Driven To The Depths - Pastor J. D. Howell 2-18-2026

So are you glad to be in the House of

the Lord tonight. If you're glad to be in the

House of the Lord, say amen. If you're glad your

brother and sister is in the House of the Lord tonight,

say amen. We thank you for being here tonight. We

appreciate your attendance in this local assembly here in Label, Florida.

God has been good to us. I can't think of

a service in twenty years that our Lord hasn't met

with us. He's been right here in our midst. You

know why, because this assembly was ordered by the Lord

together at this certain geographic location. It's not of our

own doings. It's of the workings of the Holy Ghost.

And aren't you thankful that the Holy Ghost is still

working today? He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

I appreciate what Brother Jonathan Edwards testified about just a

little while ago. He was on point, on target. I'm

glad that he received the Holy Ghost three years ago

in a spontaneous, non scheduled revival. We're okay with scheduled revivals.

We have one or two a year around homecoming time

and around the first of the year. But I appreciate

these spontaneous revivals such as what we're in right now.

And I appreciate what it just said.

He spoke of that eunuch, that Ethiopian eunuch, being down

there by a body of water, and how that eunuch

told Philip the evangelist, here is water, what doth hinder

me from being baptized?

And how Philip.

Took that Ethiopian eunuch right on down into the water,

into deeper depths to be baptized. Aren't you thankful that

you have been baptized. It wasn't the water in the pond,

of the river, of the lake, or the ocean that

washed your sins away. The ruby red blood of Jesus

washed your sins away. But from the very beginning of

that salvation experience, the Lord required a view to go

into deeper depths. And that's what I've come to preach tonight,

a message the Holy Ghost title driven to the depths,

Driven to the depths. So Brother Jonathan just exhorted and

testified about Philip escorting that Ethiopian eunuch into deeper waters.

Brother Micah, my grandson who is six years of age

that sits on the platform next to me, he was

holding a hymnal and the congregational singing was over and

they were in the middle of the offeratory. His daddy,

brother Jesse, was playing the piano, and while the other

musicians were playing along with brother Jesse, I looked to

my right, looked in the lap of Micah, and Micah

was holding a songbook and it was opened to page

number two thirty and our drummer, brother Philip Howell winess

my startled expression as I looked at the title of

the song that this six year old was looking at.

And as far as I know, in my fifty years

of being in Pentecostal and Holiness churches, as far as

I know, I've been singing around the choir for probably

forty five years of that, I don't know that I've

ever heard anybody sing that song deeper, deeper. But right there,

brother Michael was looking at that song page number two thirty.

Deeper, Deeper, deeper, deeper.

Holygo sent me tonight to preach a message titled driven

to the depths. Aren't you thankful? You got saved in

ankle deep waters. Then you got a little deeper, and

you got sanctified, Then you got a little deeper and

you got into waters to swim in you got the

Holy Ghost. With that in mind, let's go to the

waters that are deep tonight. Brother Jesse, Psalm chapter number

one oh seven. We'll be reading verses number twenty three

and twenty four. Brother Nathaniel, Psalm Chapter number forty two,

Verse number seven. I want to thank you so much

for supporting the revival. Truly we have benefited as a

body of believers through this revival. I thank God for

spontaneous revival. There's many of you that have messaged me

of late saying, Pastor, I have grown in grace, I

have received greater grace and I have given him greater glory.

And I appreciate what the Lord is doing inside of

you all. Aren't you thankful that God is doing that?

It is God doing that. It is God doing that.

Do you understand that it is God doing that? It

is not you doing that. It is God doing that.

And that's what I want to encourage you with here tonight.

Sometimes people get overwhelmed because they feel like it's all

on them. They get overwhelmed because they feel like God's

asked them to do something that they can't do. God

will not ask you to do something that he will

not empower you to do it. You fix and understand

that right here tonight.

Brother.

It's a chapter number one oh seven, verses number twenty

three and twenty four.

My brother, Amen, they that.

Go down to the sea, in ships that do business

in great waters, these see the works of the Lord

and his wonders in the deep. Praise the Lord, brother Nathaniel,

Psalm forty two and verse number seven. Deep call it

thunder deep, But the noise of thy water spouts all

thy ways, and thy billows.

Are gone over me. Praise the Lord.

Let's stand for the reading of our golden text, Luke,

Chapter number five, Verses number four and five. I pray

that you pray for me. I'm wore out, just like

it was last night. I have very little voice. It's

not that I haven't had a cough dropp or two

in my mouth in the last fifteen minutes. It's not

that I haven't had a sip of water. It's I'm

battling sickness on a third month of this now, just

like a lot of you are battling sickness, and I'm

very exhausted. But we're going to preach anyhow, because we know,

we have the evidence that God is speaking to somebody tonight.

And as the message last night indicated, it's on you. Hey,

you stir it up, Hey, you launch out to the deep. Luke,

Chapter number five, verses number four and five. The Bible said, Now,

when he had left speaking, he said, unto Simon, launch

out into the deep and let down your nets for

a draft. And Simon answer and said into him Master,

we have toiled all all the night and have taken nothing. Nevertheless,

at that word, I will let down the net you mean, Pastor, tonight,

we're gonna push hard once again. We are war out.

