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Tearless Tear Cups - Bro Jeremy Howell 9-24-2025

Bethel Holiness Church - Wednesday Night Services

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  1. Well, if you have your Bibles, will you turn with

  2. me to the Book of Song. May I direct your

  3. attention to the fifty sixth chapter and verse number eight.

  4. We thank the Lord for the blessing of a little

  5. baby boy, Nathan Josiah Howell seven pounds nineteen inches long.

  6. His aunt Hannah, Yes, the birth weight and birth link

  7. of that little baby boy, just exactly as it was.

  8. She said, I finally got one right, and she did.

  9. He's a handsome young man. Brother Nathaniel's sister Rachel have

  10. beautiful children. She has definitely very good looking baby, and

  11. they missed being here tonight. Brother Nathaniel sent me a

  12. text message not long before I walked out of the

  13. office to walk into the sainctuary. He said, tell everybody

  14. thank you and thank you Pastor for everything you all

  15. have done. We appreciate it so much. You know we

  16. miss them. You can tell they're not here, that we

  17. miss them terribly. You can fill the ashes of their presents.

  18. We miss all that aren't here tonight. Sister Cheryl's sister Simmons,

  19. May God give you a swift recovery clues. Lord, do

  20. that for our dear sisters. Brother Samuel Salm six and six.

  21. Brother Jesse, Palm thirty, verse number five. Brother Samuel, Salm,

  22. Chapter number six and verse number six. Brother Jesse, Salm,

  23. Chapter number thirty and verse number five. Mimi and I

  24. have been babysity three beautiful girls, Rebella, Renee, and Ruth.

  25. And I'll tell you this, watching them has reminded us

  26. that we're no longer spreen chickens and spring roosters. I'm

  27. telling you what, buddy, they are good kids. They're perfect,

  28. literally perfect. They're the best kids in the world. Where

  29. I'm telling your sister woot and I have felt my

  30. age and I am preaching tonight exhausted. You can tell

  31. I don't even want to have much of a voice.

  32. Which is extraordinary, unusual, out of the ordinary, beyond ordinary.

  33. I'm telling its odd how we've got so weak just

  34. chasing the grand babies around. We had it on the

  35. beach yesterday, and no kid in this beach was private

  36. way beyond a distance from here to brothers Steerage Place

  37. and beyond fire forest. We had just a private beach,

  38. probably one hundred and fifty feet deep. It looked like

  39. it went a half a mile one way, and a

  40. half a mile the other. They might have been a

  41. quarter mile one way, quarter mile the other. And we

  42. took them little children, and the thing, it was a

  43. plumping down on that beach. And it wasn't long before

  44. that baby girl run over there with a handful of

  45. sin and threw it at We just bombed me. And

  46. that little girl is something else. She's quite the character,

  47. and she started something. So I bombed and Rebecca and

  48. Renee and they bombed me again. And then after a while,

  49. because I'm so tired. I know, sister House tired, but

  50. because I'm so tired, I laid down on this what

  51. are you call them things? A beach tut you know,

  52. I was thinking, said Remington or or something. Laid down

  53. on the thing. I thought I was gonna stretch out

  54. rest a little bit. And one of my loving granddaughters,

  55. I still don't know which one it was, they bombed

  56. in my face. I'm telling you, filled my face in

  57. their full of sin. I love them. They're definitely like

  58. their daddy. They're mischievous and they are they like to

  59. have a good time. And I'll tell you they the

  60. worked us over, not by being mad, but by having fun.

  61. I never knew having fun with so much more presented. Amen,

  62. all right, brother Samuel saw chapter number six at verse

  63. number six. My brother, I am weary with my groaning

  64. all the night long. Make by get to swim. I

  65. water my couch with my tears. I watered my couch

  66. with my tears. Those are the words of the psalmist David.

  67. I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost titled

  68. tearless tear Cups. Tearless tear Cups, Brother Jesse, Psalm chapter

  69. number thirty and verse number five. For his anger endureth

  70. but a moment in his favor is life. We've been

  71. may endured for a night, but joy coming in the morning,

  72. they man, thank God for that. Let's stand for the

  73. reading of our golden text. Psalm, chapter number fifty six

  74. and verse number eight. Thou'll tell us my wanderings. Put

  75. down my tears into thy bottle? Are they not in

  76. thy book? If you'll look up here, you'll see some

  77. bottles of water. These bottles are full to capacity, feel

  78. to the full, feel to the very top of the

  79. realm feeling. I wonder if your spiritual tearcup in heaven

  80. is tear free, tearless, tearless tearcups Sister Whoot and I've

  81. been praying and I've been burdening. I know there's a

  82. lot of tears shed at the Bethel Hollness Church on

  83. a weekly basis, But I've been here and there over

  84. the years, and I've seen in becoming a trend that

  85. tears are no longer shed. What happened to the tears?

  86. Where are the tears? And I want Brother Jesse to

  87. walk up here and take a bottle, and I want

  88. Brother Tyler to take a bottle, and I want them

  89. to begin to pour the contents in this poor until

  90. it gets filled to capacity. And whenever you get those

  91. half fool or those empty bottles, put them back in place.

  92. I feel like there's the people in this building tonight

  93. that you don't understand. Your problem is. You need to

  94. learn how to groan in the spirit and to pour out.

  95. I'm sure heart to God reading our text again. PS,

  96. I'm fifty six and verse number eight, they'll tell us

  97. why wonderings put theu my tears into thy bottle? Are

  98. they not in thy book? Let's pray, Heavenly Father, we

  99. love it, we praise you, we thank you for the

  100. opportunity to be in your house tonight. I thank you

  101. for the sober atmosphere. I thank you, Lord for what

  102. we have felt from the very beginning of this service. Tonight.

