No Grit, No Glory with AP. Joshua Adams

As I was studying this week, the Lord dropped this description of

my heart. It's not the title, it's not the

description for my sermon. It's just the introduction.

Amen. But John chapter 4, verse 34

John 4:34–38

through 38, and this I believe is a prophetic proclamation over

this house this morning, Amen. Got three people said Amen, it's

all good, come on now, prophetic proclamation.

Jesus said, look at this. He said my nourishment comes

from doing the will of God who sent me and from finishing,

finishing his work. Declare with me, we are going to

finish. We are going to finish and I am

confident, just as Paul declared to the Church of Philippi in

Philippians chapter 166. He said he who began a good

work, if he has begun a good work, it will be finished.

Amen. The he who began a good work in

you will continue his work until it is finally finished on the

day when Christ Jesus returns. Hallelujah.

What God is doing in this place is a good work, but it is not

yet finished. It is not yet finished.

We got much more to do Amen. And I'm here this morning to

deliver a prophetic utterance to this house that with that, what

God has begun in this place will continue.

This is so strange. I had to write my notes in

English. This is so good.

I finally made it on the in missions.

You know, where I, I, I, I'm so used to preaching in Portuguese

that now my sermons are in English.

I love that. That's so cool 'cause I usually

preach in Portuguese and now this is weird, but it's good.

Amen. He's not done.

He's got much more to do Amen. That what God has begun in this

place will continue until it is finished.

There is much more to be fulfilled until it's complete.

And if it's not complete, it's not complete.

If it's not abounding, if it's not overflowing, if it's not

exceedingly good, it's not done yet.

Hallelujah. So we have much more to do.

Jesus continues saying back there in John, he says, you know

the saying and the disciples are like what?

I don't know what you're saying. You know the saying.

Four months between planting in harvest, but I say he's like you

got you got a perspective, a natural linear perspective.

But but let me help you see how I see.

He says, you say it's supposed to be like this in four months

or in four years. But God says, but I say Amen.

But I say Jesus saying, but I say wake up, look around.

The fields are already right for harvest.

You better believe, Church, that the Master has already gone

before us and he has prepared the fields.

In those fields He has declared and he has spoken.

They are ready and they are ripe for harvest and for me.

And then this is something that stirs my hearts because I'm a

church planter. That's what I do.

I look for new territory. I say, where can we expand the

Kingdom of God? I'm not interested in if I've

got enough money. I've got the king of kings, the

glorious, the glorious one, the alpha, the Omega, the beginning

and the end. I've got the one with the keys

and he says, I've given you the keys.

Hallelujah. Praise God.

Oh man, I'm already sweating. I got sweat coming down my back.

This is good. You know what's good?

When the pastor, when the preacher's sweating, right?

Hallelujah. I'm not interested.

I'm not trying to quantify how it's going to happen.

He says you've got a perspective, but I've got a

different perspective. You say 4 months or four years,

but I say wake up, look around. The fields are already already

right for harvest. Now, I've got a lot of critics

in my. I have so many critics in my

life. So many people, they come up to

me. I call them critical Christians.

They're more carnal than they are critical, but pretty much

the same thing. And they always say to me, yeah,

well, Joshua, you know, is one more church really necessary?

Is I'm like, you better shut your mouth.

I don't care what you have to say.

There is one more church really necessary by God.

It is because he didn't say the field is ready.

He said the fields are ready. There are many fields and many

places that anchor faith has yet not reached.

But all the master is declaring this morning, Oh, wake up and

look and see Woo Marreda Sovre, the Ecoto romantic J And I'm not

just speaking to some congregation.

I'm speaking to the epicenter. I'm speaking to the, the, the

Saji, the mother church, the central church that will do

great and marvelous things. And I'm telling you, there is a

blessing that's about to pour in this house.

And every single one of you, you better raise your hands and say,

God, I want to be a recipient of that blessing, but I also want

to be a contributor and not merely a consumer of the

blessings of the Lord so that expansion can go forth and the

Kingdom can be advanced and we can usher in the return of the

Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, my God, I've never preached

a church in the America that feels like my church.

This is good. I like that He didn't say the

field is ready. I'm gonna scream at you all

morning. OK.

So you just better be ready. Amen.

The field. He didn't say the field is

ready. He said the fields.

The fields are ready. We serve a God of the great

expansion. He is a God of the manifestation

of multiplication. He loves multiplication.

Kingdom expansion does not intimidate God.

In fact, it pleases God. You better hook your faith up

this morning to His perspective. Amen.

Because the way that God sees is far greater than any critical

Christian spouting off their carnal opinion, saying, well, I

don't OK with that. I don't, I don't think that's

necessary. Well, I don't think your

attitude is necessary. I think you need to just shut

your mouth and let me crossover and you can stay on this side if

you want to stay. Oh, get a little spicy.

