WEBVTT 00:00.367 --> 00:04.838 (MUSIC) 00:06.105 --> 00:14.220 COME ON, CHURCH. WE'RE HERE ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT. MY LOVELY WIFE 00:14.220 --> 00:17.182 IS GOING TO PREACH TONIGHT, SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT THAT. ARE YOU 00:17.182 --> 00:23.190 EXCITED? WELL, LET'S LIFT HIS NAME UP TONIGHT, AMEN? 00:25.457 --> 02:07.626 (MUSIC) 02:07.793 --> 02:11.330 2:08 -COME ON, CHURCH. LET'S ENTER IN TONIGHT. YOU READY? 02:11.364 --> 02:11.997 COME ON. 02:13.866 --> 07:23.942 (MUSIC) 07:26.946 --> 13:28.041 (MUSIC) 13:29.875 --> 17:30.317 (MUSIC) 17:37.390 --> 17:41.625 IF YOU'RE IN HERE TONIGHT, IF YOU'RE ONLINE, MAYBE 17:41.625 --> 17:46.605 YOU HAVE A SITUATION THAT JUST CAME TO MY HEART. YOU NEED TO 17:46.605 --> 17:56.505 TRUST GOD. SOMETIMES WE RELY ON OURSELVES FOR THE ANSWERS. AND 17:56.505 --> 18:00.585 I'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE SECRET. WE DON'T HAVE THEM, NOT THE 18:00.585 --> 18:04.413 RIGHT ONES ANYWAY. WE THINK WE HAVE THE ANSWERS, BUT WE DON'T. 18:06.224 --> 18:15.555 THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOT TO TURN OUR EYES TO THE ONE WHO SAVES US, 18:15.555 --> 18:22.469 WHO DELIVERS US, WHO SETS US FREE, WHO GIVES US GOOD THINGS. 18:23.535 --> 18:28.214 AND WE'VE GOT TO TRUST HIM. SO I WANT TO RE-SING THAT. BUT ON 18:28.214 --> 18:33.585 THAT SECOND LINE, I WANT TO SAY, I WILL PRAY, I WILL TRUST YOU 18:33.585 --> 18:42.404 FOR ALL OF MY DAYS. I WILL TRUST YOU FOR ALL OF MY DAYS. 18:42.404 --> 18:47.355 YOU NEED TO TRUST ON THE LORD TONIGHT. I WANT YOU TO 18:47.355 --> 18:48.734 DECLARE THAT TONIGHT. 18:49.061 --> 20:49.481 (MUSIC) 20:50.717 --> 21:01.859 PRAISE ISN'T WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT. PRAISE IS 21:01.859 --> 21:14.880 WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU WANT TO UNITE WITH VICTORY. A WHILE 21:14.880 --> 21:20.646 BACK, THE LORD GAVE ME THAT PHRASE, "WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES, 21:22.500 --> 21:28.721 WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES, WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES, 21:29.154 --> 21:32.893 PRAISE ON EARTH.” 21:36.137 --> 21:42.957 THAT MEANS IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE POWER OF THE HEAVENLIES 21:42.960 --> 21:49.589 CONTINUE TO TURN FOR YOUR FAVOR, PRAISE IS YOUR PART ON THE 21:49.589 --> 21:59.190 EARTH. PRAISE IS A CHOICE. IT'S A DETERMINATION. IT'S A 21:59.190 --> 22:08.309 DECISION. IT'S A DECISION YOU MAKE IN YOUR FLESH, IN YOUR 22:08.309 --> 22:18.089 SOUL, AND IT CONNECTS WITH YOUR SPIRIT, WITH YOUR FLESH AND YOUR 22:18.089 --> 22:26.789 SOUL, SO THAT THE DEVIL KNOWS HE'S LOSING CONTROL. SO GRAB 22:26.789 --> 22:34.140 HOLD OF PRAISE WITH BOTH HANDS. AND WHEN YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE IT, 22:35.730 --> 22:41.940 DO IT. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? JUMP UP AND DOWN? IF THAT'S WHAT YOU 22:41.940 --> 22:49.500 CAN DO, DO IT. DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO PUT YOURSELF IN A PLACE 22:49.500 --> 22:54.359 WHERE YOU'RE ENTERING INTO A PLACE WHERE HIS PRESENCE CAN 22:54.359 --> 23:02.220 WORK ON YOUR BEHALF. WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES. WAR IN THE 23:02.220 --> 23:10.500 HEAVENLIES. WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES, BUT PRAISE ON EARTH. 23:10.500 --> 23:11.144 SING IT AGAIN. 23:34.548 --> 24:51.779 (MUSIC) 25:20.353 --> 25:37.537 YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. 25:44.640 --> 25:50.640 NOW I WANT TO SAY THIS TO YOU BECAUSE THIS IS A CHALLENGE. 25:54.630 --> 25:57.569 AND IT'LL PROBABLY COME QUICKLY BECAUSE WHEN THE WORD OF TRUTH 25:57.569 --> 26:05.849 COMES TO YOU, SATAN COMES IMMEDIATELY. BECAUSE THE NEXT 26:05.849 --> 26:16.380 CHALLENGE IS YOU WON'T FEEL LIKE IT. YOU WON'T WANT TO. IT MIGHT 26:16.380 --> 26:20.369 BE TOMORROW MORNING. IT MIGHT BE BEFORE YOU GO TO BED. IT MIGHT 26:20.369 --> 26:29.700 BE NEXT WEEK, BUT WHENEVER IT IS, YOU LOOK UP, AND YOU THINK, 26:30.990 --> 26:38.039 THERE'S WAR GOING ON IN THE HEAVENLIES. THERE'S WAR FOR ME 26:38.039 --> 26:46.506 GOING ON IN THE HEAVENLIES. THERE'S WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES. 26:48.089 --> 26:58.476 SO I'M GOING TO PRAISE ON THIS EARTH. AND YOU PRAISE WITH ALL 26:58.476 --> 27:03.095 THAT'S IN YOU. YOU TURN TO SOMEONE AND TELL THEM, 27:03.095 --> 27:04.624 "DON'T STOP PRAISING.” 27:07.527 --> 27:34.650 (MUSIC) 27:34.650 --> 27:37.289 GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. 27:40.059 --> 27:45.690 YEAH, WOW, WOW. I DON'T NEED TO TAKE VERY LONG 'CAUSE I 27:45.690 --> 27:49.529 FEEL LIKE WE ALREADY HAD CHURCH. PASTOR CHRISTY HAS A POWERFUL 27:49.529 --> 27:53.910 WORD, SO I'M GONNA GET RIGHT TO THE POINT. THIS IS OFFERING 27:53.910 --> 28:02.759 TIME. AND I'M GONNA GIVE YOU A C. THIS IS OFFERING TIME. 28:02.759 --> 28:06.210 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 28:06.210 --> 28:10.500 HERE'S WHY YOU NEED TO GET EXCITED. IT'S NOT A QUESTION OF 28:10.500 --> 28:17.220 SHOULD YOU OR SHOULD YOU NOT. THE QUESTION IS, WILL YOU OR 28:17.220 --> 28:25.470 WON'T YOU ALLOW GOD TO BE GOD THROUGH YOU? PSALM 40, VERSE 6. 28:25.470 --> 28:29.519 IT'S NOT SACRIFICES THAT REALLY MOVE YOUR HEART. BURNT 28:29.519 --> 28:33.779 OFFERINGS, SIN OFFERINGS, THAT'S NOT WHAT BRINGS YOU JOY. BUT 28:33.779 --> 28:38.009 WHEN YOU OPEN MY EARS AND SPEAK DEEPLY TO ME, I BECOME YOUR 28:38.009 --> 28:46.710 WILLING SERVANT. WHAT WAS THAT? YOU BECOME HIS? YOU'RE A 28:46.710 --> 28:54.119 PRISONER OF LOVE FOR LIFE. SO I SAID, HERE I AM. I'M COMING TO 28:54.119 --> 29:00.869 YOU AS A SACRIFICE. FOLKS, PASTOR HANK HAS BEEN HITTING IT 29:00.869 --> 29:04.680 HARD ABOUT ENTERING IN. WE'VE GOT TO STOP GOING THROUGH THE 29:04.680 --> 29:15.569 MOTIONS. IT'S TIME TO SAY, HERE I AM AND MEAN IT. PASTOR KEITH 29:15.569 --> 29:18.661 JUST TALKED ABOUT WAR IN THE HEAVENLIES AND PRAISE ON EARTH. 29:18.661 --> 29:22.470 DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU GIVE PRAISE ON EARTH? WHEN YOU ALLOW GOD TO 29:22.470 --> 29:26.460 BE GOD THROUGH YOU, IN THIS CASE, THROUGH YOUR TITHES AND 29:26.460 --> 29:30.420 OFFERINGS. WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF I BELIEVE THAT. OH, REALLY? GO 29:30.420 --> 29:33.630 BACK TO GENESIS WHEN GOD SAID THAT HE WAS GONNA MAKE US, AND 29:33.630 --> 29:39.539 HE DID, IN HIS IMAGE, IN HIS LIKENESS. IF YOU LOOK UP THE 29:39.539 --> 29:46.859 WORD IMAGE IN HEBREW, IT ACTUALLY MEANS SHADOW. NOW, HAVE 29:46.859 --> 29:52.829 YOU EVER HAD YOUR SHADOW DO WHAT IT WANTS? IF YOU GO LIKE THIS 29:52.829 --> 29:59.519 AND THE SUN IS SET, RIGHT, WHAT DOES YOUR SHADOW DO? OKAY, SO 29:59.519 --> 30:06.556 WE'VE GOTTA STOP IMITATING AND START BEING. WHAT I MEAN BY THAT 30:06.556 --> 30:12.465 IS IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT HOW IT LOOKS, BUT WHAT ARE YOU DOING? 30:14.026 --> 30:19.425 ARE YOU ALLOWING GOD TO BE GOD THROUGH YOU? ARE YOU OPERATING 30:19.425 --> 30:24.165 AS GOD'S SHADOW? ARE YOU MOVING THE WAY HE MOVES? ARE YOU 30:24.165 --> 30:27.705 SPEAKING THE WAY HE SPEAKS? ARE YOU THINKING THE WAY HE THINKS? 30:27.705 --> 30:32.925 ARE YOU GIVING THE WAY HE GIVES? GOD IS LOVE. THAT HEBREW WORD 30:32.925 --> 30:38.566 LOVE MEANS TO GIVE. GOD IS THE EMBODIMENT OF GIVING. SO IF WE 30:38.566 --> 30:43.455 ARE TO BE HIS SHADOW, HIS IMAGE, THEN WHAT ARE WE TO BE? OH, THAT 30:43.455 --> 30:46.297 WAS REALLY QUIET. PASTOR CHRISTY, HOW QUIET WAS THAT? 30:49.155 --> 30:55.605 DON'T BE MAD AT ME. I'M JUST THE MESSENGER. IT'S EASY TO GET 30:55.605 --> 30:58.816 EXCITED ABOUT THE PROPHECIES AND SEE THAT ALL THAT GOD IS DOING 30:58.816 --> 31:07.008 AND HEAR ABOUT IT. BUT THERE'S THIS PART WHERE WE GOTTA WALK 31:07.008 --> 31:10.455 IT. THIS IS FOR OUR BENEFIT, FOLKS. GOD DOESN'T NEED YOUR 31:10.455 --> 31:15.586 MONEY. HE NEEDS YOUR HEART. HE NEEDS YOUR AGREEMENT. HOW MANY 31:15.586 --> 31:19.726 ARE WILLING TO AGREE TONIGHT? SEE, THAT WAS QUICK, I'M DONE. 31:19.726 --> 31:22.965 IT'S THE QUICK INCISION, I'LL LET YOU DEAL WITH THAT. PUT THE 31:22.965 --> 31:28.425 OFFERING, GIVING INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN. FOR YOU THAT ARE 31:28.425 --> 31:32.205 WATCHING ONLINE, I HOPE THAT YOU TOOK THAT TO HEART. WE ARE IN 31:32.205 --> 31:36.945 THE SEASON OF ENTERING IN. AND I PRAY THAT YOU ARE NOT JUST 31:36.945 --> 31:40.576 SETTLING FOR THE 30, THE 60 FOLD, BUT YOU'RE SETTLING AND 31:40.576 --> 31:46.215 STRIVING FOR THE 100 FOLD. HOW DO YOU GET THE 100 FOLD? IT'S 31:46.215 --> 31:51.076 TIME TO ALLOW GOD TO BE GOD THROUGH YOU FULLY AND WHOLLY 31:51.076 --> 31:56.596 WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTION OR SELF-IMPOSED LIMITATION. PASTOR, 31:56.596 --> 32:04.605 I GOT BILLS. I GOT THINGS TO DO, THINGS TO PAY. WE ALL DO. BUT 32:04.605 --> 32:10.096 ARE YOU GONNA ALLOW GOD TO BE GOD? AMEN. GO AHEAD AND SERVE 32:10.096 --> 32:15.165 THE PEOPLE. AS THE USHERS ARE DOING THAT, I JUST WANNA GIVE 32:15.165 --> 32:18.766 YOU GUYS A QUICK UPDATE. THINGS ARE GOING VERY WELL AT THE OMAHA 32:18.766 --> 32:21.817 BASEBALL VILLAGE. WE'RE ALMOST SET UP AND READY TO ROCK. WE'VE 32:21.817 --> 32:23.955 GOT SOME OF THE MERCH HERE, SO YOU GUYS SHOULD GO CHECK US OUT. 32:25.516 --> 32:31.036 WE'LL BE THERE STARTING TOMORROW FROM 10 A.M. TO 10 P.M., SO WAY 32:31.036 --> 32:37.965 PAST SOME OF OUR BEDTIMES. BUT PLEASE COME, SHOW YOUR PRESENCE. 32:37.965 --> 32:45.675 PEOPLE NEED TO SEE WHAT GOD LOOKS LIKE. THAT'S YOU. WE HAVE 32:45.675 --> 32:48.556 A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MINISTER TO SOME PEOPLE IN A VERY UNIQUE 32:48.556 --> 32:52.546 WAY. SO AGAIN, I WANNA SHOUT OUT PASTOR MATT, HE'S DOWN THERE, AS 32:52.546 --> 32:56.685 WELL AS OTHERS, BOB, A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER PEOPLE. SO PLEASE 32:56.685 --> 33:00.256 COME CHECK US OUT. WE'LL BE THERE FOR THE NEXT 12 DAYS. 33:00.256 --> 33:01.146 PLEASE PRAY FOR US. 33:01.181 --> 33:03.182 (LAUGHING) 33:05.173 --> 33:07.632 ALL RIGHT, AND THE WEATHER. YES, THANK YOU, JANET. AND THANK YOU 33:07.635 --> 33:10.185 FOR PRAYING FOR US AND THOSE THAT PRAYED FOR US ON MONDAY. 33:10.185 --> 33:13.546 ALL RIGHT, LOOKS LIKE EVERYONE'S DONE SERVING. EVERYONE WROTE OUT 33:13.546 --> 33:17.205 THEIR MILLION DOLLAR CHECKS. IF YOU COULD PLEASE STAND. JUST 33:17.205 --> 33:19.516 PRAY A QUICK BLESSING AND THEN PASTOR CHRISTY IS GONNA COME TO 33:19.516 --> 33:22.516 THE STAGE. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS SEASON AND 33:22.516 --> 33:26.955 TIME WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE RESPONDING TO THE FULLNESS OF 33:26.955 --> 33:29.236 WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE CROSS 33:29.236 --> 33:34.365 AND YOUR RESURRECTION. AND SO WE SAY, GOD, WE ALLOW YOU TO BE GOD 33:34.365 --> 33:40.786 THROUGH US IN ALL THAT YOU SET OUT TO DO. LET YOUR KINGDOM COME 33:40.786 --> 33:45.855 AND LET YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, AMEN. 33:45.855 --> 33:48.435 PLEASE GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO PASTOR CHRISTY. 33:48.435 --> 33:50.415 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 33:50.415 --> 33:55.756 AMEN. WELL, YOU KNOW, I WANNA GIVE SOME HONOR TO OUR GAME 33:55.756 --> 34:00.306 CHANGERS FOR THEIR, I GOTTA PUT THIS PULPIT WAY DOWN. THEY PUT 34:00.306 --> 34:06.826 IT FOR A MUCH TALLER PERSON. OH, I JUST STUCK SOME WATERS UNDER 34:06.826 --> 34:11.476 THERE TOO. OH, THERE WENT ONE. OKAY, WELL, GIVE ME A MINUTE TO 34:11.476 --> 34:19.036 CLEAN UP AFTER MYSELF. ALL RIGHT, YEAH, NO, I DON'T DO THE 34:19.036 --> 34:22.425 TALL PULPIT 'CAUSE I'M NOT VERY TALL. BUT YEAH, I WANNA GIVE IT 34:22.425 --> 34:25.485 UP FOR OUR GAME CHANGERS. OH, YOU GUYS CAN BE SEATED. 34:26.775 --> 34:32.085 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE DOWN THERE JUST SHOWING THE LOVE OF CHRIST. 34:32.085 --> 34:35.445 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN, AND I KNOW WE'RE 34:35.445 --> 34:38.146 GONNA HAVE SOME OTHER TEAMS THAT AREN'T, YOU KNOW, THAT ARE 34:38.146 --> 34:40.456 SEPARATE FROM OUR GAME CHANGERS. THEY'RE GONNA BE DOWN WALKING 34:40.456 --> 34:44.146 THE STREETS AND DOING SOME EVANGELISM AND WITNESSING TO 34:44.146 --> 34:48.706 PEOPLE. THAT ARE DOWN THERE JUST SHOWING WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE TO 34:48.706 --> 34:53.025 HAVE PEACE AND WHOLENESS IN YOUR LIFE. AND I'M THRILLED THAT WE 34:53.025 --> 34:57.315 GET THE OPPORTUNITY JUST TO SHOW THE LOVE OF JESUS. SOMETIMES NOT 34:57.315 --> 35:05.592 EVERYTHING HAS TO BE TURN OR BURN IN OUR APPROACH TO 35:05.592 --> 35:10.815 EVANGELISM. SOMETIMES IT'S JUST SHOWING THE PEOPLE THAT WE CARRY 35:10.815 --> 35:14.266 THE LOVE OF CHRIST AND MAN, WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT YOU? AND WE 35:14.266 --> 35:17.865 GET TO SHARE THAT WITH PEOPLE, AMEN. SO THAT'S EXCITING. AND SO 35:17.865 --> 35:19.545 WE'RE SO THRILLED THAT WE'RE DOING THAT. AND YOU KNOW, 35:19.545 --> 35:21.376 THERE'S SOME OTHER THINGS TOO, AND WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING A 35:21.376 --> 35:25.905 LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS ON SUNDAY, BUT HOW MANY OF YOU WERE 35:25.905 --> 35:32.034 HERE WHEN WE USED TO DO OUR BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE MANY YEARS AGO? 35:33.255 --> 35:36.525 AND THEN WE HAD TO KIND OF STOP BECAUSE WE HAD CONSTRUCTION AND 35:36.525 --> 35:41.085 WE HAD NOWHERE TO PUT IT. AND NOW, THOUGH, AND EVEN THOUGH WE 35:41.085 --> 35:43.365 HAD THE CONNECT CENTER, THEN THIS WAS A MESS, AND SO IT 35:43.365 --> 35:46.905 WASN'T REALLY VERY SAFE TO COME TO. BUT NOW, LIKE THE BUILDING 35:46.905 --> 35:50.746 IS DONE, SO WE'RE BRINGING BACK THE BACK TO SCHOOL, BACK TO 35:50.746 --> 35:56.115 SCHOOL DRIVE. CHRIS WHIPPS, WAVE YOUR HAND AT EVERYBODY. HE HAS 35:56.115 --> 36:00.465 BEEN, HE'S A LITTLE SHY. HE'S BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING US 36:00.465 --> 36:03.405 GET THIS EVENT PLANNED, AND HE'S GOT SOME AMAZING THINGS COMING, 36:03.405 --> 36:06.195 SO WE'RE GONNA TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT, HOW YOU CAN DONATE IF 36:06.195 --> 36:10.456 YOU WANNA DONATE SOME SCHOOL SUPPLIES TO SOME PEOPLE. 36:10.456 --> 36:13.456 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, LISTEN, ONE OF OUR GREATEST JOYS IS BEING 36:13.456 --> 36:18.226 ABLE TO GIVE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY AND TO MINISTER TO 36:18.226 --> 36:21.646 PEOPLE AND GIVE TO PEOPLE, SO AMEN. ALL RIGHT, WELL, WE'RE 36:21.646 --> 36:27.646 GONNA TALK TONIGHT ABOUT, I HAVE FIVE KEYS TO ANSWERED PRAYER. 36:27.646 --> 36:33.496 YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES IN THIS DAY AND AGE, WE HAVE A 36:33.496 --> 36:37.695 LOT OF TIMES, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WHIPPING PRAYERS INTO THE 36:37.695 --> 36:41.626 HEAVENS, AND YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE'RE NOT ALWAYS SEEING THE 36:41.626 --> 36:47.235 RETURN AND THE ANSWER THAT WE WANT. AND THERE'S SOME KEYS THAT 36:47.235 --> 36:53.115 WE HAVE TO HOLD ONTO IN ORDER TO HAVE THOSE PRAYERS ANSWERED. YOU 36:53.115 --> 36:56.266 KNOW, ONE THING WE KNOW ABOUT GOD BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IS 36:56.266 --> 37:01.516 THAT WHEN WE CALL, HE ANSWERS. SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN 37:01.516 --> 37:05.146 WE'RE NOT SEEING THOSE ANSWERS, THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT WE CAN 37:05.146 --> 37:08.956 DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING THE FOOT ON THE GAS WITH 37:08.956 --> 37:14.326 OUR PRAYERS SO THAT WE CAN SEE THE GOD TURN SOME, SEE OUR GOD 37:14.326 --> 37:18.376 TURN SOME THINGS AROUND FOR US, AMEN? ALL RIGHT, WELL, TURN IN 37:18.376 --> 37:32.476 YOUR BIBLES OVER TO EXODUS CHAPTER THREE, VERSE 13. AND YOU 37:32.476 --> 37:39.436 KNOW, THIS IS THE TIME, YOU KNOW, WHEN GOD, YOU KNOW, MOSES 37:39.436 --> 37:42.735 GOES UP ONTO THE MOUNTAIN TO SEE THE BURNING BUSH AND GOD REVEALS 37:42.735 --> 37:45.615 HIMSELF TO MOSES AND HE SAYS, "AND MOSES SAID UNTO GOD, 37:45.615 --> 37:49.036 "BEHOLD, WHEN I AM COME UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL "AND SHALL 37:49.036 --> 37:53.536 SAY UNTO THEM, "THE GOD OF YOUR FATHERS HAS SENT ME UNTO YOU 37:53.536 --> 37:57.106 "AND THEY SHALL SAY TO ME, WHAT IS HIS NAME? "WHAT SHALL I SAY 37:57.106 --> 38:02.626 TO THEM?" SO THEN IN VERSE 14, AND IT SAYS, "GOD SAID UNTO 38:02.626 --> 38:07.306 MOSES, I AM THAT I AM. "AND HE SAID, SHALT THOU SAY UNTO THE 38:07.306 --> 38:11.235 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, "I AM HAS SENT ME UNTO YOU." NOW WHAT DOES 38:11.235 --> 38:14.655 THAT MEAN? IT MEANS THAT GOD WAS SAYING, "LISTEN, I AM THE GOD 38:14.655 --> 38:20.865 THAT EXISTS. "YOU MAY HAVE FORGOTTEN ME, BUT I AM. "I AM 38:20.865 --> 38:27.045 LIVING, I AM ALIVE, I AM THAT I AM." BUT SEE, ONE OF THE THINGS 38:27.045 --> 38:32.266 THAT WE SAW IS THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL ONLY SAW HIM AS THE 38:32.266 --> 38:39.166 GOD THAT EXISTS. SO THE FIRST KEY IN ANSWERED PRAYER IS TO 38:39.166 --> 38:44.596 REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE LORD. BECAUSE IF YOU GO THROUGH AND 38:44.596 --> 38:51.465 YOU READ THE ACCOUNT OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, THEY NEVER 38:51.465 --> 38:56.056 EVER SAW GOD OTHER THAN THE POWERFUL ALMIGHTY GOD. THEY 38:56.056 --> 39:01.340 NEVER SAW HIM AS A RELATIONAL FATHER. THEY NEVER, THEY ALL, AT 39:01.340 --> 39:05.746 EVERY TURN, THEY WERE DOUBTING HIM. AT EVERY TURN, THEY WERE 39:05.746 --> 39:09.766 MURMURING AGAINST HIM. AND THEN MOSES, NOW SEE, NOW MOSES HAD A 39:09.766 --> 39:15.585 DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP. NOW TURN OVER TO EXODUS 33, VERSE 18. AND 39:15.585 --> 39:20.596 THIS IS MOSES. HE GOES INTO THE TENT OF MEETING 'CAUSE HE 39:20.596 --> 39:25.905 CONSTRUCTED A TENT TO GO AND MEET WITH GOD. AND THAT'S ONE 39:25.905 --> 39:29.295 THING THAT IS IMPORTANT IN OUR PRAYER LIFE IS THAT WE HAVE A 39:29.295 --> 39:31.815 PLACE OF MEETING WITH GOD. NOW THAT'S NOT ONE OF THE KEYS, 39:31.815 --> 39:37.096 THAT'S JUST A BONUS. BUT HE GOES AND HE SAYS, AND HE SAID, I 39:37.096 --> 39:42.826 BESEECH THEE, SHOW ME THY GLORY. AND HE SAID, AND I WILL MAKE ALL 39:42.826 --> 39:47.295 MY GOODNESS PASS BEFORE THEE, AND I WILL PROCLAIM THE NAME OF 39:47.295 --> 39:49.936 THE LORD BEFORE THEE, AND I WILL BE GRACIOUS TO WHO I AM 39:49.936 --> 39:54.286 GRACIOUS, AND I WILL SHOW MERCY UPON WHO I WILL SHOW MERCY. NOW, 39:54.286 --> 39:59.295 GOD RESPONDS, HE SAYS, I'M GONNA MAKE MY GOODNESS PASS BEFORE 39:59.295 --> 40:05.115 YOU, AND I'M GONNA PROCLAIM THE NAME OF THE LORD BEFORE YOU. 40:05.115 --> 40:10.695 NOW, SEE, IN PSALM 25, VERSE EIGHT, IT SAYS THAT GOD IS GOOD 40:10.695 --> 40:14.356 AND HE'S THE UPRIGHT JEHOVAH. IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S JEHOVAH THE 40:14.356 --> 40:19.427 GOOD. SEE, GOD, IF WE KNOW WHAT THE NAME OF GOD IS, IT'S NOT 40:19.427 --> 40:25.016 THAT GOD HAS ONE NAME. IT'S ONE GOD WITH MANY NAMES. BECAUSE HE 40:25.016 --> 40:31.646 IS I AM, HE IS JEHOVAH, HE IS EL SHADDAI, HE IS EL ELYON, HE IS 40:31.646 --> 40:36.536 THE LORD SABIOTH, HE IS ALL OF THOSE THINGS. AND ANYTIME WE GO 40:36.536 --> 40:40.465 IN TO PRAY, WHEN WE'RE CALLING THE NAME OF THE LORD, WE'RE 40:40.465 --> 40:45.235 CALLING ON ALL OF WHO GOD IS. SEE, I GUARANTEE YOU THERE IS 40:45.235 --> 40:50.846 NOT ANYTHING THAT YOU COULD NAME. IF YOU GO IN TO ASK THE 40:50.846 --> 40:55.255 LORD TO MEET YOUR NEEDS, IF YOU GO IN TO ASK GOD FOR SOMETHING, 40:55.255 --> 41:00.686 THERE IS NOTHING THAT IS NOT IN THE CHARACTER OF GOD THAT CANNOT 41:00.686 --> 41:05.365 ANSWER WHAT YOUR NEED IS. BECAUSE IF YOU'RE IN NEED OF 41:05.365 --> 41:10.856 PROVISION, HE IS EL SHADDAI. IF YOU'RE IN NEED OF HEALING, HE IS 41:10.856 --> 41:15.385 JEHOVAH RAPHA. IF YOU ARE IN NEED, AGAIN, OF PROVISION, IT 41:15.385 --> 41:18.416 ALSO CALLS HIM JEHOVAH JIREH, THE LORD, OUR PROVIDER. IF 41:18.416 --> 41:26.695 YOU'RE IN NEED OF DEFENSE, HE IS THE BANNER OVER US. IF YOU'RE IN 41:26.695 --> 41:29.666 NEED OF FORGIVENESS, HE IS JEHOVAH TO SIDKENU, WHICH IS THE 41:29.666 --> 41:35.936 LORD, OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. SO ONE OF THE BIGGEST KEYS TO HAVING 41:35.936 --> 41:42.025 OUR PRAYERS ANSWERED IS JUST CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD 41:42.025 --> 41:45.746 OUR GOD. BECAUSE WHEN WE CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD OUR 41:45.746 --> 41:53.065 GOD, WE'RE CALLING UPON ALL OF WHO GOD IS. NOW, AND YOU KNOW, 41:53.065 --> 41:58.016 TURN YOUR BIBLES OVER TO PSALM 20 VERSE 1 AND SEE WHAT WOULD 41:58.016 --> 42:00.715 HAVE HAPPENED IF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WOULD HAVE SEEN GOD AS 42:00.715 --> 42:05.996 JEHOVAH THE GOOD. EVERY TIME THEY CAME FROM THING TO THING TO 42:05.996 --> 42:11.275 THING, AND FROM, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY WOULD GO FROM ONE PLACE OF 42:11.275 --> 42:15.235 HARDSHIP AND THEY WOULD ENTER INTO ANOTHER PLACE OF HARDSHIP, 42:15.235 --> 42:17.695 IF THEY WOULD HAVE UNDERSTOOD THE GOODNESS AND THE CHARACTER 42:17.695 --> 42:23.996 OF GOD, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN QUICK TO NOT BELIEVE IN HIM. BUT 42:23.996 --> 42:28.135 BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO, THEY ONLY WANTED TO SEE HIM AS I AM. 42:29.275 --> 42:33.536 NOW PSALM 20 VERSE ONE SAYS, THE LORD HEARS YOU IN THE DAY OF 42:33.536 --> 42:37.795 TROUBLE AND THE NAME OF THE GOD OF JACOB WILL DEFEND YOU. IN 42:37.795 --> 42:45.596 OTHER WORDS, GOD HEARS US WHEN YOU'RE IN TROUBLE. GOD HEARS US 42:45.596 --> 42:48.985 AND THE GOD OF JACOB IS OUR DEFENSE. SO THE SAME, WHAT IS 42:48.985 --> 42:52.076 THAT SAYING? THE SAME GOD THAT DEFENDED JACOB IS THE SAME GOD 42:52.076 --> 42:56.965 THAT'S GONNA DEFEND US WHEN WE CALL ON HIM. IT'S NOT THAT HE IS 42:56.965 --> 43:01.436 ONLY JACOB'S GOD. IT SAYS THAT THE NAME OF THE GOD OF JACOB, 43:02.846 --> 43:07.945 BECAUSE THE VERY SAME GOD THAT WAS THE GOD OF JACOB IS THE GOD 43:07.945 --> 43:14.065 THAT WE CALL UPON. AND HERE'S THE THING, DO YOU KNOW JOSHUA, 43:15.115 --> 43:18.085 YOU KNOW, YOU REMEMBER THE STORY HOW THE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, 43:18.085 --> 43:22.646 THEY GO UP, THEY HAVE THE LAND OF PROMISE AND SEE THAT'S, YOU 43:22.646 --> 43:25.826 KNOW, THAT THEY HAVE THE LAND OF PROMISE, THAT GOD HAS PROMISED 43:25.826 --> 43:30.505 TO THEM AND ALL THEY COULD SEE WERE THE OBSTACLES. BUT SEE, 43:30.505 --> 43:35.005 JOSHUA HAD A DIFFERENT REVELATION OF WHO GOD WAS. WHY? 43:35.005 --> 43:38.485 BECAUSE WHEN MOSES WOULD GO INTO THE TENT OF MEETING, JOSHUA 43:38.485 --> 43:41.126 WOULD GO INTO THE TENT OF MEETING. AND THEN WHEN MOSES 43:41.126 --> 43:44.126 WOULD LEAVE THE TENT OF MEETING, JOSHUA WOULD STAY IN THE TENT OF 43:44.126 --> 43:45.985 MEETING. BECAUSE WHAT WAS JOSHUA DOING? GETTING HIS OWN 43:45.985 --> 43:54.085 REVELATION OF THE LORD. SO WHEN THE TIME CAME AND MOSES DIES AND 43:54.085 --> 44:00.235 GOD SHOWS UP TO JOSHUA AND SAYS, "LISTEN, MOSES, MY SERVANT IS 44:00.235 --> 44:02.306 DEAD. NOW YOU'RE GOING TO GO IN AND YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE THE 44:02.306 --> 44:07.286 LAND OF PROMISE." AND HE REVEALS TO JOSHUA THAT HE IS THE LORD OF 44:07.286 --> 44:12.686 HOSTS. HE IS THE LORD OF ARMIES. GOD COULDN'T REVEAL HIMSELF TO 44:12.686 --> 44:15.536 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL THAT WAY BECAUSE THEY REFUSED TO SEE HIM 44:15.536 --> 44:21.596 AS ANYTHING ELSE BUT THE GOD THAT EXISTS. AND IF IN OUR 44:21.596 --> 44:25.436 PRAYER LIFE ALL WE SEE IS THAT HE'S THE GOD THAT EXISTS, THEN 44:25.436 --> 44:27.925 WE'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE OR HAVE FAITH THAT HE'S GONNA 44:27.925 --> 44:32.425 ANSWER OUR CALL, OUR CRY, OR OUR PRAYER BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THE 44:32.425 --> 44:35.485 CHARACTER OF WHO HE IS. SO THAT'S IMPORTANT, THAT'S WHY WE 44:35.485 --> 44:44.666 NEED TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE LORD. AMEN? SO, I MEAN, YOU 44:44.666 --> 44:48.445 KNOW, I WANNA HAVE MY OWN REVELATION OF GOD. I DON'T WANT 44:48.445 --> 44:53.396 WHAT SOMEBODY ELSE SAID ABOUT HIM. BECAUSE IF I ONLY KNOW WHAT 44:53.396 --> 44:58.945 SOMEBODY ELSE SAID ABOUT HIM, THEN WHEN IT COMES TIME TO CALL 44:58.945 --> 45:05.905 ON HIM, I'M NOT GONNA KNOW THAT HE IS GOING TO ANSWER ME. THE 45:05.905 --> 45:11.155 REASON OUR KIDS KNOW THAT WHEN THEY ASK US FOR SOMETHING THAT 45:11.155 --> 45:13.436 THEY HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THEY'RE GONNA RECEIVE IS BECAUSE THEY 45:13.436 --> 45:18.835 KNOW THE CHARACTER OF WHO THEIR PARENTS ARE. AND IF YOU DON'T 45:18.835 --> 45:23.005 HAVE A REVELATION OF WHO GOD IS, THEN IT'S HARD TO GET YOUR 45:23.005 --> 45:27.385 PRAYERS ANSWERED BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT TRULY BELIEVING IN THE NAME 45:27.385 --> 45:30.985 OF THE LORD. 'CAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THE RIGHT HAND OF THE LORD 45:30.985 --> 45:35.905 DOES VALIANTLY. THE RIGHT HAND OF THE LORD IS EXALTED. WHEN THE 45:35.905 --> 45:39.445 ENEMY COMES IN LIKE A FLOOD, THE LORD WILL RAISE UP A STANDARD 45:39.445 --> 45:44.905 AGAINST HIM. OKAY, SO WE'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO CALL, WE'VE GOTTA 45:44.905 --> 45:49.016 REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE LORD OUR GOD WHEN IT COMES TIME FOR 45:49.016 --> 45:54.326 US TO COME INTO A PLACE OF PRAYER. AND YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, 45:54.326 --> 45:57.235 EVEN REMEMBER WHEN JESUS, NOW YES, THIS IS, AND HERE'S THE 45:57.235 --> 46:00.505 THING, THE NAME OF THE LORD IN WORSHIP GO HAND IN HAND. SO IF 46:00.505 --> 46:03.806 YOU GO BACK OVER TO MATTHEW CHAPTER SIX WHERE JESUS TEACHES 46:03.806 --> 46:06.356 THEM TO PRAY, HE SAYS, "OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HEAVEN," 46:06.356 --> 46:10.525 WHAT IS THAT? AGAIN, IT'S A NAME FOR GOD, OUR FATHER, ABBA. "OUR 46:10.525 --> 46:14.485 ABBA WHICH ART IN HEAVEN, HOLY IS YOUR NAME." HE COMES IN 46:14.485 --> 46:17.186 BECAUSE HE'S, WHAT ARE WE DOING? GETTING A REVELATION, WE'RE 46:17.186 --> 46:23.695 REMINDING OURSELVES WHO IS THE GOD THAT WE SERVE. AND THEN HE 46:23.695 --> 46:26.606 GOES INTO SAYING, "THY KINGDOM COME," AND HE TEACHES THEM THE 46:26.606 --> 46:32.786 REST OF THE WAY TO PRAY. SO THE NUMBER ONE KEY TO ANSWER PRAYER 46:32.786 --> 46:35.695 IS REMEMBERING THE NAME OF THE LORD, OR REMEMBER THE NAME OF 46:35.695 --> 46:41.186 THE LORD. NUMBER TWO, NOW THIS ONE'S FUN BECAUSE THE CULTURE 46:41.186 --> 46:48.235 THAT WE LIVE IN SOMETIMES REALLY DRIVES US TO BEND THIS WAY. BUT 46:48.235 --> 46:51.476 NUMBER TWO, ONE OF THE KEYS TO ANSWERED PRAYER IS DON'T BE A 46:51.476 --> 46:57.686 VICTIM OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCE. PRESENT OR PAST. PRESENT OR 46:57.686 --> 47:02.275 PAST. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE NOW THAT THEY USE THE, 47:02.275 --> 47:08.965 WELL, I'M TRIGGERED BY THAT. I'M SORRY, THAT'S A VICTIM 47:08.965 --> 47:12.806 MENTALITY. IF YOU'RE TRIGGERED BY SOMETHING, THEN THAT MEANS 47:12.806 --> 47:17.666 YOU'RE NOT WHOLE. IF SOMETHING IS TRIGGERING YOU, THEN 47:17.666 --> 47:19.976 SOMEWHERE YOU'VE GOT SOME VICTIMHOOD THAT YOU'VE GOT TO 47:19.976 --> 47:26.965 DEAL WITH. WAS THAT HARSH? I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE HARSH. BUT 47:26.965 --> 47:33.115 HERE'S THE THING, A VICTIM, A VICTIM SEES LIFE THROUGH THE 47:33.115 --> 47:39.865 LENS OF THEIR HURT, THEIR DEFEAT, THEIR ABUSE. THEY 47:39.865 --> 47:44.545 STRUGGLE TO SEE FREEDOM AND VICTORY, AND USUALLY THEY'RE NOT 47:44.545 --> 47:49.286 WILLING TO WORK FOR IT. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE HAVE 47:49.286 --> 47:54.686 BEEN INGRAINED AS A VICTIM, THEY STRUGGLE TO COME INTO A PLACE OF 47:54.686 --> 47:58.675 PRAYER AND BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GONNA MOVE ON THEIR BEHALF, OR 47:58.675 --> 48:03.865 THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO STAND UP AND TRULY ASK GOD IN A PLACE OF 48:03.865 --> 48:09.686 FAITH. BECAUSE AGAIN, AND YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL LOVES, HE LOVES 48:09.686 --> 48:15.715 VICTIMS BECAUSE VICTIMS DON'T WIN. IF YOU START WINNING, 48:15.715 --> 48:21.896 YOU'RE NO LONGER A VICTIM. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, AND IT'S FUNNY 48:21.896 --> 48:26.335 BECAUSE WE HAVE THIS WHOLE THING THAT, YOU KNOW, SYSTEMIC RACISM, 48:26.335 --> 48:32.576 SLAVERY, ALL OF THOSE THINGS. DO YOU KNOW WE DON'T, THAT SLAVERY 48:32.576 --> 48:36.775 IS NOW ILLEGAL IN THE UNITED STATES? I MEAN, IS THAT A SHOCK 48:36.775 --> 48:44.666 TO ANYBODY? YOU CANNOT OWN A SLAVE. LIKE, IT'S ILLEGAL. AND 48:44.666 --> 48:52.255 IT WAS WIPED OUT A LONG, LONG TIME AGO. LIKE, CENTURY. PLUS, 48:53.275 --> 48:59.755 IT WAS WIPED OUT. SO, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE I SAW A THING, YOU KNOW, 48:59.755 --> 49:03.235 AND I CAN'T HELP BUT PREACH WITHOUT SOME OF THE CULTURAL 49:03.235 --> 49:06.896 STUFF SEEPING IN, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHO I AM. BUT I SAW SOMEBODY 49:06.896 --> 49:11.545 THAT SAID, WELL, THIS SYSTEMIC SLAVERY GOT US HERE. I'M LIKE, 49:11.545 --> 49:16.585 IT'S NOT SYSTEMIC ANYMORE, WE DON'T ALLOW IT. SO, YOU KNOW, 49:16.585 --> 49:19.585 WAKE UP IN THIS CENTURY AND MAYBE WE CAN GET SOMEWHERE. 49:19.585 --> 49:26.635 OKAY, ANYWAY, SORRY, YOU KNOW, SEE, I CAN'T HELP IT. AND HERE'S 49:26.635 --> 49:29.365 THE THING, WE'VE GOTTA BE CAREFUL WE DON'T FALL VICTIM TO 49:29.365 --> 49:33.445 THE VICTIM CULTURE. 'CAUSE WE HAVE A VICTIM CULTURE WHERE WE 49:33.445 --> 49:39.626 COME IN, OR NOT WE 'CAUSE I DON'T, BUT SOME PEOPLE COME IN 49:39.626 --> 49:42.505 AND THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE OWED A CERTAIN THING. DO YOU 49:42.505 --> 49:46.885 KNOW, WE DON'T GO TO GOD AND SAY, "LISTEN, I'M OWED." BECAUSE 49:46.885 --> 49:51.686 HE ALREADY PAID THE PRICE. AND WE'RE WALKING IN GRACE. BUT 49:51.686 --> 49:55.885 HERE'S THE THING, IF YOU'RE COMING IN IN VICTIMHOOD AND YOU 49:55.885 --> 50:01.295 CAN'T GET OUT OF YOUR PAST, THEN IT'S HARD TO COME IN AND PRAY TO 50:01.295 --> 50:08.005 A GOD THAT IS LIVING IN YOUR PRESENT. A GOD THAT CALLED YOU 50:08.005 --> 50:10.735 FROM YOUR MOTHER'S WOMB, THAT DIDN'T JUST, THAT JUST WASN'T 50:10.735 --> 50:16.916 JEREMIAH. IF YOU WERE CONCEIVED AND A SPIRIT WAS CREATED, GOD 50:16.916 --> 50:19.945 KNEW OF YOUR EXISTENCE AND HE HAD A PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. SO WE 50:19.945 --> 50:24.085 CAN'T LIVE IN VICTIMHOOD. NOW TURN OVER TO, AND PASTOR HANK 50:24.085 --> 50:28.476 HIT ON THIS, ISAIAH CHAPTER 43, AND IF YOU WERE HERE ON SUNDAY, 50:28.476 --> 50:30.905 THIS SHOULD BE A FAMILIAR SCRIPTURE TO YOU 'CAUSE HE JUST 50:30.905 --> 50:35.436 TALKED ABOUT THIS. HE SAYS, "REMEMBER NOT THE FORMER THINGS, 50:35.436 --> 50:41.646 "NEITHER CONSIDER THE THINGS OF OLD. "BEHOLD, I WILL DO A NEW 50:41.646 --> 50:44.465 THING, "AND NOW IT SHALL SPRING FORTH, SHALL YOU NOT KNOW IT. "I 50:44.465 --> 50:47.525 WILL EVEN MAKE A WAY IN THE WILDERNESS "AND RIVERS IN THE 50:47.525 --> 50:50.795 DESERT." DO YOU KNOW THAT MAKING A ROAD IN THE WILDERNESS IS NOT 50:50.795 --> 50:54.338 AN EASY TASK AND RIVERS IN THE DESERT IS NOT, HAVE YOU BEEN TO 50:54.338 --> 50:57.215 THE DESERT? YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT KNOWN FOR BEING FULL OF 50:57.215 --> 51:04.206 WATER. THEY'RE NOT KNOWN FOR BEING A FRUITFUL PLACE. BUT GOD 51:04.206 --> 51:08.675 SAID, LISTEN, I, I'M GONNA MAKE RIVERS IN THE DESERT, I'M DOING 51:08.675 --> 51:11.286 SOMETHING NEW. AND SO IN OTHER WORDS, GET YOUR MIND OFF THE 51:11.286 --> 51:15.545 THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN THE THINGS OF THE PAST. BECAUSE VICTIMS 51:15.545 --> 51:20.556 LIVE IN THE PAST. VICTIMS LIVE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALWAYS HAVING 51:20.556 --> 51:23.885 TO TALK ABOUT THEIR SCARS AND THEIR HURT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT 51:23.885 --> 51:26.166 ENCOUNTERING THE ONE THAT SAID I CAME TO BIND UP THE 51:26.166 --> 51:33.456 BROKENHEARTED. AMEN? I KNOW, IT'S