Kingdom Honor - Part 1

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Lord's actually spoke to me, he said there is a deficiency of

leadership in the earth and there's a deficiency of Your

ship in the church because the church has taken worldly

principles and brought them in and our training, their leaders.

And he says, you know, he says I need you to start doing some

leadership from the platform, he said you've been doing it with

those that are in layers of leadership in the body and you

give instruction which is a Biblical principle.

Jesus had how many disciples more than 12 guys right here.

He had to 70. Right?

So there were more, but we know the 12 disciples, right?

But of The Twelve, there were three that he spent a little

more time with then the rest. So, again, you know, the like,

well, you know, pastor does spend a lot of time with his

pastoral staff. Jesus spent a lot of time with

James, John, and Peter Right. So there are, you know, certain

layers, and Leadership. You have to invest certain

things and I mean he will literally tell the other nine

y'all stay here. I'm gonna take these three guys.

Right. Okay, you know that wasn't

favoritism. Nor was it.

God was respecting them more, he's not a respecter of person,

it had to do with their assignment, okay?

At the end of the day and then he spent more time with these

twelve. And one of them was a traitor,

but he spent more time of The Twelve than he did the 70.

That are mentioned, which means he gave them in some investment,

then just in general that, he would want them to come into the

kingdom of God. He would just speak to them in

parables. And they would make statement,

you know, he who has ears, let him hear, right?

So he's saying things that later on, when the spirit of God

starts to go through and begin to remind them of things, Jesus

says, and it will click. He said, the Kingdom of Heaven

is like I get it now and they would make Jesus Lord, right?

So again, it's not favoritism. Again, it's just layers of

leader, but the Lord said, you need to speak to the Saints

across the board about leadership.

You know why I believe that is? I believe it's because God wants

the wealth of the wicked. Be laid up for the righteous and

I'm telling you we are in some of the easiest seasons for this

to happen. Now, what do I mean by that?

I mean, customer service has plummeted.

I mean, some things that I'm trying to accomplish right now,

you know, just through the church and through my own

personal house. I mean, I'm like, man, if a

Believer could just get back to what customer service look like

a little bit, even better than Pre-K covid stuff.

I mean, some things, I'm like, I'm in a third world country.

It takes forever to get this. Stuff.

I mean, my wife was on the phone today because we're trying to we

are getting our gas stove, and it has to be plumbed, didn't

know that, right? But that's the term you have to

call a plumber to hook up your gas stove, okay?

And so, you know, I'm going to, they're going to do that, get it

connected, but they won't actually connect it to the tank,

the gas company. That owns the propane tank has

to do that. Well, they told her day, you

know. Well, you know, we'll get you

the schedule and I cannot tell you. when that is, Can't even

tell me. My wife is like can you give me

a ballpark can you please give me a ballpark?

You know, because not worse than getting it connected where it's

sticking through the wall and now I have a gas stove that I

can't even use. Which means I have to keep my

electric one in the garage I guess.

So we can warm stuff up. Hallelujah.

That's not convenient, right? So I'm like maybe we can ask the

guy, can he just put it together and technically you know, the

gas company. That owns the tank supposed to

do it, right? So we'll see if that's a real

technicality, I don't know. Anyway, I love you.

So, I'm just saying, if we apply these principles, then we'll

blow the world away. I said well blow them away and

they'll just keep coming to you because you'll become reliable

proficient. A person of integrity and

character person who does their word, right, who swears to their

own hurt? I mean they'll just come after

you. Hallelujah.

So that's just a nugget for you. Okay?

Last week we talked about chain of command and it kind of brings

me into the subject that I want to minister on tonight.

Maybe we'll go a little bit further, but I want to remind

you of a couple things about chain of command and the, and

that is this that there's a chain of command in the godhead.

Okay. We talked about that.

And in John, chapter 12, verse 14.

John 12:14

I'm just so that we can see this because it's going to help us in

what we're talking about tonight.

He says, is Jesus now, says for I Do not speak on my own

initiative, but the father. So there's father God, we know

that God is one but he's three. And one is God, the Father God,

the son and God, the Holy Spirit, right?

And so Jesus, speaking says, I do not speak on my own

initiative, but the father himself who sent me So who does

Jesus take orders from the Father?

Which tells us that when Adam ate the fruit fell from Dominion

sin entered the world, Jesus didn't jump up and say I'll go

save the day. Jesus turned to the father and

say what are you going to do? Cuz I'm not doing anything.

Unless you're doing something. Well then the father, you know,

comes down into the garden in the cool of the day and says,

Adam, where are you? Which is, I can't find you not,

where are you? But where are you, what position

are you in now? Right?

And ultimately, you know, Adam sells out on God.

So, it's your fault. You gave me this woman.

She ate the fruit first and then I ate it.

No, you were in rebellion and treason.

So we'll go on to your wife here and I'll come back to you.

So he says Eve was you do? She said, man, that the serpent

deceived And I ate the fruit. He said, okay.

Alicia told the truth. I'll come back to you and he

goes to the serpent. He says, now that you've done

this, I got a plan. I'm gonna bring my see through

the woman because she didn't lie, but you did deceive her and

threw her. He's going to crush your head.

I'm going to get the Dominion that Adam lost through another

seed, okay? And then he goes back to even

says, these are going to be your challenges.

Now that you, you know, didn't obey my my command and then he

goes to Adam and said because you didn't obey my I command

this is the challenge that you're going to have and then

love put them both out the garden.

