It's Heavier Than It Looks - Pastor Keion Henderson

Pastor Keion Henderson · The Potter's House · Published June 7, 2026

Gannon Lane, Dallas, Texas 75237

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Scripture reading: 1 Kings 19:20-21
20So Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and then I will follow you.” “Go on back,” Elijah replied, “for what have I done to you?” 21So Elisha turned back from him, took his pair of oxen, and slaughtered them. Using the oxen’s equipment for fuel, he cooked the meat and gave it to the people, and they ate. Then he set out to follow and serve Elijah.

Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

Transcript

4:00 He made sure it was digested so it can be revisited. Let's go to 2 Kings chapter 2. Then they had crossed over. Elijah said to Elisha, What can I do for you before I am taken away from you? Elijah answered, I just want your energy. I want your spirit. I don't want what you drove. I want what drove you. let's let's let's keep going and i'm not going to read all of this um elijah replied that's a difficult request you may if you see me taken from you may it be so but if you don't it will not happen as they were walking along and talking suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. And you know the rest of the story. There was a whirlwind. You know the rest of the story. So now Elijah is taken from Elisha, right? Now, I'm not going to harp on John 14, but I want you to see in John 14 that we're actually looking at a shadow and a type because at Calvary, we also saw a transfer. We also saw a mantle exchange. I tell you the solemn truth.

5:35 The person who believes in me will perform miraculous deeds that I am doing and will perform greater deeds than those or these because I am going to the Father. You see how Jesus is going back to the Father? You see how Elijah is going back to the Father? We're seeing something happening here. A lot of people, especially us as young people, I guess, if you would, or those of us who are aging out of youth and into middle age, I think that we look at what the folks before us have built, and I think that we're looking for them to give it to us. but if you read second kings you will discover that elijah actually threw the mantle on the ground and elisha had to pick it up and elisha did not know all that the mantle had cost elijah so you got to be careful when you look at what somebody has and think you can handle it You can drive past a big house and say, I want that house, but when you figure out how much it costs to cut the grass and pay the water bill and get the roof replaced and get it painted, you might want to stay in your apartment.

6:53 Touch the neighbor, so you might want to stay there a while. Everybody want to bend until you find out what it takes to get the oil change. That's a whole other card note. I say this for people who are aspiring. Because it's, Pastor, you make it look so easy. And there are a lot of young people in here looking at you. You got all the businesses and you got the family and all of that stuff. And they want what you want. And there's nothing wrong with that. But my word for you is, it's heavier than it looks.

7:28 Just touch three people and tell them, it's heavier than it looks. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Any 80 babies in here? I was born in the 80s.

7:53 Oh, we about to have some fun. Because when I grew up, my most fondest memories were curated and created around Saturdays. And the reason is, is because there was a rule in our home.

8:21 You could not walk out of the house until you cleaned it. Oh, y'all mama knew my mama? It was in these days, cleaning up that two-bedroom apartment, that I fell in love with the temptations. Oh, we played old school music. I was listening to Sam Cooke sing Little Red Rooster when I was five. I knew words to songs by the Dells and the originals. I ain't going to sing it because we don't lie. We used to listen to music, Al Green and Marvin Gaye. Luther Vandross.

9:19 You know when Luther's, oh, oh. I mean, y'all know exactly what I'm talking about. It wasn't until I grew up that I found out that he actually walked past the mic. I thought he was holding it the whole time. Not only did we do that, we watched cartoons and Tom and Jerry was on my list. I'm about to find out if y'all are anointed or not. The best cartoon that has ever been made was the Thundercats. Now, if you don't say amen, we're going to have another altar call. Thundercats. Thundercats. Ooh, I love y'all. Thank you. For the purposes of this discussion, the cartoon that I want to illustrate, my point was a cartoon called The Jetsons.