NOT A FUN MESSAGE. BUT YOU 51:33.456 --> 51:41.016 KNOW, GOD, AND HERE'S THE THING, GOD DOES HEAR US IN OUR 51:41.016 --> 51:44.856 STRUGGLE. PSALM 34:6, SAYS, THIS POOR MAN CRIED UNTO THE 51:44.856 --> 51:48.846 LORD AND HE SAVED THEM OUT OF ALL OF HIS TROUBLE. SO IT'S NOT 51:48.846 --> 51:53.195 THAT GOD DOESN'T HEAR US IN THE MOMENT OF OUR WEAKNESS OR IN OUR 51:53.195 --> 51:58.536 BROKENNESS, BUT GOD WASN'T GONNA LEAVE US IN OUR BROKENNESS 51:58.536 --> 52:02.615 BECAUSE GOD IS A GOD THAT'S ONGOING. TURN OVER TO EZEKIEL 52:02.615 --> 52:07.715 CHAPTER 36, VERSE FOUR. AND IT SAYS, THEREFORE, YOU MOUNTAINS 52:07.715 --> 52:11.255 OF ISRAEL, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, OR HEAR THE WORD OF THE 52:11.255 --> 52:15.215 LORD GOD, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD TO THE MOUNTAINS, AND TO THE 52:15.215 --> 52:18.306 HILLS, AND TO THE RIVERS, AND TO THE VALLEYS, TO THE DESOLATE 52:18.306 --> 52:20.766 WASTE, AND TO THE CITIES THAT ARE FORSAKEN, WHICH BECAME A 52:20.766 --> 52:23.945 PREY, AND DERISION, AND THE RESIDUE OF THE HEATHEN THAT ARE 52:23.945 --> 52:28.715 ROUND ABOUT HIM. I DON'T THINK I GAVE YOU THE RIGHT SCRIPTURE FOR 52:28.715 --> 52:35.315 THAT. SO LET'S MOVE ON FROM THAT, 'CAUSE I DON'T EVEN KNOW 52:35.315 --> 52:39.155 WHAT I WROTE. LET'S GO TO PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER THREE. BUT 52:39.155 --> 52:45.275 HERE'S THE THING. YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A PLACE 52:45.275 --> 52:49.356 WHERE I'M ALWAYS REHEARSING PAST HURTS. I WANNA BE A PERSON 52:49.356 --> 52:55.476 THAT'S REHEARSING VICTORIES. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THERE IS, THERE IS 52:55.476 --> 52:58.626 OPPORTUNITY IN OUR LIFE TO GET HURT. THERE'S GONNA BE 52:58.626 --> 53:02.376 OPPORTUNITIES IN OUR LIFE FOR US TO HAVE PEOPLE THAT DON'T LIKE 53:02.376 --> 53:05.106 US. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHY ANYBODY WOULDN'T LIKE ME. I'M 53:05.106 --> 53:10.536 SUCH A SWEET PERSON. WELL, NO, I'M KINDA SALTY AND VINEGARY, 53:10.536 --> 53:19.025 BUT YOU KNOW. BUT YOU KNOW, WE ARE WHO WE ARE. YOU KNOW, BUT 53:19.025 --> 53:22.985 YOU'RE GONNA HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO GET HURT. YOU'RE GONNA HAVE 53:22.985 --> 53:28.476 OPPORTUNITIES TO HAVE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, NOT LIKE YOU. YOU'RE 53:28.476 --> 53:32.106 GONNA HAVE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THE DEVIL IS GOING TO TRY TO 53:32.106 --> 53:36.905 SABOTAGE YOUR CONFIDENCE. BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, 53:38.045 --> 53:41.226 WE'VE GOT TO KEEP PRESSING FORWARD BECAUSE GOD'S NOT A GOD 53:41.226 --> 53:46.056 THAT LIVES IN THE PAST. IF HE LIVED IN THE PAST, WE WOULDN'T 53:46.056 --> 53:49.146 HAVE THE NEXT GENERATION. WHY DOES HE SAY FROM GENERATION TO 53:49.146 --> 53:51.876 GENERATION, OR YOUR SEED IS GONNA BE BLESSED? 'CAUSE GOD'S 53:51.876 --> 53:56.945 ALWAYS LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE. NOW, PHILIPPIANS 3:13 SAYS, 53:56.945 --> 53:59.766 BRETHREN, I COUNT NOT MYSELF TO HAVE APPREHENDED, BUT THIS ONE 53:59.766 --> 54:03.905 THING I DO, FORGETTING THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND AND 54:03.905 --> 54:07.896 REACHING FORTH UNTO THE THINGS WHICH ARE BEFORE. SO WHAT IS 54:07.896 --> 54:12.096 THAT? THE THINGS THAT ARE AHEAD. AND IT SAYS, I PRESS TOWARD THE 54:12.096 --> 54:16.985 MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS. 54:16.985 --> 54:21.965 NOW, LISTEN, IF YOU DON'T WANNA BE A VICTIM, DON'T ADOPT THE 54:21.965 --> 54:27.425 LANGUAGE OF VICTIMS. DON'T SAY TO SOMEBODY, LISTEN, YOU KNOW, I 54:27.425 --> 54:29.856 WAS MAKING A JOKE ABOUT THE TRIGGER THING, BUT DON'T USE 54:29.856 --> 54:34.632 THAT LANGUAGE, BECAUSE THAT'S THE LANGUAGE OF THE CULTURE. IF 54:34.632 --> 54:39.246 SOMETHING BOTHERS ME, IT'S NOT SOMEBODY ELSE'S RESPONSIBILITY 54:39.246 --> 54:42.425 TO MAKE ME FEEL GOOD. IT IS MY RESPONSIBILITY TO GET INTO MY 54:42.425 --> 54:46.235 PRAYER CLOSET AND SAY, GOD, YOU NEED TO FIX WHAT IS GOING ON 54:46.235 --> 54:50.286 WITH ME. IT'S NOT SOMEBODY, IT IS NOT JANET'S JOB TO MAKE ME 54:50.286 --> 54:54.635 FEEL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF. IT IS NOT PASTOR ANTHONY'S JOB TO GIVE 54:54.635 --> 54:57.635 ME A COMPLIMENT SO I STAY CONFIDENT IN WHAT GOD CALLED ME 54:57.635 --> 55:04.956 TO DO. IT'S NOT THEIR JOB. DAVID SAID HE ENCOURAGED HIMSELF IN 55:04.956 --> 55:08.016 THE LORD. IF HE WOULD HAVE LISTENED TO WHAT HIS MEN WERE 55:08.016 --> 55:11.405 SAYING, THEY TALKED OF STONING HIM, HE COULD HAVE SAID, "OH, 55:11.405 --> 55:12.516 YOU'RE TRIGGERING ME.” 55:12.516 --> 55:16.056 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 55:16.056 --> 55:20.525 WELL, THAT'S NOT THE LANGUAGE OF SOMEBODY THAT WALKS IN VICTORY, 55:20.525 --> 55:26.465 THAT'S THE VICTIM. SEE, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 55:26.465 --> 55:29.735 KEEPS US FROM HAVING ANSWERED PRAYER, IS SOMETIMES WE COME IN 55:29.735 --> 55:32.916 AND WE CAN'T, WE SO CAN'T GET PAST OUR OWN HURT AND OUR OWN 55:32.916 --> 55:36.815 THING THAT WE CAN'T EVEN HEAR, BECAUSE OUR EARS ARE DULL, WE 55:36.815 --> 55:39.396 CAN'T EVEN HEAR THE VOICE OF THE LORD WHEN HE'S TRYING TO ANSWER 55:39.396 --> 55:42.036 BECAUSE WE ONLY WANT THINGS THROUGH THE LENS OF OUR OWN 55:42.036 --> 55:49.235 HURT. AND HERE'S THE THING, I'M NOT SAYING YOU CAN'T ASK GOD WHY 55:49.235 --> 55:55.146 SOMETHING HAPPENED. YOU CAN, BUT IF HE DIDN'T ANSWER, DON'T STAY 55:55.146 --> 56:00.490 THERE. AND SOMETIMES GOD DOESN'T ALWAYS GIVE US A WHY. AND 56:00.490 --> 56:04.505 SOMETIMES THE WHY IS, IS BECAUSE THE ENEMY COMES IN AND IS TRYING 56:04.505 --> 56:12.666 TO DISRUPT YOUR LIFE. YOU KNOW, AND VICTIMS THINK NOBODY 56:12.666 --> 56:17.465 UNDERSTANDS THEIR STRUGGLES. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE? NOBODY 56:17.465 --> 56:24.275 UNDERSTANDS WHAT I'M GOING THROUGH. I MEAN, I HAVE. AND, 56:26.465 --> 56:30.516 BUT THAT'S BECAUSE THEY CAN NEVER SEE SOMETHING NEW. THEY'VE 56:30.516 --> 56:35.465 BEEN SO BUSY LOOKING AT THEIR PAST TRAUMA. AND YOU KNOW, IT'S 56:35.465 --> 56:41.315 FUNNY, EVERYBODY'S GOT TRAUMA NOWADAYS. IT USED TO BE THAT, 56:41.315 --> 56:43.835 YOU KNOW, IT WAS, AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT THERE'S NOT REAL 56:43.835 --> 56:48.275 TRAUMAS. THERE ARE REAL TRAUMAS THAT HAPPEN TO PEOPLE. BUT NOW, 56:48.275 --> 56:51.365 LIKE PEOPLE ARE TRAUMATIZED BECAUSE THEIR PARENTS DIDN'T LET 56:51.365 --> 56:54.425 'EM HAVE SOMETHING, OR PEOPLE ARE TRAUMATIZED BECAUSE THEY 56:54.425 --> 56:57.916 DIDN'T GET A PROMOTION AT WORK THAT MAYBE THEY DIDN'T EARN. OR, 56:57.916 --> 57:09.425 ANYWAY. BUT SEE, THAT'S VICTIM. AND SOMETIMES, GOD CAN'T DO 57:09.425 --> 57:13.146 SOMETHING NEW IN YOUR LIFE, AND IT'S HARD FOR HIM TO ANSWER YOUR 57:13.146 --> 57:15.846 PRAYERS IF YOU'RE ONLY GONNA SEE YOURSELF THROUGH THE LENS OF 57:15.846 --> 57:21.726 YOUR HURT AND ABUSE. NOW, YOU KNOW, LOT'S WIFE HAD SALVATION 57:21.726 --> 57:25.266 FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH, BUT SHE COULDN'T 57:25.266 --> 57:29.525 GET PAST LOSING HER HOME. SO SHE LOOKED BACK AND NEVER ENTERED 57:29.525 --> 57:34.746 INTO THE PROMISE. BECAUSE WHEN YOU LIVE IN THE PAST, GOD CAN'T 57:34.746 --> 57:39.516 TAKE YOU INTO YOUR FUTURE. SO YOU CAN BE PRAYING FOR THINGS 57:39.516 --> 57:43.835 THAT YOU'RE NOT GETTING TO BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT LOOKING PAST 57:43.835 --> 57:52.266 WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU. YOU KNOW, AND HIS DAUGHTERS, LIKE THEY HAD 57:52.266 --> 57:55.476 TO HEAR, EVEN IF THEY COULDN'T LOOK AT IT, THEY HAD TO HEAR 57:55.476 --> 58:00.815 WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN SODOM AND GOMORRAH. AND INSTEAD OF SAYING, 58:00.815 --> 58:05.465 OH MY LORD, YOU SAVED US, THEY WENT AND COMMITTED SIN BECAUSE 58:05.465 --> 58:08.346 THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT GOD COULD BRING THEM HUSBANDS AND 58:08.346 --> 58:16.056 CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY LET THE PAST INFLUENCE THEIR DECISION 58:16.056 --> 58:22.596 FOR THE FUTURE. SO THAT'S WHY WE CAN'T, ONE OF THE KEYS TO 58:22.596 --> 58:26.496 ANSWERED PRAYER IS THAT WE HAVE TO SEE OURSELVES NOT AS A 58:26.496 --> 58:29.646 VICTIM, BUT WE NEED TO SEE OURSELVES AS THE REDEEMED OF THE 58:29.646 --> 58:35.675 LORD. TURN OVER TO HEBREWS CHAPTER FOUR, VERSE 15 AND 16. 58:37.536 --> 58:39.965 AND IT SAYS, "FOR WE DON'T HAVE," AND SEE, THAT'S THE OTHER 58:39.965 --> 58:43.356 THING. REMEMBER, WE JUST SAID THAT VICTIMS THINK NOBODY ELSE 58:43.356 --> 58:47.016 UNDERSTANDS THEIR PLIGHT AND THEIR STRUGGLE. WELL, YOU KNOW 58:47.016 --> 58:50.255 WHAT, I MAY NOT UNDERSTAND IT. MAYBE I DIDN'T GO THROUGH IT. 58:50.255 --> 58:53.166 MAYBE SOMEBODY ELSE DIDN'T GO THROUGH IT. BUT THE, AND SEE, 58:53.166 --> 58:55.865 THAT'S THE THING. WE'VE GOTTA STAY WITH WHAT THE WORD OF GOD 58:55.865 --> 59:00.516 SAYS. FOR WE DON'T HAVE A HIGH PRIEST WHICH CANNOT BE TOUCHED 59:00.516 --> 59:04.056 WITH THE FEELINGS OF OUR INFIRMITIES. AND IT'S NOT JUST 59:04.056 --> 59:06.905 MEANING INFIRMITIES, IT'S MEANING WHAT OUR TRIALS AND OUR 59:06.905 --> 59:11.076 STRUGGLES WERE. BUT WAS IN ALL POINTS TEMPTED JUST LIKE WE 59:11.076 --> 59:15.516 WERE, YET HE DID IT WITHOUT SIN. NOW GO TO VERSE 16. AND WHAT 59:15.516 --> 59:18.275 DOES IT SAY? LET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF 59:18.275 --> 59:21.606 GRACE THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY AND FIND GRACE TO HELP IN THE 59:21.606 --> 59:25.385 TIME OF NEED. SO GOD'S SAYING, "DON'T COME AND SAY, 'WOE IS ME, 59:25.385 --> 59:28.416 "'I AM LONELY,' AND GOD, IF YOU COULD JUST HEAR," HE SAID, "NO, 59:28.416 --> 59:32.016 COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE, "BECAUSE THE PRICE FOR US 59:32.016 --> 59:34.655 TO GET TO THE THRONE ROOM "WAS ALREADY COVERED BY THE BLOOD OF 59:34.655 --> 59:37.835 JESUS, "AND BECAUSE IT WAS COVERED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS, 59:37.835 --> 59:41.496 "WE DON'T HAVE TO LIVE IN VICTIMHOOD ANYMORE. "WE GET TO 59:41.496 --> 59:44.885 LIVE IN THE VICTORY "THAT WAS BROUGHT TO US THROUGH CHRIST, 59:44.885 --> 59:48.335 "AND COME BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE SO THAT WE CAN OBTAIN 59:48.335 --> 59:55.235 MERCY." AMEN? SO HERE'S THE THING. LIKE I SAID, WE'VE GOT TO 59:55.235 --> 01:00:00.965 REHEARSE WHAT OUR VICTORIES ARE. AND I SAW THIS THING ON SOCIAL 01:00:00.965 --> 01:00:04.985 MEDIA ABOUT SOMEBODY THAT THEY HAD GOTTEN A DIAGNOSIS. AND I 01:00:04.985 --> 01:00:08.735 MEAN, I HAVE A LITTLE DIFFERENT TAKE ON IT, BUT SOMETIMES WE'RE 01:00:08.735 --> 01:00:12.545 TOO QUICK IN THE BODY OF CHRIST OR ANYWHERE REALLY. BUT AGAIN, 01:00:12.545 --> 01:00:15.425 SOMETIMES IT'S, WE GOTTA BE CAREFUL NOT TO LET THAT CULTURE 01:00:15.425 --> 01:00:21.876 COME IN AND RAISE ITS HEAD IN OUR LIFE. BECAUSE IT TRIES. AND 01:00:21.876 --> 01:00:27.065 IT TRIES ALL AROUND US. SO THEY HAD GOTTEN A PARTICULARLY POOR 01:00:27.065 --> 01:00:34.400 DIAGNOSIS AND OUR RESPONSE A LOT OF TIMES TO THAT IS WHY ME? WHY 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:42.170 ME? SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS AND IT'S WHY ME? AND, YOU KNOW, BUT 01:00:42.170 --> 01:00:45.771 THEY SAID, YOU KNOW, I DECIDED INSTEAD OF SAYING WHY ME, WHY 01:00:45.771 --> 01:00:48.831 NOT ME? WHY AM I DIFFERENT THAN ANYBODY ELSE? WHICH, THAT'S 01:00:48.831 --> 01:00:54.561 FINE. I MEAN, THAT'S BETTER THAN JUST CRYING AND SORROW OVER IT. 01:00:54.561 --> 01:01:01.190 HOWEVER, I WANNA SAY WHY NOT ME RECEIVING A HEALING? WHY NOT ME 01:01:01.190 --> 01:01:06.440 RECEIVING THE VICTORY? WHY NOT ME? WHY IS IT SOMEBODY ELSE? 01:01:06.440 --> 01:01:08.840 AGAIN, WHAT DID PAUL SAY? I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK OF THE 01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:11.001 HIGH CALL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS. WELL, I'M NOT GONNA 01:01:11.001 --> 01:01:14.451 FULFILL THE HIGH CALL OF GOD IF I'M SICK AND BROKEN, DEPRESSED. 