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It's a Must - Part 3 - Kingdom Anointing

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  1. Thanks for checking out the anchor Faith, Message podcast

  2. from st. Augustine Florida.

  3. Now enjoyed this message. Alright, turn over to Isaiah 55,

  4. we're going to conclude our service today.

  5. Amen. Everybody stand up.

  6. Come on, everybody. Stand up.

  7. Amen. Everybody stand up.

  8. Hallelujah. Just go ahead and shake that

  9. off. Just shake whatever.

  10. That is that's on you. Right?

  11. This second. Just because I had a little

  12. conversation about how you learned to love God.

  13. I mean, I felt like we just sank like that was difficult.

  14. I mean this is Elementary. Please don't let Elementary

  15. teaching devastate you and we're already figuring out that we are

  16. being more soulish lie about our relationship with God.

  17. You know why would people come in and out of church?

  18. Anyway, Because they don't feel like going one day, you know?

  19. I mean, and again it's a Perpetual issue that happens

  20. when we were young because we were taught about love at such a

  21. young age in grade school, right?

  22. You said, the little note. Do you like me, right?

  23. We said, like, initially career in elementary school, right?

  24. And you had your little boyfriend, your little

  25. girlfriend. All right?

  26. How many you married your first love?

  27. I'll put your hand down. I'm like your very first like

  28. you know when you were in school, there was somebody you

  29. liked. In the third grade, second

  30. grade. Something you were like, right?

  31. But yet, find yourself not marry.

  32. I'm now you may have married the one that you like, but you

  33. probably went through a few people for you got back to him.

  34. Okay, I knew. I was right the first time but

  35. had to test drive. All these people to get to my

  36. real one, right? But we do this in relationship

  37. that and the reason why we're not, we're like well I just

  38. don't feel it no more. Ryan argument.

  39. I don't feel like I love you now.

  40. Amen. And so we're trained in the

  41. world. That's how love is.

  42. So then we come over to God. Coming to church, and when we

  43. feel like it reading the Bible is when we feel like it pray is

  44. when we feel like it. Doing the things in the words,

  45. when we feel like it. Even though the Holy Ghost is

  46. talking to us. Amen.

  47. Hallelujah. How girl you're blinding me with

  48. you? If your your lights on, you

  49. don't know that. Whoo.

  50. I'm on a spotlight, didn't know? Wow.

  51. Amen. So we're here to grow and learn

  52. to be led by the spirit and Crush feelings that are against

  53. God's word. Like, you're just not going to

  54. control my life, don't let your feelings control your life, let

  55. the word dominate your life. Change the way you feel so that

  56. your feelings will get in line with life more abundantly

  57. because what we are learning and it's a must will absolutely

  58. change your life. And You to rise above 99% of

  59. most human beings on the planet. It will cause you to rise above

  60. that and here's the thing. Jesus Christ is not some

  61. substandard species. And when you were born again,

  62. you are made in the likeness of Christ.

  63. This Supernatural, overcoming conquering King that destroys

  64. the works of the devil. That's who you are.

  65. And I don't care if you feel like it or not, that's what the

  66. Bible says. So you need to change your

  67. feeling and see yourself as our conquering King on the planet

  68. today. Can I get an amen?

  69. All right. You can be It praise the Lord

  70. and if he gets tough, just stand up.

  71. If you like, man, that bothers me, then just get out, run one,

  72. Tom run that off so that you can get yourself in line with what

  73. the word saying. Amen, Isaiah 55:11 says this.

    Isaiah 55:11

  74. So shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth.

  75. Which tells us that unless God saying it.

  76. Then he's not, it's not obligated to be fulfilled.

  77. So the word that comes out of his mouth, so shall my word that

  78. goes out of my mouth, it shall not return to me what void?

  79. But it shall accomplish what I please and it shall prosper in

  80. the thing which I sent it. Now, here's the thing.

  81. You need to understand this, whatever.

  82. God says, when you truly believe and you know, you've heard from

  83. God, that that's what it is then I don't care what takes place,

  84. you will have this. So you cannot ever allow

  85. yourself to give an excuse of why.

  86. It did not work out God's way. That is a lie.

  87. You have to conclude if something that God has said in

  88. revealed to you that you are to stand on that either.

  89. You don't know it. Are you began to doubt it?

  90. One or the other, you're either ignorant of what God wants to do

  91. or you began to doubt what God Said, let that you initially

  92. acted on case in point. Peter is obviously in a boat it

  93. with the rest of the disciples Jesus has been praying on a

  94. mountain decides. He's going to cross the lake to

  95. meet the disciples on the other side instead of getting another

  96. boat, he walks on the water where you remember they saw him,

  97. thought he was a ghost became afraid he says hey it's just me.

  98. And Peter says what? Just the best you command

  99. because he needs the word that goes out of his mouth.

  100. He can't just say well I'm going to do what Jesus does without

  101. Jesus. Say Jesus, if that's you command

  102. me to come out wall. So he says come right.

  103. And that what he said come will Jesus then Peter who's been a

  104. fisherman? A professional fisherman knows

  105. exactly what happens when you step out of a boat into water.

  106. He's he is an expert through his profession of knowing.

  107. Exactly what's takes place. He has experience, he could give

  108. lectures on what takes place when you leave your boat and get

  109. into water. But add a word.

  110. I said out of word, God was able to create a bridge.

  111. That caused him to walk on the water.

  112. The water didn't change. Are you hearing me and the word

  113. work? But what took place?

  114. A few ways started to show up a few a little bit of wind started

  115. to show up. And what did Peter do?

  116. Peter began to focus on the condition?

  117. He saw instead of the word he heard.

  118. And when he turned to site, he began to get exactly what he

  119. knows happens. He began to sink now.

  120. Did that meet did Jesus think in that moment was Jesus sinking to

  121. when the winds and waves came did Jesus say old Peter I'm so

  122. sorry man. I didn't realize the winds and

  123. waves were coming. We're both seeking.

  124. You better hurry up and swim back to the boat.

  125. I'm going to be swimming with, you know, Jesus never came off

  126. the word that he knew. He It on the top of the water

  127. while Peter looked at what he saw instead of being led by the

  128. spirit are staying in the spirit saying, you know, I don't care

  129. what the waves are doing now, I don't care what the winds are

  130. doing. I'm walking on this water

  131. because Jesus says I could come I'm on it now.

  132. I'll be on it till I get to him, but instead he began to look at

  133. it, he became frightened, that fear took over his faith, he

  134. began to sink and, you know it started going quick then.

  135. I believe is probably a little gradual at first it was a little

  136. deeper, you know, probably got ankle like oh no I'm not.

  137. I'm not sustaining but it's because he started to let the

  138. see him. Then all of a sudden, he fell

  139. down into the sea and Jesus at the last moment before he went

  140. under grabbed his hand. And said, why did you have

  141. little faith? Why did you let your face slip?

  142. Why did you allow what you see to dictate what takes place?

  143. And there's many that are gung-ho to be in church to God's

  144. word to pray being a prayer meeting, you know, to have a

  145. touch of God. You know, you get those Services

  146. where the power of God shows up, you know, or someone lays hands

  147. on you to power God tangibly goes through your body.

  148. Some can't even stand up when that takes place or are the

  149. power of God hits you in your uncontrollably laughing because

  150. you have joy, unspeakable, joy, and full of Glory.

  151. Or the power of God comes upon you.

  152. And you know, you're speaking in a language, that's not even your

  153. own because you now receive the power of God.

  154. But it's the language of the king, I must say, it's just

  155. amazing moments that we've had with God and then we light want

  156. to chase these but then how come it is that we're like well I

  157. don't feel like it today that all of a sudden this feeling can

  158. override a command I mean, we are more attached to the way we

  159. feel. Then we want to admit.

  160. And we have to learn that we cannot be moved by how we feel.

  161. That doesn't mean we don't have feelings.

  162. It's that we make our feelings. Go to the word.

  163. So, in essence, when Peters out of the boat, that had been a

  164. pretty exciting time. The first time ever, he got out

  165. of the boat didn't sink. You know, he had to be elated

  166. since I come back, he say who I meant?

