Turn!

Let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I'm ready and willing and able to be poured out.

I have a supply.

I'm full of your Word, I'm full of the Holy Spirit, I'm led by the Holy Spirit, I'm making needed adjustments that you need me to make to achieve all that you have for me In Jesus' name, amen, amen.

Well, I would like to start with a short video playback so you guys can roll that whenever you're ready.

Thank you, we have an amazing media team Instant MCs.

And end out, you don't want to guess my title tonight.

Anybody, you got it.

Ding, ding, ding, ding, turn.

Those were different kind of turns.

In case you didn't get that Slow turns, fast turns, u turns all require skill on a motorcycle and taking you all the way back, when you learned how to drive, you had to learn how to turn, didn't you?

I was talking to my dad about this and he said he learned to drive in a 61 Chevy with no power steering, with no power brakes, three on the tree.

So he learned to drive a little bit differently than I did, and my kids for sure.

I mean they just use one hand.

I mean, what is this hand over hand over hand business?

Your hands get in the way of each other, and now it's just power steering.

Right, you're going to make a turn, no big deal.

But a turn on a motorcycle is highly technical and we won't get in too much of this.

But it's the number one killer of motorcyclists are turns, intersections.

People turn.

It has to do with turns people turning in front of you, not seeing you, and so they teach you in motorcycle classes a lot about turning, and so you have to set yourself up for the turn.

You have to slow down.

Obviously.

You have to be mentally ready for the turn.

Your lane position is everything.

You can't just be willy-nilly about it.

So if I'm making a left turn, I'm going to go outside, inside, outside and if I'm making a right turn, I'm going to go inside, outside, inside.

Lane position is totally changing.

Why?

Because so you can see all the way through that turn.

You want to have the maximum visibility, because you don't know you might begin that turn and there's gravel in the road.

So you're looking all the way through, you're turning your head, and they teach you that in class.

If you're making a U turn, you have to turn your head and look where you want to go, and the motorcycle follows right.

And so why are we talking so much about turning on a motorcycle?

We're not in a motorcycle class, jay, come on.

But I'm telling you, the biggest challenge we have as Christians is the devil tries to get us off course and we miss a turn.

We either make a turn we weren't supposed to make and we suffer a fatality it takes out a lot of Christians or God wants us to make a turn and we never make the turn and we keep on going straight and we run out of road and boom.

And so the word turn appears 283 times in the King James version of the Bible.

So God has a lot of things to say about turning right.

And so tonight we're going to learn some of those and go through all about when to make a turn, how to make a turn and how to just be aware that there's a turn coming up.

And so if you'll turn with me to Ecclesiast these three I know that was the bird song way back then, and we're just going to hit verse one we're not going to go through all this.

We won't talk about a time to die right Now.

It's not a time to die, just so, you and just in case.

It's a time to live, but it says in the amplified classic version, ecclesiastics, chapter three, verse one.

It says to everything there is a season and a time for every matter or a purpose under heaven.

And the message Bible says there's an opportune time to do things, a right time for everything on earth.

So there's a right time or a purpose, amen.

And so what is our purpose right now If it's pastor's mandate to wake up the church?

What time is it?

Do we know?

We're living in the last days.

It's a pivotal time, but it is our greatest year yet, and does that mean that we have?

You know, since 2018 was the year of the open door, is this the year of the closed door?

No, we're building.

Each year builds, revelation upon revelation, right?

So we have the year of the open door.

And then 2019 was the year of fulfillment, and God is still fulfilling things in our lives.

For our greatest year yet, amen.

And so now is the time, today is the season.

This is the purpose under heaven, right, this is our purpose to be awake and to be alert.

And so I began to go back recently and listen to the, to the prophecies and the words spoken over Selene and I that that dad made at the beginning of January.

And then, right in the same day, I listened to the saint, the word that Pastor Mark spoke over Selene and I as well, and Claire and James as well, and those were powerful and I didn't realize how.

I mean, when they were happening I could see a correlation, but, man, they were just right locked step.

