: from one degree of grace into the next degree of grace.
- 9:48Speaker 3: He goes from talking about Jesus before the cross to
- 9:52Speaker 3: talking about Jesus after resurrection. And he goes to talking
- 9:57Speaker 3: about how Jesus showed himself alive. for 40 days with
- 10:01Speaker 3: many infallible proofs and we had finished showing himself he
- 10:05Speaker 3: called for the escort service of a cloud to come
- 10:09Speaker 3: down and get him and he stood up on the
- 10:12Speaker 3: cloud and disappeared out of their sight and the disciples
- 10:16Speaker 3: were standing there gazing at him When the question was asked,
- 10:19Speaker 3: why stand ye here gazing at him? This same Jesus,
- 10:24Speaker 3: whom ye have crucified, will come back again in like manner.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Luke is busy recording it. So we have a highlight
- 10:33Speaker 3: reel of what happens. Somebody say a highlight reel. Most
- 10:40Speaker 3: of our lives, we count them in hours and days
- 10:44Speaker 3: and seconds and minutes. But most of our minutes are
- 10:49Speaker 3: just highlight reels. I've been married to my wife for
- 10:54Speaker 3: 45 years. 45 years. And I cannot tell you what
- 11:05Speaker 3: happened every day of the 45 years. I do have
- 11:09Speaker 3: a highlight reel of those distinctive moments. that stood out
- 11:15Speaker 3: and were etched in an indelible way in my spirit
- 11:19Speaker 3: with such a profundity that they will never leave me.
- 11:24Speaker 3: They will never leave me. They will be with me forever.
- 11:29Speaker 3: In fact, often now we sit up and talk about
- 11:32Speaker 3: different things that happened 25 and 30 years ago and
- 11:36Speaker 3: we remember those things. We remember the dynamic moments, whether
- 11:41Speaker 3: they were good or bad. But there were some days
- 11:44Speaker 3: that have escaped our memories simply because they were redundant
- 11:48Speaker 3: and indifferent and nothing exciting happened that day and there
- 11:52Speaker 3: was nothing to record. When I asked Beverly to take
- 11:56Speaker 3: notes in a business meeting for us, I am not
- 11:59Speaker 3: asking her to give me every word of everything that
- 12:03Speaker 3: everybody said. I'm asking her to record the highlights, the
- 12:09Speaker 3: pivotal moments, the turning moments. the twisting moments. Luke is
- 12:16Speaker 3: assigned this journey, this task of recording the pivotal moments.
- 12:22Speaker 3: He gives us the clearest depiction of what Jesus said
- 12:27Speaker 3: to the lawyer who was trying to embarrass him and
- 12:31Speaker 3: ask him questions about who is my neighbor because Jesus
- 12:35Speaker 3: said to love thy neighbor as you love yourself and
- 12:37Speaker 3: to love your God with all your heart, your mind,
- 12:40Speaker 3: and soul. And Jesus said if you get those two
- 12:42Speaker 3: things right In those two commandments lies the whole commandments.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Everything else is crushed into these two things. If you
- 12:51Speaker 3: love God with all your heart, your mind, and soul,
- 12:54Speaker 3: and if you love your neighbor as yourself, you have
- 12:58Speaker 3: fulfilled the commandments. He says that clearly and concisely to them.
- 13:05Speaker 3: And he says it in such a way that Luke
- 13:07Speaker 3: records it. He records the discussions. The strife that rises
- 13:14Speaker 3: between the educated lawyer who knew the law, but the
- 13:19Speaker 3: man who studied the law is talking to the man
- 13:22Speaker 3: who was the law. And when you're talking to me
- 13:28Speaker 3: about something that came out of me, Your studying it,
- 13:32Speaker 3: your snapshot, your sizzle reel, your Instagram quote. It's amazing
- 13:37Speaker 3: to me how much people think they can learn from
- 13:40Speaker 3: an Instagram quote. From the turn of a head or
- 13:44Speaker 3: the twist of an eye. And they will write like
- 13:46Speaker 3: they are an authority on you and you have never
- 13:50Speaker 3: seen them a day in your life. Their judgment will
- 13:53Speaker 3: all be made over the assumption of who you are
- 13:58Speaker 3: based on a particular moment. And when in the next moment,
- 14:02Speaker 3: if they went on to see the next moment, they'd
- 14:05Speaker 3: have had a fuller understanding. If they spent a week
- 14:08Speaker 3: with you, you get more information. If you spent a
- 14:12Speaker 3: month with me, you will find out that what you
- 14:14Speaker 3: thought in a second isn't true at all. Snap judgments
- 14:18Speaker 3: have caused some of us to end up in trouble unspeakable.
- 14:22Speaker 3: Snap judgments have been the catalyst of divorces. Snap judgments
- 14:27Speaker 3: have caused people to judge you harshly. And decided that
- 14:30Speaker 3: you are persnickety, uppity, into yourself, selfish, unkind, hateful. And
- 14:37Speaker 3: make a decision so perilous that they execute a judgment
- 14:40Speaker 3: on you and say, I don't like you over a moment,
- 14:44Speaker 3: a facial expression. You walk past him and they decide
- 14:48Speaker 3: because you walk past him. That they don't like you
- 14:52Speaker 3: and they don't know you walked past them thinking about
- 14:54Speaker 3: something that didn't have nothing to do with them. They
- 14:58Speaker 3: weren't nowhere on your mind. Come on, somebody. Is there
- 15:01Speaker 3: anybody in here that's ever been judged harshly? And people
- 15:05Speaker 3: act like they knew what they were talking about, but
- 15:07Speaker 3: they were wrong. They had no idea what was going on.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Luke is brought into this situation of recording these dynamic
- 15:17Speaker 3: moments for Jesus Christ. And it is very strange and
- 15:21Speaker 3: unusual because he is called the beloved physician. And Christ
- 15:26Speaker 3: uses him to articulate the word of God with revelation.
- 15:32Speaker 3: He is a very prolific writer. Can I take my time?
- 15:37Speaker 3: He is a very prolific writer that writes with such
- 15:41Speaker 3: distinction that they ignored the fact that he was a Gentile.
- 15:45Speaker 3: My Bible scholars know what I'm talking about. They ignored
- 15:53Speaker 3: the fact that he was a Gentile and he's writing
- 15:56Speaker 3: about a Jewish Messiah and allowed him to articulate and introduce,
- 16:01Speaker 3: as it were, Jesus Christ to us through the lens
- 16:06Speaker 3: of his understanding, though that he was not edified by
- 16:10Speaker 3: the law, he was perceptive of the moment and he
- 16:14Speaker 3: knew who Jesus was and he wrote about Jesus with power.
- 16:18Speaker 3: He goes from walking with Jesus to walking with the
- 16:22Speaker 3: apostle Paul, defining and declaring the word of the Lord,
- 16:26Speaker 3: even though Paul was taking a journey to return no more.
- 16:32Speaker 3: I'm not impressed with people who will walk with you
- 16:35Speaker 3: in the high moments. I am impressed with people who
- 16:42Speaker 3: will walk with you in a storm. When the boat
- 16:46Speaker 3: is falling apart and all the boards have been slit
- 16:50Speaker 3: and shattered and all hell is breaking loose and lightning
- 16:54Speaker 3: is flashing and thunder is rolling and you're still hanging
- 16:57Speaker 3: on with me. I'm impressed with people that will grab
- 17:01Speaker 3: a log and hold on to the log and say,
- 17:03Speaker 3: I'm still with you. I still got your back. Whatever happens,
- 17:08Speaker 3: we're going to make it together. We may not make
- 17:11Speaker 3: it comfortably. We may not make it easily. We may
- 17:14Speaker 3: have to go in and get wet and get soaked.