  103. I thank you for this soberness and the sincerity that

  104. we have felt in the hearts of this people. I

  105. prayed God that you would annoint this I service out

  106. of God at my mouth, and help you to say

  107. the thing that you and have me to say, nothing

  108. more or less than I know what the ears of

  109. this not people, that they might hear what the Spirit

  110. of God says or to the church to I through

  111. this freak word. We pray that these sayings would saturate

  112. the heart and the spirit and the mind your words, Lord,

  113. not of my words, but your words. And maybe we

  114. depart this place joyfully and not sorrowfully in Jesus's name,

  115. and the church says, Amen, Praise the Lord. Our text

  116. is found in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible,

  117. the Book of Psalm. Every person that attends the best

  118. the hole in his church faithfully knows very well that

  119. another name for this precious book of the Bible is

  120. the Hebrew People's Song Book. I also feel like it

  121. is the Christian Psalm book, and I feel like it's

  122. the person of prayers. So book, There's been a lot

  123. of times when I did not have the words to say,

  124. when I needed to speak to my Lord concerning great

  125. trouble in.

  126. My life and travail of soul and spirit, I have

  127. pulled out my copy of the King James Version Bible

  128. and laid it upon an altar in my house and.

  129. Knelt over it. And whenever I was lacking the right

  130. words to speak in order to speak to God through brokenness,

  131. I reached him to these psalms and plucked out the

  132. words of the sweets Somist of Israel David, and I

  133. began to read them as I prayed, and Sister Howell,

  134. his words became my words of prayer. I can't say

  135. that I've done that ninety nine point nine percent of

  136. the time I have not parented the summonst. But there

  137. have been times that I have used as Please as

  138. patterns from my prayer. As much as I have used

  139. him praise as a pattern for my praise, I have

  140. used his plea for patterns for my prayer. And Brother Jesse,

  141. as I looked into this song that is set open

  142. before us this evening over the last few weeks, my

  143. heart has been greatly stirred and my spirit has been

  144. sorely troubled as I thought about the perplexing situation at

  145. hand amongst the holiness of Pentecostal people today. And I

  146. am not against the holiness of Pentecostal people nor their movements,

  147. but I am concerned that their prayer life is no

  148. longer what it used to be. And when I hear

  149. them testify, I can tell that there is something missing.

  150. And I'm not talking about a Hollywood actor pouring the

  151. tears out of those tear ducks that God put in

  152. the corner of their eyes in order to stir the

  153. emotions of those that are viewing them on screen. I'm

  154. not talking about that person that shows up during every

  155. special meeting with a revival meeting or camp meeting, and

  156. they find themselves at the same place, at the same altar,

  157. and they pour out crocodile tears, tears and everybody knows

  158. has no meaning and evidently tears and do not end

  159. up in their tear cup. I'm preaching a sermon the

  160. Holy Ghost title tear Free tear cups or tearless tear Cups.

  161. I feel like every person that is a child of

  162. God apparently has some sort of reservoir in the court

  163. room of God, and there are bottles according to the

  164. Word of God. Here the psalm is felt like there

  165. are bottles in the presence of God where every single

  166. tear is shed and kept up, stored up, Brother Jesse,

  167. right there in the presence of God. But I feel

  168. like there's people.

  169. In this building tonight that may have.

  170. One tears dropping their bottle, and perhaps their son that

  171. have ten or fifteen or twenty. But I know that

  172. there are some people in this fielding just from being

  173. that pastor. I've been an eyewitness, and each and every service,

  174. through tenderness and brokenness the spirit, they pour their heart

  175. out to God. I'm telling you something inside of them

  176. melts as God molds and shapes them, and God matures

  177. and develops them through his grace and through his word

  178. and through tender heartedness. They walk out of this building

  179. haven't had a victory in their life. I think about

  180. this cold hearted generation. They are definitely cruel. The Bible

  181. said concerning jealousy, that is as cruel as the grave.

  182. I look at people nowadays that do not care at

  183. all to wave back at somebody that waved in them.

  184. I look at people.

  185. That seemingly are expressionists.

  186. And they have no genuine love and all in their heart.

  187. Even around a special season like Christmas, they seem to

  188. be so cold hearted.

  189. But I look at a few in this building here tonight,

  190. and I'm knocked their Jesus.

  191. I'm not their judge and I'm not their Jerry.

  192. And for that critic con skeptic tonight, I know what

  193. the Bible said, we can judge everybody by their fruits.

  194. And I want to ask you a question concerning those

  195. your churching around and those your shouting with, have you

  196. judged their fruits? And are you rearing up on your

  197. high land of standing for truth and righteousness? Thought finding

  198. hypocrites were on every hand and there is cold blooded

  199. as a reptile, and they do not have tender hearts.

  200. They have stony hearts. Sister how When I think of

  201. tender heartedness, I think of Sister Irish Wooton, I think

  202. of you, Sister Howell. I think of Brother Samuel Howell

  203. and Brother Thomas Sterrett and other people. But what is

  204. the opposite of tender heartiness. The opposite is hardness of

  205. the heart. King Saul knew all too well what it

  206. was to have a hard heart. And when God himself

  207. desired to choose a king among all of the candidates

  208. within the nation of Isruel, God reached it to the

  209. pamlet of Kish and he brought out a heart hard

  210. hearted man name a Saul. And after Saul experienced a

  211. spirit of God, saw received a tender heart. That hard

  212. heart was sulted by the spirit of God.

  213. But over the course of time, because of the.

  214. Desire for power, and the desire for greed, and the

  215. desire for prominence and prestige. With fir key, Saul heartened

  216. his heart, and his heart got just as hard as

  217. it was before the imorting of God deced upon him.

  218. I look on every hand and I see cold hearted people.

  219. It's not only the democrats and the leftists that are

  220. so cold hearted. Sometimes I see it among the Republicans,

  221. and I even see it among those in the middle

  222. of the road. A sister, howell, you can tell it

  223. the center of their being, at the very command center

  224. of those individuals. You'll find intelligence, You'll find desire, You'll

  225. find integrity. With sung, you'll find emotion, you'll find the

  226. issues of life you'll find the speech that comes out

  227. of that core, out of the very abundance of the heart.

