Don't Delay | Pastor Paul Strong | Pursue

Welcome to the Legacy Churches Podcast. We are so glad that you get you

in us today. We pray that God speaks to you through his message and

through his work. Now let's tune into the message. Saul and the Israelites

assembled in camp in the Valley of Ela and drew up their battle lines to

meet the Philistines. They're getting ready to have a fight. And the Philistines

occupied one hill and the Israelites another, with a valley between them. Now,

what's interesting if you actually go to the Valley of Ela, you actually

can stand on the top of the hill and someone can be three hundred to

four hundred meters away down in the valley, and they can yell at you,

and you can hear them crystal clear. So you can imagine when Goliath

was there and he was talking, and he says, a champion named Goliath,

who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height

was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet. He wore

a code of skill of armor of bronze weighing five thousand shecks on his legs.

He wore. The brother was broke, he was busted out and bronze.

You see this. His spear shaft was like a weaver's rod, and

his iron point weight six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him.

He was all in battle ready, and he stood and shouted to the

ranks of Israel, why do you come out and line up for battle?

Just ask your neighbor, why do you come out and line up for battle?

Okay, this is a participator participatory moment. Come on, tell you

other say why do you come out and line up for battle? And then

he says, am I not a Philistine? Are you not an Israelite?

Are you not part of the House of Saul? Are you not the servants

of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. If

he's able to fight and kill me, we will become your subject. But

if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects in service.

Then the Philissine said, this day I defy the armies of Israel.

Give me a man and let us fight each other. On hearing the Philistines'

words, sault and all these rites were dismayed and terrified. So you see

the story. Under David was the son of Ether named Jesse, who was

from Bethlehem, and Judash. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul's time

he was very old. Jesse's three oldest sons had followed Salt of the war.

The first boe was Iliad, the second of Benidad, the thirdest Shama,

and David was the youngest. Three oldest followed Salt. But David went

back and forth from Salt to tend his father's sheep at Bethlehem. And for

forty days, everybody say forty days, how many days? Thank you?

For forty days? Forty days the Philistines came forward. The Philistine came forward

every morning and evening and took his stin. Now, Jesse said to his

son, David, take this ephi of roasted grain and these ten loaves of

bread for your brother and hurry to their camp. Take along these ten cheeses

to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are, and bring

back some of assurance, some assurance from them. And they they are with

Salt and all the men of Israel in the valley. You left fighting against

the Philistines early in the morning. Look what the Bible says. Early in

the morning, David left the flock and the care of a shepherd loaded up

and set out as Jesse had directed. And when he reached the camp,

as the army was going out in its battle's position, shouting the war cry

ISRAELI Israel, and Thefhilians were drawing up their lines facing each other. I

want you just to buy your heads with me. Lord have your way.

God give me clarity of thought, hees of expression. I pray, Holy

Spirit, God for this listening audience, God, those that are watching online,

those that will be watching on demand, Holy Spirit, that you would

speak. God will raim a word into this house and through this house.

God for every individual and God, I give you the praise for what you're

going to do in the strong name of Jesus. And everybody said Amen.

Tell your neighbors say no delay, no delay. I hate delays. I

hate delays. I hate being delayed. I hate being in traffic and delays.

I hate being in a grocery store line in delays. I hate delays.

Anybody like delays. If I want to go somewhere, I want to

get there. I'm always nervous when I'm traveling because I tend to travel in

such a way that there's not enough margin in between where I want to go

and what I want to do, which means that if we don't get there,

we may miss something. And I hate missing stuff. I hate it.

I hate missing things. And I want to get there and have a

good time. Anybody know what I'm talking about. I want to have anybody

like to have a good time? Like, how many have you ever say

this? Said this? Kids? Have you ever said this? Teenagers?

Have you ever said this to your your parents? Are we there yet?

Come on? Just tell your neighbors. Are we there yet? I want

to get there? You hear me? Front row? Are we there yet?