  167. Seriously, who would not go out to st.

  168. Augustine Beach and begin to just walk out on the water that

  169. you wouldn't think this is amazing.

  170. Right? Anybody else will be in off to

  171. they want a surfboard. Nope.

  172. Just walking on the water. Right.

  173. I guess. Mac like super cool.

  174. So he's got has this, like presents are manifestation of

  175. God working in his life that brings this Elation to him.

  176. But the minute issue shows up unknown Threat all of a sudden

  177. he focuses on it and allows his feelings too.

  178. Go to that. He leaves the spirit and goes to

  179. the soul. Instead of laughing.

  180. And said, I don't care whether to stay waves, get this just

  181. means I'm gonna be climbing Hills.

  182. Now instead of just on a flat surface, oh man, feel the wind.

  183. It feels good. This is a man instead of just

  184. rejoicing in the fact that you could do that instead, he

  185. allowed his feelings to take over instead of putting that

  186. down. I said I'm not going to feel

  187. fear. I'm not gonna get afraid here.

  188. No, no. You gonna be excited you're

  189. walking on water even now in the store.

  190. And we have to do the same thing if we're going to live by the

  191. spirit. So, Jesus is words.

  192. Or the word of the Lord when it goes out, it does accomplish

  193. period. We also saw this in John 4:23

    John 4:23

  194. and 25 2:24 says this, but an hour is coming and now is when

  195. true worshipers which implies false worshipers will worship

  196. the father in spirit and truth. You cannot worship Him in spirit

  197. without truth and you're not going to be in the spirit if you

  198. don't know, truth. So, both are applicable.

  199. Now, you can be in a spirit realm and there's a lot of

  200. people in the spirit Realm. You know, they doing it through

  201. cars. They threw it through crystals,

  202. they threw it, through going to psychics, you know, but you know

  203. what, the Lord's like, why would you go Council the Dead?

  204. He said why are you go Council the Dead?

  205. Just because the dad know, something doesn't mean it can

  206. bring life. Are you hearing me?

  207. I mean even the Lord was not one to let the dead testify of him

  208. when those that were full of demonic spirits and start a,

  209. you're the son of the most high. Have you come to torment us

  210. before our times? He would do.

  211. What? Shut up.

  212. Don't advertise about me. Don't talk about me.

  213. Paul had the same situation with this girl that had a demonic

  214. spirit and she was doing fortune-telling with her Masters

  215. because she was a slave and Paul put up with it by three days.

  216. And finally, the Lord by the spirit says, you need to tell

  217. that thing to come out because it's going to advertise what

  218. you're doing that. When you leave this community,

  219. it would be able to tout, wasn't I telling the truth about this

  220. person and he said, shut up and come out and he came out So just

  221. because you, you know, consult spirits.

  222. Does it bring life? Even though it can have access

  223. to factual information? In fact, the Lord.

  224. So why do you consult the dead? But we are to be following the

  225. spirit of Truth. Amen.

  226. That is the holy spirit. It goes on and says this.

  227. That now, when true worshipers will worship the father in

  228. spirit and Truth for such people, the father seeks to be

  229. his worshipers. God is spirit is spirit and

  230. those who worship Him must worship how in Spirit and truth.

  231. So you cannot worship, God, soulish lie.

  232. You come down to the Altar and feel bad about something is not

  233. contacting God. Just being emotional about

  234. something is not getting God's attention.

  235. He's looking for you to touch him by the spirit.

  236. Are you hearing me? Because a lot of people are

  237. touching God, but they're not touching God by the spirit.

  238. The same thing, Jesus is going to heal this man's daughter

  239. who's sick. She's obviously died at this

  240. juncture, but he doesn't know that yet.

  241. And this woman with the issue of blood comes in the crowd,

  242. touches him and Jesus, Tom says somebody touched me and Peter's

  243. like, are you serious, right. Now young people are touching

  244. you and he's like all those people that are touching me or

  245. not touching me. And the same thing is in many

  246. churches today, even in this one, there are those who come

  247. here that are whining wailing begging and you're not touching

  248. him. Because you must believe his

  249. word if you're going to touch him and when faith is activated,

  250. you'll stop God because he's seeking that person.

  251. Jesus. What did he do?

  252. He stopped. He said, who touched me Peter's,

  253. like, some seriously. There's a lot of people touching

  254. you right now. Jesus, you know, how can you say

  255. who took? He's so no power has left me.

  256. Power her and I we ain't going on until I find.

  257. He was seeking the one who came in spirit and in truth who I had

  258. this idea and this belief when she heard that Jesus was in

  259. town, faith comes by hearing and hearing from the word of God.

  260. She heard that he was a Healer. And she said, if I just touches

  261. him, I'll be healed and by faith.

  262. She pressed through a crowd, Justice him and power left him.

  263. Because his word that goes out of his mouth shall not return

  264. unto him void, but it shall accomplish that which it was

  265. sent to do, he is the Healer and by faith he believed if I'd like

  266. nothing natural is working. I've lost all my money, all the

  267. daughter says the Lost Cause but God Jesus the healers in town

  268. and even though legally, I'm not supposed to press for this

  269. crowd. I'm going to press through this

  270. crowd anyway, cuz I'm gonna get it.

  271. I just get to Jesus, I get it, and she touched his him and

  272. power left him, and he sought her out.

  273. Whitney move. Till she came back and told the

  274. story, you won't God running you down.

  275. You got to be a person of spirit and truth, you can't be a person

  276. of complacency. You can't be a person of casual.

  277. If you want God, running you down, you got to be passionate

  278. about all that God wants you to do within his word by.

  279. A spirit, you're not a debater. Of how close you can get to God.

  280. But still maintain a worldly existence.

  281. You know. You can't buy the LIE.

  282. Well no. I don't want to do too much God.

  283. You know. It's a little extreme that I

  284. would spend that much time. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

  285. No, you need to go and do and live.

  286. In fact, Jesus told you how you are to love him.

  287. You are to love him with all. Your heart, but not just your

  288. heart, all your soul, your mind, your will, and your strength.

  289. In essence. He's saying at the end of your

  290. life on this planet, it should have been spent just for me.

  291. Now, that doesn't mean you won't be in the world.

  292. You won't be contacting the world.

  293. You won't be what I'm saying? Contact like touching it.

  294. You're not gonna you'll navigate but you'll never be moved by

  295. what's going on in it, because you're so in tune, to the spirit

  296. of God. And that God when any

  297. circumstance come because you're a person of spirit and Truth who

  298. worship him. He'll come and run you down.

  299. Are you hearing me? And this is the only way, this

  300. is why we have plenty of houses field.

  301. That profess Jesus as Christ but many who can't pray and get it

  302. done. That's why we abandoned this

  303. thought we are like we got to change this thinking with our

  304. congregation. I said you quit acting like

  305. we're a church. That praise quit it.

  306. No, we are a church that has answered prayers.

  307. That's what we are. We're not just say praying

  308. church, because all religions pray and they pray and get

  309. nothing. And there are many Believers

  310. that praying, get nothing because Haven't renewed their

  311. mind to line up with what the spirit of God is saying and quit

  312. being led by their feelings about their day.

  313. Instead of just confessing what God has said.

  314. And those believers, do not get the answers in their prayer

  315. life, like someone else. In fact, most of those that are

  316. getting answers are finding someone who can tap in.

  317. And God will allow that to happen for a period of time.

  318. And then after that, it won't happen.

  319. I remember Kenneth E Hagin. He made this testimony

  320. concerning his sister. His sister had cancer and he got

  321. the call from his family. Says she's got cancer.

  322. And he says, okay, I'm going to pray and he went and prayed and

  323. the Lord says she'll live and not die.

  324. He called him back says, she'll be fine.

  325. She'll she'll get a pass. It God's going to heal her and

  326. sure enough she was healed five years later.

  327. Cancer came back on. See, there's this like mentality

  328. that people have that when you're healed of God, you can

  329. never get sick again. Well, I mean, the enemy comes to

  330. kill, steal, and destroy, Jesus went around doing good.