- 17:17Speaker 3: We may almost drown. We may find ourselves in a crisis,
- 17:21Speaker 3: but wherever you're going, I'm going with you. Because I
- 17:25Speaker 3: know if you'll be for me, you are more than
- 17:27Speaker 3: the world against me. I'm going to stick it out.
- 17:31Speaker 3: I'm going to stick it out when you lose your job.
- 17:33Speaker 3: I'm going to stick it out when you got a job.
- 17:36Speaker 3: I'm going to stick it out when we're eating filet mignon.
- 17:39Speaker 3: I'm going to stick it out when we're eating brown
- 17:41Speaker 3: beans and rice. I'm going to stick it out with you.
- 17:44Speaker 3: If we have to make peanut butter cookies and call
- 17:47Speaker 3: it a day, I'm going to stick it out with you.
- 17:50Speaker 3: If I have to eat a jam sandwich and a
- 17:52Speaker 3: piece of cornbread, I'm going to stick it out with you.
- 17:56Speaker 3: If we don't have any salt and any butter and
- 17:58Speaker 3: any milk, I'm going to stick it out with you.
- 18:01Speaker 3: Those are the kinds of covenant brothers. That make real relationships.
- 18:06Speaker 3: Not the people who are fair weather people. Not the
- 18:09Speaker 3: people who are with you when you're popular. Not the
- 18:12Speaker 3: people who are with you when you're on top of
- 18:13Speaker 3: the mountain. Anybody can love you when you're on the
- 18:17Speaker 3: top of the mountain. But somebody who will walk with
- 18:20Speaker 3: you while you are tied up on a ship. And
- 18:23Speaker 3: the ship has hit a storm. And the boards have
- 18:26Speaker 3: shattered into splinters. And you have to make it on
- 18:29Speaker 3: broken pieces. I wish I had somebody in here that
- 18:33Speaker 3: knew what it was like to make it on broken pieces.
- 18:37Speaker 3: You didn't have a cabin. You didn't have a suite.
- 18:41Speaker 3: You didn't have a cruise ship. All you had was
- 18:43Speaker 3: a fragment. But you held on to what you had
- 18:47Speaker 3: because you knew that God in your fragment is more
- 18:50Speaker 3: than you being in a suite by yourself. Touch your
- 18:54Speaker 3: neighbor and say, I made it on broken pieces. I
- 18:58Speaker 3: made it on broken pieces. I made it without no job.
- 19:03Speaker 3: I made it on unemployment. I made it with my
- 19:06Speaker 3: back up against the wall. I made it with all
- 19:09Speaker 3: hell breaking loose. I made it with three back payments
- 19:13Speaker 3: on the house. I made it in the storm and
- 19:16Speaker 3: in the rain. I made it with a gas tank
- 19:19Speaker 3: on F. And I kept on driving anyway. I made
- 19:23Speaker 3: it going through hell and high water. I traded in
- 19:26Speaker 3: pop bottles and made it. I traded in food stamps
- 19:30Speaker 3: and made it. I've been through some stuff. You can't
- 19:33Speaker 3: run me away by rolling your eyes at me. I've
- 19:36Speaker 3: been through too much. If God brought me through on
- 19:39Speaker 3: boards and broken pieces, then the same God is able
- 19:43Speaker 3: to take me through whatever I'm facing right now. You're
- 19:46Speaker 3: not going to run me off by rolling your eyes
- 19:49Speaker 3: at me. me. I'm tougher than that. I'm stronger than that.
- 19:53Speaker 3: I know how it is to shed a tear and
- 19:56Speaker 3: still fight back. I wish I had some people in
- 19:59Speaker 3: here that cry and fight at the same time. I
- 20:04Speaker 3: wish I had some people in here that get so
- 20:06Speaker 3: mad that tears start running down your face and you
- 20:09Speaker 3: start punching while the tears are yet to run. Don't
- 20:12Speaker 3: let the tears fool you. Because I intend to fight back.
- 20:17Speaker 3: Slap your neighbor and say fight back. Though the storms
- 20:21Speaker 3: assail your soul, fight back. Though the wind arrest your movement,
- 20:26Speaker 3: fight back. Though billows roll, fight back. Though the lightning
- 20:32Speaker 3: is flashing, fight back. Keep your dukes up even when
- 20:35Speaker 3: your tears are falling down, fight back. There are some
- 20:39Speaker 3: people in this room that only made it because they
- 20:42Speaker 3: recognize the power of the moment and they made up
- 20:45Speaker 3: in their mind I'm going to fight back no matter what.
- 20:49Speaker 3: If I'm talking about you, make some noise. Yeah, yeah.
- 20:57Speaker 3: Identify yourself. Come out the closet and let hell know
- 21:02Speaker 3: who you are. Let the demons understand that you're serious.
- 21:06Speaker 3: Let them know that you are serious about this thing.
- 21:10Speaker 3: Let him know that he can't curse what God has blessed.
- 21:13Speaker 3: Let him know that if God be for you, he's
- 21:15Speaker 3: more than the world against you. Shout amen, somebody. Oh,
- 21:21Speaker 3: I'm about to stir up something. I feel it in
- 21:24Speaker 3: my soul. I'm trying to be careful, but I feel it.
- 21:28Speaker 3: In my soul. I feel it in my spirit. I
- 21:31Speaker 3: feel like the Holy Ghost is going to do something.
- 21:34Speaker 3: You might put another bobby pin in your hat. Because
- 21:37Speaker 3: the Holy Ghost might knock it off your head. You
- 21:40Speaker 3: might go ahead and kick off your shoes. Because you
- 21:43Speaker 3: might end up running before I get through preaching. You
- 21:46Speaker 3: might tie yourself down and get your belt real tight
- 21:50Speaker 3: because the Holy Ghost is going to break a yoke
- 21:52Speaker 3: in this room. And when God breaks a yoke, it
- 21:56Speaker 3: is forever broke. It is destroyed. It is shattered. It
- 22:00Speaker 3: is broken into pieces. Somebody's had a hard time, but
- 22:04Speaker 3: you made it. You went through hell, but you made it.
- 22:07Speaker 3: You liked to die, but you made it. You got hungry,
- 22:11Speaker 3: but you made it. You got hurt, but you made it.
- 22:14Speaker 3: You cried all night, but you made it. You suffered
- 22:18Speaker 3: when nobody was looking, but you made it. You curled
- 22:21Speaker 3: up in a knot on the floor and screamed till
- 22:24Speaker 3: you fell asleep. But you made it and you got
- 22:27Speaker 3: the victory and you still ain't got no money. You
- 22:30Speaker 3: got the victory and you still don't have a new car.
- 22:34Speaker 3: You got the victory and you still ain't moved in
- 22:37Speaker 3: the new house. But when I think about where the
- 22:39Speaker 3: Lord has brought me from, when I think about what
- 22:42Speaker 3: the Lord has done for me, I got the victory.
- 22:46Speaker 3: You may not be able to see it. What the
- 22:49Speaker 3: Lord has done for me. But the Lord is blessing
- 22:53Speaker 3: me right now. It may not be in my garage.
- 22:57Speaker 3: It may not be in my bank account. It may
- 23:00Speaker 3: not be in my trust. It may not be in
- 23:03Speaker 3: stocks and bonds. But the Lord has done some stuff
- 23:06Speaker 3: for me that I couldn't even pay for. And when
- 23:10Speaker 3: you see me shout. I'm not shouting over my dress.
- 23:15Speaker 3: I'm not shouting over my shoes. I'm not shouting over
- 23:18Speaker 3: my car. But when I look back and remember where
- 23:22Speaker 3: God brought me from, when I look back and remember
- 23:26Speaker 3: how God kept me, When my mind was falling apart,
- 23:30Speaker 3: I got to praise him. It's my job to praise him.
