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PROBLEMS? Join the club! Bro Jeremy Howell Jan 28, 2024

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  1. Party for your daughter Dollar number two right, sister of Mariah, what's her

  2. middle name, Kate, Sister Mariah, Kate Howell. After the church service,

  3. immediately following the altar service, we will gather in there and have a

  4. birthday party. It is a first birthday party. If you felt the spirit

  5. of God move and as brother Jesse and brother Nathaniel, and brother Samuel,

  6. and sister how and sister Hannah saying, would you raise your hand and thank

  7. the Lord. I'm so thankful that I could feel the presence of God.

  8. If you felt the spirit of God moving in your soul, a sister obeyed

  9. the Lord, would you raise your hand and thank the Lord for that.

  10. I'm thankful for the way the Lord used her. Concerning our son, brother

  11. Philip, our brother Nathaniel Luke, chapter number eighteen, Versus number seven and

  12. eight, Brother Jesse, Salm, chapter number eighteen and verse number seventeen.

  13. I will forewarn you, I will try to run an eighteenth year in order

  14. to get you out there and get your hands on some birthday cake. Sister

  15. daughter, I recently discovered the sister daughter of us birthday cake. That's good,

  16. so do I all right, Brother Nathaniel Luke chapter number eighteen Versus number

  17. seven and eight. Listen, and shall not God avenges on a leg which

  18. cried day and night unto him, though he bear along with them. I

  19. tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the son of

  20. man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth. Brother Jesse saw him

  21. Chapter number eighteen, Verse number seventeen. He delivered me from my strong enemy,

  22. and from them which hated me, for they were too strong for me.

  23. The Salmist is admitting that he had an enemy that was too strong for

  24. him. Has anybody ever interacted with somebody that was too strong for them in

  25. any way into actually, academically, physically, emotionally. You know that woman

  26. you were dating was too strong for you emotionally just too much, Just too

  27. much, man, you're just too much. Right. Well, this man

  28. had an enemy apparently that was just too much, too strong for him Verse

  29. number seventeen. Again, he delivered me from my strong enemy, and from

  30. them which hated me, for they were too strong for me. Wow,

  31. somebody hated him and somebody was too much for him to handle. Let's stand

  32. for the reading of our text. The Bible says in Saw chapter number thirty

  33. five and verse number three. Draw out also the spear and stop the way

  34. against them that persecute me. Say unto my soul, I am my salvation.

  35. That sounds like a desperate plea to me. Let's pray, Heavenly Father,

  36. we love and we praise you. I thank you for these wonderful people

  37. that's in this building tonight. I think you for the movement of the Holy

  38. Ghost that we have already felt. I know God, my frailty and inability

  39. to preach behind such a movement of the Holy Ghost. I pray that you

  40. would have know at this thy servants and the guard in my mouth, and

  41. help me to say the things that you would have me to say, nothing

  42. more or less, and north the ears of this thy people, that they

  43. not hearing what it is the spirit say it under the churches tonight through this

  44. preach word, Ho God to this people. We pray, let these sayings

  45. go below the shoulders that are getting that spirit in that soul. I pray

  46. also in that mind help us to hear and to heed, and to depart

  47. dis place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus' name, A man, I

  48. want to preach a message the Holy Ghost, title problems, question mark,

  49. join the club the problems. Join the club. Look at your neighbor and

  50. say, hey, neighbor, do you have problems? Join the club.

  51. Our text has found in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the

  52. Book of Psalm. The book is probably the most recognizable book of the entire

  53. Divine Library. People of different faiths and religions are acquainted with some of the

  54. writings within this book of the Holy Bible. It's the Hebrew songbook. People

  55. of all nations have respected the God of the Hebrew people throughout history, and

  56. they have respected the songs of the children of Zion. In fact, in

  57. Psalm chapter number one, thirty seven and three, we find these words being

  58. spoken to God's people during their captivity. It goes like this, For there

  59. they that carried us away captain required of us a psalm, and they that

  60. wasted us required of us mirths, saying sing us one of the songs of

  61. Zion. The jut of Israel had great singers and song writers, just like

  62. the Church of today. Have you ever heard more anointed singing than you've heard

  63. amongst spirit field and spirit led people. The people of God have always had

  64. people in their midst that were super letalented and highly anointed by the spirit of

  65. God. Because Nashville will never outdo God. God does not play second fiddle

  66. to anyone. And could the church say amen? And so even though the

  67. June of Israel had great singers and great song writers, there were certain men

  68. that had an ability to pin words and move the hearts of people. We

  69. had the Sons of Korah for an example. We had the sons of Asaf,

  70. and no other than the Sweet Somist of Israel, David, for examples.