Aren't we there yet? We're there? And I never forget when I

first when when I got married July thirteenth, two thousand and two, twenty

two years ago. Who amen, yeah, give it up, Give it

up for my wife, Amed, She's put up with me for twenty two

years. We were at the altar and I said I do, and I

said, let's go, baby. Was we were getting ready to go on

our honeymoon. Amen. And when we were going on our honeymoon, we

were going on a cruise. It's our first cruise. We were gonna go

on a Princess Cruise line. Nothing better than take your princess to a princess

cruise line. Wo And so we were going there, and we were leaving

that morning from Memphis all the way down to Fort Lauderdale. And the flight

that was gonna get in it was gonna get it at three o'clock and we

had to be on the boat at four. Y'all, hear what I just

said, Three o'clock, Nick, And we had to get at the boat

by four. Not much window. They're gonna pick us up. They had

a big shuttle butte that was gonna be there at the airport. We just

had to load up and roll out. We were so excited our honeymoon,

couldn't wait to be on the adventure together. And we got to Atlanta.

And how many know when you go to hot Atlanta, there's one's gonna be

problems because we got on we got to Atlanta, because everything goes to Atlanta.

Heaven's gonna go through Atlanta. I promise you, when we get rapture,

the church gets raptured, We're going right through Atlanta. Amen. So

we were in Atlanta, we got we got from the connecting flight, we

got onto the connecting flight uh TOIL from Atlanta to Fort Lauderdale. We got

on a larger plane. We got on that plane and we were on the

tarmac and the plane died. Have you ever been on a plane and it's

deathly quiet? Like what is going on? There's no air? And it

was like one of those things that was so scary. I thought, is

there gonna be a truck that pulls up and jumps us? Like? How

does this work? And he's like, I mean the whole sound was just

scary. I'm like, I don't know if we should be on this plane.

And the captain got on and said, I'm sorry, we're having some

technical difficulties. We're all like, yes, yes, please Lord. Now

remember we got one hour between when we land and when we get on the

boat, and so every minute is counting. I'm like, baby, it's

been fifteen minutes. We haven't the planes getting hot, people are fanning.

You know, Stuart, have you ever seen flight attendants talking about stuff that

you want to know what they talking about? You know what I'm saying,

like I'm gonna go to the bathroom. I'm just gonna listen in. And

so they finally got like twenty minutes later, they got the plane running.

Hope, we're back on. We got back on, We got back onto

taxi, and we got and we landed in Fort Lauderdale. We had like

thirty five minutes to go. We've already been delayed twenty minutes. We only

have thirty five forty minutes to get on this bus and get to the to

the terminal for the cruise ship. And we go down to the carousel to

pick up our luggage. And have you ever gone down to the luggage place

and you couldn't find your luggage. There's nothing worse. I would rather not

get on the plane than to get on the plane without my luggage. Oh,

you're not gonna talk to me today, I said. I packed.

I packed. We packed for a whole week's adventure on this cruise. And

my wife is looking and she can't find her bags. In fact, she

will, it's just one bag. She can't find one bag. And I'm

like trying to console a baby. It's gonna be okay, it's gonna be

great, and it's gonna be wonderful. And you know, if we need

to buy up the bathing suit, if the bathing suit's in there, it's

no problem, you know, no, you know, we'll get it.

We'll get it when we get on the boat. She said, no,

there's everything in that bag, everything everything. I said everything, What is

everything? She said, everything, including the birth control. I said,

oh lord, oh lord, we need that bag. Oh we need that.

My wife told me, make sure you're specific when you're telling them what

we were missing. Don't let them conjecture. No, no, no,

we were missing some stuff. I said, Oh God, we need that

bag. I changed my heart changed completely. With no delay, y'all get

that Tomorrow's lit. Pg. Thirteen Today a man God, they told us.

I said, it's on the next plane, and by the time,

if it doesn't get to the terminal in the next thirty minutes, then you'll

get it three days later. Oh, the devil is a liar. The

devil is a liar, I said, no delay. One of the greatest

things I ever saw on that cruise ship was when we were getting ready to

debark disembarked from the boat, I mean from the terminal, and I looked

and we went back to our room, and there that the luggage piece that

was missing had been found. Oh, oh good, amen, no delay.

And I have to ask these I tell this story because we understand how

delay happens to us. But what happens when we are the delay? What

happens when we are the delay? What happens when there are people that expecting

something that we actually are going to deliver, but because we're not in our

proper position, or in our heart, or our obedience, or because our

attitude, that they are missing something that we are supposed to give them.

And in this process today, I want you to see this text, because

this text is very interesting, and the reason why I didn't get into the

very depths of the battle is because I want you to see the presupposition in

this text is that they were actually shouting a war cry and never fighting who

When I read that, I said, they're shouting a battle cry that they're

not going to fight in And it really really spoke to me about how in

our world today, and especially in the Believers, there's so many people that

are shouting but not seizing. They're getting dressed but going nowhere. They're making

a lot of noise but not making any movement. You're not gonna talk to

me, I understand. I understand. It's a little dangerous right now.

