Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / Keep It Moving The Fear Factor - Bishop T.D. Jakes [September 22, 2019]
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- 0:12Speaker 1: I want you to get your Bibles and go to
- 0:13Speaker 1: the book of Exodus, chapter number 4. It's 14, verse
- 0:18Speaker 1: 4 through 9, 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 4 through 9, and then we're going to go
- 0:26Speaker 1: through 9 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
- 0:50Speaker 1: cute is expensive.
- 0:53Speaker 2: Amen. Amen.
- 0:56Speaker 1: I want you to go back in your mind. I
- 0:58Speaker 1: want to put the text in context. These are the
- 1:03Speaker 1: people of God, but they haven't really been the people
- 1:07Speaker 1: of God for a long time. They have been in
- 1:12Speaker 1: captivity for 400 years in Egypt. They have been in
- 1:17Speaker 1: Egypt 430 years, but the last 400 years.
- 1:22Speaker 2: They have been enslaved.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Now we consider the fact that 40 years is typically
- 1:28Speaker 1: in scriptures a generation. 10 generations are living off of
- 1:33Speaker 1: the memory of God. There is some memory of God
- 1:40Speaker 1: left because they knew enough about him after 10 generations
- 1:44Speaker 1: to still call on him. But their faith and their
- 1:50Speaker 1: theology and their understanding of God is diluted by time
- 1:54Speaker 1: and polluted by association with the Egyptians. This is proven
- 2:00Speaker 1: because later when they get in the wilderness and they
- 2:02Speaker 1: try to build an image of God, they build the
- 2:05Speaker 1: image of the Egyptians' God. Because who you hang out
- 2:09Speaker 1: with does affect you. And yet with just a little
- 2:17Speaker 1: bit of faith that they had left enough to call
- 2:19Speaker 1: on God by reason of the intense bondage that was
- 2:23Speaker 1: placed on them, they cried unto God and God heard them.
- 2:28Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you don't have to be perfect
- 2:30Speaker 1: or have everything right for God to hear you. You
- 2:36Speaker 1: don't earn the right to be heard. God heard them.
- 2:41Speaker 1: They were struggling, but God heard them. They were broken,
- 2:44Speaker 1: but God heard them. They didn't even have full understanding
- 2:48Speaker 1: of who he was, but God heard them and sent
- 2:52Speaker 1: Moses to deliver them. Now Moses was somebody they should
- 2:56Speaker 1: have known, but Moses has been on the backside of
- 2:58Speaker 1: the desert for 40 years. So whereas the old people
- 3:03Speaker 1: might have remembered him The young people didn't even know
- 3:07Speaker 1: who he was. And Moses has the responsibility of leading
- 3:12Speaker 1: a people that he is kin to, but not familiar with. Okay.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Now he is leading them out of bondage and away
- 3:21Speaker 1: from Pharaoh. And they have told Pharaoh, let my people
- 3:25Speaker 1: go that they may worship me in the wilderness. And
- 3:30Speaker 1: as they began to leave, Pharaoh changed his mind.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Uh-oh, he's right.
- 3:38Speaker 1: And as they're trying to escape and they're trying to flee,
- 3:41Speaker 1: Pharaoh now sets out to take them back. At least that.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Maybe kill them. This is not a democracy. There are
- 3:54Speaker 1: no court systems. There will be no litigation. They can't
- 3:58Speaker 1: file charges against Whatever Pharaoh decides to do to them
- 4:04Speaker 1: is done. So as they are fleeing and they sense
- 4:09Speaker 1: Pharaoh coming, who knows what is going to happen. So
- 4:14Speaker 1: as you step into this text, I want you to
- 4:17Speaker 1: step into it as them. And then it will be
- 4:21Speaker 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
- 4:55Speaker 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
- 5:26Speaker 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 1: We have let the Israelites go and have lost their services.
- 6:02Speaker 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
- 6:16Speaker 1: over all of them. The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh,
- 6:23Speaker 1: king of Egypt. The Lord, wait a minute.
- 6:26Speaker 2: The Lord.
- 6:28Speaker 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.
- 6:42Speaker 2: Hmm.
- 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.
- 6:56Speaker 2: 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.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Oh, let me try it.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Hagaroth of opposite Baal Zephon. That Hagaroth was hard. Especially
- 7:16Speaker 1: on a few hours of sleep. Moses answered the people,
- 7:19Speaker 1: do not.
- 7:22Speaker 2: Be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the.
- 7:28Speaker 1: Deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians that
- 7:35Speaker 1: you see today, you will never see again. Oh, I
- 7:45Speaker 1: could stop right there. You could go home right there.
- 7:49Speaker 1: The Egyptians that you see today, you will never see
- 7:52Speaker 1: them again.
- 7:53Speaker 2: Come on.
- 7:55Speaker 1: The Lord will fight for you. You need only be still.
- 8:03Speaker 1: Then the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying
- 8:06Speaker 1: out to me? Tell the Israelites. Tell the Israelites to
- 8:19Speaker 1: move on.
- 8:21Speaker 2: Come on, give me the rest of it.
- 8:23Speaker 1: Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the
- 8:27Speaker 1: sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can
- 8:30Speaker 1: go through the sea.
- 8:32Speaker 2: On dry ground. I will harden the heart of.
- 8:36Speaker 1: The Egyptians so that they will go in after them
- 8:39Speaker 1: and I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his
- 8:43Speaker 1: army through his chariots.
- 8:46Speaker 2: And his horsemen.
- 8:49Speaker 1: The Egyptians will know, they will know that I am
- 8:53Speaker 1: the Lord when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots,
- 9:00Speaker 1: and his horsemen. Somebody say amen.
- 9:03Speaker 2: Amen.
- 9:04Speaker 1: I want to use for a subject, remain standing for
- 9:06Speaker 1: just a few more minutes, I want to use for
- 9:09Speaker 1: a subject.
- 9:10Speaker 2: Keep it moving. Because the Lord said, tell Israel to
- 9:20Speaker 2: move on. But I'm scared, Lord. Move on. But I
- 9:28Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen. Move on. But I'm
- 9:34Speaker 2: in danger, Lord. Move on. But I'm feeling vulnerable, Lord.