Look around. He continues saying the

harvesters are paid good wages and the fruit they harvest is

people brought to eternal life. What joy re Masisha?

What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike?

Meal deals Dussell. That wasn't tongues, that was

Portuguese, Amen. Meal deals Dussell Deals E

bones. That's Portuguese too, just to

let you know. I said, Oh my God in heaven, he

is good, Amen. What joy awaits you, Church?

What joy awaits you, Apostle? What joy awaits you, Apostola?

What joy awaits you, Church? There is a great joy.

There's a great joy when we look out upon the harvest by faith

and say, what is that? I can see that, I can see that.

I can see that. Apostle, you might want to

change igniting cities. I think that might be a better

phrase. What's the second part in?

No, what's the first part? Ignite city or cities impact

nations. What's the third part?

Influenced the world nation, right?

You're talking about this nation might be nations.

Amen. We got to put some plural in

that vision. I'm not saying change of vision,

but but God says cities, God is saying nations, God is saying

the world anchor faith has been called for much more.

And you, you got to get come on, I'm here to make you a little

uncomfortable. We got to we got to stir

ourselves up out of out of comfortability and recognize why

are we here as a church. God has called us to do much

more. And there might be seasons where

there's a pruning that occurs in the little trimming here.

And we've experienced that many times.

Today we have 15 locations. We're reaching thousands every

single week. Praise God Almighty, the man.

We went through seasons of trials and tribulations.

We had to deal with Jezebel spirits.

We had to deal with demons. We had to deal with offended

people. We had to deal with people

saying I didn't really like what you doing.

We had to be. We had so much opposition.

We'll write this down, man, write this down.

This is good. This is from God right here.

If there is a barrier, it just means there's a blessing on the

other side of it. Every barrier I have faced in my

life, there is a greater blessing on the other side of

that barrier. And these barriers come in

different seasons. And I'm not a professional.

Your apostles have way more experience than I do in the

ministry. But one thing I have learned

throughout the the many years of ministry, 11 years of ministry

is that man Satan hates you and he hates me.

The enemy has come to steal, kill and destroy his number one

focus and drive is to RIP faith from you or try to take away

from you or rob you or get you in a negative confession or

saying what I'm trying to get it in in English here translation

help me baby get it. What am I trying to say?

She doesn't know cuz she's not listening, trying to call a

Contra Bukia Palavagis, speak against what the word says.

He is your adversary. He ain't your friend and he

wants to steal from you, kill from you, destroy you, barriers

that come in your life. But glory to God, there's always

a blessing on this either side. And this morning, what I want to

do the next three hours I have with you.

Amen. There's no time.

So I can just preach as long as I want to.

I'm just kidding. Actually, I timed your pastors

when they were in our church at a little stopwatch, and I was

like, OK, that's how long I'm gonna preach in their church.

I'm just kidding. No, I'm just kidding.

Amen. It's Uncle Migo.

Are you with me still? I can hear heaven's declaring.

I I it's difficult to preach at this church.

I there's so much that God is saying.

I don't know how you preach, apostle.

It's like heaven is open in this place.

Hallelujah. I know it's a pole behind me,

but it feels like Jesus. You know what I'm saying?

How do you preach in this? This is really hard.

Oh, don't preach it. Don't speak in tongues, brother.

I'm gonna get distracted. We start prophesying over here.

OK, so focus on my notes. Here we go.

I can hear heaven declaring. Come on, Saints and sons, come

on, Saints and sons, there's much more to do.

Come on. There are mighty barriers, but

there are greater blessings on the other side.

And the title of my message this morning, the Lord gave it to me

the other night. He said, Josh, I want you to

teach him about grit, how to get grit, or how to have grit.

I don't know if that's right. Not grits, but grit.

Amen. And he said this, no grits, no

glory. Start with me now.

No grits, no glory. Say with me, no grits, no glory.

I'm gonna teach you how to fight the fight of faith, Amen.

I know your faith people, but sometimes a brother has to come

in and just kind of stir you up a little bit.

Amen. Apostle Earl, Apostle Marcy came

to our church, preached the same messages that I've been

preaching forever, but the people finally got it.

I don't understand what's up with that.

They're like, Oh my gosh, I've never heard of this Kingdom

message. I'm like, I've been preaching

this for years, but a brother will come in just to stir your

faith. Amen.

Hallelujah, glory. Let me just jump ahead here.

Go to first Timothy chapter 6, verse 12.

1 Timothy 6:12

No grit, no glory. That's what we're going to call

it this morning. No grits, no glory.

And I promise you I won't keep you all day.

First Timothy chapter 6 verse 12, Paul says this Hallelujah

1 Timothy 6:12

fight, the good fights of faith. Is that right?

Is that the right Scripture fights, say fights, the good

fights of faith. Now some translations say the

true faith. I like that.

