Walk It Out Wednesday: Don't Bury Your Dream! - Bishop T.D. Jakes

3:21 And in case you weren't here for Sunday, this is Walk It Out Wednesday. This is an opportunity where we go deeper into the Word of God, and we also take some questions from you. And our subject was Don't Bury Your Dream. How many people got your dream with you? Don't bury your dream. It's easy to do that. it's easy to bury your dream it's easy to let bad circumstances talk you out of hoping talk you out of believing make you settle for a life that's less than what God planned for you you have to be tough to get what God has for you not just tough on the outside people confuse tough and mean I have met mean people that weren't tough and I have met tough people that weren't mean.

4:20 Don't get them confused. In an attempt to try to be tough, we act mean. But you can be mean all you want to. Tough is something you have on the inside that fortifies you and keeps you going all the time. So I want you to take that toughness from the Shunammite woman that we were preaching on Sunday, and we're going to go deeper into her. How many people enjoyed Sunday? Yeah, shake hands when somebody say don't bury your dream. Amen.

4:57 We're going to be in 2 Kings chapter 4. I'm going to go to some extra scriptures that I didn't have time to go into on Sunday. I'm going to go into some areas that I didn't go into before. And I want you to prepare yourself for that. 2 Kings chapter 4 verse 18 through 27. When you have it, say amen. Okay. You can stand on your feet. You might be standing a little while because I'm going to talk all in between. but you know how I am. I used to have, I was preaching back in the day, we had readers.

5:34 Read? What did he say? Yeah, I still like that kind of stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I still like that kind of stuff. Incidentally, the Shunammite woman is Shunammite is not an ethnicity It's a location It's like saying I'm a Charlestonian I'm a Mississippian So when we call her a Shunammite woman It is not an ethnicity It is a location It is where she lived She is no doubt from the tribe of Issachar because Shunem was part of the inheritance of Issachar. The 12 sons of Israel, of which Issachar was a part, all received an inheritance of land except Judah.

6:31 And Judah's inheritance was the house of the Lord. Levi, rather, the house of the Lord. And you have to understand that so that you can be clear about that. And the Bible says it fell on a day that Elijah passed to Shunna, where was a great woman. And he just left a poor woman. And I talked about that Sunday, the passages between the poor woman and the great woman. When the Bible calls her a great woman, it doesn't mean she's better than the poor woman. It means she's well off. So he passed to Shunem where there was a great woman, and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was. I love the word. Isn't it cool? And so it was. It's just the King James language. It's so nice. And so it was.

7:23 It's not always right, but it's always nice. And so it was that as oft as he passed by, he turned in to eat bread. Now, I talked about there is a ministry of giving. There is a ministry of helps. And we don't talk about it much in church, but there are people, I bet you're in here right now, there are people in here that just have a giving spirit. And sometimes you get taken advantage of because you got a giving spirit. But if you're a giving spirit, you're creatively a giver. You don't have to wait to be asked to give. You'll come up with stuff. You're thoughtful. And the Bible said the liberal souls shall be made fat. And so when it says the liberal soul, it means that the liberal souls shall be made fat.

8:20 doesn't mean that you have money because you can have money and still be stingy. You have a liberal spirit. And when you're a liberal spirit, God says he's going to make you fat. Now, he don't mean this way. Okay? Ice cream did that. But he says, if you're liberal, I'm going to give you more to be liberal with. If you're selfish, why would I give more to somebody who's not going to do anything with it? I give seed to the sower and bread to the eater. I'm not going to give you seed if you're not going to do anything with it but put it back. I give seed to the sower. And it's a frightening thing sometimes because God will give you something to sow and the enemy will be whispering in your ear and say, you need that yourself. but God has a way of giving it back to you but I want you to understand he doesn't always give it back to you through the same person you gave it to.

9:23 I know this from experience. I've gone places to preach and the check bounced or the offering wasn't any good or it was a bad check or the account was closed. But yeah, yeah, in 50 years I've had everything happen. But somewhere along the way in a grocery store, in a department store, somebody will walk up to me and say, the Lord laid on my heart to sow this into your hand because you can't beat God's giving. God will find a way to get a blessing to you, even if he has to use your enemy. God will use your enemy to bless you. Are you with me? And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, which passes by us continually. That means he was always eating over her house, like the good reverend on soul food.

10:22 He was always coming over She was always feeding him He never asked her She just did it She was a great woman Great people do great things Because they have a great capacity Because they are thoughtful God gives them capacity To live up to their thoughtfulness y'all didn't get that that went over your head they're thoughtful some people are not thoughtful you have to ask them some people you got to beg them and some of them after you beg them they still ain't going to give you nothing but there are people that are just thoughtful and it's not always about money it can be about running bath water it can be taking your car to wash it Just some people, they're just going to give you something, whether you ask for it or not.

11:23 Anybody like that? Wave your hand. Yeah, yeah. And if you're like that, you have somebody in your family that's always telling you you crazy. They're using you. They're making a fool out of you. It don't take all that. And what they're doing is talking you out of your blessing. because as you bless other people, God will bless you.

11:51 Fat is, let me tell you what fat is. The man explained what fat was to me this way. When you fill your car tank up full of gas and the tank is full of gas and now it's spilling out, that's what fat is. All that your body didn't use, it spills out. See, this is overflow. So when God says the liberal soul should be made fat, God says I'm going to give you more than enough. You're going to have overflow. You're going to have gas running out into the street, all in your tires, all everywhere. The liberal soul should be made fat. Why is he going to make you fat? Because he knows that you're going to keep giving. You're going to keep sowing. You're going to keep planting. saying you're going to keep giving up yourself, of your time, of your personality. Some of you can't even give a smile.

12:45 You're sitting up in church looking just as mean as a junkyard dog. But when you're a giver, you light up the room when you walk in the room. Now she says, let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall, and let us set for him there a bed and a table and a stool and a candlestick. Look at her designing a room, building a room. He ain't asked her for no room. And it shall be when he cometh to us that he shall turn in thither. Instead of being tired of him coming over, she wants to make it comfortable for him to come more.

13:29 Wonder if you've made it comfortable for Jesus to come over. wonder if you've made a room for him wonder if there's space in your life to have a devotional and have a relationship with Christ wonder if you have a bed and a table and candlesticks and a chair and you've decorated it in such a way that he doesn't have to break in because the Holy Spirit is a gentleman. He won't break in. He'll come in, but he won't break in. You have to invite him in. You have to be intentional about it. You can be evil if you want to, but if you decide not to be evil, you can be intentional about it and start worshiping. And if you really start worshiping, you will find out you cannot be evil and worship at the same time to save your life. You can't do it. You can be mad when you start.