- 23:34Speaker 3: He hired me to praise him. He saved me to
- 23:38Speaker 3: praise him. Somebody stop me. Take five minutes and praise
- 23:42Speaker 3: him because I feel something happening in this place. Sit down.
- 24:00Speaker 3: Let me preach on a little while. God, I feel
- 24:04Speaker 3: something in here. I feel God moving stuff. I feel
- 24:07Speaker 3: God rearranging the furniture in your life. I feel God
- 24:11Speaker 3: reawakening you. I feel God reviving you. I feel God
- 24:15Speaker 3: anointing you. Something is about to happen.
- 24:44Speaker 3: There's a quickening going on in my spirit. There's a
- 24:47Speaker 3: quickening going on in my spirit. It may not be
- 24:50Speaker 3: in my feet, but it's happening in my spirit. I've
- 24:54Speaker 3: got a feeling that everything is going to be all right.
- 24:59Speaker 3: I don't care what the weatherman forecast. I don't care
- 25:02Speaker 3: what you read in the paper. I don't care what
- 25:05Speaker 3: you saw on TV. Down in my sanctified soul, I've
- 25:10Speaker 3: got a feeling. that the storm I'm in right now
- 25:13Speaker 3: won't last. I've got a feeling that I'm going to
- 25:17Speaker 3: shout troubles over. I've got a feeling I'm going to
- 25:20Speaker 3: run a little while. Somebody give him a praise. I'm
- 25:23Speaker 3: trying to calm myself down. Somebody give him a little,
- 25:28Speaker 3: just give him a little bit of praise. Give him
- 25:30Speaker 3: a little sanctified praise. Give him a little glorified praise.
- 25:38Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me
- 25:58Speaker 3: preach on a little bit. I want to get through this. Together,
- 26:03Speaker 3: Luke and Acts make up 27% of the New Testament.
- 26:09Speaker 3: As much as Paul is known for his contributions to
- 26:12Speaker 3: the New Testament, it does not exceed what Luke did
- 26:17Speaker 3: in writing his story in the Gospel of St. Luke
- 26:20Speaker 3: and the Book of Acts. 27% of the New Testament
- 26:24Speaker 3: has been categorized, organized, and delivered and articulated by a
- 26:29Speaker 3: man called Luke, who we don't pay much attention at all.
- 26:33Speaker 3: But God has a way of paying attention to people
- 26:36Speaker 3: that other people don't pay attention to. and he can
- 26:41Speaker 3: use you on the down-low. Y'all didn't hear what I said.
- 26:46Speaker 3: You ain't got to be on a platform or stand
- 26:49Speaker 3: on a stage. God can use you on the DL.
- 26:52Speaker 3: He can use you in your car. He can use
- 26:55Speaker 3: you in the grocery store. He can use you in
- 26:58Speaker 3: your spirit. God can. Shall we ask somebody? The thing,
- 27:06Speaker 3: the thing, the thing, the thing that confuses me, mesmerizes me,
- 27:11Speaker 3: challenges me about the magnitude of this text is that
- 27:15Speaker 3: Luke writes this little footnote. It's just barely two or
- 27:22Speaker 3: three paragraphs. Footnotes at the end of Jesus' teaching parables.
- 27:27Speaker 3: Footnotes at the end of Jesus talking to lawyers, footnotes
- 27:32Speaker 3: after Jesus had a private seminar for his disciples, he
- 27:36Speaker 3: merely writes a footnote. This particular scripture about Mary and
- 27:43Speaker 3: Martha opening the door and letting Jesus come in the
- 27:47Speaker 3: house is not startling or new because whenever Jesus was
- 27:51Speaker 3: in Bethany, he stayed with Mary and Martha. So that
- 27:56Speaker 3: in and of itself is not outstanding. It was his
- 27:59Speaker 3: hangout place. It was his spot. Whenever he wanted to
- 28:04Speaker 3: go someplace in Bethany, he already knew he had a
- 28:07Speaker 3: place to stay. They had prepared a place for him.
- 28:11Speaker 3: They had made room for Jesus. Glory to God. Y'all
- 28:15Speaker 3: don't hear what I'm saying. They had made room for
- 28:18Speaker 3: Jesus that was born without room for him. A Jesus
- 28:23Speaker 3: that didn't find any room in the end. A Jesus
- 28:26Speaker 3: that had no place to lay his head. A Jesus
- 28:30Speaker 3: that was born in a barn. A Jesus that was
- 28:33Speaker 3: left all by himself. But God fixed it that he
- 28:37Speaker 3: touched Mary and Martha to prepare a place for him.
- 28:40Speaker 3: Touch your neighbor and say, make room for Jesus. You've
- 28:44Speaker 3: been worried. You've been upset. You've been frustrated. You've been
- 28:48Speaker 3: at the end of your rope. You've been nervous. You've
- 28:50Speaker 3: been tossing and turning in the bed. You've been going
- 28:53Speaker 3: over the papers and looking at the books and reading
- 28:56Speaker 3: the contracts and trying to see how you can make
- 28:58Speaker 3: the budget work together. But make room for Jesus. You've
- 29:02Speaker 3: been looking at the x-rays and the MRIs and the scans,
- 29:06Speaker 3: but make room for Jesus. You've been talking to the
- 29:10Speaker 3: accountant for hours and hours, but make room for Jesus.
- 29:14Speaker 3: He has a way of scooting furniture around and making
- 29:17Speaker 3: a way for himself. He'll stand in a dry place
- 29:21Speaker 3: and be a root springing up out of dry ground.
- 29:24Speaker 3: Look at somebody and say, make room for Jesus. When
- 29:27Speaker 3: the enemy comes in like a flood, make room for Jesus.
- 29:32Speaker 3: When they scandalize you and try to kill you, make
- 29:36Speaker 3: room for Jesus. When they tell you you'll never come
- 29:39Speaker 3: back again. make room for Jesus. Because before this thing
- 29:44Speaker 3: is over, you're going to get the kind of breakthrough
- 29:47Speaker 3: that blows your mind. All you got to do is
- 29:51Speaker 3: make room for Jesus. Somebody holler, I got room. So
- 30:04Speaker 3: in the gospel of St. Luke chapter 10 verse 38
- 30:08Speaker 3: is when they open the door for Jesus. Luke 10
- 30:11Speaker 3: 38 they make room for Jesus. Not for trouble, they
- 30:17Speaker 3: make room for Jesus. Not for depression, they make room
- 30:22Speaker 3: for Jesus. There is a room that you can make
- 30:27Speaker 3: inside of yourself. I don't want to spend too much
- 30:29Speaker 3: time on this. Lord don't start feeding me up here
- 30:32Speaker 3: like this. but David talked about it when he said
- 30:36Speaker 3: the Lord is my light and my salvation of whom
- 30:39Speaker 3: shall I fear the Lord is the strength of my
- 30:41Speaker 3: life of whom shall I be afraid when the wicked
- 30:44Speaker 3: even my enemies and my foes came upon me to
- 30:47Speaker 3: eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell though a
- 30:51Speaker 3: host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear
- 30:55Speaker 3: the war should rise against me in this will I
- 30:58Speaker 3: be confident one thing have I desired of the Lord
- 31:01Speaker 3: that will I seek after that I may dwell in
- 31:05Speaker 3: the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
- 31:08Speaker 3: I just want to get in that secret place. I
- 31:11Speaker 3: want to get in that secret corner. He that dwelleth
- 31:14Speaker 3: in the secret place of the Most High shall abide
- 31:18Speaker 3: under the shadow of the Almighty. Hide me! Hide me.
- 31:25Speaker 3: Hide me, Jesus. Hide me. Where the eagle can't break in.
