WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.972 (MUSIC) 00:07.006 --> 00:13.179 - COME ON CHURCH. WE'RE READY TO REJOICE IN THE LORD. THE DAY THE 00:13.212 --> 00:16.850 LORD HAS MADE. COME ON, GET UP ON YOUR FEET. 01:28.388 --> 01:31.156 - HALLELUJAH! COME ON, LET'S CONTINUE TO PRAISE GOD. 01:31.391 --> 01:32.759 - ALL RIGHT. - HALLELUJAH! 01:33.859 --> 01:38.597 - LORD, WE REJOICE IN YOU, THE MIGHTY GOD. WE REJOICE IN YOU, 01:38.597 --> 01:40.433 THE LIVING GOD. - YES, LORD. 01:40.433 --> 01:44.504 - IT IS OUR HONOR TO STAND IN YOUR PRESENCE. 01:45.305 --> 01:50.956 - THANK YOU, JESUS. - WORDS COULD NEVER DESCRIBE THE 01:50.956 --> 01:53.680 HONOR OF THY NAME. - YES, LORD. 01:53.680 --> 01:57.540 - THE MAJESTY OF YOUR GREATNESS AND YOUR POWER. 01:57.540 --> 02:00.808 - THANK YOU, LORD JESUS. - WE WELCOME YOU TO YOUR HOUSE 02:00.808 --> 02:03.959 FOR YOU TO HAVE YOUR WAY, YOUR SAY. 02:03.959 --> 02:06.390 - YES, YES, YES, YES. - GOD THAT MEN WILL KNOW, 02:06.390 --> 02:11.467 WHETHER THEY ARE WATCHING ONLINE TODAY OR IN THIS PLACE, THAT GOD 02:11.467 --> 02:16.673 IS AMONG US. WE WORSHIP YOU. AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LOVE HIM 02:16.673 --> 02:18.104 SAID, - AMEN. 02:18.138 --> 02:20.139 - AMEN. - ALRIGHT. 02:20.173 --> 02:23.209 - MAN, I TELL YOU, AS I STARTED WALKING OUT HERE, I COULD FEEL 02:23.242 --> 02:26.242 THE ANOINTING WAS BUILDING. I'M LIKE, OKAY, WHAT ARE YOU UP TO, 02:26.250 --> 02:27.180 GOD? - YES. 02:27.180 --> 02:31.889 - SO LET'S JUST STAY VERY CLOSE TO HIM. SO YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN 02:31.889 --> 02:34.770 GOD'S GONNA SPEAK. LISTEN, I WAS IN WALNUT, IOWA, WHAT WAS IT, A 02:34.770 --> 02:37.050 COUPLE WEEKS AGO. BY THE WAY, YOU NEED TO GO THERE, GREAT 02:37.050 --> 02:39.758 ANTIQUE PLACE. THEY GOT ME ONE OF THOSE LITTLE FARMER WATER 02:39.758 --> 02:40.979 POTS. - LOTS OF JUNK. 02:40.979 --> 02:44.009 - YEAH. BUT I'M JUST WALKING DOWN THE STREET. 02:44.009 --> 02:46.699 - AND PASTOR IS A MAGNET FOR JUNK. 02:46.733 --> 02:49.836 - NO, I'M NOT. - YOU LOVE THAT STUFF. I MEAN, 02:49.868 --> 02:52.504 OOH. - OKAY, ALL RIGHT. 02:53.706 --> 02:56.460 - SO, SHANE AND CHRISTY, YOU WANNA DO THE GREETING, HER AND I 02:56.460 --> 03:00.509 NEED TO TALK. NO, I'M JUST KIDDING, NO. NO, I'LL SAY THIS, 03:00.509 --> 03:05.189 YOU KNOW, NOT JUNK, BRENDA, IT'S JUST A DIFFERENCE OF TASTE. 03:05.189 --> 03:08.969 - EXPENSIVE JUNK. RIGHT, I MEAN, SHE GOES, NO, SHE GOES INTO AN 03:08.969 --> 03:11.939 ICE CREAM SHOP, SHE PICKS OUT ONE FLAVOR, I'M LIKE, I'LL TAKE 03:11.939 --> 03:14.490 'EM ALL, TAKE 'EM ALL, TAKE 'EM ALL. SO IT'S JUST A DIFFERENCE 03:14.490 --> 03:18.240 OF TASTE. BUT ANYWAY, I WAS IN WALNUT, I THINK I TOLD YOU THIS, 03:18.240 --> 03:20.729 BUT I HAD BEEN PRAYING FOR ONE OF THOSE, HOW MANY OF YOU EVER 03:20.729 --> 03:24.180 SEEN THOSE WATER PUMPS, YOU KNOW? NOT LIKE ON A CAR, BUT YOU 03:24.180 --> 03:26.639 KNOW, WHERE YOU GO LIKE THIS WITH IT? AND I ASKED GOD, I 03:26.639 --> 03:29.219 SAID, "GOD, I WANT ONE OF THOSE." AND I TOLD HIM HOW HIGH 03:29.219 --> 03:33.419 I WANTED IT. AND THE GUY JUST GOT IT IN BEFORE I CAME. IT WAS 03:33.419 --> 03:36.210 STANDING RIGHT BEFORE THE, RIGHT OUT FRONT OF THE ANTIQUE SHOP. I 03:36.210 --> 03:39.750 SAID, "LORD, THAT'S AMAZING, BUT HERE'S WHAT MY POINT IS." I WAS 03:39.750 --> 03:42.900 WALKING AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LORD SAID, HE SAID, "MAY I SPEAK 03:42.900 --> 03:46.740 WITH YOU?" I SAID, "SURE." HE SAID, "I WANT TO TALK TO YOU 03:46.740 --> 03:50.125 ABOUT THE MIDTERMS." AND I'M THINKING, MAN, THAT'S KIND OF 03:50.125 --> 03:51.659 CRAZY. I MEAN, WALNUT ISLE, WHY DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT 03:51.659 --> 03:55.349 MIDTERMS? BUT HE DIDN'T TALK TO ME THERE. HE TALKED TO ME LATER. 03:55.349 --> 04:01.650 BUT MY POINT IS ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS BE AWARE OF THE PRESENCE 04:01.650 --> 04:04.680 OF GOD. 'CAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN HE'S GONNA SPEAK TO YOU OR 04:04.680 --> 04:07.408 BLESS YOU WITH SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR AND IS 04:07.408 --> 04:11.371 STARING AT YOU RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES. AND IT ISN'T JUNK. 04:13.953 --> 04:15.221 - I COULDN'T HELP MYSELF. 04:15.254 --> 04:18.209 - NO, I KNOW YOU CAN'T. ALL RIGHT, I WANNA DO THIS. I WANNA 04:18.209 --> 04:20.939 WELCOME ALL OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING ALSO AROUND THE WORLD 04:20.939 --> 04:24.899 AND AGAIN. I THINK YOU SHOULD PUT IN THE COMMENTS, PASTOR HANK 04:24.899 --> 04:29.129 DOES NOT, HOW DO YOU SAY IT? I HAVE JUNK OR I LOOK AT JUNK. 04:29.129 --> 04:31.471 - YOU'RE A MAGNET FOR JUNK. - I HAVE A BUNCH OF JUNK STUFF. 04:31.504 --> 04:33.773 - YOU LOVE THAT STUFF. - NO, I DON'T. NO, I DON'T. 04:33.773 --> 04:35.442 - I MEAN, THE WATER PUMP IS CUTE THOUGH. 04:35.475 --> 04:37.543 - ALL RIGHT. HERE'S THE POINT. THE POINT IS WHENEVER 04:37.649 --> 04:40.512 WE HAVE TO CLEAN THE HOUSE, IT'S ALWAYS MY STUFF THAT SEEMS TO 04:40.512 --> 04:45.769 GO, BUT ANYWAY. BUT WE'LL TALK, BRENDA. WE'LL TALK. BUT ANYWAY, 04:45.769 --> 04:48.329 I WANT TO DO THIS. I WANT TO WELCOME ALSO THOSE OF YOU THAT 04:48.329 --> 04:51.959 MIGHT BE WATCHING IN THE ILLINOIS AREA, ILLINOIS, THAT'S 04:51.959 --> 04:54.959 WHAT GOD CALLS IT. AND WE'RE GOING TO BE THERE IN ROCHELLE, 04:54.959 --> 04:59.040 ILLINOIS TONIGHT. IT'S GOING TO BE A POWERFUL, POWERFUL MEETING. 04:59.040 --> 05:02.670 GOD'S PUT A REALLY STRONG WORD IN MY MOUTH. ALONG THE SAME 05:02.670 --> 05:06.839 LINES, WE'RE GOING TO TALK TODAY ABOUT THE SHIFT CHANGE. WE'RE 05:06.839 --> 05:11.009 GOING TO CONTINUE THAT HERE IN THE CHURCH. AND THEN THERE IN 05:11.009 --> 05:15.329 ILLINOIS, GOD'S GOING TO TALK MORE ABOUT, I THINK, THE NATION 05:15.329 --> 05:18.720 AND WHAT'S COMING. SO YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU JOIN US. I 05:18.720 --> 05:21.269 WILL SAY THIS, YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT I CAN TELL YOU, STAY 05:21.269 --> 05:24.180 TUNED, IS I REALLY FEEL LIKE THINGS ARE SHIFTING. HOW MANY OF 05:24.180 --> 05:27.509 YOU WERE HERE LAST SUNDAY WHEN WE KIND OF ALL CAME FORWARD? AND 05:27.509 --> 05:30.779 THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, MAN, IT WAS POWERFUL. AND THEN I 05:30.779 --> 05:34.980 WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO WEDNESDAY NIGHT, GUYS. I WATCHED 05:34.980 --> 05:37.670 WEDNESDAY NIGHT. - AWESOME. 05:38.872 --> 05:42.355 - WHAT I LOVED ABOUT IT IS WHEN I'M LOOKING AND I'M SEEING 05:42.360 --> 05:46.680 OUR PASTORS ON THEIR FACE. THAT'S WHEN YOU KNOW GOD WILL 05:46.680 --> 05:51.750 SHOW UP WHEN THE LEADERS LEAD THE WAY AND THEY WANT GOD. AND 05:51.750 --> 05:56.430 SO IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. I EVEN, GREAT JOB GUYS. I EVEN GOT 05:56.430 --> 05:59.850 TOUCHED AND JUST THROUGH THE CAMERA. SO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 05:59.850 --> 06:03.089 WATCHING, I CAN FEEL THAT, WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHERE 06:03.089 --> 06:05.100 SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE ON THIS SIDE OF THE CAMERA, IT'S A 06:05.100 --> 06:07.170 LITTLE DIFFERENT. - THAT'S TRUE, THAT'S TRUE. 06:07.170 --> 06:09.629 - BUT WHEN YOU'RE ON THAT SIDE OF THE CAMERA, MAN, IT'S AMAZING 06:09.629 --> 06:13.589 THAT YOU CAN FEEL GOD AS WELL. SO HOW MANY OF YOU ARE OKAY WITH 06:13.589 --> 06:17.444 THE STORM, BY THE WAY? EVERYBODY GOOD? ANYBODY HAVE ANY STORM 06:17.476 --> 06:18.545 CLEANUP? - A LITTLE CLEAN UP SATURDAY WE 06:18.545 --> 06:22.007 HAD. ANYBODY HAVE TO CLEAN UP A LITTLE BIT AROUND THEIR HOUSE? 06:22.007 --> 06:24.540 WE DID A LITTLE BIT OF THAT, SOME NEEDS AND THINGS. 06:24.540 --> 06:27.112 - YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY CRAZY, AS I WAS TELLING BRENDA, I GOT 06:27.112 --> 06:30.209 UP AT LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, JUST BEFORE FOUR IN THE MORNING TO 06:30.209 --> 06:35.370 JUST GO AND PRAY. AND I GOT DONE PRAYING AROUND FIVE, SOMETHING 06:35.370 --> 06:38.670 JUST A LITTLE AFTER FIVE, AND I JUST FELT, IT WASN'T GOD, BUT I 06:38.670 --> 06:42.540 JUST FELT TO LOOK AT MY PHONE, AND I WAS LIKE, "BRENDA, GET UP 06:42.540 --> 06:46.110 OUT OF BED, "LOOK AT WHAT'S COMING." SO I FEEL LIKE WE'VE 06:46.110 --> 06:50.160 GOTTA STAY ON THIS. THIS IS ABNORMAL. THIS IS, AND SO WE 06:50.160 --> 06:53.370 REALLY NEED TO STAY ON IT AND CONTINUE TO PRAY, YOU KNOW, NOT 06:53.370 --> 06:55.410 JUST PEACE OVER JERUSALEM, BUT HOW ABOUT PEACE FOR OMAHA, 06:55.410 --> 06:57.899 NEBRASKA AND THE WEATHER FATHERS. AMEN. ALL RIGHT. I'M 06:57.899 --> 06:59.752 READY TO WORSHIP GOD. ANYTHING ELSE? 06:59.786 --> 07:04.884 - I DO SEE A LOT OF YELLOW SHIRTS ALL AROUND THE BUILDING 07:04.916 --> 07:08.136 TODAY. THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME CORE YOUTH AT CAMP. ARE 07:08.136 --> 07:12.059 WE GOING TO HEAR FROM YOU GUYS LATER? ALL RIGHT. COME ON. 07:12.059 --> 07:15.879 - SO ARE THE YELLOW SHIRTS? WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. OH, SO 07:15.879 --> 07:19.617 THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT VOLUNTEERING TO WORK TODAY. I 07:19.617 --> 07:23.218 WAS GOING TO FIND SOME STUFF FOR THEM TO DO, YOU KNOW? 07:23.218 --> 07:26.552 -BUT COME ON, WAVE AT EVERYBODY. CORE YOUTH, WAVE AT EVERYBODY. 07:26.552 --> 07:30.389 LOOK AT ALL THESE GUYS. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING A LITTLE 07:30.389 --> 07:34.350 RECAP. DID YOU GUYS LIKE CAMP? WAS IT AWESOME? WELL, WE'RE 07:34.350 --> 07:37.199 EXCITED FOR YOU. SO IT'S GOING TO BE AN AMAZING DAY. WE'RE 07:37.199 --> 07:39.509 GOING TO CELEBRATE YOU A LITTLE BIT. ALL RIGHT. ARE YOU GUYS 07:39.509 --> 07:43.680 READY? THROW THOSE HANDS UP TO HEAVEN. COME ON, CORE YOUTH. YOU 07:43.680 --> 07:47.786 GOT TO LEAD THE WAY. SAY THESE WORDS. SAY, LORD, IT'S GOING TO 07:47.786 --> 07:54.060 BE A FABULOUS DAY IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS HERE. 07:54.060 --> 07:58.956 YOUR PRESENCE IS HERE. AND I'M ASKING YOU, LORD, TO MOVE IN 07:58.956 --> 08:04.439 THIS PLACE AND TOUCH MY LIFE IN JESUS' NAME. NOW, COME ON, SHOUT 08:04.439 --> 08:10.528 LIKE YOU REALLY WANT TO GET LOUD AND LET'S PRAISE THE LORD. ALL 08:10.528 --> 08:15.120 RIGHT. NOW, CORE YOUTH, YOU PROMISED WHEN WE WERE OUT THERE, 08:15.120 --> 08:18.848 YOU GUYS WERE GOING TO WORSHIP STRONG BECAUSE THEY HAD, I MEAN, 08:18.848 --> 08:22.889 I'M TELLING YOU GUYS, THEY HAD A MOVE OF GOD WHEN WE WERE OUT AT 08:22.889 --> 08:25.709 CAMP. SO WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT 08:25.709 --> 08:28.949 TODAY. CORE YOUTH, I WANT YOU TO COME DOWN TO THE FRONT. YOU'RE 08:28.949 --> 08:33.746 GOING TO SHOW THE PEOPLE HOW YOU GUYS WORSHIPPED AND BROUGHT 08:33.779 --> 08:41.653 HEAVEN INTO THE ROOM. COME ON. COME ON. LET THERE BE A SOUND IN 08:41.687 --> 08:46.860 THIS PLACE. LET THERE BE A SOUND IN THIS PLACE. LET THERE BE A 08:46.893 --> 08:50.529 SOUND. COME ON. CORE YOUTH LEADERS, YOU CAN COME ON WITH 08:50.562 --> 09:10.716 THEM. COME ON, LET'S PRAISE HIM. - COME ON, CORE YOUTH. LET'S GET 09:10.750 --> 09:11.750 A LITTLE BIT LOUD. 11:23.731 --> 11:32.859 (MUSIC) 12:18.940 --> 12:29.215 (MUSIC) 13:28.975 --> 13:35.014 ♪ I'M GONNA PRAISE YOU. I'M GONNA PRAISE YOU. I'M GONNA ♪ 13:35.048 --> 13:45.725 ♪ PRAISE YOU. 'CAUSE WE WANT HEAVEN. WE WANT HEAVEN. WE ♪ 13:45.759 --> 13:56.836 ♪ WANT HEAVEN. WE WANT HEAVEN. WE WANT HEAVEN. WE WANT. ♪ 13:56.870 --> 14:08.748 ♪ HEAVEN WE WANT TO GO WHERE YOU SEND US. WE WANT TO GO WHERE ♪ 14:08.782 --> 14:17.123 ♪ YOU'VE CALLED US. WE WANT TO GO WHERE YOU NEED US. YOU'RE ♪ 14:17.157 --> 14:24.496 ♪ ALL WE WANT. YOU'RE ALL WE WANT. YOU'RE ALL WE NEED. ♪ 14:24.530 --> 14:36.408 ♪ JESUS, YOU'RE ALL WE WANT. YOU'RE ALL WE NEED. YOU'RE ALL ♪ 14:36.442 --> 14:48.260 ♪ WE WANT AND ALL WE NEED, JESUS. MY SAVIOR, MY HEALER. ♪ 14:48.260 --> 14:58.840 ♪ OH, YOU ARE ALL I WANT AND ALL I NEED, JESUS. MY DELIVERER, ♪ 14:58.881 --> 15:05.205 ♪ MY SALVATION. YOU'RE ALL I WANT AND ALL I NEED. IT'S YOU, ♪ 15:05.238 --> 15:22.254 ♪ JESUS. IT'S YOU, JESUS. IT'S YOU, JESUS. ♪ COME ON, LIFT YOUR 15:22.288 --> 15:28.662 HANDS UP ALL ACROSS THIS PLACE. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW 15:28.695 --> 15:31.130 WE'RE MAKING A DECISION? PASTOR'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT 15:31.163 --> 15:35.956 US SHIFTING AND CHANGING. AND SOMETIMES THAT'S 15:35.969 --> 15:40.807 JUST A CHOICE OF US FOLLOWING THE LEAD OF OUR SAVIOR, AMEN. 15:40.840 --> 15:49.615 (MUSIC) 18:15.261 --> 18:20.500 - ALRIGHT, SO TO FOLLOW JESUS, WE'VE GOT TO DO A 18:20.567 --> 18:25.305 FEW THINGS HERE. CORE YOUTH, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 23:41.103 --> 23:55.669 (SOFT PIANO PLAYING) 23:55.701 --> 24:38.979 ♪ WHAT A GOD (15X) ♪ 30:58.873 --> 31:09.001 - OH GOD WE WORSHIP YOU. IN THE BEAUTY OF THY NAME. OH 31:09.035 --> 31:14.507 GOD WE COME. AND WE CHERISH THIS MOMENT 31:15.624 --> 31:22.433 WITH A GOD THAT IS ALIVE AND IT WAS DECLARED OF YOU THAT YOU ARE 31:22.433 --> 31:27.534 EMMANUEL GOD WITH MAN, GOD WITH US. 31:28.884 --> 31:36.563 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 31:36.630 --> 31:41.064 WE STAND IN THIS MOMENT TO DECLARE THAT YOU ARE EMMANUEL, 31:43.193 --> 31:49.673 THAT YOU ARE GOD WITH MAN, AND THAT IN ITSELF CAUSES MY HEART 31:49.673 --> 31:57.864 TO TREMBLE, THAT A GOD SUCH AS YOU WOULD DESIRE TO BE AMONG 31:57.864 --> 32:08.153 MEN. THERE ARE NOT WORDS TO UTTER AT THIS MOMENT TO TELL YOU 32:08.153 --> 32:13.044 HOW HUMBLING THAT IS. THAT EVEN THE MERE UNDERSTANDING OF MY 32:13.044 --> 32:22.013 MIND, I CANNOT FATHOM. GOD AMONG MEN, WHY? WHEN WE WERE NOT 32:22.013 --> 32:31.374 THERE, WHEN YOU FORMED THIS EARTH, THE STARS, AND THE 32:31.374 --> 32:38.262 WONDERS THAT BEAR YOUR NAME, THAT YOU WOULD WALK WITH MAN. 32:40.374 --> 32:43.943 MOST OF ALL, YOU WOULD OFFER THE GREATEST SACRIFICE EVER GIVEN 32:47.183 --> 32:56.903 FOR MEN, FOR MANKIND, AND IT WAS THE OFFERING OF YOUR BLOOD, 32:56.903 --> 33:07.223 YESHUA. HOW CAN WE SHOW GRATITUDE TO THE HONOR OF YOU, 33:07.223 --> 33:22.763 EMMANUEL, GOD, WHO WALKS AND LOVES MANKIND. THEREFORE, I WILL 33:22.763 --> 33:30.564 NOT WITHHOLD MY LOVE TO YOU. I WILL NOT WITHHOLD THE HONOR OF 33:30.564 --> 33:42.173 RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE HATING OF INIQUITY. FOR IN RETURN, I WILL 33:42.173 --> 33:54.983 GIVE THE HONOR OF MY HEART TO KNOW YOU FACE TO FACE. OH GOD, I 33:54.983 --> 34:07.044 NEED YOU, I TRUST YOU, AND I LOVE YOU. JUST WORSHIP HIM. 34:07.044 --> 34:18.358 BEAUTIFUL EMMANUEL (2X). BEAUTIFUL GOD AMONG US. WE 34:18.391 --> 34:45.324 WORSHIP YOU (5X). (PRAYING IN TONGUES). I WILL HONOR YOU 34:45.324 --> 34:55.793 EMMANUEL, EMMANUEL, EMMANUEL. I WILL WORSHIP YOU IN THE HONOR OF 34:55.793 --> 35:04.903 THY NAME. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES). I WORSHIP YOU (3X). 35:05.170 --> 35:19.152 I WILL WORSHIP YOU (3X). (PRAYING IN TONGUES). 35:19.184 --> 35:25.791 I WILL LIFT MY HANDS AS I LIFT MY HEART TO REACH AS HIGH AS I 35:25.826 --> 35:34.367 CAN TO GRAB YOUR HEART. WITH MY HEART (3X), I REACH FOR YOUR 35:34.400 --> 35:52.719 HEART, GOD. (PRAYING IN TONGUES). I WILL WORSHIP, I 35:52.751 --> 36:07.603 WILL WORSHIP THE POWER OF THY NAME. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 36:07.603 --> 36:16.659 WHO ART THOU, O GOD? THAT THE MOUNTAINS MELT LIKE WAX, THE 36:16.659 --> 36:24.884 EARTH SHAKES AS YOU WALK AMONG IT, THE STARS IN THEIR 36:24.918 --> 36:28.621 BRIGHTNESS ARE NO MATCH FOR THE GLORY OF THY NAME AND THY 36:28.655 --> 36:36.762 PRESENCE. ALL HELL SHAKES AND TREMBLES AT THE POWER AND THE 36:36.795 --> 36:42.079 MAJESTY OF THY BLOOD, YESHUA. BUT IN YOUR NAME THE EARTH 36:42.079 --> 36:51.275 STANDS TO ATTENTION. THERE IS NO GOD LIKE YESHUA. THERE IS NO 36:51.275 --> 37:03.139 ONE LIKE YESHUA. WE STAND IN HONOR OF YOU, YESHUA. WE STAND 37:03.139 --> 37:10.829 IN A MOMENT TO DECLARE THE HONOR OF THY NAME, YESHUA. YESHUA. 37:10.864 --> 37:32.885 YESHUA. COME ON, JUST WORSHIP HIM. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 37:32.985 --> 37:36.422 COME ON, ALL OVER THE WORLD, PROCLAIM HIS NAME. ♪ THERE'S NO 37:36.456 --> 37:40.494 ONE LIKE YESHUA ♪ RIGHT THERE IN YOUR HOME. ♪ THERE'S NO ONE LIKE 37:40.527 --> 37:45.539 YESHUA ♪ DECLARE YESHUA. ♪ THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YESHUA ♪ 37:45.539 --> 37:48.635 ♪THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YESHUA♪ COME ON (SPEAKING IN TONGUES), 37:48.668 --> 37:54.007 OVER THIS PLACE, WORSHIP HIM, WORSHIP HIM. ♪ THERE'S NO ONE 37:54.039 --> 37:59.311 LIKE YESHUA ♪ OH, YESHUA. ♪ THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YESHUA ♪ 37:59.346 --> 38:04.317 YESHUA. ♪ THERE'S NO ONE LIKE OUR KING ♪ WE FEAR THY NAME. 38:04.351 --> 38:09.356 ♪ THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YESHUA. THERE'S NO ONE LIKE OUR KING. ♪ 38:09.422 --> 38:14.793 THANK YOU LORD. THERE'S NO ONE LIKE THY NAME. 38:16.476 --> 38:22.663 GOD I PRAY FOR EVERY ONE OF THESE YOUNG ONES THAT THE POWER 38:22.673 --> 38:32.603 OF YOUR PRESENCE GRIPS THEIR HEARTS GRIPS THEIR LIFE THEIR 38:32.603 --> 38:36.443 LORD THEIR DESTINIES RIGHT NOW I SPEAK DIVINE PROTECTION AND 38:36.443 --> 38:44.603 PRESERVATION I SPEAK PROTECTION OVER RELATIONSHIPS I SPEAK 38:44.603 --> 38:50.034 PROTECTION OVER THEIR PRESENT MOMENT AND THEIR FUTURE. NOT ONE 38:50.034 --> 38:57.083 WILL DIE PREMATURE. NOT ONE WILL BE HARMED BY THE HANDS OF EVIL 38:57.083 --> 39:10.253 MEN. I SPEAK GRACE, MERCY, HELP, PROTECTION. NOT ONE WILL EVER BE 39:10.253 --> 39:20.963 KNOWN AS A PRODIGAL, FOR THEY WILL RUN FOR GOD. AND THEY WILL 39:20.963 --> 39:28.824 NEVER BE INFLUENCED BY THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD. AND I PRAY 39:28.824 --> 39:32.652 THAT THERE IS A DEPOSIT OF A RIGHTEOUSNESS, A RIGHTEOUS SEED 39:34.313 --> 39:38.784 THAT SHALL BEAR FRUIT THROUGHOUT THEIR TEENAGE YEARS, THEIR YOUNG 39:38.784 --> 39:49.853 ADULT, BUT ALSO INTO THEIR ADULTHOOD AND OLD AGE. I SPEAK 39:49.853 --> 39:57.204 THIS NOW AND IT WILL NOT BE ALTERED. FOR THERE IS A SEAL 39:57.204 --> 40:01.853 BECAUSE OF THE WORDS DECLARED UPON THEM AND OVER THEM AND FOR 40:01.853 --> 40:07.248 THEM AND EVEN OVER YOUR CHILDREN THAT ARE WATCHING IN YESHUA'S 40:07.248 --> 40:15.384 NAME. IN YESHUA'S NAME. I WANT THE YOUTH TO DO SOMETHING. HOW 40:15.384 --> 40:19.929 MANY OF YOU RIGHT NOW WHERE YOU'RE AT, YOU HAVE SOME KIND OF 40:19.929 --> 40:24.818 SYMPTOM OR SOMETHING IN YOUR BODY THAT YOU NEED A HEALING 40:24.818 --> 40:29.318 TOUCH? LIFT UP YOUR HAND FOR A MOMENT. SOME OF THE YOUTH DO. 40:29.318 --> 40:31.329 HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO. I WANT YOU TO STAND UP, YOUTH, AND 40:31.329 --> 40:35.438 I WANT YOU TO FIND SOMEBODY WITH THEIR HAND UP RIGHT NOW. AND I 40:35.438 --> 40:37.838 WANT YOU TO RELEASE THAT ANOINTING THAT YOU'VE BEEN UP. 40:37.838 --> 40:39.938 SO IF YOU NEED HEALING IN YOUR BODY, I WANT YOU TO KEEP YOUR 40:39.938 --> 40:42.579 HAND UP. ALL RIGHT, NOW GO OUT IN THE AUDIENCE. GO UP INTO THE 40:42.579 --> 40:46.148 STANDS. COME ON. COME ON. NO, I DON'T WANT YOU TO PRAY JUST FOR 40:46.148 --> 40:48.938 ONE ANOTHER. I WANT YOU GUYS. NOW LISTEN TO ME, YOUTH. YOUTH, 40:48.938 --> 40:52.358 LISTEN. GO OUT AMONG THE PEOPLE. THAT'S WHAT JESUS DID. GO OUT. I 40:52.358 --> 40:55.554 COMMISSION YOU. GO OUT. GO, GO, GO, GO FIND SOMEBODY WITH THEIR 40:55.588 --> 40:58.525 HAND UP. RIGHT THERE IN THE BACK. COME ON, GO OUT, GO OUT, 40:58.557 --> 41:03.230 GO OUT. LAY HANDS ON THEM AND PRAY FOR MORE THAN ONE. TELL 41:03.262 --> 41:06.916 THEM, "BE HEALED." COME ON, KEEP YOUR HAND UP. MAKE SURE. COME 41:06.916 --> 41:11.023 ON, YOUTH, GO. GO. SOME OF YOU CAN GO TWO BY TWO, ONE BY ONE. 41:11.023 --> 41:14.474 COME ON, TOUCH THEM. FATHER, WE PRAY FOR THE HEALING POWER OF 41:14.474 --> 41:21.307 THE LIVING YESHUA. JESUS, TOUCH YOUR PEOPLE. WE REBUKE SICKNESS 41:21.307 --> 41:25.869 AND DISEASE. WE REBUKE EVERY SYMPTOM. WE SPEAK TO YOU THAT 41:25.869 --> 41:29.619 ARE WATCHING THROUGH THAT CAMERA. WE REBUKE EVERY SYMPTOM 41:29.619 --> 41:34.599 AND DISEASE. WE COMMAND INFIRMITY, COME OUT OF YOUR 41:34.599 --> 41:38.079 BODY. WE BREAK EVERY GENERATIONAL INIQUITY, 41:38.079 --> 41:49.478 GENERATIONAL INFIRMITY. WE SEVER EVERY CURSE OF DARKNESS. BE THOU 41:49.478 --> 41:55.509 HEALED. LET THE HEALING POWER OF GOD BE RELEASED NOW. BE RELEASED 41:55.509 --> 41:58.478 NOW. IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WITH YOUR HAND UP THAT NEEDS 41:58.478 --> 42:03.039 SOMEBODY? GO UP THERE QUICKLY. TELL THEM, "BE HEALED." BE 42:03.039 --> 42:07.838 HEALED. WE SPEAK THAT OVER YOU THAT ARE WATCHING. BE HEALED. BE 42:07.838 --> 42:11.259 HEALED. COME ON, THIS IS THE HOUR AND THE TIME FOR THE 42:11.259 --> 42:20.974 CHILDREN TO ARISE. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 42:21.007 --> 42:27.818 PRAISE GOD. PRAISE GOD. PRAISE GOD. ISN'T THAT BEAUTIFUL? HOW 42:27.818 --> 42:31.199 MANY OF YOU, THAT'S BEAUTIFUL? ALL RIGHT, WELL, HERE'S WHAT I 42:31.199 --> 42:34.478 WANT TO DO. YOUTH, YOU CAN CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR SOMEBODY, 42:34.478 --> 42:37.539 BUT HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IN THE AUDIENCE. I WANT YOU TO 42:37.539 --> 42:42.429 GREET SOMEBODY, AND THEN I WANT YOU TO SAY, "I BET I KNOW. I BET 42:42.429 --> 42:54.998 I KNOW WHAT YOUR FAVORITE PUMPKIN PIE IS." ALL RIGHT, WE 42:54.998 --> 42:57.978 GREET ONE ANOTHER IN THE NAME OF THE LORD. 42:58.043 --> 43:35.481 (MUSIC) 43:35.514 --> 43:39.786 WELL GOOD MORNING. IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME IN THE BUILDING 43:39.818 --> 43:42.255 WITH US. WE WANT TO MAKE YOU FEEL WELCOME. I ALSO 43:42.289 --> 43:44.230 WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVED A BLUE 43:44.230 --> 43:47.023 GIFT BAG WHEN YOU CAME INSIDE THE DOOR. IF YOU DID NOT, PLEASE 43:47.023 --> 43:49.905 WAVE YOUR HAND AT AN USHER. THEY HAVE THOSE AVAILABLE FOR 43:49.905 --> 43:53.498 YOU. INSIDE THAT, THERE'S SOME INFORMATION WE WANT TO SEND 43:53.498 --> 43:57.248 HOME WITH YOU, AS WELL AS A GUEST REGISTRY PACKET. IT HAS A 43:57.248 --> 43:59.378 PICTURE OF THE STAGE ON THE FRONT OF IT, SO PLEASE PULL THAT 43:59.378 --> 44:02.918 OUT AT THIS TIME. I WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU GET SOME INFORMATION IN 44:02.918 --> 44:05.739 THERE, AS WELL AS A BRIGHT ORANGE STAY CONNECTED CARD ON 44:05.739 --> 44:14.619 THE LEFT-HAND SIDE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING TO SEE US 44:14.619 --> 44:17.831 THIS MORNING. MAKE SURE YOU STAY CONNECTED WITH EVERYTHING WE 44:17.831 --> 44:20.168 HAVE GOING ON HERE AT THE CHURCH. IF YOU'RE WATCHING BY 44:20.168 --> 44:23.619 LIVE STREAM, WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU AS WELL. I ALSO WANT TO MAKE 44:23.619 --> 44:27.039 SURE YOU GET TO ONEVOICETV.NET. GO AHEAD AND GET CONNECTED WITH 44:27.039 --> 44:31.748 US ON ANY OF THOSE PLATFORMS. GET CONNECTED ON ONE VOICE TV, 44:31.748 --> 44:34.407 BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME SPECIAL PROGRAMMING OUT THERE FOR YOU. 44:34.440 --> 44:36.612 GET REAL WITH HANK, DAILY DECREE, GAME CHANGERS, 44:36.612 --> 44:39.474 FLASHPOINT, ALL OF THAT IS OUT THERE FOR YOU, BOTH LIVE 44:39.474 --> 44:42.291 AND ARCHIVED AS WELL AS SERVICES. SO PLEASE GET OUT 44:42.291 --> 44:45.481 THERE, BE BLESSED BY ALL THAT GREAT CONTENT WE'VE PUT OUT 44:45.481 --> 44:50.557 THERE IN ONE PLACE FOR YOU. WELL, AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, 44:50.557 --> 44:57.335 ALL THE YOUTH JUST CAME BACK FROM THEIR CORE CAMP. AND IT WAS 44:57.335 --> 45:02.981 AN AMAZING TIME. AND JUST TO KIND OF SUM ALL, I DON'T KNOW, 45:02.981 --> 45:05.940 WHAT WAS IT? THREE DAYS, THREE NIGHTS, FOUR DAYS, WHATEVER 45:05.940 --> 45:10.443 IT WAS. WE'RE GONNA SUM THAT UP INTO TWO MINUTES. WATCH THIS. 45:12.077 --> 45:17.384 - FOR YOUTH RETREAT 2025, CHOSEN IDENTITY. 45:17.416 --> 47:09.728 (MUSIC) 47:09.757 --> 47:25.411 (YOUTH GROUP SINGING) 47:25.445 --> 47:36.422 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) - WOW. WE ARE SO EXCITED. YOU 47:36.489 --> 47:38.427 KNOW, THIS IS OUR THIRD RETREAT THAT WE'VE DONE, 47:38.431 --> 47:40.088 AND WE WERE TALKING WITH THE LEADERSHIP TEAM. WE'RE 47:40.088 --> 47:45.429 LIKE, WE KEEP SAYING THAT IT GETS BETTER, BUT IT GOT BETTER. 47:46.628 --> 47:49.748 NOT ONLY DID IT GET BETTER, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT, I MEAN, GOD MOVED 47:49.748 --> 47:52.869 FREELY, BUT WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WAS THAT IT HAPPENED 47:52.869 --> 47:57.125 BECAUSE WE HAVE YOUTH THAT WERE SO HUNGRY, YOU KNOW? AND 47:57.125 --> 47:59.027 IT'S LIKE, IT'S SOMETHING WE DIDN'T HAVE TO FORCE 47:59.027 --> 48:01.380 ON THEM, AND WE'RE JUST SO THANKFUL THAT WE WERE ABLE 48:01.414 --> 48:04.648 TO HAVE SUCH A UNIQUE, INTIMATE TIME WITH GOD THAT 48:04.648 --> 48:07.052 I KNOW, AS PASTOR WAS JUST PRAYING, DESTINIES WERE SET 48:07.086 --> 48:09.878 IN PLACE AND CALLINGS WERE PUT IN PLACE. 48:09.878 --> 48:13.778 - YEAH, WE HAD A SCHEDULE, BUT GOD KINDA RIPPED IT UP, WHICH 48:13.778 --> 48:16.628 WAS FINE, AND WE'VE NEVER SEEN YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE TOTALLY 48:16.628 --> 48:20.349 OKAY WITH THAT. THEY WERE FINE JUST GOING WITH THE FLOW, AND 48:20.349 --> 48:22.449 THERE WAS TIMES WHERE WE WERE WORSHIPING, AND WE JUST WERE 48:22.449 --> 48:25.838 WORSHIPING EVEN IN THE DARK FOR HOURS, AND NOBODY WANTED TO 48:25.838 --> 48:30.219 LEAVE. AND SO IT WAS REALLY COOL SEEING HOW HUNGRY THE KIDS WERE. 48:30.219 --> 48:33.998 AND THEN, I MEAN, THANK YOU, PARENTS, FOR TRUSTING US WITH 48:33.998 --> 48:37.119 YOUR STUDENTS, BECAUSE IT MEANS THE WORLD TO US. WE EVEN HAD ONE 48:37.119 --> 48:40.989 JOIN US FROM AFRICA. SO WE DON'T TAKE THAT LIGHTLY. THANK YOU SO 48:40.989 --> 48:43.905 MUCH. - YEAH. AND A SPECIAL THANK YOU 48:43.905 --> 48:47.202 TO EDDIE AND PASTOR SHANE AND PASTOR CHRISTY FOR COMING OUT 48:47.202 --> 48:49.637 AND LEADING WORSHIP THAT JUST TOTALLY REVOLUTIONIZED. BUT MOST 48:49.637 --> 48:51.331 IMPORTANT, THANK YOU, PASTOR HANK, AND THANK YOU, PASTOR 48:51.364 --> 48:52.164 BRENDA - THANK YOU. 48:52.199 --> 48:54.483 -FOR YOUR HEARTS FOR THE YOUNG GENERATION AND FOR IMPARTING 48:54.489 --> 48:56.079 INTO OUR YOUTH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 48:57.518 --> 48:59.498 AND REAL QUICK, IF YOU SEE ANYONE WITH A GREEN SHIRT, ASK 48:59.498 --> 49:02.679 THEM TO TEACH YOU THE 10 COMMANDMENTS IN ORDER. THERE'S A 49:02.679 --> 49:04.867 VERY QUICK WAY, YOU'LL NEVER FORGET IT, BUT PUT SOMEONE ON 49:04.867 --> 49:08.259 THE TEST, A HOMEWORK CORE YOUTH. ANYWAY, PASTOR BRENDA. 49:08.259 --> 49:11.619 - ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. GIVE THEM ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE. 49:11.619 --> 49:15.699 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 49:15.699 --> 49:18.518 WELL, SPEAKING OF EXCITING THINGS, WE GOT QUITE A BIT STILL 49:18.518 --> 49:21.068 TO DO TODAY. PASTOR'S GOT TO PREACH, BUT WE'RE GONNA RECEIVE 49:21.068 --> 49:24.338 NEW MEMBERS IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, 49:24.338 --> 49:28.628 SPEAKING OF IT, CAN EVERY YEAR GET ANY BETTER? WE SAY THAT ALSO 49:28.628 --> 49:31.208 ABOUT OPENING THE HEAVENS CONFERENCE. 49:32.378 --> 49:37.478 AND IT IS NOW, WE'RE LIKE RIGHT UP ON 30 DAYS AWAY. AND THIS IS 49:37.478 --> 49:40.778 THE YEAR OF THE LORD'S FIGHT. AND IF YOU WERE HERE LAST 49:40.778 --> 49:44.768 SUNDAY, OR IF YOU MISSED IT, GO BACK AND WATCH, PASTOR PLAYED 49:44.768 --> 49:50.907 THAT LONG CLIP WHEN HE BREAKS OUT INTO SMOKE ON THE WATER. BUT 49:50.907 --> 49:55.539 IT WAS POWERFUL. I MEAN, I REWATCHED THAT AND THINK, OH MY. 49:55.539 --> 49:59.438 I MEAN, I REALLY AM CONVINCED. IN FACT, YOU CANNOT TELL ME 49:59.438 --> 50:06.668 OTHERWISE. I AM 100% CONVINCED. THAT NIGHT, WE SHIFTED SOMETHING 50:06.668 --> 50:11.168 IN AMERICA. I AM CONVINCED. WERE WE THE ONLY ONES? NO, BUT WE 50:11.168 --> 50:15.248 PLAYED A GREAT ROLE IN DOING SOMETHING IN OBEDIENCE TO GOD 50:15.248 --> 50:18.789 THROUGH PRAYER THAT NIGHT. AND IF THE YOUTH ARE SAYING, CAN IT 50:18.789 --> 50:22.778 EVER GET ANY BETTER EACH YEAR? I'M SAYING THAT ABOUT OPENING 50:22.778 --> 50:26.585 THE HEAVENS 2025. IS IT GOING TO GET BETTER? PROBABLY. YOU NEED 50:26.585 --> 50:30.307 TO BE THERE. IT'S COMPLETELY FREE TO REGISTER. SO IF YOU LIVE 50:30.307 --> 50:33.965 HERE IN TOWN, YOU HAVE NO REASON NOT TO REGISTER. I HEARD A 50:33.965 --> 50:37.085 PREACHER SAY ONE TIME MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, THERE'S AN 50:37.085 --> 50:40.025 OPPORTUNITY FOR A COOL CONFERENCE, ESPECIALLY THIS IS A 50:40.025 --> 50:44.284 SUPER COOL CONFERENCE. WE NEVER KNOW WHAT PASTOR HANK MIGHT 50:44.284 --> 50:49.175 BREAK OUT AND DO, BUT THE POINT IS, IT'S AN AWESOME EVENT, AND 50:49.175 --> 50:54.875 WHY MISS THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME IN A PLACE AND JUST FOR THREE 50:54.875 --> 50:59.704 DAYS BE SPOON-FED THE WORD OF GOD? I HEARD A PREACHER SAY THAT 50:59.704 --> 51:03.215 ONE TIME. DON'T MISS THOSE MOMENTS, BECAUSE THEY ARE THINGS 51:03.215 --> 51:06.275 THAT GOD USES TO CHANGE YOU AND RECHARGE YOU. SO IT'S COMPLETELY 51:06.275 --> 51:09.005 FREE, INVITE SOMEBODY, GREAT LINEUP OF SPEAKERS, LOOK AT ALL 51:09.005 --> 51:12.965 THOSE GUYS, PREACHING HOUSES, PREACHING MACHINES. DR. GENE 51:12.965 --> 51:15.394 BAILEY IS GOING TO HELP US THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EVENT 51:15.394 --> 51:18.454 ALONG WITH TONY SUAREZ. TIM SHEETS WILL BE BACK, KENT 51:18.454 --> 51:21.724 CHRISTMAS, ISAAC PETRIE, NEW TO THE CONFERENCE THIS YEAR, 51:21.724 --> 51:25.925 LORENZO SEWELL IS NEW AS WELL, AND OF COURSE, PASTOR HANK AND I 51:25.925 --> 51:31.324 WILL BE THERE. IT'S GOING TO BE FIRE! THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, 51:31.324 --> 51:35.644 HOTELS ARE FILLING UP QUICKLY, AND SO GET OUT THERE TOO. HERE'S 51:35.644 --> 51:38.824 THE SITELET, OPENINGTHEHEAVENS.ORG. GO OUT, 51:38.824 --> 51:42.394 GET REGISTERED, BOOK YOUR HOTEL. A COUPLE OF THEM ARE SOLD OUT, 51:42.394 --> 51:46.684 SO MAKE SURE YOU GO OUT THERE AND GET REGISTERED QUICKLY, AND 51:46.684 --> 51:50.434 LET'S PACK THAT ARENA OUT AND DO SOMETHING EVEN MORE EPIC THIS 51:50.434 --> 51:53.885 YEAR FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. AMEN. ALL RIGHT. WELL, I WANT TO 51:53.885 --> 51:56.375 PUT OUR OFFERING SCRIPTURE UP. I'M GOING TO GO BACK TO WHAT I 51:56.375 --> 51:59.045 READ LAST WEEK, AND THEN I HAVE A LITTLE UPDATE FOR EVERYBODY. 51:59.045 --> 52:04.144 REMEMBER WE WERE RAISING MONEY FOR PASTOR BARB'S, THE LOT 52:04.144 --> 52:06.905 THERE, THREE AND A HALF ACRES BY THEIR CHURCH. AND WE LEARNED AS 52:06.905 --> 52:12.244 A CHURCH IN 2023, HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO OWN THE SPACE AROUND 52:12.244 --> 52:17.135 THE MINISTRY, BECAUSE YOU DON'T NEED THE WRONG ENTITY SETTING UP 52:17.135 --> 52:21.125 SHOP BESIDE YOU. AND WE FOUND THAT THAT WAS SUPER IMPORTANT. 52:21.125 --> 52:24.155 AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE WERE ABLE AT THAT TIME TO BUY THE WHAT WE 52:24.155 --> 52:28.414 CALL THE PIZZA BUILDING. AND OF COURSE, WHEN YOU BUY A BUILDING 52:28.414 --> 52:31.264 LIKE THAT, YOU DO INHERIT THE TENANTS, WHATEVER THEIR LEASE 52:31.264 --> 52:35.195 TERMS ARE. PEOPLE SAY, ARE YOU THE FIRST CHURCH THAT OWNS A 52:35.195 --> 52:39.905 BAR? NO, WE'RE REALLY NOT. THE POINT IS, IS THERE IS A BAR 52:39.905 --> 52:43.505 THERE THAT HAS BEEN THERE 50 YEARS OR SO, AND THEIR LEASE HAS 52:43.505 --> 52:46.985 TO REMAIN IN FORCE UPON PURCHASE. NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN 52:46.985 --> 52:49.114 THAT THINGS DON'T GET NEGOTIATED, DIFFERENT THINGS 52:49.114 --> 52:52.565 DOWN THE ROAD. WE'VE HAD A FEW TENANTS THAT SAID, YOU KNOW, 52:52.565 --> 52:55.204 THAT'S A BIG OLD CHURCH OVER THERE. YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT AFFECT 52:55.204 --> 52:58.954 OUR BUSINESS. I DON'T KNOW. BUT, YOU KNOW, BUT A LOT OF THOSE 52:58.954 --> 53:02.945 TENANTS, IT'S PAYING FOR ITSELF. AND, BUT THE KEY THING IS WE 53:02.945 --> 53:07.385 FOUND OUT THAT IF ANOTHER INVESTOR WERE TO COME IN AND BUY 53:07.385 --> 53:10.324 THAT BUILDING, THEY MIGHT DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH IT THAT 53:10.324 --> 53:13.414 WOULD IMPEDE OUR OPERATIONS HERE, THAT WE'VE HAD A BEAUTIFUL 53:13.414 --> 53:16.565 MINISTRY HERE FOR 28 YEARS. AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO BUY THAT 53:16.565 --> 53:20.195 BUILDING. AND THEN IN THE PROCESS, I DON'T KNOW, EVERY 53:20.195 --> 53:24.335 BUILDING CAME UP AT ONCE. HOW GOD DID THAT, I AM STILL 53:24.335 --> 53:27.755 SCRATCHING MY HEAD. BUT ISN'T THAT THE WAY GOD IS? WHEN HE 53:27.755 --> 53:30.784 DOES AMAZING THINGS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ALWAYS BE THE ONE TO 53:30.784 --> 53:34.684 FIGURE IT OUT. HE JUST DOES IT. IN THE PROCESS, WE WERE ABLE TO 53:34.684 --> 53:37.295 BUY THE BUILDING JUST TO THE SOUTH, WHICH IS WHERE CENTRAL 53:37.295 --> 53:40.565 MAINTENANCE IS LOCATED. AND PASTOR MARK HAS TURNED A 53:40.565 --> 53:43.804 MAINTENANCE BUILDING TO LOOK LIKE A HIGH END FACILITY. IT'S 53:43.804 --> 53:47.074 INCREDIBLE OVER THERE. IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN INTO THAT, PASTOR 53:47.074 --> 53:50.494 MARK, YOU HAVE DONE, I MEAN, PASTOR MARK HAS DONE JUST A 53:50.494 --> 53:52.894 REMARKABLE JOB. AND THEN OF COURSE, BACK HERE BEHIND US, WE 53:52.894 --> 53:55.507 CALL IT THE LORD OF HOSTS HEADQUARTERS. THAT'S WHERE MOST 53:55.507 --> 54:01.025 OF THE STAFF IS. AND REALLY WE OCCUPY MOST ALL THAT BUILDING. 54:01.025 --> 54:03.844 WE STILL HAVE THE BANK, EDWARD JONES GOT A LITTLE SPECK UP 54:03.844 --> 54:09.065 THERE, YOU KNOW, BUT WE HAVE JUST, THAT'S BEEN A GOD SEND. 54:09.065 --> 54:11.224 ONE POINT PASTOR CRUZ WAS LIKE, "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO WITH 54:11.224 --> 54:14.164 OUR GROWING STAFF? THERE'S NOT ENOUGH SPACE IN THE MAIN 54:14.164 --> 54:17.344 BUILDING." AND SURE ENOUGH, THERE WAS EMPTY SPACE OVER THERE 54:17.344 --> 54:19.954 AND GOD SAID, "I'M GOING TO PUT IT IN YOUR LAP." SO THERE'S 54:19.954 --> 54:22.925 ALWAYS MORE THINGS TO COME. AND BY THE WAY, I'VE BEEN TELLING 54:22.925 --> 54:26.585 YOU, THERE ARE SOME THINGS IN THE WORKS AND YOU WILL BE 54:26.585 --> 54:30.425 EXCITED ABOUT, BUT LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS, SO WE CAN'T TELL YOU 54:30.425 --> 54:34.715 EVERYTHING THAT'S UP AND COMING. DO YOU TRUST US BY NOW? DO YOU 54:34.715 --> 54:39.545 TRUST US? AND I WILL JUST SAY, IF I WERE PASTOR HANK AND I 54:39.545 --> 54:42.724 COULD IMITATE TRUMP, I WOULD SAY, "YOU'LL BE SO EXCITED. 54:42.724 --> 54:46.505 YOU'LL BE SO EXCITED." SO IN THE TRUMP WORDS, I DON'T KNOW HOW HE 54:46.505 --> 54:51.005 WOULD SAY IT, BUT IT'S VERY EXCITING. I DON'T KNOW. ANYWAY, 54:51.005 --> 54:55.114 FORGET IT. I CAN'T IMITATE HIM, BUT THE KEY IS, IS I'LL HAVE AN 54:55.114 --> 54:58.804 UPDATE FOR YOU ON WHY THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. AND THEN WE'RE PAYING 54:58.804 --> 55:03.304 OFF THE REST OF THE AVL LINE OF CREDIT FOR THIS BIG BUILD, THIS 55:03.304 --> 55:08.224 MASSIVE, MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART EVERYTHING 55:08.224 --> 55:10.864 IN HERE. AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT, BUT LET ME GIVE THE 55:10.864 --> 55:14.195 SCRIPTURE TO YOU. CAN I DO IT VERY QUICKLY? THIS IS 2 55:14.195 --> 55:17.914 CORINTHIANS 8:7-12. YOU KNOW THESE PASSAGES, BUT THIS IS FROM 55:17.914 --> 55:21.304 THE NEW LIVING. AND IT SAYS THIS, "SINCE YOU EXCEL IN SO 55:21.304 --> 55:24.335 MANY WAYS." I'LL SAY THIS, LORD OF HOSTS, YOU EXCEL. INTERNET 55:24.335 --> 55:30.635 CAMPUS, YOU EXCEL IN SO MANY WAYS. I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO LIST 55:30.635 --> 55:34.894 ALL THE WAYS YOU EXCEL. BUT HERE HE LISTS OUT THE WAYS THAT THE 55:34.894 --> 55:38.614 CHURCH AT CORINTH WAS EXCELLING. HE SAID, "IN YOUR FAITH, IN YOUR 55:38.614 --> 55:43.702 GIFTED SPEAKERS, IN YOUR KNOWLEDGE, YOUR ENTHUSIASM, AND 55:43.702 --> 55:48.724 IN YOUR LOVE FOR US, FROM US. AND I WANT YOU TO ALSO EXCEL IN 55:48.724 --> 55:53.525 THIS GRACIOUS ACT OF GIVING." SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE EXCEL IN 55:53.525 --> 55:57.905 HOW WE GIVE INTO THE WORK OF THE LORD. "FOR I AM NOT, I AM NOT 55:57.905 --> 56:01.684 COMMANDING THAT YOU DO THIS, BUT I AM TESTING HOW GENUINE YOUR 56:01.684 --> 56:06.034 LOVE IS BY COMPARING IT WITH THE EAGERNESS OF OTHER CHURCHES." IN 56:06.034 --> 56:09.454 OTHER WORDS, HE'S SAYING, "I'M GOING TO PUT YOUR TRUE LOVE TO 56:09.454 --> 56:13.655 THE TEST BY HOW YOU GIVE." NOW, THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS 56:13.655 --> 56:16.882 WAS A PRINCIPLE JESUS TAUGHT, DIDN'T HE? HE SAID, "YOU CAN'T 56:16.882 --> 56:19.894 LOVE GOD AND MONEY. EITHER YOU'LL HATE ONE AND LOVE THE 56:19.894 --> 56:23.494 OTHER, OR YOU'LL LOVE ONE AND HATE THE OTHER. SO HE SAID, "THE 56:23.494 --> 56:27.934 TREASURE OF A MAN'S HEART IS FOUND IN THEIR GIVING." WE CAN'T 56:27.934 --> 56:30.755 SAY WE LOVE GOD AND THEN NEVER GIVE TO HIM OR WE AREN'T 56:30.755 --> 56:35.135 FAITHFUL IN OUR GIVING. SO HE SAID, "JESUS, THE GRACE OF OUR 56:35.135 --> 56:37.925 LORD JESUS, THOUGH HE WAS RICH, YET FOR YOUR SAKES HE BECAME 56:37.925 --> 56:42.574 POOR, SO THAT BY HIS POVERTY HE COULD MAKE YOU RICH." AND YES, 56:42.574 --> 56:45.244 BY THE WAY, THAT INCLUDES NATURAL RICHES. I DON'T HAVE 56:45.244 --> 56:48.815 TIME TO BREAK THAT DOWN NOW, BUT NOTICE, REMEMBER, WE TEACH 56:48.815 --> 56:53.434 CONTEXT WHEN WE TEACH THE WORD, RIGHT? THE CONTEXT IS FINANCES. 56:53.434 --> 56:55.894 SO PEOPLE HAVE READ THAT VERSE TO SAY, "OH, IT JUST MEANS 56:55.894 --> 56:59.224 SPIRITUAL RICHES. IT CAN'T MEAN MONEY." NO, IT'S IN A MONEY 56:59.224 --> 57:04.565 CHAPTER. REMEMBER THAT, RIGHT? IT'S TALKING ABOUT FINANCIAL 57:04.565 --> 57:08.255 RICHES. BUT HERE'S MY ADVICE, PAUL SAYS, HE SAID, "IT WOULD BE 57:08.255 --> 57:13.295 GOOD FOR YOU TO FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED A YEAR AGO." RIGHT? LAST 57:13.295 --> 57:17.195 YEAR, WE WERE VERY AGGRESSIVE IN OUR BUILDING GIVING BECAUSE WE 57:17.195 --> 57:20.824 HAD A TABERNACLE TO FINISH, RIGHT? THAT WAS THIS TIME LAST 57:20.824 --> 57:23.914 YEAR. HE SAID, "YOU WERE THE FIRST TO WANT TO GIVE AND YOU 57:23.914 --> 57:26.945 WERE THE FIRST TO BEGIN DOING IT." YOU KNOW, THAT SHOULD BE 57:26.945 --> 57:29.945 YOUR MOTTO IN YOUR LIFE, ALL OF OUR LIVES. I WANT TO BE THE 57:29.945 --> 57:33.755 FIRST ONE WHEN THERE'S A NEED, BUT I ALSO WANT TO BE THE ONE 57:33.755 --> 57:37.474 THAT'S STILL DOING IT UNTIL THE PROJECT'S FINISHED. "NOW YOU 57:37.474 --> 57:40.835 SHOULD FINISH WHAT YOU STARTED," HE SAID. "LET THE EAGERNESS YOU 57:40.835 --> 57:45.605 SHOWED IN THE BEGINNING BE MATCHED NOW BY YOUR GIVING. GIVE 57:45.605 --> 57:50.974 IN PROPORTION TO WHAT YOU HAVE." IN OTHER WORDS, YOU KNOW, THIS 57:50.974 --> 57:54.545 IS VERY IMPORTANT. EVERYBODY HAS A DIFFERENT PART. SOME PEOPLE 57:54.545 --> 57:59.224 HAVE MORE WEALTH. SOME PEOPLE HAVE LOTS OF RESERVES. OTHERS 57:59.224 --> 58:03.724 ARE MAYBE PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK OR YOU'RE ON ASSISTANCE. BUT YOU 58:03.724 --> 58:07.505 KNOW, NO AMOUNT OF WEALTH SEEMING NATURAL WEALTH OR LACK 58:07.505 --> 58:10.355 THEREOF SHOULD EXEMPT ANY OF US FROM GIVING. YOU KNOW WHAT THE 58:10.355 --> 58:14.224 BIBLE SAYS THAT IF YOU GIVE, GOD WILL MAKE ALL GRACE ABOUND 58:14.224 --> 58:17.255 TOWARD YOU AND THAT YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE ALL SUFFICIENCY IN 58:17.255 --> 58:21.005 ALL THINGS. IF WE BELIEVE THAT VERSE, THEN EVEN IF WE HAVE A 58:21.005 --> 58:25.235 LITTLE, COME ON, THE WIDOW TAUGHT US THAT. THAT EVEN IF YOU 58:25.235 --> 58:28.054 HAVE A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, JESUS DIDN'T LOOK AT THAT LITTLE WIDOW 58:28.054 --> 58:30.514 AND GO, OH NO, YOU POOR LITTLE THING, PUT THAT BACK IN YOUR 58:30.514 --> 58:34.204 POCKET. THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT. JUST PUT IT BACK. HE DIDN'T SAY 58:34.204 --> 58:39.844 THAT. NO, BECAUSE JESUS KNOWS THE PRINCIPLES OF THAT EVEN IF 58:39.844 --> 58:42.905 YOU HAVE A LITTLE, THAT'S A PLACE TO START. IF YOU'RE EAGER 58:42.905 --> 58:46.324 WITH THAT LITTLE BIT AND YOU STEWARD OVER IT AND YOU COMMIT 58:46.324 --> 58:50.135 YOUR PART, LIKE PAUL SAID, TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD, GOD WILL 58:50.135 --> 58:55.414 EXPAND YOU TO THE NEXT LEVEL. MAKE IT YOUR MISSION. I ALWAYS 58:55.414 --> 58:58.085 MADE IT OUR MISSION. I SAID, YOU KNOW, WHEN PASTOR AND I, YOU 58:58.085 --> 59:01.715 KNOW, OUR STORY OF HOW WE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING STARTING OUT 59:01.715 --> 59:06.155 IN MINISTRY, BUT I MADE IT MY MISSION. I SAID, I AM NOT GOING 59:06.155 --> 59:12.875 TO LIVE FOREVER IN THE 20 BUCK A MONTH CLUB. YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER 59:12.875 --> 59:16.175 EARLY AS A YOUNG WOMAN, WHEN I WAS FIRST, WHICH WAS BEFORE WE 59:16.175 --> 59:19.085 EVEN GOT MARRIED, I WOULD GIVE THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH THAT WE 59:19.085 --> 59:23.224 WERE IN AT THAT TIME HAD A BUILDING PROJECT. AND I GAVE $20 59:23.224 --> 59:28.864 WHEN I, EVERY ONCE A MONTH. AND LIKE I COULD AFFORD AND YOU 59:28.864 --> 59:35.284 KNOW, $20 FOR A SINGLE YOUNG WOMAN BACK THEN IN 1987 IS, YOU 59:35.284 --> 59:38.795 KNOW, THAT WAS A SACRIFICIAL, AT LEAST I FELT IT WASN'T A LOT, 59:38.795 --> 59:42.125 BUT IT WAS ENOUGH. BUT I DECIDED I DON'T WANT TO BE FOREVER IN 59:42.125 --> 59:45.844 THE $20 A MONTH CLUB. SEE, MAKE IT YOUR MISSION TO BE EAGER, 59:45.844 --> 59:49.594 LIKE PAUL SAID, BECAUSE YOU ARE THEN OPENING YOURSELF FOR THE 59:49.594 --> 59:54.394 NEXT LAYER. COME ON, SOMEBODY. A BLESSING THAT GOD WANTS TO BRING 59:54.394 --> 59:59.704 YOU INTO. SO DON'T BE SATISFIED WITH WHERE YOU ARE. SO THIS WAS 59:59.704 --> 01:00:03.364 PAUL, AND THEN HE SAID THIS LAST PART, AND I'LL FINISH THIS. GIVE 01:00:03.364 --> 01:00:05.585 A PROPORTION TO WHAT YOU HAVE. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT OF 01:00:05.585 --> 01:00:12.275 THAT. AND WHATEVER YOU GIVE IS ACCEPTABLE IF YOU DO IT EAGERLY. 