10:26 The Jetsons had FaceTime before we had FaceTime. The Jetsons had robots cleaning their house before we had robots cleaning our house. their past is still yet not our future because their cars were flying it's coming That cartoon at the time seemed like insurmountable science fiction. And now, everything that they showed us is now a part of our reality. I want to bring that up because do you recognize that now in 2026, you carry a phone in your pocket or in your purse that is more powerful than the first computer that sent men to the moon?

11:40 Series talking. Alexa's answering. Claude is creating. All these advancements are a long way from rotary phones. I remember in my grandfather's house, we had a yellow... rotary phone in his kitchen on the wall. It took seven years to dial a number. And the court was so long. That one time I forgot I was on the phone and made it to school and didn't even know.

12:37 walked in the principal said you brought the cord I just we've come a long way we've come a long way from rotary phones we've come a long way from beepers we've come a long way from having to type certain words and turn it upside down so you'll know exactly what you're talking about.

13:05 I saw online the other day a robot kicked a kid in the stomach. Did you all see that? Robot was dancing, it kicked a kid in the stomach. And instead of being amazed like I should have been, the first thing I ask myself is, is this AI? Because advancements have become so prolific that we're no longer amazed. Do you really realize where we live? To me, though, with all of the grandeur and the pageantry amidst the developments of our society, I think that we have missed the mark because we are celebrating the developments more than we celebrate the developer. Are you listening to me?

14:01 I believe that you cannot truly admire construction without seeking engineer. You cannot really appreciate art without trying to find out and appreciate the artiste. that things come second to creator. Help me, Holy Spirit. I think that things, everybody say things. I think that the things that change our lives are overshadowed by the people God used to create the things that changed our lives. And that is not just true in technology. I believe it is also true spiritually because every great move of God costs somebody something.

15:04 Did you hear what I said? Every great move of God cost somebody something. Abraham had to leave his family. Joseph had to survive exile. Peter lost his boat. Because every time that God needs you, it's going to cost you something. And listen to me. God has never asked a person to change the world without first asking them to change their plans. Did y'all hear what I just said? God has never asked anyone to change the world without first asking them to change their plans. And I want to tell you today what I did not come to do. I did not come today and stand in this generation-shaping house just to tell a great man happy birthday.

16:06 you already know he's great the nations know it and heaven has recorded it are you listening to me You've read the 40 plus books. You've seen the movies. You've been to the conferences. But if all we do is see the article and overlook the author, I wish I had some help in here today. Then what we will do is we will admire the manifestation and forget the mind.

16:54 I'm talking to young people in here today. Because what you need to understand is that glory has a weight to it. I'm going to help you. Please, please stay with me. Yeah, because the conference is heavier for the host than it is the attender. Yeah, people come to your house and they eat your food and they're done in 20 minutes, but they don't know that you have to go to the grocery store and you have to pick the right food. And you made sure that you didn't pick meat that looked like it was old. And you made sure that you checked the date on the milk. See, people come and they enjoy in an instant what it took you an eternity to build. the book you read in two weeks took the author two years to write and so I am afraid that in this this zap it this quick to it generation where everything happens for us so fast where you can type in a prompt and get an entire prolific essay in chat or clawed I'm afraid that we are excited about outcomes but forget about process Thank you.

18:03 Are y'all going to talk to me here today? Just touch somebody and say, it's going to make sense in a minute. I'm just trying to show you that it's heavier than it looks. You don't build a house like this in chat. you don't build a ministry like this with ai it takes blood it takes tears it takes crying it takes wanting to give up it it takes being misunderstood it takes being rejected and by the time we find ourselves in the business of elisha in first kings chapter 19 i want to tell you something that you need to understand about all great people. There was a time where they still have strength to do it, but they're exhausted. I'm talking to parents in here.

