WEBVTT 00:00.400 --> 00:04.570 (MUSIC) 00:06.105 --> 00:08.173 COME ON CHURCH, ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT, 00:08.173 --> 00:09.208 STAND UP ON YOUR FEET. 00:10.343 --> 00:13.512 HAVE WE COME TO WORSHIP A GREAT GOD TONIGHT? 00:14.446 --> 00:16.048 OH, COME ON, YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT. 00:16.048 --> 00:19.618 COME ON, LET'S GIVE HIM SOME PRAISE TONIGHT. 00:23.323 --> 10:20.919 (MUSIC) 10:25.792 --> 10:29.828 FATHER, YOU ARE GREAT AND GREATLY TO BE PRAISED 10:29.828 --> 10:30.964 IN THIS PLACE TONIGHT. 10:31.798 --> 10:36.970 LORD, WE LIFT OUR HANDS AND SAY YOU ARE GREAT. 10:39.471 --> 10:40.239 JESUS. 10:46.011 --> 19:01.508 (MUSIC) 19:03.642 --> 19:05.644 I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT I JUST KEEP FEELING. 19:06.813 --> 19:07.480 YOU KNOW WHAT? 19:09.948 --> 19:13.118 THERE'S NOTHING TOO HARD FOR OUR GOD, AMEN 19:15.354 --> 19:19.758 (MUSIC) 19:37.509 --> 19:40.046 I JUST SAY THAT TONIGHT DOESN'T MATTER 19:41.280 --> 19:43.583 WHAT YOU'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF 19:44.782 --> 19:49.086 (MUSIC) 20:07.773 --> 20:09.173 COME ON, TELL 'EM, TELL 'EM 20:09.273 --> 20:10.576 (MUSIC) 21:01.595 --> 21:03.430 YOU'RE SO GREAT 21:05.932 --> 21:07.634 IF YOU DID NOTHING YET 21:10.069 --> 21:11.971 YOU'D STILL BE GREAT 21:13.940 --> 21:16.041 YOU'D STILL BE GREAT 21:20.814 --> 21:22.615 YOU'RE SO GREAT 21:25.251 --> 21:26.986 YOU'RE SO GREAT 21:30.788 --> 21:32.791 OH, WE SERVE A GREAT, GREAT GOD, AMEN. 21:36.028 --> 21:38.030 IF HE'D DONE NOTHING ELSE FOR ME, 21:39.798 --> 21:43.403 NOTHING ELSE, AND I KNOW HE WILL, 21:44.170 --> 21:48.307 I KNOW HE WILL, BUT EVERYTHING HE'S DONE, 21:50.309 --> 21:55.515 SAVING ME, DELIVERING ME, SETTING ME FREE, 21:57.750 --> 21:59.385 DELIVERING ME FROM MY PAST, 22:01.253 --> 22:04.723 IF HE DID NOTHING ELSE, I'D LOVE HIM JUST THE SAME. 22:06.859 --> 22:08.193 I'D LOVE HIM JUST THE SAME. 22:12.766 --> 22:13.900 DO YOU LOVE HIM TONIGHT? 22:15.868 --> 22:17.237 FATHER, WE LOVE YOU TONIGHT. 22:19.239 --> 22:22.041 AND AS PASTOR HANK DOES, WE'RE JUST GONNA BLOW YOU 22:22.041 --> 22:24.411 A KISS TONIGHT, 'CAUSE WE LOVE YOU THAT MUCH. 22:27.881 --> 22:28.882 FATHER, WE LOVE YOU. 22:30.916 --> 22:35.121 WE'RE GRATEFUL TO BE IN YOUR PRESENCE. 22:37.356 --> 22:38.290 WE LOVE YOU, JESUS. 22:40.357 --> 22:41.528 WE LOVE YOU, JESUS. 22:44.431 --> 22:48.300 TURN AROUND AND TELL SOME PEOPLE HOW GREAT YOUR GOD IS. 22:48.367 --> 23:24.368 (MUSIC) 23:30.710 --> 23:34.079 HALLELUJAH! GOD IS GREAT! 23:35.214 --> 23:38.518 AMEN! IT'S OFFERING TIME. GLORY TO GOD. 23:39.251 --> 23:41.054 WEDNESDAY NIGHT, LOH. 23:41.788 --> 23:42.521 GET READY. 23:43.680 --> 23:46.019 PASTOR CHRISTY IS GOING TO CONTINUE HER REVELATION ON HOW 23:46.019 --> 23:48.480 TO UNLOCK OUR HARVEST HERE SHORTLY, SO I'M NOT GOING TO 23:48.480 --> 23:51.960 TAKE TOO LONG. THEY'LL PUT THE OFFERING SCRIPTURE UP FOR THE 23:51.960 --> 23:58.319 EVENING. IT IS PROVERBS 3:9, AND 10, AND I'M GOING TO LOOK AT IT 23:58.319 --> 24:02.849 REAL QUICK FIRST IN THE NLT. IT'S SHORT, BUT IT SAYS, "HONOR 24:02.849 --> 24:07.559 THE LORD WITH YOUR WEALTH AND WITH THE BEST PART OF EVERYTHING 24:07.559 --> 24:13.259 YOU PRODUCE. THEN HE WILL FILL YOUR BARNS WITH GRAIN AND YOUR 24:13.259 --> 24:19.859 VATS WILL OVERFLOW WITH GOOD WINE." I LIKE THE NLT BECAUSE IT 24:19.859 --> 24:24.930 GIVES ME THAT GRACE FEELING. BUT I ALSO LIKE THE AMPLIFIED 24:24.930 --> 24:28.829 BECAUSE IT'S LOUD AND I CAN HEAR IT BETTER. SO IN THE AMPLIFIED 24:28.829 --> 24:33.299 CLASSIC IT SAYS, "HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR CAPITAL AND 24:33.299 --> 24:37.740 SUFFICIENCY, FROM RIGHTEOUS LABORS AND WITH THE FIRST FRUITS 24:37.740 --> 24:43.230 OF ALL YOUR INCOME. SO SHALL YOUR STORAGE PLACES BE FILLED 24:43.230 --> 24:49.140 WITH PLENTY, AND YOUR VATS SHALL BE OVERFLOWING WITH NEW WINE? I 24:49.140 --> 24:54.990 ALWAYS ASK MYSELF, WHAT EXACTLY ARE OUR STORAGE PLACES? WELL, 24:54.990 --> 24:58.680 THEY MIGHT BE YOUR SAVINGS ACCOUNTS, THEY MIGHT BE MONEY 24:58.680 --> 25:03.809 MARKET ACCOUNTS, CDS, YOUR BROKERAGE ACCOUNTS, YOUR IRAS, 25:03.809 --> 25:10.109 YOUR 401KS, ANY PLACE YOU'VE GOT CASH STASHED. OR THEY MIGHT JUST 25:10.109 --> 25:13.589 BE YOUR KITCHEN CUPBOARDS, YOUR PANTRY, EVEN YOUR BEDROOM 25:13.589 --> 25:17.700 CLOSET, ANYWHERE YOU WOULD CHOOSE TO STORE YOUR 25:17.700 --> 25:21.990 SUFFICIENCY. AND IT'S GONNA BE FILLED WITH PLENTY, NO MATTER 25:21.990 --> 25:27.796 WHERE IT IS. SO IN OTHER WORDS, INVEST IN THE KINGDOM ECONOMY, 25:28.950 --> 25:32.609 AND IF YOU GIVE GENEROUSLY FROM WHAT THE LORD HAS PROVIDED FOR 25:32.609 --> 25:36.359 YOU AND PUT IN YOUR POSSESSION, ALL THE MORE WILL BE GIVEN BACK 25:36.359 --> 25:41.819 TO YOU. AND HONORING THE LORD REALLY MEANS USING OUR WEALTH 25:41.819 --> 25:47.880 FOR RIGHTEOUS PURPOSES. GIVING OF OUR HARVEST OR INCREASE, IT'S 25:47.880 --> 25:52.170 A RECOGNITION THAT EVERYTHING WE ARE AND EVERYTHING WE HAVE IS 25:52.170 --> 26:01.619 ALL FROM GOD ANYWAY. IT REALLY IS ALL HIS. THANK YOU, LORD. 26:01.619 --> 26:06.269 PSALM 24:1 IN THE NLT SAYS, "THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S AND 26:06.269 --> 26:10.980 EVERYTHING IN IT." THE LIVING BIBLE, WHICH I ALSO LIKE, SAYS, 26:10.980 --> 26:15.240 "THE EARTH BELONGS TO GOD. EVERYTHING IN ALL THE WORLD IS 26:15.240 --> 26:20.309 HIS." AND JAMES 1:17 TELLS US, "EVERY GOOD GIFT AND EVERY 26:20.309 --> 26:25.140 PERFECT GIFT IS FROM ABOVE AND COMES DOWN FROM THE FATHER OF 26:25.140 --> 26:30.180 LIGHTS WITH WHOM THERE IS NO VARIATION OR SHADOW OF TURNING." 26:30.180 --> 26:34.259 AND SO THAT POINTS TO THE FACT THAT GOD IS UNCHANGING. HE IS 26:34.259 --> 26:39.539 THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FOREVER, AND PART OF THAT 26:39.539 --> 26:44.819 UNCHANGING CHARACTER IS HIS GENEROSITY. AND BY HONORING THAT 26:44.819 --> 26:48.690 CHARACTER AND EMULATING THAT GENEROSITY, BY OBSERVING HIS 26:48.690 --> 26:52.019 COMMANDMENTS, WE WILL LIVE IN THE BLESSING AND WE WILL 26:52.019 --> 26:55.470 EXPERIENCE THE TYPE OF PROSPERITY THAT'S DESCRIBED IN 26:55.470 --> 27:00.029 DEUTERONOMY 28:8, WHERE IT SAYS, "THE LORD WILL COMMAND THE 27:00.029 --> 27:04.529 BLESSING ON YOU IN YOUR BARNS AND IN ALL THAT YOU SET YOUR 27:04.529 --> 27:10.079 HANDS TO, AND HE WILL BLESS YOU IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR 27:10.079 --> 27:15.569 GOD IS GIVING YOU." IF YOU HONOR GOD, HE WILL HONOR YOU. HE WILL 27:15.569 --> 27:19.890 BLESS YOU IN WAYS THAT ARE SURPRISING, UNEXPECTED, EVEN 27:19.890 --> 27:24.990 ASTONISHING, AS I'VE SAID UP HERE IN THE PAST. AFTER I DID 27:24.990 --> 27:30.299 LAST WEEK'S OFFERING MESSAGE, I WAS QUESTIONED BY SEVERAL PEOPLE 27:30.299 --> 27:36.420 AS TO WHY I DIDN'T INCLUDE A TESTIMONY. ONE PERSON WENT SO 27:36.420 --> 27:40.589 FAR AS TO SAY IT SEEMED WEIRD THAT THERE WAS NO TESTIMONY 27:40.589 --> 27:42.869 INCLUDING IN MY OFFERING MESSAGE. SO I GUESS THAT'S A 27:42.869 --> 27:46.650 THING. I DON'T KNOW. SO I GUESS IF I'M RECEIVING THE OFFER, I'M 27:46.650 --> 27:49.319 SUPPOSED TO SHARE A TESTIMONY. I'M GOING TO DO A BRIEF ONE 27:49.319 --> 27:54.507 TONIGHT SINCE I PREFER NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF AS WEIRD. AND I JUST 27:54.507 --> 27:59.069 WANT TO TRY TO GET ON TRACK HERE. BACK ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, I 27:59.069 --> 28:03.450 WAS IN A SITUATION WHEN THEY ARE SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA, WHERE I 28:03.450 --> 28:09.119 KNEW THAT I HAD TO DO SOMETHING TO BOLSTER MY INCOME. I NEEDED 28:09.119 --> 28:14.670 TO MAKE A CAREER MOVE, BUT I HAD NO CLEAR DIRECTION. NOW, OF 28:14.670 --> 28:17.940 COURSE, WE HONOR GOD IN OUR GIVING, SO WE KNEW THAT WAS 28:17.940 --> 28:20.849 COMING, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW HOW IT WAS GOING TO COME. AND 28:20.849 --> 28:24.359 UNBEKNOWNST TO ME, WHEN I WAS OUT DRIVING AROUND ONE DAY IN MY 28:24.359 --> 28:28.200 SALES FUNCTION, MY LOVELY WIFE KATE DECIDED THAT SHE WOULD 28:28.200 --> 28:32.309 APPLY FOR A JOB FOR ME. NOW YOU GOTTA THINK BACK 15 YEARS AGO, 28:32.309 --> 28:35.339 THAT WASN'T JUST THE EASIEST THING TO DO. THERE WAS NO 28:35.339 --> 28:39.029 INDEED, THERE WAS NO SOCIAL MEDIA, WE DIDN'T HAVE LINKEDIN 28:39.029 --> 28:45.000 ACCOUNTS, AT LEAST WE DIDN'T, WE'RE LAGGARDS I GUESS. BUT SHE 28:45.000 --> 28:48.240 FOUND A WAY TO DO THIS AND JUST BY THE HOLY SPIRIT FIGURED OUT 28:48.240 --> 28:50.670 WELL THIS IS THE ONE I'M GONNA SEND IT OFF TO, SENDS OUT ONE 28:50.670 --> 28:53.670 RESUME AND BEFORE THE END OF THE DAY, BEFORE I EVEN GOT BACK IN 28:53.670 --> 28:57.480 THE DRIVEWAY, I GOT A PHONE CALL FROM THE CEO OF THAT COMPANY. 28:57.480 --> 29:00.310 AND I WOUND UP INTERVIEWING BEFORE I EVER GOT IN THE HOUSE. 29:03.119 --> 29:06.119 YOU HONOR GOD, HE'S GONNA HONOR YOU. I MEAN, THERE'S JUST NO 29:06.119 --> 29:12.900 DOUBT ABOUT IT. AND SO IT GETS BETTER BECAUSE WITHIN NINE DAYS, 29:12.900 --> 29:16.079 I WAS THEN ON A FLIGHT FROM WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA TO LOS 29:16.079 --> 29:20.940 ANGELES FOR TRAINING. AND NINE DAYS AFTER THAT, WE WERE DRIVING 29:20.940 --> 29:27.210 A TRUCK, A MOVING TRUCK TO WASHINGTON, D.C. TO LIVE. NOW, 29:27.210 --> 29:30.150 OBVIOUSLY FOR THAT TO TAKE PLACE, THERE'S MULTIPLE OTHER 29:30.150 --> 29:34.890 MINOR MIRACLES INVOLVED. AND I DON'T WANNA PROLONG THIS FOR 29:34.890 --> 29:37.769 VERY LONG, BUT I'LL JUST SHARE ONE. THERE WAS A YOUTH PASTOR 29:37.769 --> 29:40.619 THAT WE HAD KNOWN BACK IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK SEVERAL YEARS 29:40.619 --> 29:44.849 PRIOR, AND HE HAD MOVED BEFORE WE DID, AND HE WAS, WE DIDN'T 29:44.849 --> 29:47.130 KNOW EXACTLY WHERE HE WAS, BUT HE WAS ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF 29:47.130 --> 29:51.839 US IN VIRGINIA. WELL, WHEN WE WERE STARTING TO PACK UP, HE 29:51.839 --> 29:56.369 CAME BY JUST TO CHECK IN ON US AND SEE WHAT'S UP. AND SO WE 29:56.369 --> 30:00.750 SAID, WELL, WE'RE MOVING. AND HE SAID, WELL, WHEN? AND WE GAVE 30:00.750 --> 30:03.420 HIM A PROJECTED DATE AND EVERYTHING. SO HE GOES AND 30:03.420 --> 30:07.089 RECRUITS FOUR OF HIS BRUTISH YOUNG MEN FROM THE YOUTH 30:07.089 --> 30:10.690 MINISTRY IN THE NEW CHURCH THAT HE'S AT, AND THEY ALL COME UP 30:10.690 --> 30:14.349 THE DAY THAT IT'S MOVING DAY, LOADED EVERY SINGLE THING ON THE 30:14.349 --> 30:18.609 TRUCK, PACKED IT BEAUTIFULLY, SEALED IT UP, SENT US ON OUR WAY 30:18.609 --> 30:22.869 TO DC, AND ALL I HAD TO DO WAS PAY FOR A PIZZA. THAT'S AN 30:22.869 --> 30:26.710 UNEXPECTED AND AMAZING BLESSING. IT'S ASTONISHING WHEN I THINK 30:26.710 --> 30:30.609 BACK ON IT. IT'S THE FAVOR OF GOD. LET'S PUT THE GIVING 30:30.609 --> 30:33.759 INFORMATION ON THE SCREENS. I'LL CALL IT GOOD. I GOT MORE TO DO 30:33.759 --> 30:37.272 WITH THAT, I DON'T WANT TO KEEP YOU ALL NIGHT. YOU CAN SEE THERE 30:37.272 --> 30:43.089 ARE MULTIPLE WAYS TO GIVE. TEXT TO GIVE, MY FAVORITE. GO TO THE 30:43.089 --> 30:50.380 WEBSITE, LOHCHURCH.ORG/GIVE. USE THE MOBILE APP, SCAN YOUR QR 30:50.380 --> 30:53.890 CODE, AND WE STILL LOVE TO RECEIVE ENVELOPES IN THE MAIL 30:53.890 --> 30:57.789 WHEN THEY DO SHOW UP. AND THAT ADDRESS IS UP THERE FOR YOU AS 30:57.789 --> 31:01.000 WELL. IF YOU'RE IN HERE AND YOU NEED AN ENVELOPE, WE GOT USHERS 31:01.000 --> 31:07.150 IN THE AISLES. LET'S GIVE GOD GREAT HONOR TONIGHT. LET'S SHOW 31:07.150 --> 31:10.269 OUR GREAT GENEROSITY AND OUR APPRECIATION AND OUR HONOR FOR 31:10.269 --> 31:17.920 THE LORD FOR ALL THAT HE HAS DONE. AND IF EVERYBODY IS READY, 31:17.920 --> 31:23.109 WE CAN HOLD UP OUR ENVELOPES OR OUR DEVICES AND I'LL PRAY A 31:23.109 --> 31:26.650 QUICK BLESSING OVER THEM. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU 31:26.650 --> 31:30.970 THAT AS WE HONOR YOU, YOU WILL HONOR US, THAT YOU WILL INCREASE 31:30.970 --> 31:34.599 US MORE AND MORE TO OVERFLOWING AS WE GIVE OUT OF OUR 31:34.599 --> 31:38.319 SUFFICIENCY. THANK YOU, LORD, FOR PROVIDING FOR EVERY NEED 31:38.319 --> 31:42.789 EVEN BEFORE WE CAN PERCEIVE IT OR DECIDE ANYTHING IN OUR MIND 31:42.789 --> 31:45.940 THAT WOULD SEND US IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AND FOR GIVING US 31:45.940 --> 31:49.509 TESTIMONIES OF YOUR FOREVER GOODNESS, YOUR ETERNAL 31:49.509 --> 31:53.619 FAITHFULNESS, AND WE DECLARE THAT WE ARE HEALED, WHOLE, AND 31:53.619 --> 31:58.779 PROSPEROUS, EVERY GIVER IN HERE AND ONLINE IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF 31:58.779 --> 32:09.789 JESUS, AMEN. AND NOW LET'S WELCOME PASTOR CHRISTY. ALL 32:09.789 --> 32:15.700 RIGHT. CHECK, CHECK. THERE WE ARE. ALL RIGHT, HOW IS EVERYBODY 32:15.700 --> 32:20.500 DOING TONIGHT? SO HOW MANY OF YOU THOUGHT PASTOR BRENDA WAS 32:20.500 --> 32:24.880 GONNA BE HERE TONIGHT? 'CAUSE SHE MIGHT HAVE SAID IT. SO I'M 32:24.880 --> 32:28.779 HERE TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. SHE DID NOT NOT COME BECAUSE OF 32:28.779 --> 32:32.019 JONATHAN'S FIGHT LAST NIGHT. THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. 32:32.019 --> 32:36.640 WE ACTUALLY TALKED ON MONDAY AND SHE GOES, "I KIND OF FEEL LIKE I 32:36.640 --> 32:39.579 OVERCOMMITTED." 'CAUSE HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW PASTOR HANK FLEW OUT 32:39.579 --> 32:43.690 SUNDAY, TURNED AROUND, FLEW OUT MONDAY FOR LAS VEGAS TO GO BE 32:43.690 --> 32:48.220 WITH JONATHAN, AND THEN HE DIDN'T FLY BACK UNTIL THIS 32:48.220 --> 32:51.549 MORNING. AND SO THEN HE GOT BACK THIS AFTERNOON, THEN PASTOR'S 32:51.549 --> 32:54.099 GONNA BE TAPING, AND SO SHE'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, FEEL LIKE I 32:54.099 --> 32:56.230 WANNA COOK MY HUSBAND A GOOD HOME-COOKED MEAL. I SAID, YOU 32:56.230 --> 32:59.230 TAKE CARE OF THAT, I GOT THIS, AND I'LL JUST CONTINUE THE 32:59.230 --> 33:04.603 MESSAGE. SO SHE DID NOT SHOW UP BECAUSE OF THE FIGHT. AND BY THE 33:04.603 --> 33:07.450 WAY, JUST BEFORE I CAME OUT HERE A LITTLE BIT AGO, JONATHAN 33:07.450 --> 33:12.940 FACETIMED ME. AND HOW MANY OF YOU, DID ANY OF YOU WATCH THE 33:12.940 --> 33:16.930 MMA FIGHT LAST NIGHT? A LOT OF YOU DID. OBVIOUSLY THAT DID NOT 33:16.930 --> 33:20.230 GO THE WAY HE HOPED. AND YOU KNOW, HE WAS HEARTBROKEN. I 33:20.230 --> 33:25.720 MEAN, HE'S IN GOOD SPIRITS. BUT, AND SO EVERYBODY'S ASKING HIM, 33:25.720 --> 33:28.390 "JONATHAN, WHY DIDN'T YOU TAP OUT?" HE GOES, "'CAUSE I THOUGHT 33:28.390 --> 33:33.099 I WAS WINNING." AND HE GOES, "I WAS LANDING SOME REALLY GOOD 33:33.099 --> 33:35.980 PUNCHES. I WAS DOING A LOT OF DAMAGE WHEN I WAS IN THERE." AND 33:35.980 --> 33:39.670 HE GOES, "SO I WASN'T GONNA TAP OUT." WHICH I KNEW HE WOULDN'T 33:39.670 --> 33:42.640 ANYWAY. MATTER OF FACT, JUDY TEXTED ME. SHE GOES, "I THOUGHT 33:42.640 --> 33:46.599 HE WOULD TAP." I SAID, "NO, I KNOW THAT BOY. HE'S STUBBORN 33:46.599 --> 33:49.240 LIKE HIS MAMA." I LOVE YOU, PASTOR BRENDA, IF YOU'RE 33:49.240 --> 33:56.769 WATCHING. AND HE'S JUST GOT A NO QUIT IN HIM. AND PASTOR BRENDA, 33:56.769 --> 34:00.279 AND OF COURSE, PASTOR HANK AND PASTOR BRENDA BOTH HAVE NO QUIT 34:00.279 --> 34:06.819 IN THEM. SO HE DIDN'T TAP. BUT SO HE IS, HE'S ACTUALLY ON HIS 34:06.819 --> 34:09.519 WAY, I'M GETTING THIS A LITTLE CLOSER 'CAUSE I'M GONNA SIT DOWN 34:09.519 --> 34:15.550 TONIGHT AND JUST GET COMFY. SO HE IS ON HIS WAY, RIGHT NOW 34:15.550 --> 34:19.869 PROBABLY, TO GO GET AN MRI DONE. AND THEY'RE GONNA CHECK FOR ANY 34:19.869 --> 34:24.730 LIGAMENT DAMAGE. BUT YOU KNOW, HE ACTUALLY DID REALLY GOOD. AND 34:24.730 --> 34:28.030 ACTUALLY, THE OTHER GUY LOOKED WORSE THAN JONATHAN. I MEAN, 34:28.030 --> 34:30.400 REALLY WHAT KIND OF SEALED IT FOR JONATHAN WAS THE ARMBAR. BUT 34:30.400 --> 34:32.619 I GUESS THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE SAYING THAT 34:32.619 --> 34:36.460 THEY DIDN'T THINK THE JUDGES GOT IT RIGHT. SO, WHO KNOWS? I'M NOT 34:36.460 --> 34:40.750 A, I AM NOT AN MMA AFICIONADO TO BE HONEST. I NEVER WATCHED A DAY 34:40.750 --> 34:44.019 IN MY LIFE UNTIL JONATHAN DECIDED THAT THAT'S WHAT HE WAS 34:44.019 --> 34:48.460 PURSUING. AND SO THAT'S NOT MY PREFERRED STYLE OF SPORTS. MOST 34:48.460 --> 34:50.800 OF THE SPORTS THAT I LIKE TO WATCH HAVE A BALL INVOLVED. 34:50.800 --> 34:52.989 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 34:52.989 --> 34:57.969 AND, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A BALL, LIKE I'M ALL IN THAT, YOU 34:57.969 --> 35:01.090 KNOW, NOT JUST, I'M HERE TO SEE WHO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU CAN BEAT 35:01.090 --> 35:05.139 ME UP OR NOT. SO, BUT ANYWAY, JONATHAN, WE LOVE YOU. HE REALLY 35:05.139 --> 35:07.773 DID VERY, VERY GOOD AND THIS ISN'T OVER FOR HIM. 35:07.773 --> 35:11.744 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 35:11.744 --> 35:14.463 HE'S PLANNING ON, HE'S ALREADY PLANNING HIS REHAB AND GETTING 35:14.463 --> 35:19.750 READY TO WORK WITH HIS PT PERSON AND HE'S HOPING HE'S BACK IN SIX 35:19.750 --> 35:23.260 TO EIGHT WEEKS. AND OF COURSE, AND THIS DOESN'T EVEN MEAN, SO 35:23.260 --> 35:26.500 WITH THE CONTENDER SERIES, I GUESS YOU CAN GET BACK IN ON IT. 35:26.500 --> 35:30.340 AND THEN SOMETIMES THEY EVEN CALL PEOPLE UP BECAUSE THEY NEED 35:30.340 --> 35:35.079 SOMEBODY TO TAKE A FIGHT. SO THAT IS WHERE THAT IS AT. AND 35:35.079 --> 35:39.460 SO, BUT YEAH, HE'S DOING GOOD. I MEAN, YEAH, IT'S NOT WHAT HE 35:39.460 --> 35:43.900 HOPED FOR, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE'S QUITTING, SO DON'T THINK 35:43.900 --> 35:50.019 THAT. AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN, JONATHAN, I LOVE HIM, BUT HE'S 35:50.019 --> 35:53.619 THERE HOLDING THE THUMBS UP AS THE GUY IS BENDING HIS ARM THE 35:53.619 --> 35:59.079 WRONG WAY, AND WHICH HIS ARM IS NOT BROKEN. IT IS FRACTURED, BUT 35:59.079 --> 36:01.989 IT IS NOT BROKEN, SO THEN THEY'RE GONNA CHECK THE LIGAMENT 36:01.989 --> 36:05.230 DAMAGE. BUT OTHER THAN THAT, HE ALSO SAID, YOU KNOW, WHEN THAT 36:05.230 --> 36:08.289 GUY WAS HITTING ME, HE GOES, IT DIDN'T EVEN HURT. HE GOES, HE 36:08.289 --> 36:12.010 WASN'T REALLY DOING ANY DAMAGE. SO HE DIDN'T REALLY SUSTAIN MUCH 36:12.010 --> 36:18.369 DAMAGE AT ALL EXCEPT FOR THE ARM BAR. BUT PRAISE GOD. ANYWAY, HOW 36:18.369 --> 36:20.530 MANY OF YOU ARE EXCITED TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ON A 36:20.530 --> 36:21.760 WEDNESDAY NIGHT? 36:21.760 --> 36:23.860 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 36:23.860 --> 36:27.429 NOW I DID WANNA LET EVERYBODY KNOW THE GAME NIGHT THAT WAS 36:27.429 --> 36:30.070 SCHEDULED FOR GAME CHANGERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT, THEY'RE CANCELING 36:30.070 --> 36:33.130 IT BECAUSE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OUT ON THE LAWN AND THEY WERE 36:33.130 --> 36:36.610 PREPARED FOR THAT AND IT'S SUPPOSED TO RAIN. WE'VE BEEN 36:36.610 --> 36:39.730 GETTING A LOT OF RAIN LATELY, WHICH I KNOW WE NEED, BUT IT 36:39.730 --> 36:44.139 SEEMS TO BE POPPING UP AT THE WORST TIMES, BUT HEY, WHATEVER, 36:44.139 --> 36:48.789 WE'LL TAKE IT. AND HOPEFULLY AT SOME POINT THE HUMIDITY THAT 36:48.789 --> 36:53.050 WE'VE BEEN HAVING IS GONNA BREAK 'CAUSE IT'S BEEN REALLY HUMID. 36:53.050 --> 36:59.710 LIKE YOU WALK OUTSIDE AND EVERYTHING FOGS UP. SO IF YOU 36:59.710 --> 37:05.079 WEAR GLASSES, THEY FOG UP. SO HOW MANY OF YOU WERE HERE FOR 37:05.079 --> 37:07.719 LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT? WE TALKED ABOUT UNLOCKING YOUR HARVEST 37:07.719 --> 37:12.909 SEASON. AND SO WE'RE GONNA KIND OF CONTINUE ON THAT SAME THEME 37:12.909 --> 37:18.760 TONIGHT. BUT WE TALKED ABOUT LAST WEEK THAT IN GENESIS 8:22, 37:18.760 --> 37:23.349 IT SAYS AS LONG AS THE EARTH REMAINS, THERE IS SEED, TIME, 37:23.349 --> 37:28.960 AND HARVEST. AND SO ANYTIME WE PLANT SEED, AND BY THE WAY, WHEN 37:28.960 --> 37:32.199 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SEED, WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT MONETARY 37:32.199 --> 37:36.730 SEEDS. DO YOU KNOW WE SOW SEEDS ALL THROUGHOUT OUR LIVES, IN 37:36.730 --> 37:40.300 EVERYTHING THAT WE DO, WE CAN SOW SEEDS OF KINDNESS, SEEDS OF 37:40.300 --> 37:45.070 RIGHTEOUSNESS, SEEDS OF MERCY. WE CAN SOW SEEDS THAT ARE EVIL. 37:45.070 --> 37:49.719 BUT THE LAW OR THE PRINCIPLE OF THE KINGDOM IS BASED ON SEED 37:49.719 --> 37:56.349 PLANTING, WHICH JESUS TALKED ABOUT IN LUKE CHAPTER FOUR, OR 37:56.349 --> 38:01.090 MARK CHAPTER FOUR, EXCUSE ME. AND SO WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IF 38:01.090 --> 38:04.809 THERE IS A PRINCIPLE THAT JESUS IS TEACHING, WE SHOULD TAKE NOTE 38:04.809 --> 38:09.340 OF THAT BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE KINGDOM IS BUILT ON. SO WE ALSO 38:09.340 --> 38:15.760 TALKED ABOUT THAT WE NEED TO PLOW, YOU KNOW, AND IF WE'RE 38:15.760 --> 38:20.500 PLOWING, WE'RE BREAKING UP THE HARD GROUND SO THAT OUR SEEDS 38:20.500 --> 38:23.710 CAN GO INTO THE GROUND AND THEY CAN PRODUCE FRUIT. AND IF WE'RE 38:23.710 --> 38:26.500 NOT PLOWING, THEN TYPICALLY, WE'RE NOT GONNA PRODUCE THE 38:26.500 --> 38:30.820 HARVEST THAT WE WANT. WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THAT THEN YOU HAVE 38:30.820 --> 38:34.659 TO SOW. IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO HAVE YOUR GROUND STIRRED UP AND 38:34.659 --> 38:39.400 THAT'S LIKE SAYING, OH LORD, I'VE STIRRED UP MY HEART FOR 38:39.400 --> 38:42.369 YOU, BUT THEN YOU'RE NOT PUTTING SEED IN THERE. THAT DOESN'T GIVE 38:42.369 --> 38:45.489 ANYTHING FOR GOD TO WORK WITH. SO, AND THEN OF COURSE, WE 38:46.539 --> 38:51.460 TALKED ABOUT HOW WE GOTTA GET RID OF THE WEEDS THAT KILL THE 38:51.460 --> 38:55.719 SEEDS. SO IF WE'RE NOT GETTING RID OF THOSE WEEDS, WE CAN'T 38:55.719 --> 39:00.190 EXPECT A HARVEST TO COME, OR AT LEAST NOT IN THE MAGNITUDE THAT 39:00.190 --> 39:04.510 WE'RE BELIEVING GOD FOR. AND SOMETIMES THERE'S SO MANY THINGS 39:04.510 --> 39:09.547 THAT WE LET POP UP IN OUR LIFE, AND WE DON'T DEAL WITH IT, AND 39:09.547 --> 39:12.400 THEN SOMETIMES WE'RE WONDERING WHY WE'RE NOT GETTING THE 39:12.400 --> 39:17.949 ANSWERS THAT WE BELIEVE FOR. SO AGAIN, WE'VE GOTTA BE, AND WE'RE 39:17.949 --> 39:21.159 NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ALL OF THAT AGAIN TONIGHT, BUT THEN THE 39:21.159 --> 39:24.010 FOURTH ONE THAT WE SAID WAS WE GOTTA WATER THE SEED. YOU KNOW, 39:24.010 --> 39:27.429 YOU DON'T JUST PUT A PLANT IN THE GROUND OR PUT SEEDS IN THE 39:27.429 --> 39:31.599 GROUND AND JUST LEAVE THEM THERE TO THEIR OWN DEVICES AND JUST 39:31.599 --> 39:37.809 HOPE FOR THE RAIN TO COME. WELL, IT GOES BETTER IF YOU HAVE AN 39:37.809 --> 39:41.199 IRRIGATION SYSTEM AND THAT MEANS THAT YOU'RE CONTINUALLY 39:41.199 --> 39:44.260 PROPHESYING TO THOSE SEEDS, YOU'RE CONTINUALLY DOING THE 39:44.260 --> 39:48.130 SAME THINGS OVER AND OVER THAT ARE WATERING THOSE SEEDS. SO 39:48.130 --> 39:50.739 THAT WAS THE FOURTH PRINCIPLE AND THEN THE FIFTH ONE WAS JUST 39:50.739 --> 39:56.769 BEING ABLE TO WAIT AND SOMETIMES WE LOSE THE BATTLE FOR THE 39:56.769 --> 40:00.429 HARVEST IN THE WAITING BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETIMES THE HARDEST 40:00.429 --> 40:06.250 PART IS THAT WE WANT EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW AND WE DON'T SOMETIMES 40:06.250 --> 40:12.889 WAIT FOR THOSE THINGS TO GROW UP AND TO BECOME FRUITFUL WHEN THEY 40:12.889 --> 40:16.880 SHOULD. SO WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE WITH PART TWO, BUT WHAT WE'RE 40:16.880 --> 40:23.659 GONNA TALK ABOUT TONIGHT IS THAT, YOU KNOW, IS OUR MENTALITY 40:23.659 --> 40:27.500 WHEN WE'RE BELIEVING GOD FOR HARVEST. YOU KNOW, HOW MANY OF 40:27.500 --> 40:29.510 YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE TO RAISE YOUR HAND, BUT HOW MANY OF YOU 40:29.510 --> 40:35.929 ARE BELIEVING FOR GOD TO DO SOMETHING FOR YOU? AND IT FEELS 40:35.929 --> 40:40.250 LIKE SOMETIMES IT'S BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF A SEASON. AND 40:40.250 --> 40:47.780 WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHY WE HAVE GOT TO LEARN 40:47.780 --> 40:53.570 TO COMMAND OURSELVES SO THAT WE DON'T MISS THE SEASON OF 40:53.570 --> 40:58.219 HARVEST. AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW THE DEVIL, HE COMES IN 40:58.219 --> 41:03.500 AND HE TRIES TO SCHEME TO STEAL WHAT'S BEEN PLANTED. AND THE 41:03.500 --> 41:07.250 BIBLE SAYS HE CAN ONLY DEVOUR, OR HE SEEKS WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR, 41:07.250 --> 41:10.909 SO HE CAN ONLY DEVOUR IF WE ALLOW IT. AND SO WE HAVE TO 41:10.909 --> 41:14.179 LEARN TO BE GUARDIANS OF OUR HARVEST. WE HAVE TO BE, IF 41:14.179 --> 41:16.699 YOU'RE CALLED OF GOD, EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM IS CALLED OF GOD, 41:16.699 --> 41:19.130 BUT IF YOU'RE CALLED OF GOD, YOU'VE GOTTA BE A GUARDIAN OR A 41:19.130 --> 41:22.969 STEWARD OF YOUR CALL. IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN, YOU'VE GOTTA BE A 41:22.969 --> 41:28.130 GUARDIAN AND A STEWARD OF YOUR KIDS. BECAUSE EVENTUALLY, IF WE 41:28.130 --> 41:32.840 DON'T PUT IN OUR KIDS WHAT THE RIGHT PIECE IS, I LEARNED A LONG 41:32.840 --> 41:35.690 TIME AGO, I CAN'T SHELTER MY KIDS, AND I MEAN, THEY LIVE A 41:35.690 --> 41:40.610 PRETTY SHELTERED LIFE 'CAUSE WE'RE PRETTY BORING IN OUR 41:40.610 --> 41:43.699 LIVES. THERE'S A LOT THEY CAN'T LISTEN TO, THERE'S A LOT THEY 41:43.699 --> 41:50.780 CAN'T WATCH, AND THEY KNOW IT. BUT YOU KNOW, ONE DAY, AS 41:50.780 --> 41:53.329 THEY'RE GROWING, THEY BECOME MORE AND MORE INDEPENDENT FROM 41:53.329 --> 41:56.599 MOM AND DAD. AND WHEN THEY BECOME MORE AND MORE INDEPENDENT 41:56.599 --> 41:59.269 FROM MOM AND DAD, THEY START MAKING DECISIONS FOR THEMSELVES. 41:59.269 --> 42:03.710 SO IF WE'RE NOT SHEPHERDING THE SEEDS THAT WE'VE PLANTED IN THEM 42:03.710 --> 42:07.579 WHILE WE HAVE THEM, THEN WE MIGHT NOT GET THE HARVEST THAT 42:07.579 --> 42:11.840 WE WANT. SO WE DO OUR BEST. YOU KNOW, BUT IN THE END, WE ALSO 42:11.840 --> 42:15.619 HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT GOD'S GONNA DO IT, RIGHT? BECAUSE AT SOME 42:15.619 --> 42:19.460 POINT, YOUR KIDS DO HAVE TO GO OUT OF YOUR HOME, AND THE GOD 42:19.460 --> 42:22.940 THAT IS YOUR GOD HAS TO BECOME THEIR GOD. AND YOU CAN'T MAKE 42:22.940 --> 42:25.550 THAT CHOICE. I MEAN, I WISH WE COULD'VE JUST LIKE SAID, OKAY, 42:25.550 --> 42:29.809 LISTEN, WE SIGNED A CONTRACT, AND THIS IS, YOU DON'T GET A 42:29.809 --> 42:38.570 CHOICE. BUT THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. BUT YOU KNOW, LISTEN, BUT 42:38.570 --> 42:40.940 GOD'S GOT IT. HE SAID IF WE TRAIN A CHILD UP IN THE WAY HE 42:40.940 --> 42:43.550 SHOULD GO, IN THE END HE'S NOT GONNA DEPART FROM IT. SO EVEN IF 42:43.550 --> 42:46.309 IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S DEPARTURE HAPPENING, WE HAVE TO BELIEVE 42:46.309 --> 42:52.070 GOD. AND I TALKED TO ONE OF OUR YOUNG LADIES OUT AT CAMP, AND WE 42:52.070 --> 42:55.820 HAVE SO MANY GOOD YOUNGSTERS OUT THERE, AND I SAID, "YOU KNOW, 42:55.820 --> 42:58.250 HOW YOU DOING?" SHE GOES, "WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M DOING GOOD, "BUT 42:58.250 --> 43:00.469 YOU KNOW, I DON'T ALWAYS LIKE LISTENING "TO MY MOM AND DAD." 43:01.550 --> 43:08.750 I'M LIKE, "WELL, YOU WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST AND THE ONLY." BUT SHE 43:08.750 --> 43:12.110 SAID, "BUT YOU KNOW, MAN, "GOD'S REALLY MINISTERING TO ME." SO 43:12.110 --> 43:16.489 AGAIN, GOD'S GOT OUR KIDS TOO. SO LET'S TURN IN OUR BIBLES OVER 43:16.489 --> 43:24.139 TO PROVERBS 24, VERSE 10, AND LET'S GET STARTED. AND IT SAYS, 43:24.139 --> 43:26.659 AND THIS IS FROM THE KING JAMES, AND I LIKE THE WAY THE KING 43:26.659 --> 43:32.150 JAMES SAYS IT. IT SAYS, "IF YOU FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, 43:32.150 --> 43:38.300 "YOUR STRENGTH IS SMALL." NOW, I DON'T PARTICULARLY LOVE THAT 43:38.300 --> 43:43.730 SCRIPTURE, IF I'M HONEST. BECAUSE THAT SAYS, TO ME, 43:43.730 --> 43:46.760 REALLY, IN THE PASTOR CHRISTY LANGUAGE, IT SAYS, "BUCK UP, 43:46.760 --> 43:51.619 BUTTERCUP." YOU DON'T GET TO SIT DOWN AND CRY WHEN THINGS AREN'T 43:51.619 --> 43:57.530 GOING YOUR WAY. YOU KNOW, AND I WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES I 43:57.530 --> 43:59.869 READ THAT AND YOU'RE LIKE, OH MAN, GOD, I'VE GOTTA GROW. 43:59.869 --> 44:03.920 BECAUSE THERE'S TIMES, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE FACING SOMETHING AND OR 44:03.920 --> 44:07.670 YOU GET, YOU KNOW, YOU GET SOME BAD NEWS OR YOU GET A BILL IN 44:07.670 --> 44:10.460 THE MAIL YOU WEREN'T EXPECTING. AND SO THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE 44:10.460 --> 44:14.269 JUST LIKE, OH GOD, IT'S JUST SO BAD AND I CAN'T. AND WE JUST 44:14.269 --> 44:18.050 THINK ABOUT ALL OF THE NEGATIVE THINGS. BUT THIS SAYS, IF WE 44:18.050 --> 44:20.333 FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, OUR STRENGTH IS SMALL. AND I WAS 44:20.333 --> 44:23.570 LIKE, GOD, I DON'T WANNA BE, I DON'T WANNA BE A PERSON OF SMALL 44:23.570 --> 44:27.590 STRENGTH. I WANNA BE A PERSON THAT IS STRONG IN YOU AND IN THE 44:27.590 --> 44:32.150 POWER OF YOUR MIGHT. JUST LIKE WHAT GOD TOLD JOSHUA, THAT HE 44:32.150 --> 44:35.929 WOULD BE STRONG IF HE WOULD JUST MEDITATE IN THE WORD OF GOD DAY 44:35.929 --> 44:40.639 AND NIGHT. AND I SAID, GOD, I DON'T WANNA BE THAT WAY. SO, I 44:40.639 --> 44:47.119 SAID LAST WEEK, JUST LIKE IN THE OTHER VERSE THAT WE READ LAST 44:47.119 --> 44:50.119 WEEK, WHERE IT SAYS, "IF A LAZY MAN DOESN'T PLOW BECAUSE OF THE 44:50.119 --> 44:52.699 COLD, "HE DOESN'T RECEIVE A HARVEST. "NEITHER DOES THE 44:52.699 --> 44:56.659 PERSON THAT FAINTS." IF YOU'RE OUT THERE PLOWING AND IT SEEMS 44:56.659 --> 45:00.920 HARD IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR PLOWING, THEN, AND YOU FAINT, 45:00.920 --> 45:07.280 GUESS WHAT? YOU'RE NOT GONNA REAP THE HARVEST THAT YOU WERE 45:07.280 --> 45:14.449 PROMISED. AND I THINK A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THOSE 45:14.449 --> 45:18.139 OF US THAT REALLY WALK THIS WALK OF FAITH, IN OTHER WORDS, WE 45:18.139 --> 45:22.190 BELIEVE THAT GOD IS A GOD THAT HEALS TODAY, HE'S A GOD THAT 45:22.190 --> 45:26.659 DELIVERS TODAY, IT DIDN'T PASS AWAY, WE BELIEVE THAT IN SIGNS 45:26.659 --> 45:32.750 AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES IN THIS DAY, THAT WE SOMEHOW THINK THAT 45:32.750 --> 45:38.570 STORMS ARE NOT GONNA COME. THAT WE NEVER THINK THAT OUR FAITH 45:38.570 --> 45:41.960 WOULD BE CHALLENGED BECAUSE I'M A FAITH PERSON, SO IT'S ALL 45:41.960 --> 45:47.269 GONNA BE CHERRIES AND ROSES AND HEARTS AND RAINBOWS IN OUR LIFE, 45:47.269 --> 45:51.559 AND WE'RE JUST GONNA WALK THIS BEAUTIFUL LIFE AND NOTHING EVER 45:51.559 --> 45:58.130 BAD IS EVER GONNA COME, OR THAT FAILURES AND MISTAKES AREN'T 45:58.130 --> 46:02.900 GONNA COME, BECAUSE THAT'S THE OTHER THING. YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE 46:02.900 --> 46:06.530 CROSS OVER INTO HEAVEN, DO YOU REALIZE THAT WE ARE ALL A WORK 46:06.530 --> 46:10.190 IN PROGRESS? WE'RE ALL STILL LEARNING AND GROWING. GOD IS 46:10.190 --> 46:13.250 STILL BUILDING US LINE UPON LINE, PRECEPT UPON PRECEPT. 46:14.269 --> 46:17.150 THERE IS NO POINT THAT WE'VE EVER ARRIVED UNTIL WE HIT 46:17.150 --> 46:20.659 HEAVEN, AND THEN WE'VE ARRIVED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND 46:20.659 --> 46:24.860 THEN, YOU KNOW, HE CAN MAKE ALL OF THAT PERFECT. THANK GOD FOR 46:24.860 --> 46:30.559 THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, AND SO SOMETIMES WE ACT LIKE, WE CAN'T 46:30.559 --> 46:33.769 ACT LIKE THAT WE HAVE SOME UNIQUE CIRCUMSTANCE THAT'S 46:33.769 --> 46:38.300 DIFFERENT THAN ANYBODY ELSE'S. AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT DID JESUS DO 46:38.300 --> 46:41.809 WHEN THE STORMS CAME TO HIM WHEN HE WAS IN THE BOAT? HE COMMANDED 46:41.809 --> 46:45.769 THE STORMS. SO IF WE'RE NOT COMMANDING THE STORMS OF OUR 46:45.769 --> 46:49.400 LIFE, IF WE'RE NOT SPEAKING TO THE STORMS OF OUR LIFE, THEN 46:49.400 --> 46:53.690 WE'RE NOT GONNA RECEIVE THE HARVEST. YOU KNOW, A FARMER 46:53.690 --> 46:56.599 CAN'T JUST LAY DOWN AND NOT REBUILD HIS FARM IF A STORM 46:56.599 --> 47:01.610 COMES. THEY GOTTA GO OUT AND CHECK THE CROPS AND MAKE SURE 47:01.610 --> 47:06.469 THAT EVERYTHING'S OKAY SO THAT EVERYTHING CAN KEEP GROWING. 