You Have To Pour Water Before You Pour The Word - Bro Jeremy Howell 9-1-2024

Rect your attention to the third chapter and the eleventh verse.

I get excited whenever God speaks into my heart from

the Book of Kings, because when I first started preaching,

I preached mostly out of the books of Versus, Second Samuel,

and the books of First and Second Kings.

There's so much great preaching.

As an evangelist, you can really encourage people by pulling

stuff up and out of the ministries of Elijah and

Elisha and Nowma that I have a past storm ministry.

You had to reach into them, Pauline Epistoles and dig

and dive a little bit deeper. But there's some really

good stuff in here. I know that Man said everything.

In the book is good. I agree with that wholeheartedly.

But some of it is gooder.

Some of it's easier to preach on, for sure, For example,

the topic of hell. Truly, if somebody is living right, man,

that's a great topic.

But if they're not right, that's.

Not so good when the preacher preaches on hell. So tonight,

I have a burden to preach. I was going to

preach on a spiritual blindness, but God redirected me. After

I had some tacos this afternoon and I don't know

if it was.

The Tacos or God.

Now I'm kidding, but I was redirected and I was

trying to get an ab and God began to deal

with me about something.

And I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost.

Titled you have to pour the water before you pour

the word.

You have to pour the water before you pour the word.

And I was thinking, Lord, what meaneth that?

And Brother Jesse got to seeking the Lord and he

led me to this tax right here. And it makes

all the sense in the world. How many of you

want to have an attitude serve it to all? The

necessity of servant to servanthood is so important. So many

people have forgot about the importance and the value of servanhood.

So I want to talk to perhaps a mother, perhaps

a daughter, maybe some of these young preachers. I'm not

really sure, but I want you to remember this. You

have to pour the.

Water before you pour the water.

All right, Brother Nathaniel saw chapter number thirty seven, first

number four, Brother Jesse mark chapter number ten and verse

number forty five. I want to say special things that

all of those have watched babies during the wedding ceremony.

You are miracle workers. I don't know how you did

what you did, but that's a workout, sister. How And

I had to watch a handful of them a week

or two ago. I never did understand why they said,

you're glad when they come, and you're glad when they leave.

After about two or three.

Days, Brother Jesse, then.

Little ones can work you out. I'm telling you, work

you over, turn you ever which away, but loose. But

we love them.

But thank you for helping us with all these, little.

Brother Nathaniel, Salm chapter number thirty seven and verse number four.

Y'all listen to what the Holy go says through the

Word of God.

Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give

thee the desires of thine heart.

Now light thyself also in the Lord.

And he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Brother Jesse, Mark chapter number ten and verse number forty five,

My brother were even the son of Man came not

to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give

his life a ransom for many. How many of y'all

believe that the King of Kings and the Lord of

lords put on the road of humanity, took upon himself

the form of a servant.

He made himself of low estate.

And he came down and began to just pour himself

out into humanity. All right, let's stand for the reading

of our text. Second King's Chapter number three, verse number eleven.

The Bible said, But Jehasafat said, is they're not here

a prophet of the Lord, then we may inquire of

the Lord by him. And one of the King of

Israel's servants answered and said, here is Elisha, the son

of Schaffat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.

Now listen to this. They were wanting to hear something

straight out of the throne room of glory. They wanted

to hear the voice of the Lord speak directly to them.

King Jehasifat wanted to hear the word of God, and

his advisers recommended they find the water boy. They said,

you know that one that poured water out on the

hands of Elijah. You have to pour water before you

pour the word. Let's pray Heaven only. Father, we love

and we praise you. We thank you God for the

opportunity to be in your house with these precious people

that are my brothers and sisters in Christ. I'm unworthy

to have people of this caliber and capacity as friends

and kin people. I pray God that you would bless

them in a special way. Set a guard at their

ears and help them to hear what you would have.

Them to hear.

Set a guard at my mouth and help me to

say only the things that you would have me say,

nothing more or less. I pray that the word of

God would go below the shoulder.

Let I get in that soul, in that spirit.

God, don't let it go in one ear and out

the other and trail the world in that mind.

And making ancient God.

Let it please saturate their heart, and we'll depart this

place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus's name. In the

church said Amen, as you're being seated, let's look at

our golden text again.

Second Kings, chapter number three and verse number eleven said.

But Jehashaphat said, is they're not here a prophet of

the Lord that we may inquire of the Lord by him?

They won't hear a word from the Lord.

And one of the King of Israel's servants answered and said,

here is Elisha, the son of Shafat, which poured water

on the hands of Elijah. They did not reference a miracle.

They reference this action of servitude. Our text is found

in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the

Book of Sacred Kings. As the Bible readers read through

this book of the Bible, they read of events and.

Happenings that took place after the nation of Israel had

been divided.

The Bible said that a double minded man is unstable

in all of his ways. We find that their double

mindedness led to division, disharmony, and discord. The disharmony within

the national history of Israel would have been disheartening to those.

That loved the Lord.

Without a doubt, there was men and women of God,

mothers and fathers of Israel that carried the burden that

David and Solomon had as they united the twelve tribes

of Israel gloriously under the goodness and the grace of God.

Brother Nathan was this thing began to unbutton and unzipped

and bust apart at the seems.