  228. The heart is the center of army. And but one

  229. thing that I do not see in a lot of

  230. people nowadays is kenness, or go with me, or tender heartedness.

  231. Jesus Christ one time was preaching.

  232. While he was preaching, he looked to the congregation, and

  233. he saw there a man that had a withered hand.

  234. And according to Saint.

  235. Mark, there in the third chapter and the fifth verse.

  236. While Jesus was preaching, he noticed this individual that had

  237. hidden this condition from the others for whatever reason.

  238. He was ashamed of his condition. And Jesus looked upon him,

  239. and with tender heartiness, Jesus.

  240. Said, I want ahead this man this day.

  241. And he looked around, And the Bible said that whenever

  242. he observed the countenances of the other people that were

  243. present during that service, he noticed that they were unstirred.

  244. He noticed that they were not moved emotionally.

  245. He noticed that they were not compassionate. I feel like

  246. before the service even.

  247. Started it he watched us so scowlder while others mocked

  248. about this man's condition, and Jesus cursed them somewhat, and

  249. Mark said it was because of the hardness of their heart.

  250. And when he solved the hardness of their heart through

  251. brokenness and tenderness, he told the man to stretch out

  252. your hand, and the Lord restoring the wi withered hand

  253. to normalcy. So how are you going to grow in

  254. grace and in the knowledge of the Lord and Savior

  255. Jesus Christ, And how are you gonna be a possessor

  256. the gift of salvation and sactification and a possessor of

  257. the indwelling of the Holy Ghost and to continue to

  258. go to service and walk through daily life for being

  259. so hard hearted, That's what the problem was so concerning

  260. the Pharisees and the Saducees of that day. They're rich

  261. and increase with goods. They have their political platform, their

  262. political places, but they were not at all touched by

  263. the compassion of Jesus Christ for others. In fact, when

  264. Chahn the Baptist was dealing with broken Lissa, when he

  265. was dealing with that tender heartedness while in prison, while

  266. that force that was there was wanting to preach that

  267. iron bars were not permitting the voice of the aircle

  268. to preach. When his disciples with the Jesus. Jesus said,

  269. just go tell John this. I'm steered, timer hearted. I

  270. parapraise here, and he said, I'm stilled preaching that to

  271. the least and the lost and the lonely. I'm mindful

  272. of the outcast. I'm concerned about others. I'm about my

  273. father's business, losing a sick need the position for y'all

  274. getting it here tonight. I'm telling you, if you are

  275. a worry warter and your crying because of a deadly storm,

  276. that is not what I'm talking about. A little child

  277. being pralled to yield to the.

  278. Spirit of fear, that is not what I'm talking about.

  279. If you're wanting to read a newspaper and a scower

  280. through those apps on your cellular the house, certainly.

  281. You have been vic to miles by news stations and

  282. reporters feeding the messes, including you through those eye gates

  283. and those year gates. They're feeding you things that make

  284. you fearful and make you afraid.

  285. And as Christians, we are to supposed to worry. According

  286. to God's word, there.

  287. Is no room in the heart of any believer happy.

  288. For anxiety or worry. The Bible said to be anxious

  289. for nothing. But if we would pray, we could just

  290. have a piece.

  291. Of mind that pass it all understanding that readily gonna

  292. choose to be frightful. Let we rather choose to be fearful.

  293. Left concerning the things and the people in this world,

  294. they can say the word hurricane, and the fearful pidians

  295. that don't know any better. They are not faithful, they

  296. are not.

  297. Trustworthy, they're not trusting the Lord, and so they're not trustworthy.

  298. Roll resort to me after your pop, so they're not painful.

  299. And all the news reporter has to say is, here

  300. comes a storm and you run out of gasoline a pump,

  301. so you run out of water, have to store, you

  302. run out of feod, you run out of the basic

  303. necessities of life because of fear. But the Bible said

  304. that God has not giving us the spear and of fear,

  305. and of power and of love and a sail mind.

  306. Sometimes you'll see somebody hit me all to praying and

  307. shedding a tear because a fear. I want to say again,

  308. they're sitting a tear because of fear.

  309. And I want to tell you those sets of tears

  310. are not put to him. Thus tear pumps. If you're

  311. enough praying right, if you're not being sincere, if you're

  312. not being broken, if you're not being to your hearted,

  313. then you have to be just like King's Hall when

  314. that stony heart is put to the test, and have

  315. become harder. Abouda said. Even there he took upon the

  316. rover of Samuel and gave it a rip, and he

  317. gave it a terror. He sought something, said, He seemingly

  318. pursued some things. Let you know what Samuel said. He said,

  319. this thing, the kingdom has been ripped from you right

  320. because of simple accent of old disobedience. Rebellion has stubborn myself.

  321. He sometimes lead up. We regret because a rebellious accent

  322. and chilly choices. Said that. I want you to know

  323. you crying They just super PRIs tears and being sorry

  324. because we got caught up and being worried of a.

  325. Mount or consiquinches.

  326. That is not the son of tears, and it's going

  327. in your tear talk. I'm trying to preach that somebody tonight.

  328. I tell you learn how to do like Dave and

  329. deal when David till when made to come in and

  330. trespas said that this this God. He said, I need

  331. u retumnated. I need not too many clins, I need

  332. a avin a spirit. I need the new spirit. And

  333. you know who are On contrast, hockyved that to just

  334. tears something that put don't been a bottle. These are

  335. the words. And to David about these tears being bottled

  336. up any well, I got caught. I got my hands

  337. wadded and said, I'm gonna cry just a little bit.

  338. Tears are a language that God understands. But God also

  339. knows when those tears are mocking him. The Bible said,

  340. being not perceived, God is not mocked. What's every man?

  341. So that shall he also reap? You see, Crocodile tears

  342. are not bottled up in a tear.

