The 2024 NYE Service at The Potter's House of Dallas

45:54 I cannot tell you how glad I am to be in the house of the Lord tonight. I missed you. Thank you. Y'all not going to get that ugly cry out of me tonight. Maybe. Maybe, I don't know. You know, people often say that they don't go to mega churches because they feel like they're not going to be loved. I tell them, you've never been to the party's house. In many ways you are the fulfillment of my dream. You are the root of my call.

47:01 You are the touch of destiny. I love you back. I'm doing pretty good, aren't I? have a seat just a moment I want to talk to you I don't want to overrun my time but I'm so grateful to the Lord to be perfectly honest in the spirit of my daughter I'm going to be very transparent I had a fair amount of anxiety about walking out on the stage standing in the same spot that I almost died in. In fact, I think I did. But God in his infinite wisdom and his great grace brought me back to the same spot.

48:13 I was in the emergency room and I said, Lord, what are you doing? If you'd have waited five minutes, it would have happened, nobody would have saw it. But you did it on the open stage where everybody could see. And he said, I made a sign out of you. that no matter what hits you If God before you, no weapon formed against you, shall be able to prosper. I don't know what you're going through tonight, but let this be a signal to you that you're on your way to a comeback, and if I'm talking directly to you, and if all the odds have been against you, and if they couldn't hardly get a pulse on you, and if you couldn't hardly recognize anybody, and everybody said you weren't going to make it, I'm standing here as a testimony. I don't come as Bishop Jakes, I come as Bishop Lazarus.

49:28 To let you know that with God all things are possible. Can you say amen? Show somebody and say you can make it. Yeah. Sit down, let me tell you this real quick. I got to get this time.

50:00 I have some special thanks that I want to express. Had the enemy had his way, we wouldn't have had a Christmas, we'd have had a home going service. But God. in front of the whole world showed himself strong. One later date I'll get to share with you a little bit more detail because my experience was totally different from yours. What you saw happen to me on the stage, I didn't experience that like that. I wasn't there like that. While I was hunched over in the chair, he had me cradled in his presence. I didn't even know that I did that until I was in the ICU unit watching it on TV.

51:06 It was the first time I saw what you saw. There are parts of the day I can't even remember now. But God, who is rich in his infinite wisdom and prevailing mercy. And I know a lot of you have gone through a lot worse. I know you've gone through some amazing things and you've got some testimonies out there that if I turn you loose. I don't feel sorry for myself at all. I'm grateful to God. There are people who lost their feet. There are people who lost their legs. There are people who lost their sight. There are people who will never be able to see again. There are people who will never be able to move again. They said I had a stroke. They said I died. They said I wouldn't be back. I say. On behalf of my entire family. I want to give honor first of all to God.

52:15 I want to thank God for the intercessors of this church that immediately went into spiritual warfare and started praying. And they tell me some folks, they had to ask you to leave because you prayed so long. And I want you to know you were praying all while they were doing surgery on me. And God brought me safely through. I went through several hours of surgery. They almost lost me twice. but every time my numbers drop your prayers prevail and I'm standing here today on the glory of God. All my intercessors make some noise in this place. You went right into spiritual warfare. You fought back. You spoke in tongues. You cried. You prayed. You prevailed. You danced. You laid prostrate on the floor.

53:08 And every time you did it, death had to back up off of me. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying. You were speaking in tongues. They had oxygen up my nose. I was breathing in what you was putting out, baby. And I'm here today by the grace of God. So don't let no devil in hell tell you God doesn't hear you when you pray. Because I came back as a testimony that God hears the prayers of the righteous. Can somebody say amen? I want to thank all the people who flew in, drove in, called in, text, prayed, sent cards, checked up on us, ran errands for us. hopped on planes, drove in, stopped by and left food, posted prayer warriors on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram. Y'all made me famous.