The true faith, which means there is faith that is true and

then there is fraudulent faith. There is faith that is true that

keeps holding on to the promises of God regardless of what it

looks like. But there is fraudulent faith

that when trials and tribulations come, those people

run from the fight. Oh, pastor, I'm with you.

I'm we're together in this thing.

And then when you start preaching messages that

challenge them, they're like the first persons out the door,

first people out the door. But he says, fight the good

fight of faith or fight the good fight for the true faith.

Hold tightly. Another translation says, or lay

hold. I like that, 'cause we don't

have that translation in Portuguese.

Lay Holt, take possession. Hold tightly on to that thing,

to eternal life to which you were summoned and for which you

confessed the good confession of faith before many witnesses.

Now, again, I know you know faith, and this might seem

elementary, but it is very important for what I am here to

do. Amen.

Now, I don't have money. I am not a multimillionaire.

Well, I'm a dominionaire. That's what I'm Amen.

That message changed my life. Amen.

I'll never forget that camp meeting.

I was sitting way in the back with her and I was like, who is

this guy? I didn't know who you are.

Like who's this guy? And he starts preaching, I'm

like, who is this guy? And then I, I, I saw his wife

and I was like, who are these people?

And all of a sudden I'm just weeping.

I'm like, oh, Jesus, praise God. I had never heard a message like

that in my life. Praise God.

So going back here, it's not like a negative confession here,

but I am not a millionaire in the sense of I'm not like I

don't have all the finances to help fund what God is going to

do here, but I've got faith, Amen.

I am rich in faith, Amen. And I'm going to connect my

faith to your faith and we're going to go to the other side.

I am a professional at believing God for things that look

impossible. I'm a professional at believing

and praying and putting my knees on the ground and saying God

Almighty. I will lay hold of that promise.

No grit, no glory, Hallelujah. Praise God.

OK, let's get back to the Scripture here.

Maybe just if I need to move along, just do one of these.

OK? To which you were summoned.

OK, which you confess the good confession of faith before many

witnesses. How many of you know that faith

is not a suggestion? Faith, according to Hebrews,

pleases God. And the Bible is clear that it

is the righteous that must live by faith, because without faith

it is impossible to please God. Faith not only pleases God, but

it also moves God. It moves God in your favor.

God wants to move for you. He wants to move for anchor

Faith Church. And so faith is absolutely

necessary. Hallelujah.

Not only is faith necessary, but faith also has a voice.

Amen. I'll just teach you some basic

principles here. But faith has a voice.

Faith speaks. Hallelujah.

Faith begins in the heart, but it ends in the mouth, right?

Faith begins here in in my heart.

I'll never forget when God called us to Brazil.

It was an inward knowing. It was God saying go now, but

eventually we had to get to a point to where the faith within

my heart, Amen, that was activated in my heart had to be

completed in my mouth and I had to begin to speak and to declare

what was in my heart, Amen. Every place we see in the Bible

where faith is described, it, it, it, it speaks about or it

says that faith speaks, it has a voice, it, it is influenced,

Hallelujah. It is motivated, is moved by our

mouth. Are you with me?

OK, I'm getting to a point here. Faith, we know, comes by hearing

and hearing by the word of Gods. It comes by hearing that

prophetic word, that anointed word that has the power to

transform. The Word of God is alive and

active. It is dynamic.

These are just scriptures. You know these things.

It is alive, it is active as dynamic.

It is anointed. And when that word comes to my

ears, it's not only anointed, but it has the power to set me

free, to heal me, but also to change and to help me get to the

other side, to change my perspective but also move me to

move with God. Amen.

Let me give you one more scripture.

We'll move forward here. Hebrews 11/6.

You could probably quote this Scripture, but it's, it's, it's

good to hear it again. But without faith, it is

impossible to walk with God. Please him.

For whoever comes near to God must believe that God exists and

that he is a rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently

seek him. So once again, faith is not

merely a suggestion. Faith is a commandment.

Walking by faith, but not just walking by faith, but also

fighting the good fight. There's a fight, Amen.

And I have learned in the many years of being on the mission

field and doing the work of the apostle, planting churches and

dealing with people, is that it requires a fight, but not a

fight with the people. Our fight is not according to

the flesh and blood or it is not a fight of the flesh and blood,

but is what's the scripture in English?

Remind me is our weapons of warfare are not carnal, but they

are mighty and tearing down strongholds that our fight is

not against flesh and blood, but against every principality and

power of the air. Are you with me now?

So there is a fight, but glory to God, it is a good fight,

Amen. Matthew 77, let's just let's

move forward. I'm going to give you some

scriptures lay some foundation that I want to speak a prophetic

word into your life. Amen.

Matthew 77 reveals to us the results of a faith that is

functional. It is a faith that speaks.

It is a faith that declares, OK, Jesus says this.

Keep on asking, and you might receive what you ask for.