And in fact, pastor Mark mentioned the word turn twice when he was speaking over Selina and I, and he said things are beginning to turn.

The things that are out of order are becoming in order, amen, amen.

And so you think well, man, what so are bad things are out of order.

No, good things were just in the wrong order and they're beginning to line up in the right order, amen.

And so you gotta kind of read into that, pray about.

So when you receive a word, when we receive a word at corporately, as a church, or individually, whose responsibility is it for these words to come to pass fruition?

It's on our account, it's on my account to have faith for these words.

In other words, when dad spoke over us, that's a turn.

What do we have to do?

He prophesied there's a new way of thinking, it's a new way of speaking.

He talked all about confidence, right?

Well, it's time to slow up.

It's not time to do what I've always done, because I've always done it.

There's a turn coming up.

I've got a turn with this word.

I've got to grab ahold of this revelation.

I've got to see through the eyes of faith all the way through this turn and I have to begin the turn.

I've got to begin to lean my whole, entire human personality over onto the Lord.

Right, and he's gonna carry me through this turn.

Amen.

And that's how we approach these turns.

We're entering into a whole new season, pastor Mark said over us, and so I just encourage you to go back to the Word and Spirit conference there on YouTube.

I know even James was talking about that.

He also mentioned the word turn as well, but I encourage you to go back and soak up the revelation that was poured into us amen.

Even I need to go back and hear Saturday morning Sister Trina's message again.

And then Pastor Mark I believe it was Saturday morning began to talk about following directions, and that just hit me again, and it hit me like all the little things he said to me behind the scenes.

He's never just talking to hear himself talk.

I've got to stop and I've got to listen.

And one big thing I was gonna share with you.

Years ago I think it was one of the first times he came we were eating in the back in the youth room and he was on his way out and I said, well, we'd really love to see you again.

But I've searched the calendar and the next time you're in Texas, you're way out in West Texas and post Texas, and that's like 500 miles away and I don't see it.

Man, that's just a long way.

And he stopped and he said you know what that's, pastor Joey and Kathy, you and Selena would have a lot in common with them.

You should come.

So hey, ding, ding, ding, I'm gonna follow directions.

I'm not necessarily gonna count the miles, but hey, get ready, selena, we're jumping in the truck, we're going to post Texas.

And we did that.

And that week changed our lives for a variety of reasons and we really hit it off of Pastor Joey and Kathy.

And Pastor Joey was here sitting right over there this last weekend and we got to talk a lot behind the scenes.

But then his wife Kathy and his daughter and they brought their youth group to the same youth camp that we went to in Branson two summers ago and we got to spend a lot of time behind the scenes as well, and so that's a divine connection, amen.

All because of following directions, all because Pastor Mark's not just talking to hear himself talk.

No, this is the Holy Spirit and so speaking through him, and so there's so many times in your life that you've got to do that too, pastor.

Again, he's being led by the Holy Spirit.

He's not just talking to hear himself talk.

We've got to identify when something's being spoken over our lives and grab a hold of it and remember it, write it down, or at least write it down to go back and listen to it.

Maybe you're going to purchase the CD on your way out, maybe it's up on YouTube or on our audio podcast and you're going to write it down and go back and listen to it later.

But either way, you've got to grab a hold of it so that you digest it, amen.

And so I just think one just looking back in the pivotal.

I wasn't going to cover very many of these, but let's just cover one.

The pivotal words we've had over the last 25 years have usually come from our pastor in the form of dreams and I know, in one specific dream, editing the dream just slightly, all of a sudden he realizes he's in a caboose going backwards and that represented the church he knew.

In the dream that represented the church, the church and his ministry and there was a young man on the wheel.

And the wheel in a real caboose is usually, you know, you turn it and it locks up the wheels right so that it can't move.

But in the dream he's steering the caboose without a track going, just going through the fields right, just being a pioneer.

And he's, you know, he has tracks on both sides with trains, and one train is derailed and he can see a bunch of mess in the distance and the other train is just going really slow, loaded down with all, all the programs, and these represented two different churches and here his ministry, our ministry, our church, is just being driven by the Holy Ghost and he's happy and full of joy and he doesn't need tracks.