54:06 Y'all was asking people to pray for somebody. They didn't even know who it was. I don't know who he is, but whoever he is, Lord, touch him right now in the name of Jesus. I also want to acknowledge the amazing staff at Southern Methodist Hospital. no no you got to do better than that i'm talking about amazing i'm talking about amazing i'm talking about they did incredible stuff they expedited an emergency surgery i got into surgery so quick by the time it was on tv i was going into surgery it went all over the world it went all over the globe and i was going through surgery. To our own Dr. Jill Wagner, would you stand? I want to recognize you. Stand up. Uncross your legs and let them see you. She went to war. She went to work. She went to fighting. She was throwing medicine. She was throwing the Holy Ghost. She was throwing anointing.

55:06 She was fighting the devil. I didn't even recognize her. I didn't even know what was going on, and she was fighting for my life. Thank you. When the ambulance got me to the hospital, the first face I saw was Dr. Darryl Amos. Would you stand? He's also a member of the Potter's House and the Chief of Staff. And Torrey, when I got out of the ambulance, he was the first face I saw, and he looked at me and he said, don't worry, I got you. And I thank you.

56:00 He stayed over shift for 24 hours. For 24 hours, he did not leave until he was sure my heart was pumping again. And I think you could give him a better round of applause than that. So they sent me to another specialist, Dr. Shawna Nesbitt, only to find out she's been a long-time member of this church who continued to watch over me. Are you here Dr. Nesbitt? Would you stand if you are? I just want to recognize you and give God the glory for you. If not, just clap your hands and thank God for it. I want to thank our safety and security team whose speed saved my life. We saved my life by a five-minute window.

57:01 They said if I'd have got there five minutes later, I'd have been DOA. But because they got me out of here expeditiously and quickly and got everything in line, I want to thank God for Pastor Phillips who dialed 911 while everybody was talking in tongues and got people in place. Dr. Jill coordinating with them. Everybody started working together. We were functioning like a body. We are one people. High five somebody and say we are one people.

57:30 I want to thank the local, the national, and the international press who reported without being invasive or disrespectful of our family with dignity and class. They gave us the dignity and class to heal and to grow without being invasive or making it hard for me. To all of my children who rallied all around me like the National Guard. They were on me like they were trained soldiers. I think they were military people and I think a few of them might have been packing.

58:06 But they had me all surrounded on every side. They covered me. They prayed for me. They interceded me. to my amazing wife. Stand up honey and take a bow. She never left me. She didn't go home. She didn't go get no rest. She just recovered from knee surgery. If I woke up in the middle of the night, she was staring at me.

58:48 She never left my side. She sat. She wouldn't take the cot. She sat in a chair for three days. and she didn't leave that building until I left that building, and I think you ought to give her... Come on, give her an amazing praise. I want to thank the staff, the volunteers, the pastoral team for all the work they did to keep things going while I was laying, resting. They didn't think I would rest. I would rest. There are some things that will make you sit down. I said, they said, Daddy's not going to sit down. He's not going to act right. He's not going to do the right thing. I made all of them out to be alive. I laid down. I rolled over.

59:40 I sunbathe. I took Epsom salts bath I did everything I told the trainer you won't have to drag me the therapist was sweating and I was still climbing up them hills fighting to get this heart back to pumping blood the devil is a lie because out of the heart flows the issues of life and I said you're not going to take me out I know you don't like that message I preach crazy like a fox I know I stirred up the demonic world I know all hell broke loose I know you didn't want it to get into the minds of the people, but the devil is alive. No weapon form shall prosper. By his stripes, I'm healed by the power of God. Hallelujah. If God be for you, he's more than the world against you. Talk to me, somebody. Talk to me, somebody. I came to strengthen your faith about your mama, your sister, your auntie, your niece, your uncle, your daddy. God has a way of doing things that will blow your mind.

1:00:38 Come on, make some noise. Pastor Sarah and Pastor Torre Roberts would you stand for a minute they held this church down ten toes down every service, every need every situation, every circumstance with class, with dignity with fervency they preached even though they were family even though they were bleeding even though they were crying inside even though they were worried inside they preached about you and made sure you were okay even though their hearts were broken and they were worried were they going to lose their father they stayed on the wall they fed the flock of God they preached the gospel they were faithful in season and out of season they have proved themselves to be fit leaders and if you don't take the adequate respect and give him the praise shame on you you need to honor them Thank you.