If you if that's what your translation says, you've got

your Bible at the wrong place. OK, you might want to return

that at the Woo, woo. What's a woo?

Woo, woo, woo. What's Wawa?

I had never heard of Wawa. Yeah, yeah.

I went there today. I was like, this is like

QuikTrip. It's QuikTrip, but Wawa.

Woo, woo. What's it called?

Wawa. That's a very interesting name

for a a gas station. But if you bought your Bible at

Wawa, you might wanna take it back.

Amen. OK, because it says keep on

asking and you will receive what you ask for.

Faith has a voice. Faith is functional.

Faith declares Hallelujah. You got to get some grit in you.

Hey man, keep on seeking and you will find.

Keep on knocking in the door. We'll be open to you for

everyone who asks receives. Glory to God.

When I read that scripture, I was like, Oh my God Almighty, I

am everyone. I'm, I'm there.

That's me. No, I know I might be like

that's just elementary. That's just basic.

But basic Bible changed my life. Basic Bible got me to Brazil.

Please go for everyone who asks. Oh, we've got much to do, babe.

We got a we got a central campus that's going to seat about 1200

people. I don't got no money to.

I mean, we literally walked into that place by faith.

You have to see it to to I wish we had a photo to show you it is

the most ghetto it it is the most I mean it's below ghetto.

If ghetto had a ugly stepbrother, that's then is that

it is so ghetto. It is so dilapidated.

But I walked in that place and I said, I've got an another

opportunity to prove that God's word works.

Hallelujah. One more opportunity to ask, one

more opportunity to seek, one more opportunity to knock.

Do you got a grit in you? Do you got grit in you?

Has anchor Faith lost its grit? I don't know if I believe you.

Has anchor faith lost its grit? Have you gotten comfortable

sitting in your recline seat with your little cup holder?

You better get you better get on your feet and say we're going

tomorrow. We're going today.

Hey, man, you've got to get a grid in you and say we need one

more opportunity to ask, one more opportunity to seek, one

more opportunity to knock. Whoa.

Don't get comfortable, church. You can sit down, but don't get

comfortable for everyone who asks.

Receive everyone. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you. Jesus.

We need $500,000 right to do our total renovation to go into I I

don't have 500 Mass. I do.

That's a bad confession. I've got it.

I've got it. I've got it.

I've got it. I've got it.

It's in heavenly places, but I've got it.

And then I'm gonna take take possession.

Amen. If you don't want the sermon,

I'll take it for myself. And then I'm gonna take

possession today. I've got grit.

I called Apostle Earl. We were in the car and we were

talking. I was telling him Apostle man,

I'm feeling a little, I was a little sad and like a little we

were talking about this. I said, man, I'll post.

I feel like I'm in a weird season right now.

Everything seems like it's going great, but I'm just really

discouraged. I'm just really discouraged

right now. I feel like I don't feel like I

got faith anymore. I feel like I don't got the

faith that I had when I was like that crazy 22 year old.

Like I'm gonna take the nations. I feel like I've gotten

comfortable. After I hung up the phone, the

Lord told me no grit, no glory, no grit, no glory.

Sometimes you got to talk to the man of God to get a word from

God. Amen.

No grit, no glory. I was like, oh, that's good.

He said, Joshua, you got to get some grit in you again.

You got to get some grit. You got to get some grit.

You got to get some grit in you again, son, You got to.

I've got much to do, son. I've got much to do with you,

son. Sons and daughters, I've got

much to do with you. But what I have provided in

grace must be, oh, what's that? What?

I wrote it down right here. What has been provided to you by

Grace will have to be acquired by faith.

Now, I didn't say that. That was Keith Moore.

Amen. I love Keith Moore.

Give him some credit. Keith Moore said, He said what

must, what has been provided to me by grace will have to be

acquired by me by faith. Tyson, does that make sense?

God provides the grace, but we take possession by faith.

That's in salvation or that's in any aspect of the Kingdom.

I must take hold of it by faith. I must have a grit in me to say

if God said it, I believe it and that settles it in my heart.

That's Pastor Hagen. That's my pastor.

If God said it, not believing not settles in my house.

Pastor Hagan, old country. I love that.

If God said it, I believe it. That settles in my heart and I'm

going to take hold of that. And then I'm going to apply my

faith with a functional faith. I am going to ask, I'm going to

receive or I'm going to seek and I'm going to knock.

Amen. Sure.

Let me give you 3 points and we're going to go home.

Write this down. Three points, 3 points and I'm

not calling myself a actually, this is not me what I'm saying I

but when I say the prophet, I'm actually speaking about your,

your apostle here in this moment.

Amen. As I'm going to say this, that

when the prophet comes to throw a vision upon you, you better

take hold of it and run with that vision.

Are you with me? And you have to get a grit in

you, a faith in you that takes hold or lays hold of that

prophetic words. Are you with me?