Look at your pastor. You're sick. Look at your pastor.

You're tired, you're exhausted. Your voice that normally is not

weak as weak. Look at you, Pastor. That's how Peter felt.

I'm tired, I'm exhausted. I labored all night long, and

now you're asking me to do this. And the only

reason why I'm preaching right now is because he asked

me to preach this. I can call and try to

clear my throat. It won't work. But we're gonna be

faithful in spite of sickness, because somebody in this building tonight,

it's gonna be on you. It's gonna be on you.

Let's pray, Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you.

We thank you for your goodness with thank you for

your mercy. We thank you for everything that you've done

already in this meeting. God, I thank you so much

for being mindful of your people. I pray that you

would annoy it this thy servant set of guard at

my mouth, and help me to say the things you

would have me to say, nothing more or less, and

not the ears of this thy people, that they might

hear what it is. The Spirit of God says to

the church tonight through your word, Through your spirit, Lord,

I thank you for the evidences and the manifestations that

we have received tonight that you were speaking of summon

this building.

If not all, I thank you for that.

God, help us to receive these words joyfully and not

depart this place sorrowfully. In Jesus' name in the church said, Amen,

you may be seated, look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

launch out into the deep. Our text is found in

a New Testament of the Holy Bible. The Book of

Luke is the third of four Gospels, most of whom

are present tonight know quite a bit about this author.

Even though this man was a beloved physician, there was

a desire in his heart. Years ago I met a

brother from the north, and his name was Brother Thomas.

I would say that him and his wife were in

their eighties at the time of our introduction, and I

was privileged to be in many services with this precious

man and woman of God. She would play the guitar

and he would play the bass, and they would sing

and encourage the saints of God as they lifted up

their voice and praise. And Sister, how there would be

times that you and I would look at one another

and without speaking a word, our eyes would say to

one another, we hope to be doing that very thing

one day when we're that age.

Hope to endure unto the end.

And Brother Thomas would stand up about every service, if

not every service almost and he would ask to testify.

He wouldn't do it untimely, he wouldn't.

Interrupt the preacher as the preacher was getting ready to preach,

but he would ask, maybe even before we prayed the

dismissal prayer, and he would say, indecent and in order,

he would say, I just want to thank the Lord

for being in his house one more time.

And that was expected.

But Christians are thankful for the opportunity to assemble together.

That's why the attendance for this revival has been so good,

because Christian people get excited about going to the Lord's

house any God fear in person, from David to Nathaniel Howell.

They get excited about entering his gates, and they walk

through those doors with thanksgiving and praise and his heart.

So everybody knew, well, that's a given. We know you're

glad to be here, so are all of we. But

he would follow up with these words and he would

begin to weep. And I'm telling you, I was in

service after service after service with this man as he

wintered in Florida, and he would cry, and he would say,

I thank God for a desire.

That's how which I thank God for a desire.

With that William Strictler like voice of the North, he

would say, I thank God for a desire to be

in the House of God.

He said, because a lot of.

People my age have no desire to be in the

House of God. And he said, if it wasn't for

the desire, I wouldn't have been here tonight. And I

know that I saw that man drive week after week

after week to hear Brother Bill Euston preach revival. As

Brother Bill Euston went from one church to another in

the state of Florida, that dear brother would come walking

in in his mid eighties, Brother Nathaniel, he had a

desire in his heart to receive something from the Lord.

He had a desire in his heart to partake of

the blessings of the Lord with brothers and sisters of

like precious faith. And the same can be said about

the author of this third of four Gospels. Even though

he is a physician at this time, he has a

great purpose. Being a medical professional of that day certainly

was an honorable position of purpose. But there was something

inside of him, let's call it a desire, Brother Nathaniel,

for him to be more than a recognizable voice in

the community, for him to be more than a five

star rated position. There was a desire for him to

hear a higher calling, a calling that would come from

the Lord.

He knew there was a call on his life come on.

Now, and something about Jesus, and something about the Lord's

message caused him to further himself in the ministry of

our Lord. Something about the message of the Messiah caused

him to tether himself to the apostles of the Lord.

I remember being a young boy and sitting through revival

meetings and seeing a certain sister, sister Clara Stanley, sitting

there in that revival meeting, and at some point she

would obey the Lord and she would stand up and

begin to worship the Lord.

And I would look past everybody else.

That was superficial, and I would see somebody that was

super spiritual, someone that had a blue ribbon experience with

the Lord, and I would say, God, you see this

desire in my heart if I ever receive that that

lives inside of that woman, your sweet holy ghost, I

want the same kind of deep expirits that that woman has.

And after about a period of a year, I began

to pray a little differently.

Concerning that situation.

