Whole Heart Qualification

Go ahead and get your Bible and wave them.

Lift them up and wave them around.

Make Jesus glad in the devil mad.

Let's say this together say, heavenly Father, I'm glad I'm here tonight for the move of God, the move of the Holy Ghost.

More is caught and taught.

I'm learning how to flow with you more and more.

Thank God for the word of God.

It's the basis of our flowing together because I know the word and the spirit always agree in Jesus' name, amen.

Sometimes people try to flow in the Holy Ghost without a good foundation of the word and they get what flaky.

So praise God for God raising up people that are sound.

Let's look at 1 Samuel, chapter 16.

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And while you're flipping through your Bible you could get Proverbs, chapter four, 1 Samuel 16,.

We'll start with that.

1 Samuel 16, verse one.

And the Lord said unto Samuel you know the prophet Samuel.

Samuel was an awesome, fearsome man.

He had real hairy.

I mean he had a big, old, hairy gray beard.

He had lots of hair on his head.

I mean, when Samuel showed up, people went the other way.

I mean he was a fearsome man.

And the Lord said unto Samuel, how long would you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel.

Fill your horn with oil and go.

I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided me a king among his sons.

Samuel said how can I go if Saul here and he'll kill me?

And the Lord said take a heifer with you and say I'm come to sacrifice to the Lord and call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show thee what thou shalt do and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

And Samuel did that which the Lord spoke, and came to Bethlehem and the elders of the town trembled, trimbled at his coming.

You gotta get a picture of this.

I mean, they were not happy to see him.

How would you like to be regarded like that?

I mean, when you came to town, everybody's afraid of you, kind of a lonely life sort of.

Anyway, they trembled.

The elders of the town trembled at his coming and said come and stop peaceably.

And he said peaceably, I'm come to sacrifice under the Lord.

Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.

And he sanctified Jesse and his sons and called them to the sacrifice, came to pass.

When they were come that he looked on Eliab and said surely the Lord's anointed is before him.

But the Lord said unto Samuel look not on his countenance or on the height of his stature, because I have refused him, for the Lord seeeth not as a man seeeth, for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel and he said neither hath the Lord chosen this.

And then Jesse made Shama to pass by and he said neither hath the Lord chosen this.

And again Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel.

And Samuel said unto Jesse the Lord hath not chosen these.

Pretty embarrassing, it's getting kind of awkward now.

And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel, and Samuel said unto Jesse the Lord hath not chosen these.

And Samuel said unto Jesse, are here, all thy children.

And he said well, there's one remaineth yet, the youngest.

And behold, he keepeth the sheep.

And Samuel said unto Jesse send in fat sheep, but we will not sit down till he come hither.

And he sent and brought him in now he was ready and with all of the beautiful countenance and goodly to look to.

And the Lord said arise, anoint him, for this is he.

Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brethren, and the spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.

So Samuel rose up and went to Rama, but the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit and just forget about from the Lord, because that's not true.

Well, that's in the Bible.

Well, you got to read the Old Testament, new Testament, eyes, and God not doesn't have the devil working for him.

The devil doesn't work for God and demons don't work for God either.

So they just didn't understand the spirit realm and that dispensation.

So the evil spirit was there because Samuel was there.

So the evil spirit was there because Samuel had disobeyed the covenant, he disobeyed God.

That's why the evil spirit was there.

It wasn't from the Lord, so, but from that day, and evil spirit troubled him or terrified.

My margin says you know the devil will terrify you All right, and then let's keep our place there and go back over to Proverbs, the fourth chapter and verse 27, or, excuse me, 23.

Keep thy heart, with all diligence.

My margin says above all keeping.

Keep thy heart, above all keeping, for out of it are the issues of life, out of it are the issues of life.

Or in the NLT.

It says it determines the course of your life.

Your heart, the things that are in your heart, determines the course of your life.

So I wanted to share a message entitled whole heart, qualification, qualification, qualification, saul's disqualification.

Just think about being disqualified.

I mean, here you are a king and God says I've rejected him.

He's disqualified man, that's gotta be bad.

But Saul's disqualification was David's qualification, beginning of David's qualification.

Now, david wasn't ready yet, but that I mean just as far as God was concerned.

