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2020 - Your Greatest Year Yet 1

Glorious Way Church

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  1. Wave those Bibles around, make Jesus glad that I'm a devil mad.

  2. And let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be here.

  3. I'm not only in your presence, but I'm in the presence of my brothers and my sisters, people of like precious faith, and I know that love plus unity equals miracles.

  4. And we need miracles today.

  5. We need miracles in our land, we need miracles in our businesses, we need miracles in our bodies, we need miracles in our finances, and the key to it is right here in this Bible inspired by your precious Holy Spirit I believe I've received today in Jesus' name, amen, praise God, you can be seated.

  6. Turning your Bibles, please, to Deuteronomy, chapter 11.

    Deuteronomy 11 chapter mention

  7. Deuteronomy means the second giving of the law Moses taught the children of Israel this is the second generation.

  8. Their parents had died in the wilderness.

  9. You know the story.

  10. They wouldn't go in.

  11. They said we be not able.

  12. They discounted God's presence, they discounted God's power, they discounted God's perspective on the matter.

  13. They just looked at everything from their weak perspective, their physical inability perspective, and they just came away from the promised land.

  14. Oh yeah, it's a wonderful land, here's the fruit of it, but nevertheless we be not able.

  15. And oh, god just said all right, you're not going to be, you're not going to end, I'm going to let your kids go in.

  16. So this is that generation.

  17. All the other generation had died in the wilderness.

  18. They buried them somewhere out there in the sand.

  19. That's a lot of people died out there 40 years, took them 40 years.

  20. And so now everybody he's talking to is between the ages of 40 and 60.

  21. Well, how did you know that?

  22. Well, it'd be just simple math.

  23. I took a little math, but it's been 40 years, right, and all the elders died and everybody 20 years and younger were the only ones that survived.

  24. So if you were 20 on that day when they refused to go in, then now you're 60.

  25. And if you were a baby, like infant, like that one right there, if you're just a little baby, well then now you're.

  26. You know, you're 40 years old.

  27. Okay, y'all got that, got the picture, all right.

  28. So do doon around 11.

  29. This is who he's talking to.

  30. Verse one.

  31. Therefore, thou shalt love the Lord, your God, and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgments and his commandments and know ye this day, for I speak not with your children, which have not known, see, because why?

  32. Well, because they weren't there when the Red Sea parted, they weren't there.

  33. When the children of Israel came marching out of Egypt in ranks like an army would, they weren't there.

  34. When there was not one feeble among their tribe, they weren't there.

  35. When they were loaded up with silver and gold here they were slaves one day and the next day, there, loaded with silver and gold, not one feeble, they weren't there.

  36. They hadn't been born yet.

  37. I'm not talking to them, I'm talking to you, people.

  38. You are responsible, you, you.

  39. And then he goes on to say he said I'm talking to you and which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord, your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his stretched out arms.

  40. You have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did, and he's still doing great things.

  41. Our God is a great God and he hasn't lost the recipe for great.

  42. Are y'all with me now?

  43. All right, so then skip down to verse 11, and he's talking about their inheritance.

  44. But the land, whether you go to possess it, this is the land your parents didn't care enough about to go in and fight.

  45. They didn't trust God enough to just believe that God could put them over.

  46. Do you believe that God can put you over?

  47. Do you believe that the greater one lives on the inside of you and we shouldn't be intimidated by any enemy or any kind of thing that rises up and stare, trying to stare us down.

  48. And so he said but the land, whether you go to possess it, is a land of hills and valleys and drinks in water of the reign of heaven, a land which the Lord, your God, caret for.

  49. That word cares means that he seeks after that, he observes it, that he keeps tabs on the land.

  50. Well, the land means, by saying inheritance, see, this is their inheritance, the land.

  51. That land is still there, the land of Israel.

  52. But they don't, they're not even living on all of their inheritance yet.

  53. But God has his eyes on it and it says that.

  54. He says the eyes of the Lord, your God, are always upon it, from the beginning of the year, even under the end of the year.

  55. That word beginning of the year is talking about the head of the year.

  56. It's talking about Rosh Hashanah, which we just had a couple of weeks ago, right, rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets.

  57. So, from the Feast of Trumpets, all the way to the very end, the Lord is looking at our inheritance.

  58. He longs for us to possess it.

  59. He didn't give it to us for us to leave it alone and not do anything about it.

  60. And he was so angry with the older generation he said all right, the 10 spies brought a bad report.

  61. You're going to die right now.

  62. And they died right there of the plague Two that brought that good report, joshua and Caleb.

  63. They had to live that whole time, 40 years, even though they obeyed God and they were willing to go possess the land, but they couldn't persuade the rest of them.

  64. And then the parents of these people that Moses is talking to, they all died in the wilderness.

  65. All right, you got the picture, all right.

  66. So he's telling them how great the land is.

  67. He's reiterating it to this next generation.

  68. And then he says verse 14, I will give you the reign of your land in this due season, the first rain and the latter rain that you may gather in your corn, your wine, your oil, and I'll send grass in the fields for your cattle that you may eat and be full.

