There's Something Running Through My Head - Bro Jeremy Howell 5-28-2023

Bibles with you, or if there's one nearby and the book right on the

backside of the pew, please take it. Let's turn to Acts, chapter

number seven. Man, direct your attention to verse number twenty three. How

many of y'all enjoyed the youth service this past Friday night? Wasn't it wonderful?

Wherever and Ethan Road Calf preachs the mind of the Lord to us,

and Brother Nathaniel Howell, Reverend Nathaniel Howell preach the word of the Lord to

us, they would own target. I love it when you hear the arrow

hit the bulls eye, the thuds and the end of that arrow just shakes

and vibrates it hit its target. I'm so thankful that they spent adequate time

in prayer and obeying the Lord, if that meant changing it up a little

bit and obeying him in order to deliver the right message. I appreciate that

it was so good old target words that were fifty spoken as apples of gold

and picture of silver. Brother Nathaniel is he opened the morning worship service,

he mentioned a summer out. This is a holiday weekend. How many of

you know that some of you are excited about it because you get a day

off. Mondyday is a day off for some of y'all. For Brother Samuel,

brother Philip, it is not a day off. Day will be working,

but some others may be working, but some of you will be celebrating

what holiday, Memorial Day? Don't forget to remember. I'll forget to remember.

Four or five years ago, Brother Justin preached a message titled that what

a great message it was. How many of you appreciate everything that has been

done for this country, all the blood, sweat and tears, all the

sacrifices that have been made in order for us to enjoy the things that we

enjoy on a daily basis. How many of you appreciate all the sacrifices that

were done here at eleven fifty three Cornelia Drive for us to be here.

Enjoy the blessings of the Lord this morning. All of our four fathers and

four runners. I appreciate them so much that I want to honor them this

morning. If you have found the seventh chapter of the Book of Acts,

and you are looking upon the twenty third of verse, say amen. If

you're not, say oh me, I'm glad to hear crickets preach brother Nathaniel.

Would you turn to First Samuel, chapter number ten. You'll be reading

verse number nine of that chapter. Brother Jesse Philippians, chapter number two and

verse number thirteen. It is good to see brother Buford Stags here this morning.

I'm so thankful that he is subject unto his father, Brother Max Stags,

and until he's eighteen. He says that he's on his own and that's

up to him. But I'm so thankful that he is an obedient son to

his father, brother Mack. And he'll be head at home here in just

a little while, but we're glad he's with us here this morning. Also,

Happy birthday to brother Philip terms twenty. Today. Our baby boy is

no longer a baby. He's out of the teens and he's twenty, so

we want to wish him a happy birthday. Sister Whoop had a birthday,

Brother Ethan had a birthday. Many of you have had a birthday. The

month of May is filled up. You would be surprised how many people I

know that have had birthdays in the month of May. Man just from moment,

my mother, well, brother sister Hannah's is on the fourteenth, My

mother's is on the twenty first, and my cousin Jennifer's is on the twenty

third. Somebody's was on the twenty fifth. I cannot remember that. My

brother James is on the twenty seventh, brother Phillips is on the twenty eighth,

My brother Josephs was on the twenty ninth. My birthday is on the

fourth of June, and my mom and dad's anniversaries on the seventh of June.

This is a busy time of the year for us, and this is

when the bank account takes a death, kind of like the stock market.

You're buying gifts. But happy birthday to all of you that are celebrating birthdays,

wedding anniversaries. Anybody having a wedding anniversary this month? Raise your hand?

Anybody they're appointed? Somebody brother Christian's sister Lauren, this will be your

first wedding anniversary. Correct? What day today? That's right, they got

married and brother Phillips birthday, so one year ago. It was my pleasure

to unite these two and holy matrimony, isn't That's something? Happy wedding anniversary

to YouTube. Does anybody have a spiritual anniversary in this month? Did anybody

get saved. There's something exciting about this month. Most of the time we

celebrate our homecoming. When God put it in my heart to work here for

him was right here on this particular Sunday of the month of May. We

were celebrating our homecoming most of the time on Brother Phillip's birthday. He never

complained about that, but we were for the last two years. I moved

it from his birthday to my birthday just so he couldn't say that. So

we will be celebrating homecoming next Sunday, aren't you're excited about that? Our

good brethren will be preaching for us and helping us. They will be coming

in sometime next weekend. I'm excited about homecoming. Can I be carnal with

you? I'm excited about dinner on the grounds, I really am. And

I'm excited about the menu that will be served in the House of God.

I believe we're going to eat very well. Brother Nathaniel first Samuel, chapter

number ten, in verse number nine. And it was so that when he

had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart,

and all those signs came to pass that day. How many of us know

we need God to give us another heart? Do you believe that I do,

Brother Jesse, Philippians, chapter number two and verse number thirteen. For

it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his

good pleasure. How many will allow God to do that very thing to change

your heart? I know you're saved, sanctified, holy ghost feel but how

many of you will allow God to work and change in your life according to

his will. If you will allow Him to work in your life according to

his will, all things will work out. They will work together for your

good. And if you need a change of heart, you can get that.

This morning, I feel it in my soul. Let's stand for the

reading of our text, Acts, a very exciting book of the Bible.

Acts, chapter number seven in verse number twenty three, and the Bible said,

and when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart

to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. If you are a note

taker or somebody that likes to lying in your Bible, what stood out to

me from this chapter is it came into his heart double underlying. It came

into his heart single outline underlying, to visit his brethren and it came into

his heart. May we pray, Heavenly Father, we love it. We

praise you, We thank you for the opportunity to be in your house.

We pray that you would anoint this thy servant, set a god at my

mouth, and help me to say only the things that you would have me

to say. Anoint the ears of this thy people, that they might hear

what the spirit saith unto this Church Lord, through the preach word of God,

through this blessed book, through this thy servant, a brother Nathan who

praised many times, when God let us speak as the oracle of God.

I pray, let us just be a mouthpiece. I pray speak through us

all, God, Lord, help us, and let us receive these words

and not be hearers only, but doers, allowing these to descend below the

shoulders to get in our heart. I pray. And then we depart this

place joyfully and not sorrowfully, in Jesus name. And the church said,

Amen, I want you to look at your neighbor and say, hey,

neighbor, is something running through your mind? Brother Rick Jacob had no idea

what I came to the pullpit to preach this morning, and if I was

a young preacher of it's been twenty to thirty minutes taking up your precious time

and shouting, and how good God has been to me and confirming this message

this morning. But I will spare you that and I will deliver the message.