I mean, the anointing passed, it dried up on Saul.

He was no longer anointed to be king.

You know, in the Old Testament the priest, the prophet and the king had the anointing upon them for service.

So from that moment the anointing was no longer upon him and instead a demon power, terrifying, and the anointing from that day forward came upon David.

But he's not king.

He's not king Now.

He's not really qualified to be king.

He's gotta have more than the anointing.

You've gotta be prepared.

I think about Saul.

You know, saul wouldn't really qualify to be king either.

If you look back on Saul's coming into the throne, he's just a young man.

He's head and shoulders above everybody else.

He just basically got the job because he looked like, looked good.

God gave him somebody that was faulty and punishment to them for even wanting a king.

God protested.

He said no, I don't want them to have a king.

Tell them I don't want this.

I don't want this for Israel.

I don't want this for my people.

I wanna be their king.

I don't want them to have king.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

You've got judges that are all you need.

But they insisted they wanted to be like all the other nations.

So what did God do?

God gave him an unqualified king.

He put the anointing on someone that was unqualified and his disqualification, I mean God knew about, it began with, but it didn't show up for several years, several years.

And so you know it's not by my nor by resume, but by my spirit, says the Lord, it's not your resume.

And so man looks on the outward, god looks on the heart, he looks on the spirit.

When I say heart, I'm talking about the spirit of man.

God looks on our spirit and he sees.

And so you have the calling, the qualification, and then the commissioning.

The commissioning follows.

Everybody say calling, qualification, commissioning, commission just means set into the office that you're called to.

Now, as I mentioned, saul was called and set in the office almost immediately without really going through a qualifying process.

But now David was not.

David was anointed, he was called, but he was not set into the office yet he went through a qualification.

Amen, are y'all getting this?

Now, whole heart, qualification.

I'm telling you we have a lot to do with whether we qualify to be all that God has in mind for us to be.

I mean, you know, it's not all God, it's not all us, it's not ambition, but yet we have something to say about it, something to do about it.

So Saul was rejected, he became a castaway and I like to say he had heart trouble, the fear of man.

He was insecure.

You know, fear of man brings a snare.

You can't be king and have fear of man.

I mean just can't.

And then he had high cholesterol, he had pride and a high opinion of himself.

At the same time he was insecure.

That's very common, by the way.

Somebody's insecure and they don't want to hide it.

So then they have this veneer of pride and this veneer of you know, you can't know more than me, I know it all.

And that was, that was Saul.

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Samuel told him, rebuked him.

He said you know, when you were little in your own eyes, god chose you to be king of Israel when you were little in your own eye.

But see, he got, he got.

He got to be a big cheese.

That's the problem with being a king.

You, you're a king.

Everything you say goes, and the tendency for most kings is to surround themselves with people that tell them what they want to hear.

You know, you're all kings and priests under God.

Did you know that You're in the king class?

I said you're in the king class.

So when you were little in your own eyes, god chose you to be king.

He had blocked arteries.

He lacked integrity.

He didn't, he didn't feel guilty about lying to the prophet.

He thought he could lie to the prophet of God.

Well, when you lie to the prophet, you're lying to God.

Well, how dumb can you get and still breathe?

So he lacked.

He had all these.

He had all these problems, see, so God did bypass surgery.

He just bypassed him and, and you know, put put David in his place, but not right away.

It was a while before David took his place.

So then Israel had a king that was no longer a noni.

Can you imagine the dangers and they went through a lot.

They went through a lot of huge loss.

Kind of reminded of where America is right now.

We've got a crazy man in the White House.

He's anointed with an Antichrist spirit.

He's doing damage to this nation no telling how many.

I think I read where all these, these Syrians, in in Iran.

We've got Iranians coming, coming through our, our border, right here in Texas and Arizona, new Mexico.

We've got Iranians, syrians, man, these are man.

This is ISIS.

This is same as Hamas.

They're, they're all the same.

They keep trying to differentiate between the Palestinians and Hamas.

There is no difference.

You've got some of them that don't have the guts to kill anybody.

They, they agree with the killing.

If they could vote it out, they wouldn't.

This is the nasty little lie that's going on right now.

Because Islam is a demonic cult.

There is no truth in it, just hatred.