  331. And healing all who were oppressed of the devil sickness

  332. and disease comes from the devil as a byproduct of the Fall,

  333. okay, of sin of separation from God.

  334. And so he then goes and dumb sauce to pray again, when he

  335. finds out, she has cancer. And the Lord says, don't pray

  336. for her. She's going to die.

  337. He sent our Lord. The last time I prayed and and

  338. stood in the gap of her, you healed.

  339. Her, he says she has. She had Five years to learn how

  340. to maintain her own healing. She did not grow, she will die.

  341. Personal responsibility. Now that shouldn't shock us

  342. because how many of you can stand in the gap for someone's

  343. salvation, you can't get anybody into the kingdom.

  344. You can't get them born again on a.

  345. Now, you can pray and pray for Laborers and you're standing in

  346. the Gap in that contest, but you'll never be able to get

  347. their Spirit Man in Christ be born again until they on their

  348. own personal. Pray that prayer.

  349. Well what did Jesus say to the woman caught in adultery?

  350. He says where are your accusers, right?

  351. He says go and sin, no more one guy, healed that was on a bed of

  352. Affliction. He was, he couldn't even walk in

  353. the Lord healed, this guy, and he said, now take up your bed

  354. and go home. And so he was walking on the

  355. Sabbath day when his bed in the religious people stops.

  356. Whoa! You're committing a sin against

  357. God. You're working on the Sabbath.

  358. Why are you carrying your bed? He goes, man, I don't know.

  359. This guy came. And he healed me.

  360. I was lame couldn't walk and he said, he healed me told me to

  361. pick up my bed, who is he? I don't even know his name

  362. didn't even know his name. Jesus found him later and he

  363. said now, listen, go and sin, no more, so nothing worse, we'll

  364. come on. You, you know, it's amazing.

  365. A lot of times people want to come down and be healed of God,

  366. but they don't want to live for God, which means they want

  367. healing for self-preservation. Not for fulfilling his purpose

  368. and Destiny. And God in his Mercy Hills.

  369. Quite a few people that ultimately never fully submit

  370. and yield to him. Some don't ever even come this

  371. Kingdom, but he will have that against them on that great day.

  372. He said, did not heal your body. Did you know that was me and yet

  373. you didn't serve me. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

  374. So it's impossible to worship God from your soul.

  375. Soul worship can only produce religion.

  376. When Adam fell from Dominion, his Spirit died.

  377. And he was led only by his soul, that was his mind, emotions, his

  378. will, and his body. That is his strength in essence,

  379. when Adam died, when his Spirit was cut off from God.

  380. He had to make decisions only naturally and he produced that

  381. kind of seed. In all of humanity, all of us

  382. made decisions on how we processed information.

  383. There are some people that it seems like they can never get a

  384. leg up on life. Why?

  385. Because they continually see themselves based upon the

  386. households, they came out of the side of town, they live from the

  387. amount in their accounts. The greys they made at school,

  388. they've allowed all of that to Define their decision-making.

  389. And how they feel about. Other people are based upon how

  390. they've been trained. How people how they perceive and

  391. see and look, everybody thinks they're doing good.

  392. Anyway, because the Bible is very clear.

  393. There's a way that seems right to a man but in the end lies.

  394. So we have our own moral, right? That we do based upon our

  395. feelings and our personal abilities, to determine where

  396. we're going to go. But the reality is, it's Til

  397. Death. It doesn't touch God and it

  398. doesn't cause God to run after us.

  399. But the holy spirit will draw us into a new existence so that we

  400. can begin to live this, something powerful in our lives.

  401. We saw this in Galatians 5:22 and 23 last week, it says, but

    Galatians 5:22

  402. the fruit of the spirit I'm Reno the Amplified classic now.

  403. But the fruit of the spirit the work which he which his presence

  404. within accomplishes is love. Joy gladness.

  405. Peace. Notes and and Eve, or even

  406. Temperance, forbearance, kindness goodness, benevolence

  407. faithfulness, gentleness that's meekness and humility

  408. self-control, which is self restraint.

  409. Okay, against such things, there is no law that can bring guitar.

  410. So we said this, if the fruits of the spirit are a challenge

  411. for you to produce, then you are being led by your soul and not

  412. your spirit. And many of us, all of us, not

  413. many everybody in the room has gotten into a situation that you

  414. felt something. When you heard the news.

  415. You felt something. When you got the news you have

  416. cancer, you felt something now, are you going to go with what

  417. you feel? Are you going to dive into the

  418. word and find out what the spirit saying about you and that

  419. situation? When you got the word that your

  420. jobs been cut off, you felt something.

  421. When you got word about something going on, when one of

  422. your children are you, you know, they got in trouble, you felt

  423. something you had a conflict with a co-worker.

  424. Worker, you felt something with your spouse.

  425. You felt something. The question is, did you respond

  426. with the fruits of the spirit are?

  427. Did you respond with your feeling?

  428. And if we cannot develop Joy, when Joy is not the environment.

  429. See, Joy is a manifestation, not when I'm happy, but any time

  430. necessary in the midst of any conflict, I can pull on a fruit.

  431. Patience is another thing man, I'm just not patient.

  432. Well then you're not led by your spirit.

  433. You are openly admitting that. You are so Lush.

  434. Lee. LED.

  435. Yeah. And all of us got to eat that

  436. fruit, right? I mean just the other day I was

  437. eating that fruit again. Get some paint when I'm driving.

  438. It's light. The express lane, you know, the

  439. self-checkout. You got to be patient and have

  440. you noticed that when you're allowing the fruits of the

  441. spirit to start showing up in your life, you're making a

  442. conscious Choice, okay? I'm just not going to let that

  443. aggravate me. Which means I'm, I'm admitting

  444. there is a feeling based upon the circumstance that I'm

  445. feeling, but I'm not going to yield to that.

  446. I'm going to take a deep breath. Right?

  447. And I'm going to remind myself. I can be patient about it,

  448. period. Amen!

  449. We've all gotten in those moments, but if you struggle

  450. that eats, I can't help it. You know, it's just in our

  451. family, we just get angry, we just flipped by, you know what

  452. you're admitting. You're admitting, I'm not going

  453. to handle this by the spirit. I'm going to let my flesh

  454. dominate me and and then we're going to be in that and we'll go

  455. down. God, you gonna do something the

  456. Lord's life. I don't even hear your voice

  457. because you are only going to worship me in spirit and in

  458. truth, that's a must. So if you want me to get in on

  459. your circumstance, you gonna have to get you sold out of the

  460. way. You got to change the way you

  461. feel about that. I'm telling you we could just

  462. start checking stuff off boxes and let me tell you in our world

  463. today, the way information has been made available to us.

  464. You're going to have to work even more diligent to stay in

  465. the spirit about decisions. You're out to be even more

  466. diligent about being in the spirit about decisions because

  467. everyone's going to offer their opinion based upon the

  468. information they just heard and they'll always present it as if

  469. it is that way. And that way only, you know,

  470. some of the worst commentating that I I mean, I just thoroughly

  471. despise, it is when someone begins to interject how why

  472. someone did something, because this is how they R.

  473. Now that doesn't mean by the spirit, you can't figure that

  474. out. That is a true statement but we

  475. just have plenty of people. Well, they said that because you

  476. know, they're this and this and this is what they meant by it.

  477. What have you even sit down and talk to him and ask him if

  478. that's what they meant by it? Many of us have formed opinions

  479. emotionally because we take somebody else's idea about how

  480. they actually meant it. This is why texting is not a

  481. good platform when you're trying to determine a person's motive.

  482. What you see, what they said. They just that, you could take

  483. that saying a whole lot of ways right there.

  484. But what do we do based upon our life experiences, what we've

  485. seen? Heard our own personal hurts.

  486. I just can't believe they said that to me and we take it with a

  487. Feeling. Most of us don't say well, if

  488. they did mean it that way, I'm forgive them.