01:01:14.451 --> 01:01:17.661 SO WHY NOT ME? WHY AM I NOT A CANDIDATE FOR GOD TO BLESS ME? I 01:01:17.661 --> 01:01:20.871 AM A CANDIDATE BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS. I AM A CANDIDATE 01:01:20.871 --> 01:01:23.240 BECAUSE OF THE PROMISES OF GOD. 01:01:23.240 --> 01:01:26.181 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:01:26.181 --> 01:01:29.271 SO ANOTHER KEY TO ANSWERED PRAYER. SEE, THIS ISN'T JUST ALL 01:01:29.271 --> 01:01:32.661 JUST FAITH AND PRAYING. I MEAN, WE'RE GONNA GET TO SOME OF THAT 01:01:32.661 --> 01:01:37.971 TOO. BUT IT'S DON'T BE A VICTIM. BECAUSE WHEN YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE 01:01:37.971 --> 01:01:43.280 THROUGH VICTIMHOOD, THEN YOU'RE NEVER GONNA GET INTO WHAT GOD 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:46.641 CALLED YOU. BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE 01:01:46.641 --> 01:01:48.327 CALLED TO BE AN OVERCOMER. YOU'RE CALLED TO BE AN 01:01:48.327 --> 01:01:50.121 OVERCOMER. LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY YOU'RE CALLED TO 01:01:50.121 --> 01:02:02.960 OVERCOME. ALL RIGHT, NUMBER THREE. DON'T BE A GRIPER. THE 01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:10.041 QUICKEST WAY TO TURN OFF THE EAR OF THE FATHER IS TO BE A GRIPER 01:02:10.041 --> 01:02:18.831 AND A COMPLAINER. TURN OVER TO PSALM 100, VERSE 4. IT SAYS, 01:02:18.831 --> 01:02:23.931 "ENTER INTO HIS GATES WITH," WHAT? THANKSGIVING. HE DIDN'T 01:02:23.931 --> 01:02:29.150 SAY ENTER INTO HIS COURTS WITH THE, OH GOD, HERE I AM AGAIN AND 01:02:29.150 --> 01:02:34.400 EVERYTHING'S GOING WRONG IN MY LIFE AND MY HUSBAND WAS MEAN TO 01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:40.664 ME, MY KIDS DISRESPECTED ME, MY BOSS WASN'T NICE TO ME, MY 01:02:41.990 --> 01:02:46.701 FAMILY MEMBERS, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE EXCOMMUNICATED ME. AND 01:02:46.701 --> 01:02:52.221 WE, YOU KNOW, COME AND WE'RE GRIPING AT THE THRONE. WELL, I'M 01:02:52.221 --> 01:02:56.780 GONNA ASK PARENTS, HOW MANY OF YOU PARENTS GET SUPER EXCITED TO 01:02:56.780 --> 01:02:58.911 BLESS YOUR KIDS WHEN THEY'RE GRIPING AND COMPLAINING ABOUT 01:02:58.911 --> 01:03:03.231 EVERYTHING IN THEIR LIFE? THAT'S NOT, IT DOESN'T PARTICULARLY 01:03:03.231 --> 01:03:07.041 WORK THAT WELL FOR MY HUSBAND AND I. IF THEY'RE JUST GRIPING 01:03:07.041 --> 01:03:10.701 AND COMPLAINING, THEN WE'RE NOT LIKE, HEY, LET ME BLESS YOU. I'M 01:03:10.701 --> 01:03:14.751 LIKE, STRAIGHTEN UP YOUR ATTITUDE RIGHT NOW. DON'T YOU 01:03:14.751 --> 01:03:17.019 SEE YOU HAVE THIS, THIS, THIS, AND THIS, AND THIS, AND THIS? 01:03:19.251 --> 01:03:26.570 AND SO WE NEED TO COME IN WITH THANKSGIVING. AND YOU KNOW, THE 01:03:26.570 --> 01:03:29.420 BIBLE RECORDS THAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL MURMURED AGAINST THE 01:03:29.420 --> 01:03:37.581 LORD 15 TIMES. WHERE WAS THEIR GRATEFULNESS FOR THE CONTINUAL 01:03:37.581 --> 01:03:44.360 MERCIES OF GOD? SOMETIMES IT'S HARD FOR US TO REMEMBER TO BE 01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:51.440 THANKFUL WHEN WE'RE SO BUSY COMPLAINING. WE WERE LIVING IN A 01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:55.911 HOUSE THAT, IT WAS A NICE HOUSE. I MEAN, I DIDN'T HATE THE HOUSE, 01:03:55.911 --> 01:04:00.411 BUT I WANTED SOME THINGS IN ANOTHER HOUSE THAT I HAD JUST 01:04:00.411 --> 01:04:03.105 BEEN PRAYING FOR. LIKE THEY WERE A BIG DESIRE OF MY HEART. AND 01:04:03.105 --> 01:04:06.141 I'M LIKE, GOD, I REALLY, AND SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE, OH NO, YOU 01:04:06.141 --> 01:04:08.275 DON'T WANT THAT. THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, AND I WAS LIKE, NO 01:04:08.275 --> 01:04:13.041 GOD, I REALLY WANT THIS. THIS IS WHAT I WANT. AND IT HAD BEEN A 01:04:13.041 --> 01:04:16.971 BIG DESIRE OF MY HEART. BUT YOU KNOW, IN ALL OF THAT, I DIDN'T 01:04:16.971 --> 01:04:22.130 CURSE THE RESIDENCE THAT I HAD. I FIXED IT UP, I MADE IT NICE. I 01:04:22.130 --> 01:04:25.101 DECORATED IT FOR CHRISTMAS EVERY YEAR. I, YOU KNOW, I DECORATE 01:04:25.101 --> 01:04:28.550 FOR ALL THE SEASONS. I MADE IT NICE, WE TOOK CARE OF THAT 01:04:28.550 --> 01:04:32.420 HOUSE. AND I WOULD SIT DOWN THERE IN MY LIVING ROOM AND I 01:04:32.420 --> 01:04:36.561 WOULD PRAY AND SAY, "GOD, I THANK YOU THAT YOU BLESSED ME 01:04:36.561 --> 01:04:41.150 WITH THIS." I WASN'T JUST SO FOCUSED ON THE THING THAT I 01:04:41.150 --> 01:04:45.860 WANTED. AND WHEN I WOULD TALK TO THE LORD ABOUT THE OTHER THING, 01:04:47.001 --> 01:04:49.251 I WOULD SAY, "NOW GOD, YOU KNOW THAT'S A DESIRE OF MY HEART, BUT 01:04:49.251 --> 01:04:55.880 YOU KNOW, IN THE MEANTIME, MAN, YOU GAVE ME SOMETHING NICE." AND 01:04:55.880 --> 01:05:01.431 I DIDN'T SPEND TIME COMPLAINING OVER WHAT I DIDN'T HAVE. I WAS 01:05:01.431 --> 01:05:04.581 THANKING GOD FOR WHAT HE HAD BLESSED ME WITH. SO WHAT DOES 01:05:04.581 --> 01:05:08.210 THAT DO? THAT CREATES THE OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM TO GIVE US 01:05:08.210 --> 01:05:15.291 MORE. AND YOU KNOW, AND WHEN GOD, AND THEN SUDDENLY GOD MADE 01:05:15.291 --> 01:05:18.081 IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET A DIFFERENT HOUSE THAT HAD MORE 01:05:18.081 --> 01:05:24.981 THAN EVEN WHAT I HAD ASKED HIM FOR. AND I WAS BLOWN AWAY. AND 01:05:24.981 --> 01:05:27.351 YOU KNOW, AND THAT WAS THE THING, WE PRAYED ABOUT IT A LOT 01:05:27.351 --> 01:05:31.251 BECAUSE, AND ESPECIALLY WHEN WE WENT TO GO MOVE, I WAS LOOKING 01:05:31.251 --> 01:05:34.490 AT ALL THESE THINGS AND GOD KEPT GOING TO THIS ONE THING OVER 01:05:34.490 --> 01:05:36.981 HERE AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, WHAT ABOUT THIS OVER HERE? AND GOD'S 01:05:36.981 --> 01:05:41.331 LIKE, NO. ACTUALLY, THAT WAS THROUGH THE VOICE OF MY HUSBAND. 01:05:41.331 --> 01:05:47.001 LADIES, LISTEN TO YOUR HUSBANDS. THEY HEAR FROM THE LORD. AND I 01:05:47.001 --> 01:05:50.300 WAS LIKE, WELL, I DON'T KNOW, I WANT THIS. AND WE WERE LOOKING 01:05:50.300 --> 01:05:53.300 IN THIS ONE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE COVENANT SAID THAT YOU HAVE TO 01:05:53.300 --> 01:05:56.190 HAVE ALL THESE WROUGHT IRON FENCES. WELL, I HAVE FOUR DOGS. 01:05:57.740 --> 01:06:00.501 THREE OF THEM ARE AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING 01:06:00.501 --> 01:06:04.521 ABOUT DOGS, AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERDS ARE NOT KNOWN TO BE SUPER QUIET 01:06:04.521 --> 01:06:07.971 DOGS. THEY LIKE TO BARK AT THINGS AND THEY WANT TO PROTECT 01:06:07.971 --> 01:06:11.391 THEIR HOME. SO THEY'RE GOING TO LET YOU KNOW IF THEY THINK THAT 01:06:11.391 --> 01:06:19.971 ANYBODY IS GONNA COME NEAR THEIR HOUSE AT ALL, A LOT. AND WE WERE 01:06:19.971 --> 01:06:24.291 LOOKING IN THIS ONE AREA AND I WAS LIKE, ALL OF A SUDDEN I WAS 01:06:24.291 --> 01:06:27.170 LAYING IN BED AND IT DAWNED ON ME, I'M LIKE, WITH A WROUGHT 01:06:27.170 --> 01:06:31.130 IRON FENCE, I SAID, "HONEY, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH LANDSCAPING 01:06:31.130 --> 01:06:34.161 IN ALL THE WORLD TO KEEP THOSE DOGS FROM SEEING THROUGH THAT 01:06:34.161 --> 01:06:39.201 FENCE." I'M LIKE, "I DON'T WANNA LIVE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD." AND 01:06:39.201 --> 01:06:41.090 HE'S LIKE, "I'M TELLING YOU, "WE NEED TO GO LOOK AT THIS HOUSE 01:06:41.090 --> 01:06:47.391 OVER HERE." AND THE HOUSE THAT HE PICKED, NOT ONLY DID IT CHECK 01:06:47.391 --> 01:06:51.110 ALL THE BOXES, IT HAD A PRIVACY FENCE. THE DOGS COULDN'T SEE 01:06:51.110 --> 01:06:54.800 THROUGH IT, AND THEY COULDN'T SEE ANY NEIGHBORS ON THE 01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:58.101 BACKSIDE 'CAUSE THERE WAS A LINE OF TREES. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? 01:06:58.101 --> 01:07:04.311 GOD ANSWERED THE DESIRE OF MY HEART. BUT I WASN'T SPENDING 01:07:04.311 --> 01:07:08.331 TIME JUST GRIPING ABOUT WHAT I DID NOT HAVE. I SPENT TIME 01:07:08.331 --> 01:07:10.971 BLESSING THE LORD AND THANKING HIM. EVEN IN OUR FIRST HOUSE, 01:07:10.971 --> 01:07:16.490 WHEN IT GOT REAL SMALL AND REAL TINY, AND OUR KIDS HAD STARTED 01:07:16.490 --> 01:07:20.751 TO ENTER INTO THEIR PRETEEN YEARS, AND IT WAS, YOU KNOW, NOT 01:07:20.751 --> 01:07:24.681 A LOT OF SQUARE FOOTAGE, WE JUST SPENT TIME BLESSING THE LORD FOR 01:07:24.681 --> 01:07:29.811 WHAT HE HAD GIVEN US AND MAKING IT AS NICE AS WE COULD. WE 01:07:29.811 --> 01:07:32.360 DIDN'T GO, OH, WELL, YOU KNOW, LOOK AT, AND THOSE PEOPLE OVER 01:07:32.360 --> 01:07:35.331 THERE HAVE A NICER HOUSE THAN ME, AND THEY GET THIS, AND THEY 01:07:35.331 --> 01:07:38.661 GET THAT. DON'T DO THAT. THANK GOD FOR WHAT HE'S BLESSED YOU 01:07:38.661 --> 01:07:41.391 WITH, AND IF YOU THANK HIM FOR WHAT HE'S BLESSED YOU WITH, HE 01:07:41.391 --> 01:07:43.490 MIGHT BE ABLE TO BLESS YOU WITH MORE, BUT IF YOU'RE SO BUSY 01:07:43.490 --> 01:07:48.110 COVETING WHAT SOMEBODY ELSE HAS, THEN HE'S NOT GONNA ANSWER THAT 01:07:48.110 --> 01:07:56.742 PRAYER. ALL RIGHT, SO THEN LET'S GO TO 1 THESSALONIANS 5:16-19. 