M HM. Toes are getting broken because the devil is not afraid of your

shout. If you don't have any steps, See what makes your shout dangerous

as he knows your steps are coming after it. HM, And it's important

today that you recognize that the rule of your adversary is this. He doesn't

have to kill you. He just has to keep you. This is the

summer that he just wants to keep you. Keep you in commonplace, keep

you in regret, keep you in your feelings, keep you in a fense,

keep you in fear, keep you in doubt, keep you in disobedience,

keep you in condemnation, keep you in that relationship, keep you stuck,

keep you satisfied, keep you you become a prison of your past.

I just gotta keep you. I don't gotta kill you. Why do I

need to kill you when you're gonna kill yourself? Preaching better? How you're

stuck? And one of the dynamics of our lives is that God is challenging

us. This is the year of pursuit. And if we're going to be

a people that pursue God with all of our heart, we can no longer

delay. The word for today is no delay. Just tell three or four

people say no delay, no delay, no delay, no delay. There's

no time to waste, there's no time to put to sit around pointing out

what's not working. Today is the day that there's no delay. And if

we're gonna not delay, then we got to recognize what delay does. The

dynamic of delay is delayed obedience is disobedience. Delayed obedience is still disobedience.

And the call of the believers today is calling us to step into obedience.

And I begin to ask the question, why are we delaying in this area

of disobedience? There are areas in our lives that are still not in congruency

with God's word. There's areas in our lives. And if you're new in

the faith, this whole obedience is this whole new reality within the world.

If you're new in your faith, this is a whole new world where you're

getting to learn. And if you've walked in your faith for just a little

bit, you're learning that there are areas that God is challenging you and convicting

you because He wants to grow you. And so here's the thing that I

learned. Number one and why we delay is old doors don't lead to new

paths. What I mean by that is that in the dynamic is is that

a lot of us are trying to do the new thing in the old way.

We're trying to do it in our strength. We're trying to do it

in our flesh. We're trying to do it in our abilities. We're trying

to do it. We have not recognized that God has a new operational manual

called righteousness, that he wants to reign in our lives. That we got

to rain from righteousness, not for righteousness, but from righteousness. That God

begins to give us a whole new mode of operation, because when we were

birth, we had our old operation. And our old operation is selfish,

waiting for all the amens to die down, because no one had to teach

you to be selfish, and you don't have to work to be selfish.

I'm having a hard time today to be selfish. Who I mean, I'm

so unselfish. I give all the time to everybody. I'm always doing something

that I just have a hard time being selfish. No, howman, No,

it's easy to be selfish, it's hard to be unselfish. The first

thing you do when you get you want you know how hard I work.

Don't you know how hard you are looking for a place of comfort. And

here is the dynamic. We all want transformation, but we don't want discomfort

in the process of transformation. And here's the dynamic that we need to recognize

that God is trying to change us, but he's trying to change us in

a new way. And we keep on going to the old and the old

doors don't lead the new past. And that's why we keep on getting stuck.

That's why we keep on getting frustrated, because we're trying to do it

in our strengths. We're trying to do it in our ability, we're trying

to do it in our understanding. We're trying to figure it out on our

own ways. And we have to learn that the first place that we have

to come to is a place called crucifixion, where we die so that He

can live. I have to die to myself so that His or righteousness can

reign in and through my life. And that's easier said, then come on

now, because the truth of the matter is is that there's patterns in our

lives. There's patterns in your lives. The addiction is a pattern you want

to break it, but you can't. That's why I try to tell people

all the time that listen that it's the pattern of your life. If you

will change the pattern, God, you will change the product pattern, but

the pattern of our lives. When God gives us a new pattern, it

feels uncomfortable. Anybody play sports, anybody play sports. Come on, just

wave at me. Anybody want to play sports, just wave at me.