01:00:12.275 --> 01:00:15.485 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU'RE EXCITED AND YOU DO IT AND GIVE ACCORDING 01:00:15.485 --> 01:00:20.014 TO WHAT YOU HAVE, RIGHT? NOT WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE. LISTEN, IF 01:00:20.014 --> 01:00:23.045 WE ALL LOOKED AT WHAT WE DON'T HAVE, LISTEN, I WOULDN'T HAVE 01:00:23.045 --> 01:00:26.614 BUILT A BUILDING IF WE WERE BASING IT ON WHAT WE DON'T HAVE, 01:00:26.614 --> 01:00:32.860 YOU KNOW? AND PASTOR KEPT ADDING THINGS. QUICK BACKSTORY AND THEN 01:00:32.860 --> 01:00:36.295 WE'RE GONNA GIVE. WHEN WE DID THIS, THE SOUTH HALF OF THE 01:00:36.295 --> 01:00:38.786 BUILDING, SOME OF YOU WERE HERE LONG ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT 01:00:38.786 --> 01:00:43.764 BEFORE WE ADDRESSED THIS AREA DOWN THERE, WE WERE, HOW MANY OF 01:00:43.764 --> 01:00:46.346 YOU GO BACK FAR ENOUGH BEFORE ANY REMODEL HAPPENED ON THE 01:00:46.346 --> 01:00:50.335 OUTSIDE? AND IT LOOKED AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE PIZZA BUILDING 01:00:50.335 --> 01:00:58.405 BACK THEN. THAT WAS A JOKE. AND WE WERE GONNA HAVE THE ARCHITECT 01:00:58.405 --> 01:01:01.585 REPHASE A LITTLE SPACE ON THE FRONT. IT MIGHT'VE JUST BEEN AS 01:01:01.585 --> 01:01:07.556 WIDE AS THESE FRONT ROW CHAIRS HERE, JUST TO SPECIFY SO PEOPLE 01:01:07.556 --> 01:01:10.826 AT LEAST KNEW WHAT DOOR TO GO IN TO GO TO CHURCH. BECAUSE THESE 01:01:10.826 --> 01:01:13.255 WERE BAYS, YOU KNOW, ALL THE DOORS LOOKED THE SAME. WE 01:01:13.255 --> 01:01:16.376 LITERALLY WATCHED PEOPLE GO UP LOCKED, LOCKED, AND THEN ONE 01:01:16.376 --> 01:01:21.385 WOULD FINALLY OPEN. IT WAS THE ENTRANCE TO THE CHURCH. AND SO 01:01:21.385 --> 01:01:23.846 WE HAD THIS LITTLE SPACE ALL MARKED OUT. I THOUGHT, OKAY, WE 01:01:23.846 --> 01:01:29.126 CAN DO THAT. I THOUGHT, I'M GONNA GO ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 01:01:29.126 --> 01:01:30.326 WHERE THE THEATERS ARE. AND I THOUGHT, 01:01:30.326 --> 01:01:32.485 (IMITATES EXPLOSION) 01:01:32.485 --> 01:01:35.635 CHA-CHING. AND THEN HE GOES, AND I'M GONNA GO ALL THE WAY TO THE 01:01:35.635 --> 01:01:39.596 CORNER DOWN ON THE SOUTH SO AT LEAST THAT WHOLE SECTION WILL BE 01:01:39.596 --> 01:01:41.876 DONE. I THOUGHT, (IMITATES EXPLOSION) 01:01:41.876 --> 01:01:45.204 AND THEN HE GOES, KEEPS GOING IN EVERY MEETING. IT KEPT GROWING. 01:01:45.204 --> 01:01:48.025 AND THEN HE SAYS, YOU KNOW WHAT? IT WOULDN'T LOOK RIGHT. WE HAVE 01:01:48.025 --> 01:01:51.985 TO GO AROUND THE CORNER 'CAUSE IF WE DON'T GO AROUND THE 01:01:51.985 --> 01:01:55.045 CORNER, THE FRONT WILL LOOK GREAT AND PEOPLE COMING IN FROM 01:01:55.045 --> 01:01:58.525 THE SIDE WON'T KNOW HOW GOOD IT LOOKS. SO WE'RE GONNA GO AROUND 01:01:58.525 --> 01:02:02.244 THE CORNER. NOW HE'S DOING THE WHOLE SOUTH END. AND THEN HE 01:02:02.244 --> 01:02:05.335 SAID, "NO, WE GOTTA GO AROUND THAT BACK TOO, "BECAUSE IF WE 01:02:05.335 --> 01:02:08.036 DON'T GO AROUND THAT BACK, "THAT BUILDING IS DENTED BACK THERE 01:02:08.036 --> 01:02:11.666 AND IT LOOKS BAD." SO WE'RE GONNA GO AND PRETTY SOON THE 01:02:11.666 --> 01:02:16.974 WHOLE OUTSIDE WAS REDONE. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD DID IT. 01:02:16.974 --> 01:02:21.416 BECAUSE YOU DON'T GO BY WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE. SO HERE'S WHAT WE'VE 01:02:21.416 --> 01:02:26.965 RAISED. OUR GOAL IS $400,000. 50 OF THAT IS GOING TO LIVING WORD 01:02:26.965 --> 01:02:30.416 IN SPENCER. I DON'T KNOW WHEN THEIR CLOSING IS. IT'S THIS 01:02:30.416 --> 01:02:34.166 FALL. BUT WE WANTED TO PAY FOR THAT, 3 AND 1/2 ACRES, FOR 01:02:34.166 --> 01:02:40.974 $50,000 FOR THEM. AND THEN WE NEEDED $350,000 FOR THIS LINE OF 01:02:40.974 --> 01:02:45.925 CREDIT THAT WE'RE FINISHING OUT FROM THE BUILD HERE. AND SO WE 01:02:45.925 --> 01:02:53.306 RAISED $120,000 LAST WEEK. COME ON, GIVE GOD A HAND. WE ARE OVER 01:02:53.306 --> 01:02:59.815 A QUARTER OF A WAY FROM OUR GOAL. SO WE'RE GONNA GO ANOTHER 01:02:59.815 --> 01:03:03.505 ROUND THIS WEEK. HOW MANY OF YOU THINK WE'RE GONNA GET THERE? I 01:03:03.505 --> 01:03:08.454 ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE IT. AND WHAT A BLESSING FOR SPENCER THAT THEY 01:03:08.454 --> 01:03:12.175 CAN PAY CASH FOR THE PROPERTY. I MEAN, AND DON'T HAVE TO TAKE OUT 01:03:12.175 --> 01:03:15.146 A LOAN AND DO ALL THE INTEREST AND ALL THE JUNK THAT GOES WITH 01:03:15.146 --> 01:03:17.724 THAT. AND THAT'S ONE OF OUR THINGS. WE'RE GONNA GET THIS 01:03:17.724 --> 01:03:20.755 BUILDING PAID OFF. AND THEN WE'VE GOT OTHER PROJECTS. I TOLD 01:03:20.755 --> 01:03:24.235 YOU, PUT IT IN YOUR BRAIN, PLANT IT IN THERE. SAY, "BRAIN, DON'T 01:03:24.235 --> 01:03:27.565 FORGET." YOU'RE GONNA REMEMBER THERE ARE SOME THINGS YET TO 01:03:27.565 --> 01:03:32.244 COME, AND YOU ARE GONNA BE VERY EXCITED. ALL RIGHT, LET'S PUT 01:03:32.244 --> 01:03:36.744 THE GIVING INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN. EVERYBODY THAT'S GIVING, 01:03:36.744 --> 01:03:39.925 TO HELP WITH THE PROJECT, WE NEED TO GIVE INTO THE BUILDING 01:03:39.925 --> 01:03:43.434 FUND. OUR BUILDING FUND, THAT WAS THE AMOUNT THAT WAS LOWER 01:03:43.434 --> 01:03:46.735 AND IT'S WHY WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THAT, FOLKS. OUR 01:03:46.735 --> 01:03:50.396 BUILDING FUND IS THE REASON THAT WE'RE COMING TO YOU OVER THIS 01:03:50.396 --> 01:03:54.596 LINE OF CREDIT. IF IT WAS AT LAST YEAR'S PACE, THIS WOULD NOT 01:03:54.596 --> 01:03:57.655 EVEN BE AN ISSUE. SO WE JUST WANT TO BRING THAT UP. SO SEE 01:03:57.655 --> 01:03:59.695 RIGHT THERE WHERE IT SAYS BUILDING THE TABERNACLE. I'M 01:03:59.695 --> 01:04:04.585 ASKING YOU TODAY TO GIVE A SACRIFICIAL SEED INTO THE 01:04:04.585 --> 01:04:07.255 BUILDING PROJECT. NOW DON'T NEGATE YOUR TITHE. DON'T NEGATE 01:04:07.255 --> 01:04:09.775 YOUR GENERAL GIVING. IT'S NOT GOOD TO SHIFT FROM ONE FUND TO 01:04:09.775 --> 01:04:13.376 ANOTHER. THIS NEEDS TO BE AN ADDITION, BUT A SPECIAL BUILDING 01:04:13.376 --> 01:04:16.646 THE TABERNACLE OFFERING AND LET'S GET ALL OF THIS KNOCKED 01:04:16.646 --> 01:04:20.244 OUT. AND I, I'M BELIEVING WE ARE GOING TO GO INTO OPENING THE 01:04:20.244 --> 01:04:24.806 HEAVENS WITH AN ABSOLUTE SURPLUS IN THE BUILDING FUND. HOW MANY 01:04:24.806 --> 01:04:27.028 OF YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA? I THINK THAT'S A 01:04:27.028 --> 01:04:29.965 GREAT IDEA. ALL RIGHT, IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR GIVING READY, THOSE OF 01:04:29.965 --> 01:04:32.724 YOU THAT ALREADY GOT THAT SACRIFICIAL SEED, THOSE OF YOU 01:04:32.724 --> 01:04:36.204 ONLINE, YOU'VE GOT YOUR THUMB ON THE BUTTON. LET'S GET READY, 01:04:36.204 --> 01:04:39.505 LET'S STAND UP ON OUR FEET AND DO IT TOGETHER. WE'RE GONNA ALL 01:04:39.505 --> 01:04:44.786 GIVE US ONE BODY TODAY. THAT'S WHY I LIKE US TO STAND. AND IT'S 01:04:44.786 --> 01:04:48.326 ALSO A SYMBOL OF YOU TAKING A STAND AGAINST THE ENEMY, AGAINST 01:04:48.326 --> 01:04:54.445 ANY ATTACK IN YOUR OWN FINANCES. RIGHT? ALL RIGHT, HOLD YOUR 01:04:54.445 --> 01:04:58.014 PHONE UP OR YOUR DEVICE, THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, AND OF COURSE, 01:04:58.014 --> 01:05:01.014 EVERYONE WITH AN ENVELOPE, HOLD IT UP. THOSE OF YOU WITH MAIL, 01:05:01.014 --> 01:05:05.099 HOLD UP THAT MAIL ENVELOPE AND SAY THESE WORDS, SAY, LORD, I 01:05:05.099 --> 01:05:10.974 THANK YOU. AS I GIVE INTO THIS BUILDING PROJECT TODAY, AS I 01:05:10.974 --> 01:05:16.465 GIVE MY TITHE TODAY, AS I GIVE MY OFFERINGS TODAY, I THANK YOU, 01:05:16.465 --> 01:05:21.806 LORD, THAT YOU ARE INVESTING BACK INTO ME EVERY SCRIPTURE 01:05:21.806 --> 01:05:25.981 THAT THE WORD PROMISES CONCERNING MY GIVING. IT 01:05:25.981 --> 01:05:31.487 COMES TO PASS IN MY LIFE. I WORSHIP YOU AND I THANK YOU 01:05:31.487 --> 01:05:34.704 FOR IT. COME ON, IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME. ALL RIGHT, 01:05:34.704 --> 01:05:37.166 PASTOR MATT, LET'S DO OUR DECLARATION TOGETHER. 01:05:37.166 --> 01:05:40.405 - THANK YOU, PASTOR BRENDA, AMEN. LET'S DECREE THIS 01:05:40.405 --> 01:05:43.856 TOGETHER, CHURCH, AND ALSO BELIEVE SHIFT CHANGE COMES IN 01:05:43.856 --> 01:05:48.175 OUR LIVES, AMEN? AMEN, WE DECLARE THE CAMPUS AND MINISTRY 01:05:48.175 --> 01:05:51.775 OF LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH SHALL BE INCREASED, EXPANDED, AND 01:05:51.775 --> 01:05:56.576 DEBT-FREE. WE DECREE IT SHALL HAPPEN WITHOUT DELAY. WE SAY TO 01:05:56.576 --> 01:06:00.954 EVERY HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT, BE BUILT UP AND FINISHED. WE SAY 01:06:00.954 --> 01:06:04.525 THAT WE HAVE ALL THE FINANCES NEEDED, FOR THE LORD IS BUILDING 01:06:04.525 --> 01:06:09.356 THIS HOUSE. WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH, EXCESS AND OVERFLOW. 01:06:09.356 --> 01:06:12.925 LORD, YOU ARE PROVIDING SEED TO THE SOWER. WE CALL UPON YOU, 01:06:12.925 --> 01:06:16.900 LORD OF HOSTS, TO BRING FORTH HEAVENLY ASSISTANCE AND RAISE 01:06:16.900 --> 01:06:21.244 UP MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT SHALL GIVE ABUNDANTLY TO THIS 01:06:21.244 --> 01:06:24.911 WORK. WE PROPHESY THAT WE SHALL QUADRUPLE, QUADRUPLE, 01:06:24.911 --> 01:06:29.106 AND THEN WE WILL QUADRUPLE AGAIN. WE DECLARE NEW THINGS 01:06:29.106 --> 01:06:33.512 NOW. WE DECREE MINISTRY AND CAMPUS BE EXPANDED NOW. 01:06:33.512 --> 01:06:37.074 NOW LOOK AT SOMEBODY AND TELL THEM, YOU'RE COMING INTO A SHIFT 01:06:37.074 --> 01:06:40.748 CHANGE, AMEN? YOU ARE COMING INTO A SHIFT CHANGE, 01:06:40.748 --> 01:06:42.806 AMEN? AND LET'S WELCOME PASTOR HANK. 01:06:42.806 --> 01:06:47.905 - ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT, PASTOR MATT, AND 01:06:47.905 --> 01:06:51.536 GREAT JOB. ALL RIGHT, WELL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIVING. WOW, 01:06:51.536 --> 01:06:55.646 WE RAISED OVER $100,000. I THINK YOU OUGHTA, AND YOU THAT ARE 01:06:55.646 --> 01:06:58.565 WATCHING, I THINK YOU OUGHTA SAY YAY. 01:06:58.565 --> 01:07:02.222 - YAY. - AND THEN SAY THIS. WE'RE GONNA 01:07:02.255 --> 01:07:04.757 KNOCK THAT AMOUNT OUT. OKAY, LOOK AT 01:07:04.762 --> 01:07:07.885 SOMEBODY AND SAY, WE ARE GONNA GET IT DONE. AND THEN 01:07:07.885 --> 01:07:12.085 KINDA LOWER YOUR VOICE. WE'RE GONNA GET IT DONE. NOW, WOMEN, 01:07:12.085 --> 01:07:14.815 IF YOU DON'T WANNA DO THAT, HIGHER YOUR VOICE. AND I'M NOT 01:07:14.815 --> 01:07:18.326 GONNA IMITATE THAT ONE. THERE YOU GO. BUT WE'RE GONNA GET IT 01:07:18.326 --> 01:07:22.704 DONE. ALL RIGHT, WELL, HEY, I WANNA DO THIS BEFORE I PREACH. 01:07:22.704 --> 01:07:29.244 WE'RE GOING TO RECEIVE NEW MEMBERS INTO THIS FELLOWSHIP. 01:07:29.244 --> 01:07:32.666 AND SO I'M GONNA GIVE THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE. SO WE'LL 01:07:32.666 --> 01:07:35.126 LET THE USHERS CONTINUE TO SERVE. SO LET ME JUST MAKE A 01:07:35.126 --> 01:07:38.724 COUPLE ANNOUNCEMENTS REAL FAST AND WE'RE GONNA RECEIVE THEM IN. 01:07:38.724 --> 01:07:42.596 IF YOU DIDN'T SEE ME LAST TUESDAY ON FLASHPOINT, I TOLD 01:07:42.596 --> 01:07:45.385 YOU I'D BE THERE, I WAS HERE. BUT THEY HAD TECHNICAL 01:07:45.385 --> 01:07:51.385 DIFFICULTIES. AND I DON'T KNOW, OUR FEED WASN'T FEEDING. SO I 01:07:51.385 --> 01:07:55.615 DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS FASTING OR WHAT, BUT WE'LL WORK ON THAT. SO 01:07:55.615 --> 01:07:58.045 I WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT. AND THEN I DO WANNA MENTION, THOSE 01:07:58.045 --> 01:08:01.286 OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, I WILL NOT BE ON THIS WEEK. AND AS YOU 01:08:01.286 --> 01:08:05.454 SAID, I TALKED TO PASTOR GENE FOR ALMOST A COUPLE HOURS 01:08:05.454 --> 01:08:07.945 YESTERDAY, JUST TELLING HIM, YOU KNOW, HE'S IN AGREEMENT. I JUST 01:08:07.945 --> 01:08:12.235 NEED, I NEED A DAY OFF. I THINK THAT'S WHAT, I THINK HE DOES. I 01:08:12.235 --> 01:08:15.559 MEAN, YOU DO MORE THAN ME, BUT I NEED A DAY OFF. AND I DON'T MEAN 01:08:15.559 --> 01:08:18.595 TO BE LIKE THAT. AND THE SECOND THING IS I HAVE TO GET CAUGHT UP 01:08:18.595 --> 01:08:20.693 ON SOME OTHER THINGS THAT I FEEL LIKE I REALLY NEED TO DO. SO I'M 01:08:20.693 --> 01:08:23.036 NOT GONNA BE DOING MONDAYS. SO I'M GONNA HANG IN THERE WITH 01:08:23.036 --> 01:08:25.614 TUESDAYS, BUT I WON'T BE ON THIS WEEK 'CAUSE I ALREADY HAD SOME 01:08:25.614 --> 01:08:29.756 PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED STUFF. LIKE I SAID, I GOTTA HEAD TO THE 01:08:29.756 --> 01:08:32.996 CHICAGO AREA HERE IN JUST A LITTLE BIT, BUT I HAD SOME OTHER 01:08:32.996 --> 01:08:37.256 THINGS SCHEDULED. AND THEN AS WE HEAD INTO OTH AND THEN INTO 01:08:37.256 --> 01:08:40.525 OCTOBER, YOU KNOW, I MAY MISS A TUESDAY HERE AND THERE, BUT I 01:08:40.525 --> 01:08:43.315 TOLD GENE, "HEY, YOU KNOW, I CAN SHOW UP ON ANOTHER NIGHT IF I 01:08:43.315 --> 01:08:46.435 HAVE TO. WE'LL WORK IT ON." BUT I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE. SO I 01:08:46.435 --> 01:08:51.416 DON'T WANT YOU TO THINK THAT I'M GONNA STAY IN THERE, BUT IT MAY 01:08:51.416 --> 01:08:56.216 NOT BE AS REGULAR AS IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN JUST BECAUSE RIGHT NOW 01:08:56.216 --> 01:08:58.525 I FEEL LIKE I'M IN A SEASON WHERE I WANT TO BUILD SOME 01:08:58.525 --> 01:09:02.006 THINGS HERE. BUT GOD SPOKE TO ME ABOUT THE MIDTERMS. I CAN'T TELL 01:09:02.006 --> 01:09:05.305 YOU WHAT IT IS YET, BUT HE SAID AT THE RIGHT TIME, RELEASE IT. 01:09:05.305 --> 01:09:09.864 AND I TOLD GENE, PROBABLY AROUND THE FIRST YEAR, I'M GONNA HAVE 01:09:09.864 --> 01:09:13.256 TO HIT IT HARD AGAIN. WE GOTTA SHIFT THIS NATION AGAIN. AND WE 01:09:13.256 --> 01:09:16.796 CANNOT LET OUR COUNTRY LOSE ANY GROUND. SO I JUST WANT YOU TO 01:09:16.796 --> 01:09:19.166 KNOW THAT. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE IT'S AT. ALL RIGHT, THEN 01:09:19.166 --> 01:09:21.956 THE SECOND THING IS, BEFORE WE RECEIVE THE NEW MEMBERS IN, IF 01:09:21.956 --> 01:09:24.176 THEY COULD PUT A PICTURE UP OF MY BOY. I WANNA MAKE AN 01:09:24.176 --> 01:09:28.975 ANNOUNCEMENT. IT WAS LIKE A GUT PUNCH. JONATHAN WAS SCHEDULED TO 01:09:28.975 --> 01:09:32.725 FIGHT. THERE'S ALL OF HIS BELTS THAT HE HOLDS IN DIFFERENT 01:09:32.725 --> 01:09:36.805 CONFERENCES AND ALL OF HIS MEDALS. HE'S A WORLD CHAMP. HE 01:09:36.805 --> 01:09:41.275 WAS GONNA FIGHT ON THE OCTOBER 19TH CONTENDER SERIES WITH DANA 01:09:41.275 --> 01:09:46.645 WHITE AND ALL OF THAT. AND LAST WEEK HE WAS SPARRING, YOU KNOW, 01:09:46.645 --> 01:09:50.966 LIKE PRACTICING AND SOMETHING POPPED IN HIS RIB AND HE GOT 01:09:50.966 --> 01:09:57.114 INJURED. AND THEY SAID, "YOU CANNOT FIGHT." AND IT'S GONNA BE 01:09:57.114 --> 01:09:59.515 LIKE EIGHT WEEKS. I KNOW HE'S WATCHING RIGHT NOW, LIKE EIGHT 01:09:59.515 --> 01:10:04.195 WEEKS RECOVERY. THE UFC REACHED BACK OUT AND SAID, "JOHN, THIS 01:10:04.195 --> 01:10:09.775 IS, MAN, WE ARE GONNA STAND WITH YOU." NOW KEEP IN MIND, HE'S A 01:10:09.775 --> 01:10:12.716 TYPE ONE DIABETIC THAT WAS DIAGNOSED. HE WAS DIAGNOSED, I 01:10:12.716 --> 01:10:16.525 SHOULD SAY, AT THE AGE OF 10 AS A TYPE ONE DIABETIC. AND EVEN 01:10:16.525 --> 01:10:20.155 THE DIABETES ASSOCIATION IS SAYING, "THIS IS REMARKABLE WHAT 01:10:20.155 --> 01:10:24.265 THIS MAN IS DOING." THEY'RE BACKING HIM. SO I WANT YOU TO 01:10:24.265 --> 01:10:29.605 PUT UP THE OTHER GRAPHIC BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE WRITTEN AND THEY'VE 01:10:29.605 --> 01:10:32.275 ASKED HOW THEY CAN HELP JOHN WITH HIS RECOVERY. HE HAS TO 01:10:32.275 --> 01:10:35.246 TAKE CARE OF SOME OF THE RECOVERY STUFF. BRENDA AND I DO 01:10:35.246 --> 01:10:41.100 WHAT WE CAN, WE SPONSOR HIM, BUT EVERYBODY HAS THINGS THAT THEY 01:10:41.100 --> 01:10:45.105 WANNA DO. AND IF YOU WANNA JUST ENCOURAGE HIM, IT WAS HARD 01:10:45.105 --> 01:10:50.775 CALLING A KID WHO'S WORKED HIS TAIL OFF AND THEN HAS TO GO TO 01:10:50.775 --> 01:10:55.695 THE RING AND FIGHT WITH BLOOD SUGAR SOMETIMES AT 400. YOU KNOW 01:10:55.695 --> 01:11:00.166 HOW MUCH THAT HURTS IN YOUR BODY? MOST PEOPLE, YOUR BLOOD 01:11:00.166 --> 01:11:04.905 SUGAR, IF IT'S NORMAL, IS 70 TO 100, MAYBE A LITTLE ABOVE. 400, 01:11:04.905 --> 01:11:07.605 YOU START FEELING YOUR KIDNEYS, YOU START FEELING IN YOUR 01:11:07.605 --> 01:11:10.605 JOINTS, YOUR MUSCLES, AND HE FIGHTS THROUGH THAT. SO IF YOU'D 01:11:10.605 --> 01:11:14.956 LIKE TO HELP HIM, HE SAID HE WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL. THERE'S 01:11:14.956 --> 01:11:17.945 THE INFORMATION AND ANYTHING WOULD BE OF AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO 01:11:17.945 --> 01:11:21.076 HIM. IF YOU WANNA TUCK IN A LITTLE NOTE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU 01:11:21.076 --> 01:11:24.195 CAN DO IT THAT WAY, BUT YOU CAN GO OUT TO HIS SOCIAL MEDIA 01:11:24.195 --> 01:11:28.786 ACCOUNTS. BUT I TOLD JOHN, I ALWAYS KNOW THIS, THAT WHAT 01:11:28.786 --> 01:11:34.636 LOOKS LIKE A SETBACK IS A SETUP. AND WHAT I AM PRAYING FOR IS THE 01:11:34.636 --> 01:11:36.945 CONTENDER SERIES. AND JOHN, I DIDN'T TELL YOU THIS, I KNOW 01:11:36.945 --> 01:11:42.076 YOU'RE WATCHING. MAYBE THIS IS TACKY TO SAY THIS WORLDWIDE, BUT 01:11:42.076 --> 01:11:46.155 I'VE BEEN PRAYING FOR YOU. AND I FEEL LIKE THE CONTENDER SERIES 01:11:46.155 --> 01:11:49.845 WAS, IF YOU WIN RIGHT THEN AND THERE IN FRONT OF THE WORLD, 01:11:49.845 --> 01:11:52.695 THEY SIGN YOU RIGHT THERE TO THE UFC, WHICH WOULD BE LIKE THE 01:11:52.695 --> 01:11:58.546 NFL. IF YOU LOSE, YEAH, IT MAY BE A WHILE. I FEEL LIKE 01:11:58.546 --> 01:12:02.506 SOMETHING WITH HIS RIB WAS ALREADY FRAGILE. AND HAD HE GOT 01:12:02.506 --> 01:12:05.926 IN THE RING, IT MAY HAVE BEEN A DIFFERENT TURNOUT. AND I AM 01:12:05.926 --> 01:12:09.886 PRAYING THAT THE UFC BYPASSES ALL OF THAT AND JUST OFFERS HIM 01:12:09.886 --> 01:12:12.735 A CONTRACT AND SAYS, "COME ON, WE GOT AN OPPONENT FOR YOU." SO, 01:12:12.735 --> 01:12:16.216 YOU KNOW, THAT'S, AND JOHN, I JUST WANNA TAKE A MOMENT TO 01:12:16.216 --> 01:12:19.365 HONOR YOU. YOU'VE BEEN AN AMAZING MAN. I MEAN, WE ALWAYS 01:12:19.365 --> 01:12:22.546 SEE PASTOR MATT UP HERE AND SO ARE YOU, BUT I WANTED TO TAKE A 01:12:22.546 --> 01:12:26.775 MOMENT TO HONOR YOU. YOU WALK WITH GOD, WHO YOU ARE AS A SON, 01:12:26.775 --> 01:12:32.475 BUT ALSO AS A HUMAN BEING. AND WE'RE GONNA STAND WITH YOU. AND 01:12:32.475 --> 01:12:35.926 WE LOVE YOU, GOLDEN TIGER. ALL RIGHT, I'LL TALK WITH YOU SOON. 01:12:35.926 --> 01:12:40.006 OKAY, ALL RIGHT, I THINK THE OFFERING HAS BEEN RECEIVED. IF 01:12:40.006 --> 01:12:43.065 YOU WENT THROUGH THE NEW MEMBER CLASS, IF YOU WOULD BE SO KIND 01:12:43.065 --> 01:12:47.115 TO STAND UP, EXCUSE ME, AND COME FORWARD, WE WANNA RECEIVE YOU 01:12:47.115 --> 01:12:52.126 INTO OUR CHURCH FAMILY HERE. COME ON FORWARD AND JUST STAND 01:12:52.126 --> 01:12:56.567 RIGHT HERE. BY THE WAY, I REMEMBER YOU TOO. I 01:12:56.567 --> 01:12:59.059 REMEMBER WHEN YOU GOT SPIRIT-FILLED A FEW, 01:12:59.059 --> 01:13:01.395 WHAT WAS IT, A FEW WEEKS AGO? 01:13:01.395 --> 01:13:02.985 - PENTECOSTAL. 01:13:02.985 --> 01:13:07.305 - GOOD MEMORY. I MEAN, THAT IS LIKE, THAT IS A SPECIAL MOMENT 01:13:07.305 --> 01:13:10.725 WHEN YOU SAY PENTECOST SUNDAY. SO THAT IS REALLY, REALLY 01:13:10.725 --> 01:13:15.376 SPECIAL. AND I'VE JUST SEEN GOD'S TOUCH ON YOU. AND THANK 01:13:15.376 --> 01:13:18.345 YOU FOR BEING PART OF THE FAMILY. ARE YOU GUYS ENJOYING 01:13:18.345 --> 01:13:22.515 IT? I PRAY YOU ARE. GOOD. IT'S GREAT TO HAVE YOU AS WELL. WELL, 01:13:22.515 --> 01:13:25.463 WE ALWAYS LIKE TO PRAY. AND THE REASON I LIKE TO DO THIS IS I 01:13:25.463 --> 01:13:27.615 LIKE TO LAY MY HANDS ON YOU 'CAUSE I REALLY BELIEVE IN THE 01:13:27.615 --> 01:13:31.365 SCRIPTURE THAT TALKS ABOUT PSALM 133. I'M SURE YOU PROBABLY HAVE 01:13:31.365 --> 01:13:35.235 HEARD OF IT. HEY, THERE'S OUR FRIEND. GOD SPOKE TO YOU LAST 01:13:35.235 --> 01:13:39.555 WEEK. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD, I APPRECIATE THAT. YOU KNOW, 01:13:39.555 --> 01:13:42.496 THERE'S A PRINCIPLE WHERE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HOW GOOD AND HOW 01:13:42.496 --> 01:13:45.916 PLEASANT IT IS FOR BRETHREN TO DWELL TOGETHER IN UNITY. AND IT 01:13:45.916 --> 01:13:50.506 IS LIKE THE ANOINTING, THE POWER OF GOD THAT COMES DOWN UPON THE 01:13:50.506 --> 01:13:53.145 HEAD. WELL, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHO GOD CHOOSES. OBVIOUSLY THAT 01:13:53.145 --> 01:13:56.536 WOULD BE PASTOR BRENNAN AND I AND OUR LEADERSHIP HERE. BUT 01:13:56.536 --> 01:13:59.025 THEN IT COMES DOWN ON THE BEARD, WHICH IS LEADERSHIP, BUT THEN IT 01:13:59.025 --> 01:14:02.746 COMES DOWN ON THE BODY. AND I REALLY ALWAYS LIKE TO PRAY THAT 01:14:02.746 --> 01:14:06.796 WHATEVER GRACE THAT GOD HAS PUT ON THE MINISTRY WILL COME ON 01:14:06.796 --> 01:14:13.666 YOUR LIFE. ISN'T THAT AWESOME? SO THAT YOU CAN THRIVE. NOW WE 01:14:13.666 --> 01:14:18.761 RECEIVE YOU ALSO, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT, 01:14:18.761 --> 01:14:23.685 I'M AN E-MEMBER, I WANT TO BE PART OF THIS AS WELL. AND NOW 01:14:23.685 --> 01:14:27.706 HERE'S THE THING THAT I WANT TO DO IS I JUST WANT TO LET YOU 01:14:27.706 --> 01:14:29.985 KNOW THAT WE RECEIVE YOU IN. SO PASTOR BRENDA, DO YOU HAVE A 01:14:29.985 --> 01:14:31.815 MICROPHONE? - I DO. 01:14:31.815 --> 01:14:35.231 - OH, I WAS LIKE, I DON'T SEE IT LIKE THIS. YOU THREW ME 01:14:35.231 --> 01:14:37.041 OUT. COULD YOU PRAY OVER THE PRECIOUS PEOPLE THAT WE'RE 01:14:37.041 --> 01:14:38.744 GOING TO COME DOWN AND WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO LAY OUR HANDS 01:14:38.779 --> 01:14:40.815 ON YOU AND RECEIVE YOU INTO FELLOWSHIP. 