But the thought that I woke up early this morning with, with many

other things on my mind to preach, was why is this running through my

head? When Brother Jacob got up here to receive the offering during the offera

tory, first thing, Brother Rick Jacob said us sometimes things run through our

head. He sure did. How many of you heard that? Many of

you heard that? And then he talked about how these that have received the

Whole Egost fire when the wind begins to blow, it spreads like wildfire and

they begin to move, and God does wonderful things. Anybody that's thinking of

our text already and our cotext will realize the correlation between what Brother Rick Jacob

said and this message this morning. So I'm going to preach a message the

Whole Egosti's title it's running through my head or my mind. Our text is

found in a New Testament Book of the Whole Bible, the Book of Acts.

While reading this Book of Acts, the reader sees the amazing things that

the Lord accomplishes through his people. In this particular book of the Bible,

he accomplishes much through the Apostles. We see the actions of the Holy Ghost

within the Apostolic Church and within the Apostolic leadership of these local assemblies. Because

of the residency of the Holy Ghost within them, these men became men of

action. Women also, who were possessed of the Holy Ghost became women of

action, people whose natural tendency was to be inactive or to be complacent.

Because of the indwelling of the Holy Ghost, they became a very active because

the Holy Ghost, that is the third part or third member of the Godhead,

is active, and I'm so thankful that he is. In fact,

Jesus told his followers that it was very important that he depart from here so

that the Holy Ghost could come in his stead and begin to minister throughout the

world through people such as you and I. The word was God, You've

got to go. And I feel like today that this church has been blessed

with people that have things running through their head. They feel like they must

be about the Father's business. The Bible readers and students among us this morning

would say that Jesus, at the young age of twelve, he knew that

there must be something more to lie for me to feel completely satisfied, where

I would not feel incomplete. I must be about my father's business. Even

though he received a verbal slap in the face from his dear mother, who

also had been obedient to the heavenly called it a woman that was great,

they blessed, and high how they favored. We find that Jesus went home

with her and was subject to her for many years. Nearly eighteen years the

Son of God walked off of the pages of the Sacred writ and lived in

solitude. But many historians have recorded that he did many wonderful things as a

teenager, but yet he was subject to his parents. Maybe perhaps he did

not perform any miracles, but they said his character was notable, and he

was an example for others to follow within his hometown. This past Wednesday night,

I preached a message titled Imitating Emmanuel, and there was no doubt he

was a pattern for some to follow. I thought, how could it be

that some would not be here this morning after simply hearing a message imitating Emmanuel

and I'm not saying that there are people that took offense to the preaching of

that message, but for some reason some people find Christ and his ministry offensive.

In fact, God incarnate in the flesh walked upon this planet Earth,

and he ministered to its inhabitants, and the Bible said that a lot of

people departed from him and would not hear his message because his reaching was too

hard. I feel like the preaching of this man Stephen here in the seventh

chapter of the Book of Acts, was perceived to be too hard by the

religious leaders of that day. These would have been the front liners and the

ones that were on the platform at the local temple, the high priest and

those that were underneath him would have been ministering to the people of God.

And when this man Stephen began to minister to them, Brother Tyler, they

were very offensive. But nevertheless, this man Steel had a hold of what

had a hold of him. You will remember the apostle Paul said, I'm

trying to apprehend that that got a hold of me. I cannot say that

I've yet got ahold of this dream or got a hold of what I'm trying

to get a hold of. But I am a chasing after it. Now

you bear with me. We're going somewhere here. This morning, something got

into the mind of the apostle Paul, and something had got into the mind

of this man Stephen. As you read the seventh chapter, you will see

that this man, no doubt, he had created a rucous among the religious

people. There is nobody more desperately religious than a religious leader that is trying

to protect their position. And that's exactly what these people felt. Like Christ

had come and he was a threat to them. But we look here at

the verse before the seventh chapter, and the Bible notes that all of those

men that sat in that council, as Stephen was defending himself, they looked

with a gaze, I believe the Bible said, they looked to stead and

fastily upon him. They were not distracted, They did not make any mistake

about it. They wanted to gaze upon what was set before them. And

the Bible said, when they saw his face, it had been the face

of an angel. They did not say it was the face of a devil.

They did not say it was the face of a demon possessed person.

Without a question, there was something angelic about the countenance of this man Stephen.

But nevertheless, you know the end of the life of Stephen. In

fact, he ranks among some of the greatest writers within the martyrs within biblical

history. Stephen, if not he might be the crown jewel of martyrdom.

So this man went from having an angelic countenance to having been stoned, brutally

martyred, or murdered by the religious people of this day. You see,

the Bible readers among us know that this man's countenance had changed. It shone

forth an angelic radiance. And Stephen was excited about defending this gospel. Whether

Thomas Starrett, a Street evangelists, a member of our church, one of

our fourteen preachers, gets excited about standing in the defense of our resurrected Lord

and Savior Jesus Christ. And Stephen also felt it important to stand in defense

in the council among these religious leaders. Now, I want you to notice

that the very next verse, though, the first verse of chapter number seven,

tells us to whom he is speaking, who is in the audience,

Who are these supposed people of God? They're the religious leaders of the High

Priest, and the High Priestess himself is present of the religious leaders of the

Jewish people within Judaism, and the High Priest himself is present. That would

be almost equivalent to Brother Nathaniel Howell preaching to the Pope of this day.

This man Stephen has a great audience. What potential is there? Where will

the seed of fall? Will it fall on good ground or will it fall

on a bad ground? Those of you that read your Bible, you know

that it fell upon toxic soil, soil that were trying to destroy the very

seed itself. It was so deep on it and so acidic that it devoured

the very gospel seed that was being planned. But nevertheless Stephen posted up.