  69. Verse 23,.

  70. Then, with the Lord, drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.

  71. And so today I wanted to reiterate this message 2020, your greatest year.

  72. Yet I want to encourage you today I think it's entirely appropriate for us to revisit this word that we got back on September, the 29th 2019.

  73. And some of you were here and some of you weren't here yet Some of you have come since.

  74. I know we sent out some links.

  75. I hope you've had a chance to look those and there's just no substitute for having a service like this for me to just get up here and have an opportunity to go through some of these things that God showed us about this year, because all hell has broken loose against us to try to keep us out of our inheritances.

  76. And here on this day, here we are.

  77. It's the Feast of Tabernacle and they're celebrating in Israel.

  78. I mean this.

  79. You know you have the trumpets, the Feast of Trumpets.

  80. Everybody gets.

  81. You know that's the head of the year and everybody gets alerted.

  82. And then you go into Yom Kippur, which was passed Monday, which is the day of atonement.

  83. Then you have the days of all.

  84. That's when Israel starts to look at their own lives.

  85. They start, you know, checking themselves.

  86. They make sure they're forgiving everyone that's wronged them.

  87. It's a time of introspection.

  88. It's a time for them to examine themselves and see whether they're doing what they should do according to the book.

  89. I think Christians need to do the same thing.

  90. You know, we need to make sure we're of the faith and walking in love and all of those kind of things, but anyway, and then that's culminated.

  91. Then, like I think it was Friday night, that feast started and it's gonna go a whole week.

  92. And that feast, what the Jews do is they build these little booths, say the feast of Sukkot, which means booths or dwelling places, so they build these little temporary things out in their yard or up on top of their roof.

  93. In the Middle East they have houses with a roof on them and they build above them on top of the roof and they're flimsy.

  94. They're supposed to be flimsy and they're supposed to have a roof that you can see through.

  95. You can see the stars, and they go and they eat in that place, or some of them even spend the night there, so they can look through the flimsy and they look at the stars and it reminds them of when they came out of Egypt.

  96. They were free and they were in the wilderness and God was there covering.

  97. He was a pillar of fire by night, in a cloud, by the.

  98. How many of you remember that?

  99. So that's the whole feast is for them to go back and just thank God.

  100. Oh, it's a time of rejoicing.

  101. In fact, jews are commanded to rejoice, they're commanded to have music and dancing.

  102. And they're going, boy, they're dancing dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah.

  103. You know all this stuff all the way around.

  104. You know how they dance all the way around.

  105. You know I never could get the hang of it, but anyway, I'm not much of a dancer, I'm more of a leaper.

  106. If they would just have a leaping, I could leap.

  107. I'm a leaper, so but that's what they do, they're commanded to do it.

  108. In fact, it was on that feast day that Jesus stood, on the last day, which would be a week from today, it would be next Friday night or next Saturday, that would correspond to right now and Jesus stood outside on that last day of the feast and he said if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.

  109. But this spake he of the Spirit which those that believe on him should receive, but the Holy.

  110. But they had not receded yet because the Holy Ghost had not been.

  111. You know, the Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified, he had not yet died.

  112. But what was he talking about?

  113. He was talking about the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

  114. Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water.

  115. So he was.

  116. Why did he use the Feast of Tabernacle?

  117. Because they had rejoiced all that man could rejoice without the Holy Ghost.

  118. And they're still unsatisfied.

  119. They went to that feast, back slid, and they returned from that feast, back slid, and Jesus is telling the Jews hey, I'm your source, I'm the source of supply for you.

  120. You need to turn to me.

  121. Well, they didn't turn to him.

  122. They rejected him and most of them Okay, you're with me now.

  123. So this is a good time to be encouraged about your inheritance.

  124. Everybody say I have an inheritance.

  125. You know, our great God does great things.

  126. You know, I looked up in the Briggs driver Bible dictionary the word great, the Bible word great, mega, and it means large in magnitude.

  127. Yeah, I know that.

  128. Large in extent or area, large in number, large in intensity, large in importance, loud and sound.

  129. We made a loud sound this morning.

  130. I mean, you know we're not embarrassed to.

  131. You know, to get the volume turned up.

  132. If you don't like loud volume, we'll put some cotton in your ears, you know.

  133. Get some earplugs, it's all right.

  134. We understand that some people are have sensitive ears and we're not trying to be ugly but it takes a volume, it affects the anointing.

  135. When the sound let me just say this teachable moment when the sound is not right, the anointing is affected.

  136. So all of our sound.

  137. People are measuring the sound back there.

  138. They make sure it's not passed, you know, in a damaging way.

  139. But we do realize that people have different ears and sometimes people are sensitive.

  140. Get you some earplugs, don't leave, don't get offended.

  141. We want the anointing.

  142. Do we want the anointing or do we want everybody to be?

  143. Amen, all right.

  144. We want you comfortable, but sometimes you have to help yourself.

  145. All right, that's for you or for me.

  146. Could be for me, amen, all right.

  147. So in loud and intensity, loud and sound and distinguished among men.

  148. That's great.

  149. And then it talked about I'm gonna send the rain.

  150. Well, in Acts, chapter two, when the Holy Ghost was poured out, peter said this is that spoken by the prophet Joel.

  151. What was that?

  152. Men speaking in every language that was there.

  153. All these different nations under heaven were gathered in Jerusalem and every man heard them speaking, you know, and they were speaking in other tongues and he said this is the rain from heaven.

