Working My Nerves

1:47 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. I want to preach for the mind, time that is mind using as a subject, working my nerves. Working my nerves. Look at the person beside you and tell them, please don't work my nerves today, please. A brilliant, beautiful sister by the name of Sandra Kabaya, she's from Harare, Zimbabwe, wrote an incredible blog on the pain of being unemployed. In it, she said, nobody talks about the pain of waking up with nowhere to go.

2:48 The shame of hearing we have decided to go with another candidate. The guilt of watching your parents, partner, or children trying to encourage you while you're falling apart. unemployment is not just about lacking a job it's about slowly losing a piece of yourself your confidence your sense of purpose your belief that things will get better unemployment new birth unemployment does not just steal paychecks it steals identities it'll take the sparkle out of your eyes confidence out of your heart faith out of your spirit and dignity out of your personality it makes you wonder whether you are seen whether you are qualified or whether you are even worthy people at the top of their class and field can end up in the lowest pit of depression satan if you are not careful will try to use this season to strangle your self-esteem satan will use this season to suffocate your self-worth you have got to be vigilant not to allow it.

4:30 You are not worthless. You are not a burden. You are not a failure. You are not insufficient. The system is broken, not you. Your heavenly assignment is going to orchestrate an earthly placement. I want you to be very clear. White supremacy doesn't want you salaried. It wants you enslaved.

5:11 Over 400,000 black women have lost their jobs since Trump has been in office. Our community has been dealt the harshest blow in this economy, but God has a plan even when it looks like there are no openings. in Matthew 20 Jesus is sharing a parable to help people understand how the kingdom is set up planting maintaining and harvesting is hard work by all accounts especially in the summer months of the Middle East the owner of the field would go out at 6 a.m. looking for people to handle grunt responsibilities while offering the same wage the government did for those who were enlisted in armed services. Today, the average salary in armed services is roughly between $80,000 and $100,000 with benefits.

6:28 housing tax credits and insurance and god is saying i'll match that because the government is on my shoulders in case you don't know it god can outdo whatever the world has to offer all. I came to announce to somebody who's under the sound of my voice that your season for having to be a strong soldier is coming to an end. God is getting ready to take some of that weight off of your back. God is getting ready to take some of those responsibilities off of your plate. I don't know whether you realize it or not, but there's some four-star generals sitting on your row who have had to be strong soldiers over the last 18 months. And God told me to tell you, at ease, soldier.

7:24 I got this. I'm getting ready to handle what was overwhelming for you. I need you to remember that while you might be unemployed, you are never without work. You just missed what I just said. While you are unemployed, you are never without work. Don't forget Genesis 2 and 15. God placed the man in the garden to work the earth and to keep the garden. And then you turn the page in chapter 3, and Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit in verse number 17. And the Lord said, cursed is the ground because of your actions. Through painful toil, you will eat from it.

8:21 That was the curse in Genesis 3 and 17. It's going to be through painful toil just for you to be able to eat. isn't it interesting that of all of the curses that churches aim to break none of them have been around the burden it requires just to be able to eat and maintain i want you to lift up that hand i came today under divine assignment to break something off of you in this moment i declare over those of you with lifted hands. May God make it easier for you to take care of your family. May God make it easier for you to meet your responsibilities. May God make it easier for you to be able to make ends meet. May God make it easier just for you to keep the lights on.

9:17 May God make it easier just for you to be able to handle your medication. May God make it easier just for you to keep groceries in the refrigerator. May God make it easier just for you to pay the tuition on time. May God make it easier so you don't miss a car payment. May God make it easier just so that the aftercare will be handling. I declare over every lifted hand that this is the summer for sweatless victory. everything that you need God is going to make it easier for you to get it done those of you that receive the word of the Lord will you give God glory in this moment that God can break every curse even the one in Genesis 3 and 17 Lift that hand.

10:15 I want to say it and I want you to shout over it. I want your faith to resonate with it and I need your mouth to be able to respond to it. I declare over those of you who have been in a season of struggle, I declare by the power of the cross of Calvary, the curse of struggling is over. The curse is now broken off of you and your family's life. It's going to be easier just for you to keep your head over water. You may be seated. I don't know why you acting like it ain't been rough just to put gas in the car it's been rough y'all ain't saying nothing I gave people my last and they didn't even know I didn't have two cents to rub together it's been rough You know how hard it is telling my child, no, it's been rough.

11:30 you may be seated The culture has contaminated work so that its value is reduced to compensation. Many people will treat you only based off of your occupation. And the mistake that you have made is you have allowed society to reduce you to your employment. So when you lost your job, you lost who you were. Instead of responding with what you do, start responding by telling people who you are. With no job, I'm the head and not the tail.