- 9:43Speaker 2: Move on.
- 9:43Speaker 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? And
- 10:00Speaker 1: you know I'm human and you know I'm scared. And
- 10:04Speaker 1: yet you still say, move on. Look at your neighbor
- 10:12Speaker 1: on your left and your right and say, keep it moving.
- 10:19Speaker 1: I know the conditions are not everything that you want
- 10:21Speaker 1: them to be. I know all the circumstances are not
- 10:24Speaker 1: the way you would like for them to be. I
- 10:27Speaker 1: 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 thy throne, O 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 besides 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.
- 11:38Speaker 2: All right, you can sit down. You don't have to
- 11:40Speaker 2: get up till tomorrow.
- 11:45Speaker 1: So I'm in the airport the other day, and I
- 11:48Speaker 1: ran into a fellow clergyman, a pastor here in the city,
- 11:52Speaker 1: and we were exchanging pleasantries.
- 11:53Speaker 2: How you doing? Hi, how are you? So forth and
- 11:55Speaker 2: so on. And he said, I want to ask you
- 11:57Speaker 2: a question. I said, okay.
- 11:58Speaker 1: He said, how do you keep it fresh? He said,
- 12:03Speaker 1: you always seem excited. You always got a fresh word.
- 12:06Speaker 1: You're always going for it. He said, how do you
- 12:08Speaker 1: keep it fresh? And I kind of didn't exactly know
- 12:11Speaker 1: how to answer that. Because I hadn't really thought about
- 12:15Speaker 1: it like that. It's not like I was trying to
- 12:17Speaker 1: be fresh.
- 12:22Speaker 2: Am I fresh? Yeah.
- 12:27Speaker 1: It's 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 be.
- 12:42Speaker 2: A sophomore again.
- 12:45Speaker 1: You know, she has a way of saying stuff that
- 12:48Speaker 1: takes you into deep thought. A sophomore again, that you're
- 12:51Speaker 1: not afraid to recreate yourself, that you're not afraid to
- 12:54Speaker 1: be adventurous, that you're not afraid to be back at
- 12:57Speaker 1: 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.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Up the 10 to be one again.
- 13:20Speaker 1: And if you're not willing to give up the 10,
- 13:27Speaker 1: you'll stay where you are for the prestige of having
- 13:31Speaker 1: reached 10. And not willing to go back to one again,
- 13:36Speaker 1: you fail to grow to what your capacity was meant
- 13:39Speaker 1: to be because you don't want to be a sophomore
- 13:42Speaker 1: once you've been a senior. You don't want to say,
- 13:47Speaker 1: I don't know again. You don't want to do anything
- 13:50Speaker 1: that's out of your comfort zone again. You don't want
- 13:53Speaker 1: to go into the unfamiliar again. And you stop growing
- 13:58Speaker 1: because you stop going. In order to keep growing, you
- 14:07Speaker 1: have to keep going. Are you following what I'm saying?
- 14:12Speaker 1: And you cannot love the prestige of 10 to the
- 14:16Speaker 1: degree that you fail to come to 11. 11 puts
- 14:21Speaker 1: you in a room with 20s. And some people can't
- 14:28Speaker 1: stand to be in a room with 20s once they
- 14:30Speaker 1: have reached 10. They'd rather be a big fish in
- 14:34Speaker 1: a small pond than to swim into a bigger stream
- 14:38Speaker 1: and be surrounded by whales and sharks and dolphins and
- 14:42Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. They like image more than reality.
- 14:48Speaker 1: Speaking of fish, you know, I was reading this thing about.
- 14:53Speaker 2: Right now, salmon.
- 14:54Speaker 1: And they were talking about how the polar bears are
- 14:57Speaker 1: starving because we're eating up all their food. Salmon has
- 15:01Speaker 1: become so popular all over the world that now when
- 15:04Speaker 1: the polar bears get ready to fish for food and
- 15:07Speaker 1: go eat, they can't eat the salmon that they normally
- 15:09Speaker 1: eat because it's on all of our restaurant menus and
- 15:12Speaker 1: it's all over the world. And I don't mean to
- 15:14Speaker 1: make you feel guilty if you're eating salmon because I
- 15:16Speaker 1: know you're trying to lose weight and all that kind
- 15:19Speaker 1: of stuff. Yeah, I get it. But we're eating up
- 15:22Speaker 1: the polar bear's food and they were talking about salmon.
- 15:25Speaker 1: But before salmon was so popular, it used to be cod.
- 15:32Speaker 1: And everybody was eating cod. And cod was on the
- 15:34Speaker 1: East Coast. Don't worry, this doesn't sound like it has
- 15:36Speaker 1: nothing to do with it, but it will in a minute.
- 15:40Speaker 1: Cod was on the East Coast, and people on the
- 15:41Speaker 1: East Coast were all eating cod. And back then, in
- 15:45Speaker 1: order to get it to the West Coast, because the
- 15:47Speaker 1: West Coast started wanting dishes that were made from cod,
- 15:51Speaker 1: they had to put it on train. And it took
- 15:54Speaker 1: a long time to get it from the East Coast
- 15:57Speaker 1: to the West Coast. So what they did, they started
- 16:00Speaker 1: putting the cod on ice. But by the time they
- 16:03Speaker 1: got 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 2: We won't.
- 16:16Speaker 1: Put it on ice, we'll leave them alive and we'll
- 16:19Speaker 1: put them in big fish tanks and we'll send them
- 16:22Speaker 1: on the train and they'll travel by train and then
- 16:25Speaker 1: when they get them there, they'll be fresh and they
- 16:27Speaker 1: did that and when they got there and they got
- 16:30Speaker 1: ready to cook the cod, it still didn't taste right
- 16:35Speaker 1: and the texture wasn't right. They couldn't find a way
- 16:38Speaker 1: to ship it and get it to be fresh. Now
- 16:42Speaker 1: I can understand why it wasn't fresh once it was frozen.