  154. In other words, it's the Holy Ghost being poured out.

  155. The Holy Ghost is power.

  156. Acts one, eight you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you.

  157. They had to have God's power to possess their inheritance.

  158. In fact, it says here in verse 23, all these nations from before you, I will drive out, all these nations.

  159. The word drive out means to dispossess.

  160. You know, we have satanic squatters, we have trespassers, we have poachers that are on our land.

  161. I mean, you know you may have some kind of infirmity in your body.

  162. It's trespassing.

  163. Gladys is home.

  164. She's fighting and getting rid of the trespassers that have tried to take her down.

  165. We're resisting the devil, see, we just live right here, right before you.

  166. If we're not here, it's because we're fighting a battle.

  167. There's no harm in that, there's no shame in that.

  168. The shame would be to give up and to let trespassers just take over.

  169. See, I grew up in South Texas.

  170. They were these big ranches and I mean, you know, they had cowboys ride their fences, you know, and we'd go hunting on.

  171. This one guy that I knew was a good friend of mine.

  172. His family owned 100 acres right next to a ranch.

  173. That was I don't know how many, probably a million acres.

  174. It's most of South Texas.

  175. It's one big Thomas O'Connor ranch.

  176. It was a Spanish land grant.

  177. It goes all the way back to the Spanish land grant days when they've owned that property and they've sold.

  178. They don't sell property.

  179. Those kind of people don't sell nothing.

  180. They give it to their heirs, but it doesn't change hands.

  181. And so if you kill a deer across that fence, you are taking your life in your hands, because there's nobody out there to find out whether you just shot yourself with your own gun, but they allow you to shoot you.

  182. You know this is the law of the West, you know.

  183. I mean you don't trespass down there.

  184. You don't steal a cow, or you're gonna be hanging from a limb somewhere.

  185. You don't steal a horse either, okay.

  186. So all those kind of things, I mean they're kind of old fashioned, and so you know we need to ride our fences a little bit.

  187. We need to.

  188. You know we've got some poachers in America that are trying to take this country in a direction that I am not willing for it to go.

  189. And isn't it time for the church to speak up and use its power.

  190. If there's ever been a time, it is right now.

  191. So it kind of has wider implications than maybe just you and I personally.

  192. But let me tell you your inheritance, whatever it is.

  193. We all have different ones, but we have a corporate one in this church and we have one in this nation.

  194. We get to be citizens of the greatest nation on the face of the earth and are we gonna put up with people denigrating it and calling it illegitimate, so bad and so evil that it has to be completely wiped out and turned into a communist dictator?

  195. Make no mistake, the Democrat Party ought to change its name.

  196. It ought to be the American Communist Party.

  197. That's what it is.

  198. I said that's what it is.

  199. Let's bring the communist word back.

  200. Communism has been oh, we don't talk about communism.

  201. That's been defeated.

  202. Oh yeah, for the same devil is still here.

  203. He wasn't defeated, he's still around.

  204. We have a woman that's running on the southeast side of town I'm not sure exactly what district, but she's running for US Congress.

  205. She defeated the lady that was the Democrat in that district and she defeated her in the primary.

  206. And she is a member a lifelong member of the Communist Party right here in Houston.

  207. She's grown up in Houston and she's a communist and she's running for Congress.

  208. That is outrageous.

  209. I said that's outrageous.

  210. They should not be allowed in Congress.

  211. It is not compatible with America.

  212. No way.

  213. There's nothing incompatible with communism, nothing, nothing.

  214. We're gonna have to get off our blessed assurances and start waking up, amen.

  215. Well, I thought you were gonna talk about inheritance.

  216. Well, I tell you what, if we lose this inheritance right here, then, about everything I'm talking about this morning, you just throw it out.

  217. That's how serious this is.

  218. I don't mean to alarm you, but I do.

  219. I wanna alarm.

  220. You see, I alarm.

  221. I'm like the alarm Brrr.

  222. You know you wanna throw something at the alarm clock, right?

  223. I mean when that thing goes off at 435 o'clock, 530 or whatever time you get up, I mean you know you've got an hour and a half commute in front of you one way and you know you wanna sleep a little longer.