Because anytime that you're learning, if it's basketball, if it's baseball, if

it's football, there are habits that you have created that are actually hindering your

progress. And part of the coach is the coach comes up and he starts

telling you I love playing golf. I want to play golf, but right

now the budget's tight. Praise the Lord, but I can go to top

golf. And if you want to take your pastor to top golf, the

Lord will bless you. Amen. Just throwing it out there, word of

knowledge, I'm telling you there's so the dynamic of the of and so when

you're playing golf, there's a swing pattern. And so when I first started

to play golf, I played with my grandfather's clubs, and those are back

in the day when the woods were wood. And so when I started playing,

I had a slice. I could slice the ball. It could start

here, it would give me aim in that direction. By the time it

got done, it'd be all the way over there. And when my father

in law met me, when he started working with me, he started trying

to change my swing. He said, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no no, you got your grip wrong. No

no no, no no no no, you're you're holding it too tight.

No. Now, I want you to bring back here, bring it,

bring it, bring all the way back. And I would struggle and he

get me. He'd get my feet all squared away. And every time he

get him squared away, I change him back the way I used to have

him. Every time he we'd set up, he'd set me up and I'd

swing. It feel awkward because I was because I was used to my old

way. And sometimes backwards feels better, I said, backwards, sometimes backwards

feels better. And that's the problem. You are. You you feel better,

but you're going backwards. And it's not based upon your feeling. It's

based on God's truth. And God wants to change your pattern. And for

him to change your pattern, you're gonna have to get discomfort and say,

no, I am going to choose to follow God's way over my way.

Not my will be done, but your will be done God. Today I

decided to come down a new path because I recognize that new path brings about

new progress, new people, new promises, new new new new every morning,

new mercies, new joy, new peace. But I got to change

my pattern. And then when you see that, because here's the deal.

Your surrender stops the cycle, but your obedience breaks the cycle. And most

of us we have surrendered, and we put our cycle on pause, but

we have not broken it by stepping into faith in obedience. This is what

we say when I, then I, when I when I no, no,

no, when I get myself together. No, you can't get your

self together. If you got yourself together, you got yourself together a long

time ago. That's your problem. You think that you have the power to

change you. No, you have to recognize that it starts now. It

starts today. Today is the day of salvation. Today. If you hear

my voice, do not harden your heart. The Book of Hebrews declares today

it's not when, and then it's here and now it's here and now when

I, when I when I get a promotion, then I'll start giving.

No, you won't. You won't give on the two hundred, you won't

give on the two thousand. Don't lie to me, and don't lie to

God. Come on, I'm preaching better than you, ay man. Don't

say when I stay. Now. Now Now is today? Now is the

time? Now, Now, Today, I'm going to begin to break the

cycle. Today, I'm going to forgive. I'm today now. When they

do this, then I'll do that. No, no, no, it

has nothing to do with them. It has everything to do with you and

now and obedience is your responsibility and out come is God. Well, what

if they don't it don't matter. What if they don't do or do do

it matters. Now. Today I'm getting free from my past by starting it

out Today. Today is my day of freedom. Today is my new step.

Today, I'm walking this out Today. I'm gonna live in obedience today,

not tomorrow, Today, Today, Today, I set before you blessing

and cursing. I set before you life and death. It's your choice.

What are you gonna choose? You're gonna stay on pause? Are you gonna

start today? Somebody say today? Just tell your neighbor it starts today.

Uh had no, no, no, they're gonna talk to you. Just

talk till three or four people say it starts today. I'm stopping the excuses

and I'm starting today. I'm starting today. My growth starts today. My

faith becomes activated today. It's faith without obedience is dead. God is looking

for people that don't just become hearers, but become doers. It starts today.

We're better and we're highingly educated above our obedience. But today it is

your application that brings about your transformation. It starts, It starts today.

It starts today, a while everybody else is sipping out. I'm gonna grow

while everybody else is going through the flux. I have chosen to trust God

because it's none about a now. It's a now work, not a then

work. And I recognize that when I walk in obedience, I have to

move out of familiarity into faith. And that's the dynamic because we have to

move from our sight to what he says, and it takes faith. And

where we trust God the least is where we fear the most. See,

we're really good at giving God things that we don't worry about. God,

you can have this, but you can't have my career. You can have

this, but you can't have my family. You can have this, and

we're really good. We'll give it God seventy percent. And God just not

looking for seventy percent. Let me just say this, God's not looking for

weekend visits. He wants full time custody. Yeah, he wants full time.