01:14:40.815 --> 01:14:43.996 - THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE JOINING ONLINE AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 01:14:43.996 --> 01:14:47.685 IN THE ROOM, FATHER, WE PRAY FOR EVERY PERSON THAT IS COMMITTING 01:14:47.685 --> 01:14:51.225 THEMSELVES TO THIS MINISTRY THROUGH THEIR ACT OF SERVICE, 01:14:51.225 --> 01:14:54.136 THEIR COMMITMENT, THEIR DEDICATION TO JOIN THE CHURCH 01:14:54.136 --> 01:14:57.256 FAMILY. AND FATHER, WE JUST THANK YOU. LET THIS BE A NEW 01:14:57.256 --> 01:15:00.496 CHAPTER IN THEIR LIFE. I PRAY, FATHER, THAT THIS WILL BE A 01:15:00.496 --> 01:15:04.546 TURNING OF A PAGE. AN OLD SEASON IS GONE, IT'S PASSED AWAY. AND 01:15:04.546 --> 01:15:08.176 FATHER, WE PRAY AS WE RECEIVE THEM INTO THIS FELLOWSHIP IN 01:15:08.176 --> 01:15:11.235 HERE AND THOSE ONLINE, WE RECEIVE THEM INTO THIS 01:15:11.235 --> 01:15:15.645 FELLOWSHIP. AND FATHER, WE THANK YOU NOW THAT EACH ONE GROWS, 01:15:15.645 --> 01:15:19.546 THEY FLOURISH, THEIR GIFTS, THEIR TALENTS, THEIR ABILITIES 01:15:19.546 --> 01:15:23.416 WILL BE RIGHTED. IT'LL BE, IT'LL LOCK INTO PLACE. AND WE THANK 01:15:23.416 --> 01:15:26.565 YOU, LORD, THAT ALL THAT YOU HAVE CALLED THEM TO DO AND TO 01:15:26.565 --> 01:15:31.426 BECOME, IT SHALL MANIFEST POWERFULLY IN THEIR LIFE IN 01:15:31.426 --> 01:15:33.065 JESUS' MIGHTY NAME. - THANK YOU, LORD. 01:15:33.065 --> 01:15:34.533 - AMEN. AMEN. - AMEN. AMEN. 01:15:35.001 --> 01:15:37.368 - WELL, WE'RE GONNA COME DOWN THERE AND WE'RE GONNA 01:15:37.373 --> 01:15:39.555 RECEIVE YOU INTO FELLOWSHIP. BRENDA, YOU'RE GONNA GO TO THE 01:15:39.555 --> 01:15:41.445 LEFT. YOU KNOW, SHE IS LEFT-HANDED, SO WE'LL GO TO THE 01:15:41.445 --> 01:15:43.877 RIGHT. HOW MANY OF YOU, I JUST GOTTA ASK THIS. 01:15:43.909 --> 01:15:45.217 - THE STAIRS ARE SKINNIER ON THAT SIDE. 01:15:45.217 --> 01:15:47.716 - I GOTTA ASK THIS, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, HOW MANY OF 01:15:47.716 --> 01:15:49.905 YOU, YOU ARE HUSBAND AND WIFE, AND ONE OF YOU IS LEFT 01:15:49.905 --> 01:15:53.055 -HANDED, THE OTHER ONE'S RIGHT? AH, ISN'T THAT AMAZING? SO YOU 01:15:53.055 --> 01:15:55.576 HAVE TO, WHEN IT COMES TIME TO EAT, YOU HAVE TO BE ON THE 01:15:55.576 --> 01:15:58.365 OPPOSITE END 'CAUSE YOU HIT EACH OTHER. YOU EVER DO THAT? SEE, 01:15:58.365 --> 01:16:01.666 WE'RE NORMAL PEOPLE. SEE, ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, YOU READY? 01:16:01.666 --> 01:16:02.929 FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THESE TWO. 01:16:02.962 --> 01:16:05.449 - YES, LORD, THANK YOU, JESUS. - RELEASE THAT ANOINTING, WE 01:16:05.449 --> 01:16:07.333 RELEASE THAT GRACE, AND WE RECEIVE 01:16:07.333 --> 01:16:10.661 THEM INTO THIS FELLOWSHIP. MAN, WHEN I TOUCH YOU, 01:16:10.661 --> 01:16:12.614 I JUST HEARD THE HOLY SPIRIT JUST TELL ME TO TELL YOU, BE 01:16:12.614 --> 01:16:16.636 VERY OPEN, WHERE GOD WANTS TO HAVE YOU DO SOMETHING IN 01:16:16.636 --> 01:16:20.115 COMMUNITY EFFORTS, SOMETHING IN THE COMMUNITY THAT IS GONNA HAVE 01:16:20.115 --> 01:16:23.646 YOUR EFFORTS, YOUR HANDS, YOUR VOICE, THAT IS GONNA HELP SHIFT 01:16:23.646 --> 01:16:28.216 SOME THINGS, AND WRITE SOME THINGS IN OUR COMMUNITY. LORD, 01:16:28.216 --> 01:16:32.475 WE RELEASE THAT GRACE, WE RECEIVE THIS ONE INTO THIS 01:16:32.475 --> 01:16:35.775 FELLOWSHIP. AND I THANK YOU, LORD. MAN, KEEP HITTING THE 01:16:35.775 --> 01:16:38.685 STREETS, 'CAUSE THERE'S A GRACE ON YOU TO WIN A LOT OF PEOPLE 01:16:38.685 --> 01:16:42.945 FOR THE LORD. FATHER, WE RELEASE THE ANOINTING, THE GRACE THAT 01:16:42.945 --> 01:16:46.365 YOU HAVE PLACED UPON THIS HOUSE, IT STANDS UPON THIS ONE. 01:16:46.365 --> 01:16:53.655 OVERCOMES. LORD, THERE'S A PURSUING, A RECOVERING OF ALL. 01:16:53.655 --> 01:16:57.645 THINGS LOST, THINGS RETURNED. FATHER, I SEE THAT. AND I EVEN 01:16:57.645 --> 01:17:02.025 SPEAK REGARDING FAMILY. FATHER, IN THE NAME OF YESHUA, WE THANK 01:17:02.025 --> 01:17:07.155 YOU FOR THESE TWO, LEFT AND RIGHT, WORKING TOGETHER. FATHER, 01:17:07.155 --> 01:17:11.235 I BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE CALLED OF YOU. AND SO WE RELEASE THAT 01:17:11.235 --> 01:17:15.525 ANOINTING. WE RELEASE THE GRACE THAT IS UPON THIS HOUSE. FATHER, 01:17:15.525 --> 01:17:18.826 I REALLY BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE GONNA HELP TO BE PART OF A 01:17:18.826 --> 01:17:24.015 STRONG DISCIPLESHIP AND TRAINING AS A COUPLE, AND THEY'RE GONNA 01:17:24.015 --> 01:17:28.666 BE KNOWN FOR GOOD DOCTRINE. AND SO THEY'LL BE ABLE TO TEACH AND 01:17:28.666 --> 01:17:33.555 BE UNDER GOOD DISCIPLESHIP OF THIS HOUSE THAT WILL POSITION 01:17:33.555 --> 01:17:36.855 THEM FOR SUCH A THING. LORD, WE RELEASE THAT ANOINTING AND THAT 01:17:36.855 --> 01:17:45.525 GRACE IS UPON THIS HOUSE AND WE THANK YOU. WOW, WOW. I USUALLY 01:17:45.525 --> 01:17:48.376 DON'T MINISTER TO PEOPLE, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT IT'S LIKE 01:17:48.376 --> 01:17:50.326 THE WOMAN WITH THE ISSUE OF BLOOD. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE 01:17:50.326 --> 01:17:54.796 THERE'S NO ISSUES REGARDING YOUR BODY. GOD IS JUST ALIGNING 01:17:54.796 --> 01:17:59.206 SOMETHING OVER YOUR HEALTH AND OVER YOUR LIFE. THANK YOU, LORD. 01:17:59.206 --> 01:18:02.445 LORD, I RELEASE THAT ANOINTING, THE GRACE THAT IS UPON THIS 01:18:02.445 --> 01:18:07.036 HOUSE. WE RECEIVE THIS ONE INTO THIS FELLOWSHIP IN YESHUA'S 01:18:07.036 --> 01:18:11.265 NAME. YOU'VE ASKED, NOW YOU'RE GOING TO RECEIVE. YOU'RE IN A 01:18:11.265 --> 01:18:14.716 MOMENT OF RECEIVING. I CAN SEE THAT. LORD, WE RELEASE THAT 01:18:14.716 --> 01:18:19.515 ANOINTING. WE RECEIVE THIS ONE. WE RELEASE THAT GRACE. WE 01:18:19.515 --> 01:18:23.836 RECEIVE THEM INTO THIS FELLOWSHIP IN JESUS' NAME. I SAW 01:18:23.836 --> 01:18:27.826 THE LORD. THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. AND I JUST 01:18:27.826 --> 01:18:30.466 SEE PEOPLE TELLING YOU, NO, YOU'VE BEEN TELLING YOURSELF NO, 01:18:30.466 --> 01:18:34.485 BUT GOD SAYS THE ANSWER OVER YOU IS YES AND AMEN. AND SO YOU WILL 01:18:34.485 --> 01:18:38.326 SEE IT. AND SO IT WILL BE. NOW LORD, YOU ALREADY SPOKE. AND WE 01:18:38.326 --> 01:18:41.453 THANK YOU FOR THAT THING BEING SET IN MOTION. WE RELEASE THAT 01:18:41.453 --> 01:18:43.489 ANOINTING. WE RECEIVE THE GRACE. - YES, OH GOD. 01:18:43.622 --> 01:18:46.902 - WE RELEASE THAT GRACE, RECEIVE THEM INTO THIS FELLOWSHIP, INTO 01:18:46.905 --> 01:18:49.485 THIS HOUSE IN YESHUA'S NAME. - YES, LORD. 01:18:49.485 --> 01:18:52.636 - THANK YOU, LORD. THANK YOU, LORD. I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE 01:18:52.636 --> 01:18:56.025 LAST THING. I JUST SEE YOU LIKE WITH A MEMORY BOOK AND ALL THE 01:18:56.025 --> 01:19:00.826 THINGS THAT HAPPEN AND STUFF IS ALL GONNA BE A MEMORY BECAUSE 01:19:00.826 --> 01:19:05.206 THERE IS SUCH A NEW SEASON THAT YOU'RE ENTERING INTO AND A NEW 01:19:05.206 --> 01:19:09.286 CHAPTER BEING WRITTEN. LORD, I RELEASE THE ANOINTING. WE 01:19:09.286 --> 01:19:12.377 RELEASE THE GRACE. WE RECEIVE HIM INTO THIS HOUSE IN YESHUA'S 01:19:12.377 --> 01:19:15.615 NAME. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY HERE, THE BALM OF GILEAD IS JUST GOING 01:19:15.615 --> 01:19:20.235 OVER YOUR LIFE AND OVER YOUR BODY AND EVEN ALL TO YOUR FLESH. 01:19:20.235 --> 01:19:23.506 AND EVEN YOUR WORK OF YOUR HANDS ARE GONNA GO TO ANOTHER LEVEL OF 01:19:23.506 --> 01:19:27.945 INCREASE AND PROSPERITY AS RESOURCES ARE GONNA FIND YOU. 01:19:29.086 --> 01:19:31.006 YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO GO LOOK FOR IT. THEY'RE GONNA FIND YOU. 01:19:31.006 --> 01:19:33.855 SO GOD SAYS, "GET READY, YOUR HANDS ARE GONNA BE BUSY IN 01:19:33.855 --> 01:19:35.985 YESHUA'S NAME." ALL RIGHT, WELL, LET'S STAND ON OUR FEET REAL 01:19:35.985 --> 01:19:39.615 QUICK. STRETCH. THANK YOU, GUYS. WE LOVE YOU. WE RECEIVE THEM. 01:19:39.615 --> 01:19:45.195 COME ON, THAT'S YOUR FAMILY. AMEN. AND ALSO, WE RELEASE THAT 01:19:45.195 --> 01:19:49.636 GRACE. YOU CAN GO BACK TO YOUR SEATS. WE RELEASE THE GRACE UPON 01:19:49.636 --> 01:19:52.576 EVERY E-MEMBER AND THOSE THAT ARE BEING RECEIVED INTO THIS 01:19:52.576 --> 01:19:56.722 HOUSE. MAY IT BE ALSO FOR YOU AND FOR YOUR HOUSE IN YESHUA'S 01:19:56.722 --> 01:20:01.155 NAME. AMEN. PASTOR DOJI, THAT'S A PASTOR FRIEND OF YOURS THERE, 01:20:01.155 --> 01:20:06.706 RIGHT? I JUST SAW AS I WAS WALKING BY, THERE IS A MIRACLE. 01:20:06.706 --> 01:20:10.265 WHEN I'M TELLING YOU A MIRACLE COMING REGARDING A FACILITY, 01:20:11.865 --> 01:20:15.551 DON'T GET COMFORTABLE, DON'T GET COMFORTABLE, 'CAUSE THERE'S 01:20:15.551 --> 01:20:20.055 SOMETHING I SEE OF A BUILDING, A FACILITY THAT IS BIGGER THAN 01:20:20.055 --> 01:20:23.716 WHAT YOU HAVE, WHAT YOU'VE KNOWN. THERE IS AN EXPANSION AND 01:20:23.716 --> 01:20:28.155 A GROWTH. YOU'VE BEEN ABOUT A FEW, BUT NOW GOD SAYS YOU'RE 01:20:28.155 --> 01:20:32.055 GONNA BE ABOUT MANY, MANY, MANY, MANY ARE COMING TO YOU. GREAT 01:20:32.055 --> 01:20:37.246 NUMBERS, EXPANSION, MINISTRY, DISCIPLESHIP, TRAINING, 01:20:37.246 --> 01:20:40.876 SCHOOLING, ALL OF THIS IS ABOUT TO COME. AND SO THERE'S 01:20:40.876 --> 01:20:43.065 SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. THERE'S EVEN A FAVOR 01:20:43.065 --> 01:20:46.725 THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WITH THE CITY, THE ADMINISTRATION, THE 01:20:46.725 --> 01:20:51.015 GOVERNMENT, WHERE THIS FACILITY IS GONNA COME, AND IT'S GONNA BE 01:20:51.015 --> 01:20:54.902 MIRACULOUS. SO GET READY. THE LORD SAYS, "START THINKING 01:20:54.902 --> 01:20:58.021 BIGGER, "START PRAYING BIGGER, AND GET YOUR EYES AND START 01:20:58.021 --> 01:21:00.752 LOOKING," 'CAUSE I'M GONNA SHOW WHAT I HAVE. IT'S GONNA BE 01:21:00.752 --> 01:21:04.247 REVEALED. IT'S GONNA HAPPEN QUICKLY. AMEN. ALL RIGHT, WELL, 01:21:04.247 --> 01:21:09.091 YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND BE SEATED. I WANNA TALK TO YOU TODAY. OPEN 01:21:09.091 --> 01:21:14.280 YOUR BIBLES, PLEASE, TO ISAIAH CHAPTER, WHAT IS THAT, MY 01:21:14.280 --> 01:21:18.122 GLASSES. I WAS TRYING CONTEXT, ISAIAH 42, I WAS TRYING CONTEXT 01:21:18.122 --> 01:21:21.091 TO READ AND THE ONES THAT THEY GAVE ME, I JUST DON'T THINK 01:21:21.091 --> 01:21:24.002 THEY'RE STRONG ENOUGH. SO I'M LIKE, I THINK I'M GONNA, LIKE, 01:21:24.002 --> 01:21:27.061 FOR THE FOURTH TIME, NOT DO IT. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE CONTEXT TO 01:21:27.061 --> 01:21:31.981 READ? YOU EVER NOTICE THAT IT MIGHT BE, BUT THEN IT'S LIKE 01:21:31.981 --> 01:21:34.171 WHEN YOU TRY TO LOOK OUT, IT MIGHT BE BLURRY. HAVE YOU HAD 01:21:34.171 --> 01:21:37.712 THAT YET? I'M LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T LIKE IT. SO I'M 01:21:37.712 --> 01:21:41.462 BELIEVING FOR MY EYES. WOULD YOU BELIEVE FOR MY EYES? LISTEN, YOU 01:21:41.462 --> 01:21:44.490 CAN SEE HOW GOOD MY EYES ARE. LOOK AT MY WIFE, MAN. I MEAN, 01:21:44.490 --> 01:21:50.101 DID YOU SEE WHAT, I WAS ABLE TO FIND THAT FOXY MAMA, AND IT 01:21:50.101 --> 01:21:55.740 TAKES SOME GOOD EYES TO LOCATE THAT GIRL. BRENDA, YOUR NICKNAME 01:21:55.740 --> 01:22:02.072 IS SURE FINE. ALL RIGHT, LOOK AT ISAIAH 42. NOW, WE ARE IN A TIME 01:22:02.072 --> 01:22:07.712 OF A, I WANT YOU TO SAY IT, SHIFT, CHANGE. NOW, THIS IS NOT 01:22:07.712 --> 01:22:11.220 PUNISHMENT. THE ONLY WAY IT BECOMES PUNISHMENT IS IF YOU 01:22:11.220 --> 01:22:14.942 DON'T OBEY IT, OKAY? YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE 01:22:14.942 --> 01:22:18.180 BIT ABOUT MINDSETS. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE GOTTA GET OUT OF 01:22:18.180 --> 01:22:23.402 MINDSETS, BUT REALLY WHAT I CALL MINE-SETS, M-I-N-E, MINE-SET. 01:22:23.402 --> 01:22:27.841 IT'S UP TO ME. I AM GOING TO DETERMINE IT. NOW, IF YOU ARE A 01:22:27.841 --> 01:22:34.351 PERSON THAT IS BOUND BY SOCIAL MEDIA, 'CAUSE THERE'S PEOPLE, A 01:22:34.351 --> 01:22:38.161 LOT OF TIMES, SOCIAL MEDIA IS ALL ABOUT YOU. YOU GOTTA BE 01:22:38.161 --> 01:22:45.811 CAREFUL, BECAUSE YOU MAY NOT SHIFT. IF YOU'RE ALL ABOUT YOUR 01:22:45.811 --> 01:22:53.101 CAREER, YOU MAY NOT SHIFT. IF YOU'RE ALL ABOUT YOUR TIME, YOUR 01:22:53.101 --> 01:22:59.220 RECREATION, WHAT YOU WANNA DO, YOU MAY NOT SHIFT. AND SO, IT 01:22:59.220 --> 01:23:02.011 REALLY ISN'T, IT'S NOT THAT GOD'S TORTURING US OR WHIPPING 01:23:02.011 --> 01:23:06.572 US, RIGHT? IT'S JUST THAT HE'S TRYING TO SAY, LOOK, IF YOU WILL 01:23:06.572 --> 01:23:11.068 GIVE ME YOUR WILL, IF YOU WILL OBEY WHATEVER IT IS THAT THE 01:23:11.068 --> 01:23:15.152 LORD'S ASKING YOU, THEN YOU WILL MAKE A SHIFT THAT WILL ACTUALLY 01:23:15.152 --> 01:23:19.381 BRING YOU INTO ADVANCEMENT. OKAY, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THIS. 01:23:19.381 --> 01:23:23.341 SO, IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 42, GOD MAKES IT VERY CLEAR. HE SAYS, 01:23:23.341 --> 01:23:26.011 BEHOLD, IN OTHER WORDS, PAY ATTENTION. REMEMBER, WE'RE IN 01:23:26.011 --> 01:23:31.502 5786. THAT'S THE HEBREW YEAR. IT'S THE CALENDAR YEAR. IT'S THE 01:23:31.502 --> 01:23:34.140 HEBREW HEY, WHICH MEANS PAY ATTENTION. ALL RIGHT, LOOK AT 01:23:34.140 --> 01:23:37.832 YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY, THAT MEANS ME. 01:23:40.771 --> 01:23:44.551 ANYWAY, BUT PAY ATTENTION. HEY, EVERYBODY SAY HEY. 01:23:45.542 --> 01:23:48.421 - WELL, WHAT IS GOD TRYING TO TELL US TO PAY ATTENTION TO? 01:23:48.421 --> 01:23:51.601 LOOK AT ISAIAH 42:9. "BEHOLD, FORMER THINGS ARE COMING TO 01:23:51.601 --> 01:23:54.212 PASS." IN OTHER WORDS, THERE'S A SHIFT CHANGE, JUST LIKE AT A 01:23:54.212 --> 01:23:59.521 JOB. THERE'S A TIME WHEN MAYBE THE FIRST SHIFT WORK, THAT TIME 01:23:59.521 --> 01:24:04.921 FRAME IS ALREADY OVER, IT'S COMPLETE. NOW A NEW SHIFT COMES. 01:24:04.921 --> 01:24:07.021 HOW MANY OF YOU EVER BEEN PART IN THE WORKFORCE OF A SHIFT 01:24:07.021 --> 01:24:10.561 CHANGE, RIGHT? OR YOU WERE PART OF THAT? IT'S AN END OF ONE 01:24:10.561 --> 01:24:15.572 TIME, ONE SEASON, TO NOW SOMETHING NEW, A NEW SEASON. SO 01:24:15.572 --> 01:24:19.051 OLD THINGS COME TO PASS, AND THE MORE YOU HOLD ON TO YOUR PAST, 01:24:19.051 --> 01:24:23.161 OR EVEN YOUR PRESENT MOMENT, YOU MAY NOT SHIFT. YOU GOTTA BE 01:24:23.161 --> 01:24:26.731 WILLING TO SAY, GOD, WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU WANT FOR ME TO GIVE 01:24:26.731 --> 01:24:30.841 UP, I'LL DO IT. SO THE FORMER THINGS ARE COME TO PASS. THERE 01:24:30.841 --> 01:24:35.970 IS AN END TO IT. AND A NEW THING I DECLARE. NOW THAT'S THE SHIFT. 01:24:35.970 --> 01:24:39.601 NOW GOD'S TRYING TO TELL US, BECAUSE SEPTEMBER 22ND OF THIS 01:24:39.601 --> 01:24:43.201 YEAR, WE ENTER INTO THE BEGINNING OF THE JEWISH NEW 01:24:43.201 --> 01:24:45.601 YEAR. THAT'S HOW GOD LOOKS AT THINGS THROUGH EVENTS, BUT HE 01:24:45.601 --> 01:24:49.411 DOES HONOR CERTAIN THINGS ON THE CALENDAR SO THAT HE CAN TAKE 01:24:49.411 --> 01:24:53.161 THESE EVENTS AND GIVE US A GOOD INDICATION OF WHAT HE WANTS TO 01:24:53.161 --> 01:25:01.561 DO. WELL, 5786, THIS NEW YEAR, 2026, IS ABOUT A LINE IN THE 01:25:01.561 --> 01:25:04.771 SAND. THAT'S REALLY WHAT THE HEBREW MEANS, WHERE GOD'S 01:25:04.771 --> 01:25:07.832 DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND, BUT SO DO YOU, SO THAT YOU CAN COME 01:25:07.832 --> 01:25:12.180 INTO THE GREATEST THINGS THAT GOD HAS FOR YOU. YOU KNOW, WHEN 01:25:12.180 --> 01:25:16.381 I WAS TALKING WITH JOHN ON THE PHONE, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO 01:25:16.381 --> 01:25:18.780 GIVE HIM A LITTLE SPACE. I SAID TO HIM, I SAID, JOHN, THERE'S 01:25:18.780 --> 01:25:21.902 TWO PRINCIPLES THAT I'VE LEARNED IN MY LIFE. AND THIS IS 01:25:21.902 --> 01:25:25.530 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SINCE THE ELECTION TO SAY 01:25:25.530 --> 01:25:28.292 THAT THINGS HAS BEEN EASY FOR THIS VESSEL, OH MY GOSH, YOU 01:25:28.292 --> 01:25:30.841 KNOW, I'VE HAD TO, WHEW, WE'VE HAD TO GET THE PRAYER TEAM 01:25:30.841 --> 01:25:34.261 FASTING AND PRAYING, IT'S JUST BEEN, THERE'S BEEN AN INTENSITY 01:25:34.261 --> 01:25:37.470 OF THINGS. AND IT'S ALL GOOD, BUT I'VE LEARNED SOMETHING, TWO 01:25:37.470 --> 01:25:42.390 PRINCIPLES, NUMBER ONE, THE CHARACTER OF GOD. IF GOD SAYS 01:25:42.390 --> 01:25:46.292 ABOUT HIMSELF THAT HE IS A GOD THAT DOESN'T LIE, HE SAID, "LET 01:25:46.292 --> 01:25:50.131 GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN A LIAR," THAT MEANS WHATEVER GOD 01:25:50.131 --> 01:25:55.530 SAYS IN HIS WORD, YOU CAN BANK ON IT. WHAT GOD HAS SAID ABOUT 01:25:55.530 --> 01:25:58.890 HIS CHARACTER, YOU CAN BANK ON IT. SO I TOLD JOHN, I SAID, 01:25:58.890 --> 01:26:01.832 "JOHN, THE KEY IS "IS THE CHARACTER OF GOD." HE SAYS, "I'M 01:26:01.832 --> 01:26:05.042 THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY AND FOREVER." SO IMAGINE THIS FOR A 01:26:05.042 --> 01:26:08.942 MOMENT. CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING MOSES? AND HERE YOU ARE, THIS 01:26:08.942 --> 01:26:13.712 GUY THAT IS GIVING EVERY KIND OF EXCUSE UNDER THE SUN. I CAN'T, I 01:26:13.712 --> 01:26:17.942 WON'T, I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH, I'M NOT QUALIFIED, I DON'T SPEAK 01:26:17.942 --> 01:26:22.832 RIGHT, I DON'T DO THIS RIGHT, I CAN'T. REMEMBER MOSES? AND THEN 01:26:22.832 --> 01:26:25.680 GOD FINALLY GETS HIM AND TELLS HIM, TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES, COME 01:26:25.680 --> 01:26:29.372 ON, THAT'S AN OLD SEASON. TAKE OFF THOSE SHOES. IT'S NOT ABOUT 01:26:29.372 --> 01:26:32.402 YOU, MOSES, IT'S NOT ABOUT YOUR WALK, IT'S NOT ABOUT YOUR FLESH, 01:26:32.402 --> 01:26:35.731 IT'S NOT ABOUT YOUR WAYS, IT'S NOT ABOUT YOUR TIMING, MOSES, 01:26:35.731 --> 01:26:40.351 IT'S ABOUT ME. NOW TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF, AND I'M GONNA SHIFT 01:26:40.351 --> 01:26:44.101 YOU. AND THEN HE TELLS HIM, HE SAYS, HEY, TAKE THAT STICK AND 01:26:44.101 --> 01:26:48.962 THROW IT DOWN, BECAUSE THE SHIFT THAT I'M ASKING YOU DOESN'T COME 01:26:48.962 --> 01:26:54.572 WITHOUT THIS PRINCIPLE, SUPERNATURAL ENABLEMENT. WHEN 01:26:54.572 --> 01:27:00.122 GOD SHIFTS YOU, GET READY, THE SUPERNATURAL IS GOING TO EXCEL 01:27:00.122 --> 01:27:06.271 YOUR NATURAL. AND GOD SAID TO HIM, HE SAID, "AND HERE'S WHAT 01:27:06.271 --> 01:27:14.220 I'M GONNA DO. "WHEN YOU GO, YOU TELL THEM I AM SENT YOU." AND I 01:27:14.220 --> 01:27:16.890 SAID TO GOD THE OTHER DAY, I WAS OUTSIDE, I WENT OUTSIDE TO PRAY, 01:27:16.890 --> 01:27:21.421 THE STARS WERE BEAUTIFUL. I SAID, "GOD, LISTEN TO ME." I 01:27:21.421 --> 01:27:26.640 SAID, "I STAND IN THIS MOMENT OF THE AWE AND THE WONDER "OF WHAT 01:27:26.640 --> 01:27:32.011 MY EYES SEE AS I LOOK AT YOUR PLANETS, "YOUR STARS, GOD, OF 01:27:32.011 --> 01:27:35.582 ANYTHING THAT YOU COULD SAY TO MAN. "WHEN YOU CAME AND YOU 01:27:35.582 --> 01:27:40.351 INTRODUCED YOURSELF, "YOU SAID, 'I AM.' "I SAID, 'GOD, I TREMBLE 01:27:40.351 --> 01:27:45.990 IN THE HONOR OF THAT.' "THAT MEANS I AM GONNA HELP YOU. "I AM 01:27:45.990 --> 01:27:49.561 GONNA HEAL YOU IF YOU NEED HEALING. "I AM GONNA PROVIDE FOR 01:27:49.561 --> 01:27:53.462 YOU IF YOU NEED PROVISION. "I AM GONNA LEAD YOU IN THE WAY AND I 01:27:53.462 --> 01:27:58.411 WON'T LET YOU DROWN. "I AM GONNA STAND WITH YOU AND I'M GONNA 01:27:58.411 --> 01:28:02.012 HELP YOU." I SAID, "WHAT A NAME." COME ON, JUST TELL HIM 01:28:02.012 --> 01:28:08.462 THAT. I AM. OH, GOD, WE WORSHIP AND HONOR YOU. I SAID, "THAT IS 01:28:08.462 --> 01:28:12.481 SO AMAZING TO ME." I SAID, "I KINDA LIKE THAT NAME." BUT I 01:28:12.481 --> 01:28:18.841 SAID, "BUT GOD, WHEN YOU CAME "AND YOU WALKED PAST MOSES, YOU 01:28:18.841 --> 01:28:22.381 INTRODUCED YOURSELF," AND THIS IS WHAT I WAS SHARING WITH JOHN. 01:28:22.381 --> 01:28:26.042 "YOU SAID, 'I AM THE LORD GOD. "'I AM,' THAT'S HIS NAME AGAIN, 01:28:26.042 --> 01:28:31.442 "'I AM THE LORD GOD. "'AND I AM FULL OF SUCH GOODNESS, ABSOLUTE 01:28:31.442 --> 01:28:35.521 GOODNESS. "'YOU CAN'T FIND ANY BAD IN ME. "'AND I'M FULL OF 01:28:35.521 --> 01:28:40.322 MERCY, LOVING KINDNESS, AND TRUTH.'" SO NO MATTER WHAT 01:28:40.322 --> 01:28:43.292 YOU'RE FACING OR YOU THINK IS SO DIFFICULT IN YOUR LIFE AND YOU 01:28:43.292 --> 01:28:48.542 THAT ARE WATCHING, FIRST OF ALL, YOU HAVE I AM. I AM WHAT? 01:28:48.542 --> 01:28:53.311 EVERYTHING YOU NEED. I AM ABLE TO DO IT. I'M CAPABLE OF DOING 01:28:53.311 --> 01:28:58.112 IT. AND I AM WITH YOU. BUT HERE'S WHAT'S EVEN MORE POWERFUL 01:28:58.112 --> 01:29:03.962 ABOUT THAT. WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THE CHARACTER GOD, YOU CAN REST. 01:29:03.962 --> 01:29:06.878 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN FEAR. BUT THEN THE SECOND PRINCIPLE I 01:29:06.878 --> 01:29:10.451 TOLD THEM IS THIS, EPHESIANS 3:20. WHENEVER GOD DOES 01:29:10.451 --> 01:29:13.442 SOMETHING WITH YOU, AND IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE TO GIVE UP 01:29:13.442 --> 01:29:16.951 SOMETHING OR SOMETHING HAPPENED OR SOMETHING ISN'T WORKING OUT 01:29:16.951 --> 01:29:19.652 OR HOW MUCH LONGER, COME ON, HOW MANY OF YOU EVER PRAYED THOSE 01:29:19.652 --> 01:29:22.261 PRAYERS? GOD, HOW MUCH LONGER? MAN, I USED TO DO THAT OVER THIS 01:29:22.261 --> 01:29:27.012 BUILDING. HOW MUCH LONGER? I'M TIRED OF AN UGLY BUILDING. AND 01:29:27.012 --> 01:29:29.521 THEN ONE TIME GOD TOLD ME ABOUT THE MANGER AND HOW THAT WAS 01:29:29.521 --> 01:29:32.671 UGLY. AND ONE TIME I TOLD HIM, I TOLD YOU THIS LAST WEEK, I SAID, 01:29:32.671 --> 01:29:36.725 "LORD, I DON'T WANNA HEAR THAT STORY AGAIN." I TOLD HIM, I 01:29:36.725 --> 01:29:39.152 SAID, "YOU KNOW, LORD, SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE GET OLD, THEY START 01:29:39.152 --> 01:29:43.917 REPEATING STORIES." (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:29:44.042 --> 01:29:46.868 HE SAID, NO, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HE SAID TO ME, HE SAID, 01:29:46.868 --> 01:29:49.606 NO, YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID TO ME, HE GOES, "NOW, THAT IS FUNNY, 01:29:49.606 --> 01:29:53.130 BUT IT'S NOT TRUE." I SAID, "OKAY, THEN I'LL TAKE YOU UP ON 01:29:53.130 --> 01:29:55.981 IT. IT'S NOT TRUE ABOUT YOU, BUT IT'S TRUE ABOUT PEOPLE IN THE 01:29:55.981 --> 01:29:58.951 EARTH." ANYWAY, SO HE DID LIKE IT. HE THOUGHT THAT WAS KIND OF 01:29:58.951 --> 01:30:01.680 FUNNY. BUT YOU KNOW, AND I WAS BEING HONEST WITH HIM, AND I 01:30:01.680 --> 01:30:03.902 SAID, YOU KNOW, DON'T TELL ME THAT STORY, I DON'T WANNA HEAR 01:30:03.902 --> 01:30:08.881 IT. IT'S NOT RELEVANT FOR MY PRESENT NEED. BUT EPHESIANS 3:20 01:30:08.881 --> 01:30:13.530 IS SOMETHING THAT I'VE LEARNED IS THIS. GOD DOES EXCEEDINGLY, 01:30:14.582 --> 01:30:20.192 ABUNDANTLY, BEYOND WHAT YOU COULD ASK OR THINK IF HE'S GOING 01:30:20.192 --> 01:30:25.740 TO SHIFT YOU. RIGHT, AND I TOLD YOU THE PRINCIPLE OF HEBREWS 10, 01:30:25.740 --> 01:30:28.712 THAT WHEN IT CAME TO THE COVENANTS, GOD TAKES AWAY THE 01:30:28.712 --> 01:30:35.851 OLD, NOT TO TORTURE YOU, BUT TO BLESS YOU. AND IF HE'S GONNA 01:30:35.851 --> 01:30:38.911 BLESS YOU IN THE SHIFT CHANGE, IT'S GONNA BE ACCORDING TO 01:30:38.911 --> 01:30:44.011 EPHESIANS 3:20, IT'S GONNA BE EXCEEDINGLY, IT'S GONNA BE 01:30:44.011 --> 01:30:47.822 ABUNDANT, AND IT'S GONNA BE ON WHAT YOU COULD ASK OR THINK. 