12:25 With no check, I am above and not beneath. With no interview schedule, I am a lender and not a borrower. You ain't got to explain yourself. I need you to just tell people around you, let me reintroduce myself. I break the odds. I break generational curses. I bounce back. I make struggling look good. I can make a dollar out of 15 cents. I know how to make my groceries last and stretch until everybody is fed. Don't play with me. I am God's elect. There he is. There's work you can do to be fulfilled while in limbo over finances.

13:30 Do not allow yourself to throw a pity party for yourself. You watching me right now, get out of that bed. Stop laying on that couch. you are not gonna watch tv and play video games all day shake yourself off and remind yourself it won't always be like this sooner or later it's gonna work in my favor i'm telling you it's getting ready to turn around for me While you are in between places of employment, volunteer at your child's school. Go volunteer at the homeless shelter so you can remind yourself, look at God, I'm unemployed and still got somewhere to live.

14:29 Y'all ain't saying nothing to me. Volunteer at an assisted living. Go help out at a hospice. serve at the king's table find a ministry where you can roll your sleeves up and not be in the audience but be in the army you are consequential without punching a clock take care of a relative go visit somebody that's in jail run an errand for a friend give a caregiver some time off mentor some young person be a mentor that's on a mission but the last thing you're gonna do is give the devil the victory and act like your last job is the end of you you are just in basic training for what you get ready to walk into get dressed like you got somewhere to go polish off your resume go walk around downtown until somebody asks you where are you going you better learn how to fake it until you make it look at your neighbor and say do you know who you sit next to you sit next to a supervisor you sit next to a ceo you sit next to the employee of the month Where do you work? I don't know, but it's looking for me.

15:57 There's a job that's looking for me that needs the oil that's on my life. hallelujah may be seated hallelujah i need somebody to shout out loud he's looking for me the greatest job in my life is trying to find me i'm so bad they're gonna have to create a position that don't even exist. I don't care who applied before me. What God's got for me, it is for me. God will fire two supervisors and a manager just to get me in position. And I ain't gonna have to sleep with nobody.

16:51 I ain't gonna have to play no game. I ain't gonna have to kiss up. My gift is gonna make room for me. I'm too anointed to have nothing to do. You may be seated. you may be seated the only people who should be standing the only people who should be shouting the only people who should be yelling who believe by faith before Labor Day I'm going to be in the job of my dreams before September gets here They're going to be paying me more money than I ever made in my life.

17:48 And I'm going to be in alignment with my assignment. Be seated. the Bible says in the parable recorded in Matthew 20 that the land owner went out around 5 p.m. At 5 p.m. the land owner went out and saw a group hanging around and he asked them, why are you just standing around doing nothing? and they said because nobody has hired us the land over went out at five o'clock the shift is over at five and said why are you just standing out here and hear their response because nobody has hired us I've come today as a man of God on assignment to say to you this is your confirmation this is not for everybody but a few of you you're gonna know that i'm talking to you this is your confirmation you shouldn't be waiting on somebody to hire you i have put a business idea inside of you come on y'all ain't saying nothing doors have been shut to you because maybe i don't want you working for other people i want you to step out on faith and work for yourself those of you that got a crazy business idea inside of you and you know if i ever get this off the ground my family will never have to struggle again i don't want you to shout on what somebody else can give you will you give god glory for your dream and give god glory for your idea and give God glory for your concept.

19:52 You ain't got to wait for somebody to hire you. The first mistake, the first mistake was they were just standing around with no job. Standing around. 2 Kings chapter 7 verse 3 through 5, we find four lepers and they're sitting at the city gate. And they said to each other, why are we going to just sit here until we die? We might as well go into the city. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to throw away whatever it is that you've been hearing in church. You just shouting and clapping is not going to get you a job. you screaming and running down the aisle and shaking your neighbor's hand is not going to open up a job for you today redo your resume develop a new skill that you previously did not have you can't get into clark can't get into emery go to youtube university fill out some applications even in areas you don't have experience in work remotely find something temporary do what you gotta do until you can do what you want to do look at the person beside to tell them nothing is gonna happen for lazy people but you got to put on your backpack lace up your boots it's time for you to ride you gotta understand that idle hands are the devil's workshop you gotta start doing some stuff so god can see that you serious god ain't gonna do nothing for lazy negroes that ain't got a work ethic get up and clean out that basement and clean out that garage and clean out that attic show God you got something that you're gonna work for The second mistake that they made unemployed at the gate, the second mistake they made

22:07 unemployed at the gate is hanging out with each other. George Frazier said if you hang around with four broke people you gonna be the fifth one your net worth is your net worth Matthew 18 and 19 said if two or three touch and agree there I shall be also I need you to grab that neighbor's hand real quick and tell them I come into agreement that this is the summer for employment. Come on, shake that neighbor's hand. Tell them this is the summer for employment. I am shaking your hand because I come into agreement that everybody in your family who has not been able to find a job, that this is the summer that offers and opportunities are getting ready to happen for them.