  71. These men of God, they put pen to parchment and wrote songs that

  72. connected to each one who hurt them. To not, as I'm preaching,

  73. I am preaching some lyrics of one of these Somists, name it David,

  74. the Sweet Sobists of Israel. Also, at times in your life, during

  75. hardships and calamities, or perhaps during times of extreme joy, you have recited

  76. some of the lyrics of some of these poems and songs. How many people

  77. in this building to not con say that I must testify and boldly proclaim that

  78. God's people have always had songs of victory. How many mothers show in their

  79. hands would raise your hands and say God's people have always had songs and an

  80. emberance. Not every person that serves every God can say that. I feel

  81. like God's people knows that God gives them the victories and the deliverances that gives

  82. them an opportunity to sing high praises to their God of victory and deliverances.

  83. A large portion of these songs were written by King David. I don't know

  84. if nearly half of these songs in this Hebrew song that were written by David

  85. or not, but I know that a lot of them were. As a

  86. preacher for nearly twenty years now, I have preached out of these songs.

  87. I've used a lot of the lines of these lyrics of these poems for gold

  88. and text. A lot of these songs were written by composers who lived during

  89. the sweet somers of Israel's time. I know that there are people in this

  90. building that could say you were honored to be able to live during the time

  91. of such and such or so, and so you could say that my old

  92. granddaddy certainly was one that had a song of victory, that had a song

  93. of deliverance, and packed a lot of times we could feel the devil breathing

  94. down our nets. You would go on the same the paupa or Grandma.

  95. They came into the House of the Lord, and they began to sing a

  96. song that was personal to them, but it was ever so sweet. And

  97. as they began to sing, we could tell that the heavens took not and

  98. that the power of God began to move in our midst as they sing the

  99. high praises of their God. I feel like there's people in this building right

  100. now who will one day say, I remember those that were seeing the songs

  101. of the belt of ho Iness Church and the years of twenty twenty three and

  102. twenty twenty four. I will remember how they did it heartily unto the Lord.

  103. I will remember those physicians as they played skillfully under God. I will

  104. remember those that got in the spirit and say the songs of pictures sweet and

  105. the songs of deliberate sweetly. What a time that must have been, too,

  106. a been alive in the days of the sweet Somist of Israel. What

  107. time it must have been to be able to find your song next to that

  108. of King David, to find it in the stacks somewhere are such a great

  109. man of tod and what a privilege it is in your lifetime to say I

  110. know the likes of this one. I tend church with this one. I

  111. hear the preaching of this one. I feel the singing of this one.

  112. I'm not talking about listening to the singing. I'm talking about feeling the rear

  113. it and feeling the tempo, and feeling the two. Talking about people that

  114. are singing to the glory of God nor glory right to know that you be

  115. able to tell your children that I lived. It's such a time as this.

  116. I know that these people were certainly blessed to be able to say that

  117. David was not only their king or their shepherd and their who either nshingly,

  118. but he was also someone that would put pen the partsmen there and give them

  119. something to sing. Abe, there's someone in this building tonight decide the pastor

  120. or the song leader have something to praise the Lord for it. There's somebody

  121. bearing nerves to put pin in the paper and talk about the goodness of the

  122. Lord for a written page. It's a somebody even right now, writing in

  123. a new book, can say I have been privileged to rid a time when

  124. there is no prey for the learn of part there is no PREMI and like

  125. for the preaching of truth, there is no lack for their marting of God

  126. in the bath of Holiness Church. And I wonder who I'm preaching to here

  127. tonight? Do you realize you may not always have this? Do you realize

  128. what it took for people of this topacity man in this caliper. I'm not

  129. talking to myself, but I'm talking to David, the sons of Cora,

  130. the sons of a Sad Muriel, their brother Nathaniel and sister we sister head

  131. of sister won't coping. So many others say, to your real life,

  132. what kind of hell they went true to have the testimony that they have tonight,

  133. to your real life their brother Pilla's having them walker through a hill named

  134. cancer to come out with they're testimony that you will help. On the on

  135. the side, do you like to play talk? What's your breathe in the

  136. Earth's such a mother? Pat Some time you want to stop trying and you

  137. want to stop doing this cuts the stop praising God because the children of me

  138. is room had soon turned out they would not always have David. In fact,

  139. whenever you look at this book, you find that we run out of

  140. poems, we run out of songs, we run out of chapters the Bible.