Period.

They dance in the streets, they protest, they're in favor of all this murdering and they can't.

They can't not agree with it.

Why?

Because they're filled with the devil.

They worship devils.

Allah is a devil.

I can say this without inflaming the internet, because we're not on the internet tonight and I might want to take that out of the podcast because I'm not trying to pick a fight.

I'm just telling you what's the truth Two-state solution.

They're committed to the two-state solution.

The White House is committed to the two-state solution.

You know you're an idiot.

What in the world Forget about the fact?

That's not biblical, just just practical.

It's not practical.

How do you have peace with people that want to butcher your babies, anyway?

So when I started studying this years ago, just learning from my Bible and because I was going through a qualification process, I had a call, I had an anointing, but I wasn't set into my office yet.

I was in training and I was being qualified for it.

I served a long, long qualification process and so David's anointing signaled the end of Saul.

I mean, you know, as soon as he was anointed, saul's.

His future is not too bright and so.

But Saul was like a tree and he died slowly.

See, he didn't just kill over dead when the anointing left him.

He's like a tree.

I mean, you know, I'm home building for 25 years.

We always tried to preserve our trees and we do the best we could, and early on, you know, I'd want to save every single tree I could, you know.

And if I could save an oak tree that was one foot away from my concrete slab that I'm pouring, well then I'd save it.

Well, that was dumb, it's gonna die.

There's no way it can survive, period.

I mean, you're covering a huge amount of, you're cutting a lot of the roots, you're covering a bunch of roots up and you do damage and, yeah, it looks good in year one, it looks good in year two, it even looks good in year three, but by year four or five it's dying.

It started dying the day that I cut the roots, but you couldn't tell it.

It looked just fine, it was all green.

I did that on my first house I built for myself, and glad, as we built a house for me and we used it for a model home.

And but later, you know, those roots broke the slab.

You know I learned a lot of things not to do on my own house.

You know, I wish I hadn't been so insistent on saving trees, but trees die slowly.

I mean, they can be dead before you know it.

So he started dying, but he didn't look dead and at the same time, david is alive and he's growing slowly.

He's being qualified.

I think about how he escaped Saul and went to the cave of Dulla and God gave him 400 men and they were not the desirable guys.

They were the guys that were discontented and in debt, demoralized.

The Bible says he became a captain over them.

We'll see.

In that process he taught them what he knew about God.

He taught them about the Word, he taught them about battle, he taught them about courage and they turned into mighty men, but not overnight.

And in that he began to be qualified.

You see, you know, watching over sheep is not going to qualify you to be a king, because you're not dealing with animals, you're dealing with people.

So he had to get qualified dealing with people and God gave him some real challenges.

I mean, these are challenges.

They're not, you know, they're not the top of the top, they're not the cream of the crop.

There are nobody short list of associates that they're looking for.

You know, have you got somebody that fits this?

No, he had to teach on everything they knew and he did so.

In the process he became qualified.

You know, early on, when he went to, he got offended about Goliath.

He said I, yeah, who?

What's going to be given to the man that kills this uncircumcised Philistine?

He was looking for his reward.

He's going to kill him.

It's just a matter of what's, what's.

What am I going to get?

Well, how about the king's daughter?

Okay, sounds good to me.

He didn't get her, but anyway, saul said hey, you're just a young boy, you can't go out against this guy here.

Take my armor.

He said no, saul's armor is Saul's way of doing things.

He couldn't do business like Saul.

He couldn't be like Saul.

He had to be like he was.

And so what was he?

Well, he's kind of a guy of hand-to-hand combat.

I mean he's taking the lamb out of the lion's mouth, smoked the lion by the beard and hit him in the face and killed him with his bare hands, killed a bear same way.

I mean that's hand-to-hand combat.

You don't see Saul doing that much.

He's not that big a warrior, he's more of the king sort.

You know, he's not the sort of a sword of him.

He's not the sort of guy that's going to ride out into the battle and get in the thick of thing.

But David, he always was.

He was a warrior.

Makes you wonder if he kind of liked it.

He kind of liked swinging the sword.

I don't know, later on it kind of cost him because when he would have been able to build the temple, god said no, he's just shed too much blood.