  343. Cutness in the presence of God.

  344. Bottle tears are discarded the moment that they are shit.

  345. I feel like talking to somebody here tonight. You can

  346. splash water in your face. You can put your index

  347. finger in the corner of your eye and you.

  348. Can boble it around and massage those teared ups. I'm

  349. telling you some of you should have been C list celebrities.

  350. You ain't good enough to be a B list or

  351. an a list celebrity.

  352. But I'm telling you, bother Jesse, I've been amazed, and

  353. how easy if people can turn the tears on, and

  354. people can turn the tears off. There's been time, Sister Howl.

  355. I told Sister Howl, I said, I wish I could

  356. cry as the easeless some people do. I wish I

  357. could turn it on. I wish I could turn it off.

  358. And there's a lot of times I would like to cry.

  359. I feel like sometimes, even as a man of God,

  360. a good cry. We do a lot of us, a

  361. lot of good.

  362. Our chary agreement with that, I'm telling you, But I

  363. can't stand it when you see somebody whining and supposingly crying.

  364. It's supposedly broken, it's supposedly not a conscience spirit and

  365. something that God.

  366. Should not despise if they weren't broken, if they were

  367. in contrition. Help you believe of God with a path there,

  368. wake of yours from an alltravention.

  369. And put them getting them to your cops.

  370. But God doesn't even touch upon, I said, God do

  371. doesn't even touch them. But when you cry up here,

  372. God didn't give you a fear. There's a hearty Peter,

  373. and let us the fear of God. That's the very

  374. memory out of stage of wisdom. He is not a

  375. health fear of God. According to the word of God,

  376. well to fear of the Lord and the New So

  377. would be the embryotic stage of wisdom in our lives,

  378. the very beginning of wisdom coming to live and flourishing

  379. in our hearts. We are to fear those who can

  380. take our lives.

  381. But it's healthy for a child.

  382. Of God to have a fear concerning that supernatural superior

  383. being which can destroy soul and body in a devil's

  384. health and the lake of pire. In verse number three,

  385. David said during the times when he was afraid, he

  386. would put his trust in the Lord.

  387. If you're looking at this, son, what time I am afraid?

  388. I will trust in thee.

  389. It says in a third verse. According to the latter

  390. part of that verse, he wasn't to concerned about anything

  391. that could be done to him by mortal flesh. Are

  392. y'all with me? I will put my trust in me.

  393. This is the man who said, yea, do I walk

  394. to the valley on a shadow of death? I will

  395. fear no evil because thou art with.

  396. Me, thou wrong in thyself they don't comfort me.

  397. What he's saying here is there's no mortal pleasure, whether

  398. creature or human being, that can disturb me or trouble me.

  399. What he's saying is, there's.

  400. No battle for your death that I wasn't there to

  401. step on. That, there's no child that I would hesitate.

  402. The faith he's fearlesson. He's faint, Father, are y'all listening

  403. to me? His trust is in the Lord, crave being

  404. of God. They cry, I say, great, but me, but God?

  405. They cry? When does a that all of us in

  406. this place? David was no different than anyone else. It

  407. had to be troublesome for him to see his enemy

  408. surrounding him. It had to be troublesome for him to

  409. see his own people turning their back on him. At times.

  410. It had to be troublesome for his own son Abslom to.

  411. Turn his back on him and turn trader and treacherous

  412. person on him. Into march all of his wives and

  413. concubines to the top of the palace, to take each

  414. one individually into the tent and.

  415. To know them biblically. If you won't know what I'm saying,

  416. this man was not at all scared. When a giant

  417. balked him, he charged him. This man was not scared

  418. of all the flesh, and a line charged him and

  419. got the face with him with his own two hands,

  420. and he slewed him. Or no, father, what I'm saying.

  421. He was not of a skittishah or a silly disposition.

  422. This was a man's man. He's a warrior, but there

  423. were times in his life he knew if I'm gonna change,

  424. it's gonna be prough tender heartedness, and it's gonna be

  425. through brokenness. And that is the divisive thing I want

  426. to bring here tonight. I want to put an ax

  427. to the root of the tree, and I want to split.

  428. The tree that center and tell you, on one side

  429. you got a stony heart.

  430. On another side you got a tender heart. On one

  431. side you got life sack throwing.

  432. On the other side, it's just try has lost year's

  433. bird's death.

  434. I'm telling you half on a movement or more has

  435. got beyond the plans where the tears speaking for late

  436. w say.

  437. God that cares, stay here.

  438. I'm telling you what tears on her lanquents. God understands,

  439. but don't quest. It is care all good tears here

  440. being said, they're tired understands. Standing straw in the face

  441. of adversity is nothing for David. But brother wrote Cat.

  442. But I read this verse. If you'll look at that

  443. first part of our text and said, they'll tell us

  444. my wonderings. They'll tell us my wonderings. Put them my

  445. tears into thy bottle? Are they not in thy book?

  446. Tearless tearcups? I said a little while ago, I wish

  447. that I could cry sometimes when people threaten my life.

  448. I wish sometimes when I'm dying and I've had a

  449. few close calls, just a hall nose. I wish I cried.

  450. I wish I say, oh no, I'm not ready to die.

  451. Oh I mean, I'm telling you I feel things. But

  452. Brother Jeremiah, the tears just won't flow. But whenever I

  453. see God move like he did for Brother Nathaniel and

  454. Sister Rachel, I want you to know something erupted inside

  455. of me and the tears begin to flow. I'm telling

  456. you David wasn't move only because of a strong emotion,

  457. and one of those emotions be in fear. David was

  458. food when he understood sometimes it is from tears a

  459. man cleanses his fine. Sometimes it is from tears. A

  460. woman clears the soul. Sometimes he is from tears, a

  461. child cleanses inside from bitterness. I'm telling you I feel

  462. like David for a reason why he swim on his

  463. bed with his tears. I rather read the context the

  464. night hear me, he was saying, my bed, these trench

  465. to good tears. It wasn't because of the Philistines had

  466. put up upon the little foe. It wasn't because a

  467. child it was fucking his brothers. It wasn't because of

  468. a child, was saying, I'll feed your pleasure to the beast,

  469. and up to your left co pout of the air.