Put them out of the garden. Love did that love says you're

out? Right.

Okay, so then Jesus now could say, well, I heard what the

father says, he says he's going to come through a woman without

the help of a man. So, you know, Adam and Eve may

eventually have had a daughter. The Bible doesn't record it, but

there are women recorded and by All rights when those women were

recorded, whichever this is the first one.

I don't know. Is the first woman, maybe that's

a little trivia. Now, recorded by Rice, they

would have been a virgin at some point.

Which means God could up, the father could have said some

right? There's the Virgin we're going

to show up in this this one, Holy Spirit going there, go over

there come upon her and impregnate her with the word

that will become flesh and we'll call him.

Jesus, didn't do it. Didn't do it through a few

dispensations floods. The planet.

Wipes out a race of people and starts over with Noah and his

family and they're still problems.

But yet the father is not rushed.

And Jesus is not like stressing. Jesus was not worried about

Humanity because he knows my father has this thing.

So let's go back to that scripture, then Jesus them who

was with the father in the beginning.

Because we know in the beginning, God created the

heavens and the Earth. And we see in verse 3 that God

said, because Jesus is the word in the beginning was the word

and the Word was with God. And the Word was God, that's

John 1:1. And in verse 14, says the word

John 1:1

became flesh. So that's Jesus Christ.

So then when the God, the Father spoke that's Jesus, he's the

word, right? And it said the spirit was

hovering over the surface of the Earth, he was waiting for the

word to give a command. And so that he could perform it.

So that's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit In the

Beginning, okay? He said, for, I do not speak on

my own initiative, but the father himself who sent me has

given me a command as what to say, and what to speak.

So again, Jesus is not giving us a piece of his mind.

Nor is Jesus speaking. Emotionally disconnected from

the father. Jesus does not speak about all

of his problems. Jesus doesn't say, you don't

know how bad this is. Right.

Jesus attempted on all accounts, like we were yet.

Never sinned. Why?

Cause I'm only gonna say and do what the father says, which

means there is a chain of command.

Now, when you say it, just like, we're saying it right now, it

can seem like, wow this is militant.

Well it's not militant because you don't understand the nature

of God. God is life.

He is the source of life. So anything he says is for the

purpose because he is life, right?

So again, anything contrary becomes death and God can't be

around death, nor will he be around saying or Rebellion or

things and he'll crush it completely.

So you want to follow his word because that's the pathway to

eternal life period. So This is saying I want to hear

from the father and only say what he says because that's the

only thing that's going to get going to get the victory.

It's the only thing that conquers and overcomes.

So God is love. And so he knows what's best

because he's very well calculated.

In his words and his thinking, he just doesn't say stuff off

the top of his head and then go out, I didn't mean that.

God, the father doesn't do that, right?

And if we would have never lost our dominion and there will come

a time that God will set everything back in order in his

original intent. Which means we're not going to

just be running off at the mouth anymore.

We're going to be very adamant to say, man.

Holy spirit, tell us what Dad saying.

Right. Let's talk to Father, let's talk

to the father. So Jesus is excited to only say

and speak what he hears which means he was always submitted.

Right. Then we saw over here in John

John 16:13

16:13 it says this concerning the Holy Spirit and Jesus again

saying, but when he that is the spirit of truth.

That's the Holy Spirit comes, he will guide you into all truth.

He will not speak of his own initiative which means the Holy

Ghost. Could say what he thinks. he

himself like Jesus has a will That's why Jesus said in the

garden, father, if there's any way for this cup to pass, let it

pass, but not my will, but yours be done.

At the end of the day, I'm not going to try to do it my way

because my way is rebellion, your way is Life.

Okay? So the Holy Spirit, same thing.

He's not going to speak on his own initiative.

This is why when people come and say, well, the Lord told me

this, and if it doesn't line up with the written word, then I

know that wasn't the Holy Spirit.

And again, they can say, no, it really was, it was gone.

I mean, I know he talked to me. No, he didn't because he the

Holy Spirit, never says anything contrary.

To what the written word and context is talking about.

It has to stay within the character and nature.

Are you hearing me? Okay, so for he will not speak

on his own initiative but whatever he hears he will speak

and he will disclose to you. What is to come which means then

Jesus himself says now another verse says that he'll remind you

of things that I've said the holy spirit is here to reveal

the word. So he's not here to reveal

himself. I said he's not here to reveal

himself. In fact, the gifts of the Spirit

are in operation for the revealing of the word.

So that the word can be revealed in a person I've just because

someone gets a word of knowledge about something going on,

someone's personal life is so that God is letting them know.

I know what's going on. I just spoke to you by the

spirit through someone about what's going on that only?

I would know and you would know, but then they typically are

giving a word that then can help you change your situation or

something to stand on. I mean to know what's going on

in Kirk's life, just to read his Male, I mean, psychics can do

that because familiar spirits know what's going on, but when

the real gift of the word of knowledge is in play it, so that

the word are the spirit can reveal.

Jesus is answer to your situation, or to confirm, maybe

something going on that, all these Bears already told you on

the inside. But for whatever reason, you

need a little bit more. Now, when I say for whatever

reason, It may not be a lack of you not trusting God.

It could be that God wants to submit that thing I know because

I was I didn't know what it meant to be led by the spirit

nor was I even baptized in the Holy Ghost so I didn't have a

context. So when God called me to the

ministry, it was pretty Supernatural.

But it's stuck because I had not developed my spirit to know and

be able to hear the Holy Spirit well enough.