You know he's a man that worshiped God.

You know he loved God so much he gave his fortune for that thing to be built.

You know it had to be kind of a disappointment to him not to be able to build it.

I said, no, your son's going to build it, you shed.

Tell him it's good that he wants to.

He could give, he can give all the money he wants to give toward it, and he gave a whole bunch Billions, but he shed too much blood.

So in that hand to hand combat with the lion and the bear, that was David's anointing.

David's anointing, I mean, he wasn't afraid of warfare, he wasn't afraid of battle, he wasn't afraid of a fight.

I mean, you know he, when the Malachites came through Ziklag and they took everything, he's after he got over the initial shock.

Yeah, he gave himself ten minutes to have a pity party and he cried.

But then he said bring Hivviv.

He began to encourage himself and the Lord is God.

He began to rehearse in his mind what God had used him to do.

He said bring me Hivviv, the ifa, let me pray and find out, god, shall I pursue them, shall I overtake them?

And God answered him.

He said yeah, you shall pursue and surely overtake them and surely recover all.

And that's exactly what he did.

You know, he didn't dodge a fight, he didn't worry about the odds, he was a warrior king.

Are y'all with me now?

We have a generation of Saul's and David's right now.

I've seen some Saul's and I've seen some David's.

I've seen some Saul's that had heart trouble.

I've seen some Saul's that were pretenders.

I've seen some Saul's in the ministry that took every shortcut they could take, that were more political operatives than they were, men or women of God, just out to promote themselves, out to get a gig.

And then I've seen the real thing.

And so those who keep their hearts with all diligence, who submit to the qualification process, those are the ones, those are the David's that are going to be promoted.

Promotion come it's, not from the south, the east or west, but God is a judge.

He puts down one and sets up another.

Who does he put down?

He puts down the Saul's and sets up the David's.

Which one do you want to be?

And think about what it's going to take to be a David, is this going to take a qualification process that you're not really in control of?

How long it takes?

I mean, all you're in control of is being obedient to the process and you don't know what.

You don't know how long the process is going to last.

It might surprise you and last a lot longer than you thought.

Speaking from my own experience, and so you know the people that don't submit to the qualifying process are rejected.

They just they eventually are rejected.

So let's look back here at Proverbs, chapter four, and we'll talk about the keys.

Now to hold heart.

Why don't I say hold heart?

Because it just takes everything.

It takes your whole being, it takes all of you, your whole heart, to qualify for promotion.

And Proverbs four is just an excellent place to start looking at what these steps are.

And I just divided up as soon as I find it again.

I lost it.

Now I found it.

Proverbs four.

When I, when I divide these verses up, I start reading the verse 20.

I read verse 23,.

But let me start with verse 20.

My son, my daughter, attend to my words and climb thine ear unto my sayings.

Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keep them in the midst of thine heart, for they that is my words are life unto those that find them and health are medicine to all their flesh.

Keep thy heart or guard thy heart.

Say another version With all diligence guard your heart above all guarding.

Keep it with, above all keeping, for out of it, that is out of your heart, are the issues of life.

They determine the course of your life.

One version said put away from thee a forward mouth and perverse lips.

Put far from thee.

Let thine eyes look right on, let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Ponder the path of your feet and let all your ways be established.

Turn not to the right hand or to the left.

Lift, remove thy foot from evil.

So these seven verses, I look at two parts Number one, what to do, and number two, what to avoid.

Everybody say what to do, what to avoid, say he talks about both things.

You know, first of all, what to do.

Well, put the word first place.

Attend to my word.

Put it first place.

What does the word say about my decision I'm about to make?

What does the word say about the circumstance I'm facing?

What does the word say?

What does the word say Put it first, and then it says to, so it tells you what to do.

Put it first.

And then it says to pay attention, to look and to listen.

Pay attention, we talked about that this morning.

I mean, don't be easy praying, you know, be vigilant.

There's so many things to distract us right now.

Good is the enemy of best.

If we pursue the good all the time, we pursue the average, we pursue the easily attained, we'll miss the best that God has for us because he's going to set something up here that looks oh, that's beyond me.

I, oh, I listen to him.

When God puts it in your heart, then it's yours.

It may not be fast, but it's there.

