Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / Keep Moving Even When Fear Is Chasing You Bishop T.D. Jakes
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- 0:12Speaker 1: I want you to get your Bibles and go to
- 0:14Speaker 1: the book of Exodus, chapter number four, it's 14, verse
- 0:18Speaker 1: four through nine, and then we're going to skip down
- 0:20Speaker 1: to 13 through 18. The book of Exodus, chapter number 14,
- 0:24Speaker 1: verse four through nine, and then we're going to go
- 0:26Speaker 1: through nine through 13. But before we read it, I
- 0:30Speaker 1: want you to, if you can, in your mind, in
- 0:32Speaker 1: your heart, in your spirit, in order to feel the
- 0:35Speaker 1: impact of the text, once you have it, stand to
- 0:38Speaker 1: your feet for the reading of the word. And after this,
- 0:42Speaker 1: you can sit the rest of the time. I didn't
- 0:45Speaker 1: tell you to wear them shoes. Don't blame me. Looking
- 0:51Speaker 1: cute is expensive. Amen. Amen. I want you to go
- 0:57Speaker 1: back in your mind. I want to put the text
- 1:00Speaker 1: in context. These are the people of God, but they
- 1:06Speaker 1: haven't really been the people of God for a long time.
- 1:10Speaker 1: They have been in captivity for 400 years in Egypt.
- 1:17Speaker 1: They have been in Egypt 430 years, but the last
- 1:21Speaker 1: 400 years they have been enslaved. Now we consider the
- 1:26Speaker 1: fact that 40 years is typically in scriptures a generation.
- 1:30Speaker 1: 10 generations are living off of the memory of God.
- 1:38Speaker 1: There is some memory of God left because they knew
- 1:42Speaker 1: enough about him after 10 generations to still call on him.
- 1:48Speaker 1: But their faith and their theology and their understanding of
- 1:52Speaker 1: God is diluted by time and polluted by association with
- 1:57Speaker 1: the Egyptians. This is proven because later when they get
- 2:02Speaker 1: in the wilderness and they try to build an image
- 2:04Speaker 1: of God, they build the image of the Egyptians' God.
- 2:08Speaker 1: Because who you hang out with does affect you. And
- 2:15Speaker 1: yet with just a little bit of faith that they
- 2:18Speaker 1: had left enough to call on God by reason of
- 2:21Speaker 1: the intense bondage that was placed on them, they cried
- 2:26Speaker 1: unto God and God heard them. I'm so glad that
- 2:29Speaker 1: you don't have to be perfect or have everything right
- 2:34Speaker 1: for God to hear you. You don't earn the right
- 2:38Speaker 1: to be heard. God heard them. They were struggling but
- 2:42Speaker 1: God heard them. They were broken but God heard them.
- 2:46Speaker 1: They didn't even have full understanding of who he was
- 2:49Speaker 1: but God heard them and sent Moses to deliver them.
- 2:54Speaker 1: Now Moses was somebody they should have known but Moses
- 2:57Speaker 1: has been on the backside of the desert for 40 years.
- 3:01Speaker 1: So whereas the old people might have remembered him The
- 3:06Speaker 1: young people didn't even know who he was. And Moses
- 3:10Speaker 1: has the responsibility of leading a people that he is
- 3:13Speaker 1: kin to, but not familiar with.
- 3:16Speaker 2: Okay.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Now he is leading them out of bondage and away
- 3:22Speaker 1: from Pharaoh. And they have told Pharaoh, let my people
- 3:26Speaker 1: go that they may worship me in the wilderness. And
- 3:30Speaker 1: as they began to leave, Pharaoh changed his mind. Uh-oh,
- 3:35Speaker 1: he's right. And as they're trying to escape and they're
- 3:40Speaker 1: trying to flee, Pharaoh now sets out to take them back.
- 3:46Speaker 1: At least that. Maybe kill them. This is not a democracy.
- 3:53Speaker 1: There are no court systems. There will be no litigations.
- 3:58Speaker 1: They can't file charges. Whatever Pharaoh decides to do to them,
- 4:04Speaker 1: it's done. So as they are fleeing and they sense
- 4:09Speaker 1: Pharaoh coming, who knows what is going to happen. So
- 4:15Speaker 1: as you step into this text, I want you to
- 4:17Speaker 1: step into it as them. And then it will be
- 4:22Speaker 1: my responsibility to make it relative to you. But you
- 4:26Speaker 1: can't appreciate what the text means until you go back
- 4:31Speaker 1: to the utter fear of leaving everything that is familiar
- 4:36Speaker 1: and being on the run. The vulnerability of not being protected,
- 4:40Speaker 1: having neither social or economic power or political status or
- 4:46Speaker 1: a voice to fight back. And here comes a bigger
- 4:49Speaker 1: force coming against you than you've ever had on 600
- 4:56Speaker 1: chosen chariots. And you walking. You can hear the hoof prints.
- 5:08Speaker 1: of the chariots of your past about to overtake you.
- 5:15Speaker 1: And they're on horseback and you got on a pair
- 5:19Speaker 1: of Nikes. That's what's going on in this text. Now
- 5:25Speaker 1: put the text on the screen. Let's take a look
- 5:27Speaker 1: at it. And God says, and I will harden Pharaoh's
- 5:30Speaker 1: heart and he will pursue them. but I will gain
- 5:34Speaker 1: glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army. And
- 5:39Speaker 1: the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. So
- 5:44Speaker 1: the Israelites did this. When the king of Egypt was
- 5:49Speaker 1: told that the people had fled, Pharaoh and his officials
- 5:52Speaker 1: changed their minds about them and said, what have we done?
- 5:56Speaker 3: We have let.
- 5:57Speaker 1: The Israelites go and have lost their services.
- 6:01Speaker 2: Wow.
- 6:03Speaker 1: So he had his chariots made ready and took his
- 6:05Speaker 1: army with him. He took 600 of the best chariots
- 6:12Speaker 1: along with all the other chariots of Egypt with officers
- 6:17Speaker 1: over all of them. The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh,
- 6:23Speaker 1: king of Egypt. The Lord, wait a minute. The Lord.
- 6:29Speaker 1: The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
- 6:34Speaker 1: so that he pursued the Israelites who were marching out boldly.
- 6:44Speaker 1: The same God who told them to go hardened the
- 6:49Speaker 1: heart of the one who's chasing them. Hmm. The Egyptians,
- 6:55Speaker 1: all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, horsemen and troops, pursued the
- 6:59Speaker 1: Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea
- 7:03Speaker 1: of Pah. Oh, let me try it. Hagaroth, opposite Baal-Zaphon.
- 7:12Speaker 1: That Hagaroth was hard. Especially on a few hours of sleep.
- 7:17Speaker 1: Moses answered the people, do not be afraid.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Stand firm.
- 7:27Speaker 1: And you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring
- 7:30Speaker 1: you today. The Egyptians that you see today, you will
- 7:40Speaker 1: never see again. Oh, I can stop right there. You
- 7:47Speaker 1: can go home right there. The Egyptians that you see today,
- 7:51Speaker 1: you will never see them again. Come on. The Lord
- 7:56Speaker 1: will fight for you. You need only be still. Then
- 8:03Speaker 1: the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out
- 8:07Speaker 1: to me? Tell the Israelites to move on. Come on,
- 8:21Speaker 1: give me the rest of it. Raise your staff and
- 8:25Speaker 1: stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the
- 8:28Speaker 1: water so that the Israelites can go through the sea
- 8:32Speaker 1: on dry ground. I will harden the heart of the
- 8:36Speaker 1: Egyptians so that they will go in after them and
- 8:39Speaker 1: I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army
- 8:44Speaker 1: through his chariots and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know,
- 8:50Speaker 1: they will know that I am the Lord when I
- 8:55Speaker 1: gain glory through Pharaoh his chariots and his horsemen somebody
- 9:03Speaker 1: say amen I want to use for a subject remain
- 9:06Speaker 1: standing for just a few more minutes I want to
- 9:08Speaker 1: use for a subject keep it moving because the Lord
- 9:16Speaker 1: said tell Israel to move on But I'm scared, Lord.
- 9:27Speaker 1: Move on. But I don't know what's going to happen.
- 9:32Speaker 1: Move on. But I'm in danger, Lord. Move on. But
- 9:39Speaker 1: I'm feeling.