  141. Students know how many chapters are in the Book of Song one hundred and

  142. fifty. But those are not the only poems, are the only songs that

  143. have ever been written by God's people? Can I tell you, brother better

  144. feeling? It's just the reasonable that they would not hurt. Who wouldn't be

  145. a perpet when you're walking to the battery of this title of death to write

  146. a song? It would not perfect to write a poem. Somebody not to

  147. tell of the churn, Somebody how to tell about the squirm somebody how to

  148. recall of hout thankful cop. Surely somebody else in this building was to praise

  149. the Lord, besides brother Nathaniel. How the thirty fifth song is open before

  150. us tonight, and it is a song of David. As you study the

  151. content and the context of the song, you will see that David was in

  152. some sort of squirmish. He had grave concern concerning his very life. He's

  153. asking for God to plead his cause. He's asking God to strive with him

  154. and for him, and the fight of this his adversaria on his behalf.

  155. This song is so relatable to us. It appears to me that David is

  156. so wildly popular to so many people of every generation because he can relate to

  157. the common man and a common woman very well. That was one of the

  158. problems that Michael had, the daughter of Saul had. It's because David was

  159. willing to get down in the streets with those of the baser sort, those

  160. that were more common and their worship God, or come on, as there's

  161. somebody in this field and so arrogant and so handy. It's so heart minded

  162. that you don't put a high price tag or worship God with sister Route,

  163. I'll kill you this. When you go through something, it's bad enough,

  164. but you don't want to praise Paba after he gets you out of it.

  165. When people get desperate, they please for the Lord. When people get desperate,

  166. they pray. So the Sommers might have been great poets and great writers,

  167. but they could identify with us. Listen, that person who has little

  168. and the one who has much hurts or suffer sometimes too. How many people

  169. present tonight have been up against something at some point in your life. I

  170. must say that I have been upper distant many times I feel like trials and

  171. circumstances and handships that were not requested by me from the Lord have made me

  172. and booted me and shaped me into the man that I am today. Dyskeptics

  173. tends are represent and the criticizers can call me at But I want you to

  174. know, after you've walked to that valley and a shadow of death, you

  175. can have an assurance that God is with you and when God show up but

  176. you, just like you promised her he would do. We can't help but

  177. tell about it. I can't shut up, I can't stop talking about it.

  178. I can't sit still. And I don't want anybody to have to go

  179. through something in order to learn how to properly plead with the Lord, and

  180. to know how to properly pray to the Lord, and to learn how to

  181. praise the Lord. How many have found yourself pleading for divine assistance from the

  182. Lord. The Howard family has been doing natural a whole lot lately. The

  183. Harrison family has been doing natural a whole lot lately. And before the Harrison

  184. family was doing it, to the Plat family was doing it. I remember

  185. sister Sheryl's daddy and Mama said said after service, pleading with the Lord for

  186. the fire assistance. And that's what the sonster is doing here. Look at

  187. your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, have you played for the Lord?

  188. Re going in your situation? Have been in this field and feel like

  189. you havena grown weary and bleeding with the Lord. We've grown kind of tired,

  190. yarn out and exhausted. There's not talk told me to tell you you

  191. better not clock out. We better not stop us praying. We've gotta not

  192. lose the heart. We're gonna podcast from mother day. We're better protest for

  193. another night. We're gonna podcast another year. I said, haven't known how

  194. to stand. We're gonna stand, and then we better fought alive. Look

  195. at our tips. The somers has not lost his desire to pray something.

  196. If Pluntreia said, troll out, also the spear and stop the way that

  197. gets them that persecute me, saying to my soul, I am love salvation.

  198. What the sonist is saying, God knocked the bridge out. What the

  199. somist just saying, God, stop him in the tractor, don't let him

  200. cross the road, don't let him get to the fortress. Sir, don't

  201. let him get through to me. The child of talk man is impenetrable when

  202. they power her, don't be in need, and they pray. You are

  203. vulnerable when you stop praying. I want to say it again, you are

  204. vulnerable man, when you stop praying. That's what tren Jesus more than this

  205. disciple stop stop him. Their prayer life may stop him. Hey, the

  206. thrall of prayers say better not stop praying. This is what God dealt with

  207. me about this afternoon. Somebody in this building is at the point that you

  208. don't care to pray or not to pray. I don't care to plead with

  209. God. I don't care what's to you. Why worry? You will never

  210. have a song to sing, You will never have a story to tell or

  211. a poem the right when you stop praying. The reason why David could continue

  212. to exist the way that he did, it's because when he got in between

  213. a rock and a whole place. According to this, he knew how to

  214. pray. How many like to receive a word from the Lord. I know

  215. that brother Philip is in the battle of his life. Up to this point

  216. has been his greatest battle. You've heard them testify the service tonight of how

  217. the Lord has been the lord of the battle and the only reason why he

  218. has had some improvement and progressed because the prayers of her a praying church.