01:07:58.311 --> 01:08:02.150 AND IT SAYS, "REJOICE EVERMORE." SO THAT MEANS ALL THE TIME. 01:08:02.150 --> 01:08:06.860 "PRAY WITHOUT CEASING." THEN IT SAYS, "IN EVERYTHING," 01:08:06.860 --> 01:08:11.061 EVERYTHING, NOT JUST THE THINGS WE WANT TO GIVE THANKS IN. IT 01:08:11.061 --> 01:08:14.601 SAYS, "IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS, FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF 01:08:14.601 --> 01:08:19.940 GOD IN CHRIST JESUS CONCERNING YOU." AND THEN IT SAYS, "QUENCH 01:08:19.940 --> 01:08:25.820 NOT THE SPIRIT," BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE QUENCHING THE SPIRIT, IT'S 01:08:25.820 --> 01:08:30.740 BECAUSE WE HAVE AN UNGRATEFUL HEART. I MEAN, YEAH, WE CAN 01:08:30.740 --> 01:08:34.041 QUENCH THE SPIRIT IN OTHER WAYS 'CAUSE WE GET RELIGIOUS, BUT IF 01:08:34.041 --> 01:08:37.251 YOU WANNA QUENCH THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE, JUST TRY BEING 01:08:37.251 --> 01:08:44.751 UNGRATEFUL. THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS WENT TO THE CROSS NOT BECAUSE HE 01:08:44.751 --> 01:08:48.515 WAS EXCITED ABOUT IT, BUT FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM. 01:08:51.951 --> 01:08:55.694 SO, I MEAN, IF JESUS CAN DO THAT, WHAT CAN WE DO? ALL RIGHT, 01:08:55.694 --> 01:09:00.621 LET'S GO TO PHILIPPIANS 4, VERSE 6. I ALWAYS HAVE LOTS OF 01:09:00.621 --> 01:09:11.001 SCRIPTURES WHEN I PREACH. BUT IT SAYS, "BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING 01:09:11.001 --> 01:09:15.440 BUT IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION," WITH WHAT? "WITH 01:09:15.440 --> 01:09:18.560 THANKSGIVING, LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD." LET'S 01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:20.690 READ THAT ONE MORE TIME. IT SAYS, "BE," LET'S GO BACK ONE, 01:09:20.690 --> 01:09:26.121 "BE CAREFUL FOR NOTHING BUT IN EVERYTHING," BY WHAT? PRAYER AND 01:09:26.121 --> 01:09:29.541 SUPPLICATION. IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RE ASKING GOD, "WITH 01:09:29.541 --> 01:09:32.990 THANKSGIVING, LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN UNTO GOD." LET'S 01:09:32.990 --> 01:09:37.011 GO TO VERSE SEVEN. "AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSES ALL 01:09:37.011 --> 01:09:39.740 UNDERSTANDING, SHALL KEEP YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS THROUGH CHRIST 01:09:39.740 --> 01:09:43.341 JESUS." BECAUSE WHEN WE ENTER INTO THE COURTS OF OUR GOD WITH 01:09:43.341 --> 01:09:48.291 THANKSGIVING ON OUR LIPS, AND WE ENTER INTO HIS COURTS WITH 01:09:48.291 --> 01:09:50.480 PRAISE, WHAT ARE WE DOING? WE'RE TAKING OUR EYES OFF OF OUR 01:09:50.480 --> 01:09:55.041 CIRCUMSTANCE. WE'RE PUTTING OUR EYES ON GOD. AND THEN WE'RE NOT 01:09:55.041 --> 01:09:57.801 SITTING THERE JUST GRIPING AND COMPLAINING BECAUSE SOMETHING IS 01:09:57.801 --> 01:10:02.841 GOING WRONG IN OUR LIFE. YOU KNOW, IS THIS HELPING ANYBODY? 01:10:04.820 --> 01:10:07.371 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T WANNA BE SOMEBODY THAT JUST 01:10:07.371 --> 01:10:11.146 COMPLAINS AND SAYS, YOU KNOW, WELL, I'VE DONE THIS, THIS, AND 01:10:11.146 --> 01:10:15.711 THIS, AND SEE, HERE'S THE THING. I WANNA BE SOWING SEED INTO THE 01:10:15.711 --> 01:10:18.621 KINGDOM OF GOD, AND IF I STRUGGLE FOR SOME OF THE THINGS 01:10:18.621 --> 01:10:23.001 THAT I HAVE TO STRUGGLE FOR, THEN I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE JUST 01:10:23.001 --> 01:10:26.060 TILLING THE GROUND FOR A HARVEST. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IF 01:10:26.060 --> 01:10:29.720 YOU START LOOKING AT SOME OF YOUR STRUGGLES AS PLOWING 01:10:29.720 --> 01:10:33.650 GROUND, THEN YOU MIGHT START BEING MORE HARVEST-FOCUSED 01:10:33.650 --> 01:10:37.787 EVENTUALLY. SOMETIMES WE'RE JUST TILLING UP THE GROUND SO THAT WE 01:10:37.787 --> 01:10:47.686 CAN GET THE SEED. AMEN? ALL RIGHT, THE FOURTH ONE. ASK IN 01:10:47.686 --> 01:10:51.886 FAITH. NOW, THIS ONE'S A NO-BRAINER. BUT IT'S ASK IN 01:10:51.886 --> 01:10:57.947 FAITH. IF WE GO TO GOD AND WE'RE NOT ASKING IN FAITH, THEN HE 01:10:57.947 --> 01:11:03.317 CAN'T ANSWER. GOD ANSWERS THE CRY OF FAITH. YES, HE'LL ANSWER 01:11:03.317 --> 01:11:06.226 DESPERATION, BUT YOUR DESPERATION NEEDS TO TURN INTO 01:11:06.226 --> 01:11:09.467 FAITH. HOW WE TURN OUR DESPERATION INTO FAITH IS BY 01:11:09.467 --> 01:11:13.157 REMEMBERING THE NAME OF THE LORD, OUR GOD. TURN OVER TO 01:11:13.157 --> 01:11:17.447 JAMES CHAPTER ONE, VERSE FIVE. AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT I 01:11:17.447 --> 01:11:19.306 LOVE ABOUT THE LORD. IT SAYS, "IF ANY OF YOU LACK," WHAT? 01:11:19.306 --> 01:11:22.817 “WISDOM, LET HIM ASK OF GOD." HAVE YOU EVER BEEN STUCK ON A 01:11:22.817 --> 01:11:24.856 SITUATION BEFORE WHERE YOU DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO HANDLE 01:11:24.856 --> 01:11:33.167 SOMETHING? YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE'RE QUICK TO GO TO GOOGLE AND 01:11:33.167 --> 01:11:37.756 AI AND GET ALL OF THE ANSWERS INSTEAD OF GOING, "MAN, HOLY 01:11:37.756 --> 01:11:44.056 SPIRIT, WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE ME DO?" OR IF YOU'RE READING YOUR 01:11:44.056 --> 01:11:49.096 BIBLE, SAY, YOU KNOW, JUST ENLIGHTEN THIS TO ME. AND IT 01:11:49.096 --> 01:11:54.136 SAYS, SO IF YOU LACK WISDOM, LET HIM ASK OF GOD, THAT GIVES TO 01:11:54.136 --> 01:11:57.827 ALL MEN, WHAT, LIBERALLY. THAT MEANS THAT HE'S NOT GIVING LIKE 01:11:57.827 --> 01:12:02.266 WITH STINGINESS, HE'S GIVING IT OUT OF ABUNDANCE. AND HE 01:12:02.266 --> 01:12:06.317 DOESN'T, AND IT SAYS HE ABRADES NOT. IN OTHER WORDS, HE'S NOT 01:12:06.317 --> 01:12:10.037 SITTING THERE IN A PLACE OF CONDEMNATION, SAYING, WELL, YOU 01:12:10.037 --> 01:12:13.306 SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. GOD'S SITTING THERE SAYING, LISTEN, I'M GONNA 01:12:13.306 --> 01:12:16.367 GIVE IT TO YOU, I GIVE IT TO YOU LIBERALLY, AND I'M NOT FINDING 01:12:16.367 --> 01:12:19.936 FAULT WITH YOU. HERE'S THE ANSWER. AND IT SAYS, IT SHALL BE 01:12:19.936 --> 01:12:25.006 GIVEN TO HIM. NOW GO TO THE NEXT VERSE. BUT LET HIM ASK IN WHAT? 01:12:25.006 --> 01:12:29.806 FAITH, NOTHING WAVERING. SEE, NOW THAT'S THE HARD PART. 01:12:29.806 --> 01:12:33.167 SOMETIMES WE GO IN, WE GET IN THE PRAISE AND WORSHIP, AND 01:12:33.167 --> 01:12:37.546 PASTOR SHANE'S SAYING, GREAT IS OUR GOD. WE'RE LIKE, YES, GREAT 01:12:37.546 --> 01:12:44.296 IS OUR GOD. GREAT IS OUR GOD. AND THEN WE GO BACK OUT TO OUR 01:12:44.296 --> 01:12:55.306 HOME ON MONDAY AND WE SEE THE BILLS. WE'RE LIKE, OH, GREAT IS 01:12:55.306 --> 01:13:00.407 OUR GOD. MAN, GOD, THAT BILL'S REALLY BIG. BUT THAT'S NOT, BUT 01:13:00.407 --> 01:13:06.256 THEN WE WAVERED. SOMETIMES THAT'S WHERE WE COME BACK IN TO 01:13:06.256 --> 01:13:11.296 NOT WAVER. AND THEN WE IN OUR OWN HOMES ARE GOING, GREAT IS 01:13:11.296 --> 01:13:16.487 OUR GOD 'CAUSE IT SAYS, "FOR HE THAT WAVERS IS LIKE THE WAVE OF 01:13:16.487 --> 01:13:22.096 THE SEA, DRIVEN WITH THE WIND AND TOSSED." AND IT SAYS, "FOR 01:13:22.096 --> 01:13:25.756 LET NOT," NOW I DIDN'T, I'M NOT SAYING THIS. I KNOW I SAID THE 01:13:25.756 --> 01:13:33.106 TRIGGERED THING AND I'M SORRY. I'M NOT SORRY. BUT I MEAN, I 01:13:33.106 --> 01:13:36.407 WASN'T SAYING THAT TO HURT SOMEBODY. BUT IT SAYS, "FOR LET 01:13:36.407 --> 01:13:42.497 NOT THAT MAN THINK THAT HE SHALL RECEIVE ANYTHING OF THE LORD." I 01:13:42.497 --> 01:13:46.306 MEAN, THAT KIND OF HURTS A LITTLE BIT, RIGHT? 'CAUSE HOW 01:13:46.306 --> 01:13:48.766 MANY OF YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES BRINGING YOURSELF INTO FAITH IS 01:13:48.766 --> 01:13:51.106 NOT ALWAYS, DOESN'T ALWAYS FEEL LIKE THE EASIEST THING TO DO. 01:13:52.306 --> 01:13:59.476 BUT AGAIN, THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE TO TRAIN OURSELVES. AND THAT'S 01:13:59.476 --> 01:14:03.016 WHERE, YOU KNOW, IN COLOSSIANS 3, VERSE 2, IT SAYS, "SET YOUR 01:14:03.016 --> 01:14:06.527 AFFECTIONS ON THE THINGS THAT ARE ABOVE, NOT ON THE THINGS 01:14:06.527 --> 01:14:09.856 THAT ARE BELOW." WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? IT MEANS THAT WE SET A 01:14:09.856 --> 01:14:12.587 PATH, WE SET A COURSE. AND IF I SET A COURSE, I'M NOT GOING 01:14:12.587 --> 01:14:15.136 HERE, I'M NOT GOING THERE, I'M STAYING STRAIGHT ON THE COURSE 01:14:15.136 --> 01:14:18.197 BECAUSE I AM SET. YOU EVER HEARD OF A PERSON, WELL, THEY'RE JUST 01:14:18.197 --> 01:14:22.157 SETTING THEIR WAYS. WELL, IF WE'RE GONNA ASK IN FAITH, WE 01:14:22.157 --> 01:14:30.676 HAVE TO BE SET. YOU KNOW? AND YOU KNOW, YOU GET MORE AND MORE 01:14:30.676 --> 01:14:35.447 SET BY THE MORE TIMES THAT YOU SPEAK TO YOURSELF, THE MORE 01:14:35.447 --> 01:14:42.827 TIMES THAT YOU PROPHESY TO YOURSELF, AND AGAIN, GOING BACK 01:14:42.827 --> 01:14:48.707 TO NUMBER ONE, WE'RE REMEMBERING THE NAME OF THE LORD. BECAUSE 01:14:48.707 --> 01:14:53.356 THEN WE'RE JUST PUTTING OUR EYES, WHY DID PETER SINK WHEN 01:14:53.356 --> 01:14:56.327 JESUS CALLED HIM OUT ONTO THE WATER? BECAUSE HE TOOK HIS EYES 01:14:56.327 --> 01:14:59.657 OFF THE AUTHOR AND THE FINISHER OF HIS FAITH AND THEN HE WENT 01:14:59.657 --> 01:15:03.676 DOWN, THEN HE HAD TO BE RESCUED. YOU KNOW, BUT THAT'S THE OTHER 01:15:03.676 --> 01:15:06.978 THING, JESUS WILL STILL RESCUE US EVEN IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR 01:15:08.056 --> 01:15:16.426 MESS UPS. THANK GOD FOR HIS MERCY. BUT I WAS REMINDED AS I 01:15:16.426 --> 01:15:22.396 WAS STUDYING, JUST WHEN CECE WINANS IS SINGING, YOU SAID IT, 01:15:22.396 --> 01:15:30.346 I BELIEVE IT SO WHEN THE FEAR STARTS HITTING US, INSTEAD OF 01:15:30.346 --> 01:15:40.516 WAVERING, JUST START SAYING, YOU SAID IT, I BELIEVE IT KEEP 01:15:40.516 --> 01:15:45.713 PROPHESYING TO YOURSELF. LIKE PASTOR KEITH SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU 01:15:45.713 --> 01:15:52.217 DON'T PRAISE GOD WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE IT. YOU KNOW, PRAISE IS 01:15:52.217 --> 01:15:57.226 SOMETHING WE HAVE TO DO. PRAISE GETS OUR EYES ON GOD. AND WHAT 01:15:57.226 --> 01:16:00.497 DOES IT SAY IN ROMANS? IT SAYS THAT FAITH COMES BY WHAT? 01:16:00.497 --> 01:16:04.936 HEARING, HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD. IT ALSO SAYS PROPHESY TO 01:16:04.936 --> 01:16:07.516 YOURSELF IN PSALMS, HYMNS, AND SPIRITUAL SONGS. WHAT IS THAT? 01:16:07.516 --> 01:16:09.947 IT'S SINGING THE WORD OF THE LORD OVER YOURSELF, BUT IT'S 01:16:09.947 --> 01:16:16.457 KEEPING YOURSELF IN THAT PLACE OF FAITH. AND I'M GONNA, THIS 01:16:16.457 --> 01:16:19.487 ONE KINDA BLEW MY MIND. LET'S GO OVER TO JAMES CHAPTER FOUR REAL 01:16:19.487 --> 01:16:33.646 QUICK. IN VERSE TWO, AND IT SAYS, "YOU LUST AND HAVE NOT, 01:16:33.646 --> 01:16:37.936 YOU KILL AND DESIRE TO HAVE," SOUNDS A LOT LIKE THIS CULTURE, 01:16:37.936 --> 01:16:40.846 AND CANNOT OBTAIN, YOU FIGHT MORE, AND YET YOU HAVE NOT 01:16:40.846 --> 01:16:45.856 BECAUSE YOU ASK NOT." GO TO THE NEXT VERSE. AND IT SAYS, "YOU 01:16:45.856 --> 01:16:48.917 ASK AND RECEIVE NOT BECAUSE YOU ASK AMISS THAT YOU MAY CONSUME 01:16:48.917 --> 01:16:52.667 IT UPON YOUR LUST." DO YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU'RE ASKING OUT OF A 01:16:52.667 --> 01:16:58.337 WRONG MOTIVE, YOU CAN'T ATTACH FAITH TO THAT? I'M GONNA SAY 01:16:58.337 --> 01:17:01.367 THAT ONE MORE TIME. YOU CAN'T ATTACH FAITH TO A WRONG MOTIVE. 