47:06.469 --> 47:09.230 THEY GOTTA REBUILD THE BARNS BECAUSE EVEN IF THE CROPS 47:09.230 --> 47:11.300 WEREN'T HURT, BUT YOUR BARN'S GOT KNOCKED DOWN, THEY HAVE TO 47:11.300 --> 47:17.809 HAVE A PLACE TO RECEIVE THE HARVEST. SO IN THE STORMS OF 47:17.809 --> 47:23.059 LIFE, AND STORMS ARE GONNA HAPPEN. IT'S NOT A MATTER OF IF 47:23.059 --> 47:26.420 THEY COME, IT IS WHEN THEY COME. STORMS ARE GONNA HAPPEN, AND 47:26.420 --> 47:29.960 THAT'S NOT A BAD CONFESSION. IT'S JUST THAT AT SOME POINT, 47:29.960 --> 47:35.179 YOUR FAITH IS GONNA BE TESTED. YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY, WE 47:35.179 --> 47:37.789 DON'T GET TO LIVE OUR LIFE WITHOUT THE TESTING OF OUR 47:37.789 --> 47:40.849 FAITH. OTHERWISE, IT WOULDN'T SAY THAT IF YOU FAINT IN THE DAY 47:40.849 --> 47:45.530 OF ADVERSITY, YOUR STRENGTH IS SMALL. AND SO HARVEST DOESN'T 47:45.530 --> 47:49.610 COME WHEN WE'RE RULED BY OUR CIRCUMSTANCES OR BY OTHER 47:49.610 --> 47:53.090 PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, REMEMBER LAST WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT IF PEOPLE 47:53.090 --> 47:58.880 ARE SAYING THINGS, SHUT UP. JUST SHUT UP. BECAUSE YOUR WORDS 47:58.880 --> 48:03.500 DON'T GET TO DIRECT MY LIFE. YOUR WORDS DON'T GET TO 48:03.500 --> 48:07.639 DETERMINE MY VALUE. YOUR WORDS DON'T GET, TO BE HONEST, AND I 48:07.639 --> 48:11.780 DON'T CARE IF THIS IS A SPOUSE, YOUR WORDS DON'T EVEN, ARE NOT 48:11.780 --> 48:18.530 EVEN ALLOWED TO GET ME OFFENDED. THAT'S A YOU PROBLEM. THAT'S NOT 48:18.530 --> 48:24.260 A ME PROBLEM. IF YOUR MOUTH IS ALL OVER THE PLACE AND YOU'RE 48:24.260 --> 48:27.139 SAYING NASTY THINGS ABOUT ME OR SOMEBODY ELSE, THAT'S A YOU 48:27.139 --> 48:30.559 PROBLEM. BECAUSE AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, I'M GONNA FORGIVE YOU 48:30.559 --> 48:32.989 AND GO ON BECAUSE I'VE GOT THINGS TO DO FOR THE KINGDOM AND 48:32.989 --> 48:35.000 I CAN'T AFFORD THE STRIFE IN MY LIFE, AMEN? 48:35.000 --> 48:37.969 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 48:37.969 --> 48:41.420 AND IF I LET YOUR OPINION SHORT CIRCUIT WHAT I AM CALLED TO DO, 48:41.420 --> 48:46.219 THAT'S A ME PROBLEM. BECAUSE GOD DIDN'T CALL ME ACCORDING TO 48:46.219 --> 48:49.969 SOMEBODY ELSE'S OPINION. GOD DIDN'T CALL YOU ACCORDING TO 48:49.969 --> 48:53.179 SOMEBODY ELSE'S OPINION AND HE DIDN'T CALL YOU TO BE SOMEBODY 48:53.179 --> 49:00.349 ELSE. HE CALLED YOU TO BE YOU. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE FACT 49:00.349 --> 49:03.949 THAT I CANNOT PROPHESY LIKE PASTOR HANK. I'VE GOT ZERO 49:03.949 --> 49:08.090 PROBLEM WITH IT. I'M LIKE, YOU GO ON, I'LL PRAY, YOU GO, YOU 49:08.090 --> 49:13.519 PROPHESY. THAT'S HIS CALL. I DON'T CARE IF I CAN'T PREACH 49:13.519 --> 49:18.197 LIKE BROTHER COPELAND, OR ANDREW WOMACK, OR ANY OF THE, YOU KNOW, 49:18.197 --> 49:23.989 OF SOME GREAT MEN OF GOD. I'M CALLED TO BE WHO GOD CALLED ME 49:23.989 --> 49:28.250 TO BE. SO I DON'T HAVE TO STAND IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S OFFICE TO 49:28.250 --> 49:31.699 FEEL GOOD ABOUT MYSELF, YOU KNOW, BUT OBEDIENCE, MY 49:31.699 --> 49:36.019 OBEDIENCE IS GONNA PRODUCE A HARVEST IN MY LIFE, AMEN? YOUR 49:36.019 --> 49:39.829 OBEDIENCE IS GONNA PRODUCE A HARVEST IN YOUR LIFE. AND YOU 49:39.829 --> 49:45.829 KNOW, AND HERE'S THE OTHER THING, I HATE TO SAY THIS, BUT 49:45.829 --> 49:54.139 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A GENERATION OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALLOWED 49:54.139 --> 50:00.170 THEIR EMOTIONS TO RULE THEM. THEY ALLOW THEIR EMOTIONS TO 50:00.170 --> 50:04.369 MAKE THEIR DECISIONS AND THEY WONDER WHY THEY AREN'T BLESSED. 50:04.369 --> 50:08.179 BECAUSE WE SPEND TIME AFTER TIME, AND YOU KNOW, LISTEN, 50:08.179 --> 50:10.940 THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE MIGHT NOT KNOW ON THIS SIDE OF 50:10.940 --> 50:14.389 ETERNITY, BUT WHETHER WE UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED IN 50:14.389 --> 50:17.500 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LIFE, WHICH I'VE ALWAYS SAID, WHAT'S HAPPENED IN 50:17.500 --> 50:21.346 SOMEBODY ELSE'S LIFE IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS. MY BIBLE DOESN'T 50:21.346 --> 50:25.155 READ AFTER OTHER PEOPLE'S EXAMPLES, IT READS AFTER WHAT 50:25.155 --> 50:28.275 GOD SAID, AND I HAVE TO HAVE THE REVELATION OF WHAT GOD SAID 50:28.275 --> 50:35.835 LIVING IN MY HEART SO THAT IT'S PRODUCING FRUIT IN MY LIFE. AND 50:35.835 --> 50:42.826 SO WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT LET EMOTIONS COME AND JUST WREAK 50:42.826 --> 50:48.376 HAVOC ALL OVER WHAT THEY'RE DOING. PEOPLE ARE MAKING 50:48.376 --> 50:52.485 EMOTIONAL DECISIONS, THEY DON'T CONSULT GOD, AND THEN THEY 50:52.485 --> 51:04.545 WONDER WHY THEY DON'T GET THE ANSWER. WE CAN SHORT CIRCUIT OUR 51:04.545 --> 51:09.976 DESTINY BY ALLOWING OUR EMOTIONS TO BE OUR GUIDE. BECAUSE YOU 51:09.976 --> 51:12.465 KNOW WHAT YOUR EMOTIONS WILL NEVER DO? THEY WILL NEVER BE AN 51:12.465 --> 51:20.356 ANCHOR. BECAUSE OUR EMOTIONS ARE TOSSED ALL OVER THE PLACE. YOU 51:20.356 --> 51:24.735 KNOW? DIDN'T GET ENOUGH SLEEP. WELL, I'M IN A BAD MOOD, SO MY 51:24.735 --> 51:30.255 EMOTIONS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE. YOU KNOW, MY SPOUSE SAID, YOU 51:30.255 --> 51:32.865 KNOW, THEY SAID SOMETHING ICKY TO ME, SO NOW MY EMOTIONS ARE 51:32.865 --> 51:40.306 ALL OVER THE PLACE. OR WHATEVER, WHATEVER GUIDES YOU. AND SO, YOU 51:40.306 --> 51:45.195 WILL LOSE YOUR HARVEST IF YOU MAKE CHOICES AFTER EMOTIONAL 51:45.195 --> 51:49.755 REASONS. IF YOU SAY, I CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE, YOUR STRENGTH IS 51:49.755 --> 51:53.746 SMALL. AND I DON'T MEAN FOR THAT TO BE HARD. LIKE, I WANT TO HELP 51:53.746 --> 51:57.585 MY OWN SELF. AND HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER FELT LIKE YOU'VE BEEN 51:57.585 --> 52:00.735 AT A PLACE WHERE YOU'RE LIKE, OKAY, GOD, I CAN'T DO THIS 52:00.735 --> 52:10.126 ANYMORE. AND YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GET TO THAT PLACE AND WE SAY WE 52:10.126 --> 52:16.096 CAN'T, USUALLY THAT IS BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T INQUIRED OF THE LORD. 52:16.096 --> 52:18.766 SO TURN IN YOUR BIBLE, WELL, FIRST LET'S GO TO LUKE CHAPTER 52:18.766 --> 52:24.646 21, VERSE 19. AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS SAID. SO IF YOU GO BACK 52:24.646 --> 52:27.315 AND READ THIS CHAPTER, JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THE 52:27.315 --> 52:32.565 TERRIBLE THINGS THAT ARE GONNA COME. BUT HE SAID IN THERE, HE 52:32.565 --> 52:39.735 SAID, "IN YOUR PATIENCE, POSSESS YOU YOUR SOUL." NOW WHAT DOES 52:39.735 --> 52:42.436 THAT MEAN? SO I WENT UP AND LOOKED UP WHAT THE GREEK WORD 52:42.436 --> 52:46.365 MEANS FOR SOUL THERE, AND IT SAYS, "THE SEED OF FEELINGS, 52:46.365 --> 52:51.706 DESIRES, AFFECTIONS, OR AVERSIONS." SO LET THAT SINK IN 52:51.706 --> 52:55.635 FOR A MINUTE. YOUR SOUL IS THE SEED OF YOUR FEELINGS, YOUR 52:55.635 --> 53:03.525 DESIRES, YOUR AFFECTIONS, OR THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE. SO HOW WE 53:03.525 --> 53:06.496 TAKE HOLD, SO WHAT DO WE DO WHEN OUR EMOTIONS ARE ALL OVER THE 53:06.496 --> 53:12.106 MAP? FIRST OF ALL, WE HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE. JUST BECAUSE WE 53:12.106 --> 53:15.766 GET, LISTEN, YOU WILL NOT HAVE A MARRIAGE IF YOU GET MAD AT YOUR 53:15.766 --> 53:19.815 SPOUSE AND WALK OUT THE DOOR BECAUSE OF YOUR EMOTIONS. YOU 53:19.815 --> 53:30.135 DON'T BRING IT BACK INTO CHECK, IT'S GONNA MESS IT UP. SO, AND 53:30.135 --> 53:33.315 WHAT DO WE DO WHEN SOMETIMES MAYBE IT'S NOT JUST THE EMOTION 53:33.315 --> 53:36.585 OF ANGER OR FRUSTRATION, BUT WHAT DO WE DO IF IT'S THE 53:36.585 --> 53:42.681 EMOTION OF FEAR? TURN OVER TO CHRONICLES, 2 CHRONICLES, EXCUSE 53:42.681 --> 53:46.396 ME, CHAPTER 20, VERSE THREE. AND MOST OF YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS 53:46.396 --> 53:49.186 STORY. AND IT SAYS IN JEHOSHAPHAT, SO THE ARMY, THEY 53:49.186 --> 53:54.436 SEE THE GREAT ARMY COMING AT THEM. AND IT SAYS IN JEHOSHAPHAT 53:54.436 --> 53:57.856 FEARED. NOW, BUT WHAT DID HE DO? SEE, HERE'S THE THING, IT'S NOT 53:57.856 --> 54:02.146 THAT FEAR WON'T COME. SOMETIMES IT'S NOT THAT ANGER WON'T COME. 54:02.146 --> 54:05.175 SOMETIMES IT'S NOT THAT THE EMOTIONS AREN'T GONNA COME AND 54:05.175 --> 54:09.045 TRY TO ATTACK YOU. BUT WHAT DID JEHOSHAPHAT DO? HE SAID, AND HE 54:09.045 --> 54:12.525 SET HIMSELF TO SEEK THE LORD. AND HE PROCLAIMED A FAST 54:12.525 --> 54:17.175 THROUGHOUT ALL OF JUDAH. SO HE SET HIS FACE TO SEEK THE LORD. 54:17.175 --> 54:22.815 SO THEN, BECAUSE HE SET HIS FACE TO SEEK THE LORD, THEN HE WAS 54:22.815 --> 54:26.206 GIVEN WISDOM ON HOW TO GO OUT AND DEAL WITH THE ARMY. AND 54:26.206 --> 54:29.175 GUESS WHAT? BECAUSE JEHOSHAPHAT SOUGHT THE LORD, HE DIDN'T HAVE 54:29.175 --> 54:34.905 TO FIGHT THE BATTLE. THE LORD WENT BEFORE THEM. AND HE FOUGHT 54:34.905 --> 54:39.166 FOR THEM. AND SEE, WE WANT HARVEST, BUT WE HAVE GOT TO 54:39.166 --> 54:43.576 LEARN TO SOMETIMES DIG A LITTLE BIT DEEPER. WE LIVE IN A CULTURE 54:43.576 --> 54:51.376 RIGHT NOW THAT WANTS US TO LIVE IN A PLACE OF FEELINGS. YOU 54:51.376 --> 54:56.686 DIDN'T RESPECT MY PRONOUNS. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. I SAID THIS A 54:56.686 --> 55:00.646 FEW, YOU TRIGGERED ME BY YOUR WORDS. AND I, OOH, THAT ONE JUST 55:00.646 --> 55:05.025 MAKES ME SO MAD. I'M LIKE, OH, YOU'RE TRIGGERED? I DON'T ALLOW 55:05.025 --> 55:09.346 MY KIDS TO BE TRIGGERED. IF MOM AND DAD MADE YOU MAD, GUESS 55:09.346 --> 55:13.695 WHAT? BUCK UP, BUTTERCUP. YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO LEARN HOW TO BE 55:13.695 --> 55:18.465 RESPECTFUL AND DEAL WITH US THE WAY THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO, 55:18.465 --> 55:22.965 WHETHER YOU LIKED WHAT WE DID OR WE DIDN'T DO. AND SOMETIMES MOM 55:22.965 --> 55:24.735 AND DAD ARE WRONG, BUT THAT STILL DOESN'T GIVE THEM THE 55:24.735 --> 55:30.405 RIGHT TO DISRESPECT US. SO, WHAT, AND NOW, AND THEN, OKAY, 55:30.405 --> 55:34.695 LET'S TALK ABOUT WHO WAS THE ULTIMATE GIANT SLAYER IN THE 55:34.695 --> 55:42.945 BIBLE? KING DAVID. BEFORE HE BECAME KING, YOU KNOW, HE'S 55:42.945 --> 55:45.856 RUNNING AROUND IN THE WILDERNESS BEING CHASED BY SAUL, 'CAUSE 55:45.856 --> 55:49.275 SAUL WAS JEALOUS, AND YOU KNOW, HE HAD SLAYED THE GIANT, AND 55:49.275 --> 55:52.606 THAT'S THE OTHER THING. SO EVEN IF YOU RECEIVE HARVEST AFTER 55:52.606 --> 55:59.416 HARVEST, YOU KNOW AGAIN, HE'S FACED THE GIANT. HE DID 55:59.416 --> 56:02.175 EVERYTHING THE KING HAD ASKED HIM AND NOW HE'S BEING, YOU 56:02.175 --> 56:06.436 KNOW, HE WAS CHASED OUT OF THE CASTLE, MISTREATED. AND THAT'S 56:06.436 --> 56:09.045 THE OTHER THING, SEE, THAT'S THE THING THAT THIS CULTURE DOESN'T 56:09.045 --> 56:13.965 GET. AND THEY WONDER WHY SOMETIMES GOD IS FAR OFF IN 56:13.965 --> 56:18.556 THEIR PRAYERS BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A HEART OF HONOR. 'CAUSE 56:18.556 --> 56:24.940 DAVID HONORED SAUL WHEN SAUL WAS A BOOGER. HE WAS AN EVIL MAN. 56:26.445 --> 56:30.346 AND DAVID CHOSE TO KEEP HONOR IN HIS HEART. AND SEE, SOMETIMES, 56:30.346 --> 56:33.556 SEE, THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE GET SO MESSED UP. THEY'RE LIKE, I WAS 56:33.556 --> 56:38.313 MISTREATED, I WAS, MM-MM-MM-MM-MM. AND YOU KNOW 56:38.313 --> 56:42.226 WHAT, SOMETIMES YOU ARE GONNA BE MISTREATED. IT'S A PART OF, I 56:42.226 --> 56:46.965 LIKE WHAT EDDIE CALLS IT, IT'S CALLED PEOPLING. AND SO NOW I'VE 56:46.965 --> 56:51.916 ADOPTED THAT. SOMETIMES YOU GET ENOUGH OF PEOPLING AND PEOPLE 56:51.916 --> 56:57.076 MAKE YOU MAD. AND LISTEN, I WENT OUT AND I LOOKED ONLINE LAST 56:57.076 --> 56:59.806 NIGHT AT SOME OF THE COMMENTS FOR JONATHAN AND I HAD TO TURN 56:59.806 --> 57:04.186 THEM OFF 'CAUSE I'M LIKE, THAT'S MY NEPHEW. I'M GONNA COME OUT 57:04.186 --> 57:10.846 SWINGING. AND YOU KNOW, BUT AGAIN, PEOPLE SAY NASTY THINGS, 57:10.846 --> 57:14.985 BUT THAT'S WHY WE DON'T LET THEIR OPINIONS HURT OUR HEARTS. 