I said, God, I want a double portion of the

spirit of that woman, and I desperately needed and I

would tell him if Elisha could have it concerning Elijah's spirit,

how I believe that I can have it concerning the

spirit of God, the sweet Holy Ghost that lives in

Sister Clara Stanley, and by divine providence, because it was

God that was working on the inside of my heart,

putting a desire in a young man's heart to go

into deeper depths. Even though I'd been raised in church,

even though I was the church pianist, even though I

was teaching vacation Bible school, had a Sunday school class

and leading by example a youth group. There was something

on the inside that I was missing, and nobody had

to tell me I was missing it. I knew it.

And let me tell you, when there's a God size

hole in your soul, nobody has to tell you. The

prodigal son and daughter on that child sitting on the queue,

that's got a desire for the Holy ghost, something or

someone is missing.

I pray that you'll pray for me here tonight.

Luke must have felt that vacuum, that void, Brother Jesse.

That heavenly drawing.

We know that the Bible said no man comes to

the Father unless the Spirit draw him. I feel like

at this point in the revival, it is safe to

say that every person in this building has at least

waded out into ankle deep waters.

I believe those are the waters of salvation.

On your behalf tonight, I will say, Lord, they acknowledge

that they have reached ankle deep waters. I believe most,

if not all, that have passed the age of accountability

would say, God, I feel like I've taken care of

business this week, and I'm already in need deep waters.

I'm sanctified, I'm consecrated, and I'm committed to this as

much as Luke was when he closed the door of

that medical family practice, and he tethered himself to the

great Apostles, and he followed a call on his life

into something deeper.

Amen.

Apparently the sacrifices associated with such a commitment were deemed

worth it for the joy that awaited him going.

Forward into the unknown.

When I think of Abraham, the son of Terra, of

Earth the Cowdees, how that God worked inside of his

heart and put a desire in that man's soul to

seek out a city which hath foundations, such a city

whose builder and maker is God.

To think that a man raised.

In the house of a pagan idol maker would realize

there was a higher calling in his life to go

into deeper depths. This no doubt it was God Jehovah

that was working in that former idol maker's heart.

And by the road cap.

He could have stayed there in earth the Chaldees, but God.

Moved him on. And I know there was.

A lot of people, perhaps business associates, family members of

both him and Sayrah, who did not understand why he

needed to go into a deeper experience. For surely, Abraham,

we are understanding people. We are a people of many

gods with little g and we believe that you are

in the pursuit of something deeper and greater. But can't

you do it right here in the shallow waters, in

this ecumenical environment where there are so many ways?

Could you do it right here.

In the sain bar Her religion, where every multi colored

shell is in place? But Abraham said, no, I must

search out the unknown.

I must wonder in the wilderness and through.

Need deep waters, through cities where I would question, is

this the land? Is this the place where I stop

and our rest in the Lord?

But we know the Bible, said Abraham.

He continued on, Oh, I wish I had my voice tonight.

Then he continued on, and the Bible said into the

land of Canaan came into the land of Canaan.

He came. And I believe, Sister.

Howell, that God has been working in the hearts of men, women,

boys and girls in the recent weeks, letting him know

there are greater experiences and deeper depths in him. Yes

it's an uncharted course, and yes it will lead.

To uncertain territory.

But I want you to know under the sandy dunes

of that land that He sends you to our unsearchable

riches and live and water. Every well that you dig,

it will be for forthcoming generations. Your people will know

what it is to say our father Richard in heaven, hallow.

It be thy name. Oh, come on now, he.

Said, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I'm here to tell you the night. He wants you

to get there more than you want.

To get there.

It is the spirit working in you. It is God

that's drawling you. Sometimes family members they do not understand

why somebody has to change a geographic location since the

howl and I have heard that so much where people

don't understand it.

But really, if you look at their situation, you'll.

Find somewhere early on they felt the leading of the

Holy Ghost to do whatever it was that brought them

to where they are at in God. So we know

that Abraham and Sarah could not take the credit. They

could not receive any glory, because without a doubt, from

the beginning to the end, everybody can see clearly through

scripture that.

The hand of God was in the life of Abraham,

and that it was the hand of God that budged

him from point A to point B, that moved him

to point C, that unctioned him to point D, that

pressed him on the point E.

It was God that was moving him. How about it?

Right now?

Is your spirit in tune with a message? If it is,

it's because God is the one orchestrating this event in

your life. You need to realize the very fact that

you're a born again child of God tonight is because

of His grace and his goodness, his unmerited favor at

work in your life. For no man shall come to

the Father unless the Spirit draw him. If it was

enough for faith in your heart and the grace of

a good God and the ruby red blood of Jesus,

you would not even be enjoying splashing in the ankle

deep waters of Salvation tonight. I am in no way

saying that the waters of Salvation are shallow. I am

telling you sometimes when you're a babe in Christ, they are.

But for mature saints of God, whether your name is

Abraham or John Whistley, her Samuel Howell, God and loves

your soul is so good to you. He wants to

lead you out in the deeper debts. I don't find

her the coincidence tonight that my grandson Michael would have

have pazardly flipped the page number two thirty, and the

Holy Ghost let me know He's.

Telling somebody tonight to go.

Out deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper. I had a vision to day.