No doubt, there were people that were spending.

Countless hours crying over spilled milk.

They were praying and thinking about what could have been.

My precious brother in law told me yesterday, he said,

when you and Charity set out to go into the

bell on that mission to pioneer and plan a church,

he said, there was something inside of me that hurt me.

He said, it did not destroy me, It helped me.

He said. I thought, they're doing a work for God.

It's a mission and it's God to be okay, but

it said, I must admit oftentimes I think about what

could have been if me and Amanda had have been

with you and Charity. And I thought about the distance

between us two and a half hours. That's not a

long ways, but it's just far enough to make it

inconvenient to get together, especially for two working men and

their family. It's hard to devote and commit time for

men that are in ministry.

He's in ministry.

I'm in ministry, and it's almost impossible to get together.

But when we get together, we value that time spent together.

And I feel like that's how these people that were

broken hearted about the separance in the national relationship with

one another. Brother Jesse, there is no doubt in my

mind whatsoever if your mother had been alive during this time,

she would have almost grieved herself to death thinking about

what could have and what should have been. And so, sister,

one of my favorite characters in the Bible is the

prophet of Fire, Elijah.

I named him this morning.

How many of y'all appreciate the Prophet Elijah. You can

tell me a lot of exploits of the Prophet Elijah.

It'd be easy to preach a servant titled the Exploits

of Elijah. And there is no doubt he gave us

many examples of the power and the demonstration of the

power of God and how God is able to prevail.

And so as we read through this sacred writing, there

is a whole lot said about.

Elijah the Tishpai.

There's also a lot said about his dress standard and

his dress code.

Truly, he was an eccentric personality.

But what I want to bring for you tonight is

this that a lot of people overlook the fact that

this was a humble man. They overlooked the fact that

he spent a lot of his ministry ministering to the least,

the lass.

And the lordlier.

And it is true that his gift made room for

himself and because of the power that he had with God.

Right here in our text we have an example of

how his gift made room for him.

He's been invited.

Also we find now Elisha, his successor, is being invited

into the court room of the courthouse of Jehasaphat, brother Nathaniel.

But these men were humble.

I want to say that the man of God must

practice humility. The Bible said before honor, there must be humility.

I know there's a lot of people that are in

positions of power. There's people poised to assume rolls of

great responsibility and greater positions of power. But Brother Nathaniel,

they lack humility. Moses was as a humble man, a

meet man, and so was Elijah the Teaspie, and also

his successor Elisha.

Now I want you to know that these men were

in tune and in touch with the Lord. Ben to

fill up.

Your testimony, really bless my soul tonight as you opened

unto us the Word of God and helped us understand

the importance of those that are around us and how

they influence us. Certainly we are being influenced by others.

When we find that Elisha was the servant to the

great man of God, Elijah, and no doubt Elijah had

a strong influence on the life and the ministry of Elisha.

He'll find in the Bible that this man of God, Elijah, ascended.

To heaven in a world win.

He and Edith both know what it is for God

to come down and hijack their lives, take them into

the very presence of the lad The Bible said to

be absent in the body is to be present with

the Lord. Now, y'all think with me of chariots of

fire and chariot horses of fire descending down and picking

up one of God's men and ushering them into heaven.

But there was something going.

On in the heart of Elisha that some people suspected

was going on. They knew that this man was more

than fascinated with the ministry and.

The man Elijah.

He was fascinated with the spirit of Elijah.

Now a lot of people overlooked that.

But when Elisha asked the Lord for that double portion

so many speak about, he did not say.

A double portion of the spirit of God.

He said a double portion of the spirit of Elijah.

He was not idolizing the man Elijah. That would have

been a piction to God. Because these two prophets of God.

I would have knew that God is a jealous God.

And that nobody could be set on a pedestal and

put between them and God, and God not bring down

judgment upon whoever's committed by echolotry. And so Elisha he

saw something in the life of Elijah that's stuck with him,

and Elijah was no doubt the role bottle of servitude

in the life of Elisha. You say, what good is

it and me doing things around the church?

What good is it?

And me doing things to help the first lady hearing

her daughter's wedding ceremony? What good is it for us

to go, when retired to the nursing home and to

minister to them salty and seizing saints in there that

have been tucked away and forgotten about.

I want you to know there's a lot of good

in pouring water.

One time Jesus was ministry, and as he was this ministry,

a man walked by with a water pot. You'll find

it in the New Testament that the Lord said, at

a certain time, you'll see a man.

Going by with a pot of water.

There's no doubt that man was a servant of some kind,

even if he was the head of his own household.

He was doing the actions of a servant.

He was bringing water to somebody else, just like the

woman that was fell at the well of Samaria. She

was going to get the water, Brother Jesse. They were

all people that were willing to pour out the water. Now,

how many of you in this building tonight would ask.

The Lord to help you be more willing to do

for others?

Y'all will remember the Great Apostle Paul said, if you

want to fulfill the law of Christ, shoulder the burden

of someone else. Where your brother's burdens, he said. And

so tonight I want you to focus all the men

and the mindset of this servant of the firing how

the knowledgy preacher Elijah, and the servant's name is Elisha.

The Bible students.

And readers in this building, you have noticed the similarities

between these two men and their ministry.