57:14.985 --> 57:19.666 BUT WHAT DID DAVID DO? SO LET'S GO OVER TO 1 SAMUEL 30, VERSE 57:19.666 --> 57:28.335 SIX. AND YOU KNOW, DAVID'S JUST TRYING TO HONOR GOD, AND HE'S 57:28.335 --> 57:32.565 BEING CHASED. AND BY THE WAY, DAVID WAS BEING CHASED FOR A 57:32.565 --> 57:38.746 CALL HE DIDN'T ASK FOR. HE DIDN'T ASK TO BE KING. SO 57:38.746 --> 57:41.085 SOMETIMES IF YOU'RE BEING PERSECUTED BECAUSE OF THE CALL 57:41.085 --> 57:46.126 THAT YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR, AGAIN, BUCK UP, BUTTERCUP. GOD CALLED 57:46.126 --> 57:50.985 YOU BECAUSE HE SAW SOMETHING IN YOU. OKAY, SO 1 SAMUEL 30, VERSE 57:50.985 --> 57:54.646 SIX, NOW THIS IS A HORRIFIC ATTACK. SO WHEN THEY RETURNED TO 57:54.646 --> 57:58.246 ZIKLAG, THE PHILISTINES HAD COME IN AND THEY HAD TAKEN THEIR 57:58.246 --> 58:02.056 WIVES AND THEIR CHILDREN AND THEY BURNED DOWN THEIR TOWN. AND 58:02.056 --> 58:05.565 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT, LISTEN, WE'RE HUMAN BEINGS. IF 58:05.565 --> 58:09.585 YOUR CHILDREN GET KIDNAPPED BY EVIL PEOPLE, HOW MANY OF YOU 58:09.585 --> 58:13.996 KNOW THAT WE'RE LIKELY TO BE A LITTLE BIT UPSET? THAT'S 58:13.996 --> 58:20.295 NATURAL. IT'S NOT THAT YOU CAN'T HAVE FEELINGS. YOU'VE GOT TO 58:20.295 --> 58:24.226 REIGN THOSE FEELINGS IN. AND THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 58:24.226 --> 58:27.465 GOD HAS BEEN GIVING ME THE GREATEST REVELATION ON BECAUSE I 58:27.465 --> 58:29.715 ASKED THE LORD, AND WE'LL GET TO THAT SCRIPTURE IN A MINUTE. I'M 58:29.715 --> 58:32.206 LIKE, GOD, SOMETIMES WHY AREN'T WE SEEING THE SIGNS AND THE 58:32.206 --> 58:36.226 WONDERS THAT WE USED TO SEE WHEN THE HEALING REVIVALS WERE 58:36.226 --> 58:39.766 BREAKING OUT, THE MIRACLES WHEN AZUSA STREET WAS HAPPENING? AND 58:39.766 --> 58:42.646 AGAIN, THERE IS A DIFFERENT DISPENSATION. GOD DOESN'T STAY 58:42.646 --> 58:47.025 IN THE OLD. WE LIKE TO SAY, OKAY, THIS HAPPENED, SO WE'RE 58:47.025 --> 58:49.065 GONNA BUILD AN ALTAR RIGHT HERE, AND WE'RE NOT MOVING OFF OF 58:49.065 --> 58:53.775 THERE. AND GOD IS ALWAYS A GOD OF PROGRESS, AND HE DOES THINGS, 58:53.775 --> 58:58.275 LISTEN, HE HAS A RELATIONSHIP WITH EVERY SINGLE GENERATION AND 58:58.275 --> 59:03.405 IT'S NOT GONNA BE THE SAME WAY. THAT'S NOT WHO HE IS. GOD IS 59:03.405 --> 59:08.385 SUCH A GOD OF FULLNESS AND EXPRESSION AND CREATIVITY AND HE 59:08.385 --> 59:13.996 WANTS EVERY GENERATION NOT TO SEEK AFTER HIM AFTER SOME 59:13.996 --> 59:18.255 FORMULA, BUT AGAIN, HE SAID, I WANT THEIR LAWS WRITTEN ON MY 59:18.255 --> 59:26.235 HEART. SO DAVID GOES, HE'S UPSET, AND HIS MEN WERE UPSET 59:26.235 --> 59:31.065 WITH HIM. SOMETIMES IT STINKS TO BE THE LEADER, JUST SAYING. 59:31.065 --> 59:35.115 THAT'S AGAIN, EVERYBODY LIKES TO, WE HAVE ALL THE LITTLE 59:35.115 --> 59:38.565 INTERNET SLEUTHS OUT THERE NOW, THEY WANNA HAVE AN OPINION ON 59:38.565 --> 59:41.318 EVERYBODY THAT'S CALLED OF GOD, AND IF THEY'RE THIS, THAT, OR 59:41.318 --> 59:43.677 THE OTHER, AND I'M LIKE, YOU BETTER WATCH IT FIRST OF ALL 59:43.677 --> 59:47.445 'CAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS, YOU KNOW, TOUCH NOT MINE ANOINTED. AND IF 59:47.445 --> 59:50.385 THEY'RE NOT ANOINTED, THEN YOU KNOW, IT'S STILL JESUS'S CHURCH. 59:50.385 --> 59:55.485 SO IF HE DIDN'T APPOINT, ANYWAY. SO I DIGRESS, BUT SOMETIMES 59:55.485 --> 59:58.215 PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT LEADERS GO THROUGH. AND 59:58.215 --> 01:00:01.456 SOMETIMES THE LEADER, WHEN THEY'RE JUST DOING THEIR BEST TO 01:00:01.456 --> 01:00:03.795 LEAD AND THEN SOMETHING HAPPENS AND THEN EVERYBODY'S MAD AT 01:00:03.795 --> 01:00:08.775 THEM. 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU'RE LEADING AND THERE'S A 01:00:08.775 --> 01:00:12.045 WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE THAT AREN'T WALKING SPIRITUAL. ANYWAY, THAT 01:00:12.045 --> 01:00:16.516 WAS A SIDE NOTE. LET'S GO BACK TO OUR SCRIPTURE. AND IT SAYS, 01:00:16.516 --> 01:00:20.115 "AND DAVID WAS GREATLY DISTRESSED." IN OTHER WORDS, HE 01:00:20.115 --> 01:00:25.717 WASN'T JUST A LITTLE BIT SAD, HE WAS UNDER DURESS. BECAUSE NOT 01:00:25.717 --> 01:00:31.206 ONLY WAS IT HIS FAMILY, IT WAS THE FAMILY OF THOSE THAT WERE 01:00:31.206 --> 01:00:34.956 FOLLOWING AFTER HIM. AND THAT'S, HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW, THAT'S A 01:00:34.956 --> 01:00:39.757 GREAT RESPONSIBILITY? AND HE SAID, "FOR THE PEOPLE SPOKE OF 01:00:39.757 --> 01:00:44.797 STONING HIM BECAUSE ALL OF THE SOUL OF THE PEOPLE WAS GRIEVED." 01:00:44.797 --> 01:00:47.947 SO IN OTHER WORDS, EVERYBODY IS ALL UP IN THEIR FEELS RIGHT NOW 01:00:47.947 --> 01:00:55.356 BECAUSE THEIR HEARTS WERE WOUNDED. AND THEY DON'T KNOW IF 01:00:55.356 --> 01:01:00.666 THEIR FAMILY IS ALIVE OR DEAD. THEY DIDN'T KNOW. AND IT SAYS, 01:01:00.666 --> 01:01:04.507 "EVERY MAN FOR HIS SON AND FOR HIS DAUGHTERS. "BUT DAVID 01:01:04.507 --> 01:01:08.467 ENCOURAGED HIMSELF IN THE LORD HIS GOD." AND THEN WE KNOW WHAT 01:01:08.467 --> 01:01:11.976 HAPPENED. HE SAID HE ARMED HIMSELF AND HE WENT BACK AND HE 01:01:11.976 --> 01:01:15.007 RECOVERED ALL. BUT SEE, TOO MANY TIMES WE DON'T GET TO THE 01:01:15.007 --> 01:01:21.465 HARVEST BECAUSE WE GET CAUGHT UP IN THE ATTACK. AND WE SIT DOWN 01:01:21.465 --> 01:01:26.797 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ATTACK AND OUR STRENGTH BECOMES SMALL. NOW, 01:01:26.797 --> 01:01:28.836 I GOTTA TELL YOU A STORY. SEE, THIS IS ANOTHER THING. SO, 01:01:28.836 --> 01:01:34.027 PASTOR BRENDA HAD SENT ME THIS VIDEO OF ANDREW WOMACK 01:01:34.027 --> 01:01:39.367 PREACHING, AND THAT'S JUST BEEN KINDA LIVING IN MY HEART FOR A 01:01:39.367 --> 01:01:42.396 WHILE, BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S THOSE THINGS OF GOD I'VE GOTTA GROW. 01:01:42.396 --> 01:01:47.586 SO, THERE WAS ONE NIGHT, ANDREW AND HIS WIFE, THEY WERE IN BED 01:01:47.586 --> 01:01:51.367 ASLEEP, AND THEY GOT A CALL THAT HIS SON HAD BEEN IN A HORRIFIC 01:01:51.367 --> 01:01:55.987 CAR ACCIDENT, AND HIS SON WAS DEAD. AND THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO 01:01:55.987 --> 01:02:00.786 GO TO THE HOSPITAL AND BASICALLY IDENTIFY THE BODY. AND SO HE 01:02:00.786 --> 01:02:03.996 SAID, "WE GOT UP, WE GOT DRESSED, "WE GOT IN THE CAR." 01:02:05.916 --> 01:02:11.856 AND I WAS, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN IMAGINE BEING A 01:02:11.856 --> 01:02:16.626 PARENT WHAT HE'S GOING THROUGH. AND HE'S LIKE, "NO, I'M GONNA 01:02:16.626 --> 01:02:20.407 PRAISE THE LORD." AND HE STARTED PRAISING. HE SAID, "I REMEMBER 01:02:20.407 --> 01:02:23.947 EVERYTHING, GOD, "YOU SAID ABOUT HIS CALLING, "WHAT'S BEEN 01:02:23.947 --> 01:02:27.697 PROPHESIED OVER HIM." AND HE STARTED PRAISING, HE GOES, AND 01:02:27.697 --> 01:02:31.416 WHEN I STARTED PRAISING, HE GOES, "I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT. "I 01:02:31.416 --> 01:02:35.286 DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT AT ALL." AND THEN HE SAID, "SOMEWHERE ALONG 01:02:35.286 --> 01:02:40.567 THE WAY, "IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT I FELT LIKE, "PRAISE WAS COMING 01:02:40.567 --> 01:02:44.137 UP OUT OF MY HEART." BECAUSE AGAIN, WHAT DID HE DO? HE 01:02:44.137 --> 01:02:50.362 POSSESSED HIS SOUL. HE DIDN'T LET HIS EMOTIONS RULE THE DAY. 01:02:52.657 --> 01:02:57.996 SO HE SAID, "BY THE TIME WE GOT INTO THE HOSPITAL, "THE PRAISE 01:02:57.996 --> 01:03:01.056 AND THE WORSHIP OF ALMIGHTY GOD WAS ON MY LIPS." HE SAID, "WE 01:03:01.056 --> 01:03:03.547 WALKED BACK." HE GOES, "THEY DIDN'T TAKE US TO A ROOM. "THEY 01:03:03.547 --> 01:03:06.367 TOOK US BACK TO THE MORGUE." HE WALKED IN AND THERE WAS A TOW 01:03:06.367 --> 01:03:11.766 TAG ON HIS SON'S TOE. HE WALKED INTO THE MORGUE WITH HIS WIFE. 01:03:11.766 --> 01:03:14.257 HIS SON IMMEDIATELY SAT UP AND BEGAN TALKING TO HIM. 01:03:21.666 --> 01:03:32.077 SEE, I'M SAYING WE'VE GOTTA GROW IN OUR APPROACH. BECAUSE GOD 01:03:32.077 --> 01:03:36.666 ISN'T FAITHFUL JUST TO ANDREW WOMMACK. YOU KNOW, GOD WAS 01:03:36.666 --> 01:03:41.286 FAITHFUL TO DAVID BECAUSE DAVID SPENT TIME IN THE WILDERNESS AND 01:03:41.286 --> 01:03:44.887 HE SAW GOD DO SOMETHING AND HE DIDN'T JUST STOP WITH THE LION. 01:03:44.887 --> 01:03:48.007 HE MOVED ON TO THE BEAR. AND BY THE TIME HE GOT TO GOLIATH, HE'S 01:03:48.007 --> 01:03:51.666 LIKE, "I DON'T SEE ANY DIFFERENCE "BETWEEN YOU AND THE 01:03:51.666 --> 01:03:56.226 LION OR THE BEAR. "AND WHO ART THOU, THOU UNCIRCUMCISED 01:03:56.226 --> 01:03:58.867 PHILISTINE, "THAT YOU WOULD STAND AGAINST THE ARMIES OF THE 01:03:58.867 --> 01:04:02.376 LIVING GOD?" SEE, WHEN WE GET A REVELATION AND WE TAKE OUR 01:04:02.376 --> 01:04:10.206 EMOTION OUT OF IT, SOMETHING HAPPENS BECAUSE IT STIRS UP OUR 01:04:10.206 --> 01:04:14.916 FAITH. DON'T LET THE DEVIL SHORT CIRCUIT YOUR HARVEST BECAUSE HE 01:04:14.916 --> 01:04:16.746 CAME IN AND TRIED TO ATTACK. 01:04:17.766 --> 01:04:21.217 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:04:21.217 --> 01:04:23.856 AND YOU KNOW, SO THAT ONE, I JUST BEEN, I DON'T KNOW, I HEARD 01:04:23.856 --> 01:04:26.016 THAT STORY AND I WAS LIKE, OH MAN, LORD, YOU KNOW, THERE'S 01:04:26.016 --> 01:04:31.356 JUST TIMES THAT I WANNA SIT DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF MY, AND THAT 01:04:31.356 --> 01:04:34.146 DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE JUST GO AROUND AND WE'RE MACHINES AND WE 01:04:34.146 --> 01:04:40.117 DON'T FEEL NOTHING. WE DO. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JESUS WAS 01:04:40.117 --> 01:04:43.686 TEMPTED IN ALL MANNER LIKE AS WE ARE. HE HAD REAL EMOTIONS LIKE 01:04:43.686 --> 01:04:56.077 REAL MEN, REAL PEOPLE. SO BEFORE WE MAKE A DECISION, WE NEED TO 01:04:56.077 --> 01:05:00.126 GET A HOLD OF OUR EMOTIONS. BECAUSE AGAIN, THIS GENERATION 01:05:00.126 --> 01:05:02.916 WANTS EVERYBODY, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, TO MAKE A DECISION 01:05:02.916 --> 01:05:10.177 ABOUT, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA DO, I AM WHAT I FEEL LIKE I AM. AND 01:05:10.177 --> 01:05:14.496 PEOPLE ARE MAKING GRAVE MISTAKES CONCERNING THEIR BODIES OUT OF A 01:05:14.496 --> 01:05:18.246 FEELING. 