01:30:47.822 --> 01:30:52.051 IT'S GONNA BE GREAT. I DIDN'T REALIZE IT. I MEAN, LOOK AT THIS 01:30:52.051 --> 01:30:55.862 PLACE. THIS IS GOD'S HOUSE. I MEAN, IF I COULD HAVE SEEN, SAW 01:30:55.862 --> 01:30:58.231 THIS, SEEN THIS, WHATEVER THE CORRECT ENGLISH IS, DON'T 01:30:58.231 --> 01:31:00.661 CORRECT ME. I DON'T KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS, SO YOU FIGURE IT OUT. 01:31:02.532 --> 01:31:06.492 IF THIS WAS REVEALED TO ME, I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOT 01:31:06.492 --> 01:31:09.942 MORE, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW, BRENDA, YOU WERE WITH ME 01:31:09.942 --> 01:31:11.140 IN THE JOURNEY. I THINK I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN A 01:31:11.140 --> 01:31:15.221 LITTLE BIT MORE PATIENT, BUT I DIDN'T SEE IT. YOU UNDERSTAND? 01:31:15.221 --> 01:31:18.131 SO GOD IS TRYING TO GET US PREPARED FOR SOMETHING THAT IS 01:31:18.131 --> 01:31:21.612 REALLY, REALLY, REALLY GREAT IN THIS SHIFT CHANGE. I WANT YOU TO 01:31:21.612 --> 01:31:24.011 GO TO ROMANS 12 AGAIN. WE'RE GONNA PICK BACK UP AND I WANNA 01:31:24.011 --> 01:31:28.032 KINDA HIT SOME THINGS HERE. I GOTTA BE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME 01:31:28.032 --> 01:31:32.591 SENSITIVE TODAY 'CAUSE I HAVE A FLIGHT. BUT ROMANS 12, I DIDN'T 01:31:32.591 --> 01:31:35.771 WANNA MISS THE SERVICE, SO I WANTED TO BE HERE WITH YOU, SO I 01:31:35.771 --> 01:31:39.612 WORKED SOME THINGS OUT. SO ROMANS 12, LOOK HERE, IT SAYS, 01:31:39.612 --> 01:31:44.261 "I BESEECH YOU, THEREFORE, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD." SO IF YOU, 01:31:44.261 --> 01:31:48.462 HOW MANY OF YOU WANNA COME INTO THE ALIGNMENT THAT YOU FULFILL 01:31:48.462 --> 01:31:55.091 THE WILL OF GOD FOR YOUR LIFE? HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER FIELD 01:31:55.091 --> 01:31:57.311 DAY OR TRACK AND FIELD DAY? RAISE YOUR HAND, THOSE OF YOU 01:31:57.311 --> 01:32:04.362 THAT ARE WATCHING. AND THE MEDAL OR THE RIBBON THAT I HATED WAS 01:32:04.362 --> 01:32:09.402 THE HONORABLE MENTION OR PARTICIPATE. NOW, YOU'RE 01:32:09.402 --> 01:32:12.792 SUPPOSED TO BE A GOOD SPORT, RIGHT? BUT WHEN YOU KNOW YOU 01:32:12.792 --> 01:32:20.532 SUCK, YOU KNOW YOU SUCKED AT IT, IT'S LIKE, WHY DEGRADE THE KID? 01:32:20.532 --> 01:32:24.971 YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE SLOWEST TURTLE ON THE TRACK TEAM, RIGHT? 01:32:24.971 --> 01:32:27.072 YOU KNOW YOU'RE THE ONE THAT THEY HAD TO PUT AT THE END OF 01:32:27.072 --> 01:32:30.851 THE RELAY, THEY DIDN'T WANT YOU, BUT THEY GOTTA FULFILL THE FACT 01:32:30.851 --> 01:32:33.971 THAT, RIGHT? IT'S FIELD DAY, IT'S SIXTH GRADE, RIGHT? BRING 01:32:33.971 --> 01:32:40.301 THE TURTLE. GIVE YOU AN HONORABLE MENTION. I DON'T KNOW 01:32:40.301 --> 01:32:46.091 WHAT MY POINT IS. WHAT'S MY POINT? I WAS MAKING SUCH A GREAT 01:32:46.091 --> 01:32:52.992 POINT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE POINT WAS. HUH? I WAS ON ROMANS 01:32:52.992 --> 01:32:57.011 12, SO LET'S ROAM BACK THERE. MAYBE THEY'LL COME BACK TO ME. 01:32:57.011 --> 01:33:03.162 LORD, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THE POINT WAS. HMM, ANYWAY, JUST 01:33:03.162 --> 01:33:07.122 RECEIVE THAT, WHATEVER THAT WAS. YOU'RE WORTH MORE THAN HONORABLE 01:33:07.122 --> 01:33:11.112 MENTION. NOW, IT SAYS PRESENT YOUR, OH, THE GOOD, OKAY, THAT'S 01:33:11.112 --> 01:33:15.792 RIGHT. I KNOW WHAT IT IS, IT'S A GREAT POINT. SO HOW MANY OF YOU 01:33:15.792 --> 01:33:22.782 WOULD RATHER HAVE THE GOLD, THE SILVER, OR THE BRONZE? NOT THE 01:33:22.782 --> 01:33:29.141 HONORABLE MENTION CERTIFICATE, RIGHT? WELL, YOU WANT TO BE ABLE 01:33:29.141 --> 01:33:32.351 TO, WHEN IT COMES TO THE WILL OF GOD, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE OUT OF 01:33:32.351 --> 01:33:35.021 THE WILL OF GOD. YOU DON'T WANT THE LOW LEVEL. YOU WANT THE 01:33:35.021 --> 01:33:39.101 HIGHEST METAL POSSIBLE, RIGHT? YOU WANT THE PERFECT WILL OF 01:33:39.101 --> 01:33:42.131 GOD. I'M GONNA SHOW YOU HOW TO DO IT. YOU'VE GOT TO SHIFT IN 01:33:42.131 --> 01:33:46.511 YOUR MIND, BUT YOUR MIND. NOW NOTICE HOW TO DO IT. THEREFORE, 01:33:46.511 --> 01:33:49.601 BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, I PRESENT YOUR BODIES AS A LIVING 01:33:49.601 --> 01:33:53.021 SACRIFICE. SO THE FIRST THING IS, IS A LOT OF PEOPLE PUT 01:33:53.021 --> 01:33:56.652 ENERGY AND TIME INTO THEIR BODIES, SUPPLEMENTS, VITAMINS, 01:33:56.652 --> 01:34:00.192 EXERCISE. KEEP DOING IT, KEEP DOING IT. DO A LITTLE EXTRA FOR 01:34:00.192 --> 01:34:04.992 ME. AND HOPEFULLY GOD WILL GIVE ME CREDIT, YOU KNOW, WORK ON ME. 01:34:04.992 --> 01:34:08.171 BUT HERE'S THE POINT, DON'T BE A PERSON THAT YOU PUT ALL YOUR 01:34:08.171 --> 01:34:11.261 TIME AND ENERGY IN ALL OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU EAT YOUR 01:34:11.261 --> 01:34:14.442 SUPPLEMENTS, BUT YOU'RE NOT EATING THE WORD OF GOD. YOU CAN 01:34:14.442 --> 01:34:17.681 GET TO THE GYM EARLY IN THE MORNING AT SIX, BUT YOU CAN'T 01:34:17.681 --> 01:34:20.532 GET OUT OF BED TO PRAY. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:34:20.532 --> 01:34:25.091 'CAUSE YOU'RE TOO TIRED. YOU KNOW, THE OTHER MORNING I GOT UP 01:34:25.091 --> 01:34:28.452 AT LIKE 2.45 IN THE MORNING TO PRAY 'CAUSE I FELT GOD AND I 01:34:28.452 --> 01:34:31.421 FELT LIKE I WANTED TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH HIM. AND I WAS YAWNING 01:34:31.421 --> 01:34:33.612 A LITTLE BIT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I, SO I PUT, SOMETIMES I'LL PUT 01:34:33.612 --> 01:34:36.731 MY HAND ON MY HEAD LIKE THIS AND I'LL PUT PRESSURE ON IT SO THAT 01:34:36.731 --> 01:34:42.021 MY MIND, YOU KNOW, WILL SHUT OFF AND I DON'T LET IT WANDER AND I 01:34:42.021 --> 01:34:45.462 LET MY BODY BE REMINDED, MY BODY'S NOT IN CONTROL, NEITHER 01:34:45.462 --> 01:34:51.971 IS MY MIND. MY SPIRIT PRAYS. AND I'LL DO THIS SO I CAN FOCUS. AND 01:34:51.971 --> 01:34:54.282 I SAID, LORD, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT GONNA TELL YOU THAT I'M 01:34:54.282 --> 01:34:56.412 TIRED 'CAUSE I STARTED TO SAY IT TO HIM, MAN, GOD, I'M REALLY 01:34:56.412 --> 01:34:57.939 TIRED. MAYBE I SHOULD'VE STAYED IN BED. AND THEN I REMEMBERED 01:34:57.939 --> 01:35:00.582 HOW MANY TIMES JESUS GOT UP TO PRAY AT THAT HOUR. I THOUGHT I'D 01:35:00.582 --> 01:35:03.101 BETTER NOT EVEN GO THERE WITH THE FATHER. IT'S NOT EVEN AN 01:35:03.101 --> 01:35:08.801 ARGUMENT. BUT JUST WE HAVE TO ADJUST IN PUTTING ALL OF OUR 01:35:08.801 --> 01:35:14.652 ENERGY AND TIME INTO OUR BODY, OUR PHYSICAL ENERGY, THAT WE'RE 01:35:14.652 --> 01:35:19.721 TOO TIRED OR NOT INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL THINGS. IF YOU'RE LIKE 01:35:19.721 --> 01:35:23.261 THAT, YOU WON'T SHIFT. YOU WON'T SHIFT IN THE WILL OF GOD. NOW 01:35:23.261 --> 01:35:26.112 THE SECOND ONE IS THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND. WELL HOW DO YOU 01:35:26.112 --> 01:35:31.841 RENEW YOUR MIND? IT TELLS YOU, START LOOKING AT HOW THIS 01:35:31.841 --> 01:35:38.082 CULTURE, THIS WORLD IS TRYING TO SPEAK TO YOUR HEAD, SHAPE YOUR 01:35:38.082 --> 01:35:43.332 BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW, TALK YOU INTO THINGS THAT YOU PROBABLY 01:35:43.332 --> 01:35:48.761 DON'T NEED TO BE DOING. THE MORE YOU WANNA BE LIKE THE WORLD, BE 01:35:48.761 --> 01:35:53.652 AROUND THE WORLD, TALK LIKE THE WORLD, FRIENDS WITH THE WORLD, 01:35:53.652 --> 01:35:58.301 ACT LIKE THE WORLD, THE MORE IT WILL NOT ALIGN WITH THE PERFECT 01:35:58.301 --> 01:36:02.862 WILL OF GOD FOR YOUR LIFE. IN FACT, YOU MIGHT MISS IT. SO LOOK 01:36:02.862 --> 01:36:06.072 HERE, BECAUSE I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP. WE HAVE TO SHIFT IN OUR 01:36:06.072 --> 01:36:09.582 PHYSICAL ENERGY. WE HAVE TO SHIFT WHERE WE DON'T LET OUR 01:36:09.582 --> 01:36:13.601 HEAD TALK US OUT OF THINGS OR CONTROL US OR PULL US TO 01:36:13.601 --> 01:36:17.351 WORLDLINESS, BUT BE TRANSFORMED. YOU GOTTA RENEW YOUR MIND BY THE 01:36:17.351 --> 01:36:20.783 WORD OF GOD. BUT WATCH THIS, THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT IS THE 01:36:20.783 --> 01:36:26.351 GOOD, ACCEPTABLE, AND PERFECT WILL OF GOD. SO I'M AIMING FOR 01:36:26.351 --> 01:36:29.742 THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD. SO IT'S NOT THAT YOU DON'T EXERCISE, 01:36:29.742 --> 01:36:33.341 IT'S NOT THAT YOU DON'T USE YOUR BRAIN, IT JUST YOU HAVE TO BE 01:36:33.341 --> 01:36:38.322 FIRST ABOUT SPIRITUAL THINGS. YOU KNOW WHY A LOT OF MARRIAGES 01:36:38.322 --> 01:36:41.742 AREN'T SUCCESSFUL? BECAUSE EITHER THEY BASE IT OFF OF THEIR 01:36:41.742 --> 01:36:44.862 PHYSICAL INTIMACY, WHETHER IT'S ENOUGH, NOT ENOUGH, OR GOOD 01:36:44.862 --> 01:36:50.652 ENOUGH, RIGHT? OR THEY'RE EMOTIONAL, WE DON'T TALK ENOUGH, 01:36:50.652 --> 01:36:53.532 WE DON'T CONNECT, WE DON'T DO ANYTHING. YOU KNOW WHAT, IF 01:36:53.532 --> 01:36:55.662 THAT'S THE CASE, THEN BRENDA AND I WOULD HAVE A TERRIBLE 01:36:55.662 --> 01:36:58.421 MARRIAGE. WE DON'T, WE'RE THE MOST, TWO BORINGEST PEOPLE IN 01:36:58.421 --> 01:37:02.652 THE WORLD. BUT WHAT MAKES OUR MARRIAGE GREAT, SPIRIT, SOUL, 01:37:02.652 --> 01:37:06.641 AND BODY, IS WE HAVE UNDERSTOOD, EVEN WHEN I WAS, YOU KNOW, 01:37:06.641 --> 01:37:10.811 BEFORE I WAS DATING HER, AND THEN WHEN I STARTED COURTING HER 01:37:10.811 --> 01:37:14.442 IS WE WERE PRAYER PARTNERS FIRST. WE WERE IN THE BIBLE 01:37:14.442 --> 01:37:17.891 ALMOST EVERY DAY TOGETHER. WE WERE TALKING SCRIPTURES. BOB, 01:37:17.891 --> 01:37:20.652 YOU KNEW US. WHERE'S BOB PETTIGREW? OH, HE'S GONE, HE 01:37:20.652 --> 01:37:23.622 CAN'T EVEN ATTEST TO THIS. I MEAN, WHERE DID HE GO? THANKS, 01:37:23.622 --> 01:37:25.782 TASHA, YOU WERE THERE, YOU'RE MARRIED TO HIM. YEAH, IT'S TRUE, 01:37:25.782 --> 01:37:29.622 OKAY, THANKS. BUT THE POINT IS WE WERE PRAYER PARTNERS, MAN. 01:37:29.622 --> 01:37:33.640 AND THEN WHEN I STARTED COURTING HER, THAT DIDN'T CHANGE. BRENT 01:37:33.640 --> 01:37:37.362 AND I HAVE THIS SPIRITUAL CONNECTION BECAUSE THAT'S THE 01:37:37.362 --> 01:37:41.952 PRINCIPLE OF HOW YOU MAKE A SHIFT CHANGE IS YOU HAVE TO BE 01:37:41.952 --> 01:37:46.511 STRONG IN YOUR SPIRIT. YOU HAVE TO ALIGN YOUR SPIRIT WITH WHAT 01:37:46.511 --> 01:37:49.992 GOD IS TELLING YOU. THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS SPIRIT AND LIFE. 01:37:49.992 --> 01:37:53.261 YOU'VE GOTTA ALIGN YOURSELF SO THAT YOUR BODY DOESN'T TALK YOU 01:37:53.261 --> 01:37:57.341 OUT OF A SHIFT CHANGE. YOUR MIND DOESN'T TALK YOU OUT OF A SHIFT 01:37:57.341 --> 01:38:02.051 CHANGE. WHEN YOU DO AND PRIORITIZE THE SPIRIT, IT ISN'T 01:38:02.051 --> 01:38:05.471 HARD WHEN GOD ASKS YOU TO DO SOMETHING. YOU'LL JUST SHIFT. 01:38:06.492 --> 01:38:09.702 AMEN? LISTEN, GOD'S ASKED ME TO DO A COUPLE THINGS. WE'LL LET 01:38:09.702 --> 01:38:13.242 YOU KNOW COMING UP. AND I'VE BEEN INCREASING MY PRAYER TIME 01:38:13.242 --> 01:38:15.072 BECAUSE I'M LIKE, WELL, I'M GONNA HAVE TO GET MY FAITH 01:38:15.072 --> 01:38:18.731 ALIGNED A LITTLE BIT. I'M GONNA HAVE TO SHUT MY MIND OFF 'CAUSE 01:38:18.731 --> 01:38:22.542 I WASN'T PREPARED FOR WHAT YOU'RE ASKING. SO LOOK AT 01:38:22.542 --> 01:38:25.962 NUMBERS 13. I WANNA SHOW YOU THIS AGAIN. SOMETIMES PEOPLE LET 01:38:25.962 --> 01:38:29.171 WRONG MINDSETS KEEP THEM FROM THEIR DESTINY. AND THIS IS 01:38:29.171 --> 01:38:32.681 EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED WITH A WHOLE NATION, EXCEPT TWO PEOPLE, 01:38:32.681 --> 01:38:35.681 JOSHUA AND CALEB. AND I WANNA SHOW YOU THIS. SO LOOK AT 01:38:35.681 --> 01:38:40.421 NUMBERS 13:26-29. AND SO THE SPIES BROUGHT BACK WORD UNTO 01:38:40.421 --> 01:38:45.612 THEM AND SHOWED THEM THE FRUIT OF THE LAND. NOW, IT'S IMPORTANT 01:38:45.612 --> 01:38:51.431 THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF WHO AND WHAT IS SPEAKING INTO YOU, 01:38:51.431 --> 01:38:53.381 RIGHT? DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A PHYSICAL PERSON, COULD BE 01:38:53.381 --> 01:38:59.351 SOMEBODY ON TV, RIGHT? COULD BE THE BOOKS YOU'RE READING, COULD 01:38:59.351 --> 01:39:02.652 BE THE ACTIVITIES THAT YOU DO. SOMETHING IS SPEAKING TO YOU 01:39:02.652 --> 01:39:07.931 CONSTANTLY. WHAT'S THE LOUDEST VOICE? IS IT GOD? I CAN'T HEAR 01:39:07.931 --> 01:39:13.122 HIS VOICE. THAT'S PROBABLY WHY. WELL, I CAN'T HEAR GOD LIKE YOU. 01:39:13.122 --> 01:39:22.091 WELL, DON'T COMPARE BECAUSE I CAN'T HEAR GOD LIKE JESUS. I TRY 01:39:22.091 --> 01:39:25.811 BECAUSE WHAT I DO IS I PRIORITIZE THE SPIRITUAL THINGS. 01:39:25.811 --> 01:39:28.452 I PRAY IN TONGUES A LOT BECAUSE THAT'S THE SPIRIT AND SPIRIT 01:39:28.452 --> 01:39:32.203 CONNECTION. I STAY IN MY BIBLE. I TALK TO GOD. LISTEN, IF JESUS 01:39:32.203 --> 01:39:34.572 COULD GO UP TO THE TOMB OF LAZARUS AND BEFORE HE GETS 01:39:34.572 --> 01:39:38.652 THERE, HE LIFTS UP HIS EYES. THAT'S ALL HE DID, HE LIFTED UP 01:39:38.652 --> 01:39:42.252 HIS EYES, SAID, "FATHER, YOU'RE WITH ME." SEE, WHAT THAT IS IS 01:39:42.252 --> 01:39:44.801 JESUS DEVELOPED SOMETHING. NOW, THEY WROTE A BOOK YEARS AGO 01:39:44.801 --> 01:39:47.771 CALLED PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD. PRACTICING THE PRESENCE 01:39:47.771 --> 01:39:50.444 OF GOD, IS THAT? I READ IT ONCE, BUT I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS 01:39:50.444 --> 01:39:53.981 ABOUT. PRACTICING THE PRESENCE OF GOD, I'M SURE, BUT ANYWAY. 01:39:53.981 --> 01:39:56.820 BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU DO. HOW MANY TIMES DURING THE DAY, YOU KNOW, 01:39:56.820 --> 01:40:00.252 I LOOK UP TO GOD, I WINK AT HIM, I BLOW HIM A KISS. SOMETIMES I'M 01:40:00.252 --> 01:40:03.612 LIKE, HEY GOD, COME WITH ME, MAN. YOU KNOW, AND I WALK LIKE, 01:40:03.612 --> 01:40:07.332 'CAUSE HE IS WITH ME. YOU KNOW, I'LL WORSHIP HIM, I'LL LIFT UP 01:40:07.332 --> 01:40:10.091 MY HANDS, I'LL ASK HIM QUESTIONS, HEY GOD, YOU KNOW, I 01:40:10.091 --> 01:40:14.712 GOT A QUESTION ABOUT THIS. AND THEN I JUST, I WALK AS IF HE'S 01:40:14.712 --> 01:40:19.992 GONNA TALK TO ME, HE'S GONNA GIVE ME THE ANSWER. IF I SEE 01:40:19.992 --> 01:40:23.561 SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL, I SAY, WHOA, GOD, THAT CLOUD IS 01:40:23.561 --> 01:40:30.162 AMAZING. YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES? IT BRINGS GOD AS IMMANUEL TO 01:40:30.162 --> 01:40:32.981 YOU. SO THAT WHEN HE ASKS YOU TO DO SOMETHING, YOU'RE NOT SITTING 01:40:32.981 --> 01:40:35.921 THERE GOING, YOU KNOW, LIKE, LEAVE IT TO BE, OR HUH, CHEEK 01:40:35.921 --> 01:40:40.181 GOD, YEAH, I DON'T THINK I GET IT. NEVERMIND YOUNG MILLENIALS 01:40:40.181 --> 01:40:47.292 ARE GOING, HUH, WHO, WHAT, WHEN? NOW WATCH. BE WISE WHAT'S 01:40:47.292 --> 01:40:49.992 SPEAKING. WHAT'S THE LOUDEST VOICE THAT YOU'RE LISTENING TO 01:40:49.992 --> 01:40:53.771 RIGHT NOW? VERSE 27, THEY TOLD HIM, SAID, "WE'VE COME INTO THE 01:40:53.771 --> 01:40:57.341 LAND AND SURELY," IN OTHER WORDS, YEAH, GOD DIDN'T LIE. IT 01:40:57.341 --> 01:41:02.021 IS REALLY AN AWESOME SHIFT CHANGE. "IT FLOWS WITH MILK AND 01:41:02.021 --> 01:41:06.488 HONEY." NOW, HERE'S WHAT GOD HAD ME WRITE IN MY NOTES. HERE'S MY 01:41:06.488 --> 01:41:13.207 NOTES RIGHT HERE. I WROTE THIS LAST NIGHT. GOD IS TRYING TO 01:41:13.207 --> 01:41:19.030 BETTER YOU, NOT BITTER YOU. SOME PEOPLE THINK, WELL, IT'S JUST 01:41:19.030 --> 01:41:23.377 TOO HARD. I CAN'T DO IT, GOD. DON'T YOU KNOW WHEN I GOTTA GIVE 01:41:23.377 --> 01:41:27.188 UP? LET ME SHARE A STORY WITH YOU 'CAUSE GOD WAS TRYING TO 01:41:27.188 --> 01:41:30.967 CHANGE THEIR LOCATION. SOME PEOPLE, THANK YOU, PASTOR MARK, 01:41:30.967 --> 01:41:35.680 THEY MOVED HERE FROM TEXAS. SOME PEOPLE WON'T CHANGE JOBS. AND 01:41:35.680 --> 01:41:37.778 YET THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT THEIR JOB ALL THE TIME AND GOD'S 01:41:37.778 --> 01:41:41.438 TRYING TO SAY SHIFT. QUIT HOLDING ON TO WHAT YOU'RE DOING. 01:41:41.438 --> 01:41:45.097 SOME PEOPLE WON'T SHIFT, YOU KNOW. WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING 01:41:45.097 --> 01:41:48.037 TO WORK ON MY CHRISTIAN WALK. YEAH, BUT YOU WON'T SHIFT, YOU 01:41:48.037 --> 01:41:51.757 WON'T RELOCATE YOUR FRIENDSHIPS. YOU WON'T INVEST IN PEOPLE IN 01:41:51.757 --> 01:41:56.318 THE CHURCH OR THE KINGDOM. SOME PEOPLE WON'T SHIFT IN THE 01:41:56.318 --> 01:42:00.637 LOCATION OF THEIR BRAIN. YOU DWELL ON THINGS THAT TALK YOU 01:42:00.637 --> 01:42:05.438 OUT OF YOUR FUTURE, YOUR PRESENT MOMENT. AND THIS IS WHAT 01:42:05.438 --> 01:42:09.637 HAPPENED WITH ISRAEL. GOD'S NOT TRYING TO BITTER YOU. SO I 01:42:09.637 --> 01:42:14.198 REMEMBER WE WERE LIVING NORTH OF HERE, 100 MILES OR SO UP NORTH 01:42:14.198 --> 01:42:19.837 IN IOWA. AND I REMEMBER THE DAY I WAS DRIVING, WE HAD A GREEN 01:42:21.037 --> 01:42:24.398 DODGE CARAVAN THAT WE BOUGHT THAT SOMEBODY HAD GIVEN US A 01:42:24.398 --> 01:42:27.307 CAR. YOU HEARD THE STORY AND I WAS DRIVING IT AND I HEARD WHAT 01:42:27.307 --> 01:42:29.587 SOUNDED TO ME LIKE THE AUDIBLE VOICE OF GOD. NOW, WHETHER IT 01:42:29.587 --> 01:42:32.018 WAS AUDIBLE, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T WANNA OVER-EXAGGERATE. I 01:42:32.018 --> 01:42:35.137 JUST SIMPLY WANNA TELL YOU, IT SOUNDED LIKE GOD WAS IN THE CAR 01:42:35.137 --> 01:42:40.177 WITH ME. AND HE SAID TO ME, "WILL YOU PASTOR?" AND I PULLED 01:42:40.177 --> 01:42:42.908 OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD AND I SAID, "GOD, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT, 01:42:42.908 --> 01:42:47.377 WAIT A MINUTE. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" HE SAID, "WILL YOU 01:42:47.377 --> 01:42:50.828 PASTOR?" I SAID, "WELL, I DON'T THINK I'M A PASTOR, "BUT IF 01:42:50.828 --> 01:42:55.177 YOU'RE ASKING ME, I WILL DO IT." HE SAID, "THEN GO AND LAY ON 01:42:55.177 --> 01:42:59.287 YOUR BED, "AND I'LL GIVE YOU INSTRUCTIONS." AND I DID, AND HE 01:42:59.287 --> 01:43:03.402 BEGAN TO TELL ME THE EXACT DAY, THE EXACT WEEKEND, AND IT WAS 01:43:03.402 --> 01:43:05.768 THE EXACT WEEKEND THAT THE HOUSE THAT WE WERE RENTING AT THE TIME 01:43:05.768 --> 01:43:08.858 BECAME AVAILABLE, YOU CAN'T MAKE IT UP. HE SHOWED ME THE LITTLE 01:43:08.858 --> 01:43:14.189 STOREFRONT DOOR WITH THE SIGN, AND I KNEW EXACTLY WHERE I WAS 01:43:14.189 --> 01:43:17.677 SUPPOSED TO GO. I SAW THE WATER TOWER, BUT I DIDN'T WANNA COME 01:43:17.677 --> 01:43:21.368 HERE. I SAID, I DON'T WANNA GO TO OMAHA. I DON'T WANNA, GOD, 01:43:21.368 --> 01:43:24.637 ALL THAT'S GREAT. I DON'T WANT TO. I'LL PASTOR, BUT CAN I HAVE 01:43:24.637 --> 01:43:29.351 ANOTHER CITY? WELL, RIGHT AROUND THAT TIME, SOMEBODY OFFERED US A 01:43:29.351 --> 01:43:36.578 CHURCH OF 2,500 PEOPLE, BIBLE SCHOOL, CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, TV 01:43:36.578 --> 01:43:40.957 SHOW. WHAT ELSE, BRENDA? IT WAS LIKE EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING NOW. 01:43:40.957 --> 01:43:49.268 I'M LIKE, THAT IS GOD. I WASN'T READY FOR THAT. I WOULD HAVE 01:43:49.268 --> 01:43:56.287 FAILED. AND I SAID, "GOD, IT'S MINE, MINE SET. "I'M GONNA, I 01:43:56.287 --> 01:44:00.698 DON'T WANNA GO TO OMAHA. "SO I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, "BUT 01:44:00.698 --> 01:44:07.358 I'M NOT COMING TO OMAHA. "I WON'T RELOCATE." AND SO I SAID, 01:44:07.358 --> 01:44:11.677 "PLUS, YOU GOTTA TELL BRENDA." SO I TOLD BRENDA, SHE SAYS, "I'M 01:44:11.677 --> 01:44:13.537 NOT GOING TO OMAHA." I SAID, "SEE, THAT'S WHY I TOLD GOD TOO, 01:44:13.537 --> 01:44:20.438 BRENDA. "I'M NOT COMING." THANKSGIVING OF 1996. SO I HEARD 01:44:20.438 --> 01:44:23.707 THIS IN LIKE OCTOBER, THANKSGIVING OF 1996. I GET A 01:44:23.707 --> 01:44:26.904 CALL, IT WAS THE PASTOR. HE SAID, "HEY, CAN YOU COME TO THE 01:44:26.904 --> 01:44:28.898 CHURCH? "I WANNA PRAY, I WANT YOU TO PRAY." REMEMBER THE 01:44:28.898 --> 01:44:30.667 TADLOCKS THAT WERE HERE LAST WEEK? ONE OF THEM, HE'S IN 01:44:30.667 --> 01:44:34.537 HEAVEN, JEFF TADLOCK. HE WAS THERE. I'VE ASKED JEFF TO COME. 01:44:34.537 --> 01:44:39.007 YOU NEED TO MEET US. WE NEED TO PRAY. 'CAUSE I SAID, "GOD, I'M 01:44:39.007 --> 01:44:43.957 NOT GOING "UNLESS I HAVE PROPHETIC CONFIRMATION." THEY 01:44:43.957 --> 01:44:47.318 HAD PROPHETIC CONFIRMATION HERE, BUT THEY LET THE WRONG VOICES 01:44:47.318 --> 01:44:49.747 TALK THEM OUT OF IT. GOD KEPT TELLING THEM HE HAD A LAND 01:44:49.747 --> 01:44:53.257 FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY. SO I GET TO THE CHURCH AND I'M 01:44:53.257 --> 01:44:56.287 THINKING, I HAD AN ATTITUDE. HAVE YOU EVER HAD AN ATTITUDE? I 01:44:56.287 --> 01:44:58.328 KNOW YOU GUYS LOOK AT ME, THINK, MAN, PASTOR HANK, YOU HAVE AN 01:44:58.328 --> 01:45:02.408 ATTITUDE. WELL, PROBABLY I DO. BUT I WAS LIKE, I CAN'T BELIEVE 01:45:02.408 --> 01:45:06.578 ON, OKAY, I'M JUST DRIVING. I CAN'T BELIEVE ON THANKSGIVING 01:45:06.578 --> 01:45:09.967 I'M GONNA GET PULLED ON PROPHETICALLY. DOES ANYBODY CARE 01:45:09.967 --> 01:45:13.238 ABOUT ME? I GOT THIS GOD WHO WANTS ME TO GO TO OMAHA AND I 01:45:13.238 --> 01:45:16.868 DON'T WANNA GO. I DON'T WANNA SHIFT, I DON'T WANNA CHANGE. I 01:45:16.868 --> 01:45:19.627 DON'T WANNA ADVANCE. SO I'M COMPLAINING ON THE WAY THERE. I 01:45:19.627 --> 01:45:23.438 DON'T REALLY, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S THANKSGIVING, GOD. AND SO I GET 01:45:23.438 --> 01:45:26.438 THERE, WE GET IN THE SANCTUARY AND THE PASTOR GOES, "WOULD YOU 01:45:26.438 --> 01:45:31.627 PRAY FOR ME, HANK?" I SAID, "NO, NO." BUT I WAS LIKE, "YES," AND 01:45:31.627 --> 01:45:33.728 I'M DOING ONE OF THESE, IF THERE WAS A STONE, YOU WOULD'VE SEEN 01:45:33.728 --> 01:45:37.597 IT, YOU KNOW, KICK, KICK. AND I'M HAVING AN ATTITUDE. AND ALL 01:45:37.597 --> 01:45:39.278 OF A SUDDEN HE GOES, "WAIT, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WAIT, "STOP 01:45:39.278 --> 01:45:44.677 PRAYING." HE GOES, "HANK, HANK." AND ALL OF A SUDDEN TEARS ARE 01:45:44.677 --> 01:45:48.278 COMING. HE SAID, "GOD JUST TOLD ME YOU'RE A PASTOR." HE GOES, 01:45:48.278 --> 01:45:51.728 "YEAH, YOU STAND IN THAT OFFICE PROPHETICALLY, "BUT YOU'RE GONNA 01:45:51.728 --> 01:45:57.097 PASTOR." I'M LIKE, "YEAH, 2,500 PEOPLE, TV STATION, ALL THAT, 01:45:57.097 --> 01:46:01.219 YEAH." HE GOES, "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO TO OMAHA." 