1:01:36 Thank you. Thank you. Not a shoe fell. Not a shoelace fell. Not anything came up that they didn't handle. They were on. They were handling it. They were doing it. And I'm still their father. Imagine doing that while you're bleeding. One more time. Help me thank God for them and for what God is doing. No, I know, I know, I know, I know. I know I'm not the only one who's faced dark days. I know I'm not the only one who's had to go through demonic attacks. But I am one of the few people that had to do it in front of the world.

1:02:23 And it's one thing to have trouble in the house or in the hospital. It's another thing to have trouble in Nigeria and in London and in Saigon and all over the world. we literally got calls from all over the world. And for some reason, God wanted to show his resurrection power and his ability to raise us up. And I think we owe him praise tonight. Not the regular watch night praise. We owe him a resurrection praise. We owe him a celebration praise. We owe him a miraculous praise. He has done marvelous things. His right hand and his holy arm has gotten him the victory. Come on, shout in this house, somebody. I figured there are three classes of people in here. I don't know which class you fit in, but I'm going to describe all three.

1:03:22 Some of us, 2024 was primarily a great year. Doors were open. We had some struggles, but overall it was an amazing year. 2024, we moved into a house. We got a promotion. We got a new baby. We had career changes in our lives. We had God to open doors that we thought could never be open before. We closed on a house. We started a business. We had God do things that were amazing. God saved many of us in 2024. God relocated us in 2024. He baptized hundreds and hundreds and thousands of people right here in this church in 2024. For many of us and for the next group of us, it was just a normal year. filled with good and bad, laughter and lamenting, prosperity and decline, birth and death. That's life. And you fall into that intermediate category where it was just 2024 was just a hodgepodge, a potpourri of some of this and some of that and some of everything, but you made it.

1:04:26 For others of us, it was a year of trials, opposition, blistering trials, isolation, kidney failures, children arrested, sorcery, trickery, deception, corruption. For others of us, it was a time of enduring clickbait, attack, artificial intelligence. Rumors gone wild and we had to sit there and take it while they bashed our heads up against the wall. It was a tough, tough year. The one thing all three of us have in common, we're here. I said through everything you've been through, you're still here. I said through everything you've been through, you're still here.

1:05:22 And I want somebody who is grateful for the fact that you're still here to let God know that you are grateful. That you are grateful. I mean truly grateful. Personally grateful. thankful for what he brought you through the good the bad the ugly the haters the imitators the spectators the deniers you went through hell and high water some of y'all been through divorces some of y'all had to visit your kids in jail ain't no need in there sitting there looking cute act like you don't understand what i'm talking about when i'm talking about trouble you came here on a wing and a prayer and you owe God a praise not just because it's new years but because it's a new you. Take 30 seconds and take the roof off of this place and give God the kind of praise that he's worthy of.

1:06:17 Or you can do better than that. I give you this scripture and I want you to take this with you because the scripture has been great comfort to me. It's in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 4 through 10. I'm not going to preach it. I'm just going to read it to you. It is the Apostle Paul coming back from a trial that the history books don't even discuss. all we know is that it was so bad that the apostle who wrote most of the new testament went through depression so bad that he despaired of life itself he says about god who comforted us in all our tribulation that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort we're with.

1:07:14 We ourselves are comforted of God. You cannot give to other people what God has not first given you. Sometimes God takes you through things to give you empathy. Don't get mad at people that don't have empathy. They haven't been through enough. When you go through enough, you will humble yourself. You'll stop talking about people. You'll start reaching out with compassion. Where am I compassionate people? Make some noise. He says, for as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer. or whether we be comforted.

1:08:09 It is for your consolation and your salvation. Do you not know they had to pry the mic out of my hand? I never dropped it though. And as soon as I came to myself, I asked them, give me the mic back. Because before I couldn't even hear you. But when I heard your cries, if it was my last breath, I was going to spin it blessing you. praying for you. That is the heart of a shepherd. Paul says, and our hope of you is steadfast, knowing that as ye are partakers of all the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

1:09:04 So if you haven't suffered much, you don't have much to shout about. But the people who have been through all kinds of hell, and you got payday is coming after wow that's what we used to say in the old church y'all don't know to get your time in payday is coming after wow look at somebody say it's coming every night you stayed up it's coming every night you cried yourself to sleep it's coming every time they closed the door in your face it's coming every time you lost a job it's coming back to you. Every time you went through heartache and a voice, it's coming back. And to those of you who have been through great suffering, you ought to give him the greatest praise because you got the greatest blessing coming your way. I can't even hear you. I can't even hear you. You still got on your cute outfit. I dare you to praise him like you lost your mind.