18:59 You still got strength to be a mama, but you're tired. You still got strength to be an entrepreneur, but you're tired. You still have the strength to those watching online. You still have the strength to pastor, but you're exhausted. We meet Elijah and he is exhausted. He has called down fire from heaven. He has defeated the prophets of Baal. He has survived the attacks of Jezebel. He has run away from it all. And now we find him sitting under a juniper tree asking God to take his life. It's heavier than it looks. Priest on Sunday wanted to die on Monday. And I just want to find out, is there any honest people in here today? I know you dressed up. You got your lashes on. You got your makeup on. Your hair is fried, dyed, and laid to the side. You drove up here in a nice car.

19:53 But is there anybody in here that would just admit it to your neighbor just for their sake? Just tell them I'm tired. Sometimes I feel like giving up. Sometimes I just want to drive past home. Sometimes I just want to go somewhere and be at rest Sometimes I want to say you can have it all Sometimes I just want to say you know what It was a nice try I gave it all I could But I want to be left Is there anybody?

20:16 I don't want to talk to the holy I want to talk to the exhausted I don't want to talk to y'all who came to church Who want to pretend like it's all I want to talk to somebody Who say if another thing happens to me I don't know what I'm going to do to who and what Thank you. Just look at your neighbor and tell him, neighbor, I look fly. I look good. Touch my swag. but it's heavier.

20:48 Tell them it's hard work being this good. It's hard work. It's hard work. I got these kids. I got this husband. I got this wife. I got this job. I got this vision. I got this trauma. I got, I'm trying to figure out how to. It ain't easy, y'all.

21:14 It ain't easy. This is an anointed man of God. And we find him under a tree saying, God, I helped them with their life. But I want you to take mine. I want to talk to real people today. to which God responds in a way that is counterintuitive to how we see him.

21:45 Elijah did all of that complaining and God with his compassionate, holy, loving, meek, lamish self looks at the prophet and says, you finished? Get up. I want to talk to somebody who's been throwing yourself a pity party and having a sympathy session. I came to look you in your face today and tell you to get up. Slap your neighbor and say, get up. Or you got the wrong neighbor. Find somebody else and tell them, get up. See, look at how hard your head you are. You're still sitting down. I said, get up. That's your problem. You listen to how you feel and you don't listen to the declaration of the Lord. Get up out of your sleep. Get up out of your depression. Get up out of your frustration. Get up out of yourself.

22:39 You have more work to do. Am I talking to anybody in the potter's house today? Somebody shout, get up. Your mama didn't work two jobs for you to stay under that tree. You did not go back to school as an adult to stay under that tree. You did not take out another loan to increase your aptitude to stay under that tree. It is time for somebody to get up. You better come on. Y'all heard what it said. You better come on. You got more. You got more to do. He's tired. Y'all writing?

23:34 You better write down what I'm about to say. He's tired. And God says, get up. Because sometimes God's answer to your discouragement is another assignment. I wish I had somebody sometimes God's answer to your frustration is something else to frustrate you God, I'm tired. God says, I know. Now get up and go do something else.

24:12 Touch three people and tell them, get up and do something else. I know you've been divorced, but you got to go on another date. You cannot. I know Earl broke your heart, but you got to give Jimmy a chance. Talk to me, somebody. I know, I know, I know, I know it broke you, but you got it. God said get up and you ain't the only one God told Noah to get up God told Moses to get up you remember when Moses died Joshua called himself being depressed God says Joshua Moses my servant is dead get up right after the funeral go and start the movement God told him to get up God told Joshua to get up he told Ezekiel to get up and I'm telling you somebody shouted in the balcony get up somebody shouted on the front row get up somebody shouted on the back row get up you're too smart to lay down you're too you're too wonderfully made to lay down you're too blessed to roll over you gotta get up and i'm only talking to a few of y'all because there are some people that no matter how many times you tell them to get up they're looking for somebody to pick them up but the problem with being picked up is they'll remind you that they picked you up.

25:42 I want you to get up out of your seat in your own power and shout, this is the day that the Lord has made and I will rejoice. Somebody say get up. Now, for those of y'all who stand there, the Bible says, as soon as he got up, he stumbled upon his succession.