  470. But he was crying for some reason, I said. He

  471. admitted that that he was crying for some reason. Nobody

  472. that so was around. And I present to you tonight

  473. that the reason why saw he lost all, and why

  474. David found himself again. That's this because of brokenness, This

  475. because of the platrition this's been causing appear in the

  476. heart of earth. Amen, I said of years ago. I

  477. will not pretold this standards unless I do it over

  478. tear stained notes. I mean, and I love somebody so

  479. much to preach the truth in love, to tell them

  480. what the Bible said, chapter and verse and give it

  481. to him, because faithful are the wounds of a friend,

  482. but the kisses of the enemy are deceitful. So what

  483. was moving him to act in such a way when

  484. the blinds were closed, when the dray trees were drawn,

  485. when the lights were dim, when the candle was snuffed out?

  486. What was it, brother Philip? It wasn't the fighting the

  487. enemy of Israel battlefields. As to how it wasn't just

  488. going out slaying Josa was just another day at the office.

  489. But when his closest friends and the king that he

  490. gave us very live or would have given us very

  491. live to defend, turn on him, he began to swim,

  492. are y'all listening to you? After Asshlum, that treacherous son

  493. turned on David, And after Joe Wabb David's relative great

  494. friend there killed Absol, and the Bible said that David cried.

  495. Oh, absolute, old, absolute, my son wouldn't have got out

  496. have died for you.

  497. Absolutely, And that's what I'm telling moms and dads and

  498. boys and girls today we are no longer walking into

  499. them prayer closets. I said say we I guess they

  500. that way, you don't feel like you're alone. We are

  501. no longer walking in their prayer closets and free until

  502. our spirit is broken, until our heart is broken. For

  503. the prodical sons and daughters, it's not that I don't

  504. want them. Hey, y'all, listen to me and ask nothing

  505. that I just don't want them to die on the highway.

  506. It's not that I don't want to, oh, brother Roquet,

  507. something horrible to happen to him. I don't want any

  508. of that to take place at all. But at the

  509. end of the day, you've gotta love their soul enough

  510. to not see him die and go into it devil's hell.

  511. And you've got a lot of them mouth that you

  512. like to see them delivered from their addition up and delivering.

  513. From the path where I'm distrusting.

  514. I'm asking you where all the sincere tears? Where are they?

  515. Where's your bottle out tonight?

  516. Is it poor of capacity?

  517. Look? Every day is a tree or four Morland been

  518. staring up in my bottle?

  519. When David said this in the first part of our texture,

  520. they where's.

  521. It that thou tell us my wondering? You know, what

  522. that means. You watch me peace the poor, You watch

  523. me tossing, turn you watch me racks and roll over.

  524. He watched me grown and treven on. This man must

  525. get serious with God that's behind these the way. And

  526. I'm telling you that when you get serious with God

  527. in your tiny home, in your camper, like a camper

  528. in the fact, So that's gonna r what when you

  529. get to when you're swimming up, getting real tears in

  530. your bad that these twigs don't with tears of love.

  531. But there you will know what did They weeping and

  532. durble the night. But joy is all his way, weeping

  533. and daring for the night.

  534. But Joy come up in the morning the right kind

  535. of weeping, the right kind of weeping. He that goes

  536. forth weeping and bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again

  537. with rejoicing, bringing the sheets with him. This tells me

  538. that they weren't sid And I told Sister Hall recently,

  539. I said, it's like members of the Holiness of Pentecostal

  540. movements need to realize the old fashioned prayer life still works.

  541. It's like some of them have forgot that it takes

  542. more than a good music program. It takes more than

  543. Colgate smiles by half Batslet youth group, that's a coin

  544. of minded. They're not walking in the spirit. And old man,

  545. the lust of the flesh, you can see it. They're

  546. so in tune with the models of or one are

  547. those dainty jewels and she Inn and Tamu all this stuff.

  548. And I'm just telling you. You can tell somebody needs

  549. to go back into the prayer, cause it y'all know

  550. what a prayer, cause it is by a Christian definition.

  551. And they need to close the door and they need

  552. to get on men and knee, y'all.

  553. Remember hearing Mom and Grandpa, right, y'all, Remember hearing Daddy

  554. and all of them grown in the spirit, y'all, remember the.

  555. Spirit of God taking over and hear it.

  556. Some boy in privacy cried out to God, and God moved,

  557. and when they walked out of the room, they had

  558. a feeling everything is gonna be all right. I'm telling you.

  559. When Dave had got off a supper and went mattress

  560. whatever the material that mattress was, and he had a

  561. feeling everything is gonna be all right. I wonder if

  562. he tossed and turned. I wonder if he rocked and road.

  563. I wonder if he paced and rest on the floor

  564. the night before he slewed thelift.

  565. You know why, because he knew how his brothers were.

  566. He knew how ungrateful and how untakful they were.

  567. Holy bread Boy and the cheese Man. He is making

  568. a special deliverance. Ho come on now order to see

  569. his old brothers turn against him. I wonder halifelt when

  570. he walked around the sycamore tree. I wonder Halifelter when

  571. Saul said, who showed stripling his I said, I can

  572. do this. Spent the more and it's come out. He

  573. took five minutes power that. I'm okay, you do your crime,

  574. and you're weeping in he come up and take Chartschuck,

  575. you put in to see something here too. I'm telling you, hugging,

  576. it's taking a call on you, Hucky. That's what I's

  577. cooking my heart. Let's send that heart, Hoty. It's taking

  578. a toll on you.