1:09:59 Praise him like you don't care what you got on. Praise him like you're going to break that yoke in the spirit tonight. Praise him like you're going to cast down high powers and principalities and everything that the devil set out against you. Praise him like you mean, praise him like you're going to war. Praise him like you're ready to fight. Praise him like you're ready to box up on the devil and knock him out. Praise him like you mean, bitch. I can't hear you in the balcony. I can't hear you in the back row. I can't hear you from a wheelchair. Finally, he says, for we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble. A lot of times we don't tell people that we get in trouble, that we're human, that we're not always Superman, that you're not always Batgirl. Like anybody else, we go through trouble.

1:10:55 He says mine came in Asia That we were pressed Out of measure Pressed out of measure Pressed till we were out of shape Above strength In so much that we despaired Even of life But We had the sentence of death in ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raises. I said, in God, which raises the dead. How many of you on your second go round, God, raise you from the dead. Raise you up in people's faces that didn't even want to see you get up. Raise you up against all odds. Thank you, Jesus.

1:11:48 Other people just making noise because the music is playing. But there's some folks in here got to praise. They don't need a drum. that don't need an organ, that don't need a harp, that don't need a hand clap. We're my old saints. my saints that go to war wear my warren praises I've seen your cute shoes but let me see your powerful praise the last verse is the most powerful verse who delivered us from so great a death watch this who delivered us from so great a death delivered past tense he's done it before and does deliver us. Current tense. He's doing it now. In whom we trust that he will yet deliver to 2025.

1:12:44 He will yet deliver us. I don't know what it's going to bring, but he will. I don't know what I have to go through, but he will yet deliver us. Whatever has been on your mind, just holler, he will yet deliver us. we're going into a new year we got a lot of new stuff coming on new laws, new rules new regulations new government new undefined drones we don't know what they are just flying everywhere doing all kinds of stuff stuff we can't even explain walking pneumonia people getting sick COVID in the shadows racial and social disruption immigration issues and so much more let's use this moment to believe God for salvation for prosperity and prosperity is a good thing but most of all protection that whatever comes in 2025, that we are protected, that we are covered, that whatever you got to go through, that God would insulate you.

1:14:11 I was cradled in the fetal position while y'all was trying to get me out the room. I didn't even know I was in the room. God, he that dwelleth in the secret place, Thank you. Can I give you a testimony from the grave? He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. You ain't got to tell them about your business, but shake hands with seven people and say, I'm still here. I believe this is going to be the year that I get it back. everything I went through, everything I endured, everything I suffered, every night we cried, every night we iced her knee, every time she was sick and couldn't walk, every time my brother was being dialedized, every time our family was going through crisis. I believe this is going to be the great year of a turnaround. If you believe that, just jump up and just turn around. 2025, I'm going turn it around. I'm going to turn it around. I'm going to turn it around. If you're watching online, jump up and turn around. I know you look stupid, but jump up around the couch and just go all around the couch. Jump up around the kitchen table and spin around a chair and let the devil that this year is not going to be last year. God's going to turn it around. I may have tests.

1:16:04 I may have trials. I may have tribulations. It's not that God changes life, but he changes me. And if he changes me, he gives me the power to change it. Let all the people that feel a little tougher, a little stronger, a little more fighting you, make some noise. Show him. Show him. Show him. Show him. Show him. Show him what you're working with. Show him what you're working with. Show him what you're working with. Show them what you're working. I said show them what you are working with. You ain't jumped on no whip. You jumped on somebody that will fight you all night. Make some noise in this place. Almost every year that I have been here, we have given the next year to God.