'CAUSE NOBODY'S ABLE TO STAND UP AND TELL THEM THE 01:05:18.246 --> 01:05:19.987 TRUTH. AND SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T WANNA STAND UP AND TELL 01:05:19.987 --> 01:05:24.097 THEM THE TRUTH BECAUSE THEY'RE MORE AFRAID OF THEMSELVES BEING 01:05:24.097 --> 01:05:26.677 ACCUSED OR LOOKING BAD. AND SEE, THAT'S THE OTHER THING. WE HAVE 01:05:26.677 --> 01:05:31.867 GOT TO GET SO FAR OFF OF OUR PERCEIVED IDENTITY AND IF WE'RE 01:05:31.867 --> 01:05:38.916 GONNA LOOK STUPID. COME ON. YOU GOT IT. SO THAT WE CAN STEP INTO 01:05:38.916 --> 01:05:42.512 WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO BE AS THE BODY OF CHRIST. YOU KNOW, 01:05:42.512 --> 01:05:45.306 AND I DETERMINED ON THAT STAGE A LONG TIME AGO, 'CAUSE THERE'S 01:05:45.306 --> 01:05:48.126 TIME, I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, AND I LAUGH AT IT, I DON'T CARE. I 01:05:48.126 --> 01:05:50.077 KNOW I'M ANOINTED TO LEAD WORSHIP, SOMETIMES I DON'T KNOW 01:05:50.077 --> 01:05:54.367 WHY GOD CALLED ME TO LEAD WORSHIP, I HAVE NO CLUE, BUT YOU 01:05:54.367 --> 01:05:56.976 KNOW, I GET OUT THERE, I GET THE TIMING WRONG, AND EDDIE'S LIKE 01:05:56.976 --> 01:06:00.186 TRYING TO FIX ME, BRANDON'S PHRASE LIKE ONE, TWO, THREE, YOU 01:06:00.186 --> 01:06:02.436 KNOW, HE'S RIGHT THERE IN MY EAR. SEE, WE HAVE THOSE IN EARS 01:06:02.436 --> 01:06:08.007 SO THEY CAN SAY, "HEY, YOU'RE OFF." AND, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? 01:06:08.007 --> 01:06:12.157 I'M NOT EVEN EMBARRASSED BY THAT. I DON'T CARE. I DON'T. 01:06:14.407 --> 01:06:17.556 BECAUSE MY WORSHIP HAS GOTTA BE FOR AN AUDIENCE OF ONE. WHICH 01:06:19.106 --> 01:06:25.387 DIDN'T INCLUDE ANY OF YOU, NO OFFENSE. AND SO I GOT OVER THAT 01:06:25.387 --> 01:06:28.686 REAL QUICK. AND I KNOW SOMETHING HAPPENS WHEN I GET INTO THAT 01:06:28.686 --> 01:06:32.947 SPACE. AND THAT'S NOT ME. LIKE I CAN'T SIT THERE AND GO, I'M SO 01:06:32.947 --> 01:06:36.067 GOOD AT IT. I'M NOT. I'M LIKE ONE TIME, I'M LIKE, GOD, WHY DID 01:06:36.067 --> 01:06:42.389 YOU, I STINK AT THIS, WHY DID YOU CALL ME TO THIS? WELL, 01:06:42.389 --> 01:06:45.577 LISTEN, IF YOU NEVER FEEL LIKE YOU STINK AT SOMETHING, THEN YOU 01:06:45.577 --> 01:06:48.606 MIGHT NEED TO GROW A LITTLE BIT AT IT. IF YOU THINK YOU'RE ALL 01:06:48.606 --> 01:06:51.157 THAT AND A BAG OF CHIPS AND YOU'RE GOOD. MATTER OF FACT, I 01:06:51.157 --> 01:06:54.097 HAD, AND AGAIN, THERE'S NO HARM HERE, IT'S ALL LOVE. I HAD ONE 01:06:54.097 --> 01:06:57.007 PERSON THAT WAS ON OUR WORSHIP TEAM, AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE 01:06:57.007 --> 01:07:02.947 FORBEARANCE OF EDDIE AND BRANDON AND JUDY, THEY'RE JUST LIKE, 01:07:02.947 --> 01:07:07.117 "OH, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. "WE'LL GET THERE." AND THEY SAID, WITH 01:07:07.117 --> 01:07:11.347 MY TIMING, MY ISSUES, AND THEY'RE LIKE, "WELL, I'M 01:07:11.347 --> 01:07:15.204 QUALIFIED LIKE THIS, "AND I JUST," AND YOU BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. 01:07:15.204 --> 01:07:17.706 AND I WALKED, AND THAT MESSED WITH ME. OKAY, AGAIN, YOU GOTTA 01:07:17.706 --> 01:07:21.847 LEARN NOT TO LET PEOPLE DETERMINE YOUR DESTINY, AND I 01:07:21.847 --> 01:07:26.766 WANTED TO QUIT, 'CAUSE THEY QUIT, THEY TOLD ME THAT MY 01:07:26.766 --> 01:07:31.237 TIMING SUCKED, THEIR TIMING WAS PERFECT, WHICH I CAME TO FIND 01:07:31.237 --> 01:07:33.277 OUT LATER THAT IT WASN'T AS PERFECT AS WHAT I THOUGHT IT 01:07:33.277 --> 01:07:41.527 WAS, BECAUSE THEN I HAD AN AMAZING DRUMMER, AN AMAZING MD, 01:07:41.527 --> 01:07:46.507 AND I WAS LIKE, OH MAN, THEY CAN PLAY SOME OF THOSE WEIRD THINGS 01:07:46.507 --> 01:07:52.447 THAT I COME UP WITH. AND AGAIN, I'M NOT THROWING THAT PERSON 01:07:52.447 --> 01:07:55.507 UNDER THE BUS. I BELIEVE THEY GOT IT RIGHT. BUT AGAIN, THE 01:07:55.507 --> 01:07:58.278 DEVIL USED THEM TO GET IN MY HEAD AND I WANTED TO QUIT. AND 01:07:58.278 --> 01:08:00.786 YOU REMEMBER, HONEY, I WAS LIKE, THAT'S IT. I THREW THE COVERS 01:08:00.786 --> 01:08:03.516 OVER MY HEAD AND SAID, I'M DONE DOING THIS, I'LL SERVE THE LORD, 01:08:03.516 --> 01:08:07.987 BUT I AM NOT DOING PRAISE AND WORSHIP ANYMORE. SEND SOMEBODY 01:08:07.987 --> 01:08:13.657 ELSE. YOU GO, HONEY, YOU'RE ANOINTED. THANK GOD FOR A GOOD 01:08:13.657 --> 01:08:16.595 HUSBAND. IT'S LIKE, NO, YOU DON'T GET TO LIVE IN YOUR 01:08:16.595 --> 01:08:25.296 EMOTION. AND, YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T MEAN THIS, AND AGAIN, I'M 01:08:25.296 --> 01:08:28.207 NOT TALKING SMACK, BUT YOU KNOW THAT PERSON ISN'T DOING A LOT IN 01:08:28.207 --> 01:08:32.886 PRAISE AND WORSHIP TODAY. AND I'M NOT SITTING THERE, I'M NOT 01:08:32.886 --> 01:08:38.466 WISHING THAT ON THEM. BUT AGAIN, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT COMES 01:08:38.466 --> 01:08:43.777 DOWN TO THE THINGS THAT WE CHOOSE TO DO. SO DON'T LET YOUR 01:08:43.777 --> 01:08:50.497 EMOTIONS KEEP YOU OUT OF STUFF. AND THEN, AND HERE'S THE OTHER 01:08:50.497 --> 01:08:54.216 REASON WHY, AND I'M TALKING A LOT ABOUT EMOTIONS BECAUSE I 01:08:54.216 --> 01:08:59.287 REALIZE HOW MUCH THEY AFFECT OUR FAITH. YOU KNOW, AND WHEN I'M 01:08:59.287 --> 01:09:01.806 THINKING ABOUT THAT ANDREW WOMACK STORY, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU 01:09:01.806 --> 01:09:05.226 WAKE UP AND YOU'RE TIRED, SOMETIMES THAT IS THE WORST TIME 01:09:05.226 --> 01:09:10.296 TO TRY TO BE IN FAITH WHEN YOU'RE EXHAUSTED. AND THAT'S WHY 01:09:10.296 --> 01:09:14.345 SOMETIMES IT SAYS THAT IT COMES IN NIGHT TERRORS BECAUSE THE 01:09:14.345 --> 01:09:17.947 DEVIL KNOWS THAT WHEN WE'RE AT OUR WEAKEST, THAT'S WHERE HE'S 01:09:17.947 --> 01:09:24.487 TRYING TO GET US TO FALL DOWN. AND YOU KNOW, AND IF WE DON'T 01:09:24.487 --> 01:09:28.237 CONTROL OUR EMOTIONS, GUESS WHAT? IT AFFECTS OUR FAITH AND 01:09:28.237 --> 01:09:33.095 IT EVENTUALLY COMES OUT OF OUR MOUTH. AND THAT'S WHY PASTOR 01:09:33.095 --> 01:09:38.167 HANK WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BATTLE OF JERICHO, BECAUSE THE 01:09:39.936 --> 01:09:44.827 PEOPLE, OR THE GENERATION BEFORE THEM, ALL THEY COULD DO IS 01:09:44.827 --> 01:09:49.747 COMPLAIN, GET SCARED. THEY WERE THE MOST FEARFUL PEOPLE. EVERY 01:09:49.747 --> 01:09:52.117 TIME THAT THEY SAW PHARAOH'S ARMY AND THEIR HEARTS WERE, THEY 01:09:52.117 --> 01:09:57.877 WERE AFRAID. THEY DIDN'T HAVE WATER AND THEY'RE ANGRY. MOSES 01:09:57.877 --> 01:10:00.216 GOES UP ON THE MOUNTAIN AND THEY'RE SERVING A DIFFERENT GOD. 01:10:00.216 --> 01:10:03.367 THAT'S, SEE, THAT'S WHERE EMOTIONS GET YOU. SO THEY DIDN'T 01:10:03.367 --> 01:10:06.337 GET THEIR HARVEST BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T KEEP THEIR MOUTH RIGHT. 01:10:06.337 --> 01:10:09.186 THEY COULDN'T KEEP THEIR HEART RIGHT. THEY LET THEIR EMOTIONS 01:10:09.186 --> 01:10:13.386 BE THEIR SWAY AND THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T BE THOSE 01:10:13.386 --> 01:10:15.846 PEOPLE. AND YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING TOO. YOU KNOW, 01:10:15.846 --> 01:10:19.806 EMOTIONS, THEY'LL KEEP US IN UNFORGIVENESS AND BITTERNESS AND 01:10:19.806 --> 01:10:25.716 THEN IT'S GONNA UPROOT US FROM WALKING INTO OUR HARVEST. AND I 01:10:25.716 --> 01:10:30.662 REMEMBER A STORY WHERE MY HUSBAND AND I, WE HIRED THIS 01:10:30.662 --> 01:10:34.292 CARPET CLEANER AND WE HIRED THEM 'CAUSE THEY SAID, OH, WE'RE 01:10:34.292 --> 01:10:36.872 PRO-MILITARY, WE'RE ALL THIS, AND IT WAS A FLYER AND I DIDN'T 01:10:36.872 --> 01:10:39.332 CHECK 'EM OUT. I'M LIKE, OH MY GOSH, I WAS LED WITH MY 01:10:39.332 --> 01:10:43.773 EMOTIONS. I DIDN'T STOP TO ASK THE LORD, BY THE WAY. AND WE 01:10:43.773 --> 01:10:45.872 HIRED THEM, THEY CAME IN, THEY SAID, OH, WELL, YOU KNOW, PART 01:10:45.872 --> 01:10:51.813 OF IT, WE'LL CLEAN YOUR CAR FOR FREE. AND WE HAD A USED MERCEDES 01:10:51.813 --> 01:10:54.903 R350 BACK THEN, BASICALLY IT WAS KIND OF MERCEDES VERSION OF THE 01:10:54.903 --> 01:11:00.877 VAN. I SOLD A CAR, AND THEY CLEANED THE CARPETS. AND MY 01:11:00.877 --> 01:11:02.462 HUSBAND WENT OUT THERE, HE GOES, MAN, THOSE CARPETS ARE PRETTY 01:11:02.462 --> 01:11:05.372 WET. AND IT WAS A DRY CLEANING SERVICE, AND IT WAS A VERY WET 01:11:05.372 --> 01:11:10.443 DRY CLEANING SERVICE, I'LL JUST SAY THAT. AND HE GOES OUT TO 01:11:10.443 --> 01:11:15.962 START THE CAR THE NEXT DAY, AND IT DIDN'T START. AND THEN WE 01:11:15.962 --> 01:11:18.483 JUMPED IT, AND THEN THE HORNS ARE GOING OFF, ALL OF THIS 01:11:18.483 --> 01:11:23.493 STUFF, AND WE HAD TO TOW IT TO THE DEALER, BECAUSE AT THAT 01:11:23.493 --> 01:11:25.382 POINT IT WAS BAD ENOUGH, WE'RE LIKE, WE CAN'T JUST TAKE IT 01:11:25.382 --> 01:11:29.193 ANYWHERE, WE GOTTA FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON. AND THERE WAS 01:11:29.193 --> 01:11:35.853 AN INCH OF WATER IN ALL THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS. WARRANTY 01:11:35.853 --> 01:11:38.132 WOULDN'T COVER THAT, OUR INSURANCE WOULDN'T COVER IT 01:11:38.132 --> 01:11:41.342 BECAUSE WE LET THEM DO THE WORK. SO THE INSURANCE COMPANY SAID, 01:11:41.342 --> 01:11:44.733 NOPE, SORRY, YOU'RE OUT. THAT WAS A $4,000 BILL AND WE DIDN'T 01:11:44.733 --> 01:11:51.393 HAVE IT. AND WE TRIED CALLING THE GUY AND HE'S LIKE, OH NO, 01:11:51.393 --> 01:11:53.643 THOSE THINGS CAN HIT. AND HE JUST LIED RIGHT THROUGH HIS 01:11:53.643 --> 01:11:56.643 TEETH. I ACTUALLY CALLED DEB ABOUT THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU 01:11:56.643 --> 01:11:58.533 REMEMBER THIS, DEB. AND SHE LOOKED HIM UP AND SHE GOES, OH 01:11:58.533 --> 01:12:01.712 MY GOSH, PASTOR CHRISTY, HE'S GOT SO MANY BUSINESSES. I'M 01:12:01.712 --> 01:12:04.832 LIKE, AND HE KEEPS CHANGING THE NAME AND HE HAS ALL OF THESE, 01:12:04.832 --> 01:12:08.643 YOU KNOW, AND I WAS LIKE, OOH, THAT WAS A HARD LESSON TO LEARN. 01:12:08.643 --> 01:12:14.042 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT WE DID? I WAS MAD AT HIM. MY HUSBAND WAS MAD 01:12:14.042 --> 01:12:17.613 AT HIM. MATTER OF FACT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD SOME, HE STARTED 01:12:17.613 --> 01:12:20.733 YELLING AT US ON THE PHONE AND I'M NOT PROUD TO SAY WE WENT 01:12:20.733 --> 01:12:25.802 RIGHT BACK AT HIM. LISTEN, WE'RE HUMAN BEINGS, WE'RE NOT PERFECT 01:12:25.802 --> 01:12:31.203 ALL THE TIME. AND I THINK, HONEY, I THINK YOU EVEN THREW 01:12:31.203 --> 01:12:38.943 THE PHONE WHEN WE GOT OFF THE PHONE. WE WERE BIG MAD. AND THEN 01:12:38.943 --> 01:12:43.443 WE'RE LIKE, NO, YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD'S GONNA GET THIS. WE ENDED 01:12:43.443 --> 01:12:48.512 UP HAVING TO TAKE OUT A LOAN TO COVER THAT AND GO INTO DEBT TO 01:12:48.512 --> 01:12:52.292 COVER THAT. AND SO WE WERE LIKE, NO, WE'RE GONNA GET INTO PRAYER. 01:12:52.292 --> 01:12:56.283 FIRST OF ALL, GOD, WE FORGIVE THAT MAN. WE'RE NOT GONNA LET, 01:12:56.283 --> 01:12:58.893 OUGHT IN OUR HEART, I'M NOT GONNA GO BASH HIM ON THE, THAT 01:12:58.893 --> 01:13:03.903 YOU TAKE CARE OF THAT, BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE OUR DEFENSE. SO 01:13:03.903 --> 01:13:07.292 WE'RE GONNA, NUMBER ONE, WE'RE GONNA FORGIVE. NUMBER TWO, YOUR 01:13:07.292 --> 01:13:12.063 WORD SAYS THAT IF THE THIEF BE FOUND, HE'S GOTTA RESTORE 01:13:12.063 --> 01:13:20.222 SEVENFOLD. A YEAR LATER, AND WE PROPHESIED THAT, A YEAR LATER, 01:13:20.222 --> 01:13:26.313 SOMEBODY WROTE US AS A GIFT, SEVEN TIMES THE AMOUNT OF THAT 01:13:26.313 --> 01:13:27.407 $4,000. 