- 16:46Speaker 1: But to be alive and not be fresh was confusing. Yeah,
- 16:58Speaker 1: I'm back. How can you be alive and not be fresh?
- 17:07Speaker 1: Traveling and not be fresh, swimming and not be fresh,
- 17:10Speaker 1: raising a family and not be fresh. Look fresh, but
- 17:15Speaker 1: not be fresh. Dress fresh, but not be fresh. Smell fresh,
- 17:19Speaker 1: but not be fresh. When they tasted it, it wasn't fresh.
- 17:26Speaker 1: So in a last ditch effort to try to fix
- 17:29Speaker 1: the problem, they decided to put some catfish in the tank. Now,
- 17:34Speaker 1: catfish are natural predators to cod. and putting a few
- 17:40Speaker 1: catfish in the tank meant that all the while they
- 17:43Speaker 1: were traveling, the cod had to be on the run.
- 17:55Speaker 1: And when they finally got them there this time, now
- 17:58Speaker 1: they were still fresh. Because in order for the cod
- 18:02Speaker 1: to be fresh, it had to be in an environment
- 18:06Speaker 1: of catfish. The Lord knows exactly what kind of catfish
- 18:12Speaker 1: to put in your life to keep you fresh. And
- 18:17Speaker 1: even though fresh means being uncomfortable and even fresh means
- 18:22Speaker 1: being on the run and being fresh means that you're
- 18:25Speaker 1: being chased. I know you've been praying for a tank
- 18:32Speaker 1: with no catfish. But God uses the catfish to keep
- 18:41Speaker 1: you fresh. And if you think about it in your life,
- 18:45Speaker 1: all your life, you've had something chasing you. You don't
- 18:50Speaker 1: really pray right until something.
- 18:52Speaker 2: Is after you.
- 18:56Speaker 1: You don't really seek his face until something is out
- 19:00Speaker 1: to you. You don't really call on his name until
- 19:03Speaker 1: something is out to you. You don't really reach your
- 19:05Speaker 1: potential of greatness until something is behind you saying you
- 19:10Speaker 1: got to go all the way. You got to finish
- 19:12Speaker 1: that class. You got to graduate. You got to get
- 19:15Speaker 1: your degree. You got to open up that business. You
- 19:18Speaker 1: got to make this marriage work. You got to get
- 19:20Speaker 1: this stuff together. It's not because you're always so happy
- 19:23Speaker 1: with things. But it's them dadgum catfish. Shake hands with
- 19:31Speaker 1: somebody and say, what are your catfish?
- 19:36Speaker 2: Yeah. What are your, what are your, what are your,
- 19:46Speaker 2: what are your catfish? Pharaoh.
- 19:52Speaker 1: Was Israel's catfish. And God hardened his heart so that
- 20:04Speaker 1: they could see his glory. And he created the situation
- 20:13Speaker 1: to put them in a predicament that they couldn't get
- 20:16Speaker 1: out of. So that they would know that it's not
- 20:19Speaker 1: by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith
- 20:23Speaker 1: the Lord, that brings you out of every dungeon, every trap,
- 20:28Speaker 1: every device that the enemy comes up against you. If
- 20:31Speaker 1: you didn't have opposition, if you didn't have opposition, you
- 20:35Speaker 1: would think you got there by yourself. But thank God
- 20:38Speaker 1: for the catfish that lets you know. Can you imagine
- 20:49Speaker 1: the utter terror of having a two year old in
- 20:53Speaker 1: one hand and a newborn baby in your arms and being.
- 20:58Speaker 2: A slave on the run.
- 21:04Speaker 1: From a Pharaoh who doesn't just come after you, but.
- 21:09Speaker 2: He gets his best chariots. See, some of you are
- 21:13Speaker 2: crying out.
- 21:15Speaker 1: In distress, but you have to understand other people look
- 21:19Speaker 1: at you and say you're whining, but they don't understand
- 21:22Speaker 1: you're not running from horses. You're running from 600 chosen chariots.
- 21:28Speaker 1: Satan has shot his best shot trying to take you down.
- 21:33Speaker 1: And you're not in trouble because you're weak. You're not
- 21:36Speaker 1: in trouble because you're not consistent. You're in trouble because
- 21:40Speaker 1: the enemy has loosed assassins to utterly annihilate you. And
- 21:52Speaker 1: 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
- 22:02Speaker 1: the catfish are still nipping at you. You can see
- 22:06Speaker 1: where you're gaining ground, but you keep looking back because
- 22:09Speaker 1: you know that you got to keep moving because you
- 22:12Speaker 1: got something chasing you. Somebody in this room has got
- 22:16Speaker 1: a devil to fight. I know in the church, some
- 22:19Speaker 1: 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.
- 22:27Speaker 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 that we give you. Those who trespass, lead
- 22:47Speaker 1: us not into temptation. And by the way, Lord, please.
- 22:55Speaker 2: Deliver us from evil.
- 23:01Speaker 1: These people are fleeing from oppressions. And they're going where
- 23:07Speaker 1: they've never been to do something that they have never
- 23:11Speaker 1: done with someone leading them that they have never met.
- 23:18Speaker 1: I've been here 10 years. I never shook your hand.
- 23:23Speaker 1: Moses has been gone 40 years. It's not like he's
- 23:26Speaker 1: been hanging out at Starbucks with these people. And they
- 23:31Speaker 1: are up under his leadership. And he has led them
- 23:35Speaker 1: to a scary place. I would like to submit for
- 23:40Speaker 1: your consideration that you are not living until you have
- 23:44Speaker 1: been living in a scary place. You don't know who
- 23:52Speaker 1: you are until you've been in a scary place. You
- 23:55Speaker 1: don't know what God can do until you've been in
- 23:57Speaker 1: a scary place. You don't know what faith is until
- 24:01Speaker 1: you've been in a scary place.
- 24:03Speaker 2: You don't know how powerful.
- 24:05Speaker 1: Your God is until you've been in a scary place.
- 24:07Speaker 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.