In a sermon recently, I talked about how people that played basketball at a

certain time they post up. And you know, I believe that this man

posted a defense for Jesus Christ himself. This deacon had been working among the

people of God. He had taken second place to the great Apostles, the

Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. He was willing to do the medial task even

though the Bible scientist predentials, as he was a man a full of faith

and full of the Holy Ghost. Those of you that know the power of

the Holy Ghost. And those of you that know the power hour of one

little seed that is so small it could be sized next to the mustard seed,

and say it's not much. But as Sister Whoop said this past week,

and little is much when God is in it. But this is not

a man of little Holy Ghost strength. This is not a man of a

little faith. This is a man of great strength and great faith. He

is full of the Holy Ghost. And when the apostles were so busy,

as the church exploded and growth was so prevalent, they looked among the men

of the church within the local assemblies, and they said, we need somebody

to take care of the widow. We need somebody to teach him Sunday school

classes. We need somebody to disperse this food as these people bring in these

gifts. We need somebody, as Steven was somebody, as Eugene Mustard said,

Mona, Saarson, I've got my hand out. I'm ready to help

somebody if I cancel. This man was not too big to help others.

This man had something stirring in his mind, sucking running through his head,

that he must be up and about his father's business. So we find this

man Stephen working for God in a mighty way. I want to say again,

we find this man Stephen working for God in a mighty way. You

do not have to be standing behind the sacred desk and your pet, do

not have to be pacing upon the platform to be doing something wonderful for God

and his people. You did not have to be preaching a revival or pastoring

a church to do something wonderful. Would it be recognizable in the Christian community.

Concerning one particular sister, a woman that was full of faith in and

full of the Holy Ghost, they said that she was a mis greatly at

the time of her death because of her helping of others and her gifting towards

others. There was something running through her head constantly about her helping others.

Sister Sheryl, your fore runner, your mother, Sister Platta. It seemed

like every service she brought some token that signified to me that she had been

thinking of her pastor throughout the week. I was not a service that I

could remember, as I prestered her for probably over her ten years, I

would say twelve or thirteen years. That's not a service, a morning service

or a PM service where I could say that it was not ever the attack

after she had come and down them, that I had been running through her

mind throughout the week. Come on, now, how many of you noticed

something called her endearment? And that's why I had such a difficult time preaching

her funeral. It is because she endeared herself to me. There was a

lot of times I knew she was struggling to make ends meet, but she

would text me and say, Pastor, I would like to take you and

the person lady out to eat. Could you meet me tomorrow at the Asian

Buffet. I'd say sure, because I learned early on it was no good

to tell her no. It was no good to tell her keep up her

finances for herself, because she would say, I could spend thinking her about

you and Sister Howard and your family and the Churchill, and I would want

to reciprocate her. In summer way, it's obvious that this man that could

pray over the dead and they lived. It's obvious that this man that could

pray over the sicker and they should recover. Somebody said, how do you

even know that you're add to the Bible not civil one. I'm not adding

to the Bible, for in this time period, an apostle said the pick

is sicker, and then had called her on the orders of the churches,

and let him prayed the prayer of painting, and the seat shall recover.

There was one man that they could say, it is Kinder, that was

school of faith, and the sick recover that when he prayed, that sins

were forgiven, that people's hearts were broken. When he prayed, he was

just fast Stephen. And even though that was covering all though he knew there's

other things in the house, oh God, and outside for the house of

Conda that must not be here at the linking that I must do something.

They told my master my preaching to somebody tonight. They were this spoon and

rhyther, And you wonder, why is this ministry opportunity ever with you?

Why do I feel like you in this brother char why do I feel like

going to the high? Said God, it's cold. Put it in your

heart. I said, it's card that's putting it in your heart. Every

person in this building would say, the night I got saved, I must

admit first the Holy Ghost was drawing me. Sister Elizabeth can say, I

am engaged today because I first felt like responding to that message, that brother,

how will preach first things first? When I was a visitor, I

felt God pricked my heart and he began to deal with me. This thing

was running through my head. It consumed me, I must do it since

to hamming us like it was whenever God beginning to deal with me. When

I was thirty one years of age about coming down here. It was constantly

running through my head day and night. Finally, one day I told an

elder minister, I said, brother, and prayed for me. It's not

that I'd like an opportunity to preach. In fact, I am supposed to

be part time ministering, and I'm preaching fifteen to seventeen times a month.

That had only been preaching for her a year, And I'm just traveling around

and hold down a full time job and preaching a four times a week,

sometimes five times a week, almost like a full time advangelist or more than

full time or evangelists does. To somebody, say a man and hold down

a job, I said, it's not that I just have to have a

place to preach. I'm not looking for a pulpit. All of these pastors

are opening their doors and their pulpits to me. I'm not calling anybody.

My policy was, I will never call anybody they're calling me. I will

never ask for a place or an opportunity to preach their calling me. But

I said, there's something that keeps running through my head, and something's telling

me it's a little church in the mail. Yes, I had heard people

say something about it. Yes, over the years I had heard by the

Johnny plant to talk about it. And later on in life, I would

realize one day, when this church had been dedicated, I've done something,

and I'm naturable and unthinkable, actually been bid. I've never been here before,

but something had run through my head to go to that church dedication.

And I've been pastoring almost seventeen years. So that place a place of worship,

that house that has just been mail it in a pew, And you're

not run across my mind that one billion I would be that man that those

people needed. Didn't never run across my mind that I would be the leader

of the people in this assembly. Years with mine. But now there's a

time in my life that I'm harder than almost continually incessantly with this thing that

I must go to the bill and come home. Now, I'm not talking

about cominging something that's not more so, I'm not talking about that purtasy.

I'm talking about reality, but having rispers in your soul that there's about to

be a change, that it runs through your head, it runs through your

mind. Why am I thinking on this outreach ministry? Why am I thinking

I must go to the local gold the building and she if I could minister,

Why do why take my Bible and put it under my arm and pulled

a gospel wagon to the street corner? Why oh why? He said,

running through my head? Because God put it in your heart. That's what

STEVEA said as he scored the religious leaders. But that day he said,

considered Mosa said, consider that bad who's life has three depenions a forty years,

so forty years the Bible and now God he's doing a new day.

Are you all awaiting this morning? Huh? Are y'all awake? I'll realize

that Sunday morning. But I'm preaching to him. We don't need any daydreamers

up here time this morning. The Bible readers among us know that man was

preaching through the power of the Holy Ghost. He was preaching facts. They

knew it. He wasn't telling Ebus stories, he wasn't telling Mayberry's stories.

He was preaching facts. If you study the seventh chapter of the Book of

Acts, you'll find out it is a chapter of facts within the Book of

Acts. He's preaching their religion. And so like my sermon imitating Emmanuel.