- 31:32Speaker 3: Where the scavengers cannot destroy me. Where the enemy cannot
- 31:36Speaker 3: pollute me. Hide me. Where the hex won't work and
- 31:40Speaker 3: the spell won't work and the lies won't work and
- 31:44Speaker 3: the enemy won't work. Hide me, Lord. In the secret
- 31:48Speaker 3: of your pavilion shall you hide me. You shall set
- 31:52Speaker 3: me upon a rock. Now shall my head be lifted
- 31:56Speaker 3: up above my enemies round about me. I will sing. Yea,
- 32:01Speaker 3: I will sing praises unto my God. Hear, O Lord,
- 32:04Speaker 3: when I cry with my voice. Have mercy also upon me.
- 32:08Speaker 3: Somebody shout mercy. I don't deserve it, but God's going
- 32:12Speaker 3: to give it to me anyway. Somebody shout mercy. I
- 32:16Speaker 3: didn't do it by myself, but somebody shout mercy. Mercy
- 32:20Speaker 3: is going to come. And it's going to bring me
- 32:22Speaker 3: through the test and the storm and the shadows. And
- 32:25Speaker 3: I will be there. Why, Luke? I asked Luke myself.
- 32:33Speaker 3: I said, Luke, why? Why have you mentioned this mundane,
- 32:38Speaker 3: ordinary moment? It is not a big deal that Jesus
- 32:43Speaker 3: is coming to Mary and Martha's house. He came into
- 32:45Speaker 3: their house often. He was a close friend to Mary
- 32:50Speaker 3: and Martha and Lazarus. For some reason Lazarus is not
- 32:55Speaker 3: mentioned here. I hope to get to talk about that
- 32:57Speaker 3: for a minute before I leave. But he's coming to
- 33:00Speaker 3: the house again. And he's sitting up talking to Mary
- 33:06Speaker 3: who is laying at his feet. To be prostrate at
- 33:12Speaker 3: the feet of Jesus is an apostolic position. It's a
- 33:18Speaker 3: sign that there's an apostolic anointing on your life. And
- 33:22Speaker 3: she's laying at the feet of Jesus. You know, whenever
- 33:27Speaker 3: Jesus appeared in the Old Testament, they fell at his
- 33:30Speaker 3: feet like dead men. They collapsed on the floor. It's
- 33:34Speaker 3: a sign of honor. It's a sign of humility. It's
- 33:37Speaker 3: a sign of submission. As long as you stand and
- 33:40Speaker 3: toe to toe with Jesus, you can't get nothing from him.
- 33:43Speaker 3: But if you get down at the feet of Jesus
- 33:46Speaker 3: and they prostrate in the floor, God will open up
- 33:49Speaker 3: the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing
- 33:52Speaker 3: that you won't have room enough to receive. They were
- 33:55Speaker 3: laying at the feet of Jesus. Oh my God, I
- 33:59Speaker 3: feel something in this place. And God began to move
- 34:04Speaker 3: and God began to set them free and God began
- 34:07Speaker 3: to deliver them. And Martha comes running over and said,
- 34:10Speaker 3: don't you care that I'm doing all of this work
- 34:14Speaker 3: and all she's doing is laying at your feet? Tell
- 34:18Speaker 3: her to get up and sweep the floor and wax
- 34:21Speaker 3: the kitchens. And do the dishes. Tell her to run
- 34:25Speaker 3: the sweeper in the house. And tell her to sweep
- 34:27Speaker 3: off the steps. Tell her to clean up the sidewalk.
- 34:31Speaker 3: And get up in the attic. And get the cobwebs
- 34:34Speaker 3: out of the attic. He said Martha, Martha, Martha, Martha. Martha, Martha, Martha.
- 34:41Speaker 3: You about to miss your moment. You about to miss
- 34:48Speaker 3: a supernatural moment. Worried about natural stuff. You're about to
- 34:55Speaker 3: move a divine, you're about to miss a divine encounter
- 34:58Speaker 3: with God, worrying about stuff that don't happen every day.
- 35:02Speaker 3: God is about to do something in your midst that
- 35:05Speaker 3: is amazing, and you're worried about dust on the wall.
- 35:08Speaker 3: You're worried about cobwebs in the corner. You're worried about
- 35:11Speaker 3: the wrong thing. The Lord sent me here this morning
- 35:14Speaker 3: to tell somebody, you've been worried about the wrong stuff.
- 35:18Speaker 3: You've been worried about things that don't even matter. You've
- 35:21Speaker 3: been worried about things that could be taken care of later.
- 35:25Speaker 3: But Mary understands this is a moment that will never
- 35:29Speaker 3: happen like it's happening right now. And she's giving me
- 35:32Speaker 3: her full attention. God said, I want your full attention.
- 35:36Speaker 3: I want you to turn your head from everything that
- 35:39Speaker 3: got you too busy. Too busy to pray. Too busy
- 35:43Speaker 3: to read. Too busy to worship. Too busy to call
- 35:47Speaker 3: on his name. And I want you to turn your
- 35:50Speaker 3: face to the wall and have a little talk with
- 35:53Speaker 3: Jesus and let it make it right in your life.
- 35:56Speaker 3: Somebody shout yes. God began to move and he began
- 36:01Speaker 3: to speak and he began to tell them things that
- 36:04Speaker 3: they needed to know. Can I go a little bit deeper?
- 36:09Speaker 3: And here Jesus is in the room with them. And
- 36:13Speaker 3: Martha's ignoring him. Thinking she's doing his will, but she's
- 36:19Speaker 3: ignoring him. The problem in the church today is that
- 36:23Speaker 3: we've gotten used to Jesus. We have gotten so used
- 36:30Speaker 3: to Jesus that he has to do a cartwheel to
- 36:33Speaker 3: get our attention. We have gotten so used to Jesus
- 36:37Speaker 3: that we don't even pay the anointing no mind. We
- 36:39Speaker 3: have gotten so used to Jesus that we don't get
- 36:42Speaker 3: down at his feet and start praying in the Holy
- 36:45Speaker 3: Ghost like we did a long time ago. When mothers
- 36:49Speaker 3: had washboards and when they start packing pants together and
- 36:53Speaker 3: hitting triangles and we didn't have nothing to look at,
- 36:56Speaker 3: all we had was Jesus. Our pews were not padded.
- 37:00Speaker 3: Our churches were not colorful. We didn't have expensive dancers.
- 37:05Speaker 3: We didn't have great PA systems. But we had an
- 37:08Speaker 3: anointing that if it hit the place, it would turn
- 37:11Speaker 3: the place upside down. Hey! Mother didn't have no mic,
- 37:17Speaker 3: but she had a drum and she'd be hitting the
- 37:19Speaker 3: bass drum. And the more she struck the drum, the
- 37:23Speaker 3: more the power came down. We would dance. And didn't
- 37:27Speaker 3: have no music. We would shout and we weren't even
- 37:31Speaker 3: on beat. But the only thing that mattered was the
- 37:34Speaker 3: glory of the Lord. And when the Spirit of the
- 37:37Speaker 3: Lord filled the temple, the priests lay prostrate in the floor.
- 37:42Speaker 3: I have seen the anointing come so strong that the
- 37:46Speaker 3: musicians couldn't play. I've seen the anointing come so strong
- 37:51Speaker 3: that the preachers laid out in the floor. I have
- 37:54Speaker 3: seen the anointing come so strong that it would knock
- 37:57Speaker 3: your tie off your shirt. I've seen the anointing come
- 38:01Speaker 3: so strong that you'd kick off your shoes and dance
- 38:05Speaker 3: barefoot in the house of the Lord. After service, you'd
- 38:09Speaker 3: be looking under the pews, trying to find your shoe.
- 38:13Speaker 3: But you didn't even care about it because the anointing
- 38:16Speaker 3: was so strong. You recognize this is the moment. If
- 38:20Speaker 3: I don't get it now, it's not going to happen.