14:26 You can be mad because somebody came in, your ex-husband came in, and he's sitting on the back row with his new wife, and you got an attitude, and then the service gets good, and the Holy Spirit just washes all away. All that just comes away from you. Are you following what I'm saying? And it fell on a day that he came thither, and he turned into the chamber, and he lay there. And he said to Gehazi, his servant, call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him. And he said unto him, say now unto her, behold, thou hast been careful for us. You have given care to me. With all this care, what is to be done for thee? This is, I love this word. I love, love, love this word. I think this explains so much of the Bible.

15:22 It's reciprocity. Reciprocity. In every relationship, there ought to be reciprocity. Paul said, if I give you my spiritual things, should you not give me your carnal things? There ought to be reciprocity. If I'm kind to you, you ought to be kind to me. If I'm loving to you, you ought to be loving to me. It might not be the same way. It might not be the same thing. It might not be the same amount. I had a friend of mine gave me something for my birthday that I just couldn't believe it. I just couldn't even believe it. It was several years ago, but I just could not believe that I would receive a gift like that. When his birthday came around, I could give him what he gave me because I don't have that kind of money. But to the limit that I could go, I went to the very limit and found him a watch.

16:15 It was the last one in the world and had his name engraved into it and brought it up there and gave it to him because I believe in reciprocity. I'm not just going to suck up the blessing and say, oh, you're just nice. You're just so nice. Oh, you're so nice. You're so nice. You don't ever do nothing. Cook dinner. Make squash. Make some cornbread. Bake a cake. Get some cookies out. Do something so that you have reciprocity. That's what the Bible says. As long as the earth remaineth, it's in the book of Genesis chapter 8, there will be seed, time, and harvest. Harvest is reciprocity to seed time. There will be day and night. There will be winter and summer. These things are consistent. Whether you're saved or unsaved or holy or unholy, they're consistent.

17:09 Reciprocity. You ought to be convicted if somebody keeps being nice to you and you don't do nothing. It ought to bother you. It ought to bother you. ought to disturb you that you don't do nothing back. You ought to wash dishes sometime. You ought to cook sometime. Every now and then when my wife is cooking a lot, I'll come in and beat her and lay out something and cook for her and just have something done just to say you ain't got to always be standing over no stove cooking. Yes, reciprocity, you ought to do something. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So this woman had reciprocity. Say now unto her, Behold, the prophet says, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care. What is to be done for thee? Wouldst thou be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the host?

18:05 And she answered, I dwell amongst my own people. She bad, she bad. She said, I don't need nothing. You don't need to introduce me to the king or none of that kind of stuff. She said, I'm satisfied to dwell amongst my own people. So she definitely wasn't using him. When he offered her an opportunity to enter into his favor with the king, she said, I'm cool.

18:33 I'm happy to be amongst my own people. And he said, what then is to be done for her? Look, he won't let her say no. He won't let her say no. What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, verily, she have no child. She didn't say nothing about the child. Gehazi, who was Elijah's servant, said she has no child. And her husband is old. So this is something she couldn't do for herself. I'm not going to explain that. But anyway. And he said, call her. And when he had called her, she stood in the door. And he said, about this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. Now, it's hard in the Western culture in the modern time to explain how important it was to women in the Bible days to birth a son.

19:36 But let me take a stab at it. When you go back to the third chapter of the book of Genesis, the prophecy goes out to Eve that the seed of the woman shall bruise the head of the seed of the serpent, and the serpent shall bruise his heel. It is the first messianic prophecy. And it is given to say that some woman is going to come along. Eve thought it was her when she had Cain and Abel, and that's a whole other story. And then finally Seth, she was hoping she would be the woman that birthed the one that got back at the serpent for how he tricked her. But the prophecy was for Mary.

20:18 Are you hearing what I'm saying? But all through the Old Testament, you see women saying something they ain't saying no more. Give me a child lest I die. Hannah was crying out for a child. Going in the temple, moaning for a child. I don't know when I've seen somebody on the altar crying for a baby. I've seen some crying because they had a baby.

20:42 But you have to understand this is a cultural dynamic for Hebrew women, okay? And she said, Nay, my Lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thy handmaid. Now, she has already called him a holy man. But when he said that she was going to have a child, she said, Don't lie to me. And the word has struck a nerve. It struck a nerve because this woman has come to a place that she's at peace now. She dwells amongst her own people. She's a proper 31 woman. She has a husband. She's doing good. She's doing business. She can afford to build a room onto her house for somebody who comes by occasionally. and she says, don't wake up my desire for a child. And in spite of that, the Bible says, and the woman conceived and bare a son at that season that Elijah had said unto her, at that season.

21:49 Look at your neighbor and say, you got a season. You got a season to reap. after having seasons to sow you're going to have a season to reap it started out a season she was just cooking dinner and then she had a season where she was building a house she had a season she was decorating for somebody for somebody else to live in a part of the house that she didn't even live in but as sure as she had a season to sow she had a season to reap And the Bible says now she has come into her season. How many of you feel like you're coming into your season?

22:31 Type on the line if you're watching on the stream, I'm coming into my season. Even if you don't feel like it, even if you don't see it, even if the rent-to-own man came and took your TV out, just go ahead and just say it by faith. I'm coming into my season. Your spirit needs to hear your mouth confess, I'm coming into my season. It would do so much for your mood and for your attitude. I'm getting ahead of myself. But the way you talk to yourself has a lot to do with how much peace you have and how much contentment you have. Most of y'all that think that the devil is after you and the demons are tormenting you, it ain't the demons. You're doing that to yourself. You're feeding yourself poison. Oh, what if this happens? Oh, God, what if this happens? What if the other happens?

23:23 Then you tell her, I'm scared to death. I'm afraid. I don't know if I'm going to live long. Mama died when she was 27. I don't know if I'm going to make it. And you just feed yourself all that poison and wonder why you're not happy. But in her own season she brought forward. You got a season coming. you got a season don't let the devil talk to you into killing yourself and miss your season just cause you had to sow a while before you got to it didn't mean you wasn't going to get it you got a season coming and when the child was grown, now look at this and when the child was grown it fell on a day that he went out to his father to the reapers okay so it's a so much difference between having a grown child and having a little child it's altogether different it's just a whole different experience you can say things to your grown children that you couldn't say when you were a child and you got to learn i'm gonna just say this real quick and move on you got to learn when to let them go and be grown you got to you got to give up your role, your controlling role as a mother or a father and let them live their own life, whether you like that dress or not, whether you like that coat or not, whether you like that job or not. You lived your life. You made your choices. Even if it's a mistake, sometimes you got to let them make the mistake. But because of your need to be who you were, you can't transform into who you are.