01:13:29.103 --> 01:13:32.613 AND WE KNEW IMMEDIATELY THAT THAT WAS THE HARVEST THAT WE 01:13:32.613 --> 01:13:43.563 WERE WAITING ON BECAUSE IT WAS THE EXACT AMOUNT. SO, DON'T TELL 01:13:43.563 --> 01:13:49.443 ME HE'S NOT GONNA DO IT IF WE JUST CHOOSE TO NOT LIVE IN THE, 01:13:49.443 --> 01:13:57.542 YOU CAN'T BE ROBBED IF YOU DON'T LET YOURSELF BE ROBBED. YOU 01:13:57.542 --> 01:14:01.472 KNOW, IF SOMEBODY TRIES, I WOULD RATHER BE A SEED SOWER AND 01:14:01.472 --> 01:14:04.773 RELEASE IT AND LET GOD TAKE CARE OF IT THAN DO THINGS, THAT'S 01:14:04.773 --> 01:14:08.912 WHAT PASTOR BRENDA, SHE PREACHED ON SUNDAY TOO. I MEAN, SUNDAY 01:14:08.912 --> 01:14:10.780 WAS REALLY GOOD. IF YOU DIDN'T HEAR, YOU SHOULD GO BACK AND 01:14:10.780 --> 01:14:14.462 LISTEN TO SUNDAY 'CAUSE PASTOR BRENDA'S OFFERING MESSAGE, WHEN 01:14:14.462 --> 01:14:19.052 SHE SAID FROM PROVERBS CHAPTER THREE, VERSE FIVE AND SIX, THAT 01:14:19.052 --> 01:14:21.662 TRUST IN THE LORD WITH NOT JUST A LITTLE BIT OF YOUR HEART, ALL 01:14:21.662 --> 01:14:24.842 YOUR HEART, AND TO LEAN NOT TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING. SEE, 01:14:24.842 --> 01:14:30.483 THAT'S THE OTHER THING. SOMETIMES WE LEAN IN TO OUR WAY, 01:14:30.483 --> 01:14:32.672 ESPECIALLY WHEN WE THINK SOMETHING'S NOT HAPPENING. WE'RE 01:14:32.672 --> 01:14:35.103 LIKE, OKAY, WELL, I NEED TO UCH GOD ALONG, OR I NEED TO HELP 01:14:35.103 --> 01:14:42.332 HIM. AND THEN WE LEAN INTO OUR OWN UNDERSTANDING AND INSTEAD OF 01:14:43.443 --> 01:14:47.582 FORCING OURSELVES TO STAY LEANED IN TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF 01:14:47.582 --> 01:14:53.162 ALMIGHTY GOD. AND LEAN NOT TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING AND IN 01:14:53.162 --> 01:14:55.802 ALL YOUR WAYS ACKNOWLEDGE HIM. AND IT GOES ON FROM THERE. 01:14:55.802 --> 01:14:59.582 MATTER OF FACT, PASTOR MARK READ SOME OF THAT AGAIN TODAY. DO YOU 01:14:59.582 --> 01:15:02.222 KNOW WHEN WE STAY WITH ACKNOWLEDGING GOD, THE BIBLE 01:15:02.222 --> 01:15:09.962 SAYS THAT IT'S HEALTH TO OUR FLESH. SO, YOU KNOW, WE'VE JUST 01:15:09.962 --> 01:15:14.313 GOTTA BE A PEOPLE THAT WE'VE GOTTA FORCE OURSELVES TO DIG 01:15:14.313 --> 01:15:19.922 DEEPER. YOU KNOW, WE, A LOT, AND THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THERE 01:15:19.922 --> 01:15:24.273 ARE MANY THAT ARE SICK AND WEAK AMONG YOU. ONE, IT'S BECAUSE WE 01:15:24.273 --> 01:15:28.292 DON'T DISCERN THE BODY OF CHRIST. BUT TWO, SOMETIMES, HE 01:15:28.292 --> 01:15:30.542 ALSO SAID MY PEOPLE PERISH FOR A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, AND IT'S 01:15:30.542 --> 01:15:33.483 SOMETIMES BECAUSE WE'RE CHOOSING OUR OWN KNOWLEDGE, AND THEN 01:15:33.483 --> 01:15:36.813 WE'RE WONDERING WHY WE ONLY GET THE LITTLE HARVEST, AND WE'RE 01:15:36.813 --> 01:15:41.283 NOT GETTING THE BIG HARVEST. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, LIKE PASTOR 01:15:41.283 --> 01:15:44.283 SHANE WAS SINGING TONIGHT, I FORGET HOW IT WENT, BUT 01:15:44.283 --> 01:15:48.302 BASICALLY, THERE'S NOTHING THAT'S TOO HARD FOR GOD. TURN 01:15:48.302 --> 01:15:54.243 OVER IN YOUR BIBLES TO EPHESIANS CHAPTER SIX. AND LET'S GO TO 01:15:54.243 --> 01:15:56.523 VERSE 10, AND IT SAYS, "FINALLY, MY BRETHREN," YOU KNOW THIS 01:15:56.523 --> 01:16:01.832 SCRIPTURE, "BE STRONG IN," WHO? THE LORD. IN THE LORD. YOU KNOW, 01:16:01.832 --> 01:16:06.512 WE CAN'T BE DOING THINGS IN OUR OWN STRENGTH AND IN THE POWER OF 01:16:06.512 --> 01:16:11.103 HIS MIGHT. YOU KNOW, MY STRENGTH IS GONNA FAIL ME, BUT GOD'S 01:16:11.103 --> 01:16:13.863 STRENGTH, THE BIBLE SAYS, "THE RIGHT HAND OF THE LORD DOES 01:16:13.863 --> 01:16:17.432 VALIANTLY." SO BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN THE POWER OF HIS 01:16:17.432 --> 01:16:19.563 MIGHT. LET'S GO TO THE NEXT VERSE, AND IT SAYS, "PUT ON THE 01:16:19.563 --> 01:16:22.922 WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD "THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO STAND "AGAINST THE 01:16:22.922 --> 01:16:27.363 WILES OF THE DEVIL." AND IT SAYS, "FOR WE WRESTLE NOT 01:16:27.363 --> 01:16:29.943 AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, "BUT AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES, AGAINST 01:16:29.943 --> 01:16:33.063 POWERS, "AGAINST RULERS OF DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD, "AGAINST 01:16:33.063 --> 01:16:37.023 SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. "WHEREFORE, TAKE UNTO 01:16:37.023 --> 01:16:40.893 YOU THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD "THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND IN 01:16:40.893 --> 01:16:44.972 THE EVIL DAY, "HAVING DONE ALL TO STAND." THEN HE GOES ON TO 01:16:44.972 --> 01:16:47.103 SAY THAT IN THE NEXT VERSE, AND I DIDN'T TELL YOU GUYS TO PULL 01:16:47.103 --> 01:16:50.372 THIS ONE UP, BUT THE NEXT ONE SAYS, HAVING DONE ALL TO STAND, 01:16:50.372 --> 01:16:55.983 STAND. AND SEE, THAT'S THE THING, WE'VE GOT TO GET THE 01:16:55.983 --> 01:17:00.603 SPIRIT OF QUIT OFF OF US. WE'VE GOT TO GET THE SPIRIT OF OUR 01:17:00.603 --> 01:17:05.372 CIRCUMSTANCES OFF OF US. WE'VE GOTTA GET THE SPIRIT OF OUR 01:17:05.372 --> 01:17:09.063 EMOTIONS OFF OF US. WE'VE GOT TO BE A PEOPLE THAT WE'RE LIKE, NO, 01:17:09.063 --> 01:17:12.693 GOD, I'M GONNA KEEP SEEKING YOU, I'M GONNA KEEP PRESSING IN, I'M 01:17:12.693 --> 01:17:15.302 NOT GONNA LET GO OF YOU, I'M GONNA BE LIKE JACOB, I'M NOT 01:17:15.302 --> 01:17:18.693 LETTING GO UNTIL YOU BLESS ME. I'M GONNA STAND STRONG IN THIS 01:17:18.693 --> 01:17:24.153 AND I'M GONNA KICK MY EMOTIONS TO THE SIDE. HOW COULD JOB GO 01:17:24.153 --> 01:17:30.573 THROUGH WHAT HE WENT THROUGH AND NEVER ONCE SAY A WORD AGAINST 01:17:30.573 --> 01:17:35.703 THE LORD? THAT'S WHERE I THINK, YOU KNOW, I SAY WE'VE JUST, 01:17:35.703 --> 01:17:38.672 WE'VE GOTTA GROW. WE'VE GOTTA TRAIN OURSELVES TO BE PEOPLE OF 01:17:38.672 --> 01:17:42.273 THE SPIRIT. TURN OVER TO GALATIANS CHAPTER SIX AND LET'S 01:17:42.273 --> 01:17:46.382 GO TO VERSE SEVEN AND IT SAYS, "DO NOT BE DECEIVED, GOD IS NOT 01:17:46.382 --> 01:17:52.953 MOCKED." SO IN OTHER WORDS, GOD IS NOT GONNA BE MADE A FOOL OF. 01:17:52.953 --> 01:18:00.332 "FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWS, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP." YOU KNOW, 01:18:00.332 --> 01:18:04.922 IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR SPOUSE OR 01:18:04.922 --> 01:18:11.792 IN YOUR HOME OR WITH YOUR KIDS, ARE YOU SOWING IN KINDNESS? ARE 01:18:11.792 --> 01:18:20.252 YOU SOWING IN PEACE? OR ARE YOU SOWING IN ANGER? WHATSOEVER A 01:18:20.252 --> 01:18:22.622 MAN SOWS, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP. LET'S GO TO THE NEXT VERSE 01:18:22.622 --> 01:18:26.943 AND IT SAYS, FOR HE THAT SOWS TO THE FLESH SHALL OF THE FLESH 01:18:26.943 --> 01:18:30.453 REAP CORRUPTION, BUT HE THAT SOWS TO THE SPIRIT SHALL OF THE 01:18:30.453 --> 01:18:34.592 SPIRIT REAP EVERLASTING LIFE. LET'S GO TO VERSE NINE, AND IT 01:18:34.592 --> 01:18:37.953 SAYS, "AND LET US NOT BE WEARY IN WELL-DOING, "FOR IN DUE 01:18:37.953 --> 01:18:44.103 SEASON WE SHALL REAP IF WE," WHAT? FAINT NOT. AND AGAIN, 01:18:44.103 --> 01:18:48.363 GOING BACK TO OUR SCRIPTURE OF THE NIGHT, IT SAYS THAT IF WE 01:18:48.363 --> 01:18:50.972 FAINT IN THE DAY OF ADVERSITY, OUR STRENGTH IS SMALL. YOU KNOW, 01:18:50.972 --> 01:18:53.493 WE'VE GOTTA STAY IN THERE, AND JUST BECAUSE WE DON'T SEE IT 01:18:53.493 --> 01:18:57.722 CHANGING RIGHT AWAY, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE STOP. AND 01:18:57.722 --> 01:19:00.752 NOW, THERE'S TIMES THAT I'VE GONE TO THE LORD ABOUT CERTAIN 01:19:00.752 --> 01:19:03.542 THINGS AND SAID, "NOW GOD, IS THERE SOMETHING "THAT I NEED TO 01:19:03.542 --> 01:19:10.052 CORRECT IN ME "BECAUSE I'M NOT SEEING THE HARVEST?" AND GOD 01:19:10.052 --> 01:19:13.233 WILL TALK TO YOU ABOUT STUFF LIKE THAT, AND HE WILL SHOW YOU, 01:19:13.233 --> 01:19:18.212 BECAUSE HE'S SUCH A GOOD FATHER. IT'S KIND OF LIKE IF YOUR KIDS 01:19:18.212 --> 01:19:20.613 ARE DOING, POOR AT SOMETHING, YOU DON'T JUST SIT THERE AND GO, 01:19:20.613 --> 01:19:25.353 KEEP GOING, YOU KNOW. YOU DO SIT DOWN AND HELP, TRY TO ENLIGHTEN 01:19:25.353 --> 01:19:30.932 THEIR EYES. SO HERE'S THE THING, WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE STORMS ARE 01:19:30.932 --> 01:19:37.472 COMING TO TAKE OUR HARVEST, WE'VE GOTTA LEARN HOW TO REACT 01:19:37.472 --> 01:19:44.162 IN THE SPIRIT, NOT IN THE FLESH. SO LET'S GO OVER TO JUDE CHAPTER 01:19:44.162 --> 01:19:47.313 ONE, VERSE 20, AND I'M GONNA GET DONE 'CAUSE WE'RE GETTING OUT OF 01:19:47.313 --> 01:19:50.760 HERE BY, WE'RE NOT GOING A MINUTE PAST 8:30, IN THE NAME OF 01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:57.063 JESUS. THEY SAID, BUT YOU BELOVED, BUILDING YOURSELF UP IN 01:19:57.063 --> 01:20:00.512 YOUR MOST, BY THE WAY, IT SAYS HOLY FAITH. YOU KNOW, FAITH IS A 01:20:00.512 --> 01:20:04.682 HOLY THING. PRAYING IN THE HOLY GHOST. SOMETIMES WHEN WE'RE IN 01:20:04.682 --> 01:20:07.323 THE MIDDLE OF A SITUATION, WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO PRAY, THAT'S 01:20:07.323 --> 01:20:09.393 WHERE WE JUST GET OVER IN THE SPIRIT AND WE JUST START 01:20:09.393 --> 01:20:18.932 PRAYING. AND YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IF WE'RE NOT RECEIVING THE 01:20:18.932 --> 01:20:23.792 HARVEST TOO, JUST REMEMBER, IT'S NEVER ON GOD'S SIDE. AND SO WHEN 01:20:23.792 --> 01:20:27.243 WE PRAY IN THE HOLY GHOST, THAT ONE ALLOWS THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO 01:20:27.243 --> 01:20:31.023 COME IN AND CORRECT US, AND THAT'S HELPFUL. AND THEN, YOU 01:20:31.023 --> 01:20:33.783 KNOW, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? IF YOU'RE A HABITUAL SOWER, 01:20:35.448 --> 01:20:38.387 SOMETIMES YOU'RE GONNA FIND THAT YOU'RE REAPING HARVEST THAT YOU 01:20:38.387 --> 01:20:42.408 DIDN'T EVEN EXPECT. YOU'RE LIKE, OH MAN, WHERE DID THAT COME 01:20:42.408 --> 01:20:45.649 FROM? 'CAUSE YOU'RE SO JUST SOWING SEEDS THAT YOU DIDN'T 01:20:45.649 --> 01:20:55.188 EVEN REALIZE THAT A HARVEST CAME AND YOU RECEIVED IT. BECAUSE 01:20:55.188 --> 01:20:58.247 AGAIN, THE BIBLE TELLS US THE BLESSING OF GOD IS GONNA CHASE 01:20:58.247 --> 01:21:00.887 US DOWN. AND I WANNA BE A PERSON THAT WALKS IN THE HARVEST OF 01:21:00.887 --> 01:21:03.347 GOD. THAT DOESN'T MEAN, AND THE BLESSING OF GOD, THAT DOESN'T 01:21:03.347 --> 01:21:07.518 MEAN THAT, AGAIN, STORMS AREN'T GONNA COME. BUT WE'VE GOT TO 01:21:07.518 --> 01:21:10.247 LEARN TO SPEAK TO THE STORM. WE'VE GOT TO LEARN TO POSSESS 01:21:10.247 --> 01:21:15.467 OURSELVES. WE'VE GOT TO LEARN TO KEEP PLOWING. EVEN, WE CAN'T BE 01:21:15.467 --> 01:21:18.978 LIKE THE SLUGGER WHERE WE QUIT PLOWING BECAUSE OUR SITUATION 01:21:18.978 --> 01:21:23.927 SEEMS TOO HARD. YOU KNOW, IF YOU PICK UP YOUR BOWL AND GO HOME 01:21:23.927 --> 01:21:26.118 EVERY TIME YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM, YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT GONNA 01:21:26.118 --> 01:21:33.588 SUCCEED VERY FAR IN LIFE. AND YOU KNOW, AND I'VE SEEN, I'VE 01:21:33.588 --> 01:21:37.759 BEEN AROUND THE BLOCK A LITTLE BIT. AND MY HUSBAND USED TO 01:21:37.759 --> 01:21:42.078 MANAGE A CALL CENTER BACK IN THE DAY BEFORE HE STARTED WORKING AT 01:21:42.078 --> 01:21:45.707 LORD OF HOSTS. AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THOSE PEOPLE, HE 01:21:45.707 --> 01:21:47.899 SAID YOU COULDN'T TELL THEM ANYTHING, YOU COULDN'T TEACH 01:21:47.899 --> 01:21:50.298 THEM ANYTHING, AND SO THEY WERE IN THE SAME GRIND ALL THE TIME, 01:21:50.298 --> 01:21:53.118 ALL THE TIME, BECAUSE THEY COULD NEVER GET THEMSELVES TO A PLACE 01:21:53.118 --> 01:21:55.938 OF EXCELLENCE TO LEARN. THEY ALWAYS FELT LIKE THEY WERE OWED 01:21:55.938 --> 01:22:01.069 SOMETHING INSTEAD OF BEING WILLING TO LEARN SOMETHING. SO, 01:22:01.069 --> 01:22:04.518 YOU KNOW, IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE OWED SOMETHING INSTEAD OF 01:22:04.518 --> 01:22:07.279 LEARNING SOMETHING, THEN YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS ARE GONNA 01:22:07.279 --> 01:22:13.819 SABOTAGE A HARVEST. AND SO I THINK IN ALL OF THIS, THAT YOU 01:22:13.819 --> 01:22:18.948 KNOW, WHAT GOD IS TEACHING ME IS THAT WE'VE GOTTA TEND OUR FIELD. 