- 9:40Speaker 3: Vulnerable, Lord. Move on.
- 9:44Speaker 1: How do you keep it moving when all hell is
- 9:47Speaker 1: breaking loose in your life? How can God set this
- 9:53Speaker 1: situation up and put me, if you love me, how
- 9:57Speaker 1: could you put me in a situation like this? this?
- 10:00Speaker 1: And you know I'm human and you know I'm scared.
- 10:04Speaker 1: And yet you still say, move on. Look at your
- 10:11Speaker 1: neighbor on your left and your right and say, keep
- 10:13Speaker 1: it moving. I know the conditions are not everything that
- 10:21Speaker 1: you want them to be. I know all the circumstances
- 10:24Speaker 1: are not the way you would like for them to be.
- 10:26Speaker 1: I know that there are impending dangers that threaten your progress.
- 10:31Speaker 1: I know that you don't have the insurance of an outcome.
- 10:35Speaker 1: And when you don't have insurance, it is difficult to
- 10:38Speaker 1: have assurance. All you have is God's command in your
- 10:42Speaker 1: life that God said, keep it moving. Let's pray about
- 10:47Speaker 1: this and then we're going to talk about it. Father,
- 10:49Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus, we approach that throne, oh God,
- 10:52Speaker 1: and we honor you and we bless your name because
- 10:54Speaker 1: you are God. If you don't do anything, we still
- 10:57Speaker 1: honor you just because you are God. And beside you,
- 11:01Speaker 1: there is no other. Open up the volume of the
- 11:04Speaker 1: book and speak to us in such a way, Lord,
- 11:06Speaker 1: that we understand more clearly your word, the profundity of
- 11:10Speaker 1: your word, the relevance of your word, the power of
- 11:12Speaker 1: your word, but most importantly, the spirit of your word.
- 11:16Speaker 1: For what shall it profit us to understand the letter
- 11:19Speaker 1: of your word and then fail to understand the spirit
- 11:23Speaker 1: and the intent in which it is derived? Speak out
- 11:26Speaker 1: of the volume of the book, O God. Speak to
- 11:29Speaker 1: us in such a way that we will have strength
- 11:31Speaker 1: for the weak. We call it done in Jesus' name.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Somebody shout amen. All right, you can sit down. You
- 11:40Speaker 1: don't have to get up till tomorrow. So I'm in
- 11:46Speaker 1: the airport the other day and I ran into a
- 11:49Speaker 1: fellow clergyman, a pastor here in the city. And we
- 11:52Speaker 1: were exchanging pleasantries. How you doing? Hi, how are you?
- 11:55Speaker 1: So forth and so on. And he said, I want
- 11:56Speaker 1: to ask you a question. I said, okay. He said,
- 11:59Speaker 1: how do you keep it fresh? He said, you always
- 12:04Speaker 1: seem excited. You always got a fresh word. You're always
- 12:06Speaker 1: going for it. He said, how do you keep it fresh?
- 12:09Speaker 3: And I kind of.
- 12:10Speaker 1: Didn't exactly know how to answer that. Because I hadn't
- 12:14Speaker 1: really thought about it like that. It's not like I
- 12:17Speaker 1: was trying to be fresh. Am I fresh? Yeah. It's
- 12:28Speaker 1: not like I get up in the morning and pray, Lord,
- 12:31Speaker 1: help me to keep it fresh. And then my daughter
- 12:36Speaker 1: texted me and she said, one of the things that
- 12:38Speaker 1: I admire about you is that you're never afraid to
- 12:42Speaker 1: be a sophomore again. You know, she has a way
- 12:46Speaker 1: of saying stuff that takes you into deep thought. A
- 12:50Speaker 1: sophomore again, that you're not afraid to recreate yourself, that
- 12:53Speaker 1: you're not afraid to be adventurous, that you're not afraid
- 12:56Speaker 1: to be back at one again, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
- 12:58Speaker 1: 11 is one again on the next level. 21 is
- 13:04Speaker 1: one again on the next level. 31 is one again
- 13:07Speaker 1: on the next level. 41 is one again on the
- 13:09Speaker 1: next level. 51 is one again on the next level.
- 13:12Speaker 1: 61 is one again on the next level. And some
- 13:15Speaker 1: people don't grow because they're not willing to give up
- 13:18Speaker 1: the 10 to be one again. And if you're not
- 13:25Speaker 1: willing to give up the 10, you'll stay where you
- 13:28Speaker 1: are for the prestige of having reached 10. and not
- 13:34Speaker 1: willing to go back to one again, you fail to
- 13:37Speaker 1: grow to what your capacity was meant to be because
- 13:41Speaker 1: you don't want to be a sophomore once you've been
- 13:43Speaker 1: a senior. You don't want to say, I don't know again.
- 13:49Speaker 1: You don't want to do anything that's out of your
- 13:51Speaker 1: comfort zone again. You don't want to go into the
- 13:54Speaker 1: unfamiliar again and you stop growing because you stop going.
- 14:04Speaker 1: In order to keep growing, you have to keep going.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Are you following what I'm saying? And you cannot love
- 14:14Speaker 1: the prestige of 10 to the degree that you fail
- 14:18Speaker 1: to come to 11. 11 puts you in a room
- 14:21Speaker 1: with 20s. And some people can't stand to be in
- 14:28Speaker 1: a room with 20s once they have reached 10. They'd
- 14:33Speaker 1: rather be a big fish in a small pond than
- 14:36Speaker 1: to swim into a bigger stream and be surrounded by
- 14:39Speaker 1: whales and sharks and dolphins and all that kind of stuff.
- 14:45Speaker 1: They like image more than reality. Speaking of fish, you know,
- 14:49Speaker 1: I was reading this thing about, right now, salmon. And
- 14:54Speaker 1: they were talking about how the polar bears are starving
- 14:57Speaker 1: because we're eating up all their food. Salmon has become
- 15:01Speaker 1: so popular all over the world that now when the
- 15:04Speaker 1: polar bears get ready to fish for food and go eat,
- 15:07Speaker 1: they can't eat the salmon that they normally eat because
- 15:10Speaker 1: it's on all of our restaurant menus and it's all
- 15:13Speaker 1: over the world. And I don't mean to make you
- 15:15Speaker 1: feel guilty if you're eating salmon because I know you're
- 15:17Speaker 1: trying to lose weight and all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
- 15:21Speaker 1: I get it. But we're eating up the polar bear's
- 15:23Speaker 1: food and they were talking about salmon. But before salmon
- 15:26Speaker 1: was so popular, it used to be cod. And everybody
- 15:32Speaker 1: was eating cod. And cod was on the East Coast.
- 15:35Speaker 1: Don't worry, this doesn't sound like it has nothing to
- 15:36Speaker 1: do with it, but it will in a minute. Cod
- 15:40Speaker 1: was on the East Coast, and people on the East
- 15:41Speaker 1: Coast were all eating cod. And back then, in order
- 15:46Speaker 1: to get it to the West Coast, because the West
- 15:47Speaker 1: Coast started wanting dishes that were made from cod, they
- 15:51Speaker 1: had to put it on train. And it took a
- 15:54Speaker 1: long time to get it from the East Coast to
- 15:57Speaker 1: the West Coast. So what they did, they started putting
- 16:00Speaker 1: the cod on ice. But by the time they got
- 16:04Speaker 1: it to the West Coast and tried to cook it,
- 16:07Speaker 1: it had lost its taste and its texture. And it
- 16:11Speaker 1: wasn't fresh. So they said, I tell you what we'll do.
- 16:15Speaker 1: We won't. put it on ice, we'll leave them alive
- 16:19Speaker 1: and we'll put them in big fish tanks and we'll
- 16:22Speaker 1: send them on the train and they'll travel by train
- 16:25Speaker 1: and then when they get them there, they'll be fresh
- 16:27Speaker 1: and they did that. And when they got there and
- 16:30Speaker 1: they got ready to cook the cod, it still didn't
- 16:34Speaker 1: taste right and the texture wasn't right. And they couldn't
- 16:38Speaker 1: find a way to ship it and get it to
- 16:40Speaker 1: be fresh. Now I can understand why it wasn't fresh
- 16:44Speaker 1: once it was frozen. But to be alive and not
- 16:47Speaker 1: be fresh was confusing. Yeah, I'm back. How can you
- 17:03Speaker 1: be alive and not be fresh? Traveling and not be fresh.