25:11 Oh, it got quiet, Jesus. Anyway, he's out there with his father. She sent him out to the father. It's interesting to note when he was little, he was with his mama. But when he got older, he went to be with his father. It's already told you his father was old, but he's still getting something from an old man that he can't get from his mother. See, there's something that you get from an old man that you can't get from a young one. It's a different level of reasoning. It's a different level of understanding. It's a different perspective because they have been where you have yet to go. You see, but I'm going to say this and I'm going to get myself in all kinds of trouble. So I hope they don't put this on the internet. But we got so many young men trying to give advice to other young men who haven't lived any further than the young men they're giving advice to. And they're chief apostle at 19.

26:18 They got bodyguards and security guards and briefcases and they're coming in and this is my covering. This is my spiritual father. Really? You're older than your daddy. You know, and it's nothing wrong, because I started out preaching when I was 19. I love young people. But for me to teach on marriage at 19 or 21 would be totally different from me teaching on marriage and having raised my children. I've learned a whole lot of things that were theoretical that in reality didn't work out the way I thought it would work out. Can I get a witness? Is there a witness in here? I thought I knew something, but when them kids got through with me, they took me to school. I now have a doctorate.

27:11 I have a doctorate degree in what works and what don't work. But we're losing our fathers. Paul said we have many teachers, but we only have one father. And don't fool around and lose your father. Don't let the enemy cause you to become disconnected with your father. He don't have to be perfect to be your father. He still gave birth to you. And he's old. And the boy is now a grown man, grown enough to leave. But he's still with his father. And he said to his father, maybe something he couldn't have said to his brother, my head, my head, to be able to say where it hurts.

28:03 Did you get that? To be able to say where it hurts, to be able to say what's wrong with you, to be able to confide in somebody who's not going to tell you business. Now, every old man is not a father. Gray hair don't necessarily make you wise. It just makes you great. But if you find a real father, you ought to be able to say, my head, my head. But today, we spend so much time trying to prove to our fathers that we don't need them. that we're not honest with them to say, my head, my head. Sounds like to me the boy was having an aneurysm. I don't know. I'm just throwing in conjecture there. Whatever it was, it killed him. So it wasn't a headache. It wasn't a nosebleed. My head, my head. And he said to a lad, carry him to his mother.

28:58 And I talked about that Sunday, about there are certain things that your mother can do that your father can't do, a woman's instinct over a child. In fact, I was reading a periodical that was written by a physician that says that the cells of a baby never completely leave the mother. The baby leaves, but the cells of a baby stay inside of the mother. So that when the mother gets sick, part of the defense that's fighting for her to get well is coming from the leftover cells of the child. Woo-wee. I'm preaching way better than you shouting. And when he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he set her on her knees till noon, and by noon he died.

29:58 And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God and shut the door upon him and went out. Don't nobody do that with dead people. she took the dead child. She carried her dead, grown son. Women get strong when it's their kids. You mess with their kids, they turn into a mighty mouse. And she carried him and laid him on the bed. And I want to sit down so you don't get tired. Now, but while you're sitting, remember I'm still standing. and I'm older than two-thirds of you, so if you tired from standing in a few minutes, you ought to be praying for me and speaking in tongues, because I'm going to be standing for a while tonight, okay?

30:53 And what I want you to see, this is what I want you to see that I didn't get to dwell on Sunday. I want you to see that this woman was highly favored, that the prophet gave her some, he did her a favor. He did her a favor she didn't even ask for. And I want to expose the misunderstanding we have about favor. Because we think that if we are favored or you know how we like to say, how you doing? I'm blessed and highly favored. We love to say that. The favor of God is resting on me. That's how I got that job. That was the favor of God. But the problem is we only associate favor with success. Oh, I'm doing so good.

31:49 We only associate favor with success. And if you define favor only through success, then you can't explain what happened to this woman. Her child grew up and died on her lap. Her favor died on her lap. But she was still favored. Life is still going to be life Whether you have favor or not People are going to die Whether you have favor or not People are going to get sick Whether you have favor or not People are going to leave you Whether you got favor or not People are going to break your heart Whether you got favor or not Don't let the devil tell you That you lost your favor Because you lost your friend Oh, I'm talking so good tonight I think I'll dance While I'm standing up here Favor is not equated to substance or wealth or good times or feeling good.

32:50 You can go through a bad time and still have favor. Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and favor with God and favor with man, but he still got crucified. He was in the will of God, but he still bled out on the cross. He bled out because if the blood would have stayed in, it wouldn't have done us no good. He bled out for our redemption. He bled out for our deliverance. He bled out for our salvation. He bled out. Blind by the mask got healed just in time to see the blood come out. And the blood came streaming down. He bled out. Glory to God. He'd been walking around with all that blood in him, but it didn't redeem anybody until he bled out. And sometimes you have so much favor that God will put you in a situation where you have to bleed out, and it's painful, and you don't like it, and you're in the Garden of Gethsemane, and you say, Father, if it be thy will, pass this bitter cup.

33:53 That means he didn't want to do it. He didn't want to do it. He didn't like it. The Bible said he despised it. He despised the shame of the cross. but for the joy that was set before him. He looked beyond the present circumstance to see what was going to come out of it on the other side. I'm helping somebody right now. I can feel it. You're all sitting up soaking in the temporary circumstance. You're only going to be on the cross for a little while. After a while, you're going to rise again, and the cross is going to be empty. Do you hear what I'm saying to you? I'm talking to somebody. Your only way you can endure a season of pain is to look beyond it. Don't look at it. Look beyond it. Look beyond it. Having an expectation, having a hope inside of yourself. Keep your hope.

34:48 If you want to not bury your dream, you got to keep your vision. For without a vision, the people perish. I don't care if you got to get binoculars. I don't care if you have to get away from negative people and find somebody that believes in your dream. You need to be around somebody that is helping you to see beyond. It's still possible. It can still happen. You might be an old woman, Sarah, but you can still have a baby. Oh, you don't hear what I'm saying to you. Rahab, you might be a hooker, but you might end up in the lineage of Jesus Christ. They all don't hear what I'm saying to you. Ruth, I don't care that you weren't idolatrous You can change on the road She wasn't in church She wasn't in a service She wasn't in a ceremony But right in the middle of the road She said, thy God shall be my God Thy people shall be my people Where thou lodgest, I will lodge Where thou diest, I will die She had a conversion on the move She had a conversion while she was walking And she was converted by a woman that was depressed and discouraged and didn't even want to go on any further.

36:02 Y'all don't hear me. Naomi don't have to be spiritual and happy to affect Ruth. Your mentor doesn't have to be perfect to affect you She was going through a bad time Worst time in her life She won't rename herself And all the while, while she's depressed She's still winning souls Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you She wasn't preaching and singing and laying hands And slinging all on nobody She was there, call me Mara which means bitterness. I went out full and I came home empty. And while she was talking all out her head, she was still affected, Ruth. Because sometimes your greatest witness is in your frustration and your test and your trial. And when I see you survive hell and high water and I see you still going forward, even though you don't feel like going forward, your greatest witness might not come while you're on the mountain.