He wants full time custody in your life because the work that he wants

to do is gonna be full time. In full time, that means that

you're surrendering all of it to the Lord. And where I struggle in the

place of my fears, I have got to learn to say, God,

even when I don't understand it, I still have to trust you. I

can't rely in my own understanding. Trust the Lord with all of your heart,

and lean not to your own understanding in all your ways. Acknowledge Him

and he will direct your path. He will make my path. Story.

God, I trust you when I can't trace you, because I trust that

your word is true, that obeying is better than sacrifice, that that if

I obey God in this area, you will do what you said you will

do. You are a provider, You are a good father. You are

a faithful and true and God, I trust you more than I trust what

I see. Come on, give the Lord a praise of you. Believe

it today, Come on now come. This is your year. This is

your year. Today, this is your year. Stop delaying in the area

of obedience, My God, I trust you. Even at forty five,

there's areas of God. It's just challenging me. And I love the Holy

Spirit. The Holy spirits work in my life even now. It is to

begin to transform my heart and continuing develop my heart and my calling and my

character so that He can say well done. They'll goot in faithful servant.

M hm, you don't. You don't graduate in the kingdom into the into

the lazy boy. When's it gonna get easy? When did you think it

was ever easy? When is it starting? When is it when we start

getting the benefits. You have the benefit, but the benefit is not for

you. It's through you. You've missed out. You think the blessings about

you, know the blessings about the other people that are around you. The

dynamic changes of what God does in you. He starts in you so that

he can work through you. You graduate. You graduate today, you're graduating,

your growing in this area. And the dynamic is when Goliath shows up.

The Bible tells us that he had all these bronze and all these things

on him, and the people were afraid and they miss out for forty days.

He was down there forty days. David's brothers eliab Abnda Dab and Shamah

kept on hearing Goliath, and nobody moved. Because the lifetime of opportunity comes

in the opportunity of a lifetime. Arcis said, the opportunity of a lifetime

comes in the lifetime of opportunity. There's always a window. God has windows

that he has set up for your life that you're going to miss if you

delay. Hello, there are things that you've been praying for that God is

setting up. But it's gonna take your obedience to trust God in the process.

You were praying all of January twenty twenty one. Lord, I want

you to give me favor. Lord, I want you to bless me.

Lord, I want you to open up doors. God, I want you

to promote me. God heard what you said, and guess what God sent.

He sent a giant. Because you think that the giant is a problem,

No, it's the key to your promotion. You got to change your

perspective on trouble. You got to change your perspective on tribulation. You got

to change your perspective on the situation because what you are praying for God is

sending me, and now you're it away. M h, I'm gonna let

that sit on somebody you were praying for. Lord, I wanted this,

I want this, I want that, God says, Okay, you want

it, I'm gonna bring hell because wrapped up in the problem is the promise.

You see, they say this to people. Also, choose your friends

wisely. Anybody ever heard that? I say, choose your enemies wisely,

choose your giant sprout, choose your problems wisely. You listen, when you

start praying for promotion, God starts sending problems your way because you're the key

to what God. God's gonna use you as a key for elevation for your

life. But you keep on complaining, no, no, no, no.

This is gonna be the year in this summer when something starts falling apart

and you start wanting to call somebody and say, oh, I need you

to pray for me. No, no, no, don't you say nothing.

Don't pray for me one bit. I'm getting excited because this is a

sign that God is about to do something big in my life. Hell is

a sign that I'm getting closer to this promise. I'm just around the corner

and the devil is starting to sind all kinds of adversaries and every type of

weapon against me. But I got a promise that no weapon formed against me

shall prosper. This weapon that's beaking towards it's going to come against me,

but it's not going to work because this time, I'm prepared for the fight.

Just tell your neighbor say, I'm prepared this morning, I'm prepared for

the fight. I'm prepared. I started shouting, Oh God, all the

miracle. It's on its way, O Connor. This hell is just momentary.

This hell is just a little bit. This hell is just for a

season. This hell that I'm going through, it's not going to make me

bitter. It's going to make me better. This hell he put it on

me, but it's not going to get in me because greater somebody shot Crater

Creator is he that's in me than he that's in the world. Oh,

I'm getting excited. I'm getting excited. I'm getting excited. We just launched

her, we're getting ready to launch the Spanish service, and all Hell's breaking

looser. That I promise you that Hell has the power, have the name

of Jesus, that Hell is got the power, that the promise of his

hand and neighborhood. You may want to fight me today here, but I

can tell you something. The pinole is not mine. It's the loss,

and I'm gonna trust God in this process. I'm gonna trust God to everybody

in this house. It's Spanish speaking saying glory how to your sir, because

we recognize her that this piking is not about flesh and blood, but this

fight is for the souls. Somebody said, yeah, somebody now, yeah,

go ahead of God, go ahead, you can be seated. I'm

trying to teach you today how to look at your problems. You see,

we're going to really launch some things and it's gonna be difficult because anything that

God asked you to do is gonna be hard. That's why opportunity is always

dressed up in overalls and called work because you think it's just supposed to fall

on your lap. You just think they're just gonna show up at the door.