Where we're going, right, it's not even back to the future, we're just able to go.

We're supposed to talk about Groundhog Day today, but anyways, but the Holy Ghost is in charge, and so then, you know, at first he had some alarm about it, then he realized no, it's the Holy Ghost.

The Holy Ghost is in charge, and so we have that theme throughout our services.

Whenever the Holy Ghost wants to move, we give them control of the service right, and so we've had some really pivotal services because of that word in how we run services around here.

So if you'll just let's break down the word turn and I've got four points tonight they all start with T, u, r, n, etc.

So the first one is T, and so we're going to look at time in the word.

So if you can turn with me to Psalm 119, I'll start in verse 100.

We've read this 100,000 times, but it'll be in the amplified classic version, miss Nancy, if you're up there.

Psalm 119, 100 and it says I understand more than the agreed because I keep your precepts hearing, receiving, loving and obeying them.

I have restrained my feet from every evil way that I might keep your word hearing, receiving, loving and obeying it.

I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you yourself have taught me how sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.

Through your precepts I get understanding.

Therefore, I hate every false way.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path, and so I just wanted to point out that, in order for us to turn, in order for us to see a turn, it starts with T, and that is time in the word time you spending time praying and receiving from the Lord.

This cannot be delegated.

You know we do a lot of delegation around here.

We have a Tuesday morning prayer.

We're grateful for them.

Then we have a Thursday night prayer team, and we're also grateful for both of those teams.

They actually serve two different purposes, even though it's prayer.

Then we have a smaller team that meets on Sunday mornings before the service and they just pray over our Sunday service, and all three of those do an amazing job, but I can't delegate my personal prayer time to them.

I have to receive from God on my own in order to have my eyes of faith open, to see things that I need to correct in my own life.

Right, and so, as grateful as we are, we all have to have a prayer life, all of our staff, we all have to be close to the Holy Ghost and be full of the Holy Ghost, and so in verse 105 in the passion translation, it says truth, shining light guides me in my choices and decisions.

The revelation of your word makes my pathway clear.

So in order to have a pathway that's clear, to see turns to make decisions in life, we need the revelation of God's word, and we can only receive that revelation by spending time in his word.

I know it's obvious, I know that's most of.

It seems like every message that I preach, somehow reading your Bible is mixed in with that, and it's because I'm preaching to myself.

I could stand to read the word more.

You know, I'm going to use this book as an example here in a few examples.

But Earlier this week I only had a short time to read the word and this book was sitting next to where I read my Bible and I picked up this book instead and I got sucked in and it's awesome, and I read two or three chapters of it and then realized man, I'm out of time and I never really got around to reading the Bible the rest of that day.

And it's the equivalent, as great as this book is.

Again, I'm going to use it as an example, but it's kind of like sitting down for a meal and ignoring the meal and just eating the vitamins, and so I encourage you if you're going to read a book, great, read a book, but don't ignore the Word of God.

Put that first, put that ahead of things, and that keeps your life in order and that keeps your spiritual eyes open to change, amen.

Okay, so thy Word is a lamp unto our feet, a light unto our path.

His Word, jesus, is the Word, and it's illuminating our paths.

And so if we're not reading the Word and we're not fellowshiping, then we're going to miss the turn, then there's going to be something, and sometimes the turns that we miss are not all about us.

They're about the people that are around us.

They're about the influences that we're to have and the rest of our family and our sons and daughters and grandkids and relatives and coworkers, and the people that God has that he brings along into our path.

If we miss that turn, we miss it for everybody, and God has to work around us to get His plan done.

How many of you know it's way more efficient if we just obey the first time.

Right, we all know that.

And so, amen, we're alert, we're spending time in our Word, we're mature believers and we're able to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

And so, if we'll move on to point number two, which is you.

This sounds a little redneck, but you, you are in control of your tongue, you're in control of your future, you're in control of your direction.