By the way, I titled at Emmanuel beginning with a capital I Emmanuel,

because in the English he is beginning with the letter I Emmanuel. So it

works out good for a sermon title imitating Emanuel, Praise the Lord. So

this man had obviously been with Jesus. Of course he had, because he

has the Holy e Ghost in him. And as brother Samuel said, now

send me all the words of the Mosaic long the piton to the five Books

of Moses. Ah makes sense. And he's able to make sense out of

things even better than the religious leaders are able to say. Because he's got

Christ, he has not denied him, For to deny him is to be

a person who of the spirit of anti Christ. Let's say these people are

religious, yes, but they're in a bad statu of mine. But because

he's got Jesus, and because he's got to hold. He goes to They

do not want to hear the very facts of Abraham recited in our chapter.

We learn the father Abraham, the great patriarch of the judents. What is

a pit of about the little Bible lesson talking about the promise to Abraham.

Let's a pits of about Abraham receiving the promise and coming into Parishia. What's

offensive her about Moses coming to years and realize I may be the son a

Paraoh's daughter, but I'd rather indu affliction with the people of content than enjoy

all the pleasance of each other. What's our pensive about that? You see,

Stephen, he's a man of sacrifice. Stephen, he's a man of

truth, and he's trying to tell them. You know what's been working in

you? Nicodemus has to pack it, calls them and the factor. There's

something working in my persecutor name Paul. I'm telling you there's people about the

truth. That's people presence to the truth. I know with some of the

other it's the spirit of God working in there. Sometimes people tell her,

they say, Pastor, you wouldn't believe what this one said. You wouldn't

believe what this one's dead, And I said, yeah, they got that

spirit, a soul of Tarsus, but they could end up becoming instead of

our greater persecutors, the greater's promoters. I looked at Sister Howell tonight this

morning, and then I see somebody that is the product of my ministry,

my very first convert. I see a person that used to be very bashful

in high school. She was very pure. She didn't just throw herself to

any guy that came by. She was very picky. Just because somebody showed

her at teaching, she did not choose them. She was somebody prayed and

talking to the Lord. She had something in her head, something had been

planted there as a little girl and empery. Not although she had been raised

in what some people believed to be a worldly or a charismatical more correctly said

a compromising church from the standards and the principles of truth and righteousness, her

own heart, there was something running through her heart, her mind, her

spirit that I've got to find the truth. I've got to find mister right

and mister perfect. And because of that blessed hope she held out and come

on, how many of you know God does not always get in a hurry

that leeds to stick in the crawl or something. Right here this morning,

God does not to get in a hurry just because you're approaching the age of

thirty. Or if your name is Moses and you've been schooled by and a

Gypsum and a Hebrew woman, you see her and come out. Have to

wait a little while I preach it to you here this morning. It cuts

sickens me when I see our young holiness curls, just willing to accept whatever

shows her a little attention. They do know how, does not speak very

good. I've her character and the same thank and be sad about professing Christians

to go out to everybody talking about that comes piler. They're already I'm telling

you that here this mornay. Sometimes something runs through your head, and it's

a spirit of combat. That's a spirit of losting. Your neighbor got a

new car, so you want a new car. But that's not what was

going on in the heart of most Stephen said he can't turn that day his

side. This would have been a better preach on a Sunday night. I

realized that. But what I have to preach tonight needs to be preached,

and this must be preached this morning. Stephen was not above assisting the widows

of his hometown, and he certainly was not above by demonstrating here standing in

defense of the truth. He was one who came looking for trouble. He

was one that came anticipating persecution for him serving the God that he served.

He was one that expected nothing less than to do exactly as Jesus had done.

And Jesus had told them, if you do what I do, they're

gonna treat you the way they treated me. This was never a man to

come to church down and out in the money grubs. How do you know,

because the Bible said as these men reacted to his servant and the actions

of the Holy Ghost, as they stoned him, he was looking under Jesus,

and he saw Jesus there was still something who running through his mind,

and come on, you can passed her, and you can pray, and

you can try to shake it off, and you could try to pray it

off, and you could try to put it out of your mind. And

said, it must just be me. It just must be a thing to

imagine missing. But no, it was not, I think, but of

Steven's imagine nation when he said, I see the Lord standing there on my

behalf, right there, the right hand of the Father. Do you know

who was missing? There was a member of that cod hand missing. He

was the Holy del Say that was in here. I want you to know

her. When you got the spinner of cod in it and it's a genuine

holy cussing, it will make a complete circle. You might not understand that

what he is com is doing, but look at our text again. It

messed up at twenty three and cents after that, he was flowing forty years.

It came into his heart to pivisit his brethren, y'all see that?

Why'd you do that? Why'd you transplant? Pastor Howard? I don't know

asking men? Was his corregation? Plant? Why? Because it into our

heart to do so? And when I say God, it doesn't matter what

Mamma Danny Rama REPLI Coker, boss Man, or anybody else stakes about him,

because when God is working with you, work to will and to do

of his good pleasure. I killed you do, it's gonna be in your

mind. My priesting right here this morning, a serving the Holy ghost has

titles sucking running through my mind. I swent a hold of these recipients,

and the Holy Ghost have said that in recent pizza after these days, say

humphry Bible. We had the kissing a minister. We had to just speak

of her that they said, he it is calm, but I said,

it is tid r after this kid a for thirty years after this been that

sent secret that get you going to right, and there's a calmer and the

kids. Let me say, love kind, help me to preacher this thrning

in this people. You see Stevens such a man that he's willing to stand

for the cause of his defense before the highest counsel of the religious, the

Jewish leaders of that day. He will die for the reason that he's standing.

Let that resonate in yourself this morning. He will die for the reason

that he's standing. If it's one earth, it's sixty president as this burner,

if it's one living in South Florida praying God send us a preacher.