  489. Anyway, Let me just stop and pray.

  490. No, will tell two or three other people.

  491. This is why some conversations I won't even text back.

  492. Because I don't want people to say this is what Pastor said.

  493. I'll be like, I mean I have some comments sometimes and I stop

  494. hmm. How they going to take that?

  495. If I say it that way. Hmm.

  496. Yeah. I'm not going to leave a paper

  497. trail. Hello, let's talk about this.

  498. You hear what I'm saying? Because again people will always

  499. try to use your words against you because that's what the

  500. devil does. Are you hear me?

  501. So we have to cultivate the fruits of the spirit.

  502. Joy should be something we want because it comes from the Holy

  503. Ghost. Love is something we should want

  504. because it comes peace. I mean, there are people today

  505. that are in absolute frenzy and have no peace in their life.

  506. They're anxious about everything, everything.

  507. And then they mask it with well, aren't you worried?

  508. Well, then they're like, okay, I realize we shouldn't worry.

  509. So they say, you know, I'm just really concerned.

  510. It's new word, right? I'm really concerned now, what

  511. yours you're worried that it ain't going to turn out like God

  512. said, When I hear the voice of God, there's no such thing as

  513. Plan B. The only way there can be

  514. another plan is if there's a ram caught in the thicket, And

  515. that's cause I'm always hearing what he's saying, not just

  516. living on what he what I've heard him say, but at the end of

  517. the day, I'm not going up the mountain like Abraham did.

  518. Without the idea of I'm going to kill this boy.

  519. And unless I hear something at that moment, it's gonna happen

  520. as God said period. And when we hear God that way,

  521. we have to have that kind of resolved, no matter what we feel

  522. or what circumstance comes, our way, second Corinthians 10:3. 25

    2 Corinthians 10:3

  523. says for though, we walk in the flesh, we do not war, according

  524. to the flesh. That means this word flesh.

  525. Here means denotes a mere human nature.

  526. The Earthly nature of Man, Apart from Divine influence,

  527. therefore, Prone to sin and opposed to God.

  528. Any time I listen to any newscast, I hear anything from

  529. someone through a social media platform, whatever it may be.

  530. I refuse to listen to it naturally because it's always

  531. prone to problems. And I don't battle according to

  532. the flesh for the weapons of our Warfare are not of the flesh,

  533. not debate, but are divinely powerful with the destroying of

  534. forks, fortresses. We are destroying speculations.

  535. And every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God.

  536. And we take every thought captive what to the beat.

  537. It's of cry. So when I have a symptom that

  538. comes to my body, I feel it and it will mess with me even

  539. emotionally. But I will declare the word of

  540. the Lord by his stripes. Ye were healed.

  541. I am healed. This cannot stay in my body.

  542. I'm not going to lay around and pout about it.

  543. That doesn't mean I won't send our Lord.

  544. What do I need to do in this situation?

  545. That's going to cause it to come off, quick.

  546. Do I need to go ahead and rest, I'll rest.

  547. Do I need a hydrate, hydrate? Do I need to take something?

  548. I would take it at the end of the day.

  549. I'm only trying to hear what the spirit is saying, and I'm not

  550. moved by the feeling because this way, I feel right now in

  551. England State, because Jesus paid a price with his stripes

  552. that Should not put up with those symptoms in my body.

  553. In fact, I fight the good fight. I take captive the thought that

  554. he could do me in there is not a name that is so powerful that

  555. shakes me to my core when covid came through and the way it was

  556. running through the the world you can never let another

  557. disease named dominates. You more than Christ can't do

  558. it. Doesn't matter what it is.

  559. And listen people die. All the time guys.

  560. Death is not a indicator that we should be worried.

  561. Cuz if that's the case, why did you drive today?

  562. Do you know the statistics of people who died in automobile

  563. accidents? I mean, deaths everywhere.

  564. And here's the thing, those for sure that are outside of God's

  565. kingdom are pulling death to him because the wages of sin, is it

  566. attracts it, it pulls it to them.

  567. Like my gosh, man, their lives, always in shambles, why?

  568. Cause they're always asking death to show up.

  569. When you're disobeying God's word, you're asking death to

  570. show up, you're inviting it in the house you want, and it will

  571. come in multiple forms. Yeah.

  572. God in his Mercy will help you in a car accident so that you

  573. don't die will help you with a disease.

  574. So you don't die will help you and financial bankruptcy so you

  575. don't die in. Many times.

  576. God in his Mercy can step in when somebody who can tap into

  577. God, begins to intercede and pray for that person.

  578. That's broken. But as Believers, we can say, I

  579. am protect, I have a hedge of protection or I plead the blood

  580. of I have angels. Every time I get on a plane, I

  581. give charge of that plane. For the sake of the Gospel of

  582. the Kingdom, IP plead the blood from the top of it all the way

  583. down to his landing gear. I command every system to

  584. function as it was designed. I even tell my ministering

  585. Spirits, which are angels to go ahead of our plane, so that we

  586. don't have rough air. Because nothing worse than

  587. getting into rough. Are now, I honestly don't know

  588. that because I've never experienced real rough air.

  589. Because it's amazing what the angels will do to hear the voice

  590. of an air of Christ in faith. And any time it starts to do.

  591. Well, getting a little rough out, so, they can't stay.

  592. I don't go, oh, Lord, while we going to do.

  593. Circumstance will show up that, then you've got to say declare

  594. decree. What it is that the word says

  595. and in those moments you don't let the circumstances change

  596. your thinking. Because we're allowing the word

  597. to change ours. We take captive the thought

  598. first Thessalonians, 5:21 to 24. Now, look at this right here.

  599. Says, but examine everything carefully, right?

  600. Hold fast to that, which is good.

  601. And the only thing that's good is God's word.

  602. Look at verse 22, abstain, from every appearance of evil.

  603. Okay, now may the God of Peace himself sanctify, you entirely

  604. may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete

  605. without blame at the coming of our Lord.

  606. Jesus Christ. Faithful, is he who calls you

  607. and he will also want. What will he do?

  608. He going to bring it to pass. Now, he'll bring it to pass if

  609. you first examine everything carefully and then hold fast to

  610. it. Then you're going to abstain

  611. from Evil every form and you know what's the form of evil?

  612. Something telling you what you're believing can't happen.

  613. That's a form of evil. That's not just being in

  614. situations that look like you're doing something that's

  615. compromising. Your walk with God.

  616. There's that Context to. But it, this, it also is, if

  617. something comes to my mind that tells me what I'm holding fast

  618. to can't happen. That needs to be kicked out.

  619. I'll give you an example. Jesus tells his disciples.

  620. I'm gonna die. But on the third day, I'm gonna

  621. raise from the dead Peter when he hears he's gonna die.

  622. Lots up emotionally, why? Because he can only be led by

  623. his emotions because he's not born again.

  624. And so he pulls Jesus to decide rebukes.

  625. He says, Jesus, may it never be, you're not going to die, and

  626. that's what I'm going to defend you.

  627. Now, what did Jesus do? He avoided the appearance of

  628. evil. He said, get thee behind me

  629. Satan for you, set your mind, not on the interest of God.

  630. But on the interest of man, man is only interested on how he

  631. feels. He's only interested on.

  632. How does this make me feel again?

  633. A lot of times when we come to church, we only want to come to

  634. church so we can feel better. Sometimes you need to be taught

  635. and you should leave, not feeling so good.

  636. Now that's not a - that's the problem.

  637. We a like these are negatives autofill.

  638. Feel good. So it's just bad.

  639. Well, I mean, Alex was just up there had a personal bitch that

  640. he was telling Pastor Mike you know when they took the offering

  641. overheard it, okay, well he didn't get to that without not

  642. feeling some pain because when you go to the gym, you got to

  643. get underneath weight. That's going to cause your

  644. muscles and you wake up next to you be like ah, You're hurting.

  645. Which means I personally went to a place to make me feel bad the

  646. next day. But in doing it, I'm stronger.

  647. I'm stronger, and I will subject myself to that pain for the

  648. purpose of getting stronger yet. We don't want this in the realm

  649. of the Soul, because your spirit man's perfect.