So that the inward witness are the Small boys was enough for me

to know I'm doing this. But when my windshield

disappears while I'm driving down the interstate in Atlanta.

And I see myself preaching before, see a people, it's

stuck. The vision stuck eyes light and

at times in my life, when I was thinking, this is too hard.

I just could do it this way. The vision kept showing up and I

was just come. I can't.

I'm not going to run from. I've got to go.

Back to that. I mean I'll my life's nothing.

If I do not try to obtain this because it became that aware.

But now I can hear God hear so well that I'm like this is it I

don't need, you know, a movie playing in front of me.

Now, I don't have to have a vision if he wants to give 15

but he doesn't have to because the voice is enough.

I said the voice is enough. So what if the Holy Ghost talks

to me than he's telling me something about Jesus and Jesus,

if that's a word from Jesus, then based upon scripture, it

came straight from the father and was so great about that is

the father actually has the final say to all things.

So Were the father has said about my life.

Nothing can stop it. But me And for you whatever God

has said about your life. Nothing can stop it.

But you boys, that's power there.

That's like thank you Jesus. Thank you.

Jesus. That I can accomplish all that

you've asked me to do and no one and nothing can stop it.

Not a human being though. They can try to try to hinder

it, nor the devil and all of his, you know, cohort doesn't

matter because they're under our feet.

Anyway, I mean, they're actually easier to deal with than humans.

It's true. I mean, it's easier to deal with

the devil and his I mean I want to, you know, face to face so to

speak level because they don't talk back.

Okay, but humans who listen to the devil, you know, start to

reason and keep pressing stuff and they're like, you know, I

can review the influence that's around you but you may still

keep coming. But then that's a problem

because then you find yourself fighting against God's plan for

someone's life and you don't ever want to do that ever.

Whoo, its dangers. Okay, so then because there's a

chain of command, right? In the godhead, we said this

Jesus, then who's always for all eternity because God's always

been Has always been in the seat of under the command of God.

Which means that he never aspires to be the lead.

So, we said this last week, then, where does the aspiration

to be the lead of something come from?

And it comes from the Devil. The devil is the one who wanted

to exalt his throne above the most high.

Jesus never wants his throne above the father ever.

So we should never aspire to have our throne above something

or aspired to be over people for that matter. .

We should aspire to want to lead through serving.

Because that's how you become great in the kingdom.

Are you hearing me? Because again, Jesus, addressed

greatness not leadership. Is it a few want to be great?

You don't do it like the Gentiles who lorded over, who

want to be the lead and want to make everybody serve them.

What they do. If you want it, then you going

to find yourself serving everybody, which means you just

have a heart that is saying about me.

What can I do to help you? Now, that doesn't mean, you

can't help because you got to give and take at the end of the

day, there's going to be a give and take God's going to have

someone serve you because it helps their leadership and

you've got to accept it but it's hard for you to accept it

because you just want to serve them.

That becomes the challenge. Can I carry your Bible know?

I care. Moll model, thank you.

Right. But I get it, okay, so God wants

you to start, okay? Here is, you can have it, I get

why it's happening, but let it be known.

But when you really understand the principle of kings and

people start serving you, then you'll find yourself even going

over and above their serving you to serve them.

All right, so then because there is this chain of command and

there's this position of submission that then leads to

Greater Authority than we must talk about a thing called honor.

In Romans chapter 13 verse 7. It says this render to all what

Romans 13:7

is due them. Tax to whom tax is due custom to

whom custom is due Fear To whom fear as do.

And I'm gonna focus on honor to whom honor.

And by implication, although it's not there but it's there in

the first to render to all what is what do them?

So some are due taxes. So why are you complaining so

much? Okay.

Now there's nothing wrong with finding legal ways to keep money

that affords. You buy your citizenship but to

complain about it. All right, custom to whom custom

Fear To whom fear honor to whom Honor by implication is do is

do. So there are Someone there are

whom's that deserve honor and we're obviously going to deal

with the one who deserves the highest tonight, right?

So in our kingdom Institute school that we have here, one of

our classes is the life of honor and in that we teach this honor

is the key to submission which is required to walk in

authority. Remember, last week we saw that

the Jury and says I'm a man. Also, like you mean identify

with you Jesus. And the first thing that he

identified with Jesus, and that he was under Authority, not that

he was in it. But he was under and because he

was under, then he recognized apposite The Authority.

He was actually in most of the time, we just want to know who's

in charge. instead of who's under, Because again, most

people want to be in charge and make people do what you tell

them to do. Instead of, let me find somebody

I can get up underneath. I need to find somebody I can

serve because I'm find somebody I can serve, then it helps

release my ability to lead. Because Jesus had Authority

cause he was submitted. Are you hear me?

So, why you've heard me say that I was I came underneath Ramos

organization because it allows me to submit Okay, but I can

ordained ministers through anchor Faith Church.

In fact, Pastor Roman and his wife, Pastor Carla are ordained

through anchor Faith, Ministerial Association, so

through that I could ordained myself.

Who is the president of the organization right now?

Again, it sounds good. When we say, well, you're

submitted to Jesus. Well, we're all submitted to

Jesus, right? But there is a level of

submitting to one another And if I'm going to be great, as he

said, I got to be the servant of all not just a servant of God,

okay? Which means then I need to find

myself serving somebody and their Vision, not just the

vision God's given me, which is why I became underneath Rhema.

Then because Pastor gave me more responsibility.

That means I'm more submitted Right.