You have to dig into it. Three things have to happen when

the prophet comes to throw his mantle or his vision upon you.

Three things. Number one, write this down.

It's not three things that need to happen.

I don't even know how to articulate this, but my just

write it down. My behavior will block my

blessing. That's the first point.

If I don't change my behaviour, the blessing will be blocked.

The prophet can come and he can declare and he can, he can speak

about a vision, but if your behaviour is not aligned to the

Kingdom perspective, he will not get you a blessing.

The blessings of God are always yes and Amen in Christ Jesus,

but we have to take possession of those blessings.

We have to lay hold of those blessings.

We have to act in faith to receive those blessings.

But behavior, and I've, I've seen this so many times when it

comes to church planting and church projects and, and moving

forward is that if people's behavior is not aligned with

God's perspective, it won't happen.

It won't happen. Now, I'm not saying, I think and

by the Spirit, there are sometimes these and even maybe

here, if I may be so bold to say, there's sometimes not,

there might be behaviors and the behavior is just kind of

comfortable, right? Or just some kind of

comfortable. I'm tired of doing projects.

I'm I'm tired of it, You know, I just want to sit and receive and

that's good and that's, that's OK.

But man, when God is moving, you have to move with God.

And so the Lord says to you with these kind of botched 3 points,

but I believe they're prophetic and they're good that my that

your behavior will block your blessings.

You have to how do you say modify, modify or adjust your

behavior this morning? Are you with me?

You have to modify your behavior.

The only way to get great in you to get the glory is if your

behavior is appropriate. Are you with me now?

And I'll explain this here in just a second.

But let me give you the points. And we're going to read a story,

and then we're going to finish the second point.

And this will make more sense in just a moment.

My repentance will restore my rights.

OK, So behavior is critical, but also repentance too.

Repentance, repentance, repentance, repentance will

restore your right #3 this is a miracle.

I've never been able to give three points in a sermon.

I'm always say, like, write this down.

I never get to it. But just going to give them all

to you at the beginning. My persistence provokes my

promise. Write it down.

My persistence provokes my promise.

So #1 there's going to be a test afterwards.

Number one, my behavior blocks my blessing #2 my, my repentance

restores my right, my right to take hold of the blessing,

right? My right to say, OK, Lord,

please forgive me. I was in doubt.

I was, I was in fear. So Lord, please forgive me.

The Lord says, my grace and my grace is sufficient for you.

Amen. He's already forgiven us, but

it's good for the Saint to repent.

It's good for us to come to the altar and say, Lord, forgive me.

Not that I'm trying to win something from God, but it

changes something in me. It humbles me.

God says humble yourselves before the hand of the Almighty

God and he will lift you up in due time.

OK? And my persistence provokes my

promise. Open your Bibles and we're gonna

finish here first. Kings chapter 19, verse 19.

1 Kings 19:19

I hope that you got something this morning.

I pray that you got something. I pray that you're getting

something. I pray that you're getting

something here first. Kings 1919 in Brazil.

We'll preach for like 2-3 hours. It's crazy, but I don't want to

overstay. I want Pastor Apostle to invite

me back. So I gotta wrap this mother up.

OK, so three hours, four hours. But today is going to be a

quickie. OK, but here we go first.

Actually, how long have I been preaching?

Yeah, 36 minutes. That's good.

First, Kings chapter 1919, go to your Bibles there.

Let's go. I want to read a story here,

this story after the Lord spoke to me and said no grit, no

glory, the Lord brought me to this scripture and he said,

Joshua, I want you, I want you to teach the people there at

anchor, and I want you to be taught, son, about how to get

your grit back. But grit can only come if your

behavior is correct, if there's repentance and if there's

persistence. OK, so let's read the story here

first. Kings, 1919.

So Elijah went and found Elijah, son of I'm not a good.

What is that? Shafat.

Yeah, that's good. Sounds good, Shafat.

Plowing of fields. There were twelve teams of

oxygen in the field and Elijah was plowing with the 12 team.

Elijah went over to him and threw his mentor, his cloak upon

him, across his shoulders, and then he walked away.

I love the prophet Elijah. This guy was like, I don't care.

He he wasn't about performance. He's just like, I'm going to do

it and if this guy gets it, he's going to get it.

He throws it up on the the young man.

He walks away. Elijah left the oxen standing

there ran after the prophet Elijah and said to him first,

this, this is where he kind of went went wrong first.

When the word of God comes to you, be quick to obey.

When the prophetic word comes to you, be quick to obey.

Take lay hold of that word quickly so the enemy doesn't

come and rob your confidence. When God spoke to us to move to

Brazil, he said go now. The next day we sold everything.

We are ready to go. First let me go and kiss my

father and mother goodbye and then and then I will go with

you. Elijah responded.