If it's three or four living in South Florida, saying God send us a

preacher. God ain't gonna send you a preacher that this helps you beat us

four no more and barely get by when it's running through your mind. I

will a false little church. I want a pianist that can play stupidly the

hoold the Lord, And I want a baby Graham hold the pot. And

I wanted a guitarist. I want a bass picture. I want somebody to

gore hold the saxophone. I want to call it Timmy. How I'm gonna

acquire Hey, I'll tell her. Can you know who put that? Get

on your soul? Get us tied to credit in your soul. And it

doesn't matter how anybody says her body. I'm telling you, three lads,

three harder. I'll turn a three twenty more. Yeah. Get. Stephen

remains focused on the promise. Stephen remains focused on the promise. You know

whatss to him and comes in him a way she you know, I sais

the wood comes and he had the way she does because they remember a time

that they didn't have this, but that change about sixteen or seventeen years.

And yard need to look at the record book. It's somewhere in there.

And fiac of the turn forty seven. I came at thirty one. I

started preaching at thirty because I wanted to wait till the will of God was

infruition. But I'm gonna tell your brother it ran through my head from eighteen

to thirty in reverse to Jesus twelve to eighteen. Mama was eighteen to twelve,

had twelve sided years. He had eighteen sided years. But brother Nathaniel

ran through my head. You can ask your mom a day and night,

day and night. I was supposed to be preaching. There's a purpose for

this. You can see they're focused on this. I'm focused on this.

I told my boys yesterday and will take God Almighty rolling out a red carpet

and even people rolling out a red carpet along with him, because I've learned

that people have as much to do with things as God does. It's free.

We you hain't come on that, but we focus on some of these

promises. Believe it, they will come to fruition or fulfillment. You focus

on the promise. When you focus on the promise, there is no way

you have to worry about forfeiting your future. Come on now, said,

That's what he's saying right here. Moses had three segments in his life.

At forty years, something happened, At eighty years, something happened. He

died at one hundred and twenty. We're not going to live that long.

I don't know how your life is segmented, but I'll tell you the same

man the segments that arn't you, the same man that divided the land from

the sea, the same man as the one that divides your life in segments.

And when you can tell there's a life change or a world change in

your life, you know it's God. If you're saved, or say good

fider, or only this field. Now you got to focus other fielding by

about the filment and a promise. Come on, now, I want to

the bargu with me in your mind. Ignored and the spiritual disciple named Stephen.

Now it's stooling the religious leaders of today. Is something He's given them,

the history of the Jews with a powder that they know not. He's

tasting something they never taste. That He's sure teesus, what's the fulfillment of

the promise? As sure as I live, his promises will be fulfilled.

They knew their history, but they didn't seize the opportunity when An addressed them.

The Holy Ghost is teaching now, and the Holy Ghost is teaching for

Stephen. The Holyghost is preaching now and the Holyghost is preaching through Pastor.

I want you to look at that taste again. And when he was a

full forty years old, he came into his heart to visit his brethren,

the children of Israel. How old are uses? To candis thirty seven?

And when she was thirty six, it would come into her heart to visit

a little hole in his church in Label. When she was thirty six,

it would enter into her heart to get in the vehicle with her fiance under

conviction, not raised in a holiness church, but to traverse about forty five

miles and go to that little holiness church and eventually make her way into an

altar and pray. Brother Jesse, how over you twenty six? He just

twenty five? He don't even know Yes, early stages ever mentioned the forty

year this morning, But whenever he was twenty five or twenty six, it

would enter into his heart to receive the Holy Ghost. He would get a

desire and realize this will always be a dream. As Brother Chris Burnett said,

as I came to beth Room begin the fellowship, then people, God

began to change my heart. He said. I woke up speaking in tongues

he said, But I realized I want speaking in tongues with my mentural lips,

but in my spirit I was speaking in tongues. I told I think,

Sister House, And that's using about what happens before somebody really gets the

Holy Ghost to God starts working. Are y'all look at it? This so

y'all is excited about this text God brought before me as I am. And

it came into years a heart of Hey, that's God. When you start

saying I want the Holy Ghost more than I want to be Mecca, and

you know, ask God whatever you say, I want the Holy ghostist Elizabeth

more than I want to marry Philip or more than a banana split. I

don't know what you like better, the banana split or Philip, because you

posted a picture of the banana split first before you posted a picture a Philip.

But either way, they're both sweet and they're good at the BA.

Daddy, I know the first time I met your brother, I would have

never guessed that our two children would be anted together in the holy matrimony.

You and I could not have put the puzzle pieces together so perfectly. But

you don't watch her. After a while, we got to look it,

and we really lost the wheel of God concerning Philippa and a Visimith before it

fully entered into the heart of Philip. But after Philip conta the Holy Ghost,

I could tell he's taken right, that he staken clearly. Oh I'm

so glad that he got the Holy Ghost. Oh I'm so glad he got

his ducks in around they. I'm so glad he got his finely shrink.

I preaching to you this morning, when God has put it in your heart,

let us run a tream of mine. I said, dream, old

baby, dream all three cards. Because it's God. It's cadd that put

that file in you. It's Todd that protect us hiring. That's why Sevil,

because sat Conserna knows that's something. We know that it was Tad.

We know what uses had, We know what Moses for simple. We know

that it was Taught that puts and desiring his heart to pursave the leadership of

the agencient to pursae, being a long lord among the agent and being leader

Robert God to people. Chap taking be said about Apostle Paul, an upcoming

star quarterback or leader of two Dayism. Apostle Paul he pen these wonderful words

that the New Testament, a lot of them anyway, gave us these wonderful

prison letters and epistles. The apostle Paul, what a teacher would he have

been in the local temple, What a teacher he would have been in the

local synagogue. But the truth was for the start because of his honesty and

his honest heart. When God began to show him, he knew all alone

that Jesus had been the fulfillment of the prophecy of Abraham. He knew it

because whenever he was on his road to Damascus, the Bible said, when

that light shone from heaven, he identified that it was the Lord that was

dealing with him. Lord, I know this has been you, Lord.

I know I don't normally think like this. Lord. I know I don't

normally think that I'm capable of this. I remember one time, in particular,

on a Saturday, God beginning to deal with me that I needed to

refresh my mind on an electrical system, specifically wiring issues of a house.

And God began to deal with me about existing wire. I went to my

little library that I had at the time, and I pulled out home depot

manual, and I flipped to the wiring section and beginning to read that repeatedly,

and I said, why am I doing this? I have no idea,

Why am I doing this? Now I got to just studying it,

and I felt as I was reading it to study particular parts of that to

that manual, and I looked at various things how you tie in and tee

off to an existing light, and I memorized it. I thought why am

I doing this? And that next day, that Saturday morning, around six,

I got up and went to the church. It was just a handful

of a status. The way it goes, brother e j. When it's

time to work, the guys feel like they eat overtime on the job.