  650. I mean, God, moved outside of you.

  651. That dead spirit. That was no good.

  652. Couldn't do nothing to please God, didn't want nothing to do

  653. with God, evicted it out of your skin suit, and put a brand new

  654. spirit on the inside of you. That's in the likeness of Christ

  655. will not send. Doesn't want us in and has a

  656. pipeline to hear God by the holy ghost, that now, Bears witness,

  657. with our spirit, your child of God and now that spirit in you

  658. is to dominate the way you think, but if this going to

  659. dominate the way you think you're gonna have to go through

  660. some pain, I don't like the way that feels, huh?

  661. Pastor just made me feel bad today.

  662. I just made you stronger and I didn't make you stronger.

  663. The Holy Ghost made you stronger but at the end of the day it

  664. doesn't matter what I say, if it's not what the Bible says,

  665. but when it's what the Bible says, quit using me as your

  666. skate gope to keep your stinking thinking.

  667. Go ahead and change your mind so you can line up with the spear

  668. so you can conquer a lie. And quit using excuses.

  669. Excuses. Why don't your too hard to live

  670. for God? No, it's not.

  671. No, it's not. It's not hard.

  672. In fact, Jesus said this, my yoke is easy and my burden.

  673. Why? Because when you get up

  674. underneath the anointing that God has to do the assignment in

  675. the natural, you'll never be at a do it, apart, from God, but

  676. when you get up underneath it, you'll go through things.

  677. You'll be like, wow, that was God.

  678. I have been in some circumstances and situations

  679. that I come up out of that thing.

  680. Like, thank God for the anointing because if I would

  681. have just allow my natural emotions to be involved in that

  682. situation, I'd be in prison. Are you hearing me?

  683. I'll be in prison. If we could play out some of the

  684. things. Y'all are thinking, you'd be a

  685. rated R movie of some of the things you would do to people

  686. that you've done in your mind and never came out.

  687. And it shouldn't come out, shouldn't even come out of your

  688. mouth. Amen.

  689. You need to quit saying, I'll give you a piece of my mind.

  690. No, please keep it. Keep in fact, get rid of your

  691. mind and get the mind of Christ and you'll be better off by it.

  692. Are you hearing me the past and says that this way but be

  693. faithful to examine them by putting them to the test and

  694. afterward hold tightly to what is proven to be right?

  695. Avoid every appearance of evil. Now may the God of Peace and

  696. Harmony set. You apart making, you

  697. completely, holy and may your entire being Spirit soul and

  698. body be kept completely. Lately fall Flawless, in the

  699. appearing of our Lord Jesus. The anointed one who the one who

  700. calls you by name is trustworthy and will thoroughly complete his

  701. work in you. Now, in order to break down this

  702. hole, it's a must. Let's go over to Isaiah 55 again

  703. and I want us to look at this chapter real fast.

  704. Because it's really powerful to understand this verse 11 that

  705. we've touched on last couple of Sundays.

  706. Because again at the end of the day, if you're going we we have

  707. H the church in the United States.

  708. For sure. A majority of those churches are

  709. emotionally, LED they are emotionally charged.

  710. Okay, from the singing. To the shouting.

  711. I mean it is an emotional event. I mean, I've gone to sports

  712. games are. What's that sound thing?

  713. I go to anymore in a crowd probably Sports thing where the

  714. same environment, it's the same environment.

  715. The enthusiasm is the same as in a church.

  716. Close it soulish. Soulish.

  717. There are many that if you know, we're not screaming shouting

  718. running, we've not had the Holy Ghost, which is not true

  719. statement. Okay.

  720. And that's not the Holy Ghost, just like it's going a little

  721. bit crazy right now, okay? Sometimes our soundboard gets a

  722. little crazy, right? And it is what it is, but I

  723. can't reach without any of this because it's not necessary.

  724. You understand, if you have to come into church and have fog

  725. machines and lights, and the scripture up there for you,

  726. you're soulless Lee LED Well, I'm let's go check out that

  727. church. Let's see how it's designed.

  728. See how it's designed. I mean, I remember the first

  729. time someone came to us and because of our design was

  730. concern, we didn't flow in the spirit or didn't let the gifts

  731. of the Spirit in operation, because our design look a lot

  732. like churches that don't allow that to happen.

  733. And I'm like, man, I'm I'm might change the way we look.

  734. I mean, the last thing I want is for us to seem like we do not

  735. have a relationship with God. Now, the end of the day, God's

  736. not in the camera. God.

  737. Not in the lights. God's, not in the perfect sound.

  738. I mean, and you know what's crazy, about those same type of

  739. congregation members is that they'll say, well, the church is

  740. not four walls but it won't go in four walls.

  741. That doesn't look a certain way. So they're already led by sight.

  742. Man, I sometimes I wish that I could change congregations are

  743. change. Venues like go downtown to one

  744. of those churches that were built long time ago you know

  745. what is stained glass. I'm telling you if you'll preach

  746. and be anointed man the power of God is show up in that place and

  747. if your life I couldn't go and that's just to tradition.

  748. It's not traditional. Once alive, is the spirit of God

  749. on the inside of us. I mean I almost sometimes want

  750. to go to one of the Little Country Church as you know

  751. that's got the pews on the Riff because again just get the

  752. anointing and the power of God and be led by the spirit man,

  753. you change things. At the end of the day it doesn't

  754. matter about the lights and all that stuff.

  755. It's about the word of God and you're going to be glad you're

  756. here today because I can tell you right now our video guys

  757. going to be like you're not gonna be able to release this

  758. with the lights acting all crazy.

  759. Which goes back. I'm thankful.

  760. That you personally show up and you have not relegated God to a

  761. video. I understand again.

  762. Well, you know, God is not in a building.

  763. Yeah. But you won't even assemble with

  764. his people. I mean, we take one thinking and

  765. acting like, we're being all spiritual about it.

  766. Well, you know what? I can get the Lord in my living

  767. room, big deal. But you can't change the world

  768. by yourself. Because Jesus didn't.

  769. Jesus, did not. Are you hearing me?

  770. Hallelujah. And you're doing really good

  771. right now. You're being very focused.

  772. This is a test. You have to put your fruit on

  773. some of your. Like, I can't believe this that,

  774. and you're putting it down, right?

  775. Right. Some of your, like, I'm leaving.

  776. Now, if you are prone to seizures than sure, you probably

  777. should close your eyes, but we can pray for you.

  778. But, you know, I don't want to incite something.

  779. You understand what I'm saying? All right here.

  780. Isaiah, 55, we're going to start in verse 1, starting in verse

  781. Are y'all ready? We gonna break this down real

  782. Timely? Isaiah 55 verse 1, which are

    Isaiah 55:1

  783. y'all locked up because if y'all are I'll just go on without you

  784. says, hello. Now, that's not a ho that's like

  785. Hey Ho just trying to keep context, people trying to keep

  786. context. Who everyone who thirsts come to

  787. the waters and you who have no money, come buy and eat, come

  788. buy wine and milk without money and without cost.

  789. Now, this is powerful because this chapter begins to let us

  790. know that week how we can have a life of God.

  791. This is how this chapter starts out in essence.

  792. Everyone is thirsty. Everyone needs God and he says

  793. you can't buy it. You'll never be able to pay for

  794. it financially or through your own Works.

  795. You're going to come and what can you buy without money of

  796. your own power or strength? You can buy wine and milk wine.

  797. Always represents the Holy Ghost so you can get God's presence

  798. and his Spirit you can get this, right?

  799. This is the most exciting service.

  800. We've had a long time, naturally speaking.

  801. This is great. I love this.

  802. Come buy wine and that's this. Come get filled with the Holy

  803. Ghost and milk though. It's not enough for you to come

  804. down and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart and save

  805. you unless you get the sincere milk of the word to grow up by

  806. it. Quit living the Christian

  807. existence since it's so bad. I get to walk around now.

  808. Sis The Christian existence was never designed for you just to

  809. get the Holy Ghost in you before you to grow in the word.