26:17 See, you ain't never going to run into the next sitting down. God sent me my husband. You don't go nowhere. how you gonna find them and you in the house and rollers all day long where you gonna find them at you gonna marry the gardener You got to get up. James Brown been trying to tell you, get on. Get up. As soon as he got up, he ran into next. Soon as he got up, what he was praying for was in up. He's still depressed.

27:15 He's still exhausted. He's still frustrated. He's still scared. But it got up. It means you can be broken. Get up. that means you can be in a bad breakup and get up it means that you can be in divorce court and get up it means that you can lose the business and get up it means that you can lose the house and get up there ain't nothing you can't get up from Somebody shout it again, get up. Now watch, he gets up and watch where God sends him. He does not send him to a temple. He does not send him to a prayer meeting. He does not send him to woman evolved. he sends him to a field. And when he gets to the field, he finds a man who's working his job.

28:20 Y'all better hear what I'm saying because I'm about to help somebody. I'm about to help somebody. I'm about to help somebody because you're asking God to call you from nothing to something. Listen to me. Look at me. Listen. He found a man working his oxen because God never interrupts nothing. Y'all miss what I just said. You miss what I just said. So you sitting at that time about, I'm waiting on the Lord and I'm just going to wait my time. God don't interrupt nothing. He finds a man who's already working. Are you missing what I'm saying? He's working what he got. It ain't what he want, but he working what he got. He's tending his 12-box. He ain't got what somebody else got, but he's working what he got. Slap somebody and say, you got to work what you got, baby. He's working what he has. Watch this. Because the mantle only falls on motion. the mantle only falls on motion can i just be messy i'm looking at some of y'all you ain't moved since we started church and if you ain't moved since we started church i need you to rebuke him and tell him ain't no need of you looking for no mantle if you can't move in church you can't move in the business area if you can't move in church you can't move in the stock market i need you to tell somebody I tried to tell you now I'm gonna remind you get up get up mentally get up physically get up psychologically get up emotionally get up Elijah was tending his oxen because the mantle is looking for movement.

29:59 Just sitting here waiting on the Lord. Well, you can work while you wait. Young people, holler at your boy. ain't no need of you talking about you 30 years old talking about i'm adulting you late you supposed to been grown 10 years ago you can't wait till 30 to get grown you got to get grown right now you got you got to open the business right now you got to write the book right now you got to you got to open it right now young people make some no you got to go now you can't Wait on nobody to give you anything. It's heavier than it looks. Yes, it's going to depress you. Yes, you're going to be under a tree. But you got to get up because you're not next. You are now.

30:50 I can only imagine when Bishop Jakes built this church. I'm going to say names you don't know like the Holloway Grays and the Beverly Robisons who were picking it up. Now God has placed Elijah in the seat and now his Holloway has to stand up and his Beverly has to stand up. You can't just be young and cute and have an Instagram and have a podcast. You got to serve! slap your neighbor and say pick it up you got to evangelize you got to bring somebody to church with you you got to share your faith this is not a place where you come to be cute this is a place where you come to be curious so you can share your faith and fill the house Watch this.

31:50 God did not call Elisha to succeed. He called him from success. if you got 12 yoke of oxen you balling This man was an entrepreneur. This man had an enterprise. God never calls you from nothing to something. He never interrupts nothing. What are you going to do with what you have? I'm just waiting on the Lord to bless me. And God is looking for motion. Even if you're failing, at least it's working. Let me prove it to you.

32:42 Yes, he did tell Noah and Jonah to get up. But here's what I want you to look at. He also interrupted Paul on the road to Damascus where he was going to kill Christians because even wrong motion got God's attention. You got to do something. this ain't the time to be cute you can be cute when you get rich am I talking to anybody I know you want to be an influencer, but I'm talking about being influential.