Some translations say go back and but he says, oh what have I

done? This translation says, but think

about what I have done to you. Now I could be wrong and apostle

can correct me, but I feel like, and I could be wrong that the

prophet's a little irritated with this guy.

I could be wrong and he says, what have I done?

Go back and think about what I have just thrown the mantle upon

you and you're telling me that you got to get your affairs and

orders, even Jesus. This happened to Jesus once,

right? The man comes, I'm going to

follow you, but first let me go back and bury my father and he

said let the dead bury the dead. When the word comes to you that

advancement is nigh, you must be quick to respond.

You must get a grit in you and say, if God said it, I'm going

with God. Who?

Hallelujah. There are many believers who

will never experience the blessings of the Lord because

they are stuck behind a barrier called behavior.

Their behavior, God comes with his word.

They say, hey God, that sounds good, but give me a few moments

and then I'll do it. This prophet man, he was the

rainmaker, the fire starter, his cloak.

You could still smell the smoke. You could see the pieces of

blood from the prophets that have been laid, you know, kept

slain. I, I mean, the Mansell fell upon

the Chauvin. The kid looks at the Mansell.

He knows who this guy is, but didn't understand the weight of

it. His behavior blocked his

blessing. When apostle launches a vision

and that vision comes upon you, you better not say, well, when

it's convenient, then we'll go. You better say, yes, Sir, let's

go, let's go. Because if God said it to the

man of God, we're going, we're going, we're going, we're going,

we're going. OK, let's move forward here.

So Elijah, and this is the second point here, my repentance

restores my right. But listen to Joven.

The young man makes a quick adjustment in his heart, and we

see this. So Elijah returned to his ox and

slaughtered them. He used the wood from the plow

to build a fire to roast their flesh.

He passed around the meat to the townspeople, and they all ate.

Praise God. What a generous young man.

Then he went with Elijah as his assistant.

Are you going to go with God this morning?

Are you going to repent and say, Lord, forgive me for for, for

not being quick with my generosity.

Forgive me for not being quick with my faith.

Forgive me for not being quick with my confession.

Forgive me, Lord, and I feel I'm not speaking to ever, but I'm

speaking to a couple people here.

I can sense it in my spirit that you have been speaking

negatively against this project and you have been passing this

building and you have been saying in your heart, it's never

going to happen. Is don't raise your hand because

we're going to stone you. If that's, I'm just kidding, is

never going to happen is that an apostle gets up and he says this

and they're like, oh, here we go one more time, one more time,

one more day. Oh, we as the community of

people of believers must be in unity, must be in unity, must be

of 1 faith, 1 baptism, 1 Spirit, one voice saying come on, we're

going, we are moving, we're moving, I'm ready to go.

Amen. Repentance restores your rights

to take hold of the promise. Finally, Hallelujah.

Go to Second Kings chapter 2, one through 16.

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As I said, my persistence provokes my blessing.

I've been teaching you about how to get some grit in you.

Amen. Starts first with your behavior

#2 it starts second, it starts with repentance.

And 3rd, it's persistence. Persistence, persistence,

persistence, persistence. I may not be the most gifted

oratorial speaker. I might not be the most eloquent

speaker or the best plan, Sir, but I'll tell you this, I am

persistent. I am very persistent.

And I have learned persistence because the only way I'm get a

hold of my promise is with persistence.

And then when the Lord was about to take Elijah up to heaven in a

whirlwind, Elijah, Elijah and Elijah were travelling from

Gilgal. And Elijah said to Elijah, stay

here for Lord has told me to go to Bethel.

But Elijah and listen to the young man has changed his

behavior. Hallelujah.

Praise God. He has now walked with the man

of God. He has walked with the prophet.

He has learned from the prophet. Faith cometh by hearing and

hearing by the word of God. So the young boy has faith in

him. And now look at his confession.

It's not let me go back and get things in order.

He says, whoa. He says as surely as the Lord

lives and as you live, he says I'm never going to leave you.

I already had that that behavior in the past and it almost ruined

my blessing. But I'm not.

Wherever you go, I'm going. So if you're here, I'm here.

If you're there, I'm there. I'm going with you because

you're going with God. And wherever you go, I'm going.

Amen. Hallelujah.

Stay here. What you talking about?

I'm not going to stay here. I'm not going to miss my

opportunity. You've got something that I've

once I felt that anointing, I felt that vision.

I felt it upon me. It changed me.

It moved me and I wasn't ready for it.

But I'm ready for it now. I'm ready for.

He didn't tell the Prophet right away, but he says I'm not going

anywhere because you've got something.

They've got something I want. That's why I'm close to them.

When I met the Mac Cracker Barrel, I was like, these two

got something that I want and it's not money.

It's not it's not an opportunity to speak.

No, no, no. It's what they they have

something that I want. They're generals in the faith.