  810. So you can release the air that you are in the earth.

  811. My gosh, man, we are live in substandard.

  812. Compared to the destiny and power.

  813. That's on the inside of a, that we can push back.

  814. Hell itself, demons itself, sickness itself.

  815. We can Crush all kinds of things, if we would just get

  816. your mind, right? Just get on mine, right.

  817. He said, come without cost, you can get this milk, you can get

  818. this one. He said, why do you spend money

  819. for what is not bread? Memory said, man shall not live

  820. on bread alone, but out of every word that proceeds out of the

  821. mouth of God for your wages of what does not satisfy.

  822. Listen, carefully to me and eat. What is good?

  823. We spend so much time chewing on the world and doing it the

  824. world's way. Never Satisfied.

  825. He says, then delight yourself in abundance, my gosh.

  826. The word of God Is So abundantly supplied us with some powerful

  827. stuff. If we would just get it in our

  828. head and change our thinking, he goes on and says incline, your

  829. ear and come to me. Listen, that you may, if you're

  830. not listening, you're not living.

  831. If you're not hearing the word of God, you're not living

  832. because faith comes by hearing and hearing from the I don't

  833. care how talented you. You are I don't care how much

  834. wealth you amass in the world. It is dung compared to Jesus

  835. Christ in his word. Are you hearing me?

  836. He said, and I'll make an Everlasting Covenant with you

  837. according to the faithful mercies shown to David behold, I

  838. have made him a witness to the people's leader and Commander

  839. for the peoples. Who is that?

  840. That's Jesus Christ. The King Jesus came on the

  841. throne of David. God said in Isaiah 9:6, a child

    Isaiah 9:6

  842. will be born. A son will be given and the I

  843. meant this is why when we do God's work, it's not just our

  844. God said. It is the kingdom of the king of

  845. the Kingdom has declared decreed declare, even it's a legal

  846. binding agreement. He has to do that word.

  847. He has to do it and he loves us so much that he says, let me

  848. give you a word about this thing and the Gates of Hell cannot

  849. Prevail against this word. He says, behold, I will call a

  850. nation, you do not know and a nation which knows you not will

  851. run to you now. So obviously the Gentiles coming

  852. into this relationship with God because of the Lord, your God,

  853. even the Holy One of Israel. He has glorified you seek the

  854. Lord while he may be found, man, we got to seek Him.

  855. The Bible says seek first, the kingdom of God, I mean, will

  856. seek dr. Phil Oprah a president's

  857. whomever's in office will seek all kinds of other people and

  858. won't go straight to God. First, will seek our friends

  859. advice will seek influencers on social media?

  860. We'll see. CNN, Fox News.

  861. And take their matter, their their information as if this the

  862. gospel. He said no you seek the Lord

  863. while he may be found call upon him while he is near.

  864. And obviously we understand this there's a time when the Holy

  865. Ghost will draw you and you better answer the call because

  866. if you resist him there will come a day.

  867. He won't call no more and it won't be that he didn't provide

  868. away or that he doesn't want you, right?

  869. But every time he called you resisted him and says I don't

  870. want you. You rejected him And don't think

  871. it's not different after your as a child of God that you're in

  872. your Bible, reading the word of God.

  873. And that every time he says, now do this here and you're like,

  874. I'm not going to do it. And you getting the word again,

  875. he's like will change this right here, just this attitude.

  876. Let my fruit happened here, in this city.

  877. Not going to do it, it's how I feel about it.

  878. Then you be in the worse in my Lord, teach me something, he

  879. says, why should I teach you anything?

  880. I've taught you to things that you're not even doing.

  881. You've rejected that all. I want the deeper things of God

  882. Vicki's. What?

  883. They'll say, they said that they so shallow.

  884. Yet they profess to be deep and then they'll hot from church to

  885. church looking for deep things when they can't even do two plus

  886. three can't even do the simple. Can't walk in forgiveness with

  887. someone they're already offend I'm going into deep.

  888. They Min of talk theological terms like they're all spiritual

  889. know. You just a self-professed

  890. Pharisee, is what you've become. Are you hearing me now?

  891. Nobody in this room obviously? He goes on and says this because

  892. the Lord, your God, even the holy of Israel for he has

  893. glorified you seek the Lord that you may find.

  894. May be found call upon him while he's near.

  895. Let the wicked forsake, say forsake his ways and the

  896. unrighteous man his his. What?

  897. Let the unrighteous, man, forsake.

  898. His what his thoughts? The It's amazing And I've seen

  899. it happen. It blows my mind.

  900. That someone separated from God, gets the Revelation because of

  901. the Holy Ghost that they need a savior.

  902. And they'll come down with the realization that I can't be

  903. right with God except through Jesus Christ and him crucified.

  904. They'll pray that prayer. Father, I've sinned forgive me

  905. of all my sin. I accept Jesus as Lord of my

  906. life. I thank you that I'm a new

  907. creature in Christ. Because they couldn't figure out

  908. how to be right with him and all their intellect, all their

  909. feelings, all their knowledge, the minute, they get born again

  910. and then know they're born again.

  911. They begin to tell God how they'll follow him.

  912. And pride immediately manifests again.

  913. Let him return to the Lord and He will have compassion on him

  914. and to our God for he will. Abundantly pardon, here it is.

  915. Verse 8 for my thoughts. Are not your thoughts.

  916. We have to acknowledge, we do not have God's Thoughts by

  917. ourselves, we can have them because he wants to give them,

  918. but in order for you to have his thoughts, you must let go of

  919. your thought. That's the problem is that we

  920. are so entrenched in our soul Realm.

  921. Of how we want to experience, God.

  922. And how we want God to touch us that we won't abandon our

  923. thought. And this happens in so many

  924. circumstances. Well Lord.

  925. Do you know what he did to me? Get rid of that phone.

  926. I don't care. Forgive them anyway.

  927. I mean, you know what you did and I forgave you now, that

  928. should be a simple. But it's not simple.

  929. It's easy to apply when you'll yield to God, but it's amazing.

  930. How many people don't, you know, be Believers.

  931. I get around that have learned faith and we'll talk about their

  932. old life and what they used to have before they started

  933. following. God, I gave up there, okay, what

  934. you gave up, I don't care what you used to have, because when

  935. you have that you were in Egypt, so quit talking about your Egypt

  936. experienced. Let's go on with the Lord.

  937. Let's do something great you know how many people cannot

  938. plant churches today? Unless they have a whole team of

  939. people and so much finances to start it?

  940. Yeah. Yeah, why?

  941. Because that's the new way to do it and it's all natural.

  942. I mean we've done them ourselves but we don't do them as much

  943. anymore because you're like, you start asking, why are we doing

  944. this? Why do you do it?

  945. I mean, the church is taking the red carpet, you know, that when

  946. they do the events and they put the themes behind and everybody

  947. takes a little selfies. Where do we get that from?

  948. I mean, why are we? And we, I understand we want to

  949. talk about avert. The forgot have hurt eyes.

  950. Let's just go ahead and do the exploits of God.

  951. Then you want to get more people here.

  952. He'll them. When you go to work, lay hands

  953. on the sick. So they'll recover I mean go

  954. ahead and do the works of Jesus more so than just us posting to

  955. social media that we were attending aggravate church

  956. today. No, I'm a creative, guys.

  957. Like, please share his videos. I mean, we want the word to get

  958. out, don't get me wrong, but at the end of the day, our best

  959. tool should be our demonstration of our lives every day.

  960. Every day. He says, this for my thoughts

  961. are not your thoughts, nor my ways, nor are your ways, my

  962. waist, which tells me this, God, when he gets involved in your

  963. circumstance, he's gonna give you away to.

  964. She'll be like, what? What?

  965. And you're going to have to abandon your way of doing it?

  966. When I don't know, if I can do it that way you can with him.

  967. I'm telling you right now the life of faith is crazy because

  968. it's not by sight. It's at a word.

  969. I said it's not a word. It's crazy bill when we bought

  970. this small, crazyville crazy. But it's not because we're doing

  971. it his way. You know, how many people I've

  972. turned away from renting? Do we have to pay a mortgage?