I remember as a child in Sunday school. My Sunday

school teacher taught me how to know which one came first.

Some of y'all know how to do that.

In the alphabet, the letter change comes before the letter S.

And so concerning the two names of these two men,

they are strikingly similar. They're only one letter different. And

I want to tell the leaders and those people in

positions of authority that your children may be nothing more

than one letter of from what you are. The Bible

said to train up a child in the way they

should go, and when they grow home, they will not departing.

And a lot of times we see the children have

simply been cut from the pattern of Daddy and Mama.

I've told the how we're young men many times I said,

remember this. There may be some things that you can

do that may not get you damn.

As sentence to hell.

But what you do in moderation, your children will do

in excess.

And so with time a similarity.

There is something no slightly different about these men in

their name.

But brother Jessee, I don't believe it's enough.

And often enough to cause offense to God or to

keep from my shall from receiving the double portion from

the spirit of Elijha. You see, it's okay to have

strong leadership. I've noticed it to be a trend of

unholiness and Pentecostal people today to associate strong leadership with dictatorship.

That is trickering up the.

Devil on this and in action for a force I

believe that God blessing a family or a congregation with

strong leadership is just that it's a blessing from God.

In fact, brother Darius and reminded us of that tonight

in song. He said, thank.

God for the preacher that told us about Jesus. He said,

Elisha was fascinated with the spirit of Elijah. He might

not have been too impressed with his tress code and

his dress standard, because with no time that he wore

the same skylar clothing that Elijah was sure bore my

mother's clothing.

But there was something about the spirit. And I want

you to know it was.

His spirit of servitude that he noticed, because Elijah was

never too busy to minister to the least, the lost

and the lonely.

And Elijah was not saheading and how minded that when

his foot dried up he would go to see a

widow of Sarah path.

I's just thankful for the lord and mind and men

of God that can get a hold of God. But

at the same time, stuits a load has to be

a servant. I remember hearing a story a preacher told

long years ago and talked about this man that had

become very discouraged with some sort of berry. I want

to say it was a raspberry. And after some time

he decided that he just needed to do away with

that burial benyard brother Jesse. On the day that he

went to destroy that berry inured, somebody walked up. It

was an old timer, and he said, you're looking from

the wrong perspective. He said, underneath them bushes are the berries.

That preacher went on to say that that parting man

leaned down and he looked at sure enough, hanging and

dangling from them bushes was an abundance of raspberries. That

preacher went on to say that that preacher, that farmer

was looking at things from the wrong perspective. And sometimes

you've gotten to get down and look up at people.

You see, not.

Everybody wants to get down at the feet of somebody

bound to a wheelchair. Not everybody wants to get down

at the feet of a little.

Church in the bell when us only three people, that

one is threatening to be an elapidated building.

Not everybody is willing to eat a little man's lunch

box with fire.

And then the.

Little man went to where Jesus was ministry, and he

had a lunch box for so little in it.

But Jesus took that and.

Demonstrated to us that little is much when God.

Is in it.

Historically, just about every outbreak.

Of the Holy Ghost has occurred in little churches where

people were together together a meeting houses, where people who

are little. I feel the preacher right here, right now,

in this morning. It is true that Elisha knew that

the Jordan River. Listen now to the boys of Ali Child.

It is true that that range and Buddy River had

clarity of hearing when the top of the power stuck

to it. That I'm telling you here tonight. There was

something about the likes.

Of Elisha that Elisha wanted to be a that he

wanted to get a hold of it. And he didn't

only want to get a hold of what he could,

He wanted to have a pleny, who are messing up

in you?

Tenn I'm telling somebody now in this field of the

night who say we're tired, do it for me. He

is not a.

Respector a person. What it done for some den, he

do for you. Where he's done for what chutup, he'll

do for the l church. Where he's gonna work, touch hill,

run the earth.

Praise Lord Elisha believed that God would do for him

exceedingly abundantly above.

All, that she shall ask her things.

Jesus told his successors similar things. That's what Elijah said.

Greater things than these shall you do? You know that

what we've got to do in order to see the

greater blessing and the greater outpouring, we have got to

become people of humility.

It is true that this.

River Jordan doesn't likewise for the man of God Elisha,

in due time. That if we look at the man Elisha,

before he held the mantle, before he parted the river Jordan,

his teacher has showed him how to me humble. Prior

to the double of minority, he had been humble.

What led to such an minority?

What back to such power that the heavens would respond

to these men.

Of God's prayer?

What was the catalyst to such a connection with Jehovah God?

Now this man of God had a servant's hard It's

one thing to see.

A soul the Lord.

I want a servants harder help me to do my partner,

But it's another thing to be Jesus had been coming

to in a per chamber where the disciples who are

called his followers are gathered together, and there he would

take her a tower that he would put it upon

her his styles and kneel down and begin to washer

the feet of his what seeingly wassa his son. So

it takes somebody getting moody, lord, who got the stupid

very low to get to the feet of the servant.

I'll tell you what earned the respect that the apostles

had for Jesus to the point that they would die

for him, Rosa his ability to get little Jesus was

he of people person.

They could tell now. He wasn't in it for the power,

or for the position, or for the paychecker. He was

in it her all the people. Well, he was thrown

into it for their people. He was ministering for the people,

and he died up follow people. It's so clearly taking

to my heart. You see, if I was to ask for.