And when we started, it was my dad, my uncle Danny, brother

Chester Green, and myself around seven. And my dad looked at me and

he said, Jeremy, I have appointed you to go up in the attict

and to redo that wiring and run all them later to put all that new

lighting in the saction. Weary and without missing a meat, I said,

hey, no problem. I came with my electrical tools. I came with

wire nuts, I came with wire strippers, wire apply hurt you, y'all,

y'all get it. I was prepared right because that was Sister Hammer said

recently. There was a period of preparation God had been. I knew him

right then when he said, you're gonna be the attic rat running around up

there God and knew that that pastor. Although the pastor probably purposefully didn't tell

me I would be in the attic, he waited until I got there.

I've been wanting to work over time like some of the others were doing,

in order to be a blessing to the church and put more tie than the

church. But he waited till I got there. But I was prepared.

Why because there was something working on the inside. It came into my heart.

Look at our text vers up at twenty three about seven, and it

came into my heart. So Stephen pointed out that something had entered into the

heart of Moses that had not been there before. Hey, I was no

journeyman. I wasn't even an apprentice electrician. I certainly was not a master

of electrician. But the Holy e Ghost was prepared me for something that was

ahead. I'm telling you, most of you that received the Holy Ghost recently,

you know that without a doubt. God prepared you for such a time

as this. I had scheduled to youth services. We had a one young

preacher, but in four time for weeks, we've got to hold us to

six or seven and come preaching in youth service. I'm telling you we God

put it in Castor's hard time to have new service. That is why we've

got to preach others for your vi listening a lot. I'm telling you that

that's gold, honey. I said it as God's in hearted. It is

God, and that's hit you. Why don't we just raise our hands and

love O Jesus. I've heard preachers before, say two or three years went

by, and it was all I could think about. If that burden you

got leaves you after you've had that banana split, if that desire that you

have for that craving that you have leaves you after you've had this and have

that, then it wasn't of God. If you go visit somewhere preachers and

you think this because they're missing a pastor, that they need a pastor,

and you fancy yourself on that idea for three or four weeks, but then

you find yourself forgetting about that and forgetting about them people. It's not God.

Oh, come on. We all know the story of Moses, how

he left Egypt early, not planning, but was called the son of Pharaoh's

daughter when he left, but when he came back he was just to seep

her on the backside of the willness. We all know that he had to

leave Egypt. Why would any man give up an opportunity like that, Because

it has to be God putting it in his heart. Before the Red Sea

party, before the Plangues, the ten Plangues affected at Birsty, the people

of Egypt, before the Junivis were wandered in the willerness, before they were

fed with manna, before they were fed with quall, before they looked at

the promised land, he was in their heart. Or y'all giddingness, God

had put something in your heart. It has to be aired into your heart

and a desire. Wise I need to help my brethren. I told you

to double underlying the first part of that, and it came into his heart.

And then I said, single underline, why to fears, here is

the brethren their relisa. When did this idea first to come into his heart?

It came to passing those days when Moses was crowled, that he went

out unto his brethren, and he looked hold their burdens, and he looked

to hold their burdens, and he spotted Egyptia smiting in Hebrew, and one

of his brethren brother staring. Do you know why you feel the need to

preacher to the center, It's because you've got a burn into for your presre

that. Do you know why do you feel like you've gotta mister to the

holdest. It's because you got a bird and have your creansren. I'm a

preacher to you. I here this market. I was taught it for years.

I preach it for years. It's not about us, it's about him.

It's about kill. And that's how I know that it was gold.

Because when you got proper burning for somebody, you'll gotta fire pre store and

you'll pray on to play cat for them. When you've got a bird up

for somebody, you'll get up at three in the morning and you're praying for

them. If you aren't praying about it, good ain't gone. If you

are praying about it, it's not God. Forget it. Troffic. If

you like fasted over tropic but if you are, and if you get a

bird to somebody else, tray and on. That's my smart to your mind.

Fly brother Rick Jacob at his age, whatever age you were, what

age were you when you moved down here? Sixty? At sixty and deacon

of a church in Indiana, bul a beautiful sakes you wear into the covetous

pastor is listening to me preach just because I said I got something you ain't.

Guy I'm making shouldn't make you want to come down here and steal what

I'm going. I'm not talking about having a spirit to take from somebody something

that's theirs. Huh. But when God begins to deal with you, oh,

I feel the heads and you can't even eat lunch for thinking about it.

It consumes you. I stood out there one Sunday night, about midnight,

just stood there. What Thoinas is doing? Comer Tinas. I had

preached and we had a wonderful service. The saints had shouted for about two

hours. I had played the pianisill and saying here the amentor very satisfied as

a minister. But I stood up there just staring into the sky, not

discontented, not troubled, but I said, what is this? Why is

this? And that elder minister walked by and he said, pray for me.

I have been given an opportunity to visit some people. And I said,

are you talking about himself or that? He said yes. I said,

I have been thinking about that church and those people for several months now.

In fact, I'm standing out here right now asking God, why,

what meaneth this? What meaneth this? I'm sure as Moses paced through the

palace, Joseph's coming to the very palace, Moses, Joseph came to the

very palace, Lomases left. So it's God working in you to go to

the palace, Joseph, And is God working in Moses to leave the very

palace, as God promoting Joseph to the throne into palace, and as Moss

pointing at the throne and say, I don't want that. So these great

God feared men are content whether they've got the throne in Egypt or whether they

leave the throne in Egypt. You will never be fully satisfied and are completely

satisfied until you are in the perfect will of God. Come on now,

said sat down centered in the real punk godress, Why somebody who ended up

down here. So you told me I didn't try to recruit you. I

didn't try to pull you. No gotta let people say I am not making

your mortgage payment. I didn't buy your house. Now, I don't want

the liars say you said, God put it in your heart up to be

here by God. And when God puts it in your heart to be there,

there's no pit that can keep you from going to the palace, and

there's no palerace to conkeep you from going to the pit. I'm a fellow

of Moses. Left the perfumes of Egypt and come smelling like a shepherd.