37:07 It might come while you're in the valley. At your lowest moment. See, you're not as powerful when things are going good as you are when all hell is breaking loose. There's something about all hell breaking loose that it brings something out of you where people can see you suffer and still be consistent. She was depressed, but she kept on walking. She was angry, but she kept on walking. She was hurt, but she kept on walking. I found out a long time ago, if you keep on walking, you can walk your way out of anything. If you just keep on walking, you ain't got to feel like walking. You ain't got to be excited about walking. You ain't got to be happy about walking. But if you just keep on the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. And if you just keep on walking in what God ordered, he didn't ask you to like it. He just told you to walk it out.

38:02 I think this is walking out Wednesday. So we need to walk out some stuff until people get healed and people get delivered. That's why the devil hates you now. I learned way more from my spiritual father in his times of grief, in his times of loss, in his times of testing and trial. I learned way more than I did in his times of success. I watched him suffer. I watched him go through turmoil. I watched him go through all kinds of stuff. And I thought, Lord, have mercy. at the things I got to see because when you get close enough to somebody that you can see their wounds, that's what makes Thomas believe. Oh, y'all don't hear what I'm saying. When you see their wounds, see, you're trying to see their face, but you need to see their wounds.

39:00 Blessed are they who have not seen, but yet they believe. But Thomas believed because he saw Jesus' wounds. Jesus didn't hide his wounds from Thomas. He showed him his wounds because his wounds was his deed of trust. It was his signature. It was his authenticity. It was his absolute proof that he was the same Jesus that was on the cross. And he said, let me show you my scars, not my scars. Let me show you my scars. The fact that I'm still here. I've been wounded. I've been depressed. I cried myself to sleep, but I'm still here. And I got favor, even when it doesn't look like I got favor, I got favor to be here. I got favor to still be standing. I got favor to be in my right mind.

39:54 Somebody get an ass and settle the ass, because I got somewhere to go. I got somewhere to go, because I'm not going to let the devil talk me into thinking that I'm cursed. Some of you have allowed the devil to make you think there's a curse on your life because you judge favor by your condition, but you need to judge favor by your position. Your condition is going to change all the time, but your position is going to stay the same. I'm still his child. If I'm broke, I'm his child. If I'm prodigal, I'm his child. If I'm in the hog pen, I'm his child. If I'm lonely, I'm his child. If I'm backed up against the wall, I'm his child. That's why you got to be careful about doing something to me because I'm his child. Saul was wrong as rain, but David said, I'm not going to touch God's anointing. He's still anointed, even though he's wrong and stubborn.

40:52 And even though he tried to kill me, I still respect the anointing that is on his life. I'm talking about being favored in a bad situation. Oh God, I hope somebody's watching on the stream. I hope somebody's hearing what I'm saying to you. The devil's trying to talk you out of your favor and make you think that God don't love you and you're claiming that you're living up under a generational curse. You're all under the curse because you said you were. If you talk the curse, you're gonna live in the curse. But if you talk the blessing, you're gonna live in the blessing. Oh, you're on a type of a lie. I'm still favored. I might be in a bad season, but I'm still favored. My roof might be leaking, but I'm still favored. They may have repossessed my car, but I'm still favored. Watch me.

41:44 I'll get me another car. I'll come back around again. I'll buy me another house. I'll get myself together. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The righteous man will fall seven times, but he keeps on getting up. glory to God and just because you caught me while I was on the ground don't mean I'm not gonna get back up again glory to God the favor of God is not based on my condition it is based on my position my position is secure in him I live in him I move in it oh let me stop I'm going too far let me stop let me let me pull myself off that case. My God, I start a fight in here right now. You can't tell me I'm not favored. I've been through too much not to know that I'm favored. I've suffered too many things not to know that I'm favored. I've survived too many things not to know that I'm favored. I'm not perfect, but I'm favored. I'm not always prayerful, but I'm favored.

42:50 I'm not always in God's will, but I'm favored. There's a favor that rests on me, that's different from anybody else in the world. I ain't jealous of nobody. I ain't got to go see anybody's king. I dwell amongst my own people. I know who I am. I'm favored. The woman said, I ain't got no child, but I'm still favored. I don't need nothing. I don't need a thing. Look at how she saw herself. Look at her self-talk. Look at how she talked to herself. Well, why are you talking to yourself some other kind of way? She could have been complaining, I don't have no child. I got all of this house and I don't have no child. She said, I don't need nothing. I don't need to go to the king. I don't need to borrow your favor. I don't need your influence. I got my own stuff.

43:42 I dwell amongst my own people. I know who I am. I don't need you to tell me who I am. I don't need a title. I don't need a license. I don't need a decree. I don't need you to believe I'm a preacher. You can say I'm not a preacher all you want. There are preachers that don't do nothing but talk about other preachers. You have never heard me get up in the pulpit and give God's pulpit over to talking about another preacher. Because God didn't call me to talk about preachers. He called me to talk about Him. And I'm not going to get in God's holy pulpit and start talking about people. Because the one you're talking about today, you're going to mess around and need tomorrow. Lord have mercy Lord have mercy Lord have mercy Lord have mercy Lord have mercy don't you feel that favor the favor is coming off this stage it's sliding down into the pews it's getting in the house it's getting it's coming out it's coming out of my mouth it's coming out of my spirit it's coming out of my body I don't have to have no help I don't necessarily have to have no organ the favorite coming out the drums it's coming out of me I had favor in the storefront I had favor when I didn't have money I had favor when I had to hitch a ride to teach Bible class but when I got to the class I still had favor didn't I have favor didn't I have favor long time ago long time ago on food stamps I had favor back against the wall I had favor favor don't have nothing to do with your bank account favor has something to do with your soul account I got favor favor you can't see it And this is how you, this is how you're going to walk it out.

45:52 You're going to walk in your favor. You're going to walk in your favor, but you're going to understand that your favor does not exempt you from life. People are going to hurt you. The fact that the boy died doesn't take away from the fact that God gave her the boy.

46:16 It wasn't a mistake. He died. excuse me he was grown but he died he lived a long life devil you ain't gonna get this I'm gonna keep on going if I have to sneeze ever since I'm gonna keep on going he still had favor she got to see him grow up she got to see him turn into a grown man he didn't die till he was grown still is favor from God. There is always something to be thankful for. There's always something to be grateful for. You have to choose what you're going to look at. It's the way you tell your story to yourself that's making you sick, that's making you mad, that's making you frustrated.

47:08 I can take the same story and spin it around and show you God. We could be at Hell's Kitchen, and I'll still show you, God. You can make your bed in Hell, and I'll still show you, God. You can be sick with leukemia, and I'll still show you, God. You can be blind and can't see, and I'll still show you, God. Blind Bartimaeus couldn't see a thing, but he heard Jesus were passing by. I thank God for good ears. My eyes might be bad, but my ears are still good. And faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. I'm not supposed to walk by sight. It depends on what you say to yourself, what you get. Tell your neighbor, I got favor. I still got favor. I might be in a bad season, but I got favor.