- 38:23Speaker 3: This is my moment. If I don't get a breakthrough now,
- 38:27Speaker 3: it's not going to happen. This is my moment for
- 38:30Speaker 3: God to open up the windows of heaven and pour
- 38:33Speaker 3: you out a blessing. You won't have room enough to receive.
- 38:37Speaker 3: That was what God was creating in this moment. That
- 38:41Speaker 3: was how God sent his glory in the place. That
- 38:44Speaker 3: was how God began to break yokes in the place.
- 38:47Speaker 3: That was how God began to open doors. And Jesus said,
- 38:51Speaker 3: you called, you have chosen the good part. Could it
- 38:57Speaker 3: be possible? I was just wondering in the vanity of
- 38:59Speaker 3: my sanctified mind. I was wondering, I was wondering, I
- 39:03Speaker 3: was wondering that Luke took the time to put this
- 39:09Speaker 3: footnote in not because of the situation that happened but
- 39:13Speaker 3: what it may represent. I was wondering if it might
- 39:16Speaker 3: be possible that Mary laying at his feet might represent
- 39:21Speaker 3: the New Testament gospel and Martha who was approaching him
- 39:25Speaker 3: by works might represent the law. I was wondering in
- 39:29Speaker 3: my mind mind could it be possible that those of
- 39:33Speaker 3: us who are worshiping him for the blood of the
- 39:36Speaker 3: cross have chosen the best part and that is not
- 39:40Speaker 3: by works lest any man should boast I'm wondering that
- 39:44Speaker 3: Mary is recognizing the true part, the good part, the
- 39:49Speaker 3: sanctified part, the delivering part, the yoke-breaking part, the part
- 39:54Speaker 3: that healed blind bottomed mares, the part that raised Lazarus
- 39:58Speaker 3: from the dead, the part that opened up the windows
- 40:01Speaker 3: of heaven and loosed a blessing on his people, rather
- 40:04Speaker 3: than to choose the law with ceremonies and works, and
- 40:09Speaker 3: routines and rituals Martha, Martha, Martha you missed your moment Martha, Martha,
- 40:16Speaker 3: Martha you don't understand what I'm doing you're worshipping me
- 40:21Speaker 3: up under the old covenant but Mary has stepped into
- 40:25Speaker 3: a new thing How? When she stepped into the new thing,
- 40:29Speaker 3: the power began to fall and the anointing began to come.
- 40:34Speaker 3: Y'all might as well get up and walk out the
- 40:36Speaker 3: church because I feel a preaching spirit on me. And
- 40:39Speaker 3: if I get a preaching spirit on me, I ain't
- 40:41Speaker 3: going to stop it in that. Hey! Hey, Lord! I
- 40:48Speaker 3: feel the power of God moving in the midst of
- 40:51Speaker 3: his people. Somebody came seeking a word from God. Somebody
- 40:56Speaker 3: came seeking a word from God that would deliver their soul,
- 41:00Speaker 3: that would get with you and stay with you all
- 41:03Speaker 3: day long, that you would dream about it tonight. I
- 41:06Speaker 3: don't know who you are, but you're going to be
- 41:08Speaker 3: dreaming about this word tonight and what it means about
- 41:12Speaker 3: your situation because God has you here for a divine
- 41:17Speaker 3: purpose and this is your moment. Amen. devil you should
- 41:23Speaker 3: have killed me when you had the chance but i
- 41:26Speaker 3: just stepped into my moment i just stepped into my
- 41:29Speaker 3: glory i just stepped into my power i just stepped
- 41:34Speaker 3: into my healing i just stepped into the power of
- 41:37Speaker 3: god and ain't no devil in the hell gonna stop
- 41:41Speaker 3: this moment from happening i refuse to go back to
- 41:45Speaker 3: the old I'm going to step over into the new
- 41:48Speaker 3: and let God do it. I wish I had about
- 41:51Speaker 3: a hundred people that would give God a praise and
- 41:54Speaker 3: praise right now. So I asked God, I said, Lord,
- 42:12Speaker 3: why didn't you mention Lazarus? You mentioned Mary. You mentioned Martha.
- 42:19Speaker 3: But you didn't say anything about Lazarus. And I kept
- 42:23Speaker 3: thinking about it, trying to understand as pertinent as Lazarus was.
- 42:28Speaker 3: Considering the fact that Lazarus was raised from the dead
- 42:32Speaker 3: before Jesus went to the cross. If anybody ought to
- 42:35Speaker 3: remember Lazarus, it ought to be Jesus. But he never
- 42:39Speaker 3: said a word about Jesus. He never said a word
- 42:43Speaker 3: about Lazarus. He never said a word about what Lazarus
- 42:45Speaker 3: was able to do. He never brought him up in
- 42:48Speaker 3: the discussion. And then he said, in order to understand
- 42:53Speaker 3: why I didn't use the New Testament Lazarus, he said,
- 42:56Speaker 3: you got to go back to the other Lazarus. You
- 42:59Speaker 3: remember the old Lazarus who wanted to go back and
- 43:03Speaker 3: warn his brothers lest the devil would come against him
- 43:07Speaker 3: to destroy him. And I told him that if they
- 43:11Speaker 3: did not believe the words of the prophets, they would
- 43:15Speaker 3: not believe the witness, though the witness come from the grave.
- 43:19Speaker 3: I know there's no need in trying to convince the
- 43:22Speaker 3: Sadducees who didn't believe in the first Lazarus. They're not
- 43:27Speaker 3: going to believe in the last Lazarus. there are some
- 43:30Speaker 3: people that aren't going to believe I don't care what
- 43:32Speaker 3: you do I don't care how you do it I
- 43:35Speaker 3: don't care how much work you go after stop trying
- 43:38Speaker 3: to convince the unconvincible stop trying to reach the unreachable
- 43:44Speaker 3: stop trying to love the unlovable Some people have already
- 43:48Speaker 3: made up their mind and they're through with you. Some
- 43:52Speaker 3: people have made up their mind and they're not going
- 43:54Speaker 3: to use you. But you've got to understand that God
- 43:57Speaker 3: gave you a job to do and you've got to
- 44:00Speaker 3: do it come hell or high water. I feel anointing
- 44:04Speaker 3: about to kick into this place. I feel the Spirit
- 44:07Speaker 3: of God about to move in this place. Something is
- 44:10Speaker 3: about to happen in here. Touch feet and people and
- 44:14Speaker 3: say something is about to happen in here. It will happen.
- 44:20Speaker 3: This is my moment. This is my moment. I can't
- 44:25Speaker 3: miss my moment. I've got to take my moment. I've
- 44:29Speaker 3: got to have my time. I hate to get on
- 44:32Speaker 3: your nerves, but this is my time to open my
- 44:35Speaker 3: mouth and holler. This is my time to open my
- 44:40Speaker 3: mouth and shout. This is my time to declare my deliverance.
- 44:46Speaker 3: This is my time to get my breakthrough. If I
- 44:51Speaker 3: praise him right now, tumors are going to shrink. If
- 44:54Speaker 3: I praise him right now, doors are going to open.
- 44:58Speaker 3: If I praise him right now. My children will be
- 45:02Speaker 3: healed if I praise him right now. He'll touch my
- 45:06Speaker 3: grandmother's body. If I praise him right now, he'll do
- 45:11Speaker 3: a new thing in my life. If I praise him
- 45:14Speaker 3: right now, you're going to see demons running out the building.