  224. I mean you know you stayed up a little too late.

  225. You wanna throw something at that alarm clock.

  226. But I'm the alarm clock, I am waking up the church.

  227. Come on, let's wake up and quit being so worried about being up behind the pulpit and not being political.

  228. Oh, I can't be political.

  229. We better be political.

  230. We're gonna lose our inheritance.

  231. What are we gonna do?

  232. Stand before God and say well, I didn't lose my 501 C3.

  233. Lord, I really, boy, I protected that thing.

  234. I don't, you know, I don't wanna lose it, but I'm not gonna.

  235. It's not my God, god's my source, amen, all right.

  236. So so he said I'm gonna drive out.

  237. Well, he didn't do it personally.

  238. What did he do?

  239. He gave them the anointing, the power to drive out nations greater and mightier than them.

  240. Okay, all right.

  241. So let me just read you parts of the prophetic word and the way it came on a Sunday night, which was happened to be Rosh Hashanah evening, and we had just preached this message on claiming your inheritance a couple of weeks before.

  242. So I had preached in Deuteronomy 11.

  243. So here we were, we had had a service, kind of like.

  244. This morning, the power of God was just descended down on the congregation.

  245. I mean, the spirit of God was just thick in the atmosphere.

  246. And I got up here and this is what came out, and the word of the Lord comes unto me saying and listen, this is just as true this morning, right now, for you, as it was back a year ago.

  247. So just receive it like it's just coming out, and the word of the Lord comes unto me saying surely know that my eyes are especially upon your inheritances, for each of you has a unique inheritance.

  248. You have a common inheritance all that I'm doing in and through the ministry of this church but you each have your individual inheritances that I have not forgotten about, for my eyes are upon it and I remind you on this, the first day, the head of the year, that I longing and look and observe your land and mark everything that is in it.

  249. I order it after the counsel of my own will and I bring it to pass as you speak and believe what I say.

  250. I'm releasing fresh revelation in this, the first part of this year, so that by the end of the year by the end of the year which would be next September 2020, you will look back and say oh my, this has been the greatest year of my life, sayeth the Lord.

  251. Now, I can't describe to you how I felt when I heard myself say that.

  252. It was as if someone else said it, and I'm listening to myself and I'm saying I can't believe.

  253. I just said that.

  254. I mean, it's not something you can just believe just when you first hear it.

  255. It's not something that you can say oh, yeah, yeah, I believe that.

  256. Yeah, no, you don't, no, you don't believe that nobody believes that.

  257. You've got to get yourself in a place where you believe that.

  258. So here comes part two of this word.

  259. All right, let's listen, just listen.

  260. Say not how shall it be, for all things have continued just the way they always have.

  261. You just don't understand my situation.

  262. You don't know what I'm going through.

  263. He could have said it if I'd have looked ahead.

  264. You don't know what COVID has done to me and my family, and my business and my work.

  265. You don't know what it's done to everybody around me.

  266. No see, he knew all of that right there when he gave this word.

  267. That's right, yes, lord.

  268. And yet he said it's gonna be the greatest year of your life.

  269. See, there, listen, there is no word like this.

  270. That's gonna come unopposed.

  271. The devil is gonna bring out everything he can to stop it.

  272. All right, that's parenthesis.

  273. You don't know what I'm going through, but oh, I do say it, the Lord, I know exactly what you're going through and in the face of what you face, I say that this is the beginning of the greatest year of your life.

  274. So rejoice and be glad.

  275. Except no other report, except that which I have spoken through my servant, and you shall eat the good of the land.

  276. Say it the Lord.

  277. So God addressed that.

  278. So then the third part, and I'll stop here because there's others.

  279. It went on the next Wednesday night because it triggered all kinds of dreams that I'd had in the past and connected up.

  280. So I challenge you to spend time meditating about what I have said to you tonight For the first 36 days of this next year, 10% of the time that is in front of you.

  281. Spend time allowing me to deposit this word into your spirit and to bring you strategies and bring you revelation on how to apply it in your own life, in your own house and in your ministry.

  282. Say it the Lord 36 days, 10% of the year that is in front of you, spent in meditating and praying this out, and I shall reward you with an exact strategy.

  283. I will begin to show you things you've never seen.

  284. I will begin to guide your footsteps.

  285. I will begin to connect you with those with whom you need to be associated so that you can gain the more.

  286. Come on, let's lift our hands and receive that, praise God.

  287. So you see how important that meditating and speaking the word is in order to get this word down in your spirit.

  288. You see, you don't believe it at first.

  289. You have to think about it.

  290. You meditate means to turn it about, to mutter, to repeat it, to look at it.

  291. I mean, we printed copies of this, we have it on the website, we emailed it, we did all we could do to put this word in your hand.

  292. I preached on it like I don't know, 10 or 12 Sundays after that and we did all we could to get it into you.

  293. To get it into you, because there's only one way it can't just be up here in your head, it's gotta be down in your spirit.

  294. I said, it's gotta be down in your spirit.

  295. You know, I like what Brother Hagin says about confession.

  296. You know we're still learning all about what it means to confess the word.

  297. But confession brings possession.

  298. In other words, the word literally means to say the same thing as.

  299. But let me just give you his and it's so true his definition of confession Confession is affirming something that we believe.