48:03 I may be knocked down to my knees, but I got favor. I may have to crawl across the floor, but I got favor. I may be lied off, but I still got favor. I may be in the hog pen, but I still got favor. The prodigal son had enough favor to know he could still go back home. He'd been with the harlots. He had spent all his money. He was broke. He had disgraced his father. But he said, I will arise and go to my father's house. He never for a moment thought his father wouldn't take him back. Because he knew even in his mess, he was still his son. He said, I'm no more worthy to be called my son, but I'm still your son. Make me a hired servant. I'm coming home. It was favor that brought him back home. It was favor that brought him to his senses.

48:57 It was favor that stopped him from eating with the swine. It was favor that caused him to survive enough to get back to his father's house. It was favor that made them kill the fatty calf. And you know why they killed the fatty calf? because without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. It wasn't that they killed a calf just so they could throw a party. Something had to die so something could live. I heard the father say, this my son that was dead is alive again. And the sacrifice came when they killed the fatted calf. That calf died that the son might live and he kept on walking and that's what you got to do You got to keep on walking when you feel good when you don't feel good. You got to keep on walking Hallelujah, this is walking out Wednesday Somebody ought to take a little walk and let the devil know I'm gonna keep on walking if the kids don't call if the car don't start If I have to move in the garage, I'm gonna keep on walking If I have to get a part-time job, if I have to flip hamburgers, I'm going to keep on walking.

50:13 I got favor, favor in my hands, favor in my feet. I got favor all over me I said I got favor all over me somebody give me 30 seconds are crazy free wait wait wait no no crazy place This is what I wanted you to see. This is what I wanted you to get out of the text. That just because you have favor doesn't mean that your life always goes right.

51:09 Doesn't mean that you win every battle. doesn't mean that everybody believes in you and everybody receives you. They hated Jesus. They conspired against him. They tried to make his life a living hell, but he kept on walking. They despised him. They called him Beelzebub. They said he was a wine bivou, but he kept on healing the sick and raising the dead. You think the victory is to change somebody's mind about you. let them think whatever they want to think. Let them say whatever they want to say. If you got the favor of God, that's something you can't take from me. God has anointed me to do this and come hell or high water. If I get ready to do this, can't nobody stop me. If I get ready, I get ready.

52:02 If I decide to open my mouth the power of God! power the power

52:30 now I want you to sit down sit down I'm just talking to you I'm supposed to be teaching but I got this little preacher on me right now I'm trying to calm it down, but I'm trying to teach, but I feel something stirring up in my belly. Good God Almighty. Hallelujah. Are there any mamas in the house? What would you do if your child died on your lap? died right on your lap. And even then, she took him up and laid him in the bed. She didn't bury him. She didn't plan no funeral.

53:24 She laid him in the bed and got on an ass that said, slack not that bitty. And I told you, donkeys don't even move fast. She must have been kicking the donkey. because when I'm after something don't get in my way I said when I'm after something don't get in my way if I decide I'm going after something you better move you better do stuff you don't normally do if you're going to stick with me you got to move I don't care what your nature is I don't care what your mood is if you're going to be with me you got to go because I'm going somewhere. The favor of God is on me come hell or high water. If I tell you! Now look at this She went to the man of God The prophet said God had hid it from me So you can be a true prophet And still not see everything You can be a prophet of God and God hides certain things from you.

54:42 God is not going to explain himself to you. He is not going to show you everything. Some things are going to catch you off guard. Even though you're a prophet. Prophet enough to speak the child into existence but not prophet enough to see that he was dead. Are you hearing the oxymoron between the two things? Because when I'm on, I'm on. But when I'm off, I'm just a person. And the Lord has hid it from me.

55:18 And then he says, Gehazi, take my rod and go, you mean I have walked, I have rode all the way up here on the back of a donkey to see you and you sent your servant with your rod. You didn't come yourself. I came to see you. When I saw your servant, I said, it is well.

55:44 Which as you know, I didn't come here to talk to none of your minions. I went back to the source. Sometimes you got to go back to the source. You can't go to the armor bearer You got to go to the source The one who said it in the first place And when she made it to the one who said it in the first place He sent the servant with his rod And he failed Can you imagine what the devil said to her? Where are you favoring now? The rod must not have no power in it. It didn't work.

56:29 Gehazi came back and told Elisha, I tried it. It didn't work. Boy still did. Time is passing. He done got hard and cold. He's stiff. Rigor mortis has set in. But his mama still believed it. You went through a bankruptcy, but you still believe it. Somebody living in the house that got repossessed, but you still believe it. You hear what I'm talking about? You still believe it. That's what I'm talking about. That's how you walk it out. You walk it out by faith. You walk it out by believing God. Yes, there are going to be voices that come up in your head and say you're a fool. Yes, there are going to be voices that come up in your head and challenge your faith and say, it didn't work.

57:26 You've been feeding this prophet, you built a room for this prophet, and it didn't work. That word will leap over top of the fact that the prophet spoke the boy into existence. It will leap over top of the fact that the boy lived to be a grown man, and it will, see, you've got to understand something. You can do ten things right and do one thing wrong and people will forget everything you did right and throw it away over one thing they heard.

57:59 Don't you count on flesh because they'll say Hosanna today and crucify him in the morning. They will change on you in a minute, leave you standing by yourself. Of course she had voices saying, look at this. But Elijah said, I'm going myself.

58:21 And Elijah didn't even use his rod. He got on top of the corpse. The corpse, a deteriorating corpse, has so much fungus and bacteria on it that they used to tie people to corpses as punishment for murder until the infection from the corpse got into the murderer and killed him. And Elijah laid on top of something that should have killed him. But because he was stronger than the bacteria, he was stronger than the fungus, he was stronger than the molecules, he was stronger than the infection, he was stronger than the disease. Either he was going to get cold like the corpse or the corpse was going to get warm like him.

59:17 And that's why I can walk with the ungodly because I know who I am. And I'm going to have more influence over you than you have on me. I'm not going to get cold because you cold. I don't have to hide from you. I don't have to practice witchcraft because you a witch. I can walk right through the witches. You can get your roots out and I'll get mine out because I got the root of Jesse and I got the seed of Abraham and I got the power of the living God. I ain't scared of you. And so the Bible takes the time to tell you that the flesh of the boy watched warm because it is implying that it was cold.

1:00:10 That means when Elijah laid on him, he was cold. And if you ever touched a dead body, you know what I'm talking about. He's cold. If the body is cold, it's also stiff. There is no movement. There is no action. There is no noise. There is no leaping of the hands. There is no jumping of the feet. There is certainly no sneezing. but he progressively got better nobody knew he was warming up but Elijah Because you can't see temperature. And the Bible said, oh God, I don't need to be up here tonight, y'all. I'm sorry. I'm messing up to walk it out on Wednesday. The Bible said that he started sneezing.