  973. Yes. But at the end of that can't be

  974. moved by how tight it is. They'll come in Pastor.

  975. What about what are we going to do?

  976. What do we need? Just give me your word of what I

  977. naturally need. And I'll go to him and get his

  978. word, because I'll let go on my way.

  979. I'll let go my thought, because he already gave me his thought

  980. he said, son, I want to remind you.

  981. This is not a least mall, it's the Lord's mall.

  982. And I knew, right then, I don't care if I never get a lease

  983. because apparently has another idea then And if he wants to

  984. change it where we just take over everything.

  985. Well praise God. I'll do it.

  986. I said I'll do it. We'll do it to influence our

  987. community but at the onset we're doing it.

  988. A particular way, I mean I have more people coming in the mall

  989. right now. That are have no investment in

  990. it. None walking it now and thankful

  991. but they're not paying for the air condition that were running,

  992. if so they can walk in it. So, I'm spending more to cool a

  993. space for one store. That's open during the day.

  994. This is crazy. But it's not my way.

  995. And so I have walk out it this morning.

  996. I'm praying. Thank you Lord, this place is

  997. full. I'm calling those things that be

  998. not as though they were I'm not moved by what bill came in and

  999. how much that is now who didn't realize that if we did that, oh,

  1000. how much are all the that air-conditioned doesn't work

  1001. either? Oh, I got a video yesterday that

  1002. had a little waterfall in a particular unit.

  1003. That's cool. It's a natural water feature.

  1004. But they didn't they don't see it that way.

  1005. You know, when we had this place we had a natural water feature

  1006. in the back to you how many remember that it would rain.

  1007. And it would just come down and come all the way down the front.

  1008. And we had a little towels. The last ownership.

  1009. Sure didn't care about. It didn't do anything.

  1010. I didn't do anything till I pay years of rent and then they put

  1011. a new roof on And all the while, what did I do?

  1012. Patience. Don't do any good.

  1013. Yell scream, Phi, C Lord. Could I have legally tried to go

  1014. to court? Sure.

  1015. But you know what the Lord told me not to you know I'm a glad

  1016. I'm glad I listened to Holy Ghost because if I to try to

  1017. take that man to court over a roof, he would not have

  1018. personally, underwrite me buying them all.

  1019. Of the amount that we financed, he put in almost half out of his

  1020. own personal account. But that's because we're not led

  1021. by how we feel. So I just praise louder on those

  1022. nights and mornings when the rain came through and it wasn't

  1023. more of the Holy Ghost, cause the rain fell.

  1024. It was just a hole in the roof. I was waiting for somebody to

  1025. come down, lame, man. But no one did.

  1026. He goes on and says this for my thoughts are not your thoughts.

  1027. My ways are not your ways, declares the Lord for, as the

  1028. heavens are Higher than the earth.

  1029. So are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than

  1030. your thoughts. The reason why the heavens is

  1031. not about proximity or location, it's about Realms of Dominion.

  1032. In the heaven realm of dominion, his thought is different than a

  1033. natural Earth Realm. Where we are in a fallen State

  1034. and we make decisions on how we feel.

  1035. And what we see, I'll give you take some point.

  1036. Hey, we're going to do a mission trip.

  1037. Hey, we're going to take them into on men's trip women on the

  1038. woman's trip and people say, oh, I would love to go.

  1039. And then in the end they come and say well I can't make it

  1040. this year because I just couldn't afford it.

  1041. So who told you you couldn't go your pocketbook or God.

  1042. Did we ever consult and asked the Lord Lord?

  1043. Do I need to go on this trip? Is there something I can tell

  1044. you right now? Without a doubt?

  1045. Some people did not go on a trip, not because the funds

  1046. weren't available. It's because they never got in

  1047. faith for God to move on someone else to give.

  1048. Because they didn't make a need. and my God, shall supply all my

  1049. God creates needs in your life by giving you words that are

  1050. outside of your capacity outside of your thinking, and your way

  1051. of doing, and then he expects you to believe it.

  1052. Even though you're like, there's no way I can go and I have

  1053. committed and I look like an idiot now.

  1054. And it looks like I'm not going to be able to go, but God, he

  1055. can do it in the Midnight Hour, it doesn't matter.

  1056. He doesn't have to come through when it's comfortable for you to

  1057. be able to receive. He can do it on the day of It's

  1058. amazing what he can do when you live a life of Faith, but it's

  1059. not a comfortable life. But it is an exciting life.

  1060. Because again, as long as you continue to process how you will

  1061. do things for God, based upon your soul.

  1062. You'll never actually Touch Heaven and the what you do

  1063. actually will not have a reward. Because God's not rewarding you

  1064. the things you do for him without him.

  1065. I must say that again. God is not obligated to reward.

  1066. You eternally for the things you do for him without him.

  1067. Now Lord don't you know, I did this why I never asked you to do

  1068. it. We made this statement before

  1069. the greatest tragedy in life, right?

  1070. Is somebody help me? Huh.

  1071. No, they I'm get to the success one.

  1072. It's life without purpose, right?

  1073. The greatest challenge in life and knowing what to do.

  1074. The greatest mistake in life is being busy, but not effective

  1075. and the greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong

  1076. assignment. I wonder how many people don't

  1077. stand before King Jesus one day and say.

  1078. But I thought that's what you wanted me to do.

  1079. And he says, you never even asked You know, I always wanted

  1080. to do a mission trip, Lord. I always wanted to.

  1081. You know, you know, you know, my heart was right.

  1082. Was it cause if your heart was right, then you would have done

  1083. what he said. Because you would have kept his

  1084. word. I've been in over 28 countries

  1085. because the Lord has funded them all.

  1086. Because he said, you're going to go.

  1087. I mean things that are, it's not because it's there, in fact,

  1088. most of the Great Men of faith that I've talked to without a

  1089. doubt. All of them tell me I started

  1090. with nothing. Pastor Hagen told me, he said

  1091. this hundreds of Acres that we have.

  1092. All of it except for one piece, one parcel.

  1093. Did I have the money to buy it when the opportunity came?

  1094. Only one. Only one, the rest of it, when

  1095. it came, when the opportunity came to purchase it, we believed

  1096. God and it showed up because my thoughts are not his thoughts

  1097. and what he has for you so much bigger than you could personally

  1098. keep have capacity to think about that.

  1099. You need God to get involved in the process.

  1100. I mean, it's like, we dream of a life that is so exciting.

  1101. But yet fail to ever get there because we limit it through our

  1102. own thinking. Let's go on, he says this.

  1103. So, my ways are higher than your ways.

  1104. My thoughts are higher than your thoughts verse 10 for As the

  1105. rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return without

  1106. watering the Earth and making it bare and Sprout and furnish seed

  1107. to the sower and bread to the eater.

  1108. So, will my word be notice what he's saying.

  1109. Now, this verse 11 is connected to my ways and my thoughts.

  1110. So will my word be that goes forth from my mouth.

  1111. It will not return to me empty without accomplishing.

  1112. What I desire. And without succeeding in the

  1113. matter for which I sent for, you will go out with what Joy.

  1114. I can't tell you how many times we drove up on the property and

  1115. the five years that we were believing God And other

  1116. opportunities were coming to try to take it away.

  1117. That I just said, Thank you little for 2121 u.s. oneself.

  1118. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord.

  1119. I'm not moved by what I feel. I'm not moved at all.

  1120. In fact, when we did raise, and I went back to them and I said,

  1121. hey, we have the 10%, the person.

  1122. I talked to said, well, we want another 10, I mean, one another

  1123. 10. But if I let my thoughts my

  1124. emotions, you know what, thoughts came where you going to

  1125. say to the congregation? You're going to like an idiot.

  1126. You didn't get it. You've been talking about this

  1127. thing for five years. You've been saying it assures.

  1128. You been claiming it now. They want another don't even

  1129. want to negotiate with you more. They only, they're going to sell

  1130. it out from underneath you. They are not going to get all

  1131. that came, and I just had to take it captive.