- 45:18Speaker 3: the devil don't want me to open my mouth he
- 45:21Speaker 3: wants me to sit back and cross my leg and
- 45:24Speaker 3: act like I'm not going through hell because the devil
- 45:27Speaker 3: works in secret but the devil is alive I'm going
- 45:31Speaker 3: to expose him I'm going to drive him out of
- 45:34Speaker 3: my body I'm going to drive him out of my
- 45:37Speaker 3: mind I'm going to drive him out of my soul
- 45:41Speaker 3: in fact when I open my mouth and shout every
- 45:45Speaker 3: devil in hell is going to run for the door
- 45:48Speaker 3: When I open my mouth and shout, every disease in
- 45:52Speaker 3: this room is going to get up and get out
- 45:55Speaker 3: of here. When I open my mouth and start praising God,
- 46:00Speaker 3: lumps are going to shrink, tumors are going to fall,
- 46:04Speaker 3: high blood pressure is going to fall down, low blood
- 46:07Speaker 3: pressure is going to come. When I open my mouth.
- 46:11Speaker 3: God be just with the yield. When I open my mouth,
- 46:15Speaker 3: God's going to set the captive free. When I open
- 46:19Speaker 3: my mouth, my house is going to be set in order.
- 46:23Speaker 3: And I break every covenant with Satan. The covenants are silent.
- 46:27Speaker 3: The covenants are shutting my mouth. I'm getting ready to
- 46:31Speaker 3: open my mouth. Tell your neighbor, I'm getting ready to
- 46:34Speaker 3: open my mouth. Expect demons to flee out of this view.
- 46:39Speaker 3: Expect demons to come out of this room. When I
- 46:43Speaker 3: open my mouth, all hell is going to break loose.
- 46:47Speaker 3: When I open my mouth, you're going to feel the
- 46:50Speaker 3: power of God like you've ever felt it before. When
- 46:54Speaker 3: I open my mouth, God's going to loose the bound
- 46:58Speaker 3: and set the captive free. When I open my mouth...
- 47:02Speaker 3: God's gonna do a new thing in you when I
- 47:06Speaker 3: open my mouth every demon is gonna come out of
- 47:10Speaker 3: hiding when I open my mouth he's gonna give sight
- 47:15Speaker 3: to the blind when I open my mouth every yoke
- 47:20Speaker 3: will be destroyed are you ready to shout I say,
- 47:24Speaker 3: are you ready to shout? I don't want that cute shout.
- 47:28Speaker 3: I don't want that church shout. I want that Holy
- 47:31Speaker 3: Ghost storefront, devil chasing, mind regulating shout unto God. I'm
- 47:38Speaker 3: going to count to three. And when I count to three,
- 47:42Speaker 3: I want the walls to shake. I want the lights
- 47:45Speaker 3: to flash. I want the tremors to fall. When I
- 47:49Speaker 3: count to three, I want somebody's report to turn around.
- 47:54Speaker 3: When I count to three, your credit report is going
- 47:57Speaker 3: to change. When I count to three, God is going
- 48:01Speaker 3: to build you up and set you free. Are you ready?
- 48:05Speaker 3: I said, are you ready? I said, are you ready?
- 48:09Speaker 3: Are you ready in the balcony? Are you ready on
- 48:12Speaker 3: this side? Are you ready on this side? We got
- 48:16Speaker 3: to do this all together. We got to do this
- 48:20Speaker 3: all together. We got to do this all together. We
- 48:25Speaker 3: got to do this all together. Are you ready? One.
- 48:30Speaker 3: Take a deep breath. Pull into everything that's been worrying you.
- 48:35Speaker 3: Pull in everything that's been getting on your nerves. Pull
- 48:39Speaker 3: in everything that's discouraged you. You've been Martha long enough too.
- 48:45Speaker 3: We're about to flip from Martha to Mary. God's going
- 48:49Speaker 3: to do a new thing in you. When I say three,
- 48:54Speaker 3: I want to hear you. One, two, three. This is
- 49:20Speaker 3: the right moment. This is the right moment. This is
- 49:25Speaker 3: the right moment. This is the right moment. I want
- 49:29Speaker 3: everybody who felt your praise to jump out of the
- 49:33Speaker 3: aisle and praise him like you lost your mind. Everybody
- 49:37Speaker 3: who felt the door open, I want you to give
- 49:40Speaker 3: him the highest praise. The highest praise. The highest. The highest.
- 49:47Speaker 3: Give him the highest praise. Give him the highest. Give
- 49:52Speaker 3: him the highest praise. Give him the highest praise. After
- 49:57Speaker 3: everything you've been through, it's time to give God the praise. One, two, three.
- 50:03Speaker 3: Power to God. Open the door for Jesus. Open the
- 50:43Speaker 3: door for Jesus. Open the door for Jesus. Open the
- 50:51Speaker 3: door for Jesus. Open the door for Jesus. Open the door.
- 50:59Speaker 3: Open the door. Open the door. Open the door. Open
- 51:02Speaker 3: the door. Open the door. Open the door. Let him in.
- 51:07Speaker 3: Let him in. Let him in. Let him in. Let
- 51:12Speaker 3: him in. Come on in. Come on in. Come on in.
- 51:19Speaker 3: Come on in. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him.
- 51:28Speaker 1: Praise him.
- 51:30Speaker 3: Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him.
- 51:36Speaker 3: Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him.
- 51:41Speaker 3: Praise him. Praise him. Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes, Lord! I'm yours.
- 52:19Speaker 3: I'm yours. I'm yours. I'm yours. Somebody say it. Somebody
- 52:35Speaker 3: say it. Somebody say it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
- 52:52Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 52:53Speaker 3: Lift your hands up and say it. Yeah. If you're
- 52:59Speaker 3: not afraid, lift your hands up and say it.
- 53:02Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 53:06Speaker 3: Lift your hands up and say it. Yeah. Lift your
- 53:11Speaker 3: hands up and say it. Yeah. Yeah. Lift your hands
- 53:17Speaker 3: up and say, yeah. Lift your hands up and say, yeah.
- 53:25Speaker 3: Lift your hands up and say, yeah. One more time.
- 53:30Speaker 3: Lift your hands up and say, yeah. Do what you
- 53:36Speaker 3: want to do. Yeah. Take over my life. Take over
- 53:42Speaker 3: my decisions. Yeah. Don't let this moment pass me by.
- 53:50Speaker 3: Don't let this moment pass me by. Don't let this
- 53:56Speaker 3: moment pass me by. One more time and say it.
- 54:03Speaker 2: One more.
- 54:07Speaker 3: Time and say it. One more time and say it.
- 54:18Speaker 3: Somebody say yeah. Somebody say yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 54:37Speaker 3: The anointing is in this place. The spirit of God
- 54:43Speaker 3: is moving. If you heard from God, wave your hand.
- 54:53Speaker 3: I hear you. I see you. You're talking to me.
- 54:59Speaker 3: I'm your disciple. He that had eyes, let him see.
- 55:06Speaker 3: He that had ears, let him hear. You're talking to
- 55:09Speaker 3: me about situations in my life while the preacher was
- 55:14Speaker 3: preaching in general. You were speaking in specifics where I
- 55:19Speaker 3: need to make room for you in my life. And
- 55:26Speaker 3: I'm going to do it today. You're watching online. The
- 55:29Speaker 3: Spirit of God is here. The anointing of God is
- 55:31Speaker 3: upon us. It will happen right now in the name
- 55:36Speaker 3: of Jesus. You've been worried about stuff God never intended
- 55:40Speaker 3: for you to worry about. Give it over to Jesus.
- 55:44Speaker 3: Nudge your neighbor and say, give it over to Jesus.
- 55:53Speaker 3: I'm going to do two things at the same time.
- 55:57Speaker 3: Both of them are important to God. I'm going to
- 56:01Speaker 3: ask you in honor of Luke 10 38 and your
- 56:06Speaker 3: commitment to open and make room for Jesus in the
- 56:10Speaker 3: area of your greatest frustrations. I'm going to ask you
- 56:14Speaker 3: to sow $ 138 into that moment and say, I'm not
- 56:19Speaker 3: going to sow it if I'm going to carry it.