No, there's some grit and some grime that you gotta have in your

spirit, that you persevered, that you pressed on, that that you should

the test that you've been faithful over the little things so that you can be

ruler over mind. There's some things that you gotta learn in kindergarten so you

can gratuate to first grade. And there's some things that you gotta do in

this primary moment so God can take you to the next level that He has

for Gord Live, go, rid to Go. Are you hearing what I'm

saying? See? I told them, I said, this is supposed to

be a teaching message, but I recognize that the key to my spiritual growth

is not information, it's demonstration. At some point, you got to move

the idea to reality. You got to take the concept and you got to

put it to work. We just launched a single and the people say,

how did they do that and how did they put that on iTunes? Well,

it first started with somebody having the guts to start writing and start singing

and start working through lyrics that didn't make any sense until it became a full

song. And it took minutes behind the scenes that nobody saw so that one

day you could listen to it on iTunes and you think, well, I

want that. You don't want that. You want the blessing of that,

not the work of that. And God is trying to teach you this is

where you got to learn, because the only way for you to swim is

you got to get in water. My my, my parents, they probably

mostly all parents in the eighties probably should have gone to jail because the rule

of today would have been considered abuse. Can we just keep it real,

like when my parents when they taught me how to swim, that they didn't

They didn't get floaties, didn't floats, didn't start out to you all millennials,

We didn't have no floaties. You know, get your floaties on my

kids when they when they when they're bornly got we had floaties on their arms,

their legs. I mean, it's like, why even let them in

the water. Just put them in a put them in a thing. I'm

just getting some stuff off my chest. No, my parents didn't even start

in the water with me. They ain't started the baby pulling. Okay,

bubbles. He said, you want to swim, you want to swim.

You're tired of your cousins swimming and you don't want want to swim. You

want to swim. Okay, come here, come here, right in the

water, right in. Don't worry if you drown, will pull you out.

Anybody get parents like that. We don't put your hand down, put

your We don't want nobody to look at you right now. I had to

learn that. I never knew what was in me till I had something on

me. I never knew what was in me till I had it be put

on me. And when I get on me, I learned how to dog

your paddle. I learned how to kick my feet. What I thought I

knew how to do. I had to learn how to do in reality,

and God began to teach me how to swim in faith. Stay with me

today. See here's the thing. David. You know how he beat the

Goliath because that wasn't his first battle. So we always magnified David because it

was a public moment, But privately he was dealing with other things. And

see for some of us right now, we're wanting public advancement, but we

haven't developed private development. And God's just too kind. He's not gonna throw

you in the water in front of people until he throws you in the water

and teaches you how to swim behind closed doors. That's what I'm a good

father. He's gonna let you go in the water, but he's not gonna

let you drown. He's gonna teach you. He gonna teach you how to

swim. And here's the truth. David said, I beat that bear.

See that bear was intimidating. The bear could snatched a few sheep. And

God said, what are you gonna do about it? I don't know,

Lord, what you're gonna do. No, No, I put the staff

in your hands. See you keep on thinking that this is a word for

somebody. You keep on thinking that you're not equipped. God says, you

got everything you need. You think you need somebody else's stuff. No,

you've already got it. Everything you need is right here in the book,

everything pertaining to life and godliness. And he said, I'll get that.

I got that staff. I'm gonna use it. He beat the bear,

Then the lion showed up. Because when God develops you, it don't get

less, it gets greater. You think it's gonna be a battle for two

campuses, Wait till we have ten. What we're gonna do with your campuses

where you're gonna preach out. I'm not even worried about that. I'm thinking

about where are we gonna do with ten campuses, What we're gonna do when

we got records that are being developed in and and the songs are being declared

from the city like a launching station all across the globes, and people are

singing the songs of the ages through the worship of legacy. It's not gonna

get easier, It's gonna get it harder. So God's