1:17:09 It's the most vulnerable thing because you're giving him something you don't even know what the next year will bring. Will it bring sunshine or rain? Will it bring pleasure or pain? Will it bring heartache or misfortune? Will it bring relocating or moving? Or will it bring just standing still? Sometimes your greatest faith is in your ability to move. And sometimes your greatest faith is in your ability to just be still.

1:17:46 And we have to give it to God because we don't know what it is. We don't know what we're going to have to contract. Dr. Cindy Trim's in the house. Give it up for her. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Come on, come on. Clap for her. She's going to be one of my international leadership summit speakers. Make some noise for her. Make some noise for her. She got something for you too. It's going to blow your mind. We don't know what 2025 will do. what missions we will embark on what boards we will sit on what companies we will start what doors will open for us what new relationships will be spawned in our life what our children will do what our grandchildren will do the things that God will make happen that we didn't even have sense enough to ask him for but God did it And so with childlike faith and with a puppy like love, every year we give this year to God.

1:18:57 And everybody can't do it the way we do it, but we do it every year. And I take 2025 and I dedicate it to God. I dedicated 2024 to God and I made it I dedicated I dedicated 2023 to God and I made it I dedicated 2022 to God and I made it I dedicated 2021 to God and I made it I dedicated 2020 to God and I made it I dedicated 2019 to God and I made it I dedicated this building to God and we paid it off in three years.

1:19:43 I dedicated our television ministry that covers two-thirds of the globe. I dedicated it to God and we've been on it for almost 40 years and we made it. I dedicated our staff to God with almost 300 employees and we made it. I had never done any of it before. God's going to bless you to do things that you have never done before if you go beyond being entertained by the word to being edified by the word and I sense that we are coming into a place that we got nothing going for us but our faith dogs are stuck against us our history is being erased it.

1:20:36 it is being said that we don't matter we are going to have to walk by faith and not by sight but God is going to do it and for somebody $2,025 is a lot of money for somebody it's a seed sown but if God could do everything that I'm asking for by giving him $20,25 $2,025 it would be a steal because I can ask for stuff now I know some of y'all real polite y'all don't ask for nothing y'all just sit there I don't care for anything be hungry don't invite me over to your house if you're not going to feed me because if you ask me I'm hungry I'm going to tell you I'm hungry I can eat it in a paper plate but I will chow down I will tear a plate up when God asks me do I want something for him I tell him I'm not afraid to believe him for big stuff for stuff I can't do myself the stuff I can do myself I don't pray about I just go do it but there are certain things that only God can do in my life and I don't really even know exactly what all I'm asking him for in 2025 all I know is that whatever it brings I don't want to face it without him Amen.

1:22:04 I don't want to do a funeral without him. I don't want to do a wedding without him. I don't want to raise a child without him. I don't want to go through a test without him. I don't want to go through whatever 2025 has for me. It's going to be better with him in it. And so as I give him this year, I'm going to ask many of you that are able to give on that level. And some of you give above that level. That's not a whole lot of money. But if you're able to give on that level, if you're able to think on that level, that's the big thing. It's not giving on that level, being able to think on that level. Some of us can only think about receiving it. We're still waiting on the lottery to hit. We will go to the casino and bust a 2025 in a minute. But those of you that are going to stand, my wife is breaking into the secret vault.

1:23:15 those of you that are going to stand come quickly I don't want to take up much time I'm over time right now and let's give this year to God and with it let's give our children and our burdens and our worries and our prognosis and our credit and our vision and our business and our dreams and our ideas to God. Come on, walk it up here. Just walk on up front with it. We're going to get out of order. I told somebody backstage, I said, this ain't nothing but a big storefront. come on am I right about it 2025 when I was laying there and they were running all kinds of tests on me that offering seemed like nothing compared to being able to breathe and move move there are some things that God can do in your life that's absolutely priceless. There's some mountains that God can move in your life that go beyond anything that you can sow into the kingdom. I'm giving this year to God. That means I'm going to sleep better this year because I'm not going to worry about it because I'm going to give it to God. That means that there are some people I'm going to give to God. That means there are some worries that I'm just going to, listen, I've told them everything I can think of to say, I'm giving it to God.