  579. That's the inspiration of tonight's message.

  580. God spoke to me and what almost was an audible voice,

  581. tell them it's taking a toll on them. You better

  582. get back, sister, to where you get away from everybody else,

  583. and you close the door, knowing not if you'll be

  584. hurt or not. And it ain't talking about making a

  585. spectacle in the middle of the church service to be

  586. heard or seen. And I'm not talking about making the

  587. neighbors think all the Pentecostal holding his people are mad

  588. by getting out there and find forest and rock a

  589. coyote in the moon. I'm talking about really saying, you

  590. know what, I need to go to the church pastor,

  591. and that's all right, and I'm gonna shut myself up

  592. in that church, y'all. Thank man. That's sub Sister Hannah

  593. sings with annoying notion. That's wonderful, isn't it. But I

  594. want to just tell you this. Nothing to toot my

  595. own horn, but I just want to share this with you.

  596. It was a Wednesday, and God told me to leave

  597. thirty one to eighty plus on Great Road and to

  598. come in the church and pray. And I came and

  599. laid down at the fore right in front of the

  600. pool Fieah, and I prayed. And while I was praying

  601. in obedience to God, just no being God. It's gonna

  602. take an old passion prayer life and an old passioned

  603. prayer style. You ain't gonna be to sit there in

  604. that lazy boy we youself on in one hand and

  605. say a seven or ten minute prayer and not off.

  606. I came here and I prayed. I didn't even.

  607. Understand it why I was there but English, and I

  608. admit to you don't do know a lot of these songs,

  609. the songs of a little bent.

  610. Not all of them are songs of praise. You don't

  611. hear anybody putting attention on the songs of amit. A

  612. lot of the songs are David. There are not the

  613. songs of praise. They're the songs of languishing and the

  614. songs of lament. Nobody wants to sing a sad song.

  615. Don't come on now, the equish son of them get

  616. his prayer, calls and pray. God. I know you're not

  617. them home for me. Look it somehow, if I son

  618. them home and do you a right, I know God

  619. will make away from me. That's how a lot of

  620. these songs ended up. God's gonna make a way. God's

  621. gonna see me through. I've got so much of water breach.

  622. It's just how And I drove an hour and I

  623. have to be here tonight. I started out, very weakned body.

  624. She told me. She said, Jeremy, don't push yourself too hard.

  625. You're weak. She said, you ain't got nothing to prove

  626. to anybody anyway. I said, I never felt that anyway.

  627. It's the annoying that preaches me. It's the power of God.

  628. Is feared of God. Because when I got started, I

  629. planned on just coasting through it, as she requested it.

  630. But when annoying gets on you, you can pray right,

  631. you can cry right. I'm not talking about a woman

  632. crying the man later her husband. I'm not talking about

  633. a woman sending these kids are too many. I can't

  634. handle it. You got to come home from work. Every

  635. one of us dads she has more than four kids,

  636. has been there when mama's had a breaking point. What

  637. you do is when daddy gets home, you walk in there,

  638. in that room, and you close the door, and you

  639. learn how to do like charity, how will learn to do?

  640. When I finally told her, I said, you know what

  641. post what they call that hosts for them. Depression can

  642. be real if you wanted to be.

  643. Or you can go in there like David and say

  644. I thank.

  645. You God for these little blessings. I'm not gonna murmur,

  646. and I'm not gonna complain. I don't want you to

  647. take him from me. But I'm gonna go in there,

  648. and I'm gonna ask you to put strength in me,

  649. and I'm gonna ask you to help me see them

  650. for the blessings that they are. And there were times

  651. that I'll sit in the living room with Sister Howell

  652. with six children, and Sister Howell eased into a back

  653. room and she began to pray, and then Emperor Howell

  654. child knew Mama had some tears that had left the

  655. altar of her prayer, and it went up in a

  656. bottle in heaven. And Sister Charney, every time you're crying

  657. in church, I can tell it's real. And Sister Wood,

  658. every time you're crying in church, I can tell it's

  659. weo real. And every time Moither Nathaniel Howells crying in Chuncha,

  660. I know it's real.

  661. I watched him when his first baby boy died. He

  662. didn't bible up, he didn't get on the floor, he

  663. didn't say let's have a pity party.

  664. In fact, somebody said how to the young man and

  665. a young woman like that act so stomically at a

  666. time like this. I said, they got a company. Do

  667. you have a company like that? Do you have a

  668. comforty like that? Look, you can't have more or up,

  669. that's what they even do. I ain't ten put call up,

  670. I ain't the child of golf got to I ain't

  671. more repeople. I need somebody to help me. I'll tell

  672. you when brother Nathaniel cried, he asked me after they

  673. said it's a boy, it's a boy. We have been

  674. up there for about two hours. Nobody knew its gender,

  675. not Grandma, not grandpa, No siblings, the two spouses whose

  676. child is being born. Nobody knows the gender. Only one

  677. anographer knows the gender. The doctors and the nurses don't

  678. know the gender actor it's born. According to Sister Rachel,

  679. about twenty nurses flooding the room and want to see

  680. what did we have because everybody knew they'd been anticipating

  681. and expecting a baby boy, hoping for a baby boy.

  682. Not that a girl wouldn't have been just as precious

  683. and just as big of a blessing, but a baby

  684. boy a handful on purpose. And then a doctor from

  685. down below came up that had seen Sister Rachel go

  686. through the loss of baby boy Jepsie, and that's saw

  687. the other three girls be born and she came up.

  688. So we got our boy, y'all with me? Right now?

  689. There's that cold hearted Oh, come on, that cold hearted

  690. thing inside of you right now warming up? Or are

  691. you beginning to feel the love of God and the

  692. goodness and the grace of God. Are you feeling compassion

  693. and joy bubbling up inside of you? Are there warm

  694. tears starting to flow? Yet? Are you kind of like

  695. that person and don't wave back when you wave at him,

  696. you kind of expression us right now and motion us.