- 25:20Speaker 2: That's quite an offering.
- 25:22Speaker 1: I might give you a chicken or something.
- 25:27Speaker 2: But they had the faith.
- 25:28Speaker 1: To believe God to go. And they were doing real
- 25:32Speaker 1: good until they ran into the fear factor. In President
- 25:41Speaker 1: Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, he wrote a line
- 25:45Speaker 1: that stays with me all the time. The presence of
- 25:48Speaker 1: faith is not the absence of doubt. You have to
- 25:55Speaker 1: think about that a minute. The presence of faith is
- 25:57Speaker 1: not the absence.
- 26:00Speaker 2: Of doubt.
- 26:02Speaker 1: That doubt and faith can live in the same space.
- 26:08Speaker 1: I believe you. But I'm worried. I trust you, but
- 26:13Speaker 1: I'm nervous. I know it's going to be all right,
- 26:16Speaker 1: but I'm still up at 2 o'clock in the morning. Now,
- 26:20Speaker 1: this message is for.
- 26:21Speaker 2: The real people. Church people are not going to own.
- 26:26Speaker 1: Up to the fact that there are some things that
- 26:28Speaker 1: can happen to you. I don't care how many scriptures
- 26:31Speaker 1: you know. I don't care how long you've been in church.
- 26:34Speaker 1: I don't care if you can quote the entire New Testament.
- 26:37Speaker 1: There are some things that can happen in your life
- 26:39Speaker 1: that makes your heart start beating in your chest until
- 26:42Speaker 1: it looks like your dress is jumping. And you do
- 26:48Speaker 1: like Peter and you say,' Perish thou not that we perish.'
- 26:56Speaker 1: We like to think that people are good or evil
- 26:58Speaker 1: and right and wrong or up and down, believers or unbelievers,
- 27:02Speaker 1: but the truth of the matter is, believers have doubt.
- 27:14Speaker 1: And they get scared sometimes. Maybe we're not supposed to.
- 27:20Speaker 1: But when you hear the hoof prints, of something that
- 27:26Speaker 1: you dreaded, that you had had 400 years of trauma with,
- 27:32Speaker 1: and you finally thought you got away, and all of
- 27:36Speaker 1: a sudden you hear the hoof prints of something trying
- 27:39Speaker 1: to overtake you, that you have dedicated and risked everything
- 27:43Speaker 1: in your life to escape, it's hard to be cool
- 27:47Speaker 1: and scared.
- 27:51Speaker 2: You can look cool, There.
- 27:53Speaker 1: Are some people that can look like nothing bothers them.
- 27:57Speaker 1: And you say, Lord, I wish I was more like them.
- 28:00Speaker 1: Stop praying prayers where you wish you were more like people.
- 28:03Speaker 1: Because you can't tell what's going on inside of me
- 28:07Speaker 1: by looking at my face.
- 28:10Speaker 2: 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.
- 28:27Speaker 2: He could kill him.
- 28:32Speaker 1: And absolute power produces absolute terror. If I know I'm
- 28:39Speaker 1: totally at your mercy and I don't know how things
- 28:42Speaker 1: are going to end up, it's terrifying. I wanna speak
- 28:48Speaker 1: to your worry. I wanna speak to your fear. I
- 28:50Speaker 1: wanna speak to your anxiety. I wanna speak to the
- 28:54Speaker 1: thing that speaks to you when church is over. I
- 29:03Speaker 1: wanna speak to the thing that's got you up at
- 29:06Speaker 1: two o'clock in the morning. I wanna speak to you
- 29:09Speaker 1: about the thing that you can't speak to other people about.
- 29:13Speaker 1: Because it's too personal, and it's too scary, and it's
- 29:16Speaker 1: too dangerous, and you don't even want to talk about it,
- 29:19Speaker 1: but it's chasing you around your tank.
- 29:22Speaker 2: 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 you in a minute.
- 29:34Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to you. I was in South Africa,
- 29:36Speaker 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. So if you're eating breakfast
- 29:45Speaker 1: out on the terrace or something like that, the monkey
- 29:47Speaker 1: is waiting on you to move. Because they will come
- 29:51Speaker 1: in and take your roll before you can put butter
- 29:54Speaker 1: on it. They'll come in and take your roll and
- 29:55Speaker 1: laugh at you. I thought the monkeys was cute. He
- 29:59Speaker 1: was having a spasm. And he said, I'm scared of monkeys.
- 30:06Speaker 1: It didn't really bother me like that because I figured
- 30:09Speaker 1: I'm bigger than the monkey. And if it came down
- 30:13Speaker 1: to it and we had to knuckle, I know it
- 30:18Speaker 1: might not be Christian, but I will fight a monkey.
- 30:23Speaker 1: Especially if I'm hungry, I will flat out punch a
- 30:26Speaker 1: monkey Uh-oh, the animal rights people are in here. Praise
- 30:32Speaker 1: for my strength in the Lord. If you're not paying
- 30:38Speaker 1: for that breakfast, put.
- 30:39Speaker 2: My roll down. 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
- 30:57Speaker 1: thought they were cute. But I am scared of some things.
- 31:08Speaker 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 that big. It wasn't like it was a
- 31:28Speaker 1: gorilla or nothing like that. That would have changed. I
- 31:30Speaker 1: would have took this out of the sermon.
- 31:32Speaker 2: I wouldn't even....
- 31:40Speaker 1: Fear does stuff to the body. Living under constant fear,
- 31:46Speaker 1: though it is an emotion, it actually takes toll.
- 31:51Speaker 2: On the body.
- 31:53Speaker 1: It affects your physical health. It even weakens your immune system.
- 32:00Speaker 1: Affects your digestive tract. Does damage to your cardiovascular system.
- 32:07Speaker 1: Fear does stuff that doctors can detect in the body
- 32:11Speaker 1: that you have no reason to be sick, and yet
- 32:13Speaker 1: your body is responding to something that the doctor cannot detect.
- 32:19Speaker 1: They're just seeing the effects of fear on the body.
- 32:21Speaker 1: Irritable bowel syndrome, all kinds of stuff happening to you.