- 17:09Speaker 1: Swimming and not be fresh. Raising a family and not
- 17:12Speaker 1: be fresh. Look fresh, but not be fresh. Dress fresh,
- 17:17Speaker 1: but not be fresh. Smell fresh, but not be fresh.
- 17:22Speaker 1: When they tasted it, it wasn't fresh. So in a
- 17:27Speaker 1: last ditch effort to try to fix the problem, they
- 17:31Speaker 1: decided to put some catfish in the tank. Now, catfish
- 17:35Speaker 1: are natural predators to dogs. And putting a few catfish
- 17:41Speaker 1: in the tank meant that all the while they were traveling,
- 17:44Speaker 1: the cod had to be on the run. And when
- 17:55Speaker 1: they finally got them there this time, now they were
- 17:58Speaker 1: still fresh. Because in order for the cod to be fresh,
- 18:04Speaker 1: it had to be in an environment of catfish. The
- 18:09Speaker 1: Lord knows exactly what kind of catfish to put in
- 18:13Speaker 1: your life to keep you fresh. And even though fresh
- 18:18Speaker 1: means being uncomfortable and even fresh means being on the
- 18:23Speaker 1: run and being fresh means that you're being chased. I
- 18:31Speaker 1: know you've been praying for a tank with no catfish.
- 18:36Speaker 1: But God uses the catfish to keep you fresh. And
- 18:44Speaker 1: if you think about it in your life, all your life,
- 18:47Speaker 1: you've had something chasing you. You don't really pray right
- 18:51Speaker 1: until something is after you. You don't really seek his
- 18:58Speaker 1: face until something is out to you. You don't really
- 19:01Speaker 1: call on his name until something is out to you.
- 19:04Speaker 1: You don't really reach your potential of greatness until something
- 19:08Speaker 1: is behind you saying you got to go all the way.
- 19:11Speaker 1: You got to finish that class. You got to graduate.
- 19:14Speaker 1: You got to get your degree. You got to open
- 19:17Speaker 1: up that business. You got to make this marriage work.
- 19:19Speaker 1: You got to get this stuff together. It's not because
- 19:22Speaker 1: you're always so happy with things. But it's them dadgum catfish.
- 19:31Speaker 1: Shake hands with somebody and say, what are your catfish? Yeah.
- 19:37Speaker 1: What are your, what are your, what are your, what
- 19:46Speaker 1: are your catfish? Favorite. was Israel's catfish. And God hardened
- 20:01Speaker 1: his heart so that they could see his glory. And
- 20:10Speaker 1: he created the situation to put them in a predicament
- 20:15Speaker 1: that they couldn't get out of. So that they would
- 20:18Speaker 1: know that it's not by might nor by power, but
- 20:22Speaker 1: by my spirit, saith the Lord, that brings you out
- 20:25Speaker 1: of every dungeon, every trap, every device that the enemy
- 20:30Speaker 1: comes up against you. If you didn't have opposition, if
- 20:34Speaker 1: you didn't have opposition, you would think you got there
- 20:36Speaker 1: by yourself. But thank God for the catfish that lets
- 20:40Speaker 1: you know. Can you imagine the utter terror of having
- 20:52Speaker 1: a two-year-old in one hand and a newborn baby in
- 20:56Speaker 1: your arms and being a slave on the run from
- 21:05Speaker 1: a Pharaoh who doesn't just come after you, but he
- 21:09Speaker 1: gets his best chariots. See, some of you are crying
- 21:14Speaker 1: out in distress, but you have to understand other people
- 21:18Speaker 1: look at you and say you're whining, but they don't
- 21:21Speaker 1: understand you're not running from horses. You're running from 600
- 21:24Speaker 1: chosen chariots. Satan has shot his best shot trying to
- 21:32Speaker 1: take you down. And you're not in trouble because you're weak.
- 21:36Speaker 1: You're not in trouble because you're not consistent. You're in
- 21:40Speaker 1: trouble because the enemy has loosed assassins to utterly annihilate you.
- 21:52Speaker 1: And you are in a fearful atmosphere. And you're moving forward,
- 21:58Speaker 1: but you're under attack. The train is still rolling, but
- 22:03Speaker 1: the catfish are still nipping at you. You can see
- 22:06Speaker 1: when you're gaining ground, but you keep looking back because
- 22:09Speaker 1: you know that you got to keep moving because you
- 22:13Speaker 1: got something chasing you. Somebody in this room has got
- 22:16Speaker 1: a devil to fight. I know in the church inside,
- 22:19Speaker 1: some people come because they got a nice dress to wear.
- 22:22Speaker 1: And some people come because they're looking for a girlfriend.
- 22:25Speaker 1: And some people come because they want to do business.
- 22:28Speaker 1: But some of us are here because of the catfish.
- 22:36Speaker 1: Some people are here because they're curious, but other people
- 22:39Speaker 1: are here because you've got catfish chasing you and you're saying,
- 22:43Speaker 1: give us this day our daily bread and forgive us
- 22:45Speaker 1: our trespasses and lead us not into temptation. And by
- 22:49Speaker 1: the way, Lord, please deliver us from evil. These people
- 23:02Speaker 1: are fleeing from oppression. And they're going where they've never
- 23:08Speaker 1: been to do something that they have never done with
- 23:13Speaker 1: someone leading them that they have never met. I've been
- 23:18Speaker 1: here 10 years. I never shook your hand. Moses has
- 23:24Speaker 1: been gone 40 years. It's not like he's been hanging
- 23:27Speaker 1: out at Starbucks with these people. And they are up
- 23:31Speaker 1: under his leadership. And he has led them to a
- 23:36Speaker 1: scary place. I would like to submit for your consideration
- 23:41Speaker 1: that you are not living until you have been living
- 23:45Speaker 1: in a scary place. You don't know who you are
- 23:53Speaker 1: until you've been in a scary place. You don't know
- 23:56Speaker 1: what God can do until you've been in a scary place.
- 23:59Speaker 1: You don't know what faith is until you've been in
- 24:02Speaker 1: a scary place.
- 24:03Speaker 3: You don't know how powerful.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Your God is until you've been in a scary place.
- 24:08Speaker 1: Up until then, it's just religion and doctrine and theology.
- 24:12Speaker 1: And it's Women's Sunday and the Men's Sunday and the
- 24:15Speaker 1: Cat Fry Sunday. But when you're in a scary place,
- 24:19Speaker 1: it changes what church... feels like to you because of
- 24:27Speaker 1: the catfish which brings me to this whole fear that
- 24:38Speaker 1: they had and what's funny here is the cohabitation of
- 24:46Speaker 1: faith and fear They had enough faith to go, so
- 24:50Speaker 1: we can't say they didn't have faith. They packed up
- 24:53Speaker 1: everything they had and left in the middle of the
- 24:56Speaker 1: night at the dictates of the Holy Spirit to go
- 25:01Speaker 1: someplace they'd never been. That took faith. It took faith
- 25:06Speaker 1: to go. And God brought them out. The death angel
- 25:10Speaker 1: had passed through that night. And the Bible says that
- 25:13Speaker 1: every house that didn't have blood on it, the death
- 25:16Speaker 1: angel had stepped in and taken a son out of
- 25:18Speaker 1: the house, a son out of the house. That's quite
- 25:20Speaker 1: an offering. I might give you a chicken or something.
- 25:27Speaker 1: But they had the faith to believe God to go.
- 25:31Speaker 1: And they were doing real good until they ran into
- 25:34Speaker 1: the fear factor. In President Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope,
- 25:44Speaker 1: he wrote a line that stays with me all the time.
- 25:47Speaker 1: The presence of faith is not the absence of doubt.
- 25:55Speaker 1: You have to think about that a minute. The presence
- 25:56Speaker 1: of faith is not the absence of doubt. That doubt
- 26:03Speaker 1: and faith can live in the same space. I believe you.
- 26:10Speaker 1: but I'm worried. I trust you, but I'm nervous. I
- 26:15Speaker 1: know it's going to be all right, but I'm still
- 26:17Speaker 1: up at 2 o'clock in the morning. Now, this message
- 26:20Speaker 1: is for the real people. Church people are not going
- 26:26Speaker 1: to own up to the fact that there are some
- 26:28Speaker 1: things that can happen to you. I don't care how
- 26:30Speaker 1: many scriptures you know. I don't care how long you've
- 26:33Speaker 1: been in church. I don't care if you can quote
- 26:35Speaker 1: the entire New Testament. There are some things that can
- 26:38Speaker 1: happen in your life that makes your heart start beating
- 26:41Speaker 1: in your chest until it looks like your dress is jumping.