The cater right now to create an appetitity for the

empty tube of Jesus. Let's say the scientists and geologists

located that imtubement place and brother Caleb was the one

responsible for a writing that epithet.

I would say that brother Caleb would be prone to

say Keith is King of kings.

Well, brother Jesse said he is the Lord of lords,

and the empithet would continue to grow because by the

road Captain would feel the preacher old tick on it,

and he would say, he's wonderful cancelor, mighty God, Prince

of Pisa, and elastic father. But if you were to

pull a pin out of the hands of this little

god hit the person in the lad himself hands, what

he would say is I am a servant. In Mark

chapter number ten and forty five, Jesus describing himself as

there sir, he said, even the son of man man

tended not to be ministered up to her, but to

minister and to give her this life for a wrexam

for men. He well, come on now in another place,

it said, Ano came a man and took upon himself.

The border from a servant.

That's my love him.

I'm telling you because he can't the three minutes world

many identified himself. We you and I.

He tells how you there tho you obtained that this

famailiar enough, We are hacking enough.

I'm telling you. That's why I love him. By because

of Porta, not the water the boy pulled out the world.

I feel the Holy Ghost in this house, A true.

Genuine, purevanilla, true blue great name Christian takes it as

a Toby what a fellow who said describes him as

one that has a servant heart.

I have witnessed this over the last few days. I

walked into that kitchen.

Then in there were members of the Bethahoness Church and

family members of.

Jonathan Edwards and other people working. They were demonstrating servitude.

I'm telling you, somebody, who are the servant personified?

You are certainly great examples exemplifying on a daily and

even weekly basis.

What servant whom is you see? Why speaking to his disciples?

What time the Lord spoke to them about ministry. I

want to preach to the preachers that are here.

I want to preach to the affiliates that are after

that will be listening tomorrow. I want to preach them

to our resident missionary pastors. I want to preach to

the pastor's state side. Everybody holding the nettle, Carmela, I

want you to know jes The spoken to his disciples,

and he spoke concerning the landship gentle, the landship.

Psticular leader for these.

He said, the.

Disciples are the Gentales.

The leaders for the gentariesen the exercise authority.

He went on to say this, they fly to their authority.

And he told her his disciples, if you're gonna be

a leader of health, you must first time be a servile.

I see them, you the preachers here start preaching her,

and overnight they want to.

A pastorate like b the how Houser. I'll tell her

how it starts her watching the commode. Now I carry

rule working her in the church yard. There cut glass,

mistering in the nursing home. You gotta be let ae.

R if we go, I had the holy goes. Look,

Brother Jonathan Edwards got not. Sister Hannah Edward's got. I

had a surprise today, Brother Jerry. We have a private

thing called photocircle. Only our church people can see what

I post in there. I'll say we got choir practice,

we're starting revival. I'll post little screenshots snapshots in there

in town.

What's going on at to Bethel holding his church?

Yesterday last time Rther I said happy Wednesday to Brother

Jonathan and Sister Hannah. This afternoon I saw a beautiful

post from your wife. I'm telling you, getting to be

fifty it has its rewards and it also has its downers.

I'll sit there and I tell then, that is such

a sweet thing for Jesse's wife to write and said,

you all did a marvelous had a wonderful job.

Thank you for everything y'all did to.

Make yesterday's wedding ceremonies precious. And I thought, man, that

is unlike Jesse's wife to act like that and to

say those things. And I have put my phone down,

and I thought, Dug, Hannah Edwards is Jonathan's wife. It

is not Jesse's wife. Those two Hannah Slaughter the last names?

Or are you listen to Pastor Howard? What sister Hannah

was saying. I noticed the servant hood. I know the song,

you working man. I know this what you did for

the queen on the celebration. And I want to tell you,

don't you be the stir and sir when your people

seeing the pipe passer.

We weren't preaching the big meeting. Oh come on now.

The sonr Sai and the problem was saying, I've seen.

Her princess walking and I seen poppers upon horses. What

he was saying, he is sometimes some are promoted. My

daddy the son are promoted. My mama, I seen my print.

I'm come God, Papa, run out of misteen. What I

want you to know, consider the end loose, considered the

end of Elissa.

Pour that water, poor, your poor. The word.

The heart of the servant is humble, selfless, and.

Devoted to serving others. Sister heal from.

A She started attending here three or four months ago.

Let me tell your preacher something, she said. I feel

you when you preach. She said, I love to hear

you preach. She said, I started listening to your preach

before I came to church here. I did not get

a thrill or at you of any kind, because it's

not me.

The preachers y'all not had that understanding.

If he will don't know me, I will be sure

to return thanks, praising glory to him. She didn't say

you got a beautiful family, although that probably had.

Something to do with it, because the Bible.

Just said the man of God should have his household

in subjection and in order. And what she did say,

she said, I value your servant leadership. And this is

just now coming to mind. She said, we can tell

your heart beats for us. We can tell your heart

beats for your family. We can tell your heart beats

for the sinner. I'm not pinning roses old myself. I

don't care for that too much. I let my daughter

doing yesterday. How could I not after seeing that beautiful.

