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