- 26:48Speaker 1: And you do like Peter and you say,' Terrace thou
- 26:51Speaker 1: not that we perish?' We like to think that people
- 26:57Speaker 1: are good or evil and right and wrong or up
- 27:00Speaker 1: and down, believers or unbelievers, but the truth of the
- 27:03Speaker 1: matter is believers have doubt. And they get scared sometimes.
- 27:16Speaker 1: Maybe we're not supposed to. But when you hear the
- 27:22Speaker 1: hoof prints of of something that you dreaded, that you
- 27:27Speaker 1: had had 400 years of trauma with, and you finally
- 27:33Speaker 1: thought you got away, and all of a sudden you
- 27:37Speaker 1: hear the hoof prints of something trying to overtake you,
- 27:40Speaker 1: that you have dedicated and risked everything in your life
- 27:44Speaker 1: to escape, it's hard to be cool and scared. You
- 27:51Speaker 1: can look cool, There are some people that can look
- 27:55Speaker 1: like nothing bothers them. And you say, Lord, I wish
- 27:59Speaker 1: I was more like them. Stop praying prayers where you
- 28:02Speaker 1: wish you were more like people. Because you can't tell
- 28:05Speaker 1: what's going on inside of me by looking at my face.
- 28:10Speaker 3: The truth of.
- 28:11Speaker 1: The matter is, I can look cool and still be
- 28:15Speaker 1: frightened out of my wits. Pharaoh had absolute power. He
- 28:21Speaker 1: had no Congress. He had no Senate. He had no
- 28:24Speaker 1: Supreme Court. He had nobody to check him. He could
- 28:30Speaker 1: kill him. And absolute power produces absolute terror. If I
- 28:38Speaker 1: know I'm totally at your mercy and I don't know
- 28:42Speaker 1: how things are going to end up, it's terrifying. I
- 28:47Speaker 1: want to speak to your worry. I want to speak
- 28:49Speaker 1: to your fear. I want to speak to your anxiety.
- 28:53Speaker 1: I want to speak to the thing that speaks to
- 28:55Speaker 1: you when church is over. I want to speak to
- 29:04Speaker 1: the thing that's got you.
- 29:05Speaker 3: Up at two o'clock in the morning.
- 29:08Speaker 1: I want to speak to you about the thing that
- 29:10Speaker 1: you can't speak to other people about. Because it's too personal,
- 29:15Speaker 1: and it's too scary, and it's too dangerous, and you
- 29:17Speaker 1: don't even want to talk about it, but it's chasing
- 29:20Speaker 1: you around your tank. It's chasing you around your tank. Fear.
- 29:28Speaker 1: I'm talking about real fear. I was in South Africa.
- 29:33Speaker 1: I'm going to get back to it in a minute.
- 29:34Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to you. I was in South Africa,
- 29:37Speaker 1: and one of the brothers that was in South Africa
- 29:39Speaker 1: is scared of monkeys. and the monkeys are all over
- 29:42Speaker 1: the place in South Africa you know so if you're
- 29:44Speaker 1: eating breakfast out on the terrace or something like that
- 29:47Speaker 1: the monkey is waiting on you to move because they
- 29:51Speaker 1: will come in and take your roll before you can
- 29:54Speaker 1: put butter on it they'll come in and take your
- 29:55Speaker 1: roll and laugh at you I thought the monkeys was cute.
- 29:59Speaker 1: He was having a spasm. And he said, I'm scared
- 30:04Speaker 1: of monkeys. It didn't really bother me like that because
- 30:09Speaker 1: I figured I'm bigger than the monkey. And if it
- 30:12Speaker 1: came down to it and we had to knuckle, I
- 30:18Speaker 1: know it might not be Christian, but I will fight
- 30:20Speaker 1: a monkey. Especially if I'm hungry, I will flat out
- 30:26Speaker 1: punch a monkey Uh-oh, the animal rights people are in here.
- 30:32Speaker 1: Praise for my strength in the Lord. If you're not
- 30:38Speaker 1: paying for that breakfast, put my roll down.
- 30:43Speaker 3: That's where I was about it.
- 30:45Speaker 1: Y'all would have been reading about me in the South
- 30:49Speaker 1: African telegram where your pastor punched out a monkey over
- 30:54Speaker 1: a road. So I wasn't scared of the monkey. I
- 30:58Speaker 1: thought they were cute. But I am scared of some things.
- 31:09Speaker 1: And just because I'm not scared of what you're scared
- 31:11Speaker 1: of doesn't mean that your fear is not real. Because
- 31:17Speaker 1: everybody's scared of something. I looked like a hero in
- 31:19Speaker 1: that moment. I said, I'll protect you. I said, the
- 31:25Speaker 1: monkey wasn't but that big. It wasn't like it was
- 31:28Speaker 1: a gorilla or nothing like that. That would have changed.
- 31:31Speaker 1: I would have took this out of the sermon. I
- 31:32Speaker 1: wouldn't even... Fear does stuff to the body. Living under
- 31:45Speaker 1: constant fear, though it is an emotion, it actually takes
- 31:49Speaker 1: toll on the body. It affects your physical health. It
- 31:57Speaker 1: even weakens your immune system. Affects your digestive tract. Does
- 32:03Speaker 1: damage to your cardiovascular system. Fear does stuff that doctors
- 32:09Speaker 1: can detect in the body that you have no reason
- 32:12Speaker 1: to be sick and yet your body is responding to
- 32:15Speaker 1: something that the doctor cannot detect. They're just seeing the
- 32:20Speaker 1: effects of fear on the body. Irritable bowel syndrome, all
- 32:23Speaker 1: kinds of stuff happen to you. Decreased fertility because you're afraid.
- 32:27Speaker 1: Because your body is taking all of your blood and
- 32:30Speaker 1: directing it toward fight or flight. Increasing your sight so
- 32:36Speaker 1: you can see and your legs so you can run.
- 32:39Speaker 1: The blood that normally feeds your body and your functions
- 32:43Speaker 1: is fleeing because you are in fight or flight mode.
- 32:52Speaker 1: So fear takes a toll on you because our primal
- 32:56Speaker 1: instinct is to flee or fight. But fear doesn't just
- 33:03Speaker 1: take a toll on your body. It also takes a
- 33:06Speaker 1: toll on your mind. They call it amygdala hijack. It
- 33:12Speaker 1: affects your mind. It hijacks everything. Your brain perceives everything
- 33:18Speaker 1: differently when you're afraid. You can't trust your judgment when
- 33:25Speaker 1: you're afraid. You see everything as negative when you're afraid.
- 33:29Speaker 1: It affects everything about your decisions when you're afraid. We
- 33:36Speaker 1: used to call it paranoia. You're just paranoid. Is there
- 33:40Speaker 1: anybody in here that's ever just been paranoid? The phone
- 33:44Speaker 1: rings and you jump. Or you just feel like something
- 33:48Speaker 1: is about to happen. My wife describes it as if
- 33:50Speaker 1: feeling like a balloon is full of water and it's
- 33:53Speaker 1: about to bust up over your head and you don't
- 33:56Speaker 1: know who's got the pin.
- 34:02Speaker 3: Anxiety. It affects everything.
- 34:06Speaker 1: And if you're up under it long enough, it causes
- 34:10Speaker 1: the brain now hijacked to remember certain things like how
- 34:16Speaker 1: something smelt or sight or sound will take you right
- 34:22Speaker 1: back to that spot. So you end up with post-traumatic
- 34:27Speaker 1: stress disorder. It's over, but it's not over for you.
- 34:32Speaker 1: And there are triggers that can take you right back
- 34:35Speaker 1: to that space and you will react off a trigger
- 34:39Speaker 1: though the problem is gone. I want you to think
- 34:45Speaker 1: about that because I think what I'm teaching right now
- 34:49Speaker 1: has destroyed more marriages and more ministries than anything we
- 34:53Speaker 1: could talk about. It's not what's going on. It's that
- 34:56Speaker 1: what is going on is triggered something that went on.