Battery Meanna, How could I knock bow that chest out

and said go ahead and pinned that peach hundred a rose?

Who're right here home, daddy.

I ain't no flowerty preacher, but I want you to

know I am a grasshopper and hedad preacher.

But before you ever becomes somebody, the spirit of charmed

the back, and so must tell on you and the

greatest choice. Her points to say, I'm my secrets that

he ain't got.

Ply that Chris I felling the Jesus as saying, the

greatest preacher of them all is here, and he's saying,

I got they.

Breath decreasing, decrease, so he he to increase.

God help me to get small enough that I can

look up and see the raspberries. God help me it

gets falling us to realize that brother, they're struggling, don't

want to go to hell.

Help me to gets small enough and get down enough

to let.

An a dote myself enough to see the day the raspberries.

I'm preaching to somebody nest building to night.

I want you to know listen heady and I min

the people looking at the raspberry. Yes, but o there

their prayer today. John seees you're frue people the medicine.

John sees you're a married fruit.

It just ain't your part to side.

Said, I don't want to set it's cooled principles. They

always have a burden to serve. Teachers. They don't make

a lot of money, but they have a burden to serve.

Pastorates are not something you should just step into. Ask

Moses's elder brother. The better preacher, the better speaker, according

to Moses, the mayor could forever wrote preach. In fact,

Moses was saying it when it comes to addressing parent,

when it comes to depressing.

People, errands, the better speaker. But he was not the

lonely minded Moses. He was not the great leader Moses.

We found it came to pressure and he caused the

church the compromise, and too many.

Pastors were out of their road.

They said to be doing something else besides pastor and aeron.

Because pastor who commits idology. He tells the people God

done that, and I said, God ain't gonna lie a

man or an idol title between the hell that's somebody else.

Some people's after it for the autumn. Some people's after

it for the title. Huh. So Jesus he mastered servitude.

And you know what, because he mastered servitude, Sister Wood,

he did not front his authority. One time he hit

it of it after six hundred Romas soldiers had hit

their face simply because he said a three letter friends,

I am he.

A man clocked out Mount Tisha ain't got nothing, came Jesus. Huh,

he told the Roman leader. He said, you're saying that.

I'm meaning, Hey, Jesus was playing the men for fools,

and I'm gonna tell you the best way here to

play a fool is to humble yourself.

Because they don't.

Know how to do that.

You preachers remember this.

They would despise the horrible man when they come up

and occlock you're not preaching here or you're not preaching there, and.

They try to make you feel bad because you're not

pastor the church.

Lucky Daddy's that runs eighty two one hundred, not yet

but you remember trickery and deceit and politics.

We do not make a who are leader who will

not make you?

Not the thane, a leader that servitude and sermon hood,

who have tain you to me?

The leader that's you mean to be? Said, I keep

preaching her said, we go to colds. He said.

Elisha was quite pleased with elijah spirit. The spirit of

I Am was known when somebody approaches them, when they

come upon him. Sometimes Sister Wootten, she says, I didn't

like his spirit. She came to me yesterday and she said,

I met your brother in law Shame, And she.

Said, I like his spirit.

He is a pleasant person. He's fun to talk to.

She said, he reminds me of his sister Charity. I said, well,

she practically raised him. They were best friends when I

came in and took her away from him. But they

are similar in so many ways. And Sister Wootin saw

me begin to cry, and I said, I would love

to see her brother sitting in the House of God

next to her and next to me other Jesse. They're

all so close and characteristics, they're all so closer in personality.

And I watched his wife.

As she looked at the women of God, and she

noted there was something different about a sake.

Of God, the life.

And I want you to know, a.

Humble person will have to like themselves and sanctification. They

will to like themself its secreation. They will not turn

their nose up to the world. They will not actabet

me there and matter.

Than the world.

But they will be humble and they will delight themselves

in the difference of trust food.

I love the crickets preach right now. They're preaching. Got

quite right there.

In the Word of God, it says that our heaven

and Father will give his children.

The desires of their heart. Now, Elisha, he's want something.

I remember when brother law Is Stanley would stand up

and testify in the Brandy Church of God. I would say, God,

o what he's got because he was rop sound, he

was humble.

But when his wife, Sister Clara made would stand up,

she had the power that I saw on demonstration here

tonight some of your life.

So I'm talking about trying to build you up, but

I'm telling you it's everden.

When it begins to menopest that.

The pire is inside and sister standing, she stand up

and she started.

Out to talking in a low, soft tone.

After about one or two minutes, i'd hear the power

in her didn't begin to roll.

Brother be figured, did he miss my soul?

And I sit over there, and I said to God,

when I get saved, and when I get sactified.

And when I get the holy mil stuff, I want

a double portion of what sister Clara Stanley has. And

I told God it that for years and the night

I got saved. Man, she walked over there and bless

me a.

Smile in that moment.

I'm telling you that double poor said, I'm a.

Spirit came upon me.

I knew right there, and she knew right there.

Man.

Although I never told her what I wanted. Elijah told

Elijah what I want. And Elijah said, you asked the

hard thing of me, buddy, because.

Elijah knew what it took to keep the fire. Hey, ma'am,

come on, mother Caleb. When they pat you on the back,

you know what you do with that hen.