23:12 If they don't shake with you, don't shout with them. But if you want to see everybody in your family in a career path that is going to shake up everything, I dare to give God glory for your child and for your sister and for your nephew. you you are to scream for your husband and holler for your brother that everybody connected to me Hallelujah.

23:45 You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. The landlord said, since nobody will hire you, I got work for you to do. Hallelujah. You may be seated. The landlord said, since nobody will hire you, I got work for you to do. I don't want you to take your neighbor's hand. I don't even want you to shake their hand. I don't even want you to look at them. Here's what the landlord said. Since nobody hired you, I got work for you to do. Can you imagine that maybe God shut the door? Because it's the only way he could get you to answer your call. Oh, my God. Can you imagine that God has been setting you up? That whatever you are called to do, you're going to get paid to do.

24:40 that God says I already got an assignment for your life but you keep ignoring it because you think that when I call you it requires a microphone but you got no idea that if you will call into full submission for the call of God that is on your life everything you need is going to line up for you I feel like I got some runaway prophets in this room who know that God been calling you been waking you up in the middle of the night been burdening you with an assignment you know that there's something that you got to do your problem is you can't find it on linkedin you're only gonna be able to find it in prayer but god said i got the call for your life stop running away from it jonah accept your call Something for me, something for you to do.

25:40 And maybe, just maybe, I won't give it to you till you can't find a job. when you can't find a job, that's when you're going to find out what your call is. I wanted somebody to know in the time that is fleeting away from me quickly, I wanted you to know there's a benefit package that comes with serving God. Oh my God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It says, when you serve me, is seven things I'm going to do for you. Hallelujah. I'm telling you, if you work for me, if you keep your hands clean and your heart pure, if you treat people decent, come on, if you would just be a good person, if you just do it with no strings attached and no secret agenda, if you just operate with integrity and have some honor about you, There's seven things I'm going to release to you.

26:47 While we're dealing with this summer surplus and the summer of supernatural employment, God wanted to tell you what are the seven things I'm going to make sure you have while you're serving me. Those seven things are in Exodus 23. Exodus 23, verse 25 through 28. Exodus 23 verses 25 through 28 you read it when you get home I just want you to write it down so that you'll remember that God is going to make good on his word hallelujah that that his word will never return void hallelujah that his yes is yes Exodus 23 verse 25 through 28 he says number one what I'm going to do for every person in this room I hope you hear me he says I'm going to bless your bread. I'm going to bless your bread. Not only am I going to bless your bread, but I'm going to bless your water. You remember there were 5,000 who had not eaten and somehow or another they were able to come up with two fish and five loaves of bread. The skeptics among them said, what in the world is he going to do with just two fish and five loaves of bread? But the Bible says he blessed it, he broke it and he started giving it away as a consequence at the end of the day it was 12 baskets left over there's a good place for me to tell you i've never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging for bread i need you to lift up that hand i want to speak one thing over your life i hope that you'll shout about it as long as you live hallelujah i said as long as you live as long as you got breath in your body.

28:34 God said from this day forward, as long as you live, you will never have to worry about what you're going to eat. He said, look at the birds of the air. Y'all ain't saying nothing. If I'm going to take care of the birds of the air, what makes you think I'm not going to take care of you? Look at the person beside you. Tell them, I don't know how it's going to happen, but you are going to eat every day. Your first benefit of serving him, God said, your bread is not going to run out. I hope I'm able to get past number two because I got to get you to number seven. Number two, lift up that hand. He said, this is what I'm getting ready to do for those who serve me, even while you don't have a job, even while you are unemployed. said number two what I'm gonna do in this camp today I am taking away all sickness i got the wrong church in here you ought to be giving god glory because god said you ain't gonna have to worry about hospital bills you ain't gonna have to worry about the price of surgery i can't hear nobody you ain't gonna have to navigate around medication but i declare over this house while you give God glory, God has taken disease out of your body.

30:01 He's taken sickness out of your body. He's taken discomfort out of your body. Healing is the children's bread. You are anointed from the top of your head to the sole of your feet. You will be free of ailment and sickness and disease coming out of your body.