  219. The sister, you did not know what I was gonna preach on. We

  220. are tongues of interpretation as we praised the Lord concerning the good needs and a

  221. good report. And God serted this noticer that he is in control. That

  222. God also said, don't stop her cry out and don't stop praying. Gonna

  223. feel a good forever on my knees. When some young men strutted to the

  224. side instead of printing the door, I hell on my knees just because I

  225. realized you trying to a mess. This is not okay. Come man,

  226. I'm hearing you can pray God that is that he playing. It's not that

  227. God wants to play a cat and mouse game with somebody. It's not that

  228. God is playing hide and seek. It's about the spirit of submission and a

  229. spirit of obedience. The same day, I'm a lid of if you are.

  230. It's about saying this is too big for me to handle. How many

  231. of you've got problems churin the club? How many we've got problems. The

  232. first lady considered you up with some paperworker after the church that I drafted up

  233. for, and you can side on the telly line, join the club.

  234. Let's name some adversaries of the children of God. Chancelvain A have adversaries to

  235. Elijah, those that call him the troubler of hisraw, although he was not

  236. the troubler of hisraw. Let's name some more adversaries of the children of God.

  237. Debt and poverty due to persecution, not due to laziness. The Bible

  238. said that that man who does not provide for that bride that he took a

  239. hand and promised to be her provider, is worse than a paint in cadere

  240. has departed from their faith. Is there anybody listening to the press there?

  241. Debt and poverty, though, has come to widows mia that didn't have the

  242. means to provide financial security indefinitely for their bride. I would say that's a

  243. formable foe, a formidable foe. I would say, that's an adversary to

  244. widows in their widowhood. Debt and our team for that self righteous person right

  245. now, this cap of money coming out your ears. The Bible said,

  246. there was her, and we know them in the time of the larger some

  247. war, in the times of Elisha, and they weren't there without and they

  248. were having problems paying their bills. Oh, come on now, I'll tell

  249. you what I have to set you and praying they come home Elijah. If

  250. they're having chairs a bill, I'm threaten to're taking a love you can't stop

  251. praying. I'll tell you part of district and soul we ought to set you

  252. to stop praying is in some mount of attack and poverty, something outer your

  253. control. The Holy Girl said to not there in tongues an interpretation, Yes,

  254. I am in control, letting us know we have lost control of it.

  255. That when we've lost control, Jesus has to steering in his head.

  256. And Jesus is not worrying, and Jesus it is not fearful at all.

  257. This name. Some more adversaries are the children of God, the Philistines and

  258. Duncan hinds. Oh yeah, this name. Some more adversaries are the children

  259. of God. Back botters and ankle bodies, those little people that are all

  260. moutha, all bark and no vita. And then also that will ever stabber

  261. their brother in the back, also known as brutus or julius or to you

  262. or come on now. The parent person prayers and is trying to figure out

  263. how to defeat poverty. And I hope so anyway, sir, I'm gonna

  264. say it again. Covering is struggling to make its mean. It's trying to

  265. mess up to figure out how to connect the peace. The weighty person amongst

  266. us tonight, he's trying to defeat the spirit of greed. The multi talented

  267. person. He's trying to remain in a spirit of humility. They're trying to

  268. beat paca, the spirit of pride. If you haven't thought you gave anything,

  269. maybe by the end of this messense, we're realizer we're gonna need to

  270. pray. Our brother read a context to us from Saint Lu's Gospel, the

  271. chapter number eighteen, the verses number seven and eight. He did in that

  272. chapter the eighteen chapter of Saint Luke's Gospel, you find a parable of a

  273. certain judge and a certain widow. And brother Nathaniel had said that this judge

  274. that the widow was petitioning incessantly, was an unjust judge who had no fear

  275. of God. In other words, He was not like Brother Aaron Wood or

  276. Brother Danny Edwardson or Brother Gabriel Value. He was not a God feared man

  277. that would be moved to help God's people and naturally have an ir bent to

  278. the needs of God's people. This is a godless man. He doesn't care

  279. about the feelings of anybody, especially a lovely widow. I'm sure that that

  280. church had a lot of enemies. It does not name them, but it

  281. did say that the widow had an adversary, and that adversary's doing everything you

  282. can do to destroy her life. And that woman did not give up.