33:25 I'm talking about when you walk into the halls of Congress. I'm talking about when leaders call you to get things done. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being an influencer because it has its place, but you do have to transpose influence into being influential. trying to inspire you i'm trying to figure out do you realize that this mantle was not just placed on the roberts it was placed on you you can't just sit back and find out what they gonna do god sent me here to say what he can't say what you gonna do what are you going to do to lift the weight of this glory what are you going to do to make sure that next week somebody's sitting next to you oh talk to me somebody what are you going to do to take this historical house into the next generation when Elijah saw Elisha, he didn't just see a man, he saw motion.

34:39 And the glory always sits on movement. That's why it's called a wind, because it moves. tell your neighbor you ain't moved since service you ain't you ain't moved since nine o'clock you and you talking about you on a mantle the mantle is looking for motion i'm gonna give everybody here 30 seconds to create some friction to create some motion i just want you to say lord i'll move because i know i got a mantle that's assigned to me i'm gonna give you 13 more seconds open up your mouth and tear the roof off of this place so they can hear you on Keese Boulevard. Let everything that has breath... Come on, Potter House, I can't hear you. I said open up your mouth and give God the glory. Y'all doing all right?

35:41 Y'all got a couple more minutes? Some people believe that Elijah wore the mantle. Now, the Bible doesn't say this explicitly, but Pastor Ture, it is suggested that Elijah wore the mantle 20 to 25 years before he passed it to Elisha. which means that when he passed the mantle over, it wasn't new, it was worn. it was worn. Oh, come on, come on. I want you to smell the mantle that still has the pollen on it from the wilderness. Smell it. Can you smell the urine from the times he fell on the ground and laid there and slept in the wilderness because he was afraid that Jezebel was going to kill him? And you would have to get very close to pick out the bark pieces that are still in it from underneath the juniper tree because the mantle is not glory it's survival Most people look at the mantle looking for something glorious.

36:48 This is not a Versace coat. This is a bulletproof vest. This is something that I had on to protect me while my mother and father forsook me. When you're asking for a mantle, you're not asking for a promotion. You're asking for pain. I remember. I remember. Oh, I'm getting emotional. Think about it. I remember telling Bishop Jakes, Bishop, I want to be just like you.

37:29 I want to be just like you. I want a church just like yours. No, I don't. I did not know what it cost to build a 50, 60, 70, 80, 100 million dollar building and then pay it off. I did not know what it cost to write a book. I did not know what it cost to do interviews, to have every word sparse, to have every thought critiqued. I had no idea what it would do to your children, what it would do to your wife, what it would do to your body. I had no idea. So now I say, Lord, whatever you want me to have. y'all not here with me today i don't want another one of y'all looking at what somebody else has and asking god to give you that what you need to ask god for is what you can handle remember one time I know I frustrated him I know I frustrated him because I kept asking and I kept asking and then I was trying to show him that I was doing good and I would watch him because he got this look when he look at you like this You in trouble, trouble.

38:46 I knew it. He looked at me, and one day he looked at me, he said, listen to me. I'm about to say something to y'all, and this is for the young people who are looking up to Pastor Ture and Pastor Sarah. Because just because Sarah got a big conference on me, you need to start one. I want to show you how to support them. Here's what he said to me, and I want to say it to you. He said, son, learn to enjoy the distance. I didn't know what it meant at the time. Now I know. Let me stay in front of you so I can tell you what's coming while you're on your way. But if you ever catch up with me, we're going to both be in the same pit at the same time. You have to keep Pastor Roberts and Pastor Sarah ahead. Enjoy the distance. Can I tell you something? Because it's heavier.

39:44 than it looks. Do you know how much attention to detail you have to pay to make sure that when you come in here on Sunday morning that it ain't paper all on the ground and that the carpet is shampooed and that the ceiling doesn't have brown stains in it from leak? You don't have enough attention to detail to lead something like this. You got to make sure that the parking lot is paid. You got to make sure the grass is cut. You got to make sure that things are not rusting out. You got to make sure that the water stays hot. You got to make sure every toilet is fixed. You got to make sure that the staff is paid. You got to make sure that the volunteers are appreciated. You got to make it so much. It's heavier. We got people looking, I can do that, try it. they said I got to get back focused I lost I'm sorry bitch I went too far no this is my pastor I came to help him I told him when he got the job I came to help him and sometimes God will bring in somebody else to say what he can't say but I can say it and If you don't like me, I got a church to go back to, so it's fine with me.