You may not physically grab that hen tap me on

the back. I'm Caleb, man, I've changed, haven't I. You're Jeremy,

you changed too. You've got a whole lot more handsome, right, man.

Look at us, Jeremy, how handsome he is. But I'm

Caleb right now, pat me on the back in your spirit.

When they do that, you need to see as of

beating down, and you need to take that hand you

want to back and put that up to heaven and

say to God be all the praise, to God, be

all the glory.

Because you can ask Saul.

Whenever you get lifted up, God said Saul, when you

were little, How that's a prophecy among the properts. How

nets a new tothetic things. How that's her get in

the spirit. But when you got sabid, I didn't even

watch a sacrifice it like the priest does.

I'm telling you.

Good this sor somebody a hoty spirit. We don't come

before all.

I spreading this morning my maba, and in the other

room I heard my wife playing the audio King James translation,

and in there it.

Was saying, how has to have following Saul? Hell are

the mighty falling? Jonathan David was weeping, Oh my God

in heaven. We find in PSNG chapter.

Number thirty seven and verse before the Simons wrote, delight

thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee

the desires of thy heart. It's evident to Thelossa delighted

himself in obedience.

Unto the Lord.

Also, he didn't have a problem submitting to proper authority.

Notice, we are to delight ourself in the Lord.

Yes, sir, many overlook the word in and the phrase

in the Lord. They delight themselves in things that satisfying

their carnal appetites and desires that delight themselves.

There something besides the Lord. We should delight ourself in

the Lord. This is how mother Eve got in deep trouble.

She delighted in something that looked pleasant to the eyes.

She did not even know that it would taste to

like a bitter muscle. All she was worried about how

beautiful it was to the eyes. Gonna say noel She

was fastening. We're not forbid it.

I want you to know, Elisa, let's not fascinating. We're permitting.

He was fascinating with a spirit for a man of God,

he said, Eve, she wanted to delight herself in the

indulgence of the place, rather than in her God. Solomon

at some point acknowledged his erroneous ways and his error.

Brother Nathangel, we find him saying, I've missed the mark.

I delighted in all of the wrong things. I delighted

in beautiful women. I delighted in hard labor. I delighted

in great architecture. I delighted in great construction projects. I

delighted in materialism. I delighted in lavish love felship. I

delighted in pleasure. I delighted in entertainments. There were all

the wrong things to delight in your creatures. I never

did look for a pastor's pool pit. I looked for

the annoying to.

The Jesus, healthy free throwing.

I'm telling every person in the middle hole in this church,

so you got to do better a solitude.

I'm not helping o theirs.

You already seen them big cargo ships that hauled the

big big one of them things called to me, what

connas boxes all that stuff.

I think I just hit a big wave and lost.

About thirty of them big connacts boxes right there in

a big wave. I am not criticizing you at all,

and I will tell you that pride and errogancy will

turning off people. I'm turning in this church with not

throwing unders. Somebody packing theself hold the chest. They hear

enough of that from a list celebrities.

They hear enough of that the news.

They hear about that.

As they need to sell a part. What they need

is somebody to demonstrate servitude.

And you know what, with everything that Eliosha got, something

must have been special about Elisha, because we fined when

it came his turn to be the mentor, when it

came his turn to be the trainer, when it came

his turn to be the example. I don't feel that

he fell short, but his follower Gehazi, the one that

was pouring order on his hands. That Gahzi delighted in

things such as Solomon had said we should avoid, and.

Because of that he.

Wanted materialistic things above the anointment of God. And the

Bible said that Gahzi became lepros and so Elijah's servant, Elisha,

he got a double portion of the spirit of Elisha.

And sister, who Gehazi is the successor to Elisha?

Or what an opportunity he had?

Do we realize tonight that the Holy Ghost's brother Philip said,

has been even heard.

Of this fort he at realizes what an opportunity you

have to not to get to while they get this good.

We can pray in this altar here in a little while,

and you can tell God, God, just help me to

pour out the water, help me to pour out myself.

And before you know it, you know what will happen.

You'll be pouring out the word of God, the praises

of God. You'll be speaking in a heavenly language.

Elisha knew not to settle for what would never ultimately

satisfy him.

He had a good desire, a great desire. He desired more.

The spirits of Elisha and the spirit of God. Ultimately

he wanted that double annointing. It wasn't for his pleasure

or his personal gain. Elisha did not want it for

his pleasure or his personal gain. But kahes Idea Cohesi

was gonna be unwilling to help the least, the laws

and the lonely, the great prophets of God, allies and

Elsh minister to widows.

People matter to them.

But when you find Ghesa, he's in a leperous condition

later on in life. He's trying to stand in the

very presence of the key in such a state as that,

because all along, like Judas, he wanted to be in

a position of power.

I just felt a witness of the Holy Ghost right there. God,

help us not to covet power. Help us God not

to covet positions of authority.

And I'm not saying to anybody he is, But the

Bible said the small foxes full of virons us for

him running the little.

Fall small foxes out of here with amen. It wasn't

for his pleasure or his personal gainsays to have them.

When he caught the man on mid air, and he

stood there, and all the others profits from the school

and the prophets is standing there to watch and see

what's he gonna do it? Elijah. They had passed it

on to Elisha. I want to pass something on to you,

young preachers.