And he put the bony finger in Pharaoh's eyes, right there in between his

eyes, and he said, thus, saith God, y'a'll know goodwill that

that Pharaoh knew who this guy was. You know, the bodyguards and the

temple guards, and then pagan pagan dins and head teeth that you know good

and will. They had said, you're not gonna believe here, and he

looks like just an old outsider. Just do a sheep. In fact,

y'all know the Egyptians considered the shepherd's cursed all scaring of the earth. Here

comes scum. Here comes the filth. Here comes a man out of the

dump. And that man, that old dumpy man, comes in there and

tells Pharaoh. And thus said my God al Mack. The Pharaoh perceived himself

to be God. And Moses said, thus saith the God that took me

out, Papa. Thus saith God, let my people go. This is

indicative of Moses adopting his natural born family. Come on, now, he

didn't also accept the Israelite as his people. He was accepting his Uma Jacob,

his father, that his immediate household in Merriam and here. When he

made that statement, he said, these are my people. Hey, there's

something about it. A little better became my people sixteen or seventeen years ago.

People don't understand that that's my husband, Elizabeth to say that's my life.

Philicals say, hey, that's mine, that's my boy, and that's

my girl, that's my child. Hey, how do you know that?

Because God got to work and give my heart. Oh my God, I'm

trying to preach to us. Hear this one. If you wake up,

we not have a little churches in this household. This ain't gonna be a

game changer for somebody. This ain't gonna be a live change church because of

a lie God to work in your heart. You're gonna see the pop say

from p I said, You're gonna focus up, hold up that fast.

This was the beginning of a wonderful life change in the life of Moses.

First Samuel, chapter number ten and verse number nine, speaking of King Saul

prior to him becoming the great leader that he was, the Bible said,

and it was so that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel,

God gave him another heart. And all those signs came to pass that

day. If God ever calls one of my sons to pastor of church,

I will know it, willn't they know it? Or before they? And

you know what, any real parent of God, any part to a Timothy,

any Peter to a Titis, will understand that God put that there.

They didn't go to a camp meeting and preach good one time. It's one

thing to hit a home run one time a season, but it's another thing

to stand to let sacred desk service at the service consecutively and preach sermons that

makes sense and that are annointed the speaks of somebody that has been properly placed

in position by the Lord. You see, this thing took place within the

heart of Moses before he pointed the bony finger in the face of Pharaoh.

It must begin in the heart. And Samuel had told Saul that the Lord

will come powerfully upon you. The Lord will come powerfully upon you, and

you will be turned into a different person. Jeremy Howld, the sole leader

of such as such church, Jeremy Howl, the pianist of such a such

church, Jeremy Howell, a traveling evangelists, will suddenly be pastor. Samuel

told Saul, you're going to feel the change. Before I got saved,

I had entered it, had entered into my heart that I was going to

be converted. I was ready for a change. Rather, Nathaniel preached a

message about two and a half weeks ago. I just remembered the title there

needs to be a change in the life of Moses, in the life of

Samuel, and the life of Song, and the life of Paul of Tarsus.

There was a change, a spiritual metaphor and most spiritual metamorphosis, a

spiritual rebirth. King Saul had been very bashful, but now he is lying

hardy wants you go back to being a recluse just because the devil tries to

make you can deal because of the joy you got. And once you go

back to that cave of despair just because the devil tries to make you think

you lived your life for the first segment like this, It's time for this

change. I feel the Holy Ghost in this house. All of this began

when it came into his heart to visit his brethren. All of this became

and began when he said, I need to minister to those that are ministry,

when I need to be my brother's keeper, when I need to help

others, when I decided that it was imperative that I bear my brother's burdens

that night, Brother Nathan or sister Rachel have been fighting an onslaught from Helen

as their spiritual leader, the spiritual thought in their life. I could tell,

and I have been praying day and night that God would heal those girls

of the repeated illnesses and sicknesses that was going through their family. Was just

a vicious psycho. And that one particular night, being let of the Holy

Ghost. And I speak as a fool, but I speak the truth.

Nevertheless, I called him up and I said, let's pray. But because

of the battle and the fight and the severity thereof, I said, I

need a spiritual people. Do you remember that, Brother Jesse, I said,

on this particular moment, this service, I need a spiritual people because

the battle was fierce. We took the annointing arm begin to pray. Standing

behind his brother. Standing behind Brother Nathaniel was his brother, brother Jesse.

Brother Jesse said, I've been in church. I've never been a bad person.

I've been saved and sanctified. I enjoyed playing in the House of God.

I know the taste and the experience of the annointing. But when my

pastor, my father said I need a spiritual person, spiritual people to help

me pray, I was disqualified. He said. Nevertheless, as everyone did,

we gathered some of us on the outskirts. Was the spiritual people begin

to pray? He said. Suddenly something arrested his heart and his spirit within

him, and he realized, wait a minute, I've got three sons of

mine own, and I've got a beautiful wife that's going to need me to

be spiritual. He realized the deficit in his life, and because of that

deficit, he knew he would be ultimately defeated. He got a desire when

he saw the deficit. He didn't want to be defeated. He got a

desire for his family. This entered it to his heart. When he went

looked at his brethren, he realized, my wife needs me to have the

Holy e Ghost. Those three boys of mine need me to have the Holy

e Ghost. And right now my brother and his wife need me to be

spiritual, full of faith and full of the Holy Enghost to pray for them

for healing. And then in that moment, God changed his heart and he

was filled with the Holy Ghost. Some days later, brother Philip was in

the church. He got a desire, he said. I got to thinking

about brother Bufort, he said. As I was thinking about Brother Bufort,

I begin to cry, something I do not do very often, he said.

He said. But then I begin to pray with an unction and a

burden for brother Buprit like I've never prayed before. And suddenly I found myself

speaking in a heavenly language because of my burden for Buprit. You could almost

title this my burden permufer come on my bird, and from my brother,

my burden from my brother. I'm not talking about being envious or copetiousness or

lustful. I'm talking about having a genuine burning rede Come on, now,

that's how he's being received the Holy gods. That's why Stephen was good.

He got a burden for his people. Yeah, a burned put the wine.