41:03 I go right back to Houston. There are consequences if he said, it's revelation when I say it. Y'all still here with me? He puts that mantle.

41:26 How heavy, how heavy is a mantle that is not just cloth, but has mud and urine and tree bark? on it. It's heavy.

41:47 This is not a blessing. This is a weight. Now he's already weighed down with his own emotions Now he's got this responsibility that's even heavier And then the Lord revealed something to me You can handle it because I never put Adult destiny on infant shoulders I gave it to him because he could handle it.

42:21 And for every person that thought they could, the mantle didn't fall on them because it was not theirs to put on. Elijah picked Elisha, not Israel.

42:45 The mantle was placed on him and it was heavy. And I'm sure he thought, this is too much for me. I'd rather just do my businesses. Oh, I just, LA is a nice place. Oh, you have to understand that Bishop didn't call him from nothing. don't y'all get it twisted he wasn't called to success he was called and he came and who knew that the way God would do it is he would put the magnet in the womb of mother draw the next Elijah to the seed give them a call in eternity's past that will be relevant in eternity's present and draw them to Dallas with a dog whistle that only they would hear because God knows what he's doing.

44:09 and if you'll let God do the same thing in your life he'll take yesterday and tomorrow and interweave it together to put together a destiny that will set you up for success I don't know who this word is for but just touch somebody say I feel a little better I feel a little better I understand now that all things do work together for the good of them that love the Lord and are called according to his purpose if you believe that there is a mantle coming your way I want to make some noise in this room today. Watch this, Pastor. So now he's there. And now the sons of the prophets start saying, because people always try to discourage you after the mantle. So they say, I don't know if you had heard, but you know that the Lord is coming to get Elijah today.

45:07 and they know exactly what they're doing trying to get them discouraged you know he's coming to get them and I want you to know that we're human so although we have become strong to what is said we are not immune to what is said so he's human so some of the things that are said he hears even if he don't respond see that's the thing that Elisha has to do Elisha has to hug people who don't want you to have the mantle Unfold your arms I ain't scared of you Unfold your arms Who you think you're scaring? I'm here today What you gonna do? So he says, you know, it ain't going to last. Today he's about to get caught up.

46:01 And Elijah put two of the best words together that I think that the English language and at that time the Hebrew have to offer, transliterated. Here is what he told them after they tried to discourage him. He said, I know. Shut up. Can you just tell your neighbor, shut up. You'll feel better. It's therapy. I just want you to say you ain't do nothing to me, but I want to say to you what I want to say to somebody who ain't here today. Shut up. You know, some people just need to shut up. Liza said, you think you know something about my father? I don't know.

46:56 Shut up. He said, I know. And then after he is displayed as a man, watch, let me show you the dichotomy. Now he goes back to being a boy. please daddy don't leave me. Three times he asked him not to leave. Three times Elijah said, I got to go. You stay. He said, but don't leave me. He said, I got to go. But I'll tell you before I leave, he says, he says, well, well, well, let me say this before I say that. He says, I got to go. He says, please, as, as the Lord liveth and as, as, as the soul liveth, he says, I will not leave Elijah, watch this, he shows us something. He actually wants to stay close.

47:41 Because, and here is the problem with some of the sons of people like Bishop and others who lead in the nation. See, you cannot inherit from something you're trying to outgrow. See the problem is that some got close to Bishop to try to get the mantle or a piece of it and when they didn't get it then all of a sudden they found another father. But you have to understand some people come into your life for seasons and other people come in your life for reasons. And if you don't give them a reason they'll leave in a soon season. So he says, you can't, you can't learn from somebody while simultaneously trying to outdo them. that's the problem with the body of Christ too much competition not enough cooperation Touch your neighbor and say, there are many mantles.