I'm more submitted. Which means then there's things

that I do now and I don't, you know, I do because of my

submitted status and if Pastor ever calls me, a, my staff know

this, if he ever calls me and says, Pastor Earle, I need you

to be here. Then I'm making adjustments.

You said about because we getting this kind of like,

nobody can tell me what to do. You need to find somebody that

you'll yield to and say whatever they tell me to do I'll say

haha. Because it only causes whatever

influence you have in the realm of oversight to be increased.

And then you kick in the law of sowing and reaping, right?

And I don't do it so that I can be a better leader or by on a

selfish side. I do it because I'm submitted to

God's word and I want to serve somewhere.

So that in turn, you know, whatever he's asked me to do can

be the Most efficient. All right.

So then honor is the key to submission, which is required to

walk an authority on or simply means something.

So valuable that is held as precious prized cherished,

treasured valuable and very dear, almost say that again,

honor then is something so valuable that it is held as

precious prized cherished. Girard valuable and very dear

back in the day, you know, they didn't stamp, you know, your

currency so currency and even today, you know, we do have

certain metals that, you know, the value, there's a value

associated with bias weight like gold, gold is so much per ounce.

What is it today? 1800 1800 an ounce.

So that means if I happen to have 16 ounces and you have 5

ounces, which one has more value?

The weightier one. Right?

The one that has more weight so honor has the the context of

weighty or Great Value, right? So when we're saying we're

honoring someone we are showing them that they have great value

to our lives, right? Great Value to our lives.

And again, when you think of the Bible, when he says, the Kingdom

of Heaven, is like a man. Who found a treasure in a field?

Right. What did he do?

He went sold everything. He had to buy the field, which

came with the dirt. That he had to excavate.

To get the rest of the treasure, right?

So we see them because he it had such value to it.

It was worth him, selling out for it selling all he had to

acquire it. It was greater value than all

that he already possessed. Is what I'm saying, is there any

one in your life? That you hold at such honor that

you would sell out for. Well, I hope so his name should

be Jesus. And we need to check that

because a lot of times, maybe we don't sell out.

Me how much value do we actually put on Jesus?

Now, I'm not going to talk about that tonight.

I'm Gonna Keep it super positive, right?

This is super positive service, amen.

So if honor is given to someone or something, or if honors give

it to something or someone it they will be seen as valuable or

Irreplaceable. Irreplaceable.

Right. How about you Bulls are In the

natural light. Can't live without it.

Right? We sucked it out of the room

right now man. But do we honor it?

I mean, most of the time we don't even think about it.

We just breathe it. We have no Thanksgiving towards

it. Okay, Revelations chapter 5

Revelation 5 · chapter mention

obviously we want to honor the Lord, do we?

Not look what it says in Revelation chapter 5 verse 12

Revelation 5:12

and 13. It says in saying with a loud

voice Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and

riches and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing.

So, he is to receive what honor and every Anything, which is in

heaven and on the earth and under the Earth and on the sea

and all things in them. I heard saying to him who sits

on the throne and to the lamb be blessing and honor and what

Glory How and Dominion forever and ever, how valuable is Jesus

to you right now? I mean walk, what kind of Honor

are we showing to the king? We're kind of honor.

Is that where are we at in our honor with the king with the

king, with the king, with the king, the savior of Our Lives?

The one who was slain come on second Peter 1:17 look what it

2 Peter 1:17

says here. Second Peter, chapter 1 verse

2 Peter 1:17

17, says it this way for when he received honor, this is talking

about Jesus and Glory from God the father.

So Jesus received honor from the father such an utterance as this

was made to him by the Majestic Glory.

This is my beloved Son in whom I am what well-pleased wow.

Right. Jesus himself said in John

John 5:23

chapter 5 verse 23 says so that all all will honor the son even

as they honor the father, he who does not honor.

The son does not honor the father who sent him and we'll

break that verse down later on, okay?

So Jesus honors the father and in turn, the father honors him.

And he's honored because he sold out to the will of his father.

Jesus had the same context. Dad has a plan for my life.

I've read it in the pages of the book.

Moses talked about me, Abraham knew about me, they are all the

scripture point to me and what I was to do for Humanity.

And so I laid down my life, I bought the field, I see Hold out

to everything. I allow I left Heavens realm

emptied. Myself of the glory of Heavens

realm, got clothes into a skin suit, became the son of man and

lived on the earth without sinning and then operated under

the power of the Holy Ghost to fulfill the assignment.

But father has had me do and I was very conscientious of always

do. Doing what I was commanded to do

because I was going to honor my father because he is the source

of Life, the source of life and because of that that he sold out

to that even death on the cross. Right, even death on the cross.

Now, when I say that many disciples have been martyred,

even Peter was crucified on a cross.

He said, just turn me upside down.

So, the cross itself isn't the grand statement because the day

Jesus was crucified two. Others were too.

But what did they do for Humanity?

Nothing. So, when G, when we say that

Jesus died on the cross, right, that he should deserve honor.

Well, what we really mean is that Jesus died to himself and

any desire to not fulfill the father's will for his life even

to the being separated from the father for the first time.

Because the man who knew no sin, what became ours.

And as he said, father, I'll take on the sin of all of

humanity. Wow.

And the father has to turn away from the Sun. and in faith, he's

like, but on the third day, The holy spirit's Going To Raise Me

Up. Whoo he's on Raise Me Up.

You know who else was raised up on the third day?