I saw Sister Howell and Sister Hell and Sister Whooting

pushing a couple of these young sisters out in the

deeper water. I said, what does this mean, Lord, And

he said, I want them to go out in the

deeper water. And then my son in law come to

the pool pit tonight, after God speaking into my heart

all day long, have Jonathan say something, Have Jonathan say something.

The very fact that my great friend brother Chip Roy

is here tonight is because the goodness and the grace

of God. The fact that God has brought seventy five

of us together is because of the goodness and the

grace of God. When I think about all that God

has done in Label Florida, I say it was a

good thing that it was the doings of God. Not

only was it the doings of our God, it was

God impregnated.

A desire in our heart.

When people did not understand why we were doing what

we are doing, when people did not understand why we

were being impractical, or why we felt the need to

go out a little deeper in a certain area, how

the spiritual lake, if you would. When they questioned exactly

what laid against the brown tings or stained waters of

the lake, he said, there's something blowing in my cells

that is telling me I need.

To go out deeper.

And I'm telling you whenever the physician put pin the

parchment and wrote a prescription or some set of medicinal recipe, Oh,

come on, regiment, whatever it was.

That was to a great purpose.

For when God got a hold how the physician, he

would start putting pin the parchment and he would write.

The Gospel of Luke, and he would record the.

Gospel of Luke Times two the Book of Backs, and

he would tell people about the Holy Ghost that baptized people.

It took him through salvation, it took them through sactification,

and it took him.

Through to baptism.

Even the spiritual act of baptism by immersion speaks if

you've had a shallow water experience, but the preacher, he

commissions you, and he beckons you, and he calls you

come out a little deeper. There's been times as to

how there's some of them because they were scared of

going into deeper depths. They were scared of what lied

underneath the surface. They wanted me to baptize them in

knee deep water.

And I have said, there.

Is no way that will be good on you, or

it will not be good on me. I'm telling you,

you're gonna go down and we're not gonna be able

to get you up, and it's gonna be a horrible situation.

So even the act of baptism by immersion beckons people

to come on out further. And sister, how when we

baptize in the living water, not enough saying it's spiritual,

but it is alive and it's fresh and flowing. The

living water the Clusahatchee. Sometimes I have to be careful

because I'm backing up to Allege. And there's been times

that I have reached our alligator spotder and I said,

take the pastor by the hand and pull me back

to familiar waters. But when it comes to this spiritual

thing we call receiving the Holy Ghost, we want you

to go in over your head and come back up

whenever you're ready. I said, go in and get lost

in the presence how the.

Holy Ghost, and come back up with you and God already. Amen.

You think of this Abraham and Sarah traveling in a

caravan to the unknown.

Sister.

How there's times that when you look on the horizon

as you're walking through a desert place, you see what

appears to be an oasis. In fact, on the horizon

of a desert place, it looks like the whole thing's

a lake. And the closer you get you realize that

is not a lake, that is sin, and you.

Just keep old traveling.

Abraham and Sarah never turned back, They never looked back.

Tevra tried his best to hinder Abraham. And that's what

some of you have experienced in different facets of your

act of obedience towards doing what God has told you

to do to help her rut Here, Brother Nathaniel Luke

closed that medical practice and he got with the locks

of the great Apostle Paul and Brother Jesse, he went on.

This missionary journey.

And he went over here with this one and brother Nathaniel,

he saw things that no mortal should have ever seen.

It was the workings of the Holy Ghost and the

commission to the Jewish believers that spilled out of the

upper room, and also the three thousand Gentile and jew

Jewish believers that were.

Saved that day. Was you go ahead and.

You venture out into the unknown, into that territory that

you've been unsure about for so.

Many years, and you get out in there.

To the regions of the Gentiles. And Paul was the

one that threw up the cell and set it for

a girl of Holy Ghost. Wind and the power of

God took Luke and the beloved Apostle Paul and many

others like Peter into the unknown. And there a man

named Peter found a man named Cornelius, and sixty to

seventy miles away from head Corners in Jerusalem, somebody slipped

off the legs and got in the deeper water. I'm

telling you here the night. If you want to go

in the deeper water, you can. Nearly twenty years ago,

God spoke to a man that was set financially, a

man that had a couple of businesses besides working for

his father and his family business. A man whom his

grandfather said was loyal to aught, a man who would

not ask for a pay raise when he knew he

needed it, was just glad to serve the father and

the family business. A man whose wife barely knew just

how discontented he was with being grossly underpaid. And I'm

not the only one that now has testified of such

a thing. That is not an assumption, and that is

not a false accusation. But in spite of all that,

I wanted to be loyal and committed to what I

felt like.

We're deep waters.

And God began to show Sister how and I that

that might have been deep waters for some of them,

but for us it just never would satisfy. It just

never would be enough, because God had put a desire

in our heart to go into a land, and Sister

Howell and I ended up in LaBelle Florida, and here

we found just a handful of souls, Brother Johnny and

Sister Barbara Plette, Brother Duke and Sister Francis Hammond, Brother

William Jean Wooton and sister irish Lynn Wooton.

And I looked around and I.