- 56:22Speaker 3: I'm not going to sow it if I'm going to
- 56:23Speaker 3: keep worrying about it. I'm not going to sow it
- 56:25Speaker 3: if I'm going to keep letting it make me moody
- 56:28Speaker 3: and mean and hateful. This is a sign that I'm
- 56:32Speaker 3: turning it over to the Lord and I'm opening up
- 56:35Speaker 3: the door to make room for Jesus. $ 138, Luke 10, 38.
- 56:40Speaker 3: I want it to burn in your head, in your mind,
- 56:43Speaker 3: in your spirit. Yes, I'm talking to you. Watch it online.
- 56:47Speaker 3: I'm talking to you. There's some things God wants broken
- 56:49Speaker 3: and you're not going to break it with your mouth.
- 56:51Speaker 3: You're not going to break it by complaining. You're not
- 56:54Speaker 3: going to break it by falling out with your siblings.
- 56:56Speaker 3: You're not going to break it that way. You've got
- 56:58Speaker 3: to make up in your mind. I'm going to make
- 57:00Speaker 3: room for Jesus. And that means I have to be quiet.
- 57:05Speaker 3: That means I have to hold my peace. That means
- 57:07Speaker 3: I have to step back and let God do it.
- 57:11Speaker 3: That means I got to hold my peace and let
- 57:13Speaker 3: God fight my battles. That means it doesn't matter who's
- 57:17Speaker 3: right or who's wrong. It matters that God gets the
- 57:20Speaker 3: glory out of my life. And right now, right now,
- 57:24Speaker 3: before his saints and his angels, I offer this up
- 57:28Speaker 3: as a living sacrifice, a burning sacrifice unto him. That
- 57:34Speaker 3: the enemies that you see today... Y'all didn't hear what
- 57:39Speaker 3: I said. I'm going to say this. The enemies that
- 57:42Speaker 3: you see today, you shall see them no more. God
- 57:48Speaker 3: is about to burn them up. God is about to
- 57:52Speaker 3: burn it off you. God is about to burn it
- 57:56Speaker 3: off you. Somebody tried to cast a spell, but God
- 58:00Speaker 3: is going to burst it off you. Somebody's meant all
- 58:04Speaker 3: kind of evil against you. But God is going to
- 58:07Speaker 3: break it off you. Because you open up the door
- 58:11Speaker 3: and Jesus is going to come in for no other
- 58:15Speaker 3: reason but to break the yoke that holds you. Hallelujah.
- 58:19Speaker 3: If you're ready to give, shout yes. Lift your telephones
- 58:24Speaker 3: up if you have an envelope or you need an envelope.
- 58:27Speaker 3: They'll give you an envelope. Amen. Amen. If you're online,
- 58:31Speaker 3: I wouldn't let the devil cheat me out of this.
- 58:34Speaker 3: Come hell or high water. I'm going to open this door.
- 58:39Speaker 3: I'm going to open this door. Luke 10 38. I'm
- 58:43Speaker 3: going to open this door. I'm going to get some
- 58:46Speaker 3: God in this. I've been trying to do it by
- 58:48Speaker 3: my might and by my power and by my quick
- 58:51Speaker 3: wit and my tongue and it's not working. Instead of
- 58:55Speaker 3: drawing them closer, I'm pushing them further away. It's not working.
- 59:00Speaker 3: I'm going to give this thing to God and I
- 59:01Speaker 3: make up my mind. God's going to come into this moment.
- 59:05Speaker 3: He's going to come into this moment in the balcony.
- 59:07Speaker 3: He's going to come into this moment. In the pulpit,
- 59:11Speaker 3: he's going to come into this moment. Around the altar,
- 59:14Speaker 3: he's going to come into this moment. Sew it up
- 59:17Speaker 3: before God. When you're ready, pass your seed down to
- 59:21Speaker 3: the left. Not your phone, just your seed. Amen. PMTs,
- 59:30Speaker 3: get ready. It's coming. Tell somebody, say, get ready, it's coming.
- 59:36Speaker 3: Get ready, it's coming. Get ready, it's coming. Did you
- 59:43Speaker 3: hear what you said? Get ready, it's coming. Get ready,
- 59:49Speaker 3: it's coming. Get ready, it's coming. PMTs, serve the people
- 59:55Speaker 3: of God. Keep saying it, get ready, it's coming. Get ready,
- 1:00:00Speaker 3: it's coming. Get ready, it's coming. Get ready, it's coming.
- 1:00:05Speaker 3: Get ready, it's coming. Get ready, it's coming. Get ready,
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: it's coming. My house is represented. Your house is represented.
- 1:00:14Speaker 3: Your needs are represented. Your stress level is going down.
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: A new peace is coming into your spirit right now
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: in the name of Jesus. We're going to seal it
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: up before God in the name of Jesus. Where'd my
- 1:00:37Speaker 3: sister go? Where'd Jackie go? Come out here a little closer.
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: You remember how in Fayetteville, the silver bridge that fell down?
- 1:00:52Speaker 3: You remember that? And it fell all the way down
- 1:00:54Speaker 3: to the ground. And they were trying to figure out
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: what had happened to it. Did somebody make it explode?
- 1:01:01Speaker 3: Was it a terrorist attack? And all kinds of people
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: died right at the Fayetteville Bridge. And they had to
- 1:01:10Speaker 3: tear it all the way down and rebuild again. They
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: finally found out that it wasn't demolition that did it.
- 1:01:18Speaker 3: It was stress. Stress. Just stress. Just what you carry
- 1:01:28Speaker 3: around and say nothing about. Just what you're holding on
- 1:01:32Speaker 3: to from hell or high water. The things you have
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: started to call normal that are abnormal are breaking your
- 1:01:39Speaker 3: back and tearing you down. And when you collapse, all
- 1:01:44Speaker 3: kinds of other people are going to collapse with you.
- 1:01:48Speaker 3: Are you hearing what I'm saying? Stress. It doesn't do
- 1:01:51Speaker 3: it all at once. It wasn't a sudden thing, just
- 1:01:56Speaker 3: a little bit of grinding every day. And they looked
- 1:01:59Speaker 3: around the whole silver bridge. Look it up. It fell
- 1:02:03Speaker 3: completely down to the ground. And they had to build
- 1:02:08Speaker 3: it back, but they couldn't even build it back in
- 1:02:09Speaker 3: the spot it was in. They had to get away
- 1:02:13Speaker 3: from the spot. Some of y'all are going to have
- 1:02:14Speaker 3: to get away. I don't want to be in the spot.
- 1:02:26Speaker 3: I don't even want to be in the spot. I
- 1:02:29Speaker 3: don't even want to be in the spot. Write that down.
- 1:02:33Speaker 3: I don't want to be in the spot. Put it
- 1:02:36Speaker 3: in the chat room. Put it in the computer. Put
- 1:02:40Speaker 3: it on the stage. I don't even want to be
- 1:02:42Speaker 3: in the spot. Hallelujah. Don't come looking for me where
- 1:02:46Speaker 3: I used to be. I'm not going to be there
- 1:02:49Speaker 3: anymore from this Sunday forward. I'm not even going to
- 1:02:54Speaker 3: be in the spot. Now, everybody that's been dealing with
- 1:02:59Speaker 3: stress and trying to internalize it and thinking that it's strength,
- 1:03:05Speaker 3: but it's not strength. It's a setup. And you want
- 1:03:09Speaker 3: to finish it today, run to this altar. No, I
- 1:03:14Speaker 3: didn't say walk. I said run to this altar. Run
- 1:03:18Speaker 3: to this altar like we're getting ready to move today.