1:01:08 That was an outer sign of an interchange. The Watson warm was just a secret between the prophet and the body. and nobody knew that the temperature was changing. There are some of you, your circumstance still looks the same, but you can feel a change in the temperature. You can feel a change in the temperature. And I came to serve notice on you that you're not wrong about it. It may not move yet. It may not make any noise yet. But if you feel it getting warm, believe what you feel. The Bible said the flesh of the boy was warmer. And the prophet just kept on laying there out the wire. He sneezed. and he sneezed seven times and on the seventh time which is the number of completion it was over but what I want you to see is not the promise it's the process how hard the process was The process had disappointment in it.

1:02:28 The process had failure in it. The process had disillusionment in it. The process had disappointment in it. But she kept on walking. Just because you didn't get what you want the way you envisioned it, when you thought it was going to come out a certain way, that mean it's not going to happen. God is teaching you to be tough. God is teaching you to be relentless. God is teaching you. See, having the baby was easy. She didn't have to work to have the baby. It was fun having the baby. She didn't have to believe God to have the baby. The prophet just spoke it and said about this time next year, the baby's going to come. Nothing was required of her to birth the baby except to push. but when he died, the work moved from the prophet to the woman, and the woman had to believe God in the face of failure.

1:03:29 I wish I was preaching to somebody that's standing in the face of failure. I hope somebody's online that's standing in the face of failure. God's got you online tonight. It's your night. He's got you listening at this word To let you know that you're in the process You're not in the promise yet But you're in the process You learn more about God in the process Than you do in the promise God will take care of the promise all by himself But the process is for your edification The process is for your anointing The process is for your strength The process is to make you tenacious The process is raising you He's mature in you. He's fathering you. He's mothering you. He's adopting you. Hallelujah. The Bible said that the whole earth will groan and prevail in pain, waiting for the adoption to win. The whole process was in turmoil and we're living in a world that's bubbling right now. It's in turmoil right now. It's rocking and reeling right now. Everything is shaking right now.

1:04:40 See, I was at Katrina. It wasn't the rain or the wind that killed the people in Katrina. It was when the levees broke, when the foundations started cracking. That's when the water got bad and people started drowning in the water. And the alligators and the snakes started moving through the water. And I'm watching our foundations crack. Our foundations are cracking. Our foundations are cracked. and a thousand may fall at my right side and ten thousand may fall on my left side but I refuse to lay down and tell myself that I got to be one of them. It might be somebody that go but it ain't got to be me because greater is he that is in me than he that's in the world. Clap your hands and praise him. Give me one of them questions.

1:05:38 before I have a fit up here and roll down this aisle and start dancing in the middle of the aisle because I feel I feel an option in here I feel a power and he did I feel a flow in here I feel it the divine move of God in here come I'm gonna shout yes to somebody. Shout yes! Shout yes! Shout yes! . . Here's the question. I love this question. Because of the trauma that happened in my past, how can I ever see myself as worthy of God's oil? Sweetheart, let me tell you something.

1:06:35 If you didn't have no trauma in your past, you still wouldn't be worthy of God's oil. God does not give us his oil because we are worthy. The woman had the alabaster box and it was filled with spignard, which is a fine Indian perfume. The alabaster box was designed for the richest of ointments because it held the smell on the inside. the oil is in the container and the container is wrapped around the oil and in spite of how strong the oil was it never changed the container y'all don't hear what I'm saying that's going to hit you tomorrow morning we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency may be of God and not of us I don't care how anointed you get your flesh is still flesh you don't believe it just stop bathing you don't believe it just don't put on deodorant don't brush your teeth in the morning Your flesh is still flesh Anointed, bad breath-smelling Musty-armed flesh but it's still got oil in there.

1:08:04 And I can still cast out a devil with bad breath because one thing don't have nothing to do with the other. That that is alabaster is alabaster, and that that is spignard is spignard. And don't get confused. The problem with the church is we think that if we have the spignard long enough, it will change the alabaster, but it won't. the woman broke the alabaster and it shattered on the floor and the spigna changed the whole room but it didn't change the alabaster

1:10:31 We have this treasure in earthen vessels, but having the treasure in earthen vessels does not change the vessel. But when he shall appear, mortality shall put on immortality. All this Holy Ghost I got on the inside is not going to change my mortal body. Oh, but when he appears It's going to change everything And when it does change it It's not going to be because I'm worthy So the devil is trying to convince you that the trauma is stronger than grace.

1:11:17 So what I want you to understand is God said, my strength is made perfect in your weakness. When you are weak, then am I strong. So I want you to let go of the idol of your trauma because you have made your trauma a God in your life. And you are saying, how can I receive the oil when I had the trauma of my past as if the trauma was stronger than the triumphant? And by the way, everybody in here had trauma in their past. Everybody in here, me first, I'm first one in line. Paul said, I'm chiefest amongst sinners. We're not here because we are worthy of God's soul.

1:12:14 I'm not preaching because I'm worthy to preach the gospel. In fact, I told God when he called me, I said, you sure ain't getting nothing. I said, you sure? You sure about this? Let's talk about this because this don't make sense. You must have been talking to one of my neighbors because I know you ain't talking to me because I had no plans of doing this. I'd have opened up a club before I'd have done this. Look, look, this, this, this is not a good idea. but God, who is rich in mercy, wherein he has loved us, has chosen us.

1:13:07 Are there any chosen people in here? You're chosen. You're chosen, and it has nothing to do with your worthiness. Now, you may have to hear this over and over again to treat your trauma Thank you. to treat your trauma, you have to say this until it gets in your mouth. My mouth is not strong enough to heal your trauma because your trauma will not lose its grip until your mouth starts confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus. When you start confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus more than you confess the past trauma, The trauma will have to let you go. And it's going to be gradual.

1:14:01 It's going to wax warm. It ain't going to be red hot. It's going to wax warm. Every birthday, it's going to get a little warmer. Where are my real people at? All the real people know how long it takes you to get past your past. And you're still working on it. Because every now and then something triggers you and you snap back to where you were. Can we be real? Can we be real in here? Can we be real in here? This is what gets me in trouble. Because some of these churches try to pass themselves off as something they are not. There aren't no perfect churches. And if you find one and go in there, then it's not going to be perfect. And you let people stand up and tell you stuff that's completely contrary to the Scriptures.

1:15:08 When the Scriptures said there is none good but the Father, none righteous, no not one. And you let them get up and parade around in suits and tell you how righteous they are and how righteous their church is and everybody dancing and shouting and you feeling all bad. Don't let the dance fool you. It's still feet of clay. we see through a glass darkly but then face to face next question why is it that often time God doesn't give us the details of the promise that he has for us the death of her son in the story well Lord Now, let's play this back. Let's play this back and let's rewrite the text because we rewrite history anyway.