You just have to keep attending, looking and listening.

Say those are the things to do.

Then it says what to avoid.

Well, it tells you to avoid a forward mouth and perverse lips.

Another word lying, gossip, critical, being critical of others, resistant to change.

You know, growth is change.

When you don't like change, that means you don't like growing.

See, growing is all about changing.

You can never grow until you change.

You've got to change.

Some people just don't want to change.

They just want everything the same.

Well, no, you can't do that.

You've got things that are constantly changing.

You've got to be along for the ride.

You've got to be along for the change.

Growing is changing.

Know it all.

You know.

Saul was a know it all, but he didn't know it all, did he?

You know, sometimes people just they just you know.

You try to help them, but know it all.

That's why I preach this.

I've been you.

I'm not accusing anybody in this room of being a know it all, but if you're a know it all, you ought to be able to pick it up from what I'm saying and say, no, I don't want that.

I've got people around me that I can consult and listen to their advice.

I'm I'm so glad to have people that advise me.

I don't have to make every decision all by myself.

They've been through the fire as much as I have, sometimes more.

I like to.

I like to get their perspective.

Before I make a big decision or any kind of decision.

I like to find out what my kids think.

What do they say?

Whatever I decide is going to be affecting them.

They ought to have a say in it, and that's the way every team is in this church.

We have teams and we have team leaders and people on that team.

Well, that's the way it ought to operate.

It ought to operate where we all respect one another and we want to hear what each other says.

There's no, I don't, it's not about what he says.

Let's put it in some form Circle, this is.

Take that infinity, let that limit your mind and take that literally.

You get the wrong idea�.

I sold out to the mission and the mandates of this church.

They have their own and they're only looking for a church that will serve their interests.

Well, you know what You're out of bounds.

You're an independent spirit.

You'll never I'll pray you out of here.

I pray like that.

I don't have to even ever know you, I don't even have to know that, I don't even have to be aware of it to pray you out.

Well, I thought it was a church growth.

Well, you know, some growth is no good.

Did you ever plant an Arizona ash tree in your front yard?

Somebody did.

Was that you, norman, did?

How long did it last, norman?

They grow fast.

I mean, you put an Arizona ash in there, man, and they grow like, oh man, they grow fast, but then the limbs break off.

Next thing, you know, a thunderstorm rolls through and that's laying out there in your yard, snapped off about four foot off the ground, snapped off like that.

No, I tell you, I mean all good growth.

All good growth is slow growth.

It takes slow growth.

You know, saul grew quickly into the wrong kind of person.

He had nobody to confront his bad habits.

Samuel tried, but he wasn't close enough to him, enough for him to mentor him, and so he just kind of grew wild, got bad habits.

Thank God for David, thank God David was fully qualified.

So avoid number two looking at evil.

Don't let evil there's a lot of evil to look at Don't let it occupy your time.

I mean don't look at the news all for two hours.

Don't just sit there and absorb.

I mean, find a way to find out what's going on without meditating in it.

I have purposely not looked at the pictures of the carnage in Israel.

I could find it, but I don't wanna see it.

I don't wanna see it.

I already know what it said.

That's enough for me.

I don't wanna look at that.

I don't wanna have that in my heart.

I'm guarding my heart.

I don't wanna be cauterized.

You know, you take a hot knife and burn your skin.

I mean I backed into a gas stove when I was five years old and I still have the scar on the side of my calf right here.

It just burned a big old Third degree.

It was a third degree burn, of course you know.

You just put unguentain.

Did you ever use unguentain, that yellow looking salve that's?

My mother used unguentain, unjuntain, unguentain, I don't know how you say.

It Stinks, it's yellow.

It didn't help at all.

It burned like fire.

I cried for three days and it left just a bad thing on my right over here.

It's just, you know, and that's what happens to your heart when you're overexposed to evil.

It you can't keep a tender heart, it becomes hardened.

It becomes hardened and then, of course, walking toward evil, being excessively curious about it.

You have to guard and keep your heart, above all keeping and it takes diligence.

You have to do it over and over and over and over.

You know it's not about doing it for a while and then you just kind of graduate.

No, you never graduate.

You never graduate from keeping your heart.

I remember going away to pray and after 9-11, back in 2001, I went to Galveston.