I'm a soldier. I'm gonna say wherever you go,

I'm going Hallelujah. I got I'm sorry, guys, I'm going

long here. I apologize as surely as the

Lord lives. So they went together to Bethel

and here comes the critical Christians, right?

OK. It was like, well, the prophets

were just share and share in their mind.

And in my opinion, I don't think that they were.

Listen to how Elijah, Elijah responds and look at this.

Look at this. The group of prophets from

Bethel came to Elijah and asked him, don't you know, brother in

the Lord, the Lord is going to take your master today.

They're all walking together and they probably didn't talk like

that, but they're there. They're like, Hey, don't you

know? Don't you know, Don't you know?

And Elijah's like, you better shut your mouth.

You don't think I know? I don't care because where he

goes, I go, and wherever he goes, he going up, I'm going up.

He says, look, he says, he says, of course I know.

He, he may not really know. He's just probably saying it by

faith. Maybe he does know.

Who knows? Of course I know, Elijah

answered. But be quiet about it in like

the 21st language. That's like, shut up.

It wasn't just be quiet about it.

It was shut up, brother. Shut your mouth.

Sometimes you got to tell those people who are saying, don't you

know? It's not, hey, don't you know?

Don't you know, don't you know, you're like, OK, yeah, just shut

your mouth, please. I don't care.

I don't care if the man of God said it.

I'm going with the man of God. OK, Let's finish up here then,

Elijah said to Elijah, second time here, stay here, for the

Lord has told me to go to Jericho.

But Elijah responded again. Surely I thought I already said

this to you, Sir. But as surely as in some of you

this morning need to come up to your apostles after cheer and

say as surely as the Lord, what's he say?

He says, he says as surely as the Lord lives and as you

yourself live, I will never leave you.

I'm never going to leave you. I'm not going to leave you.

I'm not going to leave you. I'm not going to leave this

vision. They might go, but I'm not going

nowhere. They might go through the door,

but I'm not going nowhere. I'm right here, right now and

I'm ready. I'm ready.

I'm ready. Breo So a rema A4 E carre a si

yo brocotos. Ebro sibe O riste Kano Otto tis

de la brov. There will be many sons, and

many sons will rise up, and daughters who will rise up, and

who will come? And say, Apostle Apostola,

surely the Lord lives. I will not leave you.

And as they come and come, and many shall come, many shall come

from many places, shall come to this place, and they will sit at

your table. And they will say, teach us,

instruct us, as there have been many sons before, many more

shall come. And they will say unto you, not

that I am interested in your mantle, not that I'm interested

in in trying to get something from you.

But surely, as the Lord has said, or I was, I got to get

that in my heart. I'm going to say that He's so.

It's different in Portuguese. He as surely as the Lord lives,

and as you live, the Lord lives forever, we will not leave you.

And as they come and come, and many shall come and sit at the

table, and the table shall be greater and expanding in great

Profunji Dajji depth. Hallelujah.

I'm a I'm a prophecy in Portuguese.

It's it's the way I'm accustomed to do it and.

The table will be extended and many chairs will be placed at

the table, and many sons and daughters will come and sit at

the table and they will not be interested in the meal that's

before them, but they will sit because they are sons and

daughters. And of course the the meal

before them is important and crucial, but they come because

they desire community. They desire to be LED, they

desire to be stretched. And the Lord is saying the table

will be great. The table will start here and it

will go to the other side of the world, and it will be a large

table and the Lord will do it and it will be supernatural.

And He is the head at the head of the table, and you 2 are on

the other end, not just one, but both 2 sitting at the head, at

one head. The head is Jesus, and at the

foot of the apostles. And many sons and daughters will

sit at the table. And you'll be given to give

instructions, divine instructions, divine

instructions. And.

That's the point. No, yes, you point.

This is the point the Lord is saying.

Quando, Corporal, when this body permits these two to enter.

Into their divine calling others will then be able to enter into

their divine. And I see in my spirit, the

minute that they rise up, a mantle will descend.

A mantle will come upon the shoulders of many young people,

many young people, many young. People.

And there will. Never be need.

There will. Never be a need for people for

the expansion. As sober principles.

It's not about principles. Natural principles it's.

About a divine calling. And.

The calling of. God is.

Upon you too, and the Lord is saying.

Your. Time to rise up is now.

Do not be afraid, because God will say many.

Many. Sons and daughters.

Moment and. Because you taught.

Them not only. Before them, in the meal before

them. No mountain there.

And don't misunderstand. Crucial of.

Course food isn't. But when people come scandal

seeking. Just for the food.

And. Not for the the location.

And the. The heart would be.

When? They come by faith.

And. They take a place at the.

Those are the true. Signs.

And that's how you'll be able to.

Just they are. If they are true.

If they are false if they're. Faithful.

Or if they're fraudulent. Fraudulent.

There you will see. A cabe de lis.

Their. Head.

Turning. From towards.