30:26 Hallelujah. You may be seated. Hallelujah. So the second thing that's going to happen, the first one is that you'll always have bread. Number two is I am taking away sickness. Number three, I don't know who the five of you this is for. I am in Exodus. I'm in Exodus 23. I don't want you to take my word for it. The five of you who this is for, this is the only reason why you came today and you didn't even know it. The third thing God said in this camp, there will be no more miscarriages. Whatever is in your womb is coming fully to pass. I know some of y'all don't need it, but five mothers, I need you to know whatever they told you was out of order is getting ready to line up with the will of God. you are going to be able to go full term the devil is a liar i declare and decree here it is that god is getting ready to do the supernatural and i declare as a prophet in this house by next year this time i'm waiting on my screamers i said next year this time whatever it is that you and your husband been praying for is coming to pass.

31:51 Somebody shout out loud. God is able to do it. Hallelujah. You may be seated. You may be seated. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Except those of you who have been trouble, having trouble carrying. Meet me at this altar as quickly as you can. Hallelujah. The devil is alive. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

32:25 Bless that wonderful name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Bless that wonderful name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I feel his glory in this room. Hallelujah.

32:49 Bless that wonderful name of Jesus. Lift up your hands, please. Lift up your hands right where you are. Hallelujah. Pastor Stokes, Pastor Kerry, if you'll come quickly, I want you to just lay hands on these four. Hallelujah. Lift up that hand right where it is that you are. Come on, open up your mouth. No, ma'am. lift up your hand right where it is that you are hallelujah thank you holy God hallelujah come on I need to hear your intercessors who are in this room thank you

33:24 Come on, I need you to open up your mouth. Hallelujah. Open up your mouth. Come on, let me hear somebody. Bless that wonderful name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Bless that wonderful name of Jesus. I give him glory. I give him praise. I give him honor. I give him thanksgiving.

33:50 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Everything you're supposed to carry is coming to pass. Hallelujah. every vision, every dream, every assignment God is getting ready to do it Hallelujah no more false starts hallelujah everything you try God is going to help you complete it everything you go after God is going to help you finish it everything that you endeavor to do God is going to see it all the way to the end come on I can't hear any worshipers come on I need you to lift up your voice I need you to lift up your voice. Lift up your voice. we worship you Jesus hallelujah we give him glory we give him honor we give him thanksgiving we thank his holy name for who he is our God is awesome and worthy of the highest praise I declare it to be done in Jesus name come on somebody lift up that hand and lift up your voice whatever you try whatever you attempt whatever you start God is going to help you get it done I want you to give God a wave offering He says in Exodus 23, listen to me.

35:31 In Exodus 23, he says no more miscarriages. But he also says no more barrenness. I need you to listen to me with intentionality. Isn't it amazing all your time in church? and all your time in church when we talk about miscarriages, we talk about barrenness, we place all of the responsibility on the woman.

36:01 I never heard an altar call for a low sperm count. Come on, y'all ain't saying nothing to me. We act as if the men have absolutely no role in it. But I'm believing by faith that God is restoring the vitality inside of dormant men. Come on, I need to hear some wife open up your mouth. I need to hear some men cry out under God. God says, whatever have been absent in that man is about to be restored. Hallelujah. I declare and decree, every man lift up your hand. Every man lift up your hand. I sing God do it. the Lord did not come to Sarah he came to Abraham come on I can't hear no Bible readers the Lord went to Abraham and said by next year this time hallelujah everything you thought you could not do is getting ready to come out of you I speak over every man in this room that God is going to speak greatness out of everything that is the product of your genes.

37:14 Your children will be fruitful and multiply. I want to hear those of you who believe that God can restore strength and health into the life of the men that are in this room. Would you open up your mouth and just begin to worship right where you are? Come on, you can't open up your mouth. I said open up your mouth. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Thank you. Hogan, let me hear you in strings. I got to get out of here. My time is almost up. He said, number one, your benefit of serving me is that you'll always have something to eat. He said, number two, be not dismayed because I am taking away sickness. for those of you who are in this room he said number three there'll be no miscarriages number four there will be no barrenness hallelujah I think number five I want the parents of teenagers to please stand the parents of teenagers I want you to please stand hallelujah Hallelujah.

38:32 number five is uh what brings us to bayon today and i hope that you'll give god glory for it he is the fifth promise of god for those of us who serve him those of us who work in his finger work in his field he is the fifth one and i want in light of what is taking place in mississippi i I need you to rejoice and shout and give God glory for it. Number five is the Lord says, for those of you who are parents of teenagers, lift up that hand, please. I'm speaking something over your life and I want you to shout about it and rejoice about it. God says, as of this day, there will be no premature deaths. come on I can't hear nobody in here