- 32:24Speaker 1: Decreased fertility because you're afraid, because your body is taking
- 32:28Speaker 1: all of your blood and directing it toward fight or flight.
- 32:34Speaker 1: Increasing your sight so you can see and your legs
- 32:38Speaker 1: so you can run. The blood that normally feeds your
- 32:41Speaker 1: body and your functions is fleeing because you are in
- 32:46Speaker 1: fight or flight mode. So fear takes a toll on
- 32:53Speaker 1: you because our primal instinct is to flee.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Or fight.
- 33:02Speaker 1: But fear doesn't just take a toll on your body.
- 33:05Speaker 1: It also takes a toll on your mind. They call
- 33:10Speaker 1: it amygdala hijack. It affects your mind. It hijacks everything.
- 33:15Speaker 1: Your brain perceives everything differently when you're afraid. You can't
- 33:21Speaker 1: trust your judgment when you're afraid. You see everything as
- 33:27Speaker 1: negative when you're afraid. It affects everything about your decisions
- 33:34Speaker 1: when you're afraid. We used to call it paranoia. You're
- 33:38Speaker 1: just paranoid. Is there anybody in here that's ever just
- 33:42Speaker 1: been paranoid? The phone rings and you jump. Or you
- 33:46Speaker 1: just feel like something is about to happen. My wife
- 33:49Speaker 1: describes it as if feeling like a balloon is full
- 33:53Speaker 1: of water and it's about to bust up over your
- 33:55Speaker 1: head and you don't know who's got the pin.
- 34:02Speaker 2: 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
- 34:26Speaker 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.
- 34:38Speaker 2: Though the problem is gone.
- 34:45Speaker 1: I want you to think about that because I think
- 34:47Speaker 1: what I'm teaching right now has destroyed more marriages and
- 34:51Speaker 1: more ministries than anything we could talk about. It's not
- 34:54Speaker 1: what's going on. It's that what is going on is
- 34:57Speaker 1: triggered something that went on. Nobody ever got destroyed by hoofbeats.
- 35:07Speaker 1: But the sound of the hoofbeats is a trigger. and
- 35:13Speaker 1: reminds them of the abuse of 400 years. And Pharaoh
- 35:21Speaker 1: has actually hurt nobody, but they heard him coming and
- 35:26Speaker 1: they were struck with terror.
- 35:28Speaker 2: You have to be careful.
- 35:29Speaker 1: We were singing a minute ago, the devil is a
- 35:31Speaker 1: liar 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
- 35:42Speaker 1: is happening.
- 35:46Speaker 2: Oh.
- 35:49Speaker 1: And all of a sudden you overreact in this 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
- 36:14Speaker 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.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Oh God, my life is over. I'm cursed. Nothing goes right.
- 36:34Speaker 2: You're just....
- 36:37Speaker 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 2: To be happy right now.
- 36:59Speaker 1: Because it keeps dragging you back into something that you
- 37:03Speaker 1: are actually out of. Oh, y'all missed that. Y'all missed that. See,
- 37:12Speaker 1: the Bible said the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy.
- 37:16Speaker 1: And one of the things he will do is steal
- 37:18Speaker 1: the peace of where you are with the threat of
- 37:21Speaker 1: where you've been. And all of a sudden, when you
- 37:24Speaker 1: hear the footprints coming, it's not like he got you,
- 37:27Speaker 1: but it reminds you that he used to have you.
- 37:30Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, it's as if you're already dead.
- 37:33Speaker 2: Amen.
- 37:36Speaker 1: Now they're cursing where they're at and wishing for where
- 37:39Speaker 1: they've 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?
- 37:53Speaker 2: 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.
- 38:18Speaker 2: This message. Nudge your neighbor and say, don't get stuck
- 38:25Speaker 2: because fear can paralyze you.
- 38:28Speaker 1: Fear can shut you down. Fear can immobilize you. Fear
- 38:32Speaker 1: can make you run everybody away, even people who are
- 38:35Speaker 1: going to help you. But the fear that you might
- 38:37Speaker 1: get hurt again, just get out. Pack your stuff and
- 38:41Speaker 1: get out of here. Just like my daddy. Go on,
- 38:45Speaker 1: get out. I'm not going through this again. And fear
- 38:51Speaker 1: can make you drive away people who are trying to
- 38:54Speaker 1: help you. And so there the Israelites are mad at Moses.
- 39:03Speaker 1: Because your perception of who's with you and who's against
- 39:07Speaker 1: you can be disrupted by fear. Fear of rejection. Fear
- 39:21Speaker 1: of disappointment. Fear of failure can make you not try
- 39:28Speaker 1: Fear of falling can make you not climb. Fear of
- 39:33Speaker 1: being defeated can make you not fight. There are a
- 39:37Speaker 1: lot of you, you're not as passive as everybody thinks
- 39:39Speaker 1: you are, and you're not as apathetical as they define.
- 39:42Speaker 2: 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's
- 40:19Speaker 1: done to the mind, in spite of what fear does
- 40:21Speaker 1: to the body, in spite of all of these circumstances,
- 40:25Speaker 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 gonna get some glory out
- 40:41Speaker 1: of this. It's about to sink in. Let's do it again.
- 40:47Speaker 1: God is going to get some glory out of this.
- 40:51Speaker 1: I want you to think about whatever your this is,
- 40:53Speaker 1: whatever your catfish are, whatever your Pharaoh is, whatever that
- 40:58Speaker 1: thing that kept you up at night.
- 40:59Speaker 2: Say it again.
- 41:00Speaker 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.
- 41:23Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
- 41:26Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 41:28Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. 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.
- 42:10Speaker 2: Amen.
- 42:26Speaker 1: I'm going to praise him until I get my family back.
- 42:28Speaker 1: I'm going to praise him until I get my courage back.
- 42:31Speaker 1: I'm going to praise him until I get my strength back.
- 42:33Speaker 1: I'm going to praise him until I get my fight back.