The head of the team or. They'll.

Look the other way. They're.

Looking at the other way. They will see it in pesos and.

If there are. People.

Who just look down for the next meal.

That's. How you will identify?

The source Verdadero. Those who are, trust.

The source Frouchy. For those who are.

False yes, the source Verdadero and the true no so into the sad.

They're not interested, no. There's no kiddies, Portugal

just. What they'll eat.

That's all kiddies, Portugal. They're.

Interested, not what they will. Not.

Receive not the not strong fee food but living breath.

Will survive there. Will see.

More to feel his sons will come. I'm telling you, I'm telling

you. I'm telling you, I'm telling

you, I'm telling you, I pray you belief, I pray you understand

church. It is a great table, a great

banquet being laid before us in this hour.

And the Lord is saying, oh, it is my church and I will build my

church and the gates of hell will not prevail.

I will build my church and I will build my church and I will

continue to build my church. Be not afraid, joy set before

you. Be not afraid or discouraged

joy. The joy is set before you.

We win, we win, we win, we win as surely as the Lord lives.

Let me finish description I got to I got to wrap this up.

It's Uncle me. Are you with me or were you all

raptured up? Come on now, of course, do you

know that the Lord is going to take your mouse away?

Elijah says second time, be quiet about it, Elijah said.

Oh, this is now the second time here they crossed over the

Jordan a little bit lost when they came to the other sides,

when they came to the other, when they came to the other

side. Are you ready, Church?

There are some there's I can sense it in my spirit.

There are sons and daughters. And it's not just Jovens young

people, it's of all ages. Many sons and daughters have

crossed over in the spirit. I just sensed it in my spirit.

They've crossed over. And the prophet says to the

young man, tell me what I can do for you.

Persistence will enable you to lay hold of your promise.

What can I do for you? For I am about to be taken away.

And Elijah responded, not let me go home, but please honor.

There's honor. Look at there's the honor,

there's the humility. Please let me inherit a double

portion of your spirit and become your successor.

You have asked the difficult thing.

Elijah was applied. But if you see me when I'm taken

away, then you will get your request.

But if not, then you won't. Once again the the young man

must take possession. And they were walking along the

way, and suddenly a chair of fire appeared.

Drawn by horses of fire. It drove between the two men,

separating them. There will be people that will

stay to be planted in here and people to go to other places.

Hallelujah. I see it in my spirit, the

Spirit of God coming into this place and separating.

Some will stay. Some will go in the sense that

some will stay because they're called to the central.

Others will go because they're called to go.

Plants Church, you better. I hope you're ready for what's

to come already is to go. If you don't want to grow, then

OK, whatever. But I, your apostles want to

grow. So Oh my, if you don't, I'll

just move to Saint Augustine and help Apostle.

Amen. I've never said that before, but

if you don't do it, I'll come and do it.

That's how convicted I am. If you don't do it, I'll do it.

But I believe there's sons and daughters in here that will do

it. Amen.

Are there people here that will do it?

Are there people here that will do it?

Are you ready? Are there people here that say

I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, Yeah, they're show, bro.

So people, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready,

I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready. I may not be qualified, but I'm

ready. I may not be equipped, but I'm

ready. You might want to take a mental

image of that right there. Click, click in the spirit.

You can take a sit seat. The Lord sees you.

OK, Pat apostle me. I'm sorry.

I'm almost done. I'm almost done.

I'm like I'm I'm just seeing a moving glory.

I go like a cloud of glory. It's really hard for me to see

my iPad. OK.

Fire came separate him. Elijah goes up.

Elisha saw it and cried out. My father, my father.

I see the Chariots and tears of Israel.

I can see it. I didn't understand it before.

I didn't see it when it was upon me.

But now I see it. I have eyes to see.

I can see what you see. I have the perspective that you

have. Elisha the the man soul fell

down. Elijah picked up Elijah's cloak

which had fallen when he was taken up.

Then Elijah returned to the Bank of the Jordan with the mantle

upon his shoulders. Now ready to crossover him.

He takes the mantle or the cloak.

He strikes the water and he declares, Where is the Lord God

of Israel or Elijah? Where is the God of Elijah?

In the river divided Elijah winter cross.

When the group of prophets from Jericho saw from a distance what

happened, they explained Elijah's spirit now rest upon

Elijah, and they went to meet him and bow to the ground.

A time is coming, apostles, where the critics and those who

abandoned the vision will come back and they will bow not.

And it's not bowing like you. You understand It is a

repentance, repentance, repentance, repentance.

And because you 2 have humble hearts, you will not hold it

over their heads. You will take the hands.

May not give them the same position they had before.

I don't know. No, probably not a good idea.

But USA, all is forgiven. Let us go.

Get ready, Church. Get ready.

Get ready, Get ready. Amen.

No grit, no glory. No grit, no glory.