01:46:02.729 --> 01:46:05.966 I DON'T WANNA GO TO OMAHA! I DON'T WANNA GO TO OMAHA. I DON'T 01:46:05.998 --> 01:46:12.405 WANNA GO TO OMAHA. I DON'T WANNA GO TO OMAHA. THANKS FOR RUINING 01:46:12.439 --> 01:46:17.703 MY THANKSGIVING, GOD. YOU CAN KEEP THE TURKEY LEG. AND THEN 01:46:17.707 --> 01:46:22.148 JEFF, HE'S OVER THERE. "HALLELUJAH. YEAH, THAT'S WHAT 01:46:22.148 --> 01:46:27.757 GOD'S SAYING. YOU'RE GONNA BUILD A BIG ONE." I DON'T CARE HOW BIG 01:46:27.757 --> 01:46:32.948 IT IS. I DON'T WANNA GO. "YOU'RE GONNA TOUCH THE WORLD, 01:46:32.948 --> 01:46:37.717 HALLELUJAH. YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TV." LIKE YEAH, 2,500 OVER HERE. 01:46:37.717 --> 01:46:44.917 SO I COME BACK, I DIDN'T TELL BRENDA. FEW DAYS LATER SHE SAYS, 01:46:44.917 --> 01:46:46.717 "GOD GAVE ME A DREAM, HANK. "WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO TO OMAHA." 01:46:46.717 --> 01:46:52.297 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:46:52.297 --> 01:46:57.488 SO, THAT'S BAD, THEY HAD A GUEST SPEAKER THE FOLLOWING WEEK. HE 01:46:57.488 --> 01:47:02.467 SAYS, "YOU TWO, COME UP HERE." YOU GET UP THERE. 'CAUSE 01:47:03.787 --> 01:47:05.828 REMEMBER, I DIDN'T WANNA COME TO OMAHA, SO I PROBABLY WALKED UP 01:47:05.828 --> 01:47:07.493 THERE LIKE THIS, WITH MY ATTITUDE. 01:47:08.828 --> 01:47:16.594 PROPHESY TO ME! 2,500 MEMBER CHURCH, RIGHT? BIBLE SCHOOL, 01:47:16.597 --> 01:47:26.618 CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, CONFIRM IT. HE GOES, "LISTEN, GOD IS PUTTING 01:47:26.618 --> 01:47:29.018 ARMY BOOTS ON YOU." WELL, ISN'T IT INTERESTING? WE'RE CALLED 01:47:29.018 --> 01:47:33.398 LORD OF HOSTS. IN FACT, THAT'S WHEN THE NAME CAME. I'LL TELL 01:47:33.398 --> 01:47:37.358 YOU, HE GOES, "GOD IS PUTTING ARMY BOOTS ON YOU "AND HE'S 01:47:37.358 --> 01:47:45.488 CALLING YOU TO A CITY "THAT YOU DON'T WANNA GO TO." GOD, I DON'T 01:47:45.488 --> 01:47:50.078 WANNA GO. SO HE LAYS HANDS ON ME, I FALL UNDER THE POWER, I'M 01:47:50.078 --> 01:47:53.497 ON THE FLOOR, IMMEDIATELY GET CAUGHT UP IN A VISION. THAT'S 01:47:53.497 --> 01:47:56.287 WHEN I SAW THE WATER TOWER ACTUALLY, AND THE SIGN. THANK 01:47:56.287 --> 01:47:59.618 YOU LORD FOR CORRECTING THAT. AND THE LORD SAYS, AND HE KICKED 01:47:59.618 --> 01:48:02.228 ME AND HE GOES, "AND GOD TELLS ME YOU BETTER GO TO THAT CITY 01:48:02.228 --> 01:48:08.257 "AND OBEY HIM." AND BAM, SHUT UP ABOUT IT. AND THAT'S WHEN I WENT 01:48:08.257 --> 01:48:11.347 INTO THE VISION AND SAW THE WATER TOWER AND THE LOCATION OF 01:48:11.347 --> 01:48:13.118 WHERE WE'RE SUPPOSED TO START THE CHURCH AND THE REST IS 01:48:13.118 --> 01:48:16.207 HISTORY. AND THEN I HEARD THE HOLY ONE SAY, "AND THE NAME OF 01:48:16.207 --> 01:48:22.028 THE WORK SHALL BE CALLED LORD OF HOSTS. "AND IT IS AND SHALL BE A 01:48:22.028 --> 01:48:25.717 WORLD OUTREACH." I DOCUMENT ALL THIS, YEAH, SO THAT'S ALL. BUT 01:48:25.717 --> 01:48:28.898 IF I WOULDN'T HAVE SHIFTED MY MIND AND MY HEAD BECAUSE I HAD 01:48:28.898 --> 01:48:34.238 MY WILL INVOLVED, I WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY. I PROBABLY WOULD 01:48:34.238 --> 01:48:36.488 HAVE BEEN FIRED FROM THE 2,500 MEMBER CHURCH THAT I PROBABLY 01:48:36.488 --> 01:48:40.688 COULDN'T HAVE PASTORED. I MEAN, IF EVERYBODY CAME TO THIS 01:48:40.688 --> 01:48:43.297 CHURCH, YOU KNOW HOW MANY MEMBERS WE HAVE? 2,000. IF 01:48:43.297 --> 01:48:46.118 EVERYBODY CAME HERE, WE'D HAVE 2,000 PEOPLE IN HERE. THAT'S HOW 01:48:46.118 --> 01:48:51.127 MANY MEMBERS WE HAVE. NOT COUNTING THE TENS OF THOUSANDS, 01:48:51.127 --> 01:48:55.898 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS THAT WATCH ONLINE. THANK GOD I OBEYED, 01:48:55.898 --> 01:48:58.057 RIGHT? SO IT'S AN HONOR TO BE HERE WITH YOU. NOW LOOK AT 01:48:58.057 --> 01:49:00.997 JEREMIAH 6. NOW LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING OUT OF AN NIV. I DON'T 01:49:00.997 --> 01:49:04.177 KNOW IF THEY CAN PUT THE NIV OF JEREMIAH 6:16. I WANNA SHOW YOU 01:49:04.177 --> 01:49:06.876 THIS PRINCIPLE. AM I JUST, ARE YOU GETTING ANYTHING OUT OF 01:49:06.876 --> 01:49:11.677 THIS? I HOPE YOU'RE LEARNING. OKAY. 'CAUSE SOMETIMES GOD WILL 01:49:11.677 --> 01:49:13.957 TELL YOU TO DO SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T WANNA DO. HE'S TRYING 01:49:13.957 --> 01:49:16.568 TO BETTER YOU, NOT BITTER YOU. I THOUGHT GOD WAS TRYING TO BITTER 01:49:16.568 --> 01:49:21.158 ME. AND I HAD AN ATTITUDE ABOUT IT. AND THIS IS WHAT, LOOK AT 01:49:21.158 --> 01:49:24.398 VERSE 16. THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS, "STAND AT THE CROSSROADS." 01:49:24.398 --> 01:49:26.677 NOW STOP RIGHT THERE. SOME OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, YOU IN 01:49:26.677 --> 01:49:28.297 THIS ROOM, YOU'RE AT A CROSSROADS, YOU'RE AT A 01:49:28.297 --> 01:49:32.768 DECISION. YOU'RE AT, SHOULD I GO THIS WAY OR SHOULD I GO THAT 01:49:32.768 --> 01:49:35.797 WAY? THAT'S WHY THEY CALL IT DISCO. 'CAUSE WHENEVER YOU 01:49:35.797 --> 01:49:40.448 DISCO, AT LEAST WITH ME, DISCO IS THIS WAY, DISCO IS THAT WAY. 01:49:40.448 --> 01:49:46.057 AND ANYWAY, THAT'S A DISCO MOVE TIP FOR SOME OF YOU. OH, STOP 01:49:46.057 --> 01:49:49.478 THE WOO, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW THAT'S THE TRUTH. BUT NOW WATCH 01:49:49.478 --> 01:49:55.957 THIS. WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT NUMBERS 13, THEIR BIG THING WAS, 01:49:55.957 --> 01:49:59.108 WE'RE NOT GONNA DO IT. WE'RE NOT DOING THIS. NOW YOU COME TO 01:49:59.108 --> 01:50:03.007 JEREMIAH SIX AND WATCH THIS. YOU'RE STANDING AT A CROSSROADS. 01:50:03.007 --> 01:50:08.130 ASK WHERE THE GOOD WAY IS AND THEN OBEY. PUT ACTION BEHIND IT. 01:50:08.130 --> 01:50:11.047 AND I KEPT DOING THAT WHEN IT CAME TO LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. 01:50:11.047 --> 01:50:14.797 LORD, WHERE DO YOU WANT ME? AND HE WAS TRYING TO TELL ME, THAT I 01:50:14.797 --> 01:50:21.037 WAS DIGGING IN MY HILLS. I DIDN'T WANT TO. RIGHT? YOU EVER 01:50:21.037 --> 01:50:22.898 HAD THAT? HOW MANY OF YOU RAISED YOUR HAND, HAVE YOU EVER HAD 01:50:22.898 --> 01:50:30.608 THAT? AND SO HE SAYS, "WALK IN IT AND YOU WILL FIND REST." YOU 01:50:30.608 --> 01:50:34.658 WILL FIND THAT GOD IS TRYING TO ACTUALLY BLESS YOU. BUT NOTICE, 01:50:34.658 --> 01:50:43.207 YOU SAID, "WE WILL NOT WALK IN IT." NOW, LOOK AT VERSE 17, HE 01:50:43.207 --> 01:50:47.768 SAID, "IT'S SO BAD "THAT I'VE EVEN APPOINTED WATCHMEN OVER 01:50:47.768 --> 01:50:51.488 YOU. "LISTEN TO THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET." YOU KNOW WHAT A 01:50:51.488 --> 01:50:57.368 TRUMPET SPEAKS OF IN THE BIBLE? HEAVEN'S WORD TO YOU, OR 01:50:57.368 --> 01:51:01.807 PROPHETS. A PROPHETIC WORD, A PROPHETIC SOUND. SO GOD'S 01:51:01.807 --> 01:51:05.257 SAYING, "I EVEN WENT AS FAR AS GETTING PEOPLE "TO WATCH OVER 01:51:05.257 --> 01:51:09.037 YOU SO THAT YOU WOULDN'T MAKE A MISTAKE "AT THE CROSSROADS. "I 01:51:09.037 --> 01:51:13.717 EVEN SET PROPHETIC CONFIRMATION OF TRUMPET BLASTS "THAT WERE SO 01:51:13.717 --> 01:51:17.283 LOUD, SO OBVIOUS, "BUT YOU DUG YOUR HEELS IN WITH THE WRONG 01:51:17.283 --> 01:51:20.956 MINDSET "AND YOU DIDN'T SHIFT." COME ON, HOW LONG HAVE PEOPLE 01:51:20.956 --> 01:51:25.984 BEEN TELLING YOU, GET OUT OF THAT JOB. YOU'RE BETTER THAN 01:51:25.984 --> 01:51:30.094 THAT. I REMEMBER WHEN I WORKED AT A GAS STATION, AMACO, AND I 01:51:30.094 --> 01:51:32.974 WAS TRYING TO GET INTO THE MINISTRY. AND I WENT OUT TO THE 01:51:32.974 --> 01:51:35.644 FULL SERVICE ISLAND. NOW THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, OR YOU 01:51:35.644 --> 01:51:37.713 IN THIS ROOM, HOW MANY REMEMBER THE OLD FULL SERVICE WHERE YOU 01:51:37.713 --> 01:51:40.293 WOULD PULL YOUR CAR UP, AND MY DAD HAD A RULE. THERE WAS A 01:51:40.293 --> 01:51:44.127 LITTLE HOSE THAT WENT ACROSS, AND IT WOULD GO DING DING. YOU 01:51:44.127 --> 01:51:47.974 REMEMBER THAT? AND YOU HAD TO BE OUT THERE WHEN THAT DING DING 01:51:47.974 --> 01:51:51.003 HAPPENED. IT DIDN'T MATTER IF YOU WERE 100 YARDS AWAY, YOU HAD 01:51:51.003 --> 01:51:55.503 TO SPRINT LIKE TOM CRUISE, AND YOU HAD TO GET OUT TO THAT CAR 01:51:55.503 --> 01:51:59.404 WINDOW BY THE TIME THAT THE WHEEL STOPPED. AND MY MOM WHO'S 01:51:59.404 --> 01:52:01.894 SITTING THERE COULD TELL YOU THAT I WAS THE WORST ONE OF 'EM 01:52:01.894 --> 01:52:06.783 ALL. 'CAUSE I WOULD BE BUSY EATING MY M&MS OR SOMETHING. HAD 01:52:06.783 --> 01:52:10.354 TO FINISH THE LAST PACK, RIGHT? BUT MY DAD, HE WOULD GET MAD. 01:52:10.354 --> 01:52:13.863 HE'D BE LIKE, "GET OUT THERE!" SO I'D GET OUT THERE. WELL, ONE 01:52:13.863 --> 01:52:16.894 DAY I WENT OUT THERE AND I WAS TRYING TO MAKE IT IN THE 01:52:16.894 --> 01:52:22.923 MINISTRY, LIKE PROBABLY 1989, 1990. AND RIGHT HERE IN OMAHA, 01:52:22.923 --> 01:52:30.484 THIS CARLOAD OF NUNS PULLED UP. AND THEY LOOKED AT ME ON A FULL 01:52:30.484 --> 01:52:33.514 SERVICE ISLAND, AND THEY'RE GOING LIKE THIS. 01:52:33.514 --> 01:52:36.453 (IMITATING CAR NOISES) 01:52:36.453 --> 01:52:40.503 AND THEY'RE DOING THE, YOU KNOW, LORD, PLEASE HELP THIS GUY, OR 01:52:40.503 --> 01:52:44.703 WHATEVER THE SIGNAL IS. AND I'M LIKE, WHAT ARE THEY DOING? HE 01:52:44.703 --> 01:52:50.434 SAID, "LORD, CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU?" I'M LIKE, YEAH, YEAH, 01:52:50.434 --> 01:52:52.564 YEAH, PRAY THAT JESUS GETS ME OUT OF HERE, I FEEL LIKE I'M 01:52:52.564 --> 01:52:57.873 BEING TORTURED. THEY SAID, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" I SAID, 01:52:57.873 --> 01:53:00.310 "WHAT DO YOU MEAN? "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? "YOU'RE BETTER THAN 01:53:00.310 --> 01:53:04.203 THIS." NOT THAT ANYBODY WORKS AT A GAS STATION IS BAD, BUT THEY 01:53:04.203 --> 01:53:09.123 SAID, "YOU ARE CALLED TO PREACH," AND I'M NOT TRYING TO 01:53:09.123 --> 01:53:14.703 MAKE IT, "TO THE MASSES. "YOU HAVE A WORLDWIDE CALLING ON YOUR 01:53:14.703 --> 01:53:18.899 LIFE. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? "YOU ARE MISSING YOUR DESTINY." 01:53:22.034 --> 01:53:24.734 WELL, WHAT DO I DO? THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING. THEY SAID, "LET US 01:53:24.734 --> 01:53:26.404 PRAY FOR YOU," AND THEY STARTED SPEAKING IN TONGUES. I'M LIKE, 01:53:26.404 --> 01:53:28.863 "OH, OKAY," 'CAUSE I WAS SPIRITUAL. THEY'RE PRAYING AND 01:53:28.863 --> 01:53:33.363 THEY'RE SAYING, "YES, LORD, "AND IT'S GOING TO COME QUICKLY." AND 01:53:33.363 --> 01:53:38.673 THEY START PRAYING. I KID YOU NOT, A FEW MONTHS LATER, I WAS 01:53:38.673 --> 01:53:45.304 PULLED FROM THAT JOB AND ON THE ROAD TO MINISTRY. SOMETIMES YOU 01:53:45.304 --> 01:53:49.229 HOLD ONTO THINGS AND YOU DO IT 'CAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU GOT TO. 01:53:50.703 --> 01:53:53.524 AND WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IS REALIZE, START PRAYING 'CAUSE 01:53:53.524 --> 01:53:59.463 YOU'RE HEADING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. DON'T GIVE UP. DON'T 01:53:59.463 --> 01:54:03.304 BE HARD ON YOURSELF. DON'T SETTLE FOR WHAT YOU'RE NOT 01:54:03.304 --> 01:54:08.283 SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. START STRIVING AND MOVING TOWARDS WHAT 01:54:08.283 --> 01:54:11.014 YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD DO, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE 01:54:11.014 --> 01:54:14.344 CALL. DON'T PLAY. IF YOU KNOW YOU HAVE A CALL OF GOD ON YOUR 01:54:14.344 --> 01:54:18.184 LIFE, DON'T PLAY WITH IT. IT COULD END YOUR LIFE EARLY 01:54:20.014 --> 01:54:23.043 BECAUSE IT'S A VERY HOLY THING. AND THEN ONCE YOU ARE CALLED, 01:54:23.043 --> 01:54:27.243 YOU GOTTA STAND IN THE HOLINESS OF A LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD. YOU 01:54:27.243 --> 01:54:30.304 GOTTA STAND IN THE HOLINESS AND THE HONOR OF BEING CALLED OF 01:54:30.304 --> 01:54:35.073 GOD. WE HAVE TO REPRESENT YOUR GARMENTS, YOUR MANTLE CORRECTLY. 01:54:36.184 --> 01:54:39.484 IT'S VERY HOLY. NOW WATCH THIS, LET'S GO. I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT 01:54:39.484 --> 01:54:43.384 NUMBERS 13:31. GO DOWN JUST A FEW MORE VERSES, AND THEN I 01:54:43.384 --> 01:54:46.713 WANNA SHIFT AND CHANGE KIND OF WHAT I'M SAYING, BUT ON THE SAME 01:54:46.713 --> 01:54:51.123 CONTEXT. BUT THE MEN THAT WENT UP WITH HIM, SO THE 10 SPIES, 01:54:51.123 --> 01:54:57.064 WRONG VOICES SAID, WE BE NOT ABLE. NOW, WHO TOLD THEM THAT? 01:54:57.064 --> 01:55:00.873 THEY MADE THAT UP. SOMETIMES WHEN WE DON'T WANNA DO 01:55:00.873 --> 01:55:03.423 SOMETHING, WE MAKE UP ALL KINDS OF EXCUSES, ALL KINDS OF 01:55:03.423 --> 01:55:07.024 REASONS. I MEAN, I KNOW PEOPLE THAT TOLD ME THEY WERE GONNA DO 01:55:07.024 --> 01:55:11.163 SOMETHING, AND I RUN INTO THEM YEARS LATER, AND GUESS THE FIRST 01:55:11.163 --> 01:55:12.934 THING THAT COMES OUT OF THEIR MOUTH WHEN I SEE THEM IN THE 01:55:12.934 --> 01:55:17.014 STORE. "OH, HEY, PASTOR, I KNOW THAT YOU ONCE SAID THIS, "YOU 01:55:17.014 --> 01:55:21.154 KNOW, AND THEN, AND I AM," AND THEY GIVE ME THE LIST OF REASONS 01:55:21.154 --> 01:55:26.224 WHY THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. HAVE YOU EVER RAN INTO SOMEBODY LIKE 01:55:26.224 --> 01:55:33.484 THAT? I KNOW PEOPLE THAT AREN'T MARRIED THAT MISS THEIR 01:55:33.484 --> 01:55:39.694 OPPORTUNITY, AND THEY GIVE A BUNCH OF EXCUSES. I KNOW PEOPLE 01:55:39.694 --> 01:55:45.453 THAT ARE WORKING THEIR BUTT OFF FOR SOMEBODY ELSE, AND THEY HAVE 01:55:45.453 --> 01:55:49.354 THE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A STEP OF FAITH AND BEGIN SLOWLY TO 01:55:49.354 --> 01:55:51.904 START THEIR OWN BUSINESS, BUT THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN 01:55:51.904 --> 01:55:55.293 THEMSELVES. THEY LET FEAR TALK THEM OUT OF IT, AND THEN YOU RUN 01:55:55.293 --> 01:55:58.234 INTO THOSE PEOPLE 10 YEARS LATER, THEY'RE TIRED, THEY'RE 01:55:58.234 --> 01:56:02.014 BROKE, THEY'RE FRUSTRATED, AND THEY GIVE YOU ALL THE EXCUSES. 01:56:02.014 --> 01:56:04.024 WELL, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE 01:56:04.024 --> 01:56:08.277 LISTENED, BUT I DIDN'T. WELL, AIN'T TOO LATE TO START. AIN'T 01:56:08.277 --> 01:56:15.543 TOO LATE TO SHIFT. NOW YOU HEAR, WE'RE NOT ABLE. WHO SAID THAT? 01:56:15.543 --> 01:56:20.404 THEY LET FEAR DO THE TALKING. WE'RE NOT ABLE TO GO UP AGAINST 01:56:20.404 --> 01:56:23.884 THE PEOPLE. THEY'RE STRONGER THAN US. GOD NEVER SAID THAT. 01:56:23.884 --> 01:56:28.833 NOW HERE'S THE DANGER. GOD TOOK ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT. THE PROBLEM 01:56:28.833 --> 01:56:33.844 WAS ISRAEL WOULD NEVER GET EGYPT OUT OF THEM. WHEN THEY DIDN'T 01:56:33.844 --> 01:56:36.604 LIKE SOMETHING, "OH, I JUST WANT TO GO BACK TO THE WORLD. "I JUST 01:56:36.604 --> 01:56:39.543 WANT TO GO EAT GARLIC AND ONIONS. "OH, WE REMEMBER THOSE 01:56:39.543 --> 01:56:42.724 DAYS." OH, REALLY? DID YOU FORGET ABOUT THE TIMES OF HARSH 01:56:42.724 --> 01:56:46.743 LABOR AND GETTING WHIPPED AND ABUSED AND BEING IN THE WRONG 01:56:46.743 --> 01:56:54.094 PLACE UNDER A TASKMASTER? DID YOU FORGET THAT? I MEAN, WHEN I 01:56:54.094 --> 01:56:57.304 CAME HERE TO OMAHA AND THE CHURCH WOULDN'T GROW, AND THEN 01:56:57.304 --> 01:56:59.974 PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, PASTOR, WHEN DID YOU, "YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN ON 01:56:59.974 --> 01:57:03.363 NATIONAL SHOWS. "WHEN DID YOU START PREACHING THE WAY THAT YOU 01:57:03.363 --> 01:57:07.533 PREACH "AND PROPHESY?" I'M LIKE, "EXCUSE ME, I DIDN'T JUST MAKE 01:57:07.533 --> 01:57:13.024 THIS UP. "THIS IS THE WAY I'VE ALWAYS BEEN." AND YET WHEN I 01:57:13.024 --> 01:57:18.094 FIRST PREACHED, AND I WOULD PROPHESY IN THIS CHURCH 28 YEARS 01:57:18.094 --> 01:57:20.974 AGO, PEOPLE WOULD GET UP AND WALK OUT, OR THEY WOULD STAND 01:57:20.974 --> 01:57:23.854 THERE LIKE, "YOU ARE A CULT LEADER, YOU'RE CRAZY." AND IT 01:57:23.854 --> 01:57:29.613 MESSED WITH MY HEAD. AND I WOULD GO TO GOD AND SAY, "I'M SORRY, 01:57:29.613 --> 01:57:36.333 YOU ASKED ME TO COME HERE AND I HATE IT. I'M FAITHFUL, I'M 01:57:36.333 --> 01:57:39.859 HONORABLE, I'M DOING WHAT'S RIGHT BUT NOTHING IS WORKING. 01:57:41.627 --> 01:57:45.634 WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG? DO I NEED TO TEAR MY GARMENTS? 01:57:47.884 --> 01:57:54.274 'CAUSE IT'S TEARING MY HEART. I HAD THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH 01:57:54.274 --> 01:58:02.368 GOD. BECAUSE I COULD NOT SEE WHAT GOD HAD FOR ME. AND I WAS, 01:58:03.663 --> 01:58:09.573 AND WHEN GOD WANTED TO SHIFT ME, I STARTED WANTING TO GO BACK TO 01:58:09.573 --> 01:58:13.054 THE MINDSET OF WHAT I THOUGHT I WAS GOOD AT. WELL, I'LL JUST BE 01:58:13.054 --> 01:58:22.144 A CARTOONIST. I'M GOOD AT THAT. I'LL GO BACK TO TRAVELING, 01:58:22.144 --> 01:58:28.804 REALLY? AND HAVE THE PASTORS GIVE YOU A BAG, YOU'RE OFFERING 01:58:28.804 --> 01:58:32.404 FOR FIVE NIGHTS WITH COINS. YOU REALLY WANNA GO BACK TO THAT, 01:58:32.404 --> 01:58:36.844 HANK? OR ARE YOU GONNA PRESS THROUGH WHEN THE CHAIRS ARE 01:58:36.844 --> 01:58:41.493 EMPTY? PASTORS IN THIS CITY HATE YOUR GUTS AND ARE TALKING ABOUT 01:58:41.493 --> 01:58:47.194 YOU 'CAUSE THEY SAID IT. I WENT AND WAS INVITED ONE TIME TO A 01:58:47.194 --> 01:58:52.144 PASTOR'S CONFERENCE IN TOWN WITH A GUEST SPEAKER AND ONE PASTOR 01:58:52.144 --> 01:58:54.274 TALKED ME INTO IT, SAID, "NO, YOU REALLY NEED TO GO." SO I 01:58:54.274 --> 01:59:00.033 CAME, I SAT IN THE BACK, AND THE GUEST SPEAKER, NEVER MET HIM IN 01:59:00.033 --> 01:59:03.213 MY LIFE, HE GOES, OH, HE CALLS, HE GOES, "I WANNA PRAY FOR THE 01:59:03.213 --> 01:59:06.453 PASTORS HERE." I DIDN'T GO UP. PASTORS COME UP, HE STARTS 01:59:06.453 --> 01:59:11.043 LAYING HANDS ON 'EM. HE STOPS, HE SAYS, "WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, 01:59:11.043 --> 01:59:14.073 WHOA, WHOA, "WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, 01:59:14.073 --> 01:59:20.373 WHOA. "GOD SAYS THE FATHER OF THE CITY IS HERE." I'M NOT 01:59:20.373 --> 01:59:23.253 KIDDING, I'M NOT TRYING TO MAKE THIS UP. I AM NOT SAYING THAT 01:59:23.253 --> 01:59:26.163 I'M THAT. I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT 'CAUSE NOW PEOPLE 01:59:26.163 --> 01:59:32.163 ARE GONNA WRITE. I DIDN'T SAY THIS. HE STOPS, HE GOES, "YOUNG 01:59:32.163 --> 01:59:36.123 MAN, ARE YOU A PASTOR?" I'M THINKING, "HECK NO. 01:59:36.123 --> 01:59:38.734 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:59:38.734 --> 01:59:43.833 "NOTHING AIN'T WORKING OUT. "MY CHURCH AIN'T GROWING, IT'S THE 01:59:43.833 --> 01:59:48.543 UGLIEST CHURCH IN TOWN. "HAVE YOU DRIVEN BY IT? "PEOPLE HATE 01:59:48.543 --> 01:59:53.854 ME. "DON'T YOU DARE MOCK ME PROPHETICALLY." HE GOES, "GET UP 01:59:53.854 --> 01:59:57.184 HERE." HE GOES, "MAYBE I SHOULD CLARIFY, "YOU'RE ONE OF THE 01:59:57.184 --> 02:00:00.661 FATHERS UP HERE." AND ALL THESE PASTORS ARE LOOKING AT ME, AND 02:00:00.661 --> 02:00:03.213 THEY'RE STANDING THERE LIKE THIS, 'CAUSE THEY DON'T BELIEVE 02:00:03.213 --> 02:00:08.434 IT. AND HE GOES, THERE'S PASTORS IN THE CITY THAT ARE TALKING 02:00:08.434 --> 02:00:13.354 ABOUT YOU, MOCKING YOU, LAUGHING AT YOU, TALKING BEHIND YOUR 02:00:13.354 --> 02:00:16.953 BACK. BUT HE SAID, THERE'S COMING A DAY WHERE THEY WON'T BE 02:00:16.953 --> 02:00:25.752 DOING THAT. IT TOOK 20 YEARS FROM THAT TIME, WELL, MAYBE 15, 02:00:25.752 --> 02:00:30.003 BECAUSE IF YOU ADD THE LAST FIVE, TO GET WHERE A LOT OF THE 02:00:30.003 --> 02:00:32.039 PASTORS HAVE COME UP TO ME IN THE SEAT AND SAID, "MAN, LOOK AT 02:00:32.039 --> 02:00:34.203 WHAT GOD'S DONE WITH YOU." AND I'VE SAID, "I DON'T KNOW WHAT I 02:00:34.203 --> 02:00:37.684 DID. "I JUST TRIED TO OBEY. "I DON'T WANNA MAKE MYSELF OUT TO 02:00:37.684 --> 02:00:41.073 BE ANYTHING." 