  697. That's where we're at in this cold hearted world. And

  698. I'm telling you, but Brother Nathaniel, he come out there

  699. and he broke the news to us, and then I said,

  700. break the news to the church, and he broke the

  701. news to the church, and the church rejoiced that after

  702. I guess six years they've had this baby boy. And

  703. we were sitting there just bashing in the goodness and

  704. the grace of God, and Brother Nathaniel's holding little blue

  705. hot wheels that he had let the baby boy grip

  706. and Brother Nathaniel for about six years has been collected.

  707. The hot wheels because he started his collection of hot

  708. wheels before Chipta was born. Are y'all listening to But

  709. he never stopped collecting hot wills, And sister would no

  710. wonder how many times the devil said, there's no use

  711. I took jepto, which is a lie anyway. But the

  712. devil said, if you're not gonna have a little man,

  713. you're not gonna have a little in Atenda. But when

  714. he was alone in the isles of Walmart, I don't

  715. have to have him tell me what happened between the

  716. lines when Rachel's pro pushing the three girls somewhere else,

  717. and how a warm tear would roll down his face

  718. and said, God, am I buying this hot will in vain?

  719. Let you know what I think?

  720. He collected probably two to four hundred to hear it.

  721. Tell how many six hundred Sister would because of I'm

  722. sure when nobody was around. Hey, I'm telling you what.

  723. That was faith, and that was hopeful.

  724. And so you get that little howk will in his hand,

  725. and he said.

  726. Daddy, I got another boy. And you know what, the

  727. same thing happened to me. That's happening you. I've had

  728. people threatened my life I've had people, hey, come on,

  729. two knives on me.

  730. I've seen a lot of horrible things and could not cry.

  731. But I'm telling you when it's real, and even Rebecca's

  732. crying right now, when.

  733. It's real, you feeling in your soul, and brother Nathaniel

  734. sit dead.

  735. I want to ask you something, he said, Do you

  736. remember that night?

  737. And this is not Peter Roses on me.

  738. Its talking about.

  739. You crying at the right time, and you pushing on

  740. the bird heading at the right time, and you knocking

  741. at the right time. He said, do you remember that

  742. night the spirit of God spoke to you and he said, you.

  743. Told brother Jesse to pray for me. I said, how

  744. could I forget it that?

  745. He said, he is sir, that he started crying and

  746. his whip started trembling.

  747. I cried a little bit, and I felt the spirit

  748. of God on to me, and that was holdy of

  749. motion that must displayed. But I want you to know

  750. we knew that night. Tell you that God was gonna

  751. do it. I said that we knew that night nothing

  752. that God was gonna do it. If you'll come to God,

  753. that's not out of surpas desire, I said, not with

  754. selfsud said, but for his glory, that's hand idea a

  755. Samuel for this glory. Looky, what's a race? Hout pu

  756. a man of tide? What's a racehot? Put? Baby boy?

  757. I made him say, I tell everybody, honey, he's the

  758. gift of tide. That's just how about it? Tell you

  759. of the lad hand a hondy, the old prayers he

  760. put to heaven, that being the lead. But her tears

  761. were paddled up. Hold amen. Sister Rachel, he or herd

  762. told this, said, one morning I got up and I

  763. was praying, Sister Rachel said, And she said, no, it

  764. was brother Dathaniel telling us. He said. Rachel said, I

  765. got up one Sunday morning and I was praying, and

  766. I said, God, speak to Papa. Speak to Papa and

  767. tell me what IMPPP. He said, Papa he came to church.

  768. He said, I'll never forget it. I already knew it.

  769. I already knew it what we were going to say. Eventually,

  770. I've told sister how about it? That morning? Apparently that

  771. praying woman put tears in a bottle somewhere up there

  772. speaking to my preacher about me and my baby Jesse.

  773. I woke up that morning just as sure as I

  774. woke up with the title leaving Lodabar tearless teacups. It's

  775. just a little honeybee. I woke up that morning and

  776. the spirit God was saying Rachel, Rebecca renee Ruth, Rachel,

  777. Rebecca renee Ruth. And when I understood that, they all

  778. began with a letter R. Then he said Nathaniel. NA said,

  779. and for some of you that paying attention, you'll remember

  780. the service to brother Nathana said. He remembers me saying,

  781. I figured it out what my Thaniel and Rachel were doing,

  782. and I said their names for the girls began with

  783. an arm, and then I sprung on my heels and

  784. I said Nathaniel, and then I left off Nathan. He says.

  785. Sister Rachel went home, grabbed his hand and said, Honey,

  786. I messed up. I prayed today and asked God to

  787. speak to the preacher about our baby boy, and she

  788. said the preacher knows his name. Hannah came into the temple,

  789. maybe in the early stages, being competitive with Banana, and

  790. Elkanah would say, Hannah, I'm better to you. The ten

  791. Sons day and the day that don't go by that

  792. your mama, don't look at me. All the cried and

  793. said thank you for taking such good care of me.

  794. Hannah had no complaints about Elkanah. But that day when

  795. they went to church, Hannah went to a place of prayer.

  796. Then when the preacher had no tears to shed, a

  797. no sermon to preach, she walked past Eli and she

  798. started praying in an old school way. The last two weeks,

  799. I've been singing a song over and over and over

  800. in my heart, Lord, do an old fashioned thing, Lord,

  801. do a new thing in an old fashioned way. And

  802. you know what, she prayed, Brother Steric, and people made

  803. an assumption she's a drunkard. Look at this carn minded woman.

  804. Look at her doing this for pity and for show.

  805. And we're real tears that God was catching in his bottle.

  806. Brother Jesse opened up all end up a little bit

  807. of the contents. I don't know if it was an

  808. eight cup that she cracked. Thy prayers have been heard,

  809. so many people pray that they might consume it upon

  810. their own dust. Brother Nathaniel wasn't asking God to give

  811. him a boy so that he could have a boy

  812. like everybody else. I feel like you would saying, give

  813. me a man of God. There's some in this building

  814. you would not hesitate at all at all to cry

  815. because of pending doom or destruction being on horizon. If

  816. some of you you would keep from coming to church

  817. because of a little water on the roads to David said,

  818. now tell us my wondering, so old God, David said,

  819. I know, Lord, you've seen me and then sleepless nights

  820. when I had to get down and pray. And I

  821. won't tell you until you learn to get out of

  822. bed and pray to continue to have sleepless nights. And

  823. so I'm six or six, David said, I'm weary with

  824. my groaning all the night. Make on my head to swim.