  1132. Take it captive and go back to one word I got on A1A past the

  1133. hammock. Well, if man can have

  1134. million-dollar homes on the beach of summer homes, don't you

  1135. think I could get you a mall? Yes sir.

  1136. I said Lord, how do we do it? I said, I need to talk to the

  1137. owner and the Lord sent the way. And I sent a letter to the man's

  1138. home address. And he called me.

  1139. Hallelujah. I said, Hallelujah.

  1140. I did let the thought, come, you're going to write the man's

  1141. home address. You're going to leave the chain

  1142. of command. Now what, you know, I was trying

  1143. to get up there up to chain anyway, nobody would let me.

  1144. You're going to go ahead and go there.

  1145. You're gonna I mean you should have heard the stuff.

  1146. You're going to risk it. You're gonna jeopardize your

  1147. relationship with. You're blowing it, you can't do

  1148. this. That guy knows that you're

  1149. running down him at his house. This is like personal.

  1150. That's his place his home. But God.

  1151. I was driving my own self home, and all of a sudden I look down.

  1152. And I saw his name. I said Jesus.

  1153. But the mall wasn't for me. The mall was for Christ, come my

  1154. wife and I were in The Home Depot picking up some supplies

  1155. you know, cuz I should have you know a personal parking spot in

  1156. both of these locations actually and all of a sudden another

  1157. Minister and the community was looking at us, you know, kind of

  1158. with that. I And said, are y'all pastors?

  1159. Yeah. Yes we are.

  1160. We're at. And we told him and told him

  1161. that we just purchased them all, and they did a Holy Ghost Dance

  1162. right here on the floor, right? Darren Home Depot and began to

  1163. praise God and they said this, because God did it for you.

  1164. What I'm believing God for. I know he can do it for me.

  1165. See when we get his fault. In his ways, it helps Propel

  1166. others to be at a believe, God, for the things, God has given

  1167. them. This ain't about coming in

  1168. feeling good. This is about doing exploits for

  1169. the kingdom of God. He and all the mental suffering

  1170. that comes with living the life of faith is worth it.

  1171. It's worth it. It's worth to be able to say

  1172. there's no way in the world. I could have pulled that off but

  1173. God there's no way. It could happen.

  1174. No way. It could have been done, but I

  1175. have joy and I let Joy lead me and proceeded forth with peace

  1176. in the mountains and the hills Break Forth with shouts of Joy.

  1177. Because of you before, You in all the fields trees of the

  1178. field will clap their hands instead of thorn bushes.

  1179. Meaning, if I get rid of my thinking, I'm not going to have

  1180. thorns in life. I'm going to have cypresses come

  1181. up. Instead of having the nettle of

  1182. the Myrtle will come up, it will be a memorial to the Lord for an

  1183. everlasting sign. We will not be cut off.

  1184. The Bible says in Galatians 5:25, if we live by the spirit,

    Galatians 5:25

  1185. let us also walk by the spirit. You're a spirit being.

  1186. You can no longer allow yourself to to allow your emotions to

  1187. control the situation. He must say, okay.

  1188. Dad. And this study makes sense to me

  1189. right now. But what do I do?

  1190. In this situation. What do I do?

  1191. Before we even respond. Before we lash out before, we

  1192. even give some an utterance. We needed spiritually.

  1193. Take a step back and say, hold on a minute.

  1194. Get it together. You don't, you don't control me

  1195. these emotions. These feelings.

  1196. Don't control me, dad. What do I do in this situation?

  1197. Just tell me your way. Give me your thought because I'm

  1198. a spirit being, and I'm be, I'm gonna live by the spirit.

  1199. The last verse is Romans 8:14 for all, and I like the

    Romans 8:14

  1200. Amplified, not the classic, but the Amplified, its new Amplified

  1201. version says this for all who are allowing themselves to be

  1202. led by the spirit, Of God are sons of God.

  1203. You have to allow. Him to take the lead, you have

  1204. to allow him to take the lead. You have to allow.

  1205. You have to allow what he said, and his way to dominate you so

  1206. much, That it can only be that way.

  1207. If you've not been inside the mall, we have the display of

  1208. what we're going to look like on the outside and the inside.

  1209. Why do we do that? The cast Vision, right?

  1210. Just so the community can see, we're going somewhere, but the

  1211. community doesn't have faith that we can do it.

  1212. They're going to have up, they're going to enjoy the

  1213. byproduct of being totally disconnected and just watch it

  1214. happen. We on the other hand are going

  1215. to see it by faith. See it by faith.

  1216. I was out of town my grandchildren last week four of

  1217. them, the little camping, I get emails while I'm gone checked in

  1218. This was an issue. This was an issue.

  1219. This was an issue. This was an issue when it came

  1220. to the mall. And I have this thought.

  1221. Well sure. Would like to hear something

  1222. good. Right?

  1223. You can't be moved by that, then a good one came in where some

  1224. body was walking them. All and was so thank.

  1225. Tell the owners told her property.

  1226. Managed to tell the owners. Thank you for opening the mall

  1227. so we can come walk again. Praise God, but it's Pastor

  1228. Marcy said in prayer today. They don't understand they're

  1229. not coming to walk. They think they are but there

  1230. can be healing in those Halls. Now There can be a tangible

  1231. touch from God and because I encourage you you should come

  1232. walk them all and not walk them all just to get exercise but to

  1233. lay hands on every store and called it prospering.

  1234. Because I'm telling you right now, we are Jacob in this

  1235. relationship. We will cause anyone who shows

  1236. up to prosper But it doesn't come because it comes because we

  1237. call it. We put our hand to it.

  1238. We watch it visually come because all of a sudden we

  1239. didn't have, but now it shows up we're calling in the resources

  1240. every time I drive on the property.

  1241. I'm like, thank you, Lord, that all the resources necessary to

  1242. completely transform this and I honestly the more I found out

  1243. that it's how bad it is the more I actually get more excited, you

  1244. know? Like that's weird Pastor you

  1245. know why? I like it because it shows how

  1246. dead the This is because when it turns out like we see it, then

  1247. it will be true. It was resurrected.

  1248. I said it was resurrected. It wasn't like, we moved into

  1249. something that didn't need to be pulled up out of the dead, but

  1250. we can do it cuz we give life because we're not led by what we

  1251. see and I'm just giving you trying to give you a little bit

  1252. of a corporate you know, thought processes.

  1253. But in any situation in life, you just stop and say, wait a

  1254. minute. Now don't move by I feel because

  1255. I'm I can't even get to the father. unless I'm coming to him

  1256. in spirit and in truth, and if I want Dad on my situation, was

  1257. the spirit of God saying And I'm telling you right now, if all of

  1258. us would begin to live that way, then everyone you ever come

  1259. encounter with. They're like house has happened.

  1260. You'll say that at all I go to church well and they'll be all I

  1261. go to church. I go to church.

  1262. But why is it different that you go to church?

  1263. And you get, but I don't because you're actually living by the

  1264. spirit and not a feel-good experience.

  1265. Living by the spirit. It make you feelings hurt.

  1266. At times. But any time mine hurt.

  1267. I get it over to the other side. All right, I get yourself

  1268. together and you get yourself together.

  1269. I've had it. I've had it.

  1270. I've had it happen on more than one occasion.

  1271. Patricia. I'm like, man, and I'm like,

  1272. Payson, you can't keep acting like this, can't keep feeling

  1273. that, is she going to get up? Because the Holy Ghost on the

  1274. inside saying, what are you doing?

  1275. What are you doing right now? What are you doing right now?

  1276. Are you going respond? You can't respond like that can

  1277. be going that way. Can't go, there, can't go.

  1278. There can't go there. Now, I'll go ahead and let me

  1279. in. Let me do what I need to do.

  1280. Just yield. And every time I yield, man, and

  1281. I go and act, even even when I act by the spirit and I don't

  1282. get the response that you want, I'm like I did it by the Spirit

  1283. by God, we're going to have it, it's going to be.

  1284. All right. And we overcome every time and

  1285. do great. Exploits, are you hearing me?

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