- 35:02Speaker 1: Nobody ever got destroyed by hoofbeats. But the sound of
- 35:09Speaker 1: the hoofbeats is a trigger. And reminds them of the
- 35:15Speaker 1: abuse of 400 years. And Pharaoh has actually hurt nobody.
- 35:23Speaker 1: But they heard him coming. And they were struck with terror.
- 35:28Speaker 3: You have to be careful.
- 35:29Speaker 1: We were singing a minute ago, the devil is a liar.
- 35:32Speaker 1: And he is. But the lie can be a trigger.
- 35:36Speaker 1: And when he brings up what could happen and you
- 35:39Speaker 1: remember something that did happen, it's almost as if it
- 35:43Speaker 1: is happening.
- 35:46Speaker 2: Oh.
- 35:49Speaker 1: And all of a sudden you overreact in the situation
- 35:52Speaker 1: and people who haven't been through what you've been through
- 35:55Speaker 1: don't understand why you are flipping out over this situation.
- 36:01Speaker 1: But it's a trigger. And you're horrified. And it doesn't
- 36:10Speaker 1: always have to be a horse coming. It can be
- 36:15Speaker 1: a heartbreak. It can be a disappointment. It can be
- 36:20Speaker 1: a lost job. It can be a lost opportunity. And
- 36:24Speaker 1: all of a sudden, instead of being rational and saying, well,
- 36:28Speaker 1: I have to find me another job, you want to
- 36:30Speaker 1: kill yourself. Oh, God, my life is over. I'm cursed.
- 36:33Speaker 1: Nothing goes right. You're just.
- 36:38Speaker 1: And you just spasm out. And Pharaoh hadn't even touched you.
- 36:45Speaker 1: You just heard hoof prints. And your life, your joy,
- 36:52Speaker 1: your peace, your amygdala has hijacked the opportunity you have
- 36:57Speaker 1: to be happy right now. Because it keeps dragging you
- 37:01Speaker 1: back into something that you are actually out of. Oh,
- 37:09Speaker 1: y'all missed that. Y'all missed that. See, the Bible said
- 37:12Speaker 1: the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy. And one
- 37:16Speaker 1: of the things he will do is steal the peace
- 37:19Speaker 1: of where you are with the threat of where you've been.
- 37:23Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, when you hear the hook
- 37:25Speaker 1: prints coming, it's not like he got you, but it
- 37:28Speaker 1: reminds you that he used to have you. And all
- 37:31Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's as if you're already dead. Now
- 37:36Speaker 1: they're cursing where they're at and wishing for where they've
- 37:40Speaker 1: been and saying, why didn't you leave us in Egypt?
- 37:47Speaker 1: Why didn't you leave us where we just got through
- 37:50Speaker 1: praying to get out of? Because if you're not careful,
- 37:55Speaker 1: fear will cause you to be stuck at 10 rather
- 37:59Speaker 1: than risk going to 11.
- 38:00Speaker 2: Amen.
- 38:01Speaker 1: Oh God, who am I talking to? I'm talking to somebody.
- 38:04Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to. Somebody's getting ready
- 38:07Speaker 1: to step into the next dimension and God is getting
- 38:10Speaker 1: you ready for something and he needed you to hear
- 38:19Speaker 1: this message. Nudge your neighbor and say, don't get stuck.
- 38:25Speaker 1: Because fear can paralyze you. Fear can shut you down.
- 38:30Speaker 1: Fear can immobilize you. Fear can make you run everybody away,
- 38:34Speaker 1: even people who are going to help you. But the
- 38:37Speaker 1: fear that you might get hurt again, just get out.
- 38:40Speaker 1: Pack your stuff and get out of here. You're just
- 38:44Speaker 1: like my daddy. Go on, get out. I'm not going
- 38:48Speaker 1: to do this again. And fear can make you drive
- 38:52Speaker 1: away people who are trying to help you. And so
- 38:57Speaker 1: there the Israelites are mad at Moses. Because your perception
- 39:05Speaker 1: of who's with you and who's against you can be
- 39:09Speaker 1: disrupted by fear. Fear of rejection. Fear of disappointment. Fear
- 39:24Speaker 1: of failure can make you not try Fear of falling
- 39:29Speaker 1: can make you not climb. Fear of being defeated can
- 39:34Speaker 1: make you not fight. There are a lot of you,
- 39:37Speaker 1: you're not as passive as everybody thinks you are. And
- 39:40Speaker 1: you're not as apathetical as they define you to be.
- 39:43Speaker 1: It's just that you're afraid you'll fall. So maybe I
- 39:49Speaker 1: shouldn't climb. If I don't climb, I don't fall. If
- 39:56Speaker 1: I don't go, I won't have to go back. If
- 39:59Speaker 1: I'm a slave, I wouldn't have to deal with this.
- 40:01Speaker 1: Take me back. And all of a sudden, the sights,
- 40:05Speaker 1: the sounds, the smells become triggers that make us forfeit
- 40:11Speaker 1: what God has in front of us. And yet in
- 40:16Speaker 1: spite of all of this, in spite of what fear
- 40:19Speaker 1: has done to the mind, in spite of what fear
- 40:21Speaker 1: does to the body, in spite of all of these circumstances,
- 40:26Speaker 1: the Bible says that God is going to get some
- 40:29Speaker 1: glory out of this. Now, I want you to say
- 40:37Speaker 1: that with me. God is going to get some glory
- 40:41Speaker 1: out of this. It's about to sink in. Let's do
- 40:46Speaker 1: it again. God is going to get some glory out
- 40:50Speaker 1: of this. I want you to think about whatever your
- 40:53Speaker 1: this is, whatever your catfish are, whatever your Pharaoh is,
- 40:57Speaker 1: whatever that thing that kept you up at night.
- 41:00Speaker 3: Say it again.
- 41:01Speaker 1: God is going to get some glory out of this.
- 41:04Speaker 1: Now give him 30 seconds of crazy praise. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
- 41:26Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
- 41:29Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 41:34Speaker 3: Yes. Yes.
- 41:37Speaker 2: Yes.
- 41:39Speaker 4: Yes.
- 41:41Speaker 2: Yes.
- 41:47Speaker 1: See, the reason I got you praising him, I'm trying
- 41:49Speaker 1: to break that paralysis. I'm trying to break that paralysis
- 41:54Speaker 1: that's got you stuck in the same spot, buffering, buffering, buffering, buffering, buffering, worrying, worrying, worrying, upset, upset, upset,
- 42:05Speaker 1: mood swings, mood swings, mood swings. If you praise him,
- 42:08Speaker 1: you'll break that paralysis. I'm going to praise him until
- 42:27Speaker 1: I get my family back. I'm going to praise him
- 42:30Speaker 1: until I get my courage back. I'm going to praise
- 42:32Speaker 1: him until I get my strength back. I'm going to
- 42:34Speaker 1: praise him until I get my fight back. I'm going
- 42:37Speaker 1: to praise him until I get a sense of direction back.
- 42:39Speaker 1: I'm going to praise him until I get up off
- 42:42Speaker 1: the floor. I'm going to praise him until I stand.
- 42:44Speaker 3: Up and start walking.
- 42:47Speaker 1: Somebody help me praise him. Touch three people that are
- 43:03Speaker 1: being blessed around you and say, keep it moving, keep
- 43:06Speaker 1: it moving, keep it moving. Keep it moving. Keep it moving.
- 43:10Speaker 1: Keep it moving. When you don't know what to do,
- 43:33Speaker 1: When you don't know where to go. When you're worried
- 43:37Speaker 1: about what might happen. When the enemy is threatening your future.
- 43:44Speaker 1: When your past is trying to overtake you. Oh my God,
- 43:49Speaker 1: I feel you preaching to me this morning. I feel
- 43:51Speaker 1: you preaching to me this morning. I don't know whether
- 43:54Speaker 1: I'm preaching to you or you're preaching to me. But
- 43:56Speaker 1: maybe where iron is sharpening iron. Iron is sharpening iron.
- 44:01Speaker 1: Iron is sharpening iron. So Moses said, I'm just talking
- 44:20Speaker 1: to you. I'll tell you, you don't have to get
- 44:30Speaker 1: up no more.
- 44:31Speaker 2: Moses.
- 44:32Speaker 1: Moses is talking to God because sometimes you don't have
- 44:35Speaker 1: nobody else to talk to. He can't talk to Pharaoh.
- 44:41Speaker 1: Pharaoh is chasing him. And he can't talk to Israel
- 44:46Speaker 1: because they're mad at him.