God spoke to me about several things.

One of the things he said he says I've already interviewed your replacement.

And I've already interviewed my replacement because I had a knowledge that what I was about to enter into, god had taken from someone else and given it to me.

So he wanted me to know.

I mean, this is fluid.

I mean I'm looking for obedience here.

I'm looking for somebody that will be qualified, that will submit to the qualification process, to trust them with what I have in front of you.

And now, 22 years later, we're just now entering in to some of the things that I know God had put in Moshe all those years ago.

Praise God, some of those qualifications.

Take a while.

Let's look at Revelation, chapter three.

This is the verse he gave me Verse 11,.

Revelation 3, 11, behold, I come quickly.

Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Hold fast what you have.

Let no man take thy crown.

And basically what he told me the crown of another has been given to me.

So then he just said I've already interviewed your replacement, so if you don't shape up, I'm not gonna let you finish what I'm giving you.

In other words, I knew that my life was on the bubble.

As they say, he's watching.

He doesn't look on the outward, he looks on the heart.

Are y'all following what I'm saying Whole heart qualification.

So late in life David quit keeping his heart so diligently.

I guess he probably just felt like he'd arrived, he'd conquered, he defeated, he was rich, but somehow, you know, he didn't ponder the path of his feet.

And at a time when kings go to war and he should have been there he was at home and looking out across the way, he didn't keep his eyes and he coveted another man's wife, Bathsheba, uriah the Hittites wife, who was in the battle, out fighting for Israel.

And here's the king looking at his wife and committed adultery with her and pregniated her and had him killed.

That's about as low as you get, you know.

You take somebody like David.

A man after God's own heart, could allow himself to not keep his heart with all keeping.

He violated just those verses that we just said.

He violated them.

He didn't keep his eyes, he didn't ponder his bath of his feet, he didn't remove his feet from evil.

He killed Uriah the Hittite.

And if that wasn't enough and God did forgive him for that and he had a child, you know the story died.

The child died.

Then he had another child and that child was Solomon.

And Solomon built the temple.

God redeemed it.

But then, later in life, in 2 Samuel 24, god had told him don't ever take a census.

I don't want you to know how many people you have at your disposal.

I don't want you to know what the population is.

I don't want you to trust in the members of your army.

I am your shield.

I am the one that is keeping this country viable.

It's not about whether you've got a million men in arms or not.

So don't be taking any census.

Now, that's not for everybody, but that was for David and that was for Israel at that time.

And he decided I'm gonna take a census.

And Joe Abbott's chief of staff said no, no, don't do that.

God told you not to do that.

Please do anything else, you do whatever you want you.

The king tell me to do anything, but don't do this.

You're gonna create trouble for everyone.

And boy did he, boy did he.

There came an angel, so big it had a sword stretched out over Jerusalem.

Man, that's a big angel Said you pick which one you want, gave him a choice of three curses and of course then by then he's crying, by then, see, he's too late.

You messed up.

Why?

Because he didn't keep his heart with all diligence, and even God even had a man that had the guts to tell him no, tell him not to do it, and he still wouldn't listen.

Joe Abbott was man.

He was a mighty man of God, mighty man of war, I should say.

So the bottom line is let's obey God and let's be blessed and promoted.

Let's stay away from disobedience, because you know, suffer the consequences.

Let's keep our hearts with all diligence and for out of it determines the course of our lives.

How many of you wanna be promoted?

I'd rather be promoted than disqualified.

Amen, amen, praise God, whole heart.

Qualification Do you get anything out of this tonight?

Well, we kinda dug into the Word and had some meat for you to chew on.

Praise God, come on, let's rejoice.

Thank God for the Word, thank God, it builds our faith.

Hallelujah, glory to God.

I spent hours, you know, toward the last part of my qualification process, the last four, five years, and I'd get taped serious from Brother Hagin that he would preach at his minister's conferences and, man, I'd feed on.

I'd listen to those over and over again while I was in my car.

I mean, I'd just feed on.

What are the things I need to do to finish my course so I can let God promote me into the ministry that he'd call me to, because I knew that wasn't it.

That wasn't what I was doing at Lakewood, wasn't it?

And thank God it did.

Praise God, amen.