  283. She did not stop petitioning, that she did not stop pleaying. She did

  284. not stop praying. This is a generation thees talk out, Oh God,

  285. and the contu to sit there until they not and do nothing. This woman

  286. continue to pray, just like the Somastee. Just hod he gonna said to

  287. night, you've better pray, ma'am. We wanna pray, sir. She

  288. kept coming to the judge. Imagine that unrighteous, unjust judge as he heard

  289. from her every day. I'm sure she didn't even get to him every day.

  290. Somebody said, your honor, it's the widow again. I ain't got

  291. time. After a day or two, somebody said, you really gotta let

  292. her come in, and he came in. And I'm not telling anybody this

  293. building, the bar, this text and to abuse the county judges. If

  294. somebody's done wrong, if somebody's trying to do wrong and get by, and

  295. you're trying to get me, you see in mercy, hold them, let

  296. them take their punishment. And we're talking about the old woman right here that

  297. was insistently being bombarded by her ad was singed, Oh come on now,

  298. I know you're tired to die. I'm tired too. Pray for minutes,

  299. I'll preach because it I feel the fire in my soul. It seems like

  300. the spirit is wearing and trying her to help somebody to night Jesse. She

  301. came relientlessly, she came consistently, She came persistently, and she bunboded,

  302. going happy. And I'm telling somebody looking for an answer, somebody hoping her

  303. to get better. You better not stop praying or not what you get praying

  304. about. You better not PLoP us wats he pays across attitude and pause when

  305. you ta't not there real time, out of time let's w tak nor the

  306. colonel the part you better pray, Brother Nathaniel. She was not bombarding the

  307. justice silly things. She was saying, I need I need help. What

  308. you saying is I lost control of this. I mean, David historically is

  309. one of the greatest kings that Israel's ever had, also one of the greatest

  310. world leaders there's ever been, one of the most beloved leaders the world has

  311. ever known. And David is admitting that this is out of my control.

  312. Things were out of his control when he was a wee lad and a shepherd

  313. boy watching over his father's poker, and now as a king, or as

  314. a general, or as a political leader, things you're out of his patrol.

  315. This woman must admit something is out of my control. So set to

  316. set of our control. I'm gonna kick my shoes off and play Xbox.

  317. Why should I worry? Why should I fear? I don't want anybody worry.

  318. I don't want anybody being fearful. I don't want anybody being anxious.

  319. I don't want anybody dreading tomorrow. I don't want anybody dreading the sun rise

  320. or the sun going down. I'm not asking you to be fearful that I

  321. am telling you that the mow of the story found in the eighteen chapter of

  322. Saint Louis costwel iss. You better not lose heart problems chowing the club,

  323. You better not lose heart. Better to your mouth that there ever comes a

  324. day that your modial the sudden be trying to get out into the world.

  325. We better not lose hope. Were better continue. Let's to pray for her.

  326. We used to sing the song a lot in the Church of God years

  327. ago. What if prayer were have in Jesus? Oh? What needs we

  328. have to bear all? Because we do not care? Everything to God in

  329. prayer? So how many of you feel like you're up against it again?

  330. What's some of the adversaries of the church. I've got so much more here

  331. to preached it out. What are some of the adversaries of the church.

  332. I'll tell you this apathy? Is it lethargy, just rocking back that spirit

  333. that just laws us to sleep? I don't know. My Lord has delayed

  334. his coming. I'm not so sure that I can be healed. I'm not

  335. so sure that I've submitted my application of candidacy for a healing or for salvation

  336. what's the use in me trying who what's the user? And me trying to

  337. get a hold of God? Who is the user? And anybody even praying

  338. with me? What's the usitarian? Not the author? For the Holy Gulster,

  339. I'm dealing with a spirit. Let's say, in this belding a life,

  340. who I'm man? You're not praying? Who at man? You're not

  341. seeking? Donter, that is not a message in and the Night sent me?

  342. How many in the building enjoy receiving a word from the Lord. A

  343. dear preacher friend of mine only recently discovered that Brother Philip was sick. No

  344. names will be given, Brother Philip, you not disclosed the name of this

  345. preacher. I am not one that texts people all over the country telling them

  346. my business. But I am one that lets people know to pray, such

  347. as the family here at the Bethel ho Ones Church and maybe other people that

  348. I know will pray and not play this one particular brother. Word reached him,

  349. and news of brother Philips cancer diagnosis and prognosis reached him. And I

  350. am not one that calls around wanting to hear from God, because so many

  351. people that claim to hear from God, they want to have a word from

  352. the Lord for you, and they are so wrong and they give you false

  353. hope. But this brother and I was not even talking along these lines.