I live to pass this on to you. It is

the reason I breathe. It is the reason I live.

I've been praying. I said, God, would you please let

firebrand shoot out of the bonfire of God.

I'll believe that this ministry, the word of God, men

in Jesus, can spread like wildfire.

That's what I was crying and praying about over there

a little while ago. I was saying, God, let firebrand

shoot out like fireworks and let us take this into

the world.

It's true the Lord desires to use men in a

much greater capacity, but they have to have the right

spirit to be used in such a great capacity. People said, well,

why are the blind no longer receiving their sight? Why

are the lab no longer walking? Well, I'll tell you

that they are.

It's just few and far between you.

Her brother Jerry estimony about his mother's sister Francis. He said,

I saw God turn the tables. I saw God put

Mama in a u turn situation. I saw God turned

the tables. I said, I saw God turned the tables.

God wants to work in a greater capacity, but God

needs men and women that are little enough to work in.

Such a capacity. I just thought to hold it because

a man's gift will make goood for himself.

But sometimes God's gonna tell you to go up the

road to the hospital and pray for the widow. Sometimes

God's gonna tell the first lady you message that woman

that her husband left her. That ain't popular, preacher, right

there in our golden text, the King of Judah was

in search of someone who could hear directly.

From the Lord.

I need somebody that can pour out the word. I

need somebody that can hear from God, be servant specific

and tell me what God says to me.

Well, you must first pour the water fire up the

bower pire up here, high.

Up the pressure wash fire.

Teaching in the Sunday school class, you see when Jehasifat

reached the point of desperation, the prophet Elisha was the

one everyone recommended brother Nathaniel. And what they had in

mind is brother Jesse come to the piano. Was not

all the miracles he performed, It.

Was go get the preacher.

Man that poured water on the man of God's hands,

seemed by such a menial task, seemed by such a

silly notation. But I want you to know, not only

did God take notice in that the king's household noticed

that when the old wild man prophet Elijah walked through town,

Lysha's right there pouring water on the hands of the prophet.

The two guys, and I don't mean to be disrespectful

in any way, they weren't pansy men. But I'll tell

you this, my Grandpa Willard Howe and my other grandpa

to warming Danter, they weren't effeminate men. By no stretch

of the imagination. But there were times, brother Aaron, because

of the way we were working, and their hands got sadingy,

dirty and grimy. They spoken to me with authority, and

they said, hold the water hose.

You know what I did.

I took that water hose and I held it on

the hands of great men. And then they said, go

get the gojo because this water ain't working. And I'd

run into the barn and get some gojo. And I

love to smell the gojo and brothers there, and I

rubbed my hands through the dirt just so I could

get some food.

Joke.

On the way back from the barn, I stopped to

get my hands dirty. Now, I say, Papa, I've been

working too. And he knew I didn't have the capacity

to work like he did, but he knew it was

in my heart. I'm talking about a little boy words m.

I could he sell to sleep any Titus?

Are you?

Are you awake, comer Titus. I can't expect this little

man right here to work like Papa does. This is

my grandson, Titus. I can't expect him to work like

I do. He likes to eat with him.

He's told me he's already missing me since Hannah's booted out.

She's his babysitter. And he said, I miss a longhorn.

He's hopped on the fish sticks.

Ain't cutting. That's true if you're ready to go a

long horn.

But Titus, who I've seen you a few times, try

to get a little dirty because you've been working my

daddy and not Pampa. And I'd get that old go

jo with the grib in it, and I'd have to

scrub Paupers had to literally put some in his hand.

He's grub his hand.

I'd hold the water hose. I mean, been washing clear

up to the elbows, says the whoop old hairy arms.

The light bear of her to see water dripping off

the hairy arms. And my brother Titus, he said, man,

look up that you've been working.

We're just standing there like this holding the water hose,

just like this. That's simple and that innocent.

But you do that long enough.

At the wall, Pop is gonna say turn that ranch.

And at the Wallcop is gonna say swing that rink.

Thank you, go to Titus. But what they noticed was

Elisha was a servant.

Seems it's significant, but the notation, the deliberate notation is

he's a water board.

I don't know a whole lot about sports.

I was a letter of an athlete high school before

I got saved to pay the law of sports, I

guess I know a little bit about it. But I know,

Brother Tyler, the warner boy was never the one that

won the game. He was never the one that's scored

to touchdown or slid it into home plate. He was

the one that walked out and hydrated everybody. There is

a sweet spirit of God in this place tonight.

You know. One of the hardest things to do is

to forgive people and love them even though they don't

deserve it.

In pastoral ministry or even just in the Christian walk,

the hardest thing to do is as to how is

to be a servant and love them that you know

is gonna treat you like you're a doormat.

The hardest thing to do is forget those that take

advantage of you.

Jesus said, won't you pray for those that despite for

the new Usia and Abusia?

Sometimes, Brother Tyler, it's easier just to cut them off.

It's easy to withhold and refuse love.

But a servant says, you know what they don't deserve it,

but I'm gonna love him anyway. They don't deserve this forgiveness,

but I'm gonna forgive them anyway.

I love what I feel right now at my soul.

Let's stand here, if we will please or the please ma'am, please, brother, please, sister.