Realized, these people feel like they don't even have a spiritual.

Well and our real life.

We've got to get some living water flowing through this place.

And together, not alone, Sister Howel and I, together with

imprecious six souls, we begin to ask God to give

us a well. And I want you to know, like

a Samaritan woman when he met with us, we just

tossed our buckets to the side and we said, the well,

that's so deep, I believe it's Alake. I said, the well,

it's so deep, I believe it is a lake. And

that is why we've never felt like her. We would

be one drive short for whosoever shall come. So what

was this going on in the heart of Luke? It

was a desire that came from God. What was it

that caused Irish Lynde Wooton that day to stop and say,

who is that preacher preaching in the street of La Belle,

who is that man? I want to know because I

want to attend his church. Who was it? It wasn't

the intellect of Jeremy or Charity Howell or any of

those six people, Sister Givel. It was God letting us

know if we ask for a ripper, we would get

a notion. Abraham, you can ask for one, little boy,

if that's what you want to and you can feel

like that's the promise, And once you receive the promise,

you can feel like that is the fulfillment of My

plans for you. And then God says, your seed's gonna

be as the.

Sin of the seashore.

Sister Rachel, this lets me know that God's gonna put

all them little Abrams and Sarah eyes and first change

her name to Abraham and Sarah and take them into

a deeper experience. Come on, now, I'm a feeling my

helper here tonight. And you know what, brother Jesseem, they

became if you were the patriarch and the matriarch of

three major religions.

I said, they became.

The patriarch and the matriarch of three major religions. But

we know which one, Lychen, is the right one. The

one that supports Chehopah, the one that promotes Chehopah, the

one that says Jesus is the Messiah, the one that

says Jesus is the Way. And Jesus himself said, whosoever thirst,

let him come to the well, let him draw. You

don't have to buy a ticket. You don't have to

wait in line. Did y'all read in there where it

said let him wait in line. Once he starts calling you,

you know it's time to go. Some of them sisters

in the Bible, and some of those brothers that followed

Jesus knew whenever he called for them, when he beckoned

and summons them to him, the Bible said, they dropped

what they were doing, and they ran to Jesus, the

Master calleth for thee. Can't you hear the Blessed say

you're calling you? I can almost hear Brother Eldie Moore

right now breaking out and song calling you, calling you.

Can't you hear the Blessed Savior calling you? Abraham? Luke Iris, Charity,

Samuel Nathaniel, Aaron, Justin Kathy. It was the call of

the Lord to embark on this beautiful journey. The Knight

that I answer the call to preach. At the age

of thirty. Twenty years ago, sister Gitree walked over with

a sister Howe, and she said, we know that your

husband Jeremy has been called of the Lord. And the

only other words she spoke were these, We're about to

embark on a beautiful journey, and I want you to know, yes,

when we set sail, we have definitely been in uncharted territory.

We have certainly almost drowned it in unfamiliar waters. But

I want you to know the one that told us

to latch out to the deep one he has been

a very present helper in the time of Troubler, and

I want you to know he's here to not tell

us somebody else loatch.

Out here to the deepe now.

When he had left speaking, he said, under Simon, latch

out into the deep and let down your net for

a draft. In this narrative we read of a large

multitude of people swarming Jesus, and as he stood by

the lake of Jenniesarette, he says these words to a

select few. He says, I've got a solution for this

pressing situation. And you say, well, I'm under so much

pressure I need the Holy Ghost. I'm under so much

pressure when I'm worshiping the Lord. I'm under so much

pressure when we come up around the altar and Jesus

tells them disciples in so many words, I am done

feeding the sheep. I am done at this time, right now,

for now, ministering to the lost sheep of Israel. But

unto you, guys, I know you've told all night, I

know you've labored all night. But for this pressing situation,

I've got a solution. And the solution is somebody push

them this boat off the sandbar, because if we're gonna

catch more than sand dollars, we've got to get off

the sandbar.

And I want somebody in this building.

And know you have been fascinated coming up with sea

sells and sand dollars, But God's got unsearchable riches for you.

But you've got to go into the deeper depths. I said,

you've got to dive deeper. And to dive deeper, you

gotta get in deeper waters. The Lord comes up to

Peter Simon and he looks for someone or something that

he can use. Is that you, sister faith Red Cap,

Is that you, Brother Beeper stags. Is that you, brother

Sam Shifvers, I see a title, Hold that boat, Sam Shiffs.

You know there's something about boats people like to name them.

I heard of a celebrity recently asking people to help

him name his boat. But sister Howell, you know what.

There's no name like the one God gives you. There's

no name like the one that comes out of your heart.

Somebody can tell me to call my cat, she nay name,

and I'm gonna call her Cally. And I'm here to

tell you here tonight, Brother sam Shivers, your name is

on your boat. And Jesus is speaking each of these

seekers directly. I know you've been dealing with prests and matters.

I can relate to the stress involved with seeking the

Holy Ghost. I can relate to going home disappointed. I

can relate to toiling seemingly oh not loan. But Jesus

is looking forcepting in someone. I will ask the question again,

is that you, Grace Stereotim? Simon did not ask the

Lord to board his vessel. He did not need come

on to give the Lord his permission. Jesus commandeered the vehicle.