'CAUSE YOU DO THAT, AND THEN YOU STEAL HONOR 02:00:41.073 --> 02:00:46.260 FROM GOD. I DON'T WANNA DO THAT. I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, I'M NOT 02:00:46.260 --> 02:00:52.594 BETTER THAN THEM. I JUST THINK I OBEYED WHEN IT WASN'T EASY. YOU 02:00:52.594 --> 02:00:57.573 CAN DO IT TOO. AND CAN I TELL YOU, I DIDN'T PASS EVERY TEST. 02:00:57.573 --> 02:01:00.394 SO DON'T THINK LIKE, WELL GOLLY, MAN, HE REALLY ACED THE TEST. 02:01:00.394 --> 02:01:04.054 ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHEN TEST DAYS WOULD SHOW UP IN SCHOOL, I 02:01:04.054 --> 02:01:07.804 WOULD SHOW UP AND I WOULD TAKE THE TEST. I'D NEVER STUDIED. I 02:01:07.804 --> 02:01:14.163 DIDN'T WANNA STUDY. I MADE UP ANSWERS. AND SOMEHOW, MOM, I GOT 02:01:14.163 --> 02:01:21.884 THROUGH SCHOOL. NOW WATCH THIS. LOOK AT VERSE 30. SOMETIMES WHEN 02:01:21.884 --> 02:01:26.024 GOD TELLS YOU TO SHIFT, QUIT PUTTING YOUR TIMELINE ON IT. 02:01:26.024 --> 02:01:31.663 QUIT PUTTING YOUR TERMS ON IT. OKAY, YOU KNOW, NOW, I TOLD YOU 02:01:31.663 --> 02:01:34.064 LAST WEEK WHEN GOD TOLD ME TO BUY THIS BUILDING, THE THIRD 02:01:34.064 --> 02:01:36.463 TIME IT WAS LOUDER WHEN HE FINALLY SAID, "BUY THIS 02:01:36.463 --> 02:01:40.634 BUILDING." AND I WAS LIKE, OKAY, I COULD TELL GOD WASN'T HAPPY 02:01:40.634 --> 02:01:43.934 WITH ME. AND I TOLD HIM, "COME HERE, "I'M NOT SURE IF YOU'RE 02:01:43.934 --> 02:01:46.304 SUPPOSED TO DO THAT." AND I SAID, "WELL, LORD, PROVIDE, MAKE 02:01:46.304 --> 02:01:50.234 THE PLACE BEAUTIFUL." BUT ONE THING I DIDN'T TRY TO DO IS PUT 02:01:50.234 --> 02:01:54.884 A BUNCH OF CONDITIONS ON IT. MY TERMS, BE REBELLIOUS, BE 02:01:54.884 --> 02:01:57.734 STUBBORN. IT'S ONE THING TO SAY, WELL, HERE GOD, THIS IS WHAT I 02:01:57.734 --> 02:01:59.594 WANT. YOU'RE ASKING ME TO DO THIS, THIS IS WHAT I WANT. AND 02:01:59.594 --> 02:02:03.314 IT'S OKAY TO PUT YOUR EXPECTATIONS OUT OR SAY, YOU 02:02:03.314 --> 02:02:06.974 KNOW WHAT, LORD, LISTEN, AS I OBEY YOU, THESE ARE THE THINGS 02:02:06.974 --> 02:02:11.413 THAT I'M GOING TO STAND FOR THAT YOU WILL DO 'CAUSE I BELIEVE IT. 02:02:11.413 --> 02:02:14.774 BUT IT'S ONE THING TO DIG YOUR HEELS IN AND SAY, WELL, I'M ONLY 02:02:14.774 --> 02:02:22.844 GONNA DO THIS. IT'S GOTTA BE MY WAY. MY TERMS, RIGHT? I DID THAT 02:02:22.844 --> 02:02:26.293 WITH GOD WHEN HE WANTED ME TO COME TO OMAHA. IT WAS MY TERMS. 02:02:26.293 --> 02:02:30.644 AND I HAD TO CHANGE AND REALIZE IT'S NOT ABOUT MY TERMS. I 02:02:30.644 --> 02:02:35.328 CAN'T, I HAVE TO OBEY. EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW ALWAYS WHAT IT IS 02:02:35.328 --> 02:02:39.134 THAT THE FUTURE HOLDS, BUT I AM TELLING YOU THIS, BE PATIENT. BE 02:02:39.134 --> 02:02:44.087 PATIENT, BE PATIENT. BUT HERE'S A PRINCIPLE. NOW WATCH THIS, AND 02:02:44.087 --> 02:02:46.454 I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT BEING RECKLESS. NOW WATCH THIS, VERSE 02:02:46.454 --> 02:02:50.113 30. AND CALEB STILLED THE PEOPLE BEFORE MOSES, AND HE SAID, 02:02:50.113 --> 02:02:56.323 "LET'S GO UP," WHEN? AT ONCE. SOMETIMES THINGS AREN'T MEANT TO 02:02:56.323 --> 02:03:04.394 BE DELAYED, OVERTHOUGHT, DO OVERTHINKING, OVERDISCUSSING IT. 02:03:04.394 --> 02:03:08.503 OKAY, ONCE I KNEW IN MY HEART THAT GOD WAS SAYING, GET TO 02:03:08.503 --> 02:03:13.873 OMAHA, IT WAS A MATTER OF DO IT NOW, WASN'T IT, BRENDA? WE HAD 02:03:13.873 --> 02:03:18.854 TO, I MEAN, LIKE THREE MONTHS, WE PACKED UP EVERYTHING, LOADED 02:03:18.854 --> 02:03:23.173 UP THE TRUCK. I DIDN'T HAVE A REAL SOURCE OF INCOME. THE 02:03:23.173 --> 02:03:26.384 PASTOR WHO PROPHESIED THAT SAID, I'LL GIVE YOU $200 A MONTH. I 02:03:26.384 --> 02:03:31.363 WENT, OKAY. THAT'S ALL I HAD. AND I HAD A FEW PEOPLE THAT 02:03:31.363 --> 02:03:34.394 SAID, HEY, WHEN YOU GET THERE, WE'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE MONEY. 02:03:34.394 --> 02:03:38.894 WE HAD TO BELIEVE GOD. WHEN WE CAME HERE, I TOLD YOU, YOU KNOW, 02:03:38.894 --> 02:03:42.104 THE LORD TOLD ME TO COME HERE MARCH 22ND, SATURDAY, MARCH 02:03:42.104 --> 02:03:47.503 22ND, SUNDAY, MARCH 23RD. THAT WAS THE DAY THAT WHEN WE SAID TO 02:03:47.503 --> 02:03:51.104 THE RENTERS, THE LUNDT COMPANY AT THE TIME, THEY SAID THE DAY 02:03:51.104 --> 02:03:54.795 THAT YOU CAN MOVE IN IS SUNDAY, MARCH 23RD. YOU CAN'T MAKE THAT 02:03:54.795 --> 02:03:58.064 UP. WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT HOUSES, NOTHING WAS WORKING OUT 02:03:58.064 --> 02:04:00.194 HERE. I COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING. BACK IN THOSE DAYS, YOU LOOKED 02:04:00.194 --> 02:04:04.304 AT THE NEWSPAPER. AND I REMEMBER THE DAY I GRABBED THE NEWSPAPER 02:04:04.304 --> 02:04:07.904 AND I WAS SO FRUSTRATED 'CAUSE ALL THE HOUSES WE LOOKED AT, WE 02:04:07.904 --> 02:04:11.594 COULDN'T AFFORD IT OR THEY SAID NO TO US. SO FINALLY I WAS MAD 02:04:11.594 --> 02:04:15.373 AND I GRABBED THE NEWSPAPER AND I WENT LIKE THIS AND I ROLLED IT 02:04:15.373 --> 02:04:20.594 UP IN A BALL, LIKE THIS AND I SAID, BRENDA, I SAID, AND I KEPT 02:04:20.594 --> 02:04:23.384 GETTING MAD AT BEING IN OMAHA. I SAID, I TELL YOU, I'M TRYING TO 02:04:23.384 --> 02:04:25.484 COME TO OMAHA. GOD TOLD ME TO COME TO OMAHA. WE CAN'T EVEN 02:04:25.484 --> 02:04:29.774 FIND A PLACE TO LIVE AND I THREW IT INTO THE TRASH BAG OR TRASH 02:04:29.774 --> 02:04:36.344 CAN. IT WENT PING AND IT OPENED. AND I WENT TO REACH FOR IT AND 02:04:36.344 --> 02:04:39.373 GOD IS MY WITNESS. LORD, THANK YOU, YOU HAVE A GREAT SENSE OF 02:04:39.373 --> 02:04:45.493 HUMOR. RIGHT LOOKING DOWN AT THE NEWSPAPER, IT POPPED OFF THE 02:04:45.493 --> 02:04:47.533 PAGE. HOW MANY OF YOU EVER READ YOUR BIBLE AND IT POPS OFF THE 02:04:47.533 --> 02:04:51.913 PAGE? IT'S KIND OF LIKE BRENDA'S PHONE NUMBER. WHEN I FIRST 02:04:51.913 --> 02:04:55.844 CALLED IT JUST LIKE POPPED OFF THE PAGE, MAN. DIDN'T HAVE CELL 02:04:55.844 --> 02:05:01.573 PHONES THEN, BUT IT POPPED OFF THE PAGE. AND I SAW THIS HOUSE 02:05:01.573 --> 02:05:09.314 FOR RENT. WHAT? I DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE. I CALLED IT. GUY GETS 02:05:09.314 --> 02:05:12.163 ON THE PHONE AND SAYS, WHY ARE YOU COMING TO OMAHA? I SAID, 02:05:12.163 --> 02:05:16.752 WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE A TRANSITION. HE SAID, 02:05:16.752 --> 02:05:18.734 WELL, THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED YOU. WHY ARE YOU COMING TO 02:05:18.734 --> 02:05:22.837 OMAHA? I'M LIKE, SHOULD I TELL HIM THAT I'M STARTING A CHURCH 02:05:22.837 --> 02:05:25.814 AND NOW HE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER NEGATIVE ANSWER. THIS IS A 02:05:25.814 --> 02:05:29.863 STUPID SIGN. I SAID, WELL, I BELIEVE GOD CALLED ME TO COME 02:05:29.863 --> 02:05:33.823 HERE AND START A CHURCH. PRAISE GOD, JUST A MOMENT. HEY, HONEY, 02:05:33.823 --> 02:05:36.734 THE GUY THAT I TOLD YOU WOULD BE CALLING IS ON THE PHONE. 02:05:36.734 --> 02:05:38.354 (CONGREGATION CHEERING) 02:05:38.354 --> 02:05:44.354 I'M LIKE, HUH? YOU REMEMBER A DIFFERENT CHURCH? WHAT ARE YOU 02:05:44.354 --> 02:05:49.064 TALKING ABOUT, WILLIS? (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 02:05:49.064 --> 02:05:53.953 HE GOES, YEAH, COME ON, COME ON OVER. SO WE GET THERE, HE GOES, 02:05:53.953 --> 02:05:57.283 WELL, HEY, MAN, I NEED, I DON'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH HE SAID. 02:05:58.423 --> 02:06:00.644 ANYWAY, I SAID, WELL, WE CAN'T AFFORD THAT. HE GOES, WELL, WHAT 02:06:00.644 --> 02:06:02.384 CAN YOU AFFORD? SO WE TOLD HIM, HE GOES, OKAY, I'LL RENT IT TO 02:06:02.384 --> 02:06:09.104 YOU FOR THAT. YEAH, ALL BECAUSE I SAID YES, AND I DID IT AT 02:06:09.104 --> 02:06:13.154 ONCE. I NOTICED WHEN I DELAY THINGS, WHEN GOD TOLD ME TO BUY 02:06:13.154 --> 02:06:15.073 THAT PIZZA BUILDING, I IMMEDIATELY CALLED THE BROKER 02:06:15.073 --> 02:06:16.993 'CAUSE I HAD A DREAM THAT WE'RE GONNA PUT APARTMENTS OUT HERE. 02:06:18.224 --> 02:06:21.194 AND WE LOSE ALL OUR PARKING. BROOKS SAID, "NO, THAT'S NOT 02:06:21.194 --> 02:06:25.184 TRUE." I SAID, "NO, CALL THEM. "I SEE PAPERS GETTING READY TO 02:06:25.184 --> 02:06:28.573 BE SIGNED." HE CALLED BACK AND SAID, "YOU'RE RIGHT. "THEY WERE 02:06:28.573 --> 02:06:30.854 GOING TO PUT APARTMENTS IN HERE "AND THEY'RE GETTING READY TO 02:06:30.854 --> 02:06:35.414 SIGN THE PAPERS." IF I WOULD'VE JUST DELAYED, OH, IT'S JUST ME. 02:06:36.793 --> 02:06:39.945 SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA ACT ON WHAT YOU FEEL FROM GOD. PEOPLE SAY, 02:06:39.945 --> 02:06:43.634 "WELL, PASTOR HANK, HOW DO YOU HEAR GOD?" 'CAUSE I OBEY! IF I 02:06:43.634 --> 02:06:47.984 FEEL IT'S THE LORD, I ACT ON IT WITH WISDOM. AND I ALSO SEEK 02:06:47.984 --> 02:06:53.323 COUNSEL, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S DIRECTIVE. AND I ALSO KNOW HOW 02:06:53.323 --> 02:06:57.644 TO WAIT ON THE LORD. I'M WAITING ON SHILOH. TOLD ME TO DO THIS 02:06:57.644 --> 02:07:00.344 AND HE TOLD ME TO WAIT. I'M LIKE, "I HATE THAT WORD, GOD. 02:07:02.953 --> 02:07:05.594 "OF ALL THE WORDS THAT YOU INVENTED, "WAIT IS THE WORST 02:07:05.594 --> 02:07:08.684 ONE." (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 02:07:08.684 --> 02:07:11.863 I DON'T LIKE WAITING. BUT WHAT MY POINT IS, SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA 02:07:11.863 --> 02:07:14.173 QUIT THINKING ABOUT IT. YOU JUST HAVE TO OBEY. AND DO YOU KNOW 02:07:14.173 --> 02:07:17.144 WHAT? I COULDN'T THINK ABOUT IT. BRENDA AND I, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE 02:07:17.144 --> 02:07:20.503 MONEY, EVEN THOUGH HE ACCEPTED IT FOR THE RENT. WE DIDN'T HAVE 02:07:20.503 --> 02:07:26.354 IT! I DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THE MONEY TO RENT OUR FIRST CHURCH BAY! 02:07:26.354 --> 02:07:31.543 DIDN'T EVEN HAVE MONEY FOR FOOD. AND I HAD A HOLD, WERE YOU, 02:07:31.543 --> 02:07:35.474 MATT? I DON'T REMEMBER, HOLD, WAS HE, BRENDA? ABOUT THREE, 02:07:35.474 --> 02:07:42.134 DIDN'T HAVE IT. BUT I OBEYED. AND WHEN YOU OBEY, YOU'LL EAT 02:07:42.134 --> 02:07:46.064 THE GOOD OF THE LAND. NOW LET ME SHOW YOU ANOTHER PRINCIPLE. ALL 02:07:46.064 --> 02:07:50.833 RIGHT, LET'S GO ON. SOMETIMES WE GOTTA GET AWAY FROM IT'S TOO 02:07:50.833 --> 02:07:59.173 HARD. LOOK AT LUKE 5:1. GET RID OF IT'S TOO HARD. I'VE HAD 02:07:59.173 --> 02:08:06.134 PEOPLE SAY THAT TO ME. IT'S TOO HARD. NOW, SOMETIMES IF PEOPLE 02:08:06.134 --> 02:08:08.713 DID REALIZE SOME THINGS ARE HARD, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT 02:08:08.713 --> 02:08:13.243 THINK THEY'RE CALLED OF GOD, IT DOES REQUIRE A PRICE THAT YOU 02:08:13.243 --> 02:08:19.394 HAVE TO PAY. BUT SOMETIMES WE PERCEIVE SOMETHING AS BEING SO 02:08:19.394 --> 02:08:26.083 HARD THAT REALLY IT'S EASY. RIGHT? HAVE YOU EVER PUT 02:08:26.083 --> 02:08:29.953 SOMETHING TOGETHER? BRENDA DOES IT ALL THE TIME. I HAVE A, I 02:08:29.953 --> 02:08:31.568 DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS KNOW, I HAVE A PART-TIME 02:08:31.568 --> 02:08:34.934 JOB. DID I EVER TELL YOU THAT? THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 02:08:34.934 --> 02:08:45.373 WATCHING. IT'S CALLED UNPACK UPS, FEDEX, AMAZON BOXES. TAKE 02:08:45.373 --> 02:08:50.264 OUT THE CONTACTS, TENTS, SET 'EM ASIDE, AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE 02:08:50.264 --> 02:08:51.944 DONE, BREAK 'EM DOWN, AND YOU PUT 'EM INTO EITHER THE 02:08:51.944 --> 02:08:58.363 RECYCLABLE BIN OR IN THE TRASH. AND I PROBABLY PUT IN 40 HOURS A 02:08:58.363 --> 02:09:01.154 WEEK ON THAT JOB, BRENDA, JUST SO YOU KNOW, IT'S A PART-TIME 02:09:01.154 --> 02:09:10.123 JOB. NO, NO, SHE KNOWS IT'S TRUE. HERE I WAS TRYING TO MAKE 02:09:10.123 --> 02:09:16.394 A GREAT POINT, WHAT'S THE POINT? (AUDIENCE CHATTERING) 02:09:16.394 --> 02:09:21.524 TOO HARD. TOO HARD, THANK YOU, YOU GUYS ARE LISTENING. ALL 02:09:23.863 --> 02:09:27.224 RIGHT, I'LL COME BACK TO THAT. ALL RIGHT, AMAZON BOXES, TOO 02:09:27.224 --> 02:09:28.844 HARD. HUH? 02:09:31.243 --> 02:09:32.594 - PUTTING STUFF TOGETHER. 02:09:32.594 --> 02:09:35.623 - PUTTING, OH, PUTTING STUFF TOGETHER, THANK YOU. SO BRENDA 02:09:35.623 --> 02:09:37.993 GETS ALL THESE BOXES OF PLACES WHERE YOU HAVE TO PUT STUFF 02:09:37.993 --> 02:09:41.774 TOGETHER, RIGHT? AND THERE'S A REASON THAT IT'S BETTER TO BE 02:09:41.774 --> 02:09:44.684 MADE IN THE USA, 'CAUSE THESE OTHER PLACES, THEY DON'T KNOW 02:09:44.684 --> 02:09:48.583 HOW TO PUT STUFF TOGETHER. AND SO YOU TRY TO READ THE 02:09:48.583 --> 02:09:50.743 DIRECTIONS, THEY NEVER MAKE SENSE, SO I NEVER READ THE 02:09:50.743 --> 02:09:53.713 DIRECTIONS. I ALWAYS LOOK AT THE PICTURES, AND THEN THE PICTURES 02:09:53.713 --> 02:09:55.965 DON'T MAKE SENSE, AND THEN I'M ALWAYS LOOKING AT, BRENDA, WHY 02:09:55.965 --> 02:10:02.264 IS THAT SHELF CROOKED? WHY IS THAT BOOKSHELF LOOK LIKE THE 02:10:02.264 --> 02:10:06.644 LEANING TOWER OF BOOKSHELVES? HEY, BRENDA, LOOK AT ALL THESE 02:10:06.644 --> 02:10:10.963 LEFTOVER PARTS, MAN. WE COULD PUT 'EM INTO THE GARAGE. BUT 02:10:10.963 --> 02:10:13.543 YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A LOT OF LEFTOVER PARTS, RIGHT? I 02:10:13.543 --> 02:10:18.073 REMEMBER WHEN WE PUT TOGETHER MATTHEW'S BABY CRIB. I CALLED 02:10:18.073 --> 02:10:22.304 HER IN, I WAS THE PROUD HUSBAND. I WAS PROBABLY LIKE 25, 26, 02:10:22.304 --> 02:10:27.524 RIGHT? CALL, I CALL BRENDA, COME ON IN, BRENDA. SHE GOES, DOESN'T 02:10:27.524 --> 02:10:31.573 LOOK RIGHT, IT'S KINDA CROOKED. I SAID, WELL, IT'S OPTICAL 02:10:31.573 --> 02:10:35.623 DELUSION. THAT'S WHAT IT IS, OPTICAL DELUSION. I SAID, WOULD 02:10:35.623 --> 02:10:39.554 YOU HELP ME, I GOTTA PUT THE MATTRESS IN. HANK, IT LOOKS 02:10:39.554 --> 02:10:45.583 CROOKED. BRENDA, IT DOESN'T LOOK CROOKED, I'M AN ARTISTE. I HAVE 02:10:45.583 --> 02:10:49.274 AN ARTISTIC EYE, AND I KNOW WHEN SOMETHING IS CROOKED AND THEN 02:10:49.274 --> 02:10:51.583 SHE SAYS, WELL, I'M AN ARTIST TOO. YEAH, BUT YOU HAVEN'T COME 02:10:51.583 --> 02:10:53.713 TO THE LEVEL OF CARTOONING ABILITY WHERE YOU UNDERSTAND 02:10:53.713 --> 02:10:57.944 PERSPECTIVE AND, YOU KNOW, SO YOU'RE GETTING DEEPER, I KNOW, 02:10:57.944 --> 02:11:01.154 YOU'RE GETTING DEEPER, YOU'RE GETTING DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO 02:11:01.154 --> 02:11:05.503 WHATEVER. AND SHE GOES, "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO PUT THAT?" 02:11:05.503 --> 02:11:09.793 SHE'S RAISING HER HAND IN THE FRONT ROW. SHE SAID, "YOU SURE 02:11:09.793 --> 02:11:12.104 YOU WANT TO PUT THE MATTRESS ON?" I SAID, "YEAH." "IT'S 02:11:12.104 --> 02:11:16.453 CROOKED." "NO, IT'S NOT." WE PUT THE MATTRESS ON AND THE SIDES 02:11:16.453 --> 02:11:22.293 FALL DOWN. AND THE THING CAVES IN. "MATTHEW, THANK GOD YOU 02:11:22.293 --> 02:11:25.113 WEREN'T IN THERE." CAN YOU IMAGINE PUTTING MATTHEW, "OH, 02:11:25.113 --> 02:11:26.224 LET'S JUST PUT THE BABY TO SLEEP." 02:11:28.707 --> 02:11:30.694 SHE GOES, "THERE'S A REASON "THERE'S ALL THESE PARTS LEFT 02:11:30.694 --> 02:11:34.804 OVER." BUT THEN WHEN YOU REALIZE, IF YOU COULD QUIT 02:11:34.804 --> 02:11:40.354 LOOKING AT THE PICTURES AND YOU JUST READ AND FOLLOW ALONG, YOU 02:11:40.354 --> 02:11:46.083 REALIZE IT AIN'T AS HARD AS WHAT YOU MAKE IT. IT'S BECAUSE YOU 02:11:46.083 --> 02:11:49.413 DON'T WANNA FOLLOW DIRECTIONS. AND THEN I STARTED REALIZING, 02:11:49.413 --> 02:11:54.184 MAYBE THAT IS A CHARACTER FLAW IN ME, WHERE I DON'T LIKE TO 02:11:54.184 --> 02:12:00.484 TAKE ORDERS AND DIRECTION. NO, I HAD TO SEARCH MY HEART. WHY IS 02:12:00.484 --> 02:12:04.833 IT THAT I DON'T LIKE TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS? 'CAUSE MAYBE AS A 02:12:04.833 --> 02:12:08.644 PERSON, 'CAUSE I'M SUCH A LEADER, I DON'T LIKE TO FOLLOW 02:12:08.644 --> 02:12:14.014 INSTRUCTIONS. AND I HAD TO HUMBLE MYSELF. I BETTER WATCH 02:12:14.014 --> 02:12:17.314 THAT AREA OF MY LIFE, 'CAUSE THERE MIGHT BE SOME PEOPLE 02:12:17.314 --> 02:12:22.054 SPEAKING TO ME AND I AIN'T LISTENING. MADE ME DO A HEART 02:12:22.054 --> 02:12:25.833 CHECK, LIKE, "HANK, DON'T GET SO THINKING YOU'RE LEADER "THAT YOU 02:12:25.833 --> 02:12:29.644 DON'T NEED TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS SOMEWHERE." "QUIT 02:12:29.644 --> 02:12:32.434 LAUGHING, DOUG, I LISTEN TO ALL KINDS OF THINGS "THAT YOU SAY TO 02:12:32.434 --> 02:12:35.644 ME," AS ONE OF THE EXECUTIVE PASTORS. HE'S OVER THERE PATTING 02:12:35.644 --> 02:12:38.524 HIS WIFE'S SHOULDER, LIKE, "SEE, I TOLD YOU, STOP IT, DOUG." 02:12:38.524 --> 02:12:42.394 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 02:12:42.394 --> 02:12:44.644 ALL RIGHT, I GOTTA GET DONE, SO YOU CAN START HEADING THIS WAY, 02:12:44.644 --> 02:12:48.243 'CAUSE I GOTTA GET A FLIGHT CHECK. OR I GOTTA GET READY. 02:12:48.243 --> 02:12:52.623 OKAY, AND IT CAME TO PASS AS THE PEOPLE PRESSED JESUS TO HEAR THE 02:12:52.623 --> 02:12:56.434 WORD OF GOD, HE STOOD BY THE LAKE OF, CAN YOU PRONOUNCE IT 02:12:56.434 --> 02:13:04.444 FOR ME? OKAY, JUST LIKE YOU CAN HEAR, GENNESARET. OKAY, LAKE G. 02:13:05.554 --> 02:13:09.184 AND SO AS HE WENT TO LAKE G, THEY SAW TWO SHIPS STANDING BY 02:13:09.184 --> 02:13:11.734 THE LAKE, BUT THE FISHERMEN WERE GONE OUT AND THEY WERE WASHING 02:13:11.734 --> 02:13:14.104 THEIR NETS. AND HE ENTERED INTO ONE OF THE SHIPS, WHICH WAS 02:13:14.104 --> 02:13:16.623 SIMON. HE PRAYED THAT HE WOULD THRUST OUT IN THE LAND. HE SAT 02:13:16.623 --> 02:13:19.354 DOWN, TAUGHT THE PEOPLE. NOW WHEN HE LEFT SPEAKING, HE SAID 02:13:19.354 --> 02:13:22.863 TO SIMON, "HEY, SIMON, LAUNCH OUT IN THE DEEP, PUT YOUR NETS 02:13:22.863 --> 02:13:25.984 DOWN AGAIN FOR A CATCH." AND SIMON ANSWERED, SAID, "OH, 02:13:25.984 --> 02:13:30.333 MASTER, WE WORKED ALL NIGHT, IT'S TOO HARD. WE'VE TAKEN 02:13:30.333 --> 02:13:34.804 NOTHING, IT'S TOO HARD, IT WON'T WORK. COME ON." JESUS WAS TRYING 02:13:34.804 --> 02:13:42.453 TO SHIFT CHANGE HIM. LAUNCH OUT IN THE DEEP, RIGHT? AND THEN HE 02:13:42.453 --> 02:13:45.453 GOES, "NEVERTHELESS," AND HE PROBABLY ROLLED HIS EYES, "AT 02:13:45.453 --> 02:13:48.635 YOUR WORD, I GUESS I'LL DO IT," KICKING THE STONES LIKE I DID 02:13:48.635 --> 02:13:51.453 WHEN I WAS TOLD TO COME TO OMAHA. AND WHEN THEY HAD DONE 02:13:51.453 --> 02:13:55.203 THIS, THEY ENCLOSED A BREAKTHROUGH, A GREAT MULTITUDE 02:13:55.203 --> 02:13:59.734 OF FISH, EXCEEDINGLY, AGAIN, GOD DOES EXCEEDINGLY, IF HE'S ASKING 02:13:59.734 --> 02:14:04.984 YOU TO SHIFT AND CHANGE FOR ADVANCEMENT, IT WILL ALWAYS BE 02:14:04.984 --> 02:14:08.404 EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANTLY. THAT'S HIS CHARACTER, THAT'S HIS 02:14:08.404 --> 02:14:11.135 NATURE, THAT'S THE WAY THE BLESSINGS COME. AND THERE'S 02:14:11.135 --> 02:14:14.583 ALWAYS BREAKTHROUGH. SO NOTICE WHAT HE HAD TO DO. LORD, AT THY 02:14:14.583 --> 02:14:18.394 WORD, I'LL LET DOWN THY NETS. NOW GO TO JOHN SIX, LOOK AT 02:14:18.394 --> 02:14:20.554 VERSE 60, WE'RE GONNA END WITH THIS. AND THEN NEXT WEEK I'LL 02:14:20.554 --> 02:14:25.743 PICK UP ABOUT, I'LL TALK ABOUT ELISHA, AND THEN WE'LL SHIFT 02:14:25.743 --> 02:14:30.003 INTO SOME OTHER AREAS I WANNA SHARE WITH YOU. THIS IS REALLY 02:14:30.003 --> 02:14:33.573 IMPORTANT. SO JESUS IS SHARING NOW IN JOHN 6, HE SAYS, "HEY, HE 02:14:33.573 --> 02:14:37.354 THAT EATS MY FLESH AND DRINKS MY BLOOD "HAS MY LIFE IN THEM." YOU 02:14:37.354 --> 02:14:41.974 KNOW, HE'S TALKING ABOUT HOLY COMMUNION, RIGHT? AND HE HAD 82 02:14:41.974 --> 02:14:46.323 APOSTLES, BECAUSE REMEMBER, HE HAD 12, THE 12, BUT THEN HE ALSO 02:14:46.323 --> 02:14:52.264 HAD 70 OTHERS. SO HE HAD A TOTAL OF 82 AT LEAST. AND 70 OF THEM 02:14:52.264 --> 02:14:54.844 ARE LISTENING TO THIS, EAT MY FLESH, DRINK MY BLOOD, AND 02:14:54.844 --> 02:14:57.304 THEY'RE THINKING JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT CANNIBALISM. 02:14:58.684 --> 02:15:01.173 SOMETIMES WE GOTTA BE CAREFUL THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS PUT OUR 02:15:01.173 --> 02:15:07.743 INTERPRETATION ON THINGS, THAT WE MISINTERPRET IT. RIGHT, HOW 02:15:07.743 --> 02:15:10.743 MANY OF YOU EVER PLAY THE GAME TELEPHONE? HOW MANY OF YOU EVER 02:15:10.743 --> 02:15:14.605 BEEN ON THE TELEPHONE? AND WHAT YOU SAY IS NOT WHAT THEY HEAR. 02:15:16.444 --> 02:15:19.234 RIGHT, MATT AND JOHN? OH, I'M SORRY, NO, I'M JUST MESSING WITH 02:15:19.234 --> 02:15:22.413 HIM. BUT IT'S TRUE, YOU EVER HAD THAT? YOU TELL SOMEBODY 02:15:22.413 --> 02:15:25.923 SOMETHING AND THEY'RE LIKE, THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID, I DIDN'T 02:15:25.923 --> 02:15:34.054 SAY THAT. SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE JESUS IS SPEAKING AND THEY'RE 02:15:34.054 --> 02:15:36.963 NOT GETTING IT. THEY'RE PERCEIVING IT'S TOO HARD. NOW 02:15:36.963 --> 02:15:42.453 WATCH WHAT HAPPENS. MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES, VERSE 60, WHEN THEY 02:15:42.453 --> 02:15:46.654 HEARD THESE THINGS, SOMETIMES WHAT YOU HEAR, BE CAREFUL THAT 02:15:46.654 --> 02:15:51.333 YOU DON'T PUT YOUR RULES, YOUR TERMS, YOUR MINDSETS ON IT, OR 02:15:53.283 --> 02:15:57.844 YOU MIGHT LEAVE YOUR DESTINY AND NEVER ENTER INTO IT. HOW MANY OF 02:15:57.844 --> 02:16:04.039 THESE THAT LEFT? MAYBE WE WOULD BE READING ABOUT THEIR EPISTLE. 02:16:06.094 --> 02:16:10.654 YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT? BUT THEY SAID THIS, "THESE ARE HARD 02:16:10.654 --> 02:16:14.764 SAYINGS. "WHO CAN HEAR IT?" VERSE 66, "AND THEY DIDN'T WALK 02:16:14.764 --> 02:16:18.243 WITH HIM ANY LONGER." LET ME SAY THIS LAST THING AS YOU STAND 02:16:18.243 --> 02:16:28.264 YOUR FEET. I REMEMBER ONE DAY WE HAD SOME FOLK WHO DECIDED TO 02:16:28.264 --> 02:16:31.444 LEAVE THIS PLACE. AND IN THOSE DAYS, MAN, IT'S LIKE IF ONE 02:16:31.444 --> 02:16:35.106 PERSON LEFT, YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANYBODY 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE 02:16:35.106 --> 02:16:39.725 THAT BIG OF A CHURCH. AND SO THIS WAS YEARS AND YEARS AGO. 02:16:39.725 --> 02:16:42.665 AND AGAIN, WE WISH EVERYBODY WELL. SO IF YOU THINK I'M 02:16:42.665 --> 02:16:45.725 THINKING OF SOMEBODY, WE WISH THEM WELL, WE'VE FORGIVEN A LONG 02:16:45.725 --> 02:16:50.165 TIME AGO. WHY GET BITTER ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT? BUT IT MADE 02:16:50.165 --> 02:16:55.863 ME A BETTER PASTOR. SO THEY HAD SAID, A FEW OF THESE PEOPLE 02:16:55.863 --> 02:17:01.145 DECIDED TO GO ON FROM THIS WORK. THEY SAID SOMETHING, REALLY, 02:17:01.145 --> 02:17:03.994 REALLY. AGAIN, WE FORGIVE THEM. I'M JUST USING THIS AS AN 02:17:03.994 --> 02:17:07.772 EXAMPLE. IF YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE AND YOU'RE WATCHING TODAY, WE 02:17:07.772 --> 02:17:10.772 DON'T HOLD ANYTHING AGAINST YOU. IT JUST MAKES FOR A GREAT SERMON 02:17:10.772 --> 02:17:14.254 BECAUSE IT REALLY DID BETTER ME, AND I PRAY IT BETTERED YOU. BUT 02:17:14.254 --> 02:17:18.004 THEY SAID SOME THINGS THAT WERE REALLY, REALLY JUST, I MEAN, 02:17:18.004 --> 02:17:24.513 BELOW THE BELT GUT PUNCHES. AND IT WAS, IN THOSE DAYS, WE'RE 02:17:24.513 --> 02:17:28.863 LIKE, "OH MY GOD, IS THIS REALLY WHO WE ARE?" SO FOR ABOUT THREE 02:17:28.863 --> 02:17:34.203 WEEKS, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR CHURCH THAT WAS ALREADY SMALL, 02:17:35.795 --> 02:17:39.988 BE LIKE EVEN MORE SMALLER, IS THAT A WORD, SMALLER? DWINDLING. 