48:55 Amen. No, I say this because I've been around long enough. I've seen them come and they go. And the reason why some people haven't gotten a mantle is because they left when they should have lingered. They stayed and then they thought, oh, all right, I'm going to get it and I'm going to get it. And when they didn't get it, pardon my Ebonics. Then they left Only to find themselves Disconnected from the root Now trying to find the back door Into the anointing they had a key to If you can't tell now, I ain't never scared. I'm telling you there's a transfer coming Potter's house I just want you I want to whisper to you because you don't want to miss it you got to stay close God has assured us. Watch what he said. He says, Up on this rock, I will build my church.

50:20 And the gates of hell, you know it, what? Won't overcome it. So what that means is that God is in control even when you don't understand. Let me finish this up. Somewhere on the journey, they get to the Jordan River.

50:43 And when they get to the Jordan, this urine infested. Bark lined. mud encrusted mantle is now at the Jordan And the reason we know the mantle is Elijah's Is because when he struck the waters They parted Somebody else's mantle in your hand leaves the mantle wet.

51:29 But when it's yours. I don't know who I'm talking to, but God told me to tell some of y'all take one more step because the waters are about to part. I don't know who I'm talking to. I want you to find a Bible. I want you to find a handkerchief. I want you to find something, and I just want you to strike it. Come on, just strike it. Strike. I don't know who I'm talking two in here today, but just touch your neighbor and say strike it. Strike it. I want you to strike it. I don't know what it is, but I want you to strike it. I don't know where it is, but I want you to strike it. I don't know how hard it's been, but I want you to strike it. Come on, somebody strike it because when you strike it, it will part. When you strike it, it will move. When you strike it, you are saying to the thing in front of you, I have the mantle. I have the anointing and you've got a part I want somebody to shout is about to cut itself in half come on somebody strike it come on somebody strike it I said come on somebody strike it if a match is gonna work it has to be struck if a nail is going to work it has to be struck if a piano is going to make music the keys have to be struck if a drum is going to make noise it has to be struck what i'm telling you today is sometime in your life you're going to have to strike out touch somebody and say strike it i don't care how much you cry strike it i don't care how confused you are strike it I don't care how depressed you are striking.

53:11 I don't care how miserable you are striking. I don't care how much pain you're in striking. I need somebody in here to strike it. watch what he does next after he does that he takes the harness and the yolks the tools of his old job and he burns them because he's saying that I'm committed to this mantle and even if I get depressed I'm not going back so he burns it so he has nothing to go back to I wish I had about 500 people that'll look a neighbor in the eye and say neighbor I make a promise to you come hell or high water I'm not going back you got the wrong neighbor turn and find somebody else and say neighbor come hell or high water I promise you one thing as the Lord liveth I'm not going back did they say anything you got the wrong neighbor turn turn turn turn turn and find somebody else and say, neighbor, God told me to tell you, hang on just a little while.

54:47 Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Give him a high five and shout, neighbor, I know it's heavier than it looks, But I believe I can fly. I believe I can touch the sky. Think about it every night and day. Spread my wings and fly away. I believe in the impossible. I believe in the unimaginable. have I got about 500 people who will grab a neighbor by their hand and we've got to get out of here. Look them in the eye and say, neighbor, God told me to tell you that one can chase a thousand, but two can put 10,000 to flight.

55:45 So I got instructions for you. When I move, you move. Just like that. You got the wrong neighbor. If I jump, you jump just like that if i run oh i got you come on come on you run just like that shout yes shout yes

56:17 tell somebody pick it up it's your mantle it's your season it's your time this your church oh y'all miss what i said somebody shout this my church so this is your church Do I have any help in here? Is this your church? Is this your pastor?

56:52 Pick it up! Pick it up! Pick it up! Can I tell you if God wanted somebody else to have it, he would have put it on them.

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