- 44:51Speaker 3: And sometimes.
- 44:54Speaker 1: In the fearful place, the worst part of the fear
- 44:58Speaker 1: is that there's nobody to talk to. And maybe I
- 45:04Speaker 1: wouldn't be so afraid if I could just Talk about it.
- 45:12Speaker 1: And Moses has nobody to talk to. So he cries
- 45:19Speaker 1: out to God. The best prayer meetings come out of
- 45:26Speaker 1: the worst situations. You don't have a great prayer meeting
- 45:31Speaker 1: because it's Wednesday. You have a great prayer meeting because
- 45:34Speaker 1: all hell is breaking loose. You have a great prayer
- 45:38Speaker 1: meeting because the catfish are in your tent. You have
- 45:41Speaker 1: a great prayer meeting because Pharaoh is after your hind end.
- 45:45Speaker 1: It will make you get there. I know you're conservative
- 45:47Speaker 1: and you're quiet and you're just not that kind of person.
- 45:51Speaker 1: But if you get in enough trouble... If you get
- 45:54Speaker 1: enough trouble going after you, trouble will make you act
- 45:57Speaker 1: like you Pentecostal whether you are or not. It'll have
- 46:01Speaker 1: you running around your house.
- 46:03Speaker 3: Talking in tongues. I wish I had a witness in
- 46:09Speaker 3: this place.
- 46:23Speaker 1: And Moses is looking up to God like, I didn't
- 46:26Speaker 1: sign up for this. Have you ever told God, I
- 46:29Speaker 1: didn't sign up for this? I didn't ask for this
- 46:35Speaker 1: stuff that's happening in my life right now. You didn't
- 46:42Speaker 1: tell me I was going to get in school, my.
- 46:44Speaker 3: Parents were going to get a divorce. I didn't sign
- 46:46Speaker 3: up for this.
- 46:49Speaker 1: You didn't tell me my husband was going to cheat
- 46:50Speaker 1: on me. I didn't sign up for this. You didn't
- 46:54Speaker 1: tell me my baby was gonna be born deformed. What
- 47:03Speaker 1: do you do when you find yourself in something that
- 47:05Speaker 1: you didn't sign up for? Because you know something I
- 47:09Speaker 1: found out about God? God is weak on details. He
- 47:19Speaker 1: don't tell you all the details. Just go down there
- 47:22Speaker 1: and tell Pharaoh to let my people go. He didn't
- 47:28Speaker 1: mention he going to try to kill you when you
- 47:30Speaker 1: do it. Them little details kind of help a brother out.
- 47:35Speaker 3: I would kind of.
- 47:36Speaker 1: Like to know if you're going to assign 600 hit
- 47:39Speaker 1: men to come kill me before I get started. I
- 47:43Speaker 1: didn't sign up for this. And he looks up to
- 47:58Speaker 1: God and he says, what am I supposed to do?
- 48:03Speaker 1: The people you sent me to help, they don't even
- 48:04Speaker 1: like me. The people I'm trying to help don't like me.
- 48:15Speaker 1: My own child don't like me. My mama don't like me.
- 48:20Speaker 1: The people who are supposed to be on my team.
- 48:23Speaker 1: I don't mind having to fight the devils, but the
- 48:28Speaker 1: people that are... Y'all ain't ready for me. I thought
- 48:33Speaker 1: y'all wanted me to come home. What do you do
- 48:37Speaker 1: when the very people that you're trying to help don't
- 48:40Speaker 1: even appreciate you? I don't mind fighting my enemies, but
- 48:48Speaker 1: I didn't expect to have to fight you too. And
- 49:02Speaker 1: then God says the strangest thing.
- 49:06Speaker 2: Here.
- 49:07Speaker 1: He calls on God to help and God does absolutely nothing.
- 49:16Speaker 1: Now preachers don't preach about that. They preach the sermons.
- 49:20Speaker 1: where you called on the Lord and the Lord moved
- 49:25Speaker 1: I don't really need you to tell me what to
- 49:27Speaker 1: do when I call on the Lord and the Lord
- 49:30Speaker 1: moves I need somebody to tell me what to do when.
- 49:33Speaker 3: I call on the Lord and.
- 49:41Speaker 1: I want to take series on that. What do you
- 49:48Speaker 1: do when you ask him to heal and he doesn't?
- 49:53Speaker 1: And you're asking for prosperity and they take your car.
- 50:00Speaker 1: What do you do when things aren't turning out the
- 50:03Speaker 1: way you had in mind? I'll tell you what you do.
- 50:10Speaker 1: Keep it moving. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying.
- 50:18Speaker 1: You don't hear the power of what I'm saying. You
- 50:22Speaker 1: don't understand that some of the release of the power
- 50:25Speaker 1: of God can only be released if you... Yeah, if
- 50:31Speaker 1: you don't keep it moving, it's not going to work.
- 50:34Speaker 1: The enemy's trying to shut you down and leave you paralyzed.
- 50:38Speaker 1: But the Lord said, I don't care what triggers you hear.
- 50:42Speaker 1: I don't care what sound you heard. Amen. So God
- 50:59Speaker 1: says to Moses, tell the people to keep it moving.
- 51:05Speaker 1: And God said to me, to tell you. Keep it moving.
- 51:18Speaker 1: I know you're scared, but keep it moving. I know
- 51:23Speaker 1: the enemy is playing your triggers, but keep it moving.
- 51:27Speaker 1: I know you don't know the outcome of this situation,
- 51:30Speaker 1: but keep it moving. I know you wish I would
- 51:34Speaker 1: clear the tank of all the catfish, but keep it moving.
- 51:38Speaker 1: I'm God and I know what you need and I
- 51:41Speaker 1: know what it takes to keep you fresh and I
- 51:44Speaker 1: know what it takes to get the glory out of
- 51:47Speaker 1: your life and it's my job to be God and
- 51:50Speaker 1: it's your job to.
- 52:07Speaker 1: I made it all the way. I started preaching when
- 52:10Speaker 1: I was 19. And they said I wouldn't last two weeks.
- 52:15Speaker 1: And I made it all the way to 62. I'm
- 52:24Speaker 1: chasing you. I ain't got there yet, but I'm on
- 52:27Speaker 1: your heels, buddy. I'm coming after you. Because you can't
- 52:31Speaker 1: go ahead if you don't keep it moving. So I
- 52:36Speaker 1: kept it moving when I was broke. And I kept
- 52:40Speaker 1: it moving when I had some money. And I kept
- 52:44Speaker 1: it moving when things were going right. And I kept
- 52:47Speaker 1: it moving when things were going bad. And I kept
- 52:50Speaker 1: it moving when I had the faith. And I kept
- 52:53Speaker 1: it moving when I was scared out of my mind.
- 52:55Speaker 1: To all of it. I know you're scared, but keep
- 52:58Speaker 1: it moving. Keep it moving. What I got planned will
- 53:02Speaker 1: only work if you.
- 53:06Speaker 3: See, I got something set up.
- 53:08Speaker 1: Down the road that's going to fix this whole problem.
- 53:12Speaker 1: But you got to be in the right place in
- 53:15Speaker 1: order for my plan to activate. If you stop right here,
- 53:19Speaker 1: I can't get no glory out of your life. But
- 53:22Speaker 1: if you just keep it moving right down the road,
- 53:26Speaker 1: I got a setup for everything that's trying.
- 53:29Speaker 3: To attack you right now. Who am I preaching to?
- 53:45Speaker 1: You see, what I'm trying to get you to understand
- 53:47Speaker 1: is that if they would have stopped right there, Pharaoh
- 53:51Speaker 1: would have overtook them. He would have destroyed them. The
- 53:57Speaker 1: miracle was in the movement. The miracle was in the movements.
- 54:06Speaker 1: The miracle was in the movements. The miracle was in
- 54:11Speaker 1: the movement. The miracle is in the movement. And there's
- 54:15Speaker 1: somebody this morning that the enemy's trying to paralyze you
- 54:19Speaker 1: with fear, and he's causing all your triggers to go off.