  300. See, you have to affirm it with what your mouth.

  301. It doesn't do any good to think it or to just know it, you've gotta speak it with your mouth.

  302. So, affirming something we believe, then testifying to something that we know, notice it goes from believe to know.

  303. Believe is one level, know is another level, something you know.

  304. You're testifying to something you know when you get on the witness stand, second hand hearsay is not acceptable.

  305. You try doing that in a court of law but the attorney is gonna object that's hearsay.

  306. No, they want to know.

  307. What do you know about the situation?

  308. What do you know about it?

  309. See, you don't know.

  310. This is gonna be your greatest year.

  311. Yet until you've meditated on it, you've begun to believe it, and then you progress to knowing.

  312. And then there's another step, another step with witnessing for a truth that we've embraced.

  313. Okay, so you believe it, then you know it, and then you embrace it.

  314. And when the devil comes and he will come, because the Bible says, when the word is sown in your heart, the devil comes after a couple of weeks, a couple of months, immediately to steal the word out of your heart.

  315. That's why you've gotta start meditating on it, because if you don't start meditating on it, it's just laying there and the devil will come, steal the whole thing.

  316. That's why I preached on this for 10, 12 weeks.

  317. After that, we talked about it all the time.

  318. We put the red envelopes, we started getting involved.

  319. We had you make faith promises associated with it.

  320. What if you believe this is your greatest year yet?

  321. Let's sow a seed.

  322. And faith promises not even a seed, it's just a promise to sow a seed when God supplies it.

  323. I think we had like five and a half million dollars pledged or not pledged.

  324. We didn't take pledges, it was a faith promise.

  325. What's a faith promise?

  326. Well, it's just a promise that when God supplies this money, I will give it.

  327. I'm not listen.

  328. If somebody wants to put, somebody put million dollars down there, okay, I'm not gonna argue with them If I don't know what their faith level is.

  329. Some people have faith to get a million dollars.

  330. When they get a million, they're supposed to give it Because that's what they promised and it's between them and God, not me.

  331. I don't even know who that is.

  332. I just got the report, but I don't know who it is.

  333. I, on purpose I don't know I don't keep up with faith promises.

  334. Why did we do that?

  335. Because anything God does, he does with all of our being.

  336. That's one of the ways we act.

  337. Our faith, amen.

  338. Are y'all with me now?

  339. Yes, sir.

  340. So I wanna.

  341. I'm going over these things because I'm telling you we're in a combat right now.

  342. We're in a battle for the heart and soul of this nation, which is our inheritance.

  343. I mean, you take this nation away and turn it into a communist country, and our inheritance has been stolen from us and there's no getting it back.

  344. I said there's no getting it back.

  345. Do you know what they promised to do if they get in power?

  346. They're gonna pack the Supreme Court.

  347. They're gonna add two left wing states, puerto Rico and Washington DC.

  348. Can you imagine that being a state you talk about?

  349. Crazy, they're crazy.

  350. So then, what they're going to go in the Senate?

  351. Take the Senate over and get rid of the filibuster.

  352. So then all three of those things are gonna ensure that communism rules.

  353. They'll never be in another election.

  354. They'll figure out who's gonna run the country and they'll get behind him, and that will be just like Cuba, will be just like Venezuela, will be just like communist China.