Brother Jesse was not interested in this for himself. He didn't have selfish

ambitions. When you come to the piano, brother Jesse, could we stand

it was a desire that he did not have until the Lord put it in

him where the Bible said, no man come with him to the Father except

the spirit draw him. Do you know you will probably never get a craving

for a diet coke on a hot day or a banana split if you never

tasted it, unless you've seen it, been around it. Those of you

would want to retreat, being reclusive and stay away from it. When it's

moving. The Holy Egost, you'll never gettle craving before it. And that's

how brother Jonathan got the Holy Egost. Sat to night, it was spread

like fire, and something began to run through his mind, and he was

an outsider, and he got snatched into the fire, and he got the

Holy Ghost because it's the Lord Philippians two and thirteen. Paul said, for

it, it's God which worketh in you to will and to do of his

good pleasure. That y'all notice that to will is one thing, to do

is another. There's a lot of people I've heard them say over the years.

They say, well, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do this,

I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna be that pastor, I'm gonna be

that mission missionary. I'm gonna be that first lady. I'm gonna be man.

The will is there, the desire is there. It's great, it's

strong, but it's fleeting. It's fleeting. It's like a great ship going

in the wrong direction. It disappears on the horizon, it never comes into

han. What direction are you going in right here this morning? Is Pompeye

is on the vine? Or is your brother that's struggling on the mind?

This cactus makes and a talk on a breed on your mind? Right now?

Where's one of your brothers on your mind? You heard one of the

young preachers say Friday night. He said, I prayed and studied for about

two or three hours on Friday night, two or three hours the night before.

It's just to lur and I think about you right now in this moment.

What about a single mother almost two years ago, just led to the

Lord, distraught, down and out in the total despair. Come down here,

just suitcase, simply need to hear from God, no pressure from us.

We didn't even know she was coming until just moments before she left out.

She came in and sitting down on a feu, didn't say I have

self ambitions, this is my motives, this is my plans. She just

pretty much, I need God and need us hell and you know who's she

said that too. Not to pass her the first lady or the deacons or

women of God to church. She said it in the altar. You could

tell by her actions what she meant. God spoke to her service at to

service. Just this message is just for you, handpick for you, prepared

for you, Sister Lauren. It was so evident of God was speaking to

you. So when people say whatever they want to say, I realized that

someone, not something, someone was running through her head. You need to

go down there and you need to get things right with God. You need

to get serious and surrender to God. I'm gonna give you a desire.

She received the holy case, the real Holy Ghost of Kevin. She received

the real Holy Ghost of Christian on attractive as the wild. And here they

are fixing to celebrate one year of marriage, a precious baby girl on the

way. He will lead a goddess if we will let him. Sister Lauren's

not wanted to just settle for whatever she could have. And even though she

may evade a mistake, she didn't just marry that mistake. Man that would

preach I feel the Holy Ghost in this house. We don't need to settle

for less of what God intended. And there's some of you. I believe

in you. I believe that God can do wonderful things in you. I

told my sons last night, I said, there's not a person on this

planet that I respect more highly than their mother. I said, there's not

a man or a woman that I respect more highly than their mother. Now,

there's a lot of men who be too unch of to say that I

told them. Of something ever happened to her, it would kill sister.

We saw the way you helped handled it. Sister, handle it's on the

way you handled it. I would say, if something happened to me,

it would kill her. She's told me repeated it. Brother Buford, I

don't know what life has a store for all of us, but when the

rubber meets the room, we made traction with life, we better be on

the right ran, and our desire is better be pure. We better know

that we're following the orders of God. When you feel that desire, and

by just waste time frivously, you trifle with your soul. If you'd think

about the little babies, it's under your wing, do you not. One

of the greatest experiences I ever had in God was as an evangelist, pinching

pennies one night, splitting double cheeseburgers with the kids. I looked in the

back seat at a F three fifteen. There were five little kids, and

they were holding them half cheeseburgers and so innocently eating what I had provided for

them. I turned my head away from them and their mother, and I

looked down into the stars, and I wept and cried so they couldn't see

me. Then I said, God, for you, we may be trying

to make ends meet things that we didn't used to have to sacrifice. We're

having a sacrifice to see them babies having the cheeseburder that a woman they could

eat pulled, it told me. But I looked out there and looked into

the sky, and I said, but free you master. It's so worked.

And Brother Samuel, I wouldn't tread anything for the memories or made on

the road. I feel such a sweet presence of God in this place.

And if you would try to collect your composure right now to be mister bunch

of God could help you in this service. Something running through my head.

God's dealing with me about mowing that church lawn on a Saturday when no one's

around, or some day of the week. I go out there, open

the bar, get on the forward, fill it up with guests. First,

get on the mower, third of mow. That's God. Could we

bow our heads this morning. If God has spoken to you in any way,

and you know there's a problems for you and you want to get a

hold of it, focus on it. You can say. It's running through

my head. It's running through my mind and it consumes me. Would you

raise your hand? Too many to count. Let's find a place to pray

right now. I dream of the day when my wife has the Holy ghost

I dream of the day where my kids are saved. I dream of the

day when I'm men astaing. A dream of the day when I surrendered the

Christ. I dream of the day when I when I told my brother do

this. They go outside, they go into town. They stand on a

street corner and preach. They don't just do that. It has entered into

their heart to do so. They walk into a nursome home with Bibles under

their arms and song books in a bag. They don't just do that unless

it has entered into their heart to do so. They hastily walk out of

the sanctuary, make their way to the fellowship palm, get food prepared.

They don't just do that unless it has entered into their heart to do so.

Every Saturday they go to the church, walk through the doors and the

sanctuary. They will just do that unless it has entered their heart to do

song. They go to church, they sit in a pew and walk to

the alta. They don't just do that unless it's entered their heart to do

so. Have something blooded through their mind. It's called conviction. It's called

the God of the Christ. So unerstand the Mother of God for my life.

I'm no longer thinking about. It is time from you to take action,

for it is God which worketh in me, both to well until to

his good pleasure. I will focus until the fulfillment. I will focus.

Oh Lord, no time. Only God he contein me to go we I

had rather steeven. He seems me a baby. Why again, Oh my

sad determina change to the bard. But the wind the worst conteted. I'll

have a service song song are we go? Barty one? You can't get

free, not we but o no time, lodly, you can't be concern

or old lord she there's a word play. Life must do the father me

find me faithful in trust in all. Please tell come I have you did

you start? Lord? House the other mastar to this service. I want

to serve the marking to have no we but down oh your own kindly look

and be conserve