One of the thieves I said, one of the thieves because remember

that he says, would you remember me when you enter into your

kingdom? And Jesus said today, you'll be

with me in Paradise, we going to Abraham's bosom, then on the

third day, we gonna bust Paradise, whiteout wide open.

It won't exist anymore because when you leave your body now

your present with the Lord and he's not in Paradise.

He is seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven.

Amen? Right.

So he deserves honor. That's why he was given the name

of Every day. That's why he has the seat of

Honor. Jesus.

How valuable is he to you? Look what it says in 1st Timothy

Chapter 1 verse 17, it says now to the Eternal King Immortal

invisible. The only God be honor and Glory

forever and ever. Amen, wow.

How valuable is Jesus to us? Is he Irreplaceable?

Me, how valuable is he? I mean how much do we actually

honor him? What kind of value do we place

on him? Daily?

If he was the lamb, that was slain for our transgression and

we know this and we've accepted him as our substitute.

How much honor do we have? Once our daily thought.

Of him. What's our response to him?

How often is he in our thoughts? And how often do we demonstrate

our honor to him? Hallelujah.

Well, there is one extremely clear way that we are to honor

him. This is just one we're only did

with this one tonight. Okay.

Because I'm going to open it up for people to do it tonight.

All right, Psalms chapter 50 verse 23, says it this way, he

Psalms 50:23

who offers a sacrifice of Thanksgiving, Honors me.

And to him who orders his way. Aright I shall show the

salvation of the Lord. Now that means to live a

righteous life again, seek first, his kingdom and his

righteousness. His way of doing things allow

his way to govern. What we think say, and do how we

respond to every situation just like our King.

I don't speak anything on my own initiative, but I only say what?

I heard the Holy Spirit. Tell me that only came from

Jesus, who is seated at the right hand of the Father in

Heaven, who was Listing to his father, to give me that

instruction in the first place. And I'm going to say that I'm

going to do that. I'm going to respond that way.

Amen, that's how I'm going to respond.

So I'm going to act. That's what I'm going to say in

these situations. I'm not going to do what I want

to do. I'm not going to be quick to

judge things. I'm going to be quick to speak,

right? You were supposed to be slow to

speak. Quick to hear slow to speak,

slow to wrath and we can all work on that, right?

Maybe we can all work on that because we getting situation

where things are going and you're like, you said, I'm

fixing to say right, you know, if I could bite my tongue as

quick as I could say a word, probably better.

Right back at ya don't say nothing.

Hold that tongue. Wait a minute.

Would Jesus say that, right? I mean, I have been in

situations where I've said something, Right, felt validated

by it only to have the still Small Voice.

Say should have said it. Now, you going to go get it

corrected. Because now you can't be silent.

So now you just like, well, I ain't gonna say nothing.

It's too late, you've said something.

This is a problem called will say something and then we

realize we shouldn't have said anything.

Now we don't want to say nothing, but our silence is

making it worse because the Holy Ghost is saying, you need to say

something like you were wrong and they need to ask, you need

to ask them for your forgiveness.

The quicker, you get that done, the better.

Now, they may not receive it, but that's not, that's not your

problem. You need to just do it because

if you to listen, Better the first time then, we wouldn't

have this other step, but the Lord's forgiving, man, the Lord

to do stuff. He's great, right?

Amen. Again we've all have the

thoughts, you know how many times I got to forgive this

like, Peter, should we do the seven times the Lord's life?

Seventy Times Seven man. At the end the day, you know,

you gonna have to forgive that's gonna have to do it when I do it

again. Amen, I just want life was a

shirt. I want, I don't want to fence

the one, all the other stuff that comes with it.

But he loves a sacrifice of Thanksgiving, honors me.

Now it's easy to give a Thanksgiving when everything's

going great. It's another thing to give,

thanks when it seem like everything is going wrong.

But when you honor God and understand the value of him, how

he has delivered you out of all your trouble?

I mean, has he delivered? Anybody has anybody been

delivered out of trouble, right? So when we get it another

situation, whether it's self-inflicted cuz we did it or

where in a trial because the enemy is trying to tempt us and

get us off course. And there's pressures trying to

get us to have a different kind of response.

We can know and God's gonna do this, he'll deliver me.

He'll hear me when I call to him.

Right? And so I'm just going to say

Lord You're so valuable to me. I just going to honor you And we

can honor him with our words. So I'm gonna open up for some

testimony tonight. Amen.

I'm Not Gonna Let You Preach as long as I do, but I'm going to

give some opportunity tonight. All right, so raise your hand

that way I can look around and see which one the Lord wants me

to do, right? I'm just talking get, it's not

open mic night. Right, we're not doing karaoke.

Amen. But, I mean, I want you to think

and I want you to give God praise Thanksgiving.

Right. Thanksgiving.

I see that hand. Anybody else?

It's gonna be pretty easy. If only one person raises her

hand. Okay, I see another one, another

one. All right.

Okay, good. I'm seeing some more.

All right, I'm gonna start over here with you.

Come on up. Yep.

Come on. Come on.

We're here to give. Thanks to God and he honors him.

What kind of value has he done in your life that you're like,

man I just I give thanks to God because of whatever this

testimony is fixing to give. We're going to be like God, is

that valuable to me? It's Irreplaceable what he's

done for me in this situation or whatever the case may be.

Alright, state, your name to everybody.

Okay. This is Brandon's not pass to

Brandon, but, you know, it could be his brother.

You just don't have as much gray hair as Pastor Brandon does.

I think that's a Brennan has more gray hair than all of us.