1:16:06 So let's rewrite the text to go along with your thesis. Okay, great woman of God who has been a blessing to my prophet over and over again and built him a room. I am going to give you a child and he is going to grow up and die in your lap. She couldn't handle the truth.

1:16:46 Every time the boy took a nap, she'd be in the room saying, you breathing? God gives you what you can handle. God, it's not God's job to let you in on details. Because if you're going to walk by faith, faith don't give you details.

1:17:14 Abraham said, me and the lad are going yonder to worship, and we will come back again. But he didn't know how. He was going to stab that boy. He raised his knife to stab his son. expecting God to raise him up. God was going to raise up a son, but it wasn't Abraham's son. God never told Abram that he had a ram in the thicket until Abram had raised his hand to kill his son. And then when he raised his hand, God said, now I know. See, I couldn't find out if I'd have given you all the details because you would have known this was just a dress rehearsal. but I wanted you to walk all the way up on the hill fully persuaded that you were going to offer him up as a burnt offering a burnt offering, not just a slain offering but a burnt offering was where all the blood drained down into a pan and the flesh was set on fire and it was his son Can you imagine?

1:18:28 I would act like I was deaf. I'd have said, what you say? What you say? I can't hear like I used to hear. What you say? You want me to raise a knife and slay my son and let the pan catch his blood and then take the wood? Daddy, I see the knife. Daddy, I see the wood. The knife represents his judgment. The wood represents the cross. That's why Isaac had to carry the wood because he's acting out how Jesus is going to carry the cross. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you? Do you hear what I'm saying to you? And he's carrying the wood and he said, Daddy, I see the knife and I see the wood, but I don't see the sacrifice.

1:19:28 But what he didn't know is that right over his shoulder, God had a ram tied what God got for you is tied what God got for you is tied in the thicket and you're not supposed to see it right now or you wouldn't need faith for faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen I'm going to do one more How do you maintain faith when evidence contradicts the promise? It's supposed to.

1:20:07 That's why you got faith. If the evidence agreed with the promise, if a man, let me put it to you the way Scripture says, if a man sees that which he hopes for, why does he yet hope for it? It wouldn't be silly for me to be standing up here saying, I believe God to let me walk.

1:20:32 Because I can walk. Now if I was paralyzed from the waist down, now the evidence is defying the faith, and the faith becomes the substance of the thing that I hope for. But if I see that which I hope for, why would I yet hope for it?

1:20:55 So God doesn't always show you everything to perfect your faith. So you don't ruin things. So you don't meddle with things. I was praying for one of my children one time. I was praying because they were going through something and I didn't want them to go through nothing. And I was praying and I was praying and it was hard. It wasn't no little something. It was a big old something. And God said to me, when are you going to learn that I know how to raise your children better than you? When are you going to learn that I'm better at being a father than you? No, I'm not going to tell you how I'm going to do it. I'm not going to tell you when I'm going to do it.

1:21:47 I'm not going to tell you how long you got to wait. I'm not going to tell you what you got to go through. I mean for you to suffer with it. I mean for you to sweat till drops of blood come out. I mean for you to rock them in your arms and hold them because I'm bonding you through the trouble. I'm shaping you through the trouble. I'm perfecting you through the trouble. I'm using the trouble to bless you. and if I did it like you want me to do it you want me to do it like instant grits now most of you young people that's all y'all know is instant grits but these old folks know how long you had to cook them old grits you had to put them grits on low and you had to wait a long time before they bubbled and you had to get them right and put a little cream in them a little carnation milk in it and let it bubble up.

1:22:47 Come on, talk to me, somebody. And drop a little butter over it and a little salt water and let it stir up. And you have to stand there like your grandmama and stir it. And you remember how her arm was all fat and it'd be stirring up them grits? Come on, somebody. Come on. See, you used to instant grits. There is no instant Jesus. Because it is the journey that defines him. When I walked up Del Rosa, up the cobblestone streets of Jerusalem, and imagined in my mind that I'm walking on the same bricks that Jesus walked up. And I noticed that God didn't just put him on the cross, he let him walk it out. with the wood on his back so heavy that it bent him over and then touched Simon of Cyrene to help him lift up the cross because Simon was there for that one moment for that one moment and God will raise you up for one moment one moment he will put you up for one moment he will put you in a position to change somebody's life he raised you up and put you in that position to do one thing other people he's going to use for many years some people he's going to use for a moment one man's on the cross and God used him for one moment to say, remember me when you get to the kingdom.

1:24:42 Remember me doesn't mean I think you got Alzheimer's. Remember me. as often as you do this do this in remembrance of me so he had one loaf of bread and last supper I gotta quit he had one loaf of bread I don't have to quit so he had one loaf of bread say I had one loaf of bread and I give you a piece and I give you a piece give you a piece give you a piece give you a piece, give you a piece, give you a piece, give you a piece, you a piece, and you a piece. And I say, remember me. Then all y'all got to come together.

1:25:38 That's how you remember him. You remember him because there are many members in the body. Come on, somebody. Many members in one body. How can the foot say to the head, I have no need of him? That lets you know what God means when God says, remember. are you hearing what I'm saying bow your heads let me pray for you you watching online bow your heads I want to pray for you I want to pray for you because God has said some serious things to you I hope you took some notes not just of what I said but the things that God said to you about what I said he spoke to specific situations that are going on in your life right now and he's telling you not to bury your dreams. And now tonight he's telling you how.

1:26:34 He's telling you how to put the bread back together. He's showing you how not to let discouragement deter your destination. he's giving you the courage to fight on though the vision tarry wait for it father as we bow our heads tonight oh god we bow our heads in an uncertain world at a crazy time when the world is in turmoil chaos is everywhere We bow our heads at a time that our government has shut down.

1:27:19 We bow our heads at a time that thousands of people don't have a job. We bow our heads at a time that hatred is rising up like moraine and peaking in our neighborhoods. we bow our heads at a time that the riverbed is dry and there is no water there we bow our heads at a time that we can't sleep all the way through the night without trouble waking us up and troubling our spirits for we know not whether the levies will hold we don't know if the dam will break we don't know if we will be swimming with alligators or waiting on rooftops, we don't know we bow our heads we bow our heads to say you're bigger than us you're greater than us, you're stronger than us you got more power than us, you see stuff we don't see we bow our heads because we brought our little staff down there and it didn't work Thank you.

1:28:33 This is a job for you. In my marriage, in my home, in my body, in my own mind, this is a job for you. We bow our heads like children and ask you simple stuff. Like, show me how to think right. help my thinking to get right some of us have inherited the thinking of our parents and our ancestors we've adopted worry and we don't know where it came from but we're going to divorce it tonight we're going to dismember it tonight and we're going to practice thinking on whatsoever things are lovely and are a good report.