You, I know it's not a why, it's a you, but hey, and if you turn with me, you know James, this past Wednesday night he preached a message entitled what Do you Say, and he talked all about the importance of what comes out of our mouths.

If we'll turn together to the book of James, chapter three and verse two I'm going to read out of the passion translation Miss Nancy, if you got that one, james three, two this is my other brother, james, jesus's brother, james, preaching verse two.

We all fail in many areas, but especially with our words.

Yet if we're able to bridle the words we say, we are powerful enough to control ourselves in every way.

Everybody say every way, and that means our character is mature and fully developed.

So what is James saying here?

Is he saying that it's impossible that we fail every time?

No, he's, he's using it to, to help us, to correct what comes out of our mouth.

If we can control our tongue, we can control ourselves in every single way.

And he goes on to explain how, in two different ways, horses verse three horses have bits and bridles in their mouths so that we can control and guide their large body.

And then the same way with mighty ships though they are massive and driven by fierce winds, they have they are steered by a tiny rudder at the direction of the person at the helm.

And so the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it carries great power.

Just think of how a small flame can set a huge forest ablaze.

And the tongue is a fire.

It can be compared to the sum total of wickedness and is the most dangerous part of the human body.

It corrupts the entire body and it and is a hellish flame.

It releases a fire that can burn throughout the course of human existence, where every wild animal on earth, including birds, creeping reptiles and creatures of the sea and land, have all been overpowered and tamed by humans.

But the tongue is not able to be tamed.

It's fickle, unrestricted evil that spews out words full of toxic poison.

So every single one of these examples, you can turn them around, because we are able to tame our tongues right, and so you can.

You can see that as I read, we use our tongue to praise God, our father, and then turn around and curse a person who was made in his very image, not us.

This is just, in general, speaking Out of the same mouth.

We pour out words of praise one minute and curses the next.

My brothers and sisters, this should never be.

Would you look for olives hanging in a fig tree or go to pick figs from a grapevine?

Is it possible that flesh, that fresh and bitter water, can flow out of the same spring?

So neither can a bitter spring produce fresh water.

And so, again, like I said earlier, you can turn every single one of these around right, because we are able to tame our tongue.

That means we're able to produce fresh water for those around us.

We should be always quick to encourage others, amen.

And so we do have power to control our tongue.

We have power to control what comes out of our mouths, and so people are looking for the answer.

You have the answer.

You hold the answer on your tongue, and if we'll yield our mouthpieces over to the Holy Spirit, when we're filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit, then we're able to bring help, then we're able to bring deliverance.

Amen again, that those words were spoken over Selene and I that, that that we really do know what we're talking about.

That's what my dad the way my dad worded it that people will be attracted to our ministry, that that that there's deliverance in our mouths, and so it's important for all of us, though, to to tame our tongue, to not just let any whatever we're thinking, whatever doubt, whatever unbelief, whatever thought Comes up in our brain, and we give it a voice by speaking it out of our mouths.

No, not anymore.

We can tame our tongue.

We can speak victory and and and have victory on every side through what comes out of our mouths.

Amen.

We can speak to the mountain and not just talk about how big our mountain is.

I was encouraging somebody the other day who was going with.

They were having marital trouble and some communication issues and Just some real basic things, and I just I pointed out he was kind of had a laundry list of Of the things he was concerned with about his, his wife and I said, instead of you connecting her to all these problems, you speak to the mountains privately, you believe God privately, and when you speak to her, you're connecting her with God.

It's a three-fold cord.

It's not easily broken, but instead of bringing up all the problems every time you talk how big the tax debt is and how big the credit card debt is and how they were facing real trouble, real problems.

I said you be the one that connects her to God.

Find what you agree with, find what you agree about and talk to God about that and pray together about that.

Bring unity into your marriage With what you are by what you already have unity about.

And so it sounds basic, but he really, plus, he'd had a career change and Maybe I'm being too, I need to be more careful, but he had a.

He had a job.

That's always, for decades has pulled, pulled him out of the house.

I said, like now you're working out of the house, you're around each other all the time.