  355. That's right.

  356. Is that what you want?

  357. Is that gonna help the gospel preach all over the world?

  358. Well, pastor, I think you're overstating it, am I Am I overstating it?

  359. Do you believe what they're saying?

  360. They're being totally naked.

  361. Frank with us.

  362. We need to believe what they're saying.

  363. This is what they're going to do.

  364. What are we gonna do?

  365. That's the question.

  366. Is the church gonna hide and stay closed and say, oh, I can't talk about this.

  367. I might lose my 501c3.

  368. My board of demons told me I couldn't do it.

  369. It's gonna cost me my career.

  370. I won't.

  371. They're gonna take my country club members from me on their way off again.

  372. You're a dumb dog that cannot bark.

  373. That's what Isaiah 5610 says.

  374. Dumb dogs All my watchmen are dumb dogs that cannot bark.

  375. Woo man, wow.

  376. I read that.

  377. I thought whoa, I don't want to be a dumb dog.

  378. I'm gonna bark louder.

  379. I'm gonna be a dumb dog.

  380. I'm gonna be a dumb dog.

  381. I'm gonna be a dumb dog.

  382. I'm gonna be a dumb dog.

  383. I'm gonna be a dumb dog.

  384. I'm gonna be a dumb dog.

  385. I'm gonna be a dumb dog.

  386. That's not gonna happen to everybody in our world.

  387. It's not getting better.

  388. I'm even gonna add a few snarls in there.

  389. I might even bare my teeth every now and then.

  390. Praise God, come on, let's lift our hands.

  391. Lord, the greatest year yet we're getting it down in our spirit.

  392. We're embracing it where it can't be wrestled away from us and in your spirit.

  393. So three things came out of this word that we mentioned and I want to mention this morning.

  394. Three words perspective, power and prominence.

  395. So let's get a look at perspective.

  396. Isaiah 55,.

  397. As you know, god many times has a different way of looking at things.

  398. Verse eight for my thoughts are not your thoughts and neither are my ways your ways, saith the Lord.

  399. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

  400. So how do we bridge the gap between our thoughts and his thoughts?

  401. Have our mind renewed to the Word of God, have our mind renewed to the Word that he gave us.

  402. That prophetic Word is another version of this Bible.

  403. There's nothing in that Word that's not in the Bible.

  404. There's a timeframe.

  405. That's not necessarily in the Bible, but that's what God does.

  406. You've got to get yourself to where you're thinking like he's thinking.

  407. You've got to get yourself elevated in his way of thinking.

  408. So you always go to the Word and say what does the Word say about my situation?

  409. God, you said it was my greatest year yet, but I've got three major health issues that are staring me in the face.

  410. I've got financial problems.

  411. I got the IRS breathing down my neck.

  412. I owe this, I owe that.

  413. I've got.

  414. I'm up to my ears and dead.

  415. I, I, I, I, this, this, this.

  416. There's all kinds of giants in the land.

  417. Are we going to just act like he didn't say this?

  418. Are we going to draw a circle around ourselves and exclude ourselves and say, oh well, that's for everybody else, but not for me.

  419. No, it's for you.

  420. It's for you, hallelujah.

  421. And so you've got to elevate your thoughts and your words and your actions to God's perspective.

  422. Think about the children of Israel.

  423. What they thought about after 40 years in the wilderness.

  424. They were the children of the disobedience.

  425. They've been hearing about this since they're 20 years old and now they're 60.

  426. And some of them were five years old and now they're 45.

  427. But they've been hearing about it their whole life from Joshua who was telling them?

  428. Joshua and Caleb.

  429. Joshua and Caleb turned into the youth ministers.

  430. Yes, they didn't bother with the ones that are going to die, they're.

  431. That's too late for them.

  432. They are already disobedient.

  433. There are no point in teaching them anything.

  434. They didn't listen, so they turned their attention on the children.

  435. And so now these children are grown, they're 60 and 40 now, and so what do they think?

  436. They would think of themselves?

  437. As lonely nomads carrying all their possessions in a cart.

  438. Yeah, I'm just wandering through the desert.

  439. I'm just a soul turner in this old, terrible place.

  440. Oh my God, everything I own is in this cart, this old, tired donkey.

  441. He's getting tired by the day.

  442. He was just dragging this thing behind him, everything I own right there.

  443. No, god looked at him as landowners.

  444. He looked on Adam as people that had an empire, an agricultural enterprise that was going to be exceedingly blessed and rich.

  445. That's how God looked at them.

  446. They're on their way to their inheritance.

  447. Are you seeing what I'm talking about here?

  448. You've got to change what you're seeing.

  449. You've got to begin to attack it from the standpoint of God's word.

  450. All right, the second word is power.

  451. Well, what do you say?

  452. It's going to send you the rain in your land and it's going to bring forth all kinds of wonderful crops you won't even have to.

  453. You know, back in Egypt they had to use foot-powered irrigation.

  454. Their blessing was all about how hard they worked.

  455. A lot of people think, oh, I got a work cart.

  456. I got a work cart.

  457. I've read the work under the anointing.

  458. I tell you, when you're blessed and you're doing what God called you to do, there's a supernatural thing that happens to you where it just starts coming in.

  459. And especially when you're a gifter, I mean when you learn to operate on God's timetable and God's ways.

  460. Oh, I tell you, you just have to work overtime to keep him out of your affairs.

  461. He will invade everything about your life and cause blessing to just pop up on air.

  462. That's called the rain.

  463. That's called power.

  464. We've been given power to get wealth due to Ronymy 18.

  465. We've been given the power to get or acquire or assemble wealth.

  466. If that was true of the Jews, how much more true is it of the church of Jesus Christ?

  467. Are you with me now?

  468. Supernatural power to dispossess entities greater than our natural ability?

  469. It might seem, and it is on purpose, because we have a fake news media with false narratives.

  470. You can't get the truth anywhere.

  471. I mean ABC, nbc, cbs, ms, nbc, cnn, name them all.

  472. Even Fox.

  473. Fox is disgusting.

  474. Chris Wallace is disgusting.

  475. He gets all this praise.

  476. Oh, he's a straight shooter.

  477. No, he's not.

  478. He's a Democrat and he let his colors be known in the debate.

  479. He was against Trump and he frustrated Trump every time he tried to ask a legitimate question that doofus should have been asking.

  480. They never ask any questions of the Democrats.

  481. Joe Biden never has to answer any hard questions.

  482. They're just softballs Marshmallows here.

  483. Here's a marshmallow.

  484. We've got to take this country back.

  485. We have to start cleaning up the swamp.

  486. We have to start, and it starts with electing Donald Trump at the White House.

  487. We've got to get this election, and not just him, but every Republican has to get in there.

  488. We've got some judges here today.

  489. We need Republican judges and behind the bench.

  490. We have to stop this outlaw bunch of jurists that are making laws from behind the bench and finding rights that aren't there for people that shouldn't have rights like that.