1:29:35 If there be any virtue, if there be any praise, help us to think on this thing. I'm asking you to be my therapist. Would you please be our counselor? Be our master physician. we all dressed up we don't want nobody to know we're sick we don't want them to know that we're cold and stiff that the love of many has waxed cold that we've become indifferent that we're not passionate about you like we used to be and we miss the fire we used to have that made us come to church. That made us rush out of the car to get in the house of God to praise your name.

1:30:34 We want to walk through the house talking to you like you live with us. we open ourselves up to be reshaping because we have been marred in the hand of the potter we're in your hands but we're cracked in your hands make us again another vessel that seemeth good to the potter to make it we thank you tonight because all around each room like seeds planted in mama's garden there are dreams all around dreams that have died in our life dreams that have embarrassed us in front of our friends dreams that have brought shame and guilt and turmoil dreams that we have not planted

1:33:36 But you spoke to us and told us, don't bury our dream. You never said, don't plant it. You just said, don't bury it. Tonight. then the seeds push their way up through the sod until a green leaf appears out of the dirt. The dirt will still be the dirt, but you will use it to feed the leaf. And neither one will change colors, but both of them are necessary in order for the fruit to come. So I'm going to bloom right where I'm planting.

1:34:15 I'm going to stand right where I am. and bloom right in this spot. I thank you, God, for the sweeping away. A dark spirit. Depressing spirits. Antagonizing spirits. We spent more time thinking about what might happen than we spent thinking about you. We repent of making idols out of trauma. we spent more time looking up what could happen than we have spent looking for you but I want to come back to you because in that presence there's fullness of joy and at that right hand there are pleasures forevermore and the things that used to give me pleasure don't give me pleasure like they used to so I'm running back to you I'm running back to you for the joy I could not find anywhere else.

1:35:36 I pray right now that a spirit of repentance would fall on this room until you become the ultimate priority in our lives and not the newspaper and not the news and not the times and not that problem child and not that thing we have spent our time that we should have been praising you, talking about stuff that distracted us, and then we wondered why we had no peace.

1:36:11 Let peace emerge. Let it come in. Because when your peace comes in, my creativity is loose. My innovation is loose. When your peace comes in, my power and my authority is loose. When your peace comes in, it blocks the witches. It shuts down the warlocks. It destroys the curse. Let curses be broken in this room tonight.

1:36:46 Let curses be broken online tonight. Let them be broken in people's living room, in people's house, on their couch, on their bed, in the dining room table right there. Let the curse be broken Tonight Tonight I make a commitment I will not Bury my dream I shall not die But live And declare the works of the Lord Now Lord while we are praying While we are yet praying Most of the time We just reach in and grab something and give it to you. You just do it. but while we are praying we want to give an acceptable offering in your sight the kind of offering that makes our babies sneeze the kind of offering that wakes up our peace and joy the kind of offering that will give us a good night's sleep tonight the kind of offering that will cause you to show us the ram in the bush.

1:38:11 There's a ram right behind us. But until we lift our hands to offer that that is most meaningful to us, we will not receive that which is most meaningful to you. and so I think tonight I don't give carelessly or indifference but with intentionality I sow tonight and Holy Ghost I promise you whatever you say you Whatever you ask of me. Whatever you speak in my spirit, whatever you stir in my soul, I will plant that tonight like it ain't nothing because it is not worthy to be compared to what you mean to me.

1:39:12 In Jesus' name, amen. Now. Thank you. priesthood that's who you are you're a royal priest you're a holy nation you are kings and priests under God what say ye whatever the Holy Spirit spoke to you whether you're online whether you're miles away whether you have a different currency whether you're in a different time zone it matters not show hell you are a priest of God and give him an offering according to his excellent greatness I need not give you a figure because if you prayed with me tonight from a sincere place the Holy Spirit is going to challenge your faith you can't get this kind of word and not have your faith challenged There are some things that money cannot buy.

1:40:32 but I pray as I give you what I have that you'll give me what you have and together this service will be successful not because the bishop taught but because the priesthood obeyed let the spirit of obedience rest in this house as I sow my seed unto the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and do it with a smile for God blesses the cheerful giver.

1:41:15 The PMTs are in the aisle. Priesthood stand and wave your sacrifice before the King. Wave it before him because God has been talking business to us tonight. God has done some big stuff. He's healed some deep stuff. He's moved some stuff that we've been struggling with a long time. And as we wave this seed before you, we call it done.

1:41:50 We call it done. I refuse to walk out of this door being the same person I was when I came in. not after hearing this word not tonight I will not dismember your message with my carnality sow it now pass your seed if you got a seed all the way to the left you online you have an opportunity to walk to the top of the mountain Thank you. and give your offering to God. This is not about YouTube and Facebook and Instagram. This is about your walk with God and where you stand with God.

1:42:47 This is your covenant with God. So do it as doing it unto the Lord. You that are holding those seeds in your hands Stand with the praise That makes hell nervous PMT's. serve the people of God. You've got a few minutes left on air. Don't let this one pass you by. Tonight was a special night. It had your name on it.

1:43:36 It had your name on it. It read your mail tonight. This is Walk It Out Wednesday. Right here. at the Father's house. If you're glad you're at the Potter's house, give him a praise right now.

1:44:02 If you're glad you're at the Potter's house, give him a praise right now. I said if you're glad you're at the potter's house, give him some praise tonight. I wouldn't have missed this for the world.

1:44:23 I wouldn't have missed this for the world. If you got something from God, can you give Him some praise tonight? Yeah, right there in your house, right there in your kitchen. Give Him some praise tonight. While we are yet standing, if there is any backslider who drifted away or walked away or fell away or got angry and fell out with people and left, if there's a sinner in this house that you know church but you don't know Jesus, we're going to end this service with you on the altar. And with the blood of Jesus, he's going to bleed out on you tonight. He's going to bleed out on you.

1:45:15 He's going to bleed out. If you got the faith to come to this altar tonight, the blood of Jesus is going to bleed out on you. And you're going to leave changed and renewed and delivered by the power of God. I'm not going to beg you. I'm not going to plead with you. I'm going to give you an opportunity. I don't know it for sure but I believe we're living in the last days any day now any day now don't be foolish and see the signs and don't read the signs come now come now thank God for these that have come come now come now Is there another one?

1:46:09 Come now While the blood still runs warm in your veins Come now Come now. Honey, I want you to come and I want you to pray over these souls and lead them to Jesus.

1:46:40 I'm going to be the father that hands the child to the mother. because mama knows how to resurrect you. Are you sure you're not going to come? Are you sure you're going to miss this? We are living out the word right now. We are living out the word right now.