- 42:36Speaker 1: I'm going to praise him until I get a sense
- 42:38Speaker 1: of direction back. I'm going to praise him until I
- 42:41Speaker 1: get up off the floor. I'm going to praise him
- 42:43Speaker 1: until I stand up and start walking.
- 42:47Speaker 2: Somebody help me praise him.
- 43:02Speaker 1: Touch three people that are being blessed around you and say,
- 43:05Speaker 1: keep it moving, keep it moving, keep it moving. Keep
- 43:09Speaker 1: it moving, keep it moving. When you don't know what
- 43:29Speaker 1: to do, When you don't know where to go. When
- 43:36Speaker 1: you're worried about what might happen. When the enemy is
- 43:41Speaker 1: threatening your future. When your past is trying to overtake you.
- 43:48Speaker 1: Oh my God, I feel you preaching to me this morning.
- 43:51Speaker 1: I feel you preaching to me this morning.
- 43:53Speaker 2: I don't know whether I'm.
- 43:54Speaker 1: Preaching to you or you're preaching to me. Or maybe
- 43:57Speaker 1: we're iron is sharpening iron. Iron is sharpening iron. Iron
- 44:01Speaker 1: is sharpening iron. So Moses said, I'm just talking to you.
- 44:19Speaker 1: I'll tell you, you don't have to get up no more.
- 44:21Speaker 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 2: No. Because they're mad at him. 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
- 45:25Speaker 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.
- 45:41Speaker 2: You have a great prayer meeting because Pharaoh is after
- 45:43Speaker 2: your hiney and it will make you get there. I
- 45:46Speaker 2: know you're conservative and you're quiet and you're just not
- 45:49Speaker 2: that kind of person.
- 45:50Speaker 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're Pentecostal whether you.
- 45:59Speaker 3: Are or not.
- 46:00Speaker 1: It'll have you running around your house talking in tongues.
- 46:08Speaker 2: I wish I had a witness.
- 46:09Speaker 3: In 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?
- 46:31Speaker 2: Amen.
- 46:34Speaker 1: I didn't ask for this stuff that's happening in my
- 46:37Speaker 1: life right now. You didn't tell me I was going
- 46:43Speaker 1: to get in school. My parents were going to get
- 46:44Speaker 1: a divorce. I didn't sign up for this. You didn't
- 46:49Speaker 1: tell me my husband was going to cheat on me.
- 46:51Speaker 1: I didn't sign up for this. You didn't tell me
- 46:54Speaker 1: my baby was going to be born deformed. What do
- 47:03Speaker 1: you do when you find yourself in something that you
- 47:05Speaker 1: didn't sign up for? Because you know something I found
- 47:09Speaker 1: out about God? God is weak on details. He don't
- 47:19Speaker 1: tell you all the details. Just go down there and
- 47:22Speaker 1: tell Pharaoh to let my people go. He didn't mention
- 47:28Speaker 1: he gonna try to kill you when you do it.
- 47:31Speaker 1: Them little details kind of help a brother out. I
- 47:35Speaker 1: would kind of like to know if you're going to
- 47:38Speaker 1: assign 600 hit men to come kill me before I
- 47:42Speaker 1: get started.
- 47:43Speaker 2: I didn't sign up for this.
- 47:57Speaker 1: And he looks up to God and he He says,
- 47:59Speaker 1: what am I supposed to do? The people you sent
- 48:03Speaker 1: me to help, they don't even like me. The people
- 48:09Speaker 1: I'm trying to help don't like me.
- 48:11Speaker 2: 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 here. He calls on
- 49:07Speaker 1: God to help and God does absolutely nothing. Now preachers
- 49:16Speaker 1: don't preach about that. They preach the sermons where you
- 49:20Speaker 1: called on the lord and the lord moved i don't
- 49:25Speaker 1: really need you to tell me what to do when
- 49:27Speaker 1: i call on the lord and the lord moves i
- 49:30Speaker 1: need somebody to tell me what to do when.
- 49:33Speaker 2: I call on the lord.
- 49:41Speaker 1: I wanna take series on that. What do you do
- 49:48Speaker 1: when you ask him to heal and he doesn't? And
- 49:53Speaker 1: you're asking for prosperity and they take your car. What
- 50:00Speaker 1: do you do when things aren't turning out the way
- 50:03Speaker 1: 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. So God says
- 50:59Speaker 1: to Moses, Tell the people to keep it moving. And
- 51:05Speaker 1: God said to me, to tell you.
- 51:17Speaker 2: 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.
- 51:29Speaker 2: Of this situation, but keep it moving.
- 51:32Speaker 1: I know you wish I would clear the tank of
- 51:35Speaker 1: all the catfish, but keep it moving. I'm God and
- 51:39Speaker 1: I know what you need and I know what it
- 51:41Speaker 1: takes to keep you fresh and I know what it
- 51:44Speaker 1: takes to get the glory out of your life and
- 51:48Speaker 1: it's my job to be God and 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
- 52:26Speaker 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 2: To all of it. I know you're scared, but keep
- 52:58Speaker 2: it moving. Keep it moving.
- 53:00Speaker 1: What I got planned will only work if you.
- 53:06Speaker 1: See, I got something set up down the road that's
- 53:10Speaker 1: going to fix.
- 53:10Speaker 2: 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 to attack
- 53:30Speaker 1: you right now.
- 53:32Speaker 2: 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
- 54:18Speaker 1: with fear, and he's causing all your triggers to go off.
- 54:22Speaker 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. See, we always
- 54:36Speaker 1: preach about what happened at the Red Sea, but you
- 54:39Speaker 1: got to get to the Red Sea in order for
- 54:42Speaker 1: that to happen. And the enemy doesn't even want you
- 54:45Speaker 1: to make it to the Red Sea. Another thing, the
- 54:59Speaker 1: other reason God didn't say anything is that he wanted
- 55:03Speaker 1: Moses to discover what was in his hand. God didn't
- 55:16Speaker 1: need to do anything else because he had already equipped
- 55:21Speaker 1: Moses for where he was at this stage in his life.