That's youth ministry today. You need a lot of wisdom.

All right. Go ahead before, you know,

before I had a Jesus in my life, I was an alcoholic and it was a

struggle every day to pretty much live and you know, be sober

if I even tried and you know, thank God has delivered me from

that and it was crazy. It was it's easy now.

It's it. I don't even have, I don't even

have to try. It's not, it's not even a thing,

you know. It's, it's effortless.

And I do, I think God for that every day because, you know, my,

my family, I'm sure, you know, I'm sure they appreciate it.

You know. And, you know, I really

appreciate it. You know me, you know, my, you

know, my mental health was way better.

It's better now. Yeah, for sure it was.

You know, I was, you know, you do not type person, you want to

be around? I got you.

Thanks, Brian. Appreciate it.

Hallelujah, amen. I mean to be an alcoholic, you

know, and David Mackey, stand up.

I'm not going to testify but David Mackey, how many years you

been sober. How many years you been sober

now 15 years, okay? 15 years he came to church, he

was an alcoholic, all those years prior than these 15.

So 15 years ago he was an alcoholic but whole Tom was he

started when he was really young and he just looked at me

actually kind of tap me in the gut.

He said he said pastor I'm an alcoholic.

I want you to pray for me, you know, kind of what like I want

you to pray for me, you know, like you do it, you know.

And he hit me in the stomach. And he walked out.

I even give me a chance to pray for him with him.

Our that is. So I did and but he had a desire

already, I just got an agreement.

I had a prayer of agreements. What I did Father in the name of

Jesus, take it from him in Jesus name.

And he put it down. Hallelujah.

See when people are really valuing their lordship.

What would God those things fall off?

15 years now, he's had marvelous opportunities to go back and

found the hidden stuff that he had from his wife for years that

he forgot where they were at. But the devil said, I'll remind

you now. Where they're at?

But he just dumped them out. Are you hearing me why?

Because he got the value of what Jesus delivered him from.

And light Brandon said, is he see why?

Because when he puts that drink up against Jesus, right?

You left Branden and David talked to some of the Casual

Christians that are sipping right now, they'll let that let

them know how silly that is. And again mental health while

close, when you're not sober any voice gets in.

I said any voice gets in. You allow cuz you're not staying

sober minded. Okay, Janet, come on up.

Who else? I saw a few.

Okay, I got a couple more good y'all getting bold now.

See, Brandon had to break. You loose.

Your tongue is what happened? Yeah, that's what you say

happened. Somebody knew everybody's been

here for a while and I know what you're thinking thinking, well,

they don't want to hear mine again.

God, may want them to hear. That's why have you raised your

hand? Because the Lord may say tell

David to come up again, the Lord didn't do that.

I met David stand up and told it but it was necessary for us to

share his as well. Amen.

And yes you are. I know that go ahead, Janet a

testimony is wonderful because if you hear a testimony, you can

grab a hold of that power and you can receive and I always

told the Lord if you give me an opportunity to testify, I will

because I'm so thankful in 1979 and I know it was 1979 because

my son was three. I lived on Thomas Street in

Orange, Gardens in Kissimmee and my son would dig holes in the

backyard. And I Here, the shovel.

So I knew what he was doing. So I was free and I was do the

dishes and listen to a guy on the radio who preached to had of

money voice and I was like, oh good.

Joshua's digging. I can go and I can listen to the

guy with the funny voice. And I prayed and I said, God,

this guy knows stuff. I want you to send somebody that

knows the same stuff to Kissimmee and the Lord sent.

The Reverend Gary W Jones who was a Rhema grad in 1982

Kissimmee but there's more because God is a god of

abundance. And if you ask him anything

believing in faith, he will answer.

And so Reverend Gary Jones, new two and a half years before I

did what my ex-husband was going to do.

And that I was going to go to Rhema.

And I went to Reggie Scarborough's Church on Martin

Luther King Day in 1997 and I, along with the whole bunch of

people there were called, to go to Rhema.

And brother Hagin said, when we're done praying, and I didn't

put this together until several years ago.

Go, I didn't realize the guy with the funny voice was

brother, Hagin brother. Hagin came and he said, when

we're done, praying you come up to forward, all of you.

So I got done praying and I went up and I laughed and brother

Hagin laughed and brother, Hagin laughed and I laughed.

And the Lord said, go to Rhema and that was 1979.

While I went to Pastor Gary at lunch, I went to a And quit

place and he 15 minutes away from Reggie Scarborough's church

and church members were there. And I said, I'm going to Rhema

and they said go tell Pastor Gary.

He's in the other room and I didn't even know he was there.

So I went and I said, Pastor Gary, I'm going to Rhema and he

said, I know God told me two and a half years ago when he told me

everything that your ex-husband was going to do and you're going

and then two weeks later, Jim Hockaday was preaching for

brother Reagan brother Hagin, and the Lord said to me go

sooner because I plan to get divorced and then go.

So, the Lord was telling me to go sooner in the only time to go

sooner. Was 1970.

Are 1997. So I went in the fall of 1997 to

Rhema trusting God, I left teaching for a year thinking

praise I get to go in the ministry.

I don't have to teach anymore. Haha, joke on me.

I ended up coming back to teach because that's what God wanted.

But I actually not only had the Lord to send somebody who knew

that guy. But the Lord sent me to the guy

and the time I was at Rhema, it was such a blessing.

It was so tremendous and Rhema grads.