- 54:23Speaker 1: And the Lord said, if you just keep it moving,
- 54:25Speaker 1: you're going to walk right into the power of God,
- 54:29Speaker 1: and God's going to get the glory. Amen. See, we
- 54:35Speaker 1: always preach about what happened at the Red Sea, but
- 54:39Speaker 1: you got to get to the Red Sea in order
- 54:42Speaker 1: for that to happen. And the enemy doesn't even want
- 54:45Speaker 1: you to make it to the Red Sea. Another thing,
- 54:59Speaker 1: the other reason God didn't say anything is that he
- 55:03Speaker 1: wanted Moses to discover what was in his hand. God
- 55:16Speaker 1: didn't need to do anything else because he had already
- 55:21Speaker 1: equipped Moses for where he was at this stage in
- 55:26Speaker 1: his life.
- 55:27Speaker 3: And I don't know who.
- 55:28Speaker 1: I'm preaching to, but God has already equipped you And
- 55:33Speaker 1: his grace is sufficient. Somebody talk to me this morning.
- 55:41Speaker 1: His grace, I know it's painful, but his grace is sufficient.
- 55:48Speaker 1: I know you're crying all night long, but his grace
- 55:52Speaker 1: is sufficient. I already put enough stuff in your hand.
- 56:03Speaker 1: That if you learn to use what I gave you,
- 56:09Speaker 1: no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper.
- 56:16Speaker 1: In fact, I set this up so you could see
- 56:20Speaker 1: what you got. I hardened his heart so you could
- 56:27Speaker 1: see what you got. I made him chase you so
- 56:31Speaker 1: you could see what you got. I sent him after
- 56:35Speaker 1: you so you would stay fresh. What I'm trying to
- 56:45Speaker 1: say is that Pharaoh is your catfish. And God put
- 56:53Speaker 1: him in the tank. The devil didn't put him in
- 56:58Speaker 1: the table. The Bible doesn't say that the devil sent Pharaoh.
- 57:04Speaker 1: It said the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart. You'll never know
- 57:13Speaker 1: what you got until God puts catfish in your table.
- 57:20Speaker 1: You'll never know what you got until Pharaoh comes after you.
- 57:26Speaker 1: And everything in your head told you you don't think
- 57:29Speaker 1: right when you're scared says go back to something that
- 57:34Speaker 1: you're trying to get out of. Because it don't seem
- 57:39Speaker 1: like this church thing is working. This Jesus thing ain't
- 57:50Speaker 1: working out for me right now. I lost my house,
- 57:54Speaker 1: had to move back in with my mama. This Jesus thing,
- 57:58Speaker 1: this tithing thing, it ain't working for me. This praying thing.
- 58:07Speaker 1: This living for Jesus stuff. My husband left me because
- 58:13Speaker 1: I was living for Jesus. Seemed like the people in
- 58:21Speaker 1: the world were nicer than the people... And so all
- 58:34Speaker 1: God says to Moses is to tell the people to
- 58:38Speaker 1: keep it moving and use what you got. If you
- 58:48Speaker 1: use what I gave you, you will find that it
- 58:52Speaker 1: is more than what you thought. You thought I gave
- 59:00Speaker 1: you this stick so when you got tired you could
- 59:03Speaker 1: lean on it. But there are tricks in your stick. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise, surprise.
- 59:25Speaker 1: I disguise my power in ordinary things so that in
- 59:30Speaker 1: the time of trouble, the enemy won't even know what
- 59:35Speaker 1: hit him. But if you stretch for what's you, touch
- 59:42Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, I got something. I know it
- 59:46Speaker 1: don't look like much, but I got something. I know
- 59:49Speaker 1: it don't look dangerous, but I got something. If you're
- 59:52Speaker 1: going to count up your chariots, at least let me
- 59:55Speaker 1: brag about my stick. I got something that God gave
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: me that will outlast all of your shit. Slap your
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: name and say there's tricks in your stick. Don't give
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: it up. Don't throw it away. Don't cast it aside.
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: Don't count it out. Don't give it up as trivial
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: because God will put tricks in your stick. If it
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: would have looked like a weapon, the enemy would have
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: took it.
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: But God will.
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: I'm about to feel like preaching over here. God will.
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: Yes, he will.
- 1:01:05Speaker 1: I started reading the Bible and almost every miracle in
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: the Bible came out of something that they already had.
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: A handful of meal.
- 1:01:18Speaker 3: A pot of oil. Two fish and five loaves of bread.
- 1:01:23Speaker 3: A rag and a rock.
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: Hallelujah to God.
- 1:01:28Speaker 3: Hallelujah to God.
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: Hallelujah to God.
- 1:01:32Speaker 3: You're not in this thing by yourself.
- 1:01:36Speaker 1: You're not in it by yourself. In fact, It is
- 1:01:48Speaker 1: Pharaoh chasing you that activates the tricks in your stick.
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: Now keep it moving. And when you get to the
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: right spot, stretch out what I gave you.
- 1:02:07Speaker 3: And the Bible said.
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: That when Moses stretched out his rod, that the Red
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: Sea got up and started walking hither and thither to
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: quote it exactly, God sent.
- 1:02:27Speaker 3: A strong wind.
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: To blow back the Red Sea so the children of
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: Israel could walk across And not only did he let
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: them go through it, he didn't even let them get money.
- 1:02:47Speaker 3: The Bible said.
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: That they walked through a dry ground. Whoever I'm preaching to,
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: God said you're going to go through it on dry ground.
- 1:03:10Speaker 5: And you were never in trouble anyway.
- 1:03:32Speaker 1: Because if you read the text, The closer they got
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: to the Red Sea, the Bible says that God sent
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: an angel to get behind them. So Pharaoh couldn't have
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: got them anyway because God's already got you covered. Slap
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: your neighbor and say, I got back up. I'm not
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: in it by myself. I'm not fighting by myself.
- 1:04:13Speaker 3: I'm not living by myself. I'm not preaching by myself.
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: So my brothers and my sisters, Potter's House family, when
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: the winds came and blew back the Red Sea, and
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: they stepped down into the seabed, walking on dry ground,
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: they were walking in between two walls of water. Now
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: picture that with me. God has made a way But
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: even the way he made is scary. Because I got
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: my baby in this water. I got my mama in
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: this water. I got my grandmama in this water. I
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: got my children in this water. And there's a wall
- 1:05:25Speaker 1: on this side. And there's a wall on that side.
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: And if they.
- 1:05:29Speaker 3: Crash in, they're going to kill me.
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: So whatever be time, I got to keep it moving.
- 1:05:39Speaker 3: Slap your neighbor and say, keep it moving.
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: This is what I want you to see, and I'm
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: almost finished. Even when God makes a way, it's scary.
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: Even when God performs a miracle, the miracle is scary. Now,
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: when we read about it and we preach about it,
- 1:06:18Speaker 1: we shout about it. But if you were walking through
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: with your children through two walls of water so high
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: you can't see over them, and you don't see nothing
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: holding it up, but you're making it. I want to
- 1:06:39Speaker 1: talk to somebody that's going through something right now. You
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: don't see nothing holding it up. Your finances don't work
- 1:06:50Speaker 1: out on paper. It don't make no sense that you're
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: still here But something is holding it up And the
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: Lord Told Moses tell the people Keep it moving and
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: the wind Held up the water. To the last Israelite.
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: Had crossed over. Later in the New Testament, Paul, when
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: he preaches in Corinth, would call it baptism. Said they
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: That means they went in one way and they came
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: out another. They stepped in slaves, but they came out sons.
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: They stepped in as runaways, but they came out as
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: a nation. You who were not a people became a people.
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: Then he says to Moses, close it up. and the
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: same rod. This is the dual nature of God. The
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: same God that opens doors, closes doors. The funny thing
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: about it was, when he opened the way, they didn't shout. See,
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: we always shout when God makes a way. But the
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: Bible said that they didn't shout until God shut the door.
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: I need to take a moment and thank him for
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: the doors he shut yeah yeah yes Yes. I want
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: to thank him for the doors he shut, for the
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: job I didn't get, for the business that didn't work out,
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: for the girl I didn't marry. Thank you, Lord, for
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: the door you shut. If I'd have got it, it
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: would have killed me.
- 1:09:45Speaker 3: Thank you, Lord, for shut, shut, shut, shut the door.
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: When God shut the door.
- 1:10:06Speaker 1: The enemy that was chasing them drowned in the Red Sea.
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: But not only did he drown the enemy, he drowned
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: any potential the enemy had to pursue them any further.
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: So the Bible said, the enemies that you see today.
- 1:10:33Speaker 3: You shall see them. Y'all don't hear me.