1:24:54 I need him. I need him now. I am more convinced that I need him now than I've ever needed him before. And even though I am in the sunset of my life, I still need him. I need him like I needed him when I was your age, when I was young. I needed him then. I still need him now. I thought I would get, you know, independent. I'm still dependent. I need him to help me make choices and decisions and discern who to trust and who not to trust I need him for that I need him to give me backbone when they're trying to crush me I need him for that I needed him to get me out the hospital I needed him to touch my body I needed him to touch my body even though people were making memes saying I was dead I needed him to touch my body because you don't have to argue with a liar just show up just show up I need him I need him because people have become more wicked and they got more to be wicked with they're taking good technical technical things like AI and using it for evil I need him I can't even protect my image and my voice I need the Lord I'm not sure what tomorrow brings I'm not sure social security is going to hold up I'm not sure that I've got somebody in place to take care of.

1:26:28 I need him. I need him. Whatever 2025, you may be watching online and maybe you have that same sensation. There's a sensation I had all through 2024 that like I was living in the book of Revelations. I need him. I need him to come in on a horse and break a curse. I need him to step into a situation and make it better. I need him. And I need him doesn't mean that I'm going to be lazy and do-less and spineless, but it means that after I've done all I know how to do, I still need him. After I've studied and read all the books I could read, I still need him. After I've gone to the best doctor, I need him. After I've gotten the best lawyer, I still need him.

1:27:23 I need the Lord. I need the Lord to shut my mouth sometime. I need the Lord because if he don't shut my mouth, he knows I will say something that grandma's soap won't wash off. I need the Lord. Can anybody relate to that? I need him. I need him. Some of you have got great vision and you don't even have the provision yet, you need him. Some of you got the money, but you don't have the people. You need him. Some of you got the people lined up, but you don't have the connections and the resources. You need the Lord. Some of you are coming into a new season in your life. You need the Lord. And we're going to give this year to God. You're watching online. You need, for what you believe in God to do, you need the Lord.

1:28:14 Some of you have diseases. You need the Lord. Some of you are HIV positive. You need the Lord. Some of you are dealing with AIDS. You need the Lord. Some of you are dealing with pneumonia. The most vulnerable time in your life. You need the Lord. Some of you get COVID and you get over real quick. But some of you, it almost takes you out. You need the Lord.

1:28:37 Some of you have been like me, naked laying on a table. Letting strangers poke and prod on you. you need the Lord we don't know what the future holds but we know who holds the future Honey, would you bring that to me? Can you bring that? Thank you. You need the Lord.

1:29:35 You need the Lord. How many years we've been married? 42. 42 years. 42 years you need the Lord maybe you can't give what they give him maybe you can give 200 maybe you can give 25 you got me she said I got you you were waiting on me to say that you was already hooked up stand up I want to see you you was already connected in the Holy Ghost she said I can't do what they gonna do, but I'm gonna give on my level. I'm gonna give that 200. I'm gonna be in the fight Everybody stand with your seed We're about to cross over the Red Sea. from servitude to sonship.

1:30:33 We're about to break the grip of Pharaoh over our lives and escape into the promised land. We need the Lord to part the Red Sea to make the way, to make it solid enough for me to walk on, but soft enough for my enemy to drown in. Only God can do that. make it hard and soft at the same time so that your enemy after you gets trapped we need the Lord you're watching online we need the Lord if you were going to just watch TV you could watch anything this is not TV this is service you need the Lord Lift your seat up. Whether it's in your phone, the information is on your screen, or whether it's in an envelope, you are lifting up 2025, 365 days, 12 months of the unseen.