  491. People shouldn't have a right to live like slime.

  492. That could be their choice, but I shouldn't have to hire them.

  493. I shouldn't have to like it.

  494. I shouldn't have to not speak against it.

  495. I can speak against it.

  496. You know, when a man is wearing a dress, I can speak against it.

  497. I don't have to hire him.

  498. But they're saying I do Well, no, I'm not gonna do it, can't make me, you can't make me.

  499. You can, you can't make me.

  500. I wish it was funny, I guess I mean it might as well be funny.

  501. I don't want to get mad at my blood pressure up.

  502. It might seem they have all the power, but you know what?

  503. We have greater power, we have supernatural power and, by the way, we're gonna have a power hour plus tonight at 6.30.

  504. So if you wonder about how that works, if you've never been to a corporate prayer meeting like this one I doubt if you have come, I mean you'll see and hear some things you've never seen and heard in a prayer meeting.

  505. Amen, I mean, we get down and righteous.

  506. Right, you thought I was gonna say dirty, didn't you?

  507. I got you.

  508. So we're about to dispossess Marxists and globalists from positions of power and politics, media and government and education, and we'll use the ballot box and, if necessary, after that we'll use the box of bullets that we have.

  509. Pastor, I can't believe you said that.

  510. Well, you know what?

  511. That's why.

  512. That is why we have the right to keep and to bear arms.

  513. We've forgotten that in this country.

  514. It's been so long, it's been so long since we've even wanted to consider that.

  515. You know why?

  516. Because these liberals, these Marxists, have beat it down and to where they've made us feel guilty that we have guns and I apologize.

  517. Oh, I'm sorry, I just just for hunting.

  518. No, mine's not for hunting.

  519. I quit hunting 40 something years ago.

  520. I don't care about hunting anymore.

  521. If you do, I'm not against it.

  522. I'm just saying I don't have time.

  523. I've got guns and they're not for hunting.

  524. Not for hunting, pastor.

  525. Are you threatening?

  526. No, I'm not threatening anything.

  527. I'm just reminding people that we have a constitution and that when men don't do what the constitution tells them to, and when they swear an oath to uphold it and don't, there should be and must be consequences for that Must be.

  528. And then you have the last word prominence, which is the result of perspective and power.

  529. Everybody say prominence.

  530. Well, I knew that you just wanna be famous.

  531. No, that's not my motive at all.

  532. But the church will be prominent if I have my way.

  533. I can't make people do what I'm saying.

  534. I can't make people wake up, but my job is to make a sound, a loud sound.

  535. My job is to speak and believe that the door of utterance you know Paul talks about a door of utterance being open unto him and God has opened a door of utterance into the regions beyond.

  536. He told me this three months after I, while I was recovering from heart surgery.

  537. He said I'm going to open a door reserved for you, a door of utterance into the regions beyond.

  538. I didn't have any.

  539. I feel a Holy Ghost all over me right now.

  540. That has come to pass this year because of the COVID, because of our stance that we were not going to be closed, that we were going to be open, and because we did that, god opened the door.

  541. And so what you know, the rest of it, that's what you call prominence.

  542. I mean, we're not a mega church.

  543. I said that to you know, colonel West.

  544. He said I said, well, we're not a mega church, yeah, but there's a mega God living right inside of him.

  545. He wouldn't let me.

  546. I said, well, you got that right.

  547. Yeah, I kind of like his style.

  548. He's the state Republican Party chairman.

  549. But ever say prominence, the church taking its rightful place of influence, distinguished, credible, feared.

  550. Yeah, yeah, the early church was feared.

  551. No man dared to join them.

  552. After Ananias and Zephira dropped dead.

  553. Then, that church, they had a real odd ministry of helps.

  554. They had a burial detail.

  555. How many want to volunteer to be on the burial detail.

  556. Praise God, because as soon as they dropped dead, somebody came in and wound the linen around them and sprinkled spices on them and carried them out and buried them.

  557. I mean, just like that boom.

  558. I just think, wow, that was a well oil machine.

  559. How did that happen?

  560. They must have.

  561. You know, we need volunteers, able bodied men or women.

  562. Please, you know, sign up in the lobby.

  563. I mean, it's kind of it's crazy, but because of that, the fear of God hit the entire region and people dared not join them.

  564. They had to make sure that they were ready for the commitment.

  565. Why did they die?

  566. They lied to the Holy Ghost.

  567. They lied to the Holy Ghost.

  568. We're coming to a place where the glory of God is gonna be so thick on the church that we dare not lie, that we dare not say things that are not true.

  569. Are you with me?

  570. I'm talking about prominence Distinguished, credible, feared and respected.

  571. Look at Joshua, chapter two, quickly.

  572. I'm just about done.

  573. I just want to give you a taste, those of you that are new.

  574. I want you to get into this.

  575. You're not too late.

  576. Well, that's already over.

  577. No, it's not over.

  578. God told me that Joshua held the sun and the moon until they could defeat the Amalekites.

  579. He just said sun stands still in the moon and they had a whole day extra, and I believe God is holding up time for us to get our inheritances.