- 1:03:22Speaker 3: Like we're getting ready to make changes today. Like we're
- 1:03:26Speaker 3: getting ready to get a release today. Run to this altar.
- 1:03:31Speaker 3: Run to this altar. You've been under stress. It's affecting
- 1:03:36Speaker 3: your sleep. It's affecting your digestion. It's affecting your nervous system.
- 1:03:42Speaker 3: It's affecting your relationships. It's affecting your peace. But the
- 1:03:48Speaker 3: devil is alive. We're going to throw this away. And
- 1:03:52Speaker 3: when we walk out of these doors, we're going to
- 1:03:55Speaker 3: be stress less. I said, we're going to be stress less.
- 1:04:01Speaker 3: Are you with me? I said, are you with me?
- 1:04:05Speaker 3: I say, are you with me? Are you with me? Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: You pride yourself on saying nothing. You brag about what's
- 1:04:19Speaker 3: killing you. You pride yourself on letting no one in.
- 1:04:25Speaker 3: You pride yourself on carrying your cross by yourself. And
- 1:04:29Speaker 3: that stress is breaking you down to the ground. I'm
- 1:04:34Speaker 3: a living witness. I know what it will do for you.
- 1:04:37Speaker 3: It will kill you. This is serious. There is no
- 1:04:45Speaker 3: honor in being silent while you're being stabbed. They stabbed
- 1:04:53Speaker 3: me 15 times, but I didn't say nothing. They don't
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: give no trophies away. We're going to get rid of
- 1:05:05Speaker 3: that today. You watching online? I'm talking to you. I
- 1:05:10Speaker 3: don't know what country you're in, what time zone you're in.
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: I don't know what kind of house you're in. I
- 1:05:15Speaker 3: don't care if you're at work watching me at work.
- 1:05:18Speaker 3: God is going to do something in you. Hallelujah. God
- 1:05:21Speaker 3: is going to do something in you right now. Are
- 1:05:24Speaker 3: you ready for this? Hallelujah. You better recognize this moment.
- 1:05:32Speaker 3: You better recognize this moment. Spirit of the living falls
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: fresh on us. Right now in the name of Jesus.
- 1:05:40Speaker 3: I want you to put a blanket over every soul
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: on this altar. I want you to blanket the people
- 1:05:45Speaker 3: that are praying in their house and in their living room.
- 1:05:48Speaker 3: I want you to cover them with the blood. I
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: want you to lift up a standard against the enemy.
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: A standard against the enemy. A standard against the enemy.
- 1:06:00Speaker 3: A standard against the enemy. When the enemy comes in
- 1:06:04Speaker 3: like a flood, lift up a standard against the enemy.
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: And Father, I decree and declare that the enemies that
- 1:06:14Speaker 3: I see today, I will see them no more. I
- 1:06:18Speaker 3: will rest tonight. I will digest tonight. I will have
- 1:06:24Speaker 3: joy tonight. I'm tired of faking my smile. I'm going
- 1:06:29Speaker 3: to have some joy tonight in the name of Jesus.
- 1:06:33Speaker 3: Lift your hands up. Joy! Like a river. Like a river.
- 1:06:37Speaker 3: Let it flow tonight. Let it flow like a river.
- 1:06:40Speaker 3: Open your mouth and let it flow tonight. In the
- 1:06:42Speaker 3: name of joy! Like a river. In the mighty name
- 1:06:46Speaker 3: of Jesus. It's yours for the takings. It's yours for
- 1:06:50Speaker 3: the taking. It's yours for the taking. Now I want
- 1:06:54Speaker 3: you to praise him any way you feel, any language
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: you feel, anything that comes in your spirit. Create your
- 1:07:02Speaker 3: own praise. Innovate your praise. Innovate your praise. He'll know
- 1:07:09Speaker 3: it's you. He'll know it's you. He knows your fingerprint.
- 1:07:13Speaker 3: He knows your voice pattern. Innovative praise. Innovative praise. I
- 1:07:18Speaker 3: don't care whether you walk from side to side or
- 1:07:21Speaker 3: whether you hop on one foot, but innovative praise! Luke 10, 38.
- 1:07:39Speaker 3: God is going to take you places you have never
- 1:07:42Speaker 3: been and show you sights you have never seen. And
- 1:07:48Speaker 3: every day is going to start passing with a mundane,
- 1:07:51Speaker 3: no experience. God is getting ready to light your life up.
- 1:08:02Speaker 3: You are about to be so interesting. You're going to
- 1:08:07Speaker 3: have so much to say that you're going to have
- 1:08:09Speaker 3: to pick who you say it to because some people
- 1:08:11Speaker 3: can't handle it. Because God's going to give you visions
- 1:08:14Speaker 3: in the night. He's going to give you dreams in
- 1:08:17Speaker 3: your spirit. He's going to give you revelations. He's going
- 1:08:21Speaker 3: to send you to people that you've been scared to
- 1:08:23Speaker 3: talk to. He's going to open up doors for you.
- 1:08:26Speaker 3: He's going to make you a translator. You're going to
- 1:08:28Speaker 3: be in such demand because behold, The word of God
- 1:08:33Speaker 3: is in your mouth and even in your belly. And
- 1:08:36Speaker 3: out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water.
- 1:08:40Speaker 3: Do you hear this? Do you hear this? Do you
- 1:08:43Speaker 3: receive this? Are you married? Are you married? Are you married?
- 1:08:48Speaker 3: I don't want to talk to Martha. Are you married?
- 1:08:51Speaker 3: Are you married? Are you married? Married? You'll never be
- 1:08:57Speaker 3: the same again. You'll never talk... the same again. But
- 1:09:01Speaker 3: this day you have opened the door for a manifestation
- 1:09:07Speaker 3: of our God. Everyone standing. To those of you that
- 1:09:18Speaker 3: are standing, whether you're up here or back there, if
- 1:09:24Speaker 3: you're not sure of heaven, if you don't know absolutely, surely,
- 1:09:29Speaker 3: emphatically that you are going to heaven, press your way
- 1:09:34Speaker 3: through the crowd and go in this room right here.
- 1:09:37Speaker 3: We're going to just have a quick word of prayer
- 1:09:38Speaker 3: with you because heaven can be something that you are
- 1:09:42Speaker 3: secure about. You can know That, oh, heaven. Y'all don't
- 1:09:49Speaker 3: know nothing about that. We used to sing, oh, heaven.
- 1:09:51Speaker 3: Heaven is mine. Oh, heaven. Heaven is mine.
- 1:09:58Speaker 1: At the Potter's House, we are invested in you. Not
- 1:10:02Speaker 1: just what you do, but who you're becoming.
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: We believe that in this house, we are better together.
- 1:10:08Speaker 2: We need one another to be holy, to hold each
- 1:10:11Speaker 2: other accountable, and to keep growing together.
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: As God positions us to serve every soul, we believe
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: that an act of sowing is an act of faith
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: and agreement right where God is speeding you.
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: And we're honored that we get to partner with you
- 1:10:27Speaker 2: in reaching lives near and far. This is your official
- 1:10:32Speaker 2: invitation to not just be a spectator, but to be
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: a partner. Be a member of our family that seeks
- 1:10:39Speaker 2: kingdom solutions during the challenges of every season.
- 1:10:44Speaker 3: Amen.
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: Your giving, your service, and your love to this house
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: isn't just generosity, it's ministry.
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: If this message spoke to you and you believe what
- 1:10:54Speaker 2: God is doing in this house, we invite you to
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: become a member today. We want to do life with you.
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: And share this message with someone you care about, someone
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: who needs it the most. I believe that it could
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: be the catalyst for the breakthrough that they're seeking. No
- 1:11:11Speaker 1: matter where you are, remember, God sees you, He loves you,
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: and so do we.