At least, 300 500 or more have influenced my life and God

answered my prayer. Far more abundantly than I could

have ever imagined. It's awesome.

And I'm so thankful to be here, or I'm a grad in a Rhema.

Grat we're at Rhema the same time I was and you were too, and

so is chancellor Brian, and his wife, and God is so good.

And I'm so glad to be here. I'm so, Thankful because God

told me in a dream after I went to Kinder Louisiana, that

brother and sister Hagen were there and I had a dream and

brother and sister Hagen were a crew are not brother and sister

Hagen Pastor Mrs. Hagen Ware across the table in that dream

and to the left, there was a table in heaven and to the right

there was a table in heaven and the Lord said Rhema, is your

family to me and I'm so thankful.

Yeah, amen. Hallelujah See, when you want to

pursue God, right? Because he's that valuable to

know him, he'll connect you into the places and the people that

you'll flourish the greatest from I mean, I was called to

Ministry and 93 94. When I knew I was called, when I

had that Vision, I knew I was called to Ministry.

But I went to a Bible school out in Columbia, South Carolina and

you know, just was it the school.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it per se, it just

was not the school for us, and it took a few years later before

all of a sudden, you know, I found out about Rhema and when I

went out there, I never heard a message, never heard the funny

voice from Brother Hagin. I had no context, I knew nothing

about them, I went on the voice of God.

He said this time next year, you'll be at Rhema and I went,

because I valued his assignment and I wanted to honor him which

means you leave. What you're doing, you leave

your job, your security, all that, the world could have

offered in that context, and then you go.

And then man set in five minutes of the first class, I'm like, I

don't even know the Bible. This is amazing, right?

And so God is so good. All right, where Steve at there

he is. Come on Steve, I was like

looking at the empty seat didn't come up.

No. Well, God is so good.

Good. He is good.

You know, some prayer requests, just take some time because

other people's will are involved in it.

But there's power in prayer. And two of the biggest prayer

request I had was for two of our children and I've got to see

both of them come to the Lord now.

Yeah, I like it. Yeah, I mean, I won't go into

details but you know, one of our daughter who comes here now.

So A member of the church and serve it into the church was an

alcoholic. Yeah and God has delivered her.

She's been free from alcohol for over a year and a half.

Now I love and God read her Bible and you know, and a

blessing. And then we have a son who was

away from God. Full of a lot of anger and hurt

and and so forth and you just got to keep praying for him and

probably a month ago. Now he gave his heart to the

Lord. He told me, he said, I wish we

had church more than two times a week, come on.

I could have gained and and he just loves coming here, he's

been a blessing to be around. He's getting his life together.

Getting his life straight. That's my son back there.

Gave gave wave at everybody. Yeah, the only reason he's

standing up is he's got a little pain here with Sciatic Nerve or

something. So he's better to stand up and

sit down and but but he's come to the Lord, his whole attitude

as Hearts changed, he loves church, he listens to you,

ladies that work. He's witnessing to those guys

that he works with. You go and letting his light

shine for them. So, I mean that's big when your

two kids are now serving. God.

Amen. Is he valuable, right?

Is he buyable Rihanna, come on up.

I have Brianna close this out. I understand, there's more but

Yeah, but we got another week. Go ahead is valuable so Todd and

I sold our house a year ago a little over a year ago and that

was a whole process. And so we've been we bought a

camper. Well we're actually been my

dad's came for for like five. It was yes.

And it was a great and small with four people and three dogs,

and a cat. So then we bought a bigger

camper to live in until we find a house.

And so we are looking and it was a process and Mama Mel was very

patient and awesome through the whole thing.

So, we were just, I was kind of getting a little frustrated and

frustration is not Faith. So I had to get my heart, right?

And I was in the shower because that's just where God talks to

me the most, and I was like, Lord, I just, you know, I really

want a house. I don't want to live in a camper

forever, you know. And there was one house open and

Elkton, and it was a new build and I was more excited about it

than Todd was, and it wasn't on as much land as we were wanting,

but it was new and no one ever lived in it.

And idea of that sounded really nice.

So we were going to potentially put an offer but it was like at

the price that you need to put in an offer, you know, you can't

like hesitate and but then the neighbors next to where our

camper is. Actually putting their house up

for sale and the Lord's like you should put an offer on that one.

And you know, I was kind of bummed to hear that because it's

an older house and it's really gross, but it was on more land

and ideally it was what more what we were wanting.

We just have to put a lot more work into it, which I didn't

want to do, but obviously, the Lord knows what's best.

So I would Got out of the shower and I prayed and then I woke up

in the middle of the night and I was praying some more.

And the next day I told Todd, you know I was like I really

think we should just put in an offer on this house.

Wants to go really low because it was peace crap and we knew it

was and so the first offer we put in there it was really

nasty. Guys, the first offer we put in

they didn't take it. They were like well we want you

to come up then our lender that we had at the time was like, no

way. We're not giving you more Or

like I said, I told Todd. I was like, I know that the Lord

told us to put an offer on this house.

So we just got to find someone else to lend us the money.

So we found this other lady who was like, oh yeah, no problem.

We can come up to that price. And so we ended up going up to

the prize and it was like, kind of a long even longer process

after that because they kept like wanting to do other things.

And then like the, you know, like the cabinets were weird and

the The inspector was like, you need to fix this on, like the

whole house is falling apart. Why does it the one cabinet

Corner matter? But anyway, we ended up getting

the house and it's a gut gutted. Currently, it was really yucky,

like we thought it was going to be, but it's are yucky house and

we love it. We are still in the camper but

hopefully we won't be in it forever.