01:22:18.948 --> 01:22:23.298 WE'VE GOTTA TEND, WE CAN'T LET THE ENEMY COME IN AND DESTROY 01:22:23.298 --> 01:22:29.448 OUR GROUND BECAUSE WE'RE SITTING THERE LIVING OUTSIDE OF FAITH, 01:22:29.448 --> 01:22:31.548 OUTSIDE THE WORD OF GOD. IF WE'RE NOT PUTTING THE WORD OF 01:22:31.548 --> 01:22:33.649 GOD IN THERE, THEN WE'RE NOT GONNA KNOW HOW TO REACT WHEN THE 01:22:33.649 --> 01:22:36.978 STORMS OF LIFE COME, WHERE WE JUST SIT THERE AND DO NOTHING 01:22:36.978 --> 01:22:39.978 AND JUST, OR JUST BE LIKE, KESARASRA, OKAY, YES, GOD'S GOT 01:22:39.978 --> 01:22:44.057 IT, BUT WE'RE NOT WORKING ANYTHING IN THE SPIRIT. IF 01:22:44.057 --> 01:22:47.118 YOU'RE CARELESS ABOUT IT, YOU MIGHT NOT GET A HARVEST. IF 01:22:47.118 --> 01:22:49.878 YOU'RE EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT, YOU MIGHT NOT GET A HARVEST. IF 01:22:49.878 --> 01:22:52.128 YOU'RE NOT SOWING, YOU MIGHT NOT GET A HARVEST. WELL, YOU WON'T 01:22:52.128 --> 01:22:58.307 GET A HARVEST. BACK IN THE DAY, WILLIAM MCDOWELL SANG A PHRASE 01:22:58.307 --> 01:23:02.927 THAT SAID, ♪ RAIN ONLY MATTERS TO THOSE WHO HAVE SEED IN THE 01:23:02.927 --> 01:23:06.228 GROUND ♪ YOU CAN BE PRAYING FOR AN OPEN HEAVEN, BUT IF YOU DON'T 01:23:06.228 --> 01:23:09.408 HAVE SEED IN THE GROUND, THEN THAT OPEN HEAVEN MIGHT BE 01:23:09.408 --> 01:23:15.347 HITTING YOUR NEIGHBOR AND NOT YOU. AND I DON'T WANT MY 01:23:15.347 --> 01:23:18.497 NEIGHBOR'S CROP. I WANT MY OWN CROP THAT I WORKED FOR THAT I 01:23:18.497 --> 01:23:22.217 CAN SAY GOD BLESSED ME WITH BECAUSE I WAS DILIGENT AND I WAS 01:23:22.217 --> 01:23:25.878 FAITHFUL. THAT'S WHY ABRAHAM COULD SAY, DON'T LET SOMEBODY 01:23:25.878 --> 01:23:33.467 SAY THAT THEY MADE ABRAHAM RICH BECAUSE HE WANTED THE BLESSING 01:23:33.467 --> 01:23:35.807 OF GOD. YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING. YOU KNOW, THERE'S 01:23:35.807 --> 01:23:42.287 NOT A SHORTCUT TO YOUR HARVEST. SOMETIMES IT'S GONNA BE A THING 01:23:42.287 --> 01:23:47.387 THAT YOU HAVE TO WORK AT. THAT'S WHY IT SAYS STAND, AND GO AHEAD 01:23:47.387 --> 01:23:51.497 AND STAND WHEN YOU'RE DONE STANDING, KEEP STANDING. YOU 01:23:51.497 --> 01:23:54.649 KNOW, AND THOSE THINGS AREN'T TO MAKE YOU GO, OH, WELL, GOD'S 01:23:54.649 --> 01:23:59.118 HARSH, HE'S NOT HARSH. IT'S JUST THAT IF WE LIVE LIKE ALL OF THE 01:23:59.118 --> 01:24:05.779 PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT ARE TOSSED WITH EVERYTHING THAT COMES OUT 01:24:05.779 --> 01:24:10.069 ON THE NEWS, TOSSED AROUND WITH THE ECONOMY, TOSSED AROUND WITH, 01:24:11.747 --> 01:24:17.359 WELL, I CAN'T TITHE BECAUSE THE GROCERY PRICES ARE TOO HIGH, I 01:24:17.359 --> 01:24:20.779 CAN'T DO THIS. AND IF WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF I CAN'T, THEN WE'RE 01:24:20.779 --> 01:24:25.787 NEVER GONNA SEE THE TRUE HARVEST THAT GOD IS TRYING TO POUR OUT 01:24:25.787 --> 01:24:31.997 ON HIS CHURCH. AND HERE'S THE THING, I BELIEVE, AND I KNOW 01:24:31.997 --> 01:24:34.399 THAT WE'RE GETTING READY TO HIT THE GREATEST DAYS THAT THE 01:24:34.399 --> 01:24:39.347 CHURCH HAS EVER SEEN. THAT WE'RE GETTING READY TO SEE AN 01:24:39.347 --> 01:24:41.927 OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND I DON'T WANT IT TO PASS ME 01:24:41.927 --> 01:24:45.048 BY BECAUSE I'M SITTING GOING AROUND THE SAME MOUNTAIN OVER 01:24:45.048 --> 01:24:50.838 AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, AND I'M NOT LEARNING ANYTHING. YOU KNOW, 01:24:50.838 --> 01:24:57.018 WE HAVE GOT TO DO WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO, AND WE'VE GOT 01:24:57.018 --> 01:25:02.868 TO DO IT BY FAITH. NOW, AGAIN, SO WHAT DO WE DO IF BAD TIDINGS 01:25:02.868 --> 01:25:07.518 COME? WE'VE GOTTA GO INQUIRE OF THE LORD. OUR FIRST STOP NEEDS 01:25:07.518 --> 01:25:17.268 TO BE GOD AND NOT, OH, THIS THING WAS BAD, YOU KNOW? AND OUR 01:25:17.268 --> 01:25:21.168 FIRST STOP WHEN, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S THE THING, MAYBE THERE'S 01:25:21.168 --> 01:25:27.557 STRIFE HAPPENING IN YOUR FAMILY. WELL, YOUR FIRST STOP NEEDS TO 01:25:27.557 --> 01:25:34.457 BE YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER. YOU KNOW, AND IT'S FUNNY. I MEAN, 01:25:34.457 --> 01:25:38.268 YOU KNOW, MY HUSBAND AND I, NOT THAT WE EVER HAVE FOUGHT. OKAY, 01:25:38.268 --> 01:25:44.478 NO, WE HAVE. BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY TO ME. EVERY TIME, LIKE, 01:25:44.478 --> 01:25:46.728 WE GET IN A LITTLE TIFF AND WE'RE IN SEPARATE ROOMS 'CAUSE 01:25:46.728 --> 01:25:52.158 WE'RE MAD. YOU GUYS CAN STAND TO YOUR FEET. GOD NEVER SITS DOWN 01:25:52.158 --> 01:25:55.668 AND TALKS TO ME ABOUT WHAT HE DID WRONG. NEVER, NOT ONCE. IT'S 01:25:55.668 --> 01:25:59.597 NEVER HAPPENED IN ALL MY YEARS. MATTER OF FACT, HE'S NEVER EVEN 01:25:59.597 --> 01:26:01.997 DONE IT ABOUT ANY OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS. HE ONLY EVER TALKS TO 01:26:01.997 --> 01:26:06.319 ME ABOUT WHAT I NEED TO DO. AND SOMETIMES I'VE SAT THERE, I'M 01:26:06.319 --> 01:26:07.880 LIKE, GOD, THAT'S A LITTLE UNFAIR, DON'T YOU THINK? 01:26:07.880 --> 01:26:11.688 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:26:11.688 --> 01:26:14.988 BUT AGAIN, MY PEACE CAN'T LIVE IN SOMEBODY ELSE, MY HARVEST 01:26:14.988 --> 01:26:18.168 CAN'T LIVE IN SOMEBODY ELSE. AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING, HUSBANDS 01:26:18.168 --> 01:26:22.037 AND WIVES, IF YOU ARE HAVING STRIFE IN YOUR HOME, GRAB HANDS 01:26:22.037 --> 01:26:24.887 AND BE PEOPLE OF PRAYER. I KNOW SOMETIMES YOU'RE NOT GONNA FEEL 01:26:24.887 --> 01:26:28.037 LIKE IT. THERE MIGHT BE TIMES YOU'RE GONNA LIKE, I DON'T WANNA 01:26:28.037 --> 01:26:32.717 PRAY RIGHT NOW. I DON'T EVEN SAY SORRY, 'CAUSE I'M NOT READY TO 01:26:32.717 --> 01:26:33.378 BE SORRY YET. 01:26:33.378 --> 01:26:38.509 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:26:38.509 --> 01:26:41.418 BUT WHEN WE'RE LIKE, HEY, WAIT A MINUTE, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GONNA 01:26:41.418 --> 01:26:45.109 BE A PERSON OF THE SPIRIT BECAUSE GOD ASKED ME TO, NOT 01:26:45.109 --> 01:26:49.997 'CAUSE I FELT LIKE IT. BECAUSE STRIFE IS GONNA UPEND MY HARVEST 01:26:49.997 --> 01:26:54.497 TOO, AND I DON'T WANT THAT. I DON'T WANT STRIFE FOR MY 01:26:54.497 --> 01:27:02.387 CHILDREN. I DON'T WANT TO GIVE THE DEVIL AN INCH. AND HERE'S 01:27:02.387 --> 01:27:05.628 THE THING, IF YOU DID, THEN UNDO IT. SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, I TAKE 01:27:05.628 --> 01:27:10.399 IT BACK, GET OUT OF HERE. I MIGHT HAVE LET YOU IN WITH MY 01:27:10.399 --> 01:27:15.039 WORDS RIGHT THERE, BUT I'M TAKING THE KEY BACK, GET OUT. 01:27:17.359 --> 01:27:22.637 YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, YOU CAN UNDO BAD HARVEST, BUT YOU GOTTA 01:27:22.637 --> 01:27:28.609 STAY WITH IT. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN UNDO THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, 01:27:28.609 --> 01:27:35.328 CONSEQUENCES YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR, BUT YOU GOTTA STAY WITH IT. SO 01:27:35.328 --> 01:27:37.188 WAS THAT A HELP FOR ANYBODY TONIGHT? 01:27:37.188 --> 01:27:39.018 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:27:39.018 --> 01:27:41.597 I DIDN'T MEAN TO SOUND SERIOUS, IT'S JUST, IT'S SORT OF JUST HOW 01:27:41.597 --> 01:27:43.908 IT KINDA CAME OUT, BUT THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN 01:27:43.908 --> 01:27:46.878 ON ME. I'M LIKE GOD, YOU KNOW, AND IF YOU THINK I'M PREACHING 01:27:46.878 --> 01:27:52.037 THAT AT ANY ONE OF YOU, I'M NOT, I'M PREACHING THAT TO ME. I'M 01:27:52.037 --> 01:27:59.088 LIKE, MAN, I WANT CHRISTY TO BE A PERSON OF THE SPIRIT. I WANNA 01:27:59.088 --> 01:28:03.137 LEAD BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, NOT JUST BECAUSE OF HOW I FEEL, AND 01:28:03.137 --> 01:28:08.927 NOT JUST 'CAUSE I GOT MAD. AND I DON'T EVEN WANT TO LET SOMEBODY 01:28:08.927 --> 01:28:14.177 OFFEND ME. AGAIN, THAT'S A THEM PROBLEM. I'VE GOTTA BE CONCERNED 01:28:14.177 --> 01:28:18.048 ABOUT THE ME PROBLEM BECAUSE I WANT THE HAND OF GOD ON MY LIFE 01:28:18.048 --> 01:28:19.997 BECAUSE WHEN THE HAND OF GOD IS ON MY LIFE, THAT'S WHEN I'M 01:28:19.997 --> 01:28:22.188 WALKING IN THE HARVEST OF GOD. THAT'S WHEN I'M WALKING IN THE 01:28:22.188 --> 01:28:27.319 BLESSING OF GOD. 'CAUSE IT SAYS THAT HE THAT DWELLS IN THE 01:28:27.319 --> 01:28:29.899 SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF 01:28:29.899 --> 01:28:33.702 THE ALMIGHTY AND THAT I WILL SAY OF THE LORD, HE IS MY REFUGE AND 01:28:33.702 --> 01:28:38.478 MY FORTRESS, MY GOD, IN HIM WILL I TRUST. SURELY HE SHALL DELIVER 01:28:38.478 --> 01:28:41.717 ME FROM THE SNARE OF THE FOWLER. IN OTHER WORDS, SURELY HE'S 01:28:41.717 --> 01:28:48.048 GONNA DELIVER ME FROM THE TRAP OF THE ENEMY. AMEN. AMEN. AMEN, 01:28:48.048 --> 01:28:50.537 WELL, STRETCH YOUR HANDS TO THE LORD. FATHER, WE BLESS YOU 01:28:50.537 --> 01:28:55.097 TONIGHT. WE THANK YOU. YOU ARE A GOOD, YOU'RE NOT JUST A GOOD 01:28:55.097 --> 01:28:58.097 FATHER, YOU ARE A GOOD, GOOD FATHER, AND WE HONOR YOU. GOD, 01:28:58.097 --> 01:29:02.509 WE KNOW THERE IS NOTHING TOO HARD FOR YOU, AND FATHER, I PRAY 01:29:02.509 --> 01:29:06.588 THAT FOR EVERY ONE OF US HERE, INCLUDING MYSELF AND OUR FAMILY, 01:29:06.588 --> 01:29:10.399 THAT FATHER, WE WOULD BE A PEOPLE THAT SET OUR FACE TO SEEK 01:29:10.399 --> 01:29:16.787 YOUR FACE, TO SEEK YOUR KINGDOM, TO SEEK YOUR WAY, AND TO NOT BE 01:29:16.787 --> 01:29:19.637 MOVED BY ALL THE THINGS THAT WE SEE, BUT WE'RE MOVED BECAUSE 01:29:19.637 --> 01:29:22.938 WE'RE MOVED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD. WE LOVE YOU, LORD. YOU ARE 01:29:22.938 --> 01:29:27.198 SO GOOD. IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME, AMEN, AMEN. ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY 01:29:27.198 --> 01:29:30.048 HAVE A GOOD NIGHT, AND WE WILL SEE YOU BACK HERE ON SUNDAY.