1:31:33 You are lifting up things that may be working in your body that you don't even know are in your body. You're lifting it up before God. things that haven't been diagnosed. You are lifting up mental and emotional issues and stagnation and trauma and tribulations. You need the Lord. If you don't get the Lord, you're going to mess up your future, running from your past. You got your hands in the air, you got your foot on the gas, and you racing towards something that God is trying to talk to you about. You need the Lord. Let's lift it up high. when you were on the cross you said father into the hands i commend my spirit father into the hands we commend 2025 and we don't even know what it's gonna bring but we know that if you go with us we will go anywhere and we trust you and we believe you for amazing things to happen and we don't know when and we don't know how and we don't care who you decide to use you can use our enemy to bless us you don't always have to use church folks to bless us you can raise up our enemies and make them our footstoves we just need the lord to take authority over our situation and bless us now Father, now in the name of Jesus, as we consecrate these gifts and we lift them up to you, we lift them up not by manipulation or intimidation, but by faith because the future belongs to you.

1:33:20 The future of this country belongs to you. The future of this world belongs to you. Lord, planes are falling out of the sky. We need the Lord. Drones as big as vehicles and nobody seems to know what they are. We need the Lord. We need the Lord because we can't tell what's real and what's false and what's fake and what's true and what's misinformation and what's true. We need the Lord. We need the Lord every day and every hour of our lives. We don't need to be arguing. We don't need to be fighting each other. We don't need to be falling out with each other because none of us know what we're talking about for sure. We need the Lord. You are the truth. You are the way. You are the life. You are the future. We committed into your hands to work it out. And that means that as we sow this seed, not only are we going to get a harvest, we're going to get some peace. We're going to get some peace.

1:34:18 We're going to lay down and fluff up our pillow and go to sleep. And we're going to rest in him. And we're going to trust in him. And we're certainly going to sow. They're spending more in the grocery store getting ready for stuff that they don't even know when it's going to happen. We need the Lord. We need him right now.

1:34:40 We need him right now. We need him right now. They're all in Costco's and Big Bear and Kroger's trying to buy stuff or something that they don't even know going to happen. I'm not saying you shouldn't do it, but we need the Lord because you see the future. We commit it into your hands.

1:35:02 We don't know what grid is going out or what bomb is going to fall, but we need you that it won't fall on us. And we trust you for things that seem impossible. Do your best work in this church. I don't care who gets behind the mic. Do your best work in this church. In the name of Jesus we pray. Now before you give him your seat give him your best praise and don't give him that cute stuff. This is what I want you to do. All of you that came up front to sow as we sowed, if you put that seed right there, he'll give it to me. I'll do it. I'll do it.

1:35:55 We argue now with who going to do what. I carry it. No, I carry it. You're not supposed to be living up too much weight. Your knee is red. We be arguing over, we used to argue over real stuff. Now we argue who's going to take the beans back to the kitchen. sow your seed on this altar or touch it with your phone and everybody else pass your seed to the left pass your seed to the left pass your seed to the left I love you too I love you too yeah I feel it I feel it I feel it and I thank you I take it serious pass it to the left person on the left standing give your seat online don't miss this opportunity here we go here we go PMTs are you in place?

1:37:01 serve the people of God my future my boyfriend my fiance my girlfriend whatever it is that you got questions about give it to god right now Thank you for this moment with you. I'm going to toss to a video that I want you to see, and then we're going further in the service. Do y'all know we're going to have some church in here tonight?

1:37:36 Now listen, I want you to be patient with me. I have put the congregation first for 47 years. I want you to be patient with me. I want you to be patient with me I don't want you to put all your expectations on me I'm going to teach Bible class a little bit every now and then But I'm going to wait until my heart is strong enough And my body is working well enough And I'm going to take care of me For once in my life I'm going to take care of me I've been waiting all my life To take care of me I'm going to take care of me I'm going to lay on the beach I'm going to get some vitamin D I'm gonna get some water I'm gonna get some oxygen and if you're not being fed well enough play a tape because I'm gonna take care of me and then whatever I got left I'm gonna serve you in the beauty of holiness I think after almost 50 years I have earned the right not to have to come to church to see if you decided to come. I'm coming. I'm going to teach and then I'm going to preach and then I'm going to do what I can and then I'm going to sit down I'm going to give me some golf clubs and see how to work them for God is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever, amen I'm turning it over to our leaders but before they come I want you to watch this video and watch the transformation that's happening in our church God is doing a new thing in our church a fresh thing in our church

1:39:42 and the former things are passing away take a look at this and then Pastor Torre and Sarah are already here to take over