Jesus commandeer the vessel Jesus took over. And that's what

Jesus will do. If you let him know.

What is yours is his, he will take over the vessel.

And he will do with it whatsoever he desires to do.

And if you give him written instructions on how to

operate that vessel, and you give him rules on how

to conduct himself as pilot or captain, or you tell

him he's the copilot and you will do things your way,

then you ain't gonna catch nothing worth keeping. I'm asking

you here tonight, what will it be the blessing of

the Lord? Or sea sells at saying dollars. I need

you to look past your pastor tonight, and I need

you to say the message. I need you to look

past the messenger and see I'm pushing through sickness. I

am pushing to help push your boat out. I'll tell

you I said, I saw sister Howell and Sister Wooton

and Sister Hugh pushing a sister out in the deep water.

There was no harm intended.

And right now I'm pushing up against Sam Shiver's boat.

And right now I'm pushing up against them. We put

Stag's boat right now I'm pushed.

Come on, Simon, are you gonna.

Push the boat out? Jesus told you to go ahead

and watch the boat out into the deep. When we

leave the sandbar. We've got a destination and that's what's

gonna happen, and not in this altar service.

We got a destination.

Poet called deep waters. I said, cord deep waters, deeper waters, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper, deeper,

And woe would be to those who would protest him

coming deering their watercraft. Jesus preached to the multitudes, He

fed all who wanted to hear him, But I want

you to get past listening to what has been said,

and I want you to get to doing what needs

to be done.

There were a lot of them that heard what he said.

In fact, a multitude had just listen to what he

has said. And Jesus didn't even leave them, sister Iris

in the shallow waters, Sister Howell. He left them on

the bank. And I want to ask you, what is

it gonna be, the bank or the blessing? Are you

gonna stay right there on the bank? Are you I'm

gonna go into the blessing of the deep waters tonight.

You're not gonna get there staring at me. You're not

gonna get there saying Wow. God had to give Pastor

that message.

You're right.

God has to help us. God has to work in us.

God led us to the shallow waters of salvation. And

again I am not implying the salvation is shallow. It's

not a shallow experience. But God's got something deeper for you, deeper, deeper, deeper,

And your case is the same as the disciples.

You gotta launch out.

Jesus could have spoke to the wind and said, wind,

blow in the cells and drive her out of their control.

Jesus could have said, invisible hand of the Holy Ghost,

grabbed the oars and paddle this boat out into the deep. Jesus, though,

commanded them to launch out into the deep. And that's

what the Holy Ghost said last night. It's gonna be

up to you to seek fervently and passionately for three

minutes or thirty minutes without looking around to see what

somebody else is doing. Can I tell you when you're

straining hard enough, you close your eyes. Can I tell

you that weight lifters know when they get to a

certain point they cannot lose their focus if they're gonna

lift whatever it is they're trying to lift.

And I'm telling you, as long as we're looking at

the multitude.

On the bank, as long as we're watching those that

Jesus took care of just an hour ago, we will

never end up in the boat. Jesus is saying, stepp

into the waters, wait at a little bit, step into

the waters. But Pastor, I love these ankle deep waters.

I know you do.

But you know what, sometimes you can get in trouble

in ankle deep waters when you're supposed to be in

over your head. Just ask Abraham, come on, hate Gar

should have never been in that scenario. Well, Pastor, I'm

gonna do okay with salvation and sanctification. That's what you

say tonight in February of twenty twenty six. But there's

a reason why the Lord is pushing you into deeper waters.

There's a reason why Jesus is saying, sell in the

deeper waters, row in the deeper waters, and let down

your nets for a drought. Peter and all the others

had toiled all night and they came up empty handed. Well, Pastor,

I sought the Lord for ten minutes last night, and

for twenty minutes the night before, and for thirty minutes

the night before that. How tired was Peter at this moment?

How tired is your pastor right now? At this moment,

I'm war out. But still, we've got to set the sails.

We've got to set the saels and launch the boat

and reach those deeper waters at the direction of the Lord.

We have received a commandment. We have been commissioned to

launch this boat and give you an opportunity to sell

into deeper waters. Philippians, chapter number two and verse number

thirteen is a scripture verse that is plucked out of

a lot of people's favorite book of the Bible. In fact,

Philippians four thirteen says I can do all things through Christ,

which strengthens me. That's the whole point. Whenever you start

thinking of Jesus, he will strengthen you to pray. I

remember first understanding that I needed to pray like this. Lord,

I need the Holy Ghost to praise you the way

you deserve to be praised. Lord, I need the Holy

Ghost in order to lift up your name high enough

that all men would be drawn under you. Lord, I

need the Holy Ghost in order to pray in effectual,

firmid prayer of a righteous man.

The way that I should. God.

I need a little heaven to go to heaven with us.

You are you getting it now?

Lord? I need Jesus in the boat.