- 55:27Speaker 1: And I don't know who I'm preaching to, but God
- 55:30Speaker 1: has already equipped you. And his grace is sufficient.
- 55:38Speaker 2: 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 2: What you got.
- 56:25Speaker 1: I hardened his heart so you could see what you got.
- 56:29Speaker 1: I made him chase you so you could see what
- 56:32Speaker 1: you got.
- 56:33Speaker 2: I sent him after you so you would stay fresh.
- 56:44Speaker 1: What I'm trying to say is that Pharaoh is your catfish.
- 56:53Speaker 1: And God put him in the tank. The devil didn't
- 56:58Speaker 1: put him in the table. The Bible doesn't say that
- 57:01Speaker 1: the devil sent Pharaoh. It said the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart.
- 57:12Speaker 1: You'll never know what you got until God puts catfish
- 57:17Speaker 1: in your table. You'll never know what you got until
- 57:23Speaker 1: Pharaoh comes after you. And everything in your head told
- 57:28Speaker 1: you you don't think right when you're scared says go
- 57:31Speaker 1: back to something that you're trying to get out of.
- 57:35Speaker 1: Because it don't seem like this church thing is working.
- 57:49Speaker 1: This Jesus thing ain't working out for me right now.
- 57:53Speaker 2: I lost my house, had to move back in with
- 57:55Speaker 2: my mama.
- 57:56Speaker 1: This Jesus thing, this tithing thing, it ain't working for me.
- 58:01Speaker 1: This praying thing. This living for Jesus stuff. My husband
- 58:12Speaker 1: left me because I was living for Jesus. Seemed like
- 58:20Speaker 1: the people in the world were nicer than the people.
- 58:33Speaker 1: And so all God says to Moses is to tell
- 58:37Speaker 1: the people to keep it moving.
- 58:40Speaker 2: And use what you got.
- 58:47Speaker 1: If you use what I gave you, you will find
- 58:51Speaker 1: that it is more than what you thought. You thought
- 59:00Speaker 1: I gave you this stick so when you got tired,
- 59:02Speaker 1: you could lean on it. But there are tricks in
- 59:07Speaker 1: your stick. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Surprise, surprise, surprise. I disguise
- 59:26Speaker 1: my power in ordinary things so that in the time
- 59:31Speaker 1: of trouble, the enemy won't even know what hit him.
- 59:35Speaker 1: But if you stretch for what's you, touch your neighbor
- 59:43Speaker 1: and say, I got something. I know it don't look
- 59:46Speaker 1: like much, but I got something. I know it don't
- 59:49Speaker 1: look dangerous, but I got something. If you're going to
- 59:53Speaker 1: count up your chariots, at least let me brag about
- 59:56Speaker 1: my stick. I got something that God gave me that
- 1:00:01Speaker 1: will outlast all of your tricks. Slap your name and
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: say there's tricks in your stick. Don't give it up.
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: Don't throw it away. Don't cast it aside. Don't count
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: it out. Don't give it up as trivial because God
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: will put tricks in your stick. If it would have
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: looked like a weapon, the enemy would have took it.
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: But God will.
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: I'm about to feel like preaching over here.
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: God will.
- 1:01:03Speaker 2: Yes, he will. I started reading the Bible and almost
- 1:01:07Speaker 2: every miracle in the Bible came out of something that
- 1:01:10Speaker 2: they already had. A handful of meal. a pot of oil,
- 1:01:20Speaker 2: two fish and five loaves of bread, a rag and
- 1:01:24Speaker 2: a rock. Hallelujah to God. Hallelujah to God.
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: Hallelujah to God. You're not in this thing by yourself.
- 1:01:36Speaker 2: You're not in it by yourself.
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: In fact, It is Pharaoh chasing you that activates the
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: tricks in your stick. Now keep it moving. And when
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: you get to the right spot, stretch out what I
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: gave you. And the Bible said that when Moses stretched
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: out his rod, that the Red Sea got up and
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: started walking hither and thither to quote it exactly, God sent.
- 1:02:27Speaker 2: 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.
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: And not only did he let them go through it,
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: he didn't even let them get muddied. The Bible said
- 1:02:48Speaker 2: that they walk through on dry ground.
- 1:02:50Speaker 1: Whoever I'm preaching to, God said you're going to go
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: through it on dry ground. I feel a dry ground praise.
- 1:03:29Speaker 2: And you were never in trouble anyway.
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: Because if you read the text, the closer they got
- 1:03:37Speaker 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.
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: Amen. Slap your neighbor and say, I got back up.
- 1:04:03Speaker 2: I'm not in.
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: It by myself. I'm not fighting by myself. I'm not
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: living by myself. I'm not preaching by myself. I'm not
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: preaching by myself. So my brothers and my sisters, Potter's
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: House family, when the winds came and blew back the
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: Red Sea and they stepped down into the seabed, walking
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: on dry ground, they were walking in between two walls
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: of water. Now picture that with me. God has made
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: a way. But even the way he made is scary.
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: Because I got my baby in this water. I got
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: my mama in this water. I got my grandmama in
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: this water. I got my children in this water. And
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: there's a wall on this side. And there's a wall
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: on that side. And if they crash in, they're going
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: to kill me. So whatever be time, I got.
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: To keep it moving. Slap your neighbor and say, keep
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: 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.
- 1:06:01Speaker 2: Scary. Even when God performs a miracle, the miracle is scary.
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: Now, 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 2: You can't see over them, and you don't see nothing
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: holding it up, but you're making it. I want to
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: talk to somebody that's going through something right now.
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: You don't see nothing holding it up. Your finances don't
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: work out on paper. It don't make no sense that
- 1:06:53Speaker 1: you're still here. But something is holding it up.
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: And the Lord told Moses, tell the people, keep it moving.
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: And the wind Held up the water. To the last Israelite.
- 1:07:30Speaker 2: Had crossed over.
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: Later in the New Testament Paul when he preaches in
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: Corinth would call it baptism. Said they were baptized unto
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: Moses in the cloud and in the sea. That means
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: they went in one way and they came out another.