02:17:41.254 --> 02:17:45.635 I DIDN'T WANNA BE IN OMAHA, IT JUST MADE IT WORSE. NOW I LOVE 02:17:45.635 --> 02:17:47.885 BEING HERE, BY THE WAY. I WOULDN'T WANNA BE ANYWHERE ELSE, 02:17:47.885 --> 02:17:52.138 AND I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE. FOR THREE WEEKS, BRENDA AND I WOULD 02:17:52.138 --> 02:17:54.545 GET UP, AND WE WOULD PRAY IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE HOUSE, 02:17:54.545 --> 02:17:56.703 AND I WOULD COME DOWN TO THE LIVING ROOM, OR SOMETIMES WE 02:17:56.703 --> 02:17:58.772 WOULD TRADE, AND SHE'D GO TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE HOUSE, AND 02:17:58.772 --> 02:18:01.022 WE'D PRAY. AND WE WOULD JUST SAY, "GOD, IF WE'RE THESE 02:18:01.022 --> 02:18:03.754 PEOPLE, "IF WE'RE THESE PASTORS, IF THIS IS REALLY WHO WE ARE, 02:18:03.754 --> 02:18:08.074 "AND WE'RE NOT PERFECT." NEVER SAID WE ARE, NEVER SAID THAT. 02:18:08.074 --> 02:18:10.324 BUT, YOU KNOW, IS THERE AREAS THAT YOU CAN GROW IN? YEAH, 02:18:10.324 --> 02:18:12.725 BIBLE SAYS EXAMINE YOURSELF, AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO 02:18:12.725 --> 02:18:17.795 DO IN THE HONOR OF GOD, AND TO BE BETTER LEADERS. AND SO WE 02:18:17.795 --> 02:18:20.885 WOULD PRAY, AND WE WOULD PRAY, AND WE WOULD PRAY. AND ONE 02:18:20.885 --> 02:18:26.192 PARTICULAR DAY OR MORNING, I WAS PRAYING IN THE LIVING ROOM, AND 02:18:26.192 --> 02:18:29.795 I WAS JUST LIKE, GOD, I'M DONE. I JUST DON'T EVEN WANNA TALK 02:18:29.795 --> 02:18:35.283 ABOUT THIS. I'M FRUSTRATED. AND I WENT LIKE THIS. HOW MANY EVER 02:18:35.283 --> 02:18:38.824 SAW THE SUPERMAN THING? AND I'M NOT SAYING I'M SUPERMAN, BUT I'M 02:18:38.824 --> 02:18:41.013 GONNA GIVE YOU AN ANALOGY. I WENT LIKE THIS TO GOD. I SAID, 02:18:41.013 --> 02:18:50.013 GOD, I PEEL MY CHEST OPEN. THIS IS MY HEART. IF I AM EVEN A 02:18:50.013 --> 02:18:55.924 LITTLE BIT, WHAT IS BEING SAID OF ME AND ABOUT ME AND HOW I 02:18:55.924 --> 02:19:00.424 LEAD AND HOW I PASTOR AND WHO I AM AS A PERSON. AND MY WIFE, I 02:19:00.424 --> 02:19:04.145 PEEL MY HEART OPEN AND I BEAR IT BEFORE YOU. I'VE COME NOW THREE 02:19:04.145 --> 02:19:09.424 WEEKS TO YOU. CHANGE ME, TAKE IT OUT OF ME. I GIVE YOU EVERY 02:19:09.424 --> 02:19:14.824 RIGHT TO TAKE IT OUT OF MY LIFE. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I HEARD GOD. 02:19:14.824 --> 02:19:20.314 I HADN'T HEARD IN THREE WEEKS PRIOR. HE SAID, "STAND OVER 02:19:20.314 --> 02:19:25.863 HERE, OR THERE, STAND OVER THERE." AND I'M STANDING THERE, 02:19:25.863 --> 02:19:29.645 AND I AM OVERCOME WITH THE FEAR OF GOD. I DON'T WANNA MOVE. AND 02:19:29.645 --> 02:19:34.744 I DON'T KNOW WHERE THERE IS, SO I KINDA MADE IT UP. AND I WENT 02:19:34.744 --> 02:19:38.225 OVER BY THE COFFEE TABLE, AND I STOOD THERE, AND IT WAS THE 02:19:38.225 --> 02:19:41.763 RIGHT ONE. AND I WAS LIKE, "CHING, CHING!" HE SAID, "TURN 02:19:41.763 --> 02:19:52.295 AROUND!" AND I WAS SCARED. I WAS GONNA DROP TO MY KNEES, AND THEN 02:19:52.295 --> 02:19:59.703 HIS VOICE CAME TENDER. HE SAID, "STAND UP." AND HE SAID, "I HAVE 02:19:59.703 --> 02:20:07.234 YOUR BACK." AND THEN HE SAID TO ME, HE SAID, "I WANNA SHARE 02:20:07.234 --> 02:20:13.174 SOMETHING TO YOU. "NEVER FORGET THIS AS YOU STAND BEFORE ME." I 02:20:14.720 --> 02:20:20.573 SAID, "SPEAK." "I WANT TO BE BETTER." HE SAID, "MANY OF THE 02:20:20.573 --> 02:20:27.395 70 THAT YOU READ ABOUT THAT LEFT," HE SAID, "DO NOT BUILD A 02:20:27.395 --> 02:20:33.725 DOCTRINE OFF OF THIS, "BUT I WANT YOU TO BE COMFORTED." OKAY, 02:20:33.725 --> 02:20:36.844 HE SAID, "DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN PONTIUS PILATE WAS THERE?" AND 02:20:36.844 --> 02:20:41.283 HE SAID, "WHO DO YOU WANT ME TO RELEASE FOR YOU? JESUS WHO IS 02:20:41.283 --> 02:20:51.363 CALLED THE CHRIST OR BARABBAS?" AND THE CROWD YELLED, "RELEASE 02:20:51.363 --> 02:20:58.504 BARABBAS! CRUCIFY JESUS!" HE SAID, "HANK, "I LOOKED OUT IN 02:20:58.504 --> 02:21:03.094 THE AUDIENCE, "AND MANY OF THE 70 WERE SCREAMING, 'CRUCIFY 02:21:03.094 --> 02:21:10.895 HIM!'" BECAUSE THOSE IN YOUR LIFE, IN YOUR MINISTRY, SOME MAY 02:21:10.895 --> 02:21:16.895 SAY, "YOU ARE GREAT, WE LOVE YOU." MAY ONE DAY BE THE VERY 02:21:16.895 --> 02:21:22.625 ONES THAT WILL GATHER THE CROWD, AND THEY WILL CRUCIFY YOU IN 02:21:22.625 --> 02:21:30.674 YOUR CHARACTER. BE COMFORTED. DON'T PREACH TO THOSE PEOPLE. 02:21:32.684 --> 02:21:36.225 AND THAT WAS THE BIGGEST SHIFT AND CHANGE THAT GOD HAD, IS 02:21:36.225 --> 02:21:38.863 THERE I WOULD GO OUT AND PREACH TO THE PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO BE 02:21:38.863 --> 02:21:46.844 HERE. I WAS A TERRIBLE PASTOR. AND IT ALMOST MADE THEM BELIEVE 02:21:46.844 --> 02:21:52.190 THAT THEY WERE THE PROBLEM. AND THAT EXPERIENCE SHIFTED ME AS A 02:21:52.190 --> 02:22:01.693 PASTOR. I'M NOT PERFECT, BUT I GOT BETTER. WHAT IS IT THAT YOU 02:22:01.693 --> 02:22:07.305 KNOW YOU NEED TO DO? ALL OVER THIS PLACE. MAYBE SOME OF YOU, 02:22:07.305 --> 02:22:11.055 IT'S TO COME OUT OF SIN, YOU NEED TO SHIFT. MAYBE SOME OF 02:22:11.055 --> 02:22:13.004 YOU, YOU NEED TO BREAK UP WITH THAT PERSON YOU'RE SEEING, 02:22:13.004 --> 02:22:17.533 'CAUSE YOU KNOW THEY'RE NOT RIGHT FOR YOU. YOU NEED TO STOP 02:22:17.533 --> 02:22:22.453 DATING WORLDLY PEOPLE. SOME OF YOU NEED TO START HAVING 02:22:22.453 --> 02:22:25.453 DEVOTIONS AND SHIFTS. SOME OF YOU, YOU'RE LABORING AT THE 02:22:25.453 --> 02:22:30.734 WRONG THINGS. SOME OF YOU ARE WASTING TIME ON THINGS IN LIFE 02:22:30.734 --> 02:22:34.574 THAT DOESN'T MATTER. COME ON, IF I COULD STAND BEFORE GOD AND 02:22:34.574 --> 02:22:38.895 PEEL MY HEART OPEN, IT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING THAT 02:22:38.895 --> 02:22:41.055 HAPPENED TO ME AT THE TIME, I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW IT WOULD 02:22:41.055 --> 02:22:44.531 RELATE TO THIS PRESENT MOMENT. BUT IF I CAN DO IT, AND IT 02:22:44.531 --> 02:22:48.165 WASN'T EASY, AND SOMETHING SHIFTED IN MY LIFE AND THE WAY I 02:22:48.165 --> 02:22:52.844 PASTOR THAT'S EVOLVED, WHAT CAN GOD DO WITH YOU AND YOU THAT ARE 02:22:52.844 --> 02:22:55.844 WATCHING? I WANT YOU TO DO THIS. I WANT EVERYBODY TO JUST TAKE 02:22:55.844 --> 02:23:00.703 THEIR HEART AND PEEL IT OPEN. I WANT YOU TO SAY THIS, SEARCH MY 02:23:00.703 --> 02:23:08.145 HEART, GOD. IS THERE ANYTHING IN MY HEART THAT YOU DON'T LIKE? IF 02:23:08.145 --> 02:23:15.254 THERE IS, REVEAL IT TO ME IN YOUR COMFORT AND IN YOUR LOVE 02:23:15.254 --> 02:23:21.494 AND I WILL CHANGE. I'LL STOP DOING IT. I WILL MAKE A SHIFT 02:23:21.494 --> 02:23:26.295 CHANGE. GOD, AS MY HEART IS OPEN BEFORE YOU, IS THERE ANYONE I'M 02:23:26.295 --> 02:23:31.844 ALIGNED TO THAT I NEED TO CUT OFF? IS THERE ANYTHING THAT I'M 02:23:31.844 --> 02:23:36.824 DOING THAT I NEED TO STOP DOING? IS THERE A PLACE THAT I'M 02:23:36.824 --> 02:23:41.055 SUPPOSED TO BE THAT I'M NOT? THEN I ASK YOU TO SHIFT ME 02:23:41.055 --> 02:23:46.754 THERE. IS THERE, GOD, ANYTHING IN MY LIFE THAT I'M OUTSIDE OF 02:23:46.754 --> 02:23:55.934 YOUR WILL? I ASK YOU TO ALIGN ME TO YOUR PERFECT WILL. I WANT TO 02:23:55.934 --> 02:24:04.215 SHIFT. I WILL SHIFT. I WILL CHANGE AND I WILL ADVANCE. IN 02:24:04.215 --> 02:24:07.514 JESUS NAME. PASTOR DOUG, WOULD YOU COME? I HOPE YOU GOT 02:24:07.514 --> 02:24:14.560 SOMETHING OUT OF THIS. NOW, I'M TRYING TO SHARE, PASTOR DOUG, 02:24:14.560 --> 02:24:17.295 COME ON OVER. I'M TRYING TO SHARE SOME PERSONAL EXAMPLES. 02:24:19.064 --> 02:24:21.434 NOT TO ACT LIKE I GOT IT TOGETHER OR I'M BETTER, I JUST 02:24:21.434 --> 02:24:24.298 THINK THAT MAYBE IT MIGHT HELP SPEAK TO SOME PEOPLE, AMEN? 02:24:24.331 --> 02:24:26.467 ALRIGHT, PASTOR DOUG, GO AHEAD. - GIVE PASTOR A HAND. 02:24:26.500 --> 02:24:30.703 - THANK YOU, PASTOR, I LOVE YOU. I'LL SEE YOU ON THE LIVE STREAM. 02:24:32.385 --> 02:24:34.725 - IF YOU'RE A VOLUNTEER WORKER, YOU CAN CERTAINLY GO TO YOUR 02:24:34.725 --> 02:24:37.904 POST NOW. OTHERWISE, PLEASE STAY IN YOUR SEAT FOR JUST A COUPLE 02:24:37.904 --> 02:24:43.033 MOMENTS AS WE WIND UP TODAY. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. I 02:24:43.033 --> 02:24:44.863 APPRECIATE THAT SO MUCH. I APPRECIATE OUR GUESTS THAT ARE 02:24:44.863 --> 02:24:51.674 HERE TODAY. YOU CAN BE SEATED FOR A MOMENT. OUR ALTAR TEAM CAN 02:24:51.674 --> 02:24:55.215 COME UP HERE QUICKLY IF YOU NEED PRAYER THIS MORNING. THE ALTAR 02:24:55.215 --> 02:24:57.915 TEAM WILL BE HERE FOLLOWING THE SERVICE, AND THEY'LL BE HONORED 02:24:57.915 --> 02:25:01.994 TO PRAY WITH YOU TODAY. AND WE SEE MIRACLES EVERY WEEK AT THE 02:25:01.994 --> 02:25:05.443 FRONT OF THIS AUDITORIUM AS YOU COME UP FOR PRAYER. AND SO 02:25:05.443 --> 02:25:08.475 YOU'RE WELCOME TO DO THAT. I DO WANT TO ASK THIS QUESTION TO 02:25:08.475 --> 02:25:13.635 YOU. PASTOR KIND OF SET IT UP TODAY. AND THE QUESTION I WANT 02:25:13.635 --> 02:25:19.754 TO ASK IS, ARE YOU SOLD OUT IN SERVING GOD? ARE YOU SOLD OUT? 02:25:19.754 --> 02:25:24.375 ARE YOU OBEYING HIM 100% IN YOUR LIFE? YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A CHOICE 02:25:24.375 --> 02:25:30.074 IN THIS LIFE. WE CAN EITHER SIT ON THE FENCE AND TRY AND SERVE 02:25:30.074 --> 02:25:35.353 GOD, OR WE CAN MOVE ALL THE WAY IN TO EVERYTHING THAT HE WANTS 02:25:35.353 --> 02:25:41.234 FOR US AND HAVE HIS PERFECT PLAN LINED UP FOR US. HE CREATED US. 02:25:41.234 --> 02:25:46.514 HE KNOWS THE BEST. HE KNOWS THE ANSWERS. AND WE TRY AND DO IT ON 02:25:46.514 --> 02:25:52.545 OURSELF IN OUR OWN WAY. IT USUALLY DOESN'T WORK. BUT HERE'S 02:25:52.545 --> 02:25:57.764 THE IMPORTANT THING THAT I WANT TO SAY ABOUT THIS IS JESUS SAID, 02:25:57.764 --> 02:25:58.814 IF YOU'RE LUKEWARM, YOU CAN READ IT IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 02:26:01.453 --> 02:26:07.424 IF YOU'RE LUKEWARM, HE'LL SPIT YOU OUT OF HIS MOUTH. I'M 02:26:07.424 --> 02:26:11.145 PARAPHRASING A LITTLE BIT. HE'LL SPEW YOU OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, OUT 02:26:11.145 --> 02:26:14.594 OF HIS MOUTH. HE DOESN'T WANT US LUKEWARM. HE'D RATHER WE BE HOT 02:26:14.594 --> 02:26:17.684 OR COLD. IF YOU'RE COLD, YOU'RE SERVING THE DEVIL, AND THAT'S 02:26:17.684 --> 02:26:24.404 NOT GOOD. BUT DON'T BE RIDING THE FENCE. IT'S NOT WORTH IT. HE 02:26:24.404 --> 02:26:29.324 HAS A WONDERFUL PLAN. PASTOR QUOTED EPHESIANS 3:20. HE'S GOT 02:26:29.324 --> 02:26:34.244 AN ABUNDANT AND EXCEEDINGLY GREAT PLAN FOR EACH OF US. BUT 02:26:34.244 --> 02:26:38.475 FOR SOME REASON, AS HUMANS, WE TRY AND DO IT ON OUR OWN WAY, 02:26:38.475 --> 02:26:40.875 AND WE GET INVOLVED IN THINGS THAT WE SHOULDN'T. I WANT YOU TO 02:26:40.875 --> 02:26:44.264 BOW YOUR HEADS WITH ME. IF YOU'RE ONLINE, YOU'RE WATCHING 02:26:44.264 --> 02:26:46.965 ONLINE, YOU CAN DO THE SAME THING RIGHT THERE. IS THERE 02:26:46.965 --> 02:26:49.994 ANYONE HERE, FIRST QUESTION FOR YOU, IS THERE ANYONE HERE AND 02:26:49.994 --> 02:26:53.324 YOU SAY, "I NEED JESUS IN MY LIFE. I NEED TO MAKE JESUS THE 02:26:53.324 --> 02:26:56.715 LORD OF MY LIFE. I'M TIRED OF TRYING TO DO IT MY OWN WAY. I 02:26:56.715 --> 02:27:00.613 DON'T WANT TO END UP IN HELL FOR ETERNITY, FIRST OF ALL, BUT MOST 02:27:00.613 --> 02:27:03.613 IMPORTANT, I WANT TO SERVE HIM WHILE I'M ON THIS EARTH." IS 02:27:03.613 --> 02:27:06.434 THERE ANYONE HERE, I'M GOING TO COUNT TO THREE, IF THAT'S YOU, 02:27:06.434 --> 02:27:08.953 I'M GOING TO HAVE YOU RAISE YOUR HAND BOLDLY SO WE CAN PRAY FOR 02:27:08.953 --> 02:27:11.295 YOU THIS MORNING. IS THERE ANYONE HERE AND YOU SAY, "I NEED 02:27:11.295 --> 02:27:15.484 JESUS IN MY LIFE." ONE, TWO, THREE, RAISE YOUR HAND IF THAT'S 02:27:15.484 --> 02:27:19.994 YOU. YOU SAY, "I WANT TO PRAY. I WANT JESUS IN MY LIFE." I SEE A 02:27:19.994 --> 02:27:22.934 HAND OVER HERE. IS THERE ANOTHER ONE? I FEEL LIKE THERE'S SOMEONE 02:27:22.934 --> 02:27:25.965 ELSE HERE AND YOU NEED, ARE YOU A YOUNG MAN RAISING YOUR HAND? 02:27:25.965 --> 02:27:29.295 RAISE IT REALLY HIGH IF THAT'S YOU. OKAY, YOU NEED JESUS IN 02:27:29.295 --> 02:27:34.273 YOUR LIFE. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. I SEE ANOTHER HAND UP 02:27:34.273 --> 02:27:38.084 HERE. YOU NEED JESUS IN YOUR LIFE. HE'LL CHANGE YOUR LIFE AND 02:27:38.084 --> 02:27:45.074 MAKE YOUR LIFE NEW AND GIVE YOU NEW DIRECTION. PLUS, YOU'LL HAVE 02:27:45.074 --> 02:27:49.215 ETERNITY WITH HIM. THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. MY SECOND QUESTION TO 02:27:49.215 --> 02:27:53.385 YOU, AND I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO RESPOND THAT RAISED YOUR HAND IN 02:27:53.385 --> 02:27:58.125 A MOMENT. BUT MY SECOND QUESTION IS, IS THERE SOMEONE HERE, AND 02:27:58.125 --> 02:28:01.273 YOU NEED TO REPENT FOR WHAT YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN. YOU 02:28:01.273 --> 02:28:03.853 NEED TO GET BACK ON TRACK, AND YOU SAY, PASTOR DOUG, I'M 02:28:03.853 --> 02:28:08.264 WILLING TO MAKE A DECISION TODAY TO FOLLOW JESUS 100% WITH ALL MY 02:28:08.264 --> 02:28:12.362 HEART. I WANNA GET BACK ON TRACK WITH HIM. I WANNA DO IT RIGHT. 02:28:13.814 --> 02:28:17.805 HERE'S THE THING, YOU CAN ALWAYS TURN TO HIM. REPENT, HE'LL 02:28:17.805 --> 02:28:22.094 FORGIVE YOU, AND YOU CAN START OVER AS LONG AS YOU'RE ALIVE. IF 02:28:22.094 --> 02:28:26.654 YOU WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE TAKEN OUT, IT'S TOO LATE. THERE WERE TWO 02:28:26.654 --> 02:28:32.145 YOUNG TEENAGERS, I CAME UPON IT THIS WEEK ON PACIFIC AND 680, A 02:28:32.145 --> 02:28:37.184 TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. TWO YOUNG TEENAGERS KILLED IN THEIR YOUNG 02:28:37.184 --> 02:28:43.125 TEENS. THEIR LIVES WERE TAKEN FROM THEM. I HOPE THEY KNEW 02:28:43.125 --> 02:28:49.064 JESUS. IS THERE ANYONE HERE AND YOU SAY, "I NEED TO REPENT. I 02:28:49.064 --> 02:28:51.975 WANT TO MAKE IT RIGHT. I WANT TO GET BACK ON TRACK WITH GOD." 02:28:51.975 --> 02:28:57.251 RAISE YOUR HAND NOW. ANOTHER HAND THERE. OKAY, I'M GOING TO 02:28:57.251 --> 02:29:00.103 ASK EVERYONE THAT RAISED YOUR HAND TODAY TO DO SOMETHING VERY 02:29:00.103 --> 02:29:03.915 BOLD. EVERY TIME JESUS CALLED SOMEONE, HE CALLED THEM 02:29:03.915 --> 02:29:07.156 PUBLICLY. YOU SAY, "WHY DO YOU DO THAT, PASTOR DOUG?" I WANT 02:29:07.156 --> 02:29:09.703 YOU TO COME UP HERE AND MAKE A COMMITMENT BECAUSE YOU'LL 02:29:09.703 --> 02:29:13.033 REMEMBER IT. IT'LL MAKE AN IMPACT THAT AUGUST 10TH, YOU 02:29:13.033 --> 02:29:15.824 MADE A DECISION. GET OUT OF YOUR SEAT IF YOU WOULD RIGHT NOW AND 02:29:15.824 --> 02:29:18.555 COME DOWN HERE QUICKLY. EDDIE, LET'S RAISE THAT UP A LITTLE 02:29:18.555 --> 02:29:24.795 BIT. I WANT YOU TO COME. THIS IS GONNA BE A NEW DAY IN YOUR LIFE, 02:29:24.795 --> 02:29:27.014 A NEW COMMITMENT. COME RIGHT OVER HERE AND STAND IN FRONT OF 02:29:27.014 --> 02:29:30.404 ME, YOUNG LADY. GIVE HER A HAND AS SHE COMES. THANK YOU FOR 02:29:30.404 --> 02:29:35.415 COMING, MA'AM. THANK YOU FOR COMING, LITTLE BOY. APPRECIATE 02:29:35.415 --> 02:29:38.924 IT. THERE'S A FEW OTHERS THAT ARE COMING. WE'RE GOING TO GIVE 02:29:38.924 --> 02:29:42.645 THEM A MOMENT TO COME. IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE TODAY, YOU CAN 02:29:42.645 --> 02:29:46.545 PRAY WITH US RIGHT WHERE YOU'RE AT. YOU CAN RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST 02:29:46.545 --> 02:29:50.895 IN YOUR HEART. YOU CAN TURN BACK TO HIM IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING IN 02:29:50.895 --> 02:29:58.334 YOUR WALK AND GET THINGS RIGHT. HERE'S THE DEAL. THE BIBLE SAYS 02:29:58.334 --> 02:30:02.481 WE START WITH GOD THROUGH BELIEF IN OUR HEART, ACCORDING TO 02:30:02.481 --> 02:30:05.895 ROMANS 10:10, AND THEN CONFESSION IN OUR MOUTH. SO IT 02:30:05.895 --> 02:30:10.545 STARTS WITH A SIMPLE PRAYER. AND IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER 02:30:10.545 --> 02:30:15.375 YOU'RE OFF TRACK, YOU'VE BEEN A CHRISTIAN AND YOU'RE TRYING TO 02:30:15.375 --> 02:30:18.254 FOLLOW GOD, BUT YOU'VE GOTTEN OFF TRACK. YOU STILL HAVE TO 02:30:18.254 --> 02:30:22.844 REPENT AND START OVER. THANK YOU, SIR, FOR COMING UP. OR IF 02:30:22.844 --> 02:30:26.145 YOU'VE NEVER RECEIVED JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR, 02:30:26.145 --> 02:30:29.234 YOU STILL START WITH REPENTANCE BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS WE'VE ALL 02:30:29.234 --> 02:30:33.014 SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. THAT MEANS NOTHING 02:30:33.014 --> 02:30:37.004 THAT WE CAN DO ON OUR OWN CAN SAVE US. WE HAVE TO DO IT 02:30:37.004 --> 02:30:39.975 THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS. HE WENT TO THE CROSS OF CALVARY FOR 02:30:39.975 --> 02:30:44.504 US, GAVE HIS LIFE. AND WHEN WE RECEIVE WHAT HE DID FOR US, WE 02:30:44.504 --> 02:30:49.215 BECOME NEW CREATURES. AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU WHEN YOU 02:30:49.215 --> 02:30:52.844 REPENT AND YOU START WITH HIM. SO WHAT I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO 02:30:52.844 --> 02:30:56.953 DO TODAY IS JUST REPEAT AFTER ME AS I PRAY A SIMPLE PRAYER. YOU 02:30:56.953 --> 02:31:00.645 MAY NOT EVEN FEEL ANYTHING, BUT IT'S FAITH IN YOUR HEART. YOU 02:31:00.645 --> 02:31:04.094 BELIEVE WHAT YOU SAY. YOU CONFESS IT WITH YOUR MOUTH. AND 02:31:04.094 --> 02:31:07.349 YOUNG MAN, CAN YOU JUST FOLLOW WITH WHAT I SAY TODAY? I 02:31:07.349 --> 02:31:12.584 APPRECIATE IT. WHAT'S YOUR NAME, BY THE WAY? ERIC? BARRETT. 02:31:12.584 --> 02:31:16.094 BARRETT, THAT'S A GOOD NAME. THANK YOU FOR BEING SO BOLD FOR 02:31:16.094 --> 02:31:19.154 JESUS. YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING MORE PRECIOUS THAN A, WHAT ARE 02:31:19.154 --> 02:31:25.215 YOU, ABOUT FIVE? YOU'RE SEVEN, OH, YOU'RE BIG. SEVEN YEARS OLD, 02:31:25.215 --> 02:31:29.084 THAT'S PRECIOUS. COME TO THE LORD. GOD'S GOT A GREAT PLAN FOR 02:31:29.084 --> 02:31:31.875 YOU. SO WHY DON'T YOU DO THIS TODAY, AND IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING 02:31:31.875 --> 02:31:35.084 ONLINE, YOU CAN DO THE SAME THING. JUST REPEAT AFTER ME AS I 02:31:35.084 --> 02:31:41.722 PRAY. FATHER IN HEAVEN. THANK YOU FOR SENDING JESUS. I BELIEVE 02:31:41.722 --> 02:31:49.764 HE WENT TO THE CROSS OF CALVARY. HE WAS PUNISHED FOR ME. HE WAS 02:31:49.764 --> 02:31:58.314 BURIED AND HE ROSE AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY. I ASK JESUS, COME 02:31:58.314 --> 02:32:05.273 INTO MY HEART, BE MY SAVIOR. FORGIVE ME FOR SIN IN MY LIFE. 02:32:05.273 --> 02:32:14.754 MAKE ME A NEW PERSON. I BELIEVE YOU WILL SAVE ME AND GIVE ME A 02:32:14.754 --> 02:32:20.215 HOME IN HEAVEN. BUT I WANT TO SERVE YOU ALL THE DAYS OF MY 02:32:20.215 --> 02:32:28.225 LIFE. AND I COMMIT ON AUGUST 10TH TO BE YOUR SERVANT. YOU 02:32:28.225 --> 02:32:34.915 HAVE A GREAT PLAN FOR ME, AND I WANT TO FOLLOW IT. IN JESUS' 02:32:34.915 --> 02:32:39.504 NAME, AMEN, AMEN. NOW I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO DO ONE MORE THING. IF 02:32:39.504 --> 02:32:42.924 YOU JUST SPREAD OUT, WE'LL HELP YOU. FIND SOMEONE UP HERE, 02:32:42.924 --> 02:32:45.475 THEY'RE GONNA GIVE YOU SOME LITERATURE, THEY'RE GONNA HELP 02:32:45.475 --> 02:32:49.193 YOU ON YOUR WALK, AND GIVE YOU SOME ADVICE ON HOW TO MOVE 02:32:49.193 --> 02:32:53.064 FORWARD IN EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED TO IN YOUR LIFE. SO, JANET, 02:32:53.064 --> 02:32:55.135 IF YOU'LL JUST HELP THEM FIND THE RIGHT PLACE TO GO, I 02:32:55.135 --> 02:32:58.284 APPRECIATE THAT SO MUCH. IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE TODAY, 02:32:58.284 --> 02:33:01.915 AND YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER WITH ME, YOU CAN CALL OUR PRAYER LINE 02:33:01.915 --> 02:33:05.004 24 HOURS A DAY, EVEN IF YOU'RE WATCHING THE ARCHIVE, 02:33:05.004 --> 02:33:12.415 855-777-7907. WE HAVE LICENSED PRAYER COUNSELORS AVAILABLE TO 02:33:12.415 --> 02:33:15.594 HELP YOU, TO SEND YOUR LITERATURE, AND HELP YOU WITH 02:33:15.594 --> 02:33:18.564 YOUR WALK. AND SO WE'RE HONORED TO DO THAT. AND MAKE SURE YOU 02:33:18.564 --> 02:33:21.295 MAKE A PHONE CALL AND TELL THEM THAT YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER 02:33:21.295 --> 02:33:25.045 TODAY SO THAT WE HAVE RECORD OF IT. WE APPRECIATE THAT SO MUCH. 02:33:25.045 --> 02:33:28.734 WELL, LET ME JUST MENTION, YOU KNOW, I'M EXCITED ABOUT TODAY. 02:33:28.734 --> 02:33:30.834 WOULD YOU JUST GIVE THEM ANOTHER HAND FOR BEING SO BOLD? 02:33:30.834 --> 02:33:34.165 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 02:33:34.165 --> 02:33:39.534 PRAISE GOD, THAT'S IMPORTANT. MILLARD DAYS IS COMING UP. IT'S 02:33:39.534 --> 02:33:43.674 AN AREA THAT WE CAN REACH OUT TO PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY. WE 02:33:43.674 --> 02:33:46.555 WANT TO BE ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. WE'VE GOT SOME GREAT 02:33:46.555 --> 02:33:50.725 PLANS ON HOW TO BE INVOLVED IN THE PARADE AND HAVE A TENT AND A 02:33:50.725 --> 02:33:54.863 BOOTH AVAILABLE AND IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT TIME. AND IF YOU 02:33:54.863 --> 02:33:58.045 WANT INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN HELP SERVE AT MILLER DAYS, IT 02:33:58.045 --> 02:34:03.805 GIVES YOU A CHANCE TO TESTIFY AND HELP IN MANY WAYS, BUT IT'S 02:34:03.805 --> 02:34:07.523 AUGUST 19TH THROUGH THE 24TH. 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