And God is not at all trying to tell you

to watch out into these greater depths and dive deeper

without him. So Philippians two and thirteen Apostle Paul, he

just had a great revival with those of Philippie, and

he says these words, For it is God which worketh

in you both to will and the new of is

good pleasure. It's God that brought us to this point

of revival. It's God that put a desire in your

heart to be an old.

Time holy roller.

It's God to put it in your heart to be

pacht the pied.

It's God. It's nothing to do with you.

It's God. And we realize it's God. And then brother Jesse,

somehow we have a little wind in ourselves. Ourselves start rippling,

and we realize He is the captain of our salvation.

He is the one charting the path in the course.

Psalm chapter number one oh seven, Verses number twenty three

and twenty four. The Bible said they that go down

to the sea in ships that do business in great waters,

these see the works of the Lord and his wonders

in the deep. Years ago, Sister how And I took

Sister Hannah on a Alaskan cruise, and one of the

things she wanted to see, beyond all of the icy

cap mountains, beyond all of the other sights to be

seen in Alaska, was out in the deep blue sea,

not in the greenish blue Tings.

Waters of the Caribbean Sea, but out in the deep

blue sea.

She said, I would like to see a big well breach,

and Brother Jesse seemingly and what was an opportunity of hopelessness.

There was no way that that would happen.

Sister how And I felt like going and buying a

de coke, and the three of us sit there in

a private room, and we looked out some windows, and

I remember bowing my head and saying, God, my daughter

will be getting married before too long. And I said

I would love for her dream to come true. And

while I had my head bound, and then after that,

not paying attention at off, Sister Howl and Sister Hannah,

they jumped up and they.

Went to hollering and screaming. It happened. It happened, It happened,

It happened, And I said, I missed it. What happened?

Sister Hannah said, the biggest beautiful well you've ever seen,

just breach and roll in the air and splashed in

the deep blue sea. I'm telling you, God will give

you the desires of your heart, but you're not gonna

see the big well breach on the sandby. I said,

you ain't gonna see. You're breaching of the big whale

on the sandby. The Bible said that those that go

out into the great waters, they seem magnificent things.

I'm telling you.

You gotta get out of the shallow water and go out.

To the deep.

These see the works of the Lord and his wonders

in the deep. You'll never see a swarm, slash school

of orcas on the sandbar. You'll never see a whole

lot of treasure on the sandbar, because centuries ago people

would have found it if it was in the shallows.

But what you're searching for, it's something so much greater

than Captain Edward Teach.

You know him as Blackbeard's treasure.

What you're searching for here tonight is the unsearchable riches

of Christ. I can't get deep enough. You're right, but

he can. I can't find it. You're right, but He's

got more than a beacon on it. He is the treasure.

And I can tell you there's something something he wants

to draw you into. And Jesus might have been on

the seashore, but he was also out there in the

deep blue sea. I said he was after in the deep.

And that's where deep calls hunted deep. That God sizhe

void called out to a huge God about thirty two

years ago, and I said, God, I know that's you

dealing with me.

Deep deep things.

Of God called it to a deep iftiness, deep colder

the deep, and God save my soul. Deep colder to deep.

You don't know how deep I was in sin. You

don't know how deep I was in the mirror. You

don't know how sunk I was in the quicksands, hother shallow.

That's why deep calls under deep. God is deeper, I said,

God is deeper. Preacher, I can tell you in the

elder are tired, exhausted, and I'm frustrated because I've been

on this shore salon, I ain't got what I needed.

I remember seeing sister Denise Shivers in that same boat.

She was in a shallow boat that just could not

be rocked out of shallow waters. And people have told

me that they're amazed at my memory, and I remember

it very well.

No matter what anybody else.

Else, that service was over, it was cout, it was done.

It was beach boat baby.

And during that meeting, I watched her walk back, even

though she is a very sweet, loving lady that would

never send body language signals to our children that she's

discouraged in her faith. But even though she tried to

hide it, I knew she couldn't budge that boat. But

I knew she tried to rock it. I knew she

tried to move it. Watched the way she sought. I

watched the sincerity and the truth in which she saw.

I saw the unselfishness. And when she went over there

by herself, I remember saying, I said, the Spirit of

God just spoke to me and said, let's get her

up here, and this annoying her with old let's pray

for it. Does anybody remember that? And we prayed over

look at that about thirty of you. Remember that we prayed,

and I realized, Sister Wooting, that the boat was moving,

and I realized, Sister how dispoint our helper had showed up.

And I remember she drifted on back over there where

her husband was, and some were ready to go to

the kitchen. Some wanted to stay in the shallow waters.

And a preacher told me, he said, I believe that's

just frustration. I believe it's a little bit of anger

and disappointment that she's experiencing back there.

I walked back.

There and I prayed with her, and I said, sir,

you are kindly and sad the mistaken that is the

Holy Ghost.

And she started walking up and down at Cinera.

I remember the way the saints prayed with her, and

Brother Jesse said, I tied point. The boat had broken free,

and I tied point to the sails were whipping in

the wind, and I want you to know the boat

was moving on out into deeper depths. And she told

me last night, and that was then, But last night

she said, now I have got her a deeper experience

as up last night.