  825. I wader my couch with my tears. Brother Roquep, you

  826. know what it means when he is lamenting and he's languishing.

  827. It means he is losing strength. Sister Howell, It literally

  828. means he is growing weak physically. And you know what,

  829. You'll grow weaker progressively until you really lay it all

  830. on me all the time. Enemies will continue to pile

  831. up and it will continue to take a toll on you.

  832. That's what the Holy God showed me is taking a

  833. toll on you. Don't wait till the next preacher preaches

  834. and famed crocodile tears. We're starting revival Sunday, and I'm

  835. afraid some of it. If you're already ready to put

  836. on a horse and pony show. But when you cry,

  837. everybody knows whether it's real or not. A real breakthrough

  838. came for brother Nathan, you, sister Rachel. That night they

  839. refuse to have a pity party, but had a praying party.

  840. Bitterness and hardness of heart is drying up, some teared

  841. ups and some spirits in the holiness movement, Brother Tyler,

  842. that you run back there and get that garbage can

  843. My brother, it's taking a toll on you. It's killing you.

  844. I've said before, it's almost impossible for me to cry.

  845. When I buried Brother Platt, I cried for a few

  846. minutes in solitude. When I buried Brother Hammond, I cried

  847. for a few minutes in a private place. When I

  848. buried my grandfather, I cried for a few minutes alone.

  849. When I buried Gyp with his daddy Nathaniel, we cried

  850. as a family. After we asked everybody that would use

  851. it as an opportunity for pity and empathy and sympathy

  852. and entertainment. We asked everybody believe, and we stood around

  853. a sixteen inch long casket, and the howl boys started

  854. digging a hole, and his daddy said, let me help

  855. dig the hole. And we cried together, and we held

  856. each other and we cried, and we cried when we

  857. knelt down and put the casket in the earth, and

  858. then we really cried when we covered it up, and

  859. then we really cried for the next week when the

  860. flesh was saying, he's alive in there, go dig him up.

  861. When I went home by myself, he needs you to

  862. lay well, Papa, he's coming back to live. Gonna dig

  863. him up, sister, how he wasn't alive. I'm telling you,

  864. your mind will play tricks on you. But we got

  865. to get beyond our mind playing tricks on us. And

  866. we gotta get in an altar, and we need to

  867. do like King David. It did creating me a clean heart,

  868. old God, pouring me out like water. And after I've

  869. been poured out the bottle in heaven, hold them tears,

  870. and God will look and say, hey, look right there

  871. next to the tears of Bessie tim Boon, are the

  872. tears of irons weep? Hey, look right here next to

  873. the tears of Elijah. Are these tears are the weeping

  874. Prophet Jeremiah. Every tear the weeping Prophet shed, Brother Jesse

  875. was kept in a bottle of book of remembrance. And

  876. I won't say it again, Mama, tell you learn how

  877. to say fears not the answer. I'm telling you, Moms

  878. and Dad's we have fatherical children being aware he would

  879. work on some of it. We're going in there and

  880. closing that door and said, I'm gonna pray till I

  881. know everything's gonna be all right. And there's been times,

  882. Brother Groth Captain, I've been praying for people in this

  883. church when you were in a great time of need,

  884. of a desperate time in your life, and Brother Stare,

  885. the spirit of fear would try to come on me

  886. and try to tell me they're gonna die. Pick up

  887. the phone and call and tell them go to the hospital.

  888. And I had to push through that spirit of fear

  889. until I really re readly feel like I'm communicating with God.

  890. And I want to tell every person at the Bethel

  891. Homas Church like the brother said. Recently, he said he

  892. don't know what he could preach. It would bring condemnation,

  893. and we thank God for that. I thank God for that.

  894. But I'm a pastor here and a moment said seventy five,

  895. there's about five to seven of you that scares me

  896. to death. When it comes time to praise as to howl,

  897. I literally find them staring into cracks and the crevices

  898. of the peon because as the pastor, I walk around

  899. their hands on people and pray cold and says to

  900. how some of them I don't even bother touching because

  901. I can tell that's so engrossed in whatever else. Start

  902. with God creating me a clean heart, take out the

  903. desires of the flesh that I can be feeled with

  904. your goodness and grace and spirit. Let's stand to be dismissed.

  905. I'm going to give you an opportunity to pray if

  906. you want to. We always have an altar call. But

  907. tonight I'm not looking for bearing ulcers. God, it's not

  908. looking for tearless tearcoats. Brother Jesse, if you would take

  909. four of these bottles and put on each altar, four

  910. on each altar with every head bow and all eyes closed,

  911. if they're not already full of tears? Is there anybody

  912. right now that would come with the altar as say, God,

  913. I need things. My heart is so hard. Y'all know

  914. the difference in judas of Peter Wright. Peter broke when

  915. he fell the Lord, the Bible said, he went out,

  916. he wept bitterly. He wept bitterly. The heart is the

  917. center of the ben This is the command center for intelligence, desire,

  918. and take the emotion, and he be sure why the

  919. cant that's between SolV and David, the contrasts between Juwus

  920. and Either, the contrast between Cana and Abel, the contrasts

  921. between Antichrist and Christ. The contrast took. The contrast between

  922. you and your neighbor is worth the others. There's one

  923. o the ladies side of the four. Now on the bench.

  924. I think every saved child or God but Heaven doesn't

  925. have saved. Lord, help me they grow in the spirit,

  926. and help me to weep in the spirit. Help me

  927. the old. Help me to be broken hearted, Help me

  928. to be tender hearted. Lord, that unique that broken that

  929. contrast part the spirit God with about the spies. Oh,