So when Jehasaphat, the King of Judah, in his desperation,

he said, I need.

Somebody to pray for me.

My mother in law was here yesterday. She's of a

different persuasion. She used to live holiness. We found that

out after we had got married.

We didn't know.

Sister Howard was great granddaddy Martin was a holdiness preacher

of the symbols of God.

We didn't know this till after we had got married.

My mother in law used to live it, but her

brother Samuel, when she started having a stroke a few

years back, she called her daughter.

She said, Charity, I need you to pray.

And then she said, if you will tell my son

in law Jeremy to pray, Sister Wooton. All we were

doing was down here in label for to porn, water, porn,

water cutting grass. I think we cut the grass here

for many years. Brother Jeremiah maybe a decade now. We're

blessed to have the help, but we must first.

Pour the water before we pour the word. Saints. You

know what I'm talking about.

They criticize your life, they criticize your lifestyle, they criticize

your dress code standard. Even yesterday there were some talking

and privacy about the way you are dressed. It doesn't

bother me, not one bit. But you all know it

to be true, sister Woot And you said it just recently.

That prodigal daughter, when she gets in a fix and

gets in a bind, she calls bomba.

Now that takes a servant's heart to say.

You know, I've been ridiculed and talked about Lionel treated

and I'm gonna pray for him.

I'm gonna pray for the spiders of.

The cheek, and when they spike the one cheek, I'm

gonna turn the others. My best friend, well, I got saved.

He wasn't too happy about it. We were working together and.

I was trying to talk to about Jesus in the

tone of voice that I have right now, and I

literally had a tear run down my face before it

got saved.

I refused to cry. I had a tear run down

my face. He knew that was unusual. My brother Jeremiah

just said, would you please get saved?

I feel like some bad's gonna happen to you if

you don't get saved by all that drink and carouse.

If you do it, something bad's gonna happen. For some reason.

He got mad, hit me on the head, knocked me

to the ground.

I'll never forget my hard hat rolling in the shop

floor and spinning like a turtle on his back. And

I crawled over there and grabbed it and put it on.

And I stood up and I looked at Mike and

I said, why'd you do that? Did the devil make

you do that? And he said, Jeremy, all I can

tell you is you got saved because I tested you,

because just six months ago you.

Tried to kill them with a piece of that angel

or for doing that, brother Jeremiah, God give me servants.

Because there's people that are suffering and hurting and they're

gonna need help. There's jehostile facts out there. There's so

many jehostile facts that need.

To hear from God.

Listen, Preacher, before you lead, you must serve. Listen, Dad, Mom,

sometimes we don't feel.

Like serving even our own families.

But we had to.

Also Paul one time, speaking to the New Testament believers,

he said, sometimes do it against your will.

As to how and I took a cruise recently.

They were not serving alcohol. People, We're not drinking. It

was a special type of cruise because that we went,

we had a good time. There's people from another country,

says to Wooting on that ship. They're living in servanthood. Sister,

how I talked to that one for a good while.

You would remember this as the hand I would remember it.

We talked to him for a couple and that's anyway,

fifteen to twenty minutes. And I said, man, there's a

lot of Filipinos on this ship. He said, trump in

ninety percent, sir, after for example, some sort of special

arrangement between the cruise companies and the Filipino government. And

I said, I heard that a lot of y'all were

losing your minds after being on the ship for twelve months.

He said, yeah, they had to shorten the duration of

our servanthood. He said, because of us being out at

sea longer than nine months, we start having mental problems.

And he said now there's a law against us working

too long on the cruise ship. But when you walked around,

Sister Howard, you could know soon and finish a blast.

They were taking it from you.

The dirty plate was removed in seconds. It never sat

there for minutes. They'd been coupled. But brother Samuel, they

had such servants, hearts. They were waiting all the Americans

on their cruise ship's hand and foot. And I couldn't

help but think about Jesus walking in that day with

that towel, and Peter knew who he was.

He's king of king and lord of lords. Jesus said,

flesh of blood had not built such things. To you, Peter,

And in Jesus, brother Samuel's there. He gets down like

this and picks up Cowell on his knee. He starts washing.

Peter said, oh no, you ain't about to wash my feet.

Oh no you aren't.

And y'all remember what Jesus said. If I don't wash

your feet, that has no part with me. And Peter said, hey,

give me a back, Hey give.

Me a back, wash him from my head to my feet.

And that's what I'm telling somebody here tonight. You've been

through the bud, you've been through the mar Jesus wants

to come in. He's not against it, he's for you.

Could we bow our heads here in this little church

house tonight.

Is there somebody that would just like to ease out

of the few and move up here to the altar

and say, God, I want a servant's heart.

I look glad they do my part. Is there anybody

that say, preacher, I really know God can change my heart.

Give me that servant's heart. Servant's heart, That's what I suspected.

There's so many one before people in this field would

be so many respond to said yard, help me to

be locked a last year.

Before the water, the must pool the water before we've

torn the wood.

Bark God, it's not mine.

Oh Lord, nor long time long.

Deserve each five.

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Rather say who he sent me? Another valley.

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No, God, it's hard by we.

Oh Lord, Lord, only kimd we're more more Lord, I

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me faithful. A trysteina take happy.

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