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: Y'all don't hear me. Y'all don't hear me. There's some
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: stuff you have to fight with that God said you
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: shall see them no more. I dare you to praise him.
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: I double dare you to praise him. I want you
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: to move out from where you are and touch seven.
- 1:11:35Speaker 4: People and say no more.
- 1:11:37Speaker 1: No more.
- 1:11:38Speaker 2: No more. No more. Move.
- 1:11:42Speaker 3: No more.
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: Keep it moving.
- 1:11:46Speaker 4: No more.
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: You shall see it no more. You shall fight it
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: no more. You shall have it no more. Give me
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: some Holy Ghost music. Take me to church.
- 1:12:02Speaker 4: I'm feeling kind of sanctified.
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: No more!
- 1:12:33Speaker 4: No more!
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: No more! No more!
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: No more! So Miriam grabbed a tambourine and began to
- 1:12:50Speaker 1: beat that thing to the glory of God for Pharaoh
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: and his army.
- 1:12:56Speaker 3: Got drowned in the Red Sea.
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: Somebody put your hands together and give God some praise.
- 1:13:04Speaker 2: No more. No more.
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: No more. Get it in your spirit. Get it in
- 1:13:30Speaker 1: your mind.
- 1:13:31Speaker 3: Get it in your mouth.
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: Get it in your heart.
- 1:13:33Speaker 4: No more. No more. No more.
- 1:14:19Speaker 2: No more.
- 1:14:21Speaker 1: I dare you, if the enemy has been after you
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: and you've been up under attack, I dare you to
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: take just a minute and thank God like he's drowning
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: in the Red Sea. I dare you to drown him
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: in a praise and tell the devil no more.
- 1:14:53Speaker 4: No more No more No more No more No more
- 1:15:06Speaker 4: No more.
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: Give him a break! I said, give him a praise.
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: If you know how to praise, give God a praise.
- 1:15:37Speaker 1: A praise. A praise. A praise. Give the Lord a praise.
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: Father, we thank you today.
- 1:15:54Speaker 4: The enemy we see will.
- 1:16:07Speaker 2: See him no more. The enemy we saw will see
- 1:16:18Speaker 2: him no more.
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: I hear the sound of victory in the house. Some
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: people think that praising God like that is a denominational thing.
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: Maybe it's a Pentecostal thing. Maybe it's an ethnic thing.
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: But the Bible said that the children of Israel got
- 1:16:55Speaker 1: tambourines and started beating them at the Red Sea. And
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: they started dancing in the presence of God. And while
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: they were dancing, their devils were drowning. So there are
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: three reasons. I'll say this and I'm out. There are
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: three reasons that he closed the Red Sea. One was
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: to drown the present danger. Two was to drown the
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: potential of the danger continuing. But the third one to
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: me is the most important one. When he closed the
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: Red Sea, he drowned any potential they had of ever
- 1:17:53Speaker 1: going back. No matter whatever they had to deal with,
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: the rest of the journey, going back was off the table.
- 1:18:15Speaker 1: Because God had shut down Join hands with somebody. Leave
- 1:18:21Speaker 1: no one untouched. Span the aisles. Leave no one untouched.
- 1:18:32Speaker 1: Except somebody who don't want to be touched. Leave them alone.
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: Oh, boy.
- 1:18:40Speaker 1: My wife and I, Been married 38 years. We had
- 1:19:16Speaker 1: good days and bad days. We had happy days and
- 1:19:20Speaker 1: crying days. We had nervous days and scared days. We
- 1:19:25Speaker 1: didn't eat it up in years, we ate it up
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: in days. The trick to being married 38 years is
- 1:19:31Speaker 1: to keep it moving. You look around and it's 38 years.
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: You look around and you've been married 50 years. You
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: look around, if you just keep it moving. Squeeze that
- 1:19:47Speaker 1: hand because the person you're touching has got some things
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: they're scared of. And God sent this message to them today.
- 1:20:07Speaker 1: Because they've been in positions where they didn't know what
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: to do. The triggers that upset them, they can smell
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: them or see them or hear them approaching. And this
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: is a prophetic word in their life that all you
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: have to do to get the victory is It's keep
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: it moving. Squeeze that.
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: Hand.
- 1:20:49Speaker 1: God is going to drown any potential you had of
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: going back to being who you were. You will never
- 1:21:07Speaker 1: be that again. You will never go through that again.
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: You might have to fight something else, but you will
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: never have to fight that again. Lord, this Sunday morning,
- 1:21:39Speaker 1: I speak to trauma. This Sunday morning, I speak to triggers.
- 1:21:56Speaker 1: There are some traumas that we have been through and
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: some we might be going through that were meant to
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: paralyze us. But we will not be paralyzed. There are
- 1:22:13Speaker 1: some triggers that when they come up, we react in
- 1:22:16Speaker 1: predictable ways because of the traumas. But this day I
- 1:22:22Speaker 1: pronounce those triggers are defeated.
- 1:22:24Speaker 2: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: And I thank you, Lord, because you allow these things
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: to happen to keep my prayer life fresh. Not only
- 1:22:45Speaker 1: will I be delivered, but I'll be fresh when I
- 1:22:47Speaker 1: get there. Most of all, we thank you, Lord, because
- 1:22:56Speaker 1: you shut the door on any possibility of me going
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: back to who or what or how I used to be.
- 1:23:15Speaker 1: And so as I stand in this church this morning,
- 1:23:24Speaker 1: I rebuke the terror. The terrors we don't talk about.
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: I rebuke the terrors we don't tell about. The terrorists
- 1:23:40Speaker 1: that threaten us and discombobulate us and make us hard
- 1:23:47Speaker 1: to get along with because it looks like we're evil,
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: but really we're scared. Squeeze that hand. I pray that
- 1:23:57Speaker 1: every believer in this room would know that they are
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: not alone. That God sent an angel in between you
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: and what you're afraid of.
- 1:24:13Speaker 3: Glory.
- 1:24:22Speaker 1: This is what science would call a controlled experiment. That
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: God has not lost control of your situation in spite
- 1:24:33Speaker 1: of the hoof prints, in spite of the sound, in
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: spite of how you feel. That your feelings cannot be trusted.
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: Your feelings are reacting to past trauma. Regardless to how
- 1:24:51Speaker 1: you feel, Lord, I pray that they would just keep
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: it moving. That the victory is in the movement. The
- 1:25:00Speaker 1: miracle is in the movement. The provision is in the movement.
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: The grace is in the movement. Hallelujah. The answer is
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: in the movement. The new door is in the movement.
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: The promised land is in the movement. The prophecy is
- 1:25:21Speaker 1: in the movement. I thank you, Lord.
- 1:25:24Speaker 2: Amen.
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: I'm not going to have to spend the rest of
- 1:25:26Speaker 1: my life looking back over my shoulder because you're going
- 1:25:29Speaker 1: to settle these chariots right here. How? You're going to
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: fix these horses right now. You're going to shut down
- 1:25:37Speaker 1: this situation. You're going to shut it down. I'm not
- 1:25:42Speaker 1: going to be up every night. The person you're touching
- 1:25:55Speaker 1: right now, God is shutting down things. He's going to
- 1:26:00Speaker 1: drown them till you see them drown. The Bible said
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: the dead bodies were all up on the side of
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: the bank and Miriam started dancing over top of them
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: because she saw the enemy destroyed. And I rebuke the
- 1:26:19Speaker 1: spirit of fear. I rebuke the paralysis. I rebuke the anxiety.
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: I rebuke the physical manifestations of your stress. The rashes.
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: The diseases. The dysfunctions. The disorder in your body. In
- 1:26:41Speaker 1: your bowels. In your stomach. In your heart. In your
- 1:26:46Speaker 1: cardiovascular system. In your behavior. In your sleep patterns, I
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: rebuke it now. How? I rebuke it now. I rebuke
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: it now. I rebuke it now. In your cognitive functions,
- 1:27:07Speaker 1: your brain, your memory, your emotions, I rebuke it now.
- 1:27:12Speaker 1: Years of being in stress, the enemies were controlling, I
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: rebuke it now. physical infirmities, emotional infirmities. I rebuke it now. Now, Lord,
- 1:27:28Speaker 1: restore unto us the joys of thy salvation. And we
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: give you praise for it. In Jesus' name, give him
- 1:27:37Speaker 1: all the praise you got.