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: They stepped in slaves, but they came out sons. They
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: stepped in as runaways, but they came out as a nation.
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: You who were not a people became a people. Then
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: he says to Moses, close it up. and the same rod.
- 1:08:24Speaker 1: This is the dual nature of God. The same God
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: that opens doors, closes doors. The funny thing about it was,
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: when he opened the way, they didn't shout. See, we
- 1:08:49Speaker 1: always shout when God makes a way. But the Bible
- 1:08:54Speaker 1: said that they didn't shout until God shut the door.
- 1:09:01Speaker 1: I need to take a moment and thank him for
- 1:09:05Speaker 1: the doors he shut.
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:09:15Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:09:16Speaker 2: Yes. Yes, I.
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: Want to thank him for the doors he shut, for
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: the job I didn't get, for the business that didn't
- 1:09:31Speaker 1: work out, for the girl I didn't marry. Thank you, Lord,
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: for the door you shut. If I'd have got it,
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: it would have killed me. Thank you, Lord, for shut, shut, shut,
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: shut the door. When God shut the door, The enemy
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: that was chasing them.
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: Drowned in the Red Sea.
- 1:10:14Speaker 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 2: You shall see them. Y'all don't hear me. Y'all don't
- 1:10:35Speaker 2: hear me. Y'all don't hear me.
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: There's some stuff you had to fight with that God said.
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: You shall see them no more. I dare you to
- 1:11:01Speaker 2: praise him.
- 1:11:03Speaker 1: I double dare you to praise him. I want you
- 1:11:31Speaker 1: to move out from where you are and touch seven
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: people and say no more!
- 1:11:35Speaker 3: No more!
- 1:11:37Speaker 2: No more!
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: No more! Move!
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: No more! Keep it moving! 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. I'm feeling
- 1:12:03Speaker 1: kind of sanctified.
- 1:12:39Speaker 3: No more!
- 1:12:46Speaker 1: No more! No more! So Miriam grabbed a tambourine and
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: began to beat that thing to the glory of God.
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: For Pharaoh and his army got drowned in the Red Sea.
- 1:12:59Speaker 1: Somebody put your hands together and give God some praise.
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: No more.
- 1:13:24Speaker 2: No more.
- 1:13:26Speaker 1: No more. Get it in your spirit. Get it in
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: your mind. Get it in your mouth. Get it in
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: your heart.
- 1:13:33Speaker 3: No more.
- 1:14:16Speaker 2: No more. No more. No more. I dare you, if
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: the enemy has been after you and.
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: You've been up under attack, I dare you to take
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: just a minute and thank God like he's drowning in
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: the Red Sea. I dare you to drown him in
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: a praise and tell the devil no more.
- 1:15:00Speaker 3: Give him a break.
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: I said, give him a praise. If you know how
- 1:15:33Speaker 2: to praise, give.
- 1:15:34Speaker 1: God a praise. A praise. A praise. A praise. Give
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: the Lord a praise.
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: Hallelujah. The enemy we see, we'll see him no more.
- 1:15:59Speaker 1: The enemy we saw, we'll see him no more I
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: hear the sound of victory in the house. Some people
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: 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. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
- 1:17:13Speaker 3: Hallelujah.
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: So there are three reasons. I'll say this and I'm out.
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: There are three reasons that he closed the Red Sea.
- 1:17:29Speaker 1: One was to drown the present danger. Two was to
- 1:17:36Speaker 1: drown the potential of the danger continuing. But the third
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: one to me is the most important one. When he
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: closed the Red Sea, he drowned any potential they had
- 1:17:52Speaker 1: of ever going back. No matter whatever they had to
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: deal with, the rest of the journey, going back was
- 1:18:09Speaker 1: off the table. Because God had shut down The Red Sea.
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: Join hands with somebody. Leave no one untouched. Span the aisles.
- 1:18:29Speaker 1: Leave no one untouched. Except somebody who don't want to
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: be touched. Leave them alone. Oh, my God. Thank you.
- 1:18:49Speaker 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.
- 1:19:36Speaker 2: Yes.
- 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
- 1:19:46Speaker 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
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: have to do to get the victory is is keep
- 1:20:38Speaker 1: it moving. Squeeze that hand. God is going to drown
- 1:20:51Speaker 1: any potential you.
- 1:20:52Speaker 2: 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.
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: Again.
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: Lord, this Sunday morning, I speak to trauma. This Sunday morning,
- 1:21:47Speaker 1: I speak to triggers. There are some traumas that we
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: have been through and some we might be going through
- 1:22:04Speaker 1: that were meant to paralyze us. but we will not
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: be paralyzed. There are some triggers that when they come up,
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: we react in predictable ways because of the traumas. But
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: this day, I 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.
- 1:23:01Speaker 2: Of me going back to who or what or how
- 1:23:12Speaker 2: 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,
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: but really we're scared.
- 1:23:55Speaker 2: Squeeze that hand.
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: I pray that every believer in this room would know
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: that they are not alone. That God sent an angel
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: in between you and what you're afraid of.
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: 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
- 1:24:37Speaker 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.
- 1:25:09Speaker 2: Amen.
- 1:25:10Speaker 1: Hallelujah. The answer is in the movement. The new door
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: is in the movement. The promised land is in the movement.
- 1:25:19Speaker 1: The prophecy is in the movement. I thank you, Lord.
- 1:25:24Speaker 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
- 1:26:06Speaker 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
- 1:26:40Speaker 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.
- 1:26:54Speaker 2: How?
- 1:26:55Speaker 1: I rebuke it now. I rebuke it now. I rebuke
- 1:27:00Speaker 1: it now. Your cognitive functions, your brain, your memory, your emotions,
- 1:27:10Speaker 1: I rebuke it now. Years of being in stress, the enemies,
- 1:27:14Speaker 1: we're in control of it. I rebuke it now. physical infirmities,
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: emotional infirmities. I rebuke it now. Now, Lord, restore unto
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: us the joys of thy salvation. And we give you
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: praise for it. In Jesus' name, give him all the
- 1:27:37Speaker 1: praise you got.