And if you got the Holy Ghost, there are still

deeper if you have the Holy Ghost.

There are still deeper faiths in God, greater depths in God,

greater spirits as in God. You know, a yacht in

port is a pretty thing. A yacht in Port is

a pretty thing. And there's a multi millionaire that dops

his yacht right here at the Label Yacht Club. Dear

brother Roger Purty. Y'all know he's legally blind. He can

barely see. He said, I can't believe the yachts that

doc in label at times.

I said, there's some big players.

He said, evidently, he said, there's a lot of money

in this little river town. I said, evidently, you guys

have told me one of them yachts has valued at

thirty million, one of them's valued at fifty million. And

he said, and when you update me on certain yachts

that are in town, I wonder why do they sit

there for so long? Hey, come on, I can understand

a little rubber ducky sitting on the table at the

Mexican restaurant, who like your daughter did today.

I said, that is Philip's girl all the way, with

the way.

She handled them ducks, with the way she said, look, Papa,

when I wasn't paying attention she wanted my attention, sister Heal.

And then she took her mama's phone and found a

picture of her looking cute on a bench or something,

and she held that phone in Mimi's face.

And she said, look me me. And then whenever I

went looking, she said, Papa, Papa, Papa.

Look she said, look, Papa, and then she showed the waitress.

She tore that place up with laughter, telling everybody to look.

I can understand that little girl saying, look at my

rubber duckies that I got when Daddy took me on

the voyage recently. But brother Jesse, I tell you, I'm

telling you, we believed it was. We were out there

in the Caribbean seeing me and you and our families,

and somebody said, look over there, that looks like the

yacht the ports and LaBelle and sister Wooton, I want

you to know, look beautiful at the Little bell Lot

yacht Club. But brother Samuel, you work at a yacht club.

You know what tim yachts look like. Oh come on now,

don't you, brother Samuel, Stare up. But there's nothing prettier

than whenever they leave port and you realize they're leaving

the sandbar to sail on. And I'm telling us somebody

here the night, if you want to sail on, go

ahead and leave what the sandbar and sail on?

I said, sail right now. It's when you can set

your sale for a gill faith roa camp.

The decision is yours. We really must go out yonder.

Brother be for Stax, The decision is yours. We really

must go out yonder, Brother Rick Jacob, row on, Brother

roll On, we really must go out yunder in the

deep deep calleth the deep. How to will see the

wondrous things of the Lord. His protective hand and his

watchful eye is with thee. Sell out to the deep,

dare to drive it into the deep deep callth under

deep act. The noise of thy water spouts, all thy

waves and billows are.

Going over me.

Anybody that knows Brother Howell and Brother Philip, they know

we're adventurous. Anybody that knows Brother Nathaniel, he's adventurous. Most

of my children are adventurous. And the result of that

is most of my daughter in laws and my son

in law are adventurous. Brother Caleb broke Cap, you're quiet adventurous.

You've been to Guatemala with me. You're quite adventurous. And

I want to say this, Sister Howell, as you begin

to push them out to the deep, Sister Hill, I

want to tell them this as we begin to push

them out into the deep, Sister Woot. And I want

to tell them his as we begin to push them

out in the deep. In school, I loved history. I

loved world history better than anything. And I remember studying

about Christopher Columbus that selled to ocean blue. And you

know what, most of that Caribbean sea, that's what they

call it down there, Caribbean, not Caribbean. Most of that

Caribbean Sea was discovered by none other than Christopher Columbus.

In school, they taught us, Sister Howell, there were three

g's for why.

Them men would do it.

And I may not be able to remember them all

right now, because it's coming to mind right now. One

of them was God, a purpose of religion. The other

one was for glory amongst their peers and their fellow man,

thank you, Holy Ghost. And the third was for gold.

They want a treasure. They were motivated by the three jees.

And I want you to know I'm motivated.

By the Godhead, the Three the trial youn, three members

of the Godhead. Yes, you're gonna get the Holy Ghost.

I said, yes, sir, you're gonna get the Holy GHOSTA

because your motivation is that of the Lord. He is God.

Do with it. Those of you that need the Holy Ghost,

come right on up here to the front. Brothers, sisters,

come on up here. Somebody help them.

Push it out. Push it out into the deep. Locks

out into the deep.

Explore the depths of God's greatness. Explore the depths of

God's goodness. Explore the gifts of God's spirit. Explore, discover, explore.

It's better than you imagine. I have not seen nor

ear heard the things that God has prepared for those

that love him. God had something prepared for those that

were out there. I said, God had something prepared for

those that were out there. He said, cast your.

Net, and you know what.

They came up with a plenty. They came out with

a draft. They came up without empty nets. They came

up with full nets. And tonight, let the net down.

Let the net down. In deep Water's faith in deep waters,

in deep waters, Christian in deep waters, by the sam

in deeper waters, deeper depths.

Somebody throw the net over boyd and find the good thing. Lord,

how's for you? Praise the Lord m hym