  580. Pastor, you're crazy.

  581. Yeah, I'm going to a heavenly insane asylum.

  582. I hope you're there with me.

  583. Joshua, chapter two.

  584. I'm just reading out of the Bible the Bible has.

  585. The Bible is an outstanding book.

  586. You ought to read it sometime.

  587. It's just kind of things.

  588. Joshua, chapter two, verse nine.

  589. And so this is Rahab the harlot, the two spies.

  590. See, joshua didn't send 12.

  591. He learned he was one of 12.

  592. He said you know, I'm not sending 12 Jews because if you have 12 Jews you've got 15 opinions, and so let's just let's send two, maybe they can agree.

  593. So he sent two.

  594. Actually, god told him to send two, anyway.

  595. So he sends them and they come up with Rahab the harlot.

  596. And she said under the bed in verse nine I know that the Lord has given you the land.

  597. I know that the Lord has given you the land and that your terror is falling upon us.

  598. I know about an event that happened 40 years before that.

  599. She's talking about the parting of the Red Sea.

  600. She's talking about when they came out of Egypt and she's it's 40 years later.

  601. How old is this woman?

  602. 60, 70, 80?

  603. I don't know, doesn't say, but she's not a spring chicken.

  604. And she said I know the Lord giving you the land, the land we're sending on is yours.

  605. Wait, I know that.

  606. I know I'm a trespass.

  607. I know I'm a trespasser.

  608. It's essentially what she's saying I'm a trespasser, yeah, yeah, I know, I know, and your terror is falling upon us and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

  609. They melt.

  610. Martin says they melt.

  611. They must not be M&M's, all right.

  612. So then, because verse 10, because we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did under the two kings of the Emirates.

  613. They were giants, by the way, giants and that were on the other side, jordan and Zion and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

  614. And as soon as we heard these things, our heart did melt.

  615. Neither did there remain any more courage in any man because of you, for the Lord, your God, he is God in heaven, above and in earth, beneath Prominence.

  616. Because of the perspective and the power that they believed in and executed, then others knew that God was on their side.

  617. This country needs to see a church filled with supernatural power, that is not afraid, that is unbound.

  618. They will not listen to little county judges and little mayors and even governors tell them they can't have church to defy that kind of authority.

  619. It is not constitutional.

  620. I mean, aren't you glad to hear that Michigan, the Supreme Court, voted this week to overturn the governor of Michigan and said you are out of order, you cannot close this state down.

  621. So now Michigan is open, why not Texas?

  622. Come on, come on, governor Abbott, come on, get some courage.

  623. For God's sake, open this state up.

  624. I call on the governor open the state up.

  625. Hallelujah, all right, let's all stand together.

  626. Praise God.

  627. I want to lead us in a quick confession.

  628. You can add your own confession to this, but let me just what is a confession Quickly?

  629. A confession is affirming something you believe.

  630. It's testifying to something that you know and witnessing for a truth that you have embraced.

  631. Listen, you don't just believe it just because I say it.

  632. You've got to get it down in your spirit and be convinced, and it's in stages.

  633. You first believe and then you know and then you embrace.

  634. If you'll stay that, with this word, long enough, you're going to get results that are going to cause this year to be the greatest year of your life.

  635. Are you going to argue with God if it happens to be 2021 instead of 2020?

  636. I mean, god doesn't have any timetables.

  637. Listen, I can see how, when Trump is elected, that's going to change the landscape in this country like you can't believe.

  638. All right, let's say this together.

  639. Say I'm seeking the Lord while he may be found.

  640. I'm calling on Him while he's near.

  641. He's showing me His perspective for me, this year, I believe I've received His revelation.

  642. I believe I've received a fresh anointing.

  643. I believe my testimony will be with demonstration of the spirit and of power.

  644. I have credibility, I have influence.

  645. This truly is becoming my greatest year yet.

  646. Come on, let's shout for joy this morning.

  647. Come on, shout, for the Lord has given you the city.

  648. Shout, for the Lord has given you your inheritance.

  649. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, oh, glory to God, glory to God, glory to God, glory to God.

  650. Lift your voices, lift your voices.

  651. Hallelujah, glory, glory to the most time.

  652. Glory to the most high God.

  653. Glory to the most high God.

  654. Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise God.

  655. Well, I tell you, one thing has happened.

  656. God has given me a shouting church.

  657. I've always wanted a shouting church and God gave me a shouting church.

  658. I'm telling you, we got ex-Baptist and ex-Catholics and ex-Lutherans and ex-I don't know what.

  659. All we got all kind of exes in here.

  660. Thank God, we've got a bunch of believers.

  661. That's what we're looking for believers.

  662. Did you get anything out of this today?

  663. Are you encouraged?

  664. Listen, don't listen to all of the noise.

  665. I mean cling to what God has said and we're going to get the victory.