01:17:03.377 --> 01:17:07.667 IF YOUR MOTIVE FOR ASKING IS SO THAT YOU CAN STICK IT TO 01:17:07.667 --> 01:17:14.506 SOMEBODY OR GET REVENGE, OR YOUR MOTIVE FOR ASKING IS JUST 01:17:14.506 --> 01:17:18.917 BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LUSTFUL SPIRIT, A GIFT OF FAITH DOESN'T 01:17:18.917 --> 01:17:25.801 COME THROUGH FOR THAT. BECAUSE FAITH IS SOMETHING, AND HERE'S 01:17:25.801 --> 01:17:28.396 THE OTHER THING, FAITH COMES BY HEARING, HEARING BY THE WORD OF 01:17:28.396 --> 01:17:31.096 GOD. WELL, THE MORE THAT YOU'RE IN THE WORD OF GOD, THE MORE 01:17:31.096 --> 01:17:35.926 THAT IT, IN HEBREWS 4:12, IT SAYS THAT THE WORD OF GOD IS 01:17:35.926 --> 01:17:37.997 QUICK AND IT'S POWERFUL, IT'S SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED 01:17:37.997 --> 01:17:40.787 SWORD, IT DIVIDES US UNDER THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT, THE JOINTS 01:17:40.787 --> 01:17:43.577 AND THE MARROW. SO THE MORE THAT YOU'RE IN THE WORD OF GOD, THE 01:17:43.577 --> 01:17:46.546 MORE THAT IT'S GONNA TAKE AWAY SOME OF THOSE THINGS WHERE MAYBE 01:17:46.546 --> 01:17:50.837 YOUR FLESH WAS A LITTLE BIT OFF. YOU KNOW, AND THEN SOMETIMES 01:17:50.837 --> 01:17:55.577 TOO, IT'S NOT JUST THAT WE ASK FOR THE WRONG THINGS. SOMETIMES 01:17:55.577 --> 01:17:59.207 CERTAIN THINGS COME IN THE SEASON OF GOD'S TIMING. I 01:17:59.207 --> 01:18:02.447 REMEMBER WHEN I WAS STILL SINGLE, I LIVED IN THIS 01:18:02.447 --> 01:18:05.386 APARTMENT COMPLEX. RACHEL, YOU REMEMBER, YOU LIVED IN THE SAME 01:18:05.386 --> 01:18:11.867 ONE BEFORE I DID. AND I JUST GOT, I'M LIKE, GOD, I WANT A 01:18:11.867 --> 01:18:16.936 HOUSE. AND I WAS THERE AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, GOD, I JUST REALLY 01:18:16.936 --> 01:18:21.167 WANT A HOUSE. AND I HEARD THE LORD SAY, WELL, DAUGHTER, IT'S 01:18:21.167 --> 01:18:23.506 NOT THAT SEASON YOU'RE GONNA GET MARRIED SOON. I'M LIKE, I AM TO 01:18:23.506 --> 01:18:31.667 WHO? 'CAUSE WE WEREN'T DATING YET. AND SO, BUT BECAUSE I JUST 01:18:31.667 --> 01:18:36.707 LISTENED AND I WAITED AND I WAITED PATIENTLY, GOD BROUGHT ME 01:18:36.707 --> 01:18:41.506 INTO THAT SEASON. AND THEN WE HAD AN APARTMENT FOR WHAT? WE 01:18:41.506 --> 01:18:44.537 WERE THERE SIX MONTHS AND THEN WE BOUGHT A HOUSE AND WE MOVED. 01:18:46.396 --> 01:18:50.027 AND, YOU KNOW, BUT GOD ANSWERED THE PRAYER. SOMETIMES CERTAIN 01:18:50.027 --> 01:18:53.417 THINGS DO COME IN SEASON, SO THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE JUST 01:18:53.417 --> 01:18:57.407 QUIT AND FORGET IT. THAT JUST MEANS SOMETIMES WE'RE SOWING 01:18:57.407 --> 01:19:00.827 SEEDS TOWARDS IT. BUT DON'T LOSE YOUR FAITH 'CAUSE YOU HAVEN'T 01:19:00.827 --> 01:19:05.296 HIT THE SEASON YET. SO AGAIN, NUMBER FOUR, ASK IN FAITH. AND 01:19:05.296 --> 01:19:09.346 LISTEN, WHEN WE ASK IN FAITH, WE DON'T WAVER. THAT MEANS WE KEEP 01:19:09.346 --> 01:19:12.407 PROPHESYING, WE KEEP WALKING IT OUT. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE 01:19:12.407 --> 01:19:15.886 BELIEVING FOR CHILDREN, WE DIDN'T QUIT EVERY SINGLE MONTH. 01:19:15.886 --> 01:19:18.796 AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING. DON'T GET 01:19:18.796 --> 01:19:22.606 YOURSELF, THIS GOES BACK TO THE VICTIMHOOD, YOU KNOW, AND I GET 01:19:22.606 --> 01:19:28.667 IT, 'CAUSE I LIVED IT. WHEN YOU'RE BELIEVING GOD FOR KIDS 01:19:28.667 --> 01:19:31.006 AND OTHER PEOPLE ARE GETTING PREGNANT AND YOU'RE STILL 01:19:31.006 --> 01:19:34.817 SITTING THERE WAITING ON YOUR MOMENT, YOU CAN EITHER GET 01:19:34.817 --> 01:19:38.417 BITTER OR YOU CAN HAVE THANKSGIVING FOR WHAT GOD HAS 01:19:38.417 --> 01:19:42.766 GIVEN THEM AND SEE YOURSELF COMING INTO YOUR PROMISE. YOU 01:19:42.766 --> 01:19:46.277 KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN SOMEBODY ELSE COMES IN, WE SIT IN THE 01:19:46.277 --> 01:19:51.707 SEAT OF THE JEALOUS INSTEAD OF SITTING IN THE SEAT OF 01:19:51.707 --> 01:19:58.067 THANKFULNESS AND THANKING GOD AND SAY, NOPE, YOU KNOW, ABRAHAM 01:19:58.067 --> 01:20:00.646 BELIEVED NOT HIS OWN BODY. WE DID IT, ABRAHAM BELIEVED NOT HIS 01:20:00.646 --> 01:20:03.587 OWN BODY, NEITHER THE DEADNESS OF SARAH'S WOMB. WE DID IT, WE 01:20:03.587 --> 01:20:08.567 DID IT EVERY OTHER DAY OR HOWEVER OFTEN THAT THAT CAME UP 01:20:08.567 --> 01:20:10.546 AND WE KEPT PRAYING AND WE KEPT PRAYING AND YOU KNOW THE OTHER 01:20:10.546 --> 01:20:14.176 THING IS, WE PRAYED IN THE HOLY GHOST AND WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW WE 01:20:14.176 --> 01:20:17.087 WERE GONNA PRAY. WE JUST GOT IN THERE AND WE WORE IT IN THE HOLY 01:20:17.087 --> 01:20:20.957 SPIRIT AND YOU KNOW IN ROMANS CHAPTER 8 IT SAYS, "WHEN YOU 01:20:20.957 --> 01:20:25.457 DON'T KNOW HOW TO PRAY, PRAY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT." I REMEMBER ONE 01:20:25.457 --> 01:20:30.704 TIME MY HUSBAND, HE WORKED FOR A COMPANY HERE IN TOWN THAT IT 01:20:30.704 --> 01:20:34.936 WAS, AND THEY WERE A CALL CENTER. HE MANAGED A CALL CENTER 01:20:34.936 --> 01:20:42.407 FOR THIS LARGE COMPANY. AND THE LADY THAT WAS THE REPRESENTATIVE 01:20:42.407 --> 01:20:47.971 FOR THE COMPANY, SHE JUST DIDN'T LIKE HIM. HE COULDN'T DO 01:20:47.971 --> 01:20:51.452 ANYTHING RIGHT IN HER SIGHT. AND IF YOU KNOW HIM, MY HUSBAND'S A 01:20:51.452 --> 01:20:57.091 NICE GUY, HE'S A HARD WORKER. BUT SHE JUST, SHE WANTED EVERY 01:20:57.091 --> 01:21:00.122 WAY TO GET HIM FIRED. THEN ON TOP OF THAT, HE HAD A GUY 01:21:00.122 --> 01:21:02.792 UNDERNEATH HIM THAT WAS GUNNING FOR HIS JOB AND WAS GOING AND 01:21:02.792 --> 01:21:06.811 TELLING LIES ABOUT HIM TO HIS SUPERVISOR. AND WE'RE LIKE, MAN, 01:21:06.811 --> 01:21:10.591 GOD. AND AGAIN, WE DIDN'T GET BITTER. WE GOT IN THAT, AND WE 01:21:10.591 --> 01:21:12.572 STILL LIVED IN THAT FIRST APARTMENT, REMEMBER? SO WE 01:21:12.572 --> 01:21:15.181 HADN'T EVEN BEEN MARRIED THAT LONG. WE GOT INTO THE LIVING 01:21:15.181 --> 01:21:17.521 ROOM OF OUR APARTMENT AND WE PACED AND PRAYED IN THE HOLY 01:21:17.521 --> 01:21:23.341 SPIRIT. WE JUST PRAYED. WE PRAYED AND WE KEPT PRAYING. AND 01:21:23.341 --> 01:21:27.752 THEN, I DON'T KNOW, WITHIN WHAT, TWO OR THREE WEEKS OF THAT TIME, 01:21:27.752 --> 01:21:30.122 THE ONE GUY GOT MOVED OUT AND I THINK HE EVENTUALLY GOT FIRED. I 01:21:30.122 --> 01:21:33.902 DON'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM, BUT GOD JUST BLEW HIM OUT 01:21:33.902 --> 01:21:39.091 OF THE WAY. AND THEN THE LADY FOR THE COMPANY THAT DIDN'T LIKE 01:21:39.091 --> 01:21:42.902 HIM, SHE GOT TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER DEPARTMENT AT THAT 01:21:42.902 --> 01:21:48.601 COMPANY. SO THEN EVERYTHING WAS SMOOTH SAILING. ABOUT THE TIME 01:21:48.601 --> 01:21:52.141 SHE GOT TRANSFERRED BACK, WE'RE LIKE, OH GOD, HERE WE GO AGAIN. 01:21:53.641 --> 01:21:57.242 THE CHURCH HIRED HIM. AND HE GOT A HAND IN HIS TWO WEEKS NOTICE. 01:21:58.832 --> 01:22:04.202 LOOK AT GOD. BUT AGAIN, WE COULD HAVE GOTTEN BITTER AND SAID, 01:22:04.202 --> 01:22:07.862 WELL GOD, IT'S NOT FAIR. OR WE COULD HAVE GOT OUT OF FAITH. 01:22:08.881 --> 01:22:14.221 'CAUSE BACK THEN WE DIDN'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT OF ANYTHING. AND 01:22:14.221 --> 01:22:18.872 WE'RE LIKE, WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO IF WE HAVE ONE INCOME? WE JUST 01:22:18.872 --> 01:22:21.152 REFUSED TO LOOK AT THAT. WE STAYED IN FAITH. WE'RE LIKE, NO 01:22:21.152 --> 01:22:24.631 GOD, YOU'RE GONNA ANSWER OUR PRAYERS. WE'RE TITHING, WE 01:22:24.631 --> 01:22:28.202 BELIEVE YOU, WE TAKE YOU AT YOUR WORD AND WE'RE NOT GONNA QUIT. 01:22:28.202 --> 01:22:33.564 ALL RIGHT, LET ME GIVE YOU THE LAST ONE. AND I JUST KIND OF 01:22:34.862 --> 01:22:37.591 GAVE YOU A HINT ON THAT ONE. IT'S NUMBER FIVE, DON'T QUIT 01:22:37.591 --> 01:22:42.242 PRAYING. WE READ IN PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER FOUR WHERE IT SAYS PRAY 01:22:42.242 --> 01:22:46.502 WITHOUT CEASING. WELL, WHAT DOES IT SAY WHEN YOU'RE TAKING ON THE 01:22:46.502 --> 01:22:51.152 WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD, IT SAYS PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER 01:22:51.152 --> 01:22:56.761 AND SUPPLICATION IN THE SPIRIT. DON'T QUIT. YOU KNOW, AGAIN, 01:22:56.761 --> 01:23:00.391 SOMETIMES IF IT'S TAKING YOU A MINUTE TO GET INTO YOUR SEASON 01:23:00.391 --> 01:23:03.931 OR WHERE YOU'RE GOING, DON'T QUIT BELIEVING GOD. JUST KEEP 01:23:03.931 --> 01:23:09.511 PROPHESYING TO IT. SO LET'S TURN OVER TO LUKE CHAPTER 18, VERSE 01:23:09.511 --> 01:23:13.832 ONE. AND IT SAYS, "AND HE SPOKE A PARABLE UNTO THEM," TO THIS 01:23:13.832 --> 01:23:21.811 END, "THAT MEN OUGHT ALWAYS TO," WHAT? PRAY. AND NOT, WHAT? 01:23:21.811 --> 01:23:25.112 FAINT, SO AGAIN, THERE'S THAT NOTHING WAVERING. BUT HE SAYS, 01:23:25.112 --> 01:23:28.771 "MEN ARE ALWAYS TO PRAY AND NOT FAINT." AND HE SAYS, "SAYING, 01:23:28.771 --> 01:23:33.481 THERE WAS IN A CITY A JUDGE WHICH FEARED NOT GOD, NEITHER 01:23:33.481 --> 01:23:38.282 REGARDED MAN. AND THERE WAS A WIDOW IN THAT CITY, AND SHE CAME 01:23:38.282 --> 01:23:43.261 UNTO HIM SAYING, 'AVENGE ME OF MINE ADVERSARY.'" NOW BY THE 01:23:43.261 --> 01:23:46.261 WAY, YOU KNOW WE HAVE AN ADVERSARY, RIGHT? FIRST PETER 01:23:46.261 --> 01:23:50.731 5:8 SAYS THAT OUR ADVERSARY, THE DEVIL WALKS AROUND AS A ROARING 01:23:50.731 --> 01:23:55.832 LION SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR. EPHESIANS CHAPTER SIX SAYS THAT 01:23:55.832 --> 01:23:57.811 WE DON'T WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST 01:23:57.811 --> 01:24:01.322 PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, RULERS OF DARKNESS, AND SPIRITUAL 01:24:01.322 --> 01:24:07.082 WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. AND IT SAYS, AND HE WOULD NOT FOR A 01:24:07.082 --> 01:24:09.721 WHILE, BUT AFTERWARD HE SAID WITHIN HIMSELF, THOUGH I FEAR 01:24:09.721 --> 01:24:15.152 NOT GOD, NOR REGARD MAN, YET BECAUSE THIS WIDOW TROUBLES ME, 01:24:15.152 --> 01:24:20.252 I WILL AVENGE HER, LEST BY HER CONTINUALLY COMING, SHE WEARIES 01:24:20.252 --> 01:24:27.181 ME. NOW GO TO VERSE SIX. AND THE LORD SAID, HEAR WHAT THE UNJUST 01:24:27.181 --> 01:24:31.412 JUDGE SAID. SO IN OTHER WORDS, BY HER CONTINUALLY COMING, SHE'S 01:24:31.412 --> 01:24:35.131 GONNA WEARY ME, SO I'M GONNA ANSWER HER REQUEST BECAUSE I 01:24:35.131 --> 01:24:38.492 DON'T WANNA DEAL WITH THIS LADY. ALL RIGHT, GO TO VERSE SEVEN. 