Like, give her a break.

I Said I relate to that.

We, you know, Selina and I, we love each other but we live with each other, we work with each other and some of you ride to work with each other and sometimes she just needs a little break.

I don't need that break, but she, you know, anyways, just be an open.

Hey, recognize that he's like I think you have something there, but anyways, control what comes out of your tongue, control what comes out of your mouth.

Stop talking about how big the mountain is and speak to the mountain.

You know I'm grateful, you know, for every song, for every.

You know he does help us through storms.

There are storms in life, but did you notice?

Jesus didn't just, he was asleep at the bottom of the boat.

They woke him up and he spoke to the storm.

We can speak to the storm, we can say peace, be still.

You know, we don't have to just keep rocking and reeling with this storm and get half beat to death.

We can speak to the storm.

Amen.

There is power in our tongue and our tongue can be tamed.

And there is life, words of life, in our speech amen, and.

And so if we'll move on to point number three, that's gonna be our, and I know it's not a again, this one's kind of a little redneck of me, but it's not a round, it's round our as round.

And so if you'll turn with me to Psalm 126, and I'm gonna read it out of the King James version and then read the rest of it out of the passion translation, so, starting at verse one, psalm 126, verse one I'll see if Miss Nancy can catch up Psalm 126, verse one and the King James version.

There it is.

It says when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream Amen.

He turned again their captivity.

So you may seem like it may look like to your natural eyes, that you're stuck, that there's no way in the world you're gonna get out of the pit that you're in.

But the Lord turns things around so.

So sometimes he is the one turning us.

He's turning everything around and it's a circle and it's round, and we're just.

All we have to do is just allow him to have control.

And whoop, he turns us right around.

We're going right back in the correct direction direction, and so he makes those changes fast.

And let's read it out of the Passion translation, verse 2 it says we laughed and laughed and overflowed with greatness.

We were left shouting for joy and singing your praise.

All the nations saw it and rejoiced in saying the Lord has done Great miracles for them.

Yes, he did mighty miracles and we are overjoyed.

So it brings joy, overwhelming joy, in our hearts and our spirit when he turns things around for us, amen.

So there's Thanksgiving and there's a rejoicing that comes out of our mouths.

You're, there's no such thing as unexpressed praise.

We can't help but praise and it just comes bubbling out of us Amen, when God does great things for us.

And I think back in the history of this church I believe it was 2015, but you know, getting into 2016 was really a rough year and and it was kind of on me we have two levels of accounting on top of me, but it's kind of my job to gather their reports and I Kept having to explain that I know that 2 plus 2 equals 4, but this math is not making sense and I either don't.

I don't know where they got these numbers, but somehow it's.

It's Not showing that we're losing as much as the bank account says we're losing every month, and it's just, it was supernatural.

That's all I'm getting at.

I know that two plus two is four, but, but you know, it was never as bad as it seemed.

It seemed rough, it seemed bad, but the Lord turned it all around, amen.

And it wasn't very long at all that we were in that situation.

And so we trust, we leaned on the Lord, we trust in the Lord.

And I know other people.

In their personal stories they were having similar problems.

Sometimes not every time, but sometimes there will be people in the church.

Their lives reflect what's going on in the church, because this is a corporate environment, and so I knew that they were receiving miracle after miracle after miracle, and supernatural things were happening in their finances and God turned it all around.

Amen.

So God has the ability.

It seems hopeless, it seemed, you know.

But you're speaking to the mountain.

You're remaining in faith and it doesn't matter what it seems like to your flesh, you're looking at things through the eyes of faith.

You have the vantage point and the perspective of the Lord on things.

Therefore, you can see that he's turning things around, amen.

So point number four I'm going to grab it right out of this book, which also has a scripture involved.

It's, in turn, the last one.

The letter is in for new or fresh.

I'm going to read right out of chapter two this is Mark Hankins book.

The Holy Spirit is a genius.

If you listen to him, he will make you look smart, Amen.

So this is chapter two, on page 17.