  354. We were talking about construction and other things. And he said, I'm sorry

  355. to hear about brother Philip. He said, but I do feel inclined to

  356. go to prayer, and I do feel like God has already spoken into my

  357. heart as we're talking that there is going to be a word come from the

  358. Lord. I'll tell you this. I've been in this thing long enough to

  359. know that I can pray until I hear from God myself. I cannot tell

  360. you that I got extra excited or disappointed. It won't matter neither here nor

  361. there, because I am the father of that young man that I am going

  362. to refuse to clock out and to give up. Oh come on, you're

  363. not get what I'm telling you. The reason why the Son has gave her

  364. these songs have me so much to us. It's because they plan with the

  365. Lord until he heard and he answered her, and he came through and they

  366. had a testimony. I will stop praying for these needs when they have received

  367. healing, and then I will pray it for somebody else. So somebody hears

  368. from God in their soul and their prayer clause, and people have yesterday,

  369. and I still believe in doing this. You pray until you pray through.

  370. Then you're no longer chewing your fingernails off. Then you're no longer wringing your

  371. hands with anxiety. Then you're no longer battling with discouragement and depression because God

  372. has already told you whether the answer is yes, of knowing you have peace

  373. and knowing that you've heard from God. And that's what our text says.

  374. In that partiverse of God, I need you to speaker to my soul.

  375. Do y'all see it, to say, under my soul, I am thy

  376. salvation. That's what that you and it Israel wont to hear God just say

  377. you will the liverize, Just say, counts in your hands, and that's

  378. where we heart tonight, God said, I'm in control of it. David

  379. longing for the Lord to speak directly to him. There's people in this building.

  380. You want the Lord to speak to that adversary of poverty, to speak

  381. of that adversary of debt, to speak to that adversary of disability, to

  382. speak of that adversary of cancer, to speak to that adversary of renal failure,

  383. to speak to that adversary of sugari betes, Just speak to that adversary

  384. of heart failure, to speak to that adversary of purple abuse by spouse or

  385. whatever it is. Have you prayed about it? Have you played with the

  386. Lord? Come on, now? Should I stop preaching us? If we

  387. keep preaching you, You see, as soon as God speaks him, we

  388. are overjoyed because we knew that he was watching, and we knew that he

  389. was listening. How many of you know, like the Bible said that the

  390. Lord was mindful of the foul of the air. And Matthew talk to number

  391. six and mess number twenty five and twenty six. Hello Nathaniel in there for

  392. us saying to you, take no thought for your life what she shall eat

  393. or what she shall dreat ring. Yet for your body what she shall put

  394. on is not the life more than meta and the body raiment. Now listen

  395. to this. So Jesus himself said, behold the files on the air,

  396. for they so not to neither do they reaper. You're killing the barn.

  397. Say yet, your heavenly father, feed them? Are you not much better

  398. he than me. I really kill the window. So I want to tell

  399. the widower say, I want to tell the neony carriage. And I heard

  400. the doult say that Tom knows it about the sphare over his watchful idea is

  401. a part of the spharerob and on the whole knows her a watch your pregarements.

  402. These words in context are powerful. These words are powerful because they are

  403. coming from Jesus himself. If you were coaching me at the church and saying,

  404. pastor, howell, it's okay. God's got this all the thank that's

  405. nice. I appreciate the sweet words, but I don't even know if you're

  406. playing about it. But Jesus is speaking here. He has spent three and

  407. a half years of ministry, traveling around with no place to call home,

  408. no place of his Lord. Is that self familiar to him, He who

  409. is God, God himself, the second part of the Holy Trinity, is

  410. reliant on the Father to supply all of his needs. Jehovah Chah is trusted

  411. the Lord to meet his needs. The Lord himself assured his followers of that

  412. day and up today that God will always supply our needs according to his riches.

  413. And glory since the how I've found out every time God out of the

  414. child, to our household, God meta to the man. Somebody's thinking birthday

  415. cake. I can feel it. This psalm hast had a great need.

  416. If it's the basic necessities of life that are needed, or to buy an

  417. assistance and protection, our Lord is able to meet the needs. If it's

  418. the needs of a widow, I need to be delivered from my adversary.

  419. Her petition was avinge me from my adversary. Who is your petition? Help

  420. me pay my bill, Help me get rid of this adversary of vager,

  421. Help me get rid of this attitude of hatred. Help me to get rid

  422. of it. Avenge me of my adversary. I am my own worst enemy.