So there is light at the end of the tunnel and We are so

thankful for our little soon to be clean house.

Hey, man, is he valuable at the end of the day you just want to

do the will of God for your life, you know?

Now all these testimonies sound a little different, right?

You know, I mean, you know, we talked about honoring God, a lot

of times we would think only that, you know, we're going to

give him. Thanks for again when we were in

this major issue and he delivered us but we should not

honor. God just when we're, we got in

trouble when he's getting us out.

Out. We should honor him because he's

so valuable to us in every Affair of our life we should be

Consulting him. So that's what's important about

the testimonies here, right? Is that at the end of the day,

we want to be able to say God, you're so valuable to me now

he's not just valuable because of the things he's brought me

through. You know, hit the first and

foremost thing that keeps us where we're like man I just want

to honor the Lord is that I was a sinner man.

I was destined for the Lake of Fire.

I was in Rebellion against his kingdom.

Hated everything about it. Wanted to do it my way and he

still made away from me. Love made away from me and kept

drawing me. To change right now.

I didn't have to change first but he was like you're going to

have to change and I'll do it for you.

Right. Just like Brandon, obviously,

God started drawing on him. He said, now, listen, I love

you, but you're not change, but I'll change.

I'll change you. I'll do it for you if you'll

trust in me. Now what is Brandon have to do?

Same thing, the David had to do to be sober for 15 years.

He has to literally never pick it up, never Pop a Top never

however you drink today, right? However, it is right.

You don't do. You have to do that part.

But God because of your desire initially he'll put a Grace on

your life that you don't need to have the desire.

It's not even a part of your thought, process, your whole

physical body. I remember one service we had

not too long ago where it was called out by Pastor Marcy.

That if you had some kind of addiction of some sort that God

would deliver you. And I remember I have actually

prayed over people who had caused some of the one of the

hardest addictions to overcome a cigarette, you know, nicotine

stuff to kick. I mean it's just like in your

fiber of your being, you know, in your bloodstream.

It's all throughout your body. So why they say people get so

addicted to cracks because it's oil base and it is stay in your

lungs. So that it, you could be without

it and then all of a sudden the oil in your lungs are start

moving and you'll start absorb it and you'll get where you want

it again because it's still there.

And I've prayed over some people with nicotine and the Lord has,

you know, instructed me. You command it to come out of

their pores, their skin, their sales there, you know, just

start naming parts of the body and while I was doing it, you

know, because I didn't know this, my dad smoked growing up

so I Didn't realize that nicotine had a smell to it,

right? And, and then after my dad,

passed away, a few months later, all of a sudden, I started

smelling stuff and I'm like, what is that smell?

Well that cigarette smoke on people.

I didn't know that because, you know, I've just lived with it.

It's just, you know, part of being, you know, growing up and

around someone who smoked all the top.

So I'm like, wow, that's what my clothes smell like all the time

anyway. But I so I'm familiar of the

smell. What it Start coming off their

bodies. And sometimes it would get so

strong. I'm almost was gagging in the

altar. I'm like, trying to hold back my

breakfast, because it is so pungent, but it's being released

and the Lord, and Essence was purging them so that their body

wouldn't crave, it, no more, which gave them time to get

their mental mind. In a place that they could

always overcome. Because when your body's

fighting against you too, and you don't have the mental

capacity to resist it. Well, then you go back and then

you hate yourself for it, right? Well, you got to renew your

mind, I remember, Kenneth Keith Moore Usher's, would you come?

I'm gonna do an alter call here in a second.

So our altar workers. Would you come worship team?

He said, he was talking to a particular guy.

One day who came up to him in a Ministry line and said that I'm

smoker and I just really want to get delivered from it.

And he said, okay, He said, well, he said, this is what I

want you to do. He said, I just want you to say

from here on. I am delivered from nicotine.

From smoking. I am delivered.

He said, okay, he said you can you do that?

Yes. And I listen when you leave, I

want you to say I'm delivered from smoking.

Cigarettes. I'm delivered from nicotine.

He's okay. So now, when you wake up in the

morning, I watch the first thing out of your mouth.

I want you to say, I am delivered.

I'm delivered from smoking, cigarettes, and nicotine.

He said, now, when you get your Or pack of cigarettes and put

them in your hand. I want you to say, he said when

I'm holding in my hand. Yeah, he said.

Now, when you pull your cigarette out tomorrow, I want

you to say something. When I'm pulling it, I see ya.

He said, when you light your next cigarette, he said, when I

Lacey, I want you to say, I am delivered from smoking.

He said, when you pull your first drag, I want you to say,

he goes when I'm smoking it. I want you to say, I'm delivered

from cigarettes because he knew he didn't have faith to be

delivered. But he was trying to get his

mind to keep speaking a confession of Faith.

Till it came alive, in his spirit and he said about two

weeks later, the guy went to pull one out again, and he kept

saying it, just like you said, I'm delivered.

It registered. He goes, I am delivered and he

threw it down and never smoked another one.

Now, in faith calling those things that be not as though

they were Hallelujah. But then when God gets involved

and pulls it out of your body, Well that's that's pretty

Supernatural. The Bible says in him, we live

and breathe and have our being, we need to honor God.

And I'm going to say it this way.

We're really not honoring him. Like we think we are.

Because giving thanks to him is honoring him, but it's not the

only way. If we're not doing the other

ways then you're given a. Thanks may actually not be given

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