01:24:39.841 --> 01:24:46.351 AND SHALL NOT GOD AVENGE HIS OWN ELECT, WHICH CRY UNTO HIM, NOT 01:24:46.351 --> 01:24:52.591 ONCE, NOT JUST, I SAID THE PRAYER, AND LISTEN, YES, WE CAN 01:24:52.591 --> 01:24:58.141 CONFESS SOME THINGS, BUT GOD WANTS US TO CONTINUE TO CRY OUT 01:24:58.141 --> 01:25:01.202 TO HIM. WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO CRY OUT? NOT BECAUSE WE'RE JUST 01:25:01.202 --> 01:25:04.261 IN A PLACE OF DESPERATION, LORD GOD, I'M BRINGING THIS TO YOUR 01:25:04.261 --> 01:25:08.551 REMEMBRANCE. I'M REMINDING YOU WHAT I AM ASKING YOU FOR, THAT 01:25:08.551 --> 01:25:11.282 I'M CALLING ON THE NAME OF THE LORD, THAT YOU ARE THE GOD THAT 01:25:11.282 --> 01:25:15.181 ANSWERS. AND BECAUSE YOU'RE REMINDING YOURSELF OF WHAT GOD 01:25:15.181 --> 01:25:19.502 DID. SOMETIMES, LISTEN, CONFESSION IS NOT ENOUGH, 01:25:19.502 --> 01:25:22.046 ESPECIALLY IF THE ACTIONS OF YOUR HEART DON'T GO WITH IT. 01:25:24.301 --> 01:25:29.641 IT'S EMPTY WORDS. IT CAN SOUND GREAT. BUT IF YOUR HEART IS NOT 01:25:29.641 --> 01:25:33.271 ATTACHED TO IT, THEN IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING. YOU CAN SAY, OH, 01:25:33.271 --> 01:25:40.136 I'M BELIEVING. WELL, AS LONG AS YOU ARE. BUT I'VE SAID THINGS 01:25:40.136 --> 01:25:42.362 LIKE THAT BEFORE. OH, I'M BELIEVING, AND I WASN'T 01:25:42.362 --> 01:25:47.072 BELIEVING ONE LITTLE WIT. ACTUALLY, I WAS MORE DOUBTING 01:25:47.072 --> 01:25:52.412 THAN BELIEVING. AND IT SAYS, "SHALL NOT GOD ELECT OR AVENGE 01:25:52.412 --> 01:25:58.381 HIS OWN ELECT, WHICH CRY UNTO HIM DAY AND NIGHT, THOUGH HE 01:25:58.381 --> 01:26:03.452 BEAR LONG WITH THEM." SO HOW MUCH GREATER OR HOW GOOD IS OUR 01:26:03.452 --> 01:26:07.712 FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN, SO IF WE CALL ON HIM DAY AND NIGHT, 01:26:07.712 --> 01:26:11.131 WHAT WAS HE TEACHING US? IT'S LIKE, DON'T JUST QUIT PRAYING, 01:26:11.131 --> 01:26:14.641 KEEP PRAYING ABOUT IT. KEEP IT BEFORE YOURSELF. DON'T JUST PUT 01:26:14.641 --> 01:26:17.942 SOMETHING ON THE SHELF. IF YOU HAVE A DREAM, IF YOU HAVE A CALL 01:26:17.942 --> 01:26:20.731 FROM GOD, DON'T JUST PUT IT ON THE SHELF AND JUST HOPE IT'S 01:26:20.731 --> 01:26:23.282 GONNA HAPPEN. LISTEN, FAITH IS NOT HOPING SOMETHING'S GONNA 01:26:23.282 --> 01:26:27.631 HAPPEN AND JUST SAYING SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T REALLY BELIEVE IN 01:26:27.631 --> 01:26:36.542 YOUR HEART OF HEARTS. YOU KNOW? YOU CAN SAY, OH MAN, YES, THE 01:26:36.542 --> 01:26:40.351 RAIN IS GONNA HELP MY HARVEST, BUT IF YOU DON'T HAVE SEED IN 01:26:40.351 --> 01:26:48.002 THE GROUND, ALL IT'S GONNA MAKE IS MUD. YOU GOTTA KEEP PUTTING 01:26:48.002 --> 01:26:51.511 SEED TOWARDS WHAT YOU'RE BELIEVING. YOU PUT SEED IN BY 01:26:51.511 --> 01:26:55.351 YOUR PRAYERS. YOU PUT SEED IN BY REMEMBERING WHO GOD IS. YOU PUT 01:26:55.351 --> 01:27:00.122 SEED BY SOWING YOUR FINANCES. YOU PUT SEED BY CONTINUING TO 01:27:00.122 --> 01:27:04.891 BELIEVE GOD AND DOING WHAT IS RIGHT BECAUSE GOD SAID. AMEN, 01:27:04.891 --> 01:27:08.341 ALL RIGHT, STAND TO YOUR FEET. IS THAT HELPING ANYBODY TONIGHT? 01:27:08.341 --> 01:27:12.721 AMEN. AMEN. BUT I WANNA ENTER INTO A 01:27:12.721 --> 01:27:16.591 PLACE WHERE WE SEE GOD ANSWERING SOME PRAYERS, AND I DON'T WANNA 01:27:16.591 --> 01:27:20.372 STAND IN A PLACE WHERE I'M HINDERING WHAT GOD WANTS TO DO, 01:27:20.372 --> 01:27:24.064 BECAUSE EITHER I'VE NOT BEEN CONTINUAL IN IT, YOU KNOW, AND 01:27:24.064 --> 01:27:26.282 THAT'S THE OTHER THING, DON'T BE LAZY WITH YOUR PRAYERS. IF 01:27:26.282 --> 01:27:28.771 YOU'RE NOT PRAYING, START. IF YOU'RE NOT READING YOUR BIBLE, 01:27:28.771 --> 01:27:33.542 START. WHEN BOB ROGERS WAS HERE, HE SAID, "LISTEN, YOU START 01:27:33.542 --> 01:27:36.181 READING YOUR BIBLE, AND IT STARTS CHANGING YOUR THINKING." 01:27:37.202 --> 01:27:42.061 YOU KNOW, AND WHY DIDN'T THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GET TO LIVE 01:27:42.061 --> 01:27:45.692 OFF OF THE OLD MANNA? BECAUSE YESTERDAY'S BREAD IS NOT THE 01:27:45.692 --> 01:27:50.011 BREAD THAT SUSTAINS US FOR TODAY. YESTERDAY'S REVELATION IS 01:27:50.011 --> 01:27:53.042 NOT WHAT PUSHES US FORWARD INTO WHAT GOD IS CALLING US TO DO 01:27:53.042 --> 01:27:59.372 NOW. AMEN? SO I WANNA CHALLENGE YOU IN YOUR PRAYERS, LISTEN, 01:28:00.931 --> 01:28:06.601 REMEMBER WHO HE IS. PEOPLE ARE GONNA HURT YOU, SOMETIMES WE'RE 01:28:06.601 --> 01:28:10.471 GONNA HAVE TO FORGIVE. THAT'S WHY, ACTUALLY, THAT'S WHY IN 01:28:10.471 --> 01:28:12.841 MATTHEW CHAPTER SIX, WHEN HE SAYS, "OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN 01:28:12.841 --> 01:28:15.271 HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME. THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE 01:28:15.271 --> 01:28:17.761 DONE, ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN." THEN HE SAYS, "GIVE US 01:28:17.761 --> 01:28:20.011 THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD." I MEAN, YES, THAT'S OUR PROVISION, 01:28:20.011 --> 01:28:25.442 BUT THAT'S ALSO DAILY REVELATION. AND THEN HE SAYS, 01:28:25.442 --> 01:28:28.921 "FORGIVE US OUR SINS AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS 01:28:28.921 --> 01:28:31.471 AGAINST US." 'CAUSE WHAT ARE WE DOING? I REFUSE TO BE A VICTIM. 01:28:32.822 --> 01:28:39.091 I REFUSE TO LIVE SUBJECT TO WHAT ANYBODY ELSE SAYS ABOUT ME, DOES 01:28:39.091 --> 01:28:43.231 TO ME. 'CAUSE IF I DON'T WALK IN FORGIVENESS, I CAN BE TRIGGERED. 01:28:46.171 --> 01:28:49.712 I MEAN, IT'S FUNNY, BUT IT'S KINDA NOT FUNNY. BECAUSE WHEN 01:28:49.712 --> 01:28:52.652 PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT, WHAT ARE THEY SAYING? THAT THE DEVIL GETS 01:28:52.652 --> 01:28:58.591 TO WIN EVERY SINGLE TIME YOU GET TRIGGERED BY SOMETHING. BECAUSE 01:28:58.591 --> 01:29:04.561 WE'RE NOT CHANGING WHAT'S ON THE INSIDE OF US. WE'RE NOT LIVING 01:29:04.561 --> 01:29:09.032 IN A PLACE OF FORGIVENESS. SEE, WHY COULD, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S 01:29:09.032 --> 01:29:14.282 WHY, SEE, WE'RE TOO BUSY SOMETIMES BOWING DOWN TO THE 01:29:14.282 --> 01:29:18.152 LOUDNESS OF THIS CULTURE. AND YOU KNOW, THIS PAST SUNDAY, WE 01:29:18.152 --> 01:29:22.381 SANG THIS PHRASE, AND I HAD JUST STARTED SINGING IT WHEN I WAS 01:29:22.381 --> 01:29:27.601 GETTING READY IN THE MORNING. AND IT WAS, "THE VOICE OF THIS 01:29:27.601 --> 01:29:32.641 CULTURE MIGHT BE LOUD, BUT THE VOICE OF OUR GOD IS LOUDER," 01:29:32.641 --> 01:29:39.511 HOWEVER THAT WENT. AND WE JUST HAVE TO REMEMBER, LISTEN, I 01:29:39.511 --> 01:29:46.021 DON'T CARE HOW THIS CULTURE WANTS TO GO. I KNOW THE ONE IN 01:29:46.021 --> 01:29:48.631 WHOM I HAVE BELIEVED AND THAT HE IS ABLE TO DELIVER ME. WHEN I 01:29:48.631 --> 01:29:51.782 CALL UPON HIM, HE WILL ANSWER ME AND HE'LL DELIVER ME OUT OF ALL 01:29:51.782 --> 01:29:56.521 OF MY TRIALS. PSALM 91 SAYS THAT WHEN YOU CALL UPON ME, I WILL 01:29:56.521 --> 01:30:00.811 ANSWER YOU. THAT I WILL DELIVER YOU. YOU KNOW, AND WITH LONG 01:30:00.811 --> 01:30:03.271 LIFE, HE'S GONNA SATISFY ME AND SHOW ME. LISTEN, IF YOU'RE 01:30:03.271 --> 01:30:06.511 BELIEVING GOD FOR HEALING, WITH LONG LIFE, HE'S GONNA SATISFY 01:30:06.511 --> 01:30:13.891 YOU AND SHOW YOU HIS SALVATION. AND LISTEN, READ THAT OVER AND 01:30:13.891 --> 01:30:20.131 OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL THAT, AND YOU KNOW, MICHAEL CLARK WAS 01:30:20.131 --> 01:30:22.202 TELLING ME, HE'S NOT HERE TONIGHT, BUT HE WAS TELLING ME 01:30:22.202 --> 01:30:29.011 HE WAS LISTENING TO AN OLD KENNETH HAGIN PREACHING. AND 01:30:29.011 --> 01:30:32.612 KENNETH HAGIN SAID, "YOU DON'T NEED 10 SCRIPTURES, YOU NEED ONE 01:30:32.612 --> 01:30:37.322 WORD FROM GOD." WE NEED ONE WORD FROM GOD. AND WE KEEP WATERING 01:30:37.322 --> 01:30:39.572 AND PLANTING THAT SEED ON THE INSIDE OF US, IT'S GONNA GROW 01:30:39.572 --> 01:30:44.372 FAITH. AND AGAIN, YOU CAN'T STAY IN THE WORD OF GOD. AND YOU 01:30:44.372 --> 01:30:47.912 KNOW, IT'S FUNNY. I'VE HAD PEOPLE SAY ICKY THINGS ABOUT ME. 01:30:47.912 --> 01:30:54.011 YOU'VE PROBABLY HAD THE SAME. SHOOT, I'VE HAD 'EM TYPE IT ON 01:30:55.061 --> 01:31:01.452 SOCIAL MEDIA. YOU KNOW? AND YOU COULD WALK AROUND AND YOU COULD 01:31:01.452 --> 01:31:06.641 BE LIKE, WELL, OH MAN, YOU KNOW, THAT HURT. WELL, THE PROBLEM IS 01:31:06.641 --> 01:31:09.221 IF I DON'T WALK IN FORGIVENESS, I'M HINDERING MY OWN PRAYER. SO 01:31:09.221 --> 01:31:13.099 YOU BE WARMED, YOU BE FILLED. I FORGIVE YOU. I'VE GOT TO MOVE ON 01:31:13.099 --> 01:31:15.543 WITH MY DESTINY. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR YOU 01:31:15.543 --> 01:31:16.662 TO HOLD ME BACK, BABY. 01:31:16.662 --> 01:31:20.021 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:31:20.021 --> 01:31:24.341 AMEN? AMEN. ALL RIGHT, WELL, LIFT YOUR HANDS TO HEAVEN. 01:31:24.341 --> 01:31:27.282 FATHER, WE COME BEFORE YOU IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AND 01:31:27.282 --> 01:31:30.282 FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE. WE THANK YOU FOR WHAT 01:31:30.282 --> 01:31:35.082 YOU'VE DONE. WE THANK YOU THAT YOU ARE JEHOVAH THE GOOD. YOU 01:31:35.082 --> 01:31:41.712 ARE GOOD TO US. YOU'VE NUMBERED THE VERY HAIRS OF OUR HEAD, 01:31:41.712 --> 01:31:44.171 WHICH MEANS YOU NUMBER 'EM DAILY, GOD, BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE 01:31:44.171 --> 01:31:50.292 LOSE SOME. AMEN, BRUSH YOUR HAIR, YOU'RE GONNA KNOW. SO GOD, 01:31:50.292 --> 01:31:53.771 WE THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND YOU KNOW THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE 01:31:53.771 --> 01:31:58.152 NEED OF, BUT YOU TOLD US TO COME AND ASK ANYWAY, SO THAT YOU 01:31:58.152 --> 01:32:01.002 COULD REVEAL TO US YOUR GOODNESS, YOUR FAITHFULNESS, 01:32:01.002 --> 01:32:05.021 YOUR KINDNESS, YOUR EVERLASTING MERCY, THE MERCY THAT'S NEW 01:32:05.021 --> 01:32:13.481 EVERY MORNING. SO WE BLESS YOU. WE BLESS YOU, LORD GOD. 'CAUSE 01:32:13.481 --> 01:32:14.652 THERE'S NOBODY LIKE YOU. 01:32:16.469 --> 01:33:12.592 (MUSIC) 01:33:14.493 --> 01:33:22.469 WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. JEHOVAH THE GOOD. 01:33:24.341 --> 01:33:35.171 JEHOVAH THE GOOD. YOU ARE GOOD. YOU ARE GOOD. HALLELUJAH. WE 01:33:35.171 --> 01:33:40.271 WORSHIP YOU, LORD. IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN. ALL RIGHT. 01:33:40.271 --> 01:33:44.141 WELL, LISTEN, COLLEGE WORLD SERIES COMING THIS WEEK. IF 01:33:44.141 --> 01:33:46.962 YOU'RE GONNA BE DOWN THERE, WE JUST BLESS YOU. WE DECLARE THE 01:33:46.962 --> 01:33:51.011 HEDGE OF PROTECTION AROUND YOU, THE ANGELS OF THE LORD ENCAMP 01:33:51.011 --> 01:33:53.981 AROUND ALL OF OUR PEOPLE AS THEY WALK DOWN AND THEY'RE BEING 01:33:53.981 --> 01:33:57.252 MINISTERING SERVANTS OF THE LORD. AND GOD, WE THANK YOU THAT 01:33:57.252 --> 01:33:59.681 YOU WALK WITH THEM AND YOU GUIDE THEM. AND WE THANK YOU FOR A 01:33:59.681 --> 01:34:02.981 MIGHTY HARVEST IN JESUS' NAME. WALK OUT OF HERE AND TELL 01:34:02.981 --> 01:34:05.292 SOMEBODY, GOD IS GOOD TO ME. AMEN! 01:34:05.578 --> 01:34:09.649 (MUSIC)