Second paragraph it says it's a really long Smith Wigglesworth quote.

He said I like what Smith Wigglesworth said.

God has put us in a place where he expects us to have his latest revelation.

That's powerful, isn't it?

Instead of me just reading it again, repeat this after me Say God has put me in a place where he expects me to have his latest revelation.

We're required to have his latest revelation.

Amen, and that revelation of that marvelous fact of Christ in us.

And what this really means is that we can understand Christ fully only when we are filled and overflowing with the Spirit of God.

Stick with me here.

I love this.

It says our only safeguard from dropping back into our natural minds, from which we can never get anything, is to be filled and filled again with the Spirit of God.

I'm going to read that again, but you say you know the our only safeguard, safeguard from dropping back to being in our natural minds.

And you say well, jay, god created me and I just have a really high IQ.

I am so smart and I am so much smarter than you and I have a master's degree from this and Yale and Harvard and and blah, blah, blah, it says.

He says from which we can never get anything.

You can never get anything from the Lord with just your natural mind.

You can't have Jack squat nothing or diddly squat nothing their brothers, jack and Diddly I'm a little bit familiar with him.

Thank God, that was a long time ago.

Have you met Jack and Diddly?

No, you can't have anything on your own, left to your own mind.

You may think you're smart, but the Holy Spirit is so much smarter and we can when we lean our whole, entire human personality onto him.

He makes us look smart when we're filled, and filled again with the Spirit of God and to be taken on to new visions and new revelations.

And then Smith Wigglesworth also says it is a luxury to be filled with the Spirit and at the same time it is a divine command Amen, it's a divine command that we're filled with and controlled by the Holy Spirit and therefore we have fresh or new revelation.

He's put us in a position that requires us to have fresh, new revelation.

It's required, it's not optional.

And so I'm going to read just a little bit more of this book.

This is now Mark Hankins, on page 19.

It says when you yield to the Holy Spirit, many things take place.

One thing is that you become filled and flooded with God himself.

All of you is filled with all of God.

Paul's prayer is that the church will be wholly filled and flooded with God himself.

That's in Ephesians 3, 19 and the amplified the Holy Spirit comes to strengthen your inner man and transform your vision, your voice, and bring revelation, knowledge.

One way to be strengthened is to build yourself up on your most Holy Faith, praying in the Spirit, like Jude, verse 20 says.

Then you may be able to grasp all the dimensions of God's love, the love of God, and be filled and flooded with God himself.

When you're filled with God, you know what he has done in Christ and that's when you can experience the exceeding greatness of his resurrection power released to every believer.

Amen.

We have the resurrection power of God living on the inside of us.

We have a revelation of that.

It's not optional and we're filled with the power of the Holy Ghost.

And that power is not just for us, it's not just for me, my four or no more.

It's for those around us.

We have a huge influence over those around us our friends, our coworkers, our family and it's us, up to us to open our mouths and share that power, share the demonstration of the Holy Ghost that's on the inside of us, amen, and recognize when the Lord needs us to turn and slow down, slow up, prepare for that turn, begin to lean and just lean your way, all the way through it, and he's got you.

Amen, amen, was that all right tonight?

Hallelujah, pastor, it's all yours.

Well, praise God, we're going to turn without falling.

Amen, let's all stand together.

Are you glad you came on Sunday night?

Praise God, let's not forget Wednesday.

We've got Wednesday healing Wednesdays coming up this first Wednesday, and it's going to be power hour at the same time.

We're going to have power during that hour.

Amen, hallelujah, let's pray.

Father.

We thank you for what we've heard tonight and we thank you, father.

We're instructed in all of the Word of God.

Lord, it's our source of supply for all things supernatural.

Lord, we can't know you except through your Word.

And Lord, as we get more and more acquainted with you, lord, we thank you that we're receiving the divine strategies, the turns that we need to make to follow the pathway that you have ordained for us.

And, father, we give you the praise and the glory for all the good things that you're doing in our lives and through us, for other folks, and we praise you for it in Jesus' name.

Amen and be blessed.