  423. Help me to get rid of this adversary of pride. The devil walked

  424. with the mouth as a roar lion. And yes he is our adversary,

  425. seeking who be made of power. But some of us are our own adversary.

  426. When we have disbelief in our heart, we have a lack of trust,

  427. and we are fearful, and we are faithless. How can we depend

  428. upon God and be relying upon God when we're fearful. I'm not fearful that

  429. God will not take care of brother Philip. I'm confident that God will take

  430. care of brother Philip. I'm confident that Sister Howard will be taken care of.

  431. I'm confident that you will be taken care of. But it's never appropriate

  432. to adopt the victim mentality. It's never appropriate to say flawless need, and

  433. it's never appropriate to say now, I'm just gonna lay my head down,

  434. left my adversary, chump it up. I'm gonna put such and for a

  435. job that pays better. I'm gonna quit praying for something that I help my

  436. set you waste to improve. Come on, power Cross find God. If

  437. I've been begging you to get a job for six much, you're not saying,

  438. let's begin there because you can find one. There's so many of the

  439. handicapped girls down there. Goodwill that's working. I know because some of them

  440. have even checked me out. Yeah, they've tried to put some of the

  441. stuff my wife waning back. Yes, they've got confused, but they are

  442. working a job. Come home, now, are you less thing that I

  443. know? You're not less than a spare road. Don't bring your sparrow mentality

  444. in this building where there is a pentecostal powerhouse of a church and a dog

  445. that answers by fight. When I was a lake fishing Friday on Big Bald,

  446. even if we ride over the boat, and I said, brother,

  447. that's the Miighty Bald, Ego braced us with us presence. He said,

  448. I believe it has sparrow mentality. I feel the Holy Ghost right there.

  449. The Bible said, and she not God avenge his own and let which cried

  450. day and night unto him, though he bear along with him day or night.

  451. It's not once a week on Sunday. It's not two or three times

  452. a week. It's not a handful of times a year. Look, Jesus

  453. was saying concerning this parable of the unjust judgment, Jesus was saying, our

  454. Father, he is neither unjust, and he is not unfamiliar with your needs.

  455. He is just. He is painful, and he is going to meet

  456. your needs. The simist said, I have never been forsaken. He said,

  457. I've never seen a righteous person forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread.

  458. The somers was doing good because he was praying. And Luke Chapter number

  459. eighteen Jesus was saying, praying is what's most important. Friend. When you

  460. give up on praying, you have lost heart. If Brother Philip could have

  461. got that diagnosis and prognosis in this church to set to praying, I don't

  462. know that he'd lasted long at home. Even now after good news, we

  463. can't stop praying. You don't know what has kept sister Cheryl Harrison alive up

  464. to this point has been prayer. Do you know what keeps Sister Dona Fitzer

  465. going? It is prayer. Do you know what keeps Pastor Howard preaching righteouster,

  466. truth and holiness despite the adversary. I don't have the minister wicked little

  467. adversaries that you won't have. I believe, spiritually speaking, I could whip

  468. the devils that you deal with with my peaky and one of them would be

  469. by just simply working forty hours a week. Come on in laughing now,

  470. now, why don't you pipe off that atmosphere in anger and hatred that makes

  471. you have a bad attitude? Why don't you drive yourself over there to power

  472. for us better? Way you got killing a head on the floor podpast not

  473. praying, wick be alaw be alone, the big why fye. I'm not

  474. in this to plead with you to pray. I'm not here this to push

  475. you to pray. I'm in this to preach to you. You've gotta pray

  476. unless Satan with for the adversaries will defeat you. Well, if I had

  477. this, and I had that, no creator levels, crator devils, if

  478. I had this annoying, I'll be able to have bigger levels bgner devils.

  479. If I had this harder love, higher levels, higher devils. That's what

  480. them imps of Hell said, asserting and men they were trying to cust the

  481. devil out, who are you? Pat Us anyway? The seven sons of

  482. Steve? Why who are you? And they try to identify themselves as the

  483. seven sons of Steve. Hey, we don't know you, but the devil

  484. Steve Paul, and they knew jesuus So and they knew Peter. Then little

  485. whipping devils might be pushing in a out. But if you do, my

  486. cadd said, and you pray that I was God, can't pure from your

  487. office here, I feel an attitude copping right now, cop that and stop

  488. that kick yourself right yawl, Come on, man telling you I'm getting a

  489. little bit bad right here. Till loo Steve bragging his car comregation that they've

  490. paint off that big may A church facility in less than ten years time.

  491. He cried like a baby. He might be some folks profit according to so

  492. many that I might tend to agree with that. But Brother Jesse, at

  493. least he tried his best to pay his bills and to pay off that church.

  494. Help God, help me God against my adversaries. Avenge me, God.

  495. I can understand you go in the fire forest and praying for two years,

  496. God, heal me of this, and heal me of that, and

  497. help me with my adversary of debt and poverty. But when you've been telling

  498. your pastor you're going on a job interview for two years and you still ain't

  499. got a job. You don't want a job. You're trying to deceive me

  500. because according to Brother Richard Jacob, you can be hired at about any place

  501. in the belt that's be hiring, and lessen two weeks, you're dragging your

  502. hide in there and making sure you don't pass assessments tests, making sure your

  503. schedule is not open, your availability is limited, and you're hanging yourself before

  504. you even get a chance to perform. I know I'm discerning some things right

  505. now, and you call that an adversary. You can whip that adversary before

  506. even going to care. But if you're doing everything you can and you're working

  507. as many hours as you can and you're still having built trouble, I'm not

  508. talking about somebody sitting on the reclider, not laking for six to eight weeks

  509. and not doing anything inside and sun out, honey, honey out, tiring.

  510. We're struggling. I need a pat on the back, brother, thing.

  511. I am struggling in preaching found I'm digging a deep pole and I'm tired,

  512. and I'm a war out. That is not an adversary. That's called

  513. responsibility, but a cancer diagnosis is I'm dealing with an adversary. Avenge me

  514. of my adversary. I'm not saying everybody's gonna be living and meeting dollar homes,

  515. or driving hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of vehicles, or a big

  516. boat poor having so many boats they don't know what to do with. But

  517. I am saying that's a rich man, he's got an adversary called pride and

  518. greed. The poor person's got an adversary. I don't know what is your

  519. problem. I don't know who's your greatest enemy, the devil or your laziness.

  520. The Bible set by the pold in the hands, and because of much

  521. sloppfulness the build and decare. Do you know why somebody could come by this

  522. in say it's well maintained, because every cent of it there's a group of

  523. me something hold out. I've been preaching. What you're calling an adversary is

  524. nothing. What some of you are calling an adversary, it's a formidable foe.

  525. It is a foe, for sure. The devil is a phone,

  526. brother, Jonathan, You thinking about the possibility of getting married ten years from

  527. now, having a hard time finding a house, having a hard time finding

  528. something that's affordable. That doesn't mean people go to him to not offer him

  529. your house and rent it two thousand dollars a month. It doesn't mean offering

  530. to rent a room in the house for five hundred dollars a month. I'll

  531. throw him in my apartment over there. If I have to say, it's

  532. hundred of them and it's a hole in the wall, it's aster how and

  533. I'll be going to picture as a whole lot more often on Sunday afternoon,

  534. Eat crapy cheesy crabbed up black grouper infused the stuffed with crabcake, alfred of

  535. sauce, handcuffed fries, green beans, Oh sweet Lamb of God. I

  536. mean, you can pour about me all you want to, but brother Jesse,

  537. I'm tried by my best to help somebody hit in this building here tonight.

  538. I know you've got an adversary. I know you've got problems, but

  539. say it with me. Church, join the cloud. Somebody bring me a

  540. beach, chaerity. I feel like I have clocked out already and I preached

  541. and this morning. And if God has said you didn't do a good job,

  542. but I know it's right, and that's all that matters, because God's

  543. never told me you've done a good job. Now. Uh, my adversaries,

  544. avenge me on my adversaries. I'm the sloughful. It's a miracle if

  545. I get the mattress off of my back. Of the moment, man,

  546. avenge me on my adversaries. I've got to preach twice on Sunday. God

  547. called me to preach what it was me and that be friends and then Pastor

  548. Howise said, you mean I gotta stop. I preached for three hours today,

  549. told him, you mean I gotta stop. Oh man, that's how

  550. my granddaddy or my danthrow was. You mean it's getting dark and I had

  551. to stop working. That's all right. Before the sun comes up, I'll

  552. be working again. I like the spirit and the attitude that I feel.

  553. And please do me a favor that I please. No long talks. Please

  554. don't ask me me and questions. Please don't tell me that your puppy dog

  555. died. Please don't tell me that your cat's got worms. Please don't tell

  556. me that you're don't be able to pay your bills. Let me go in

  557. there to my little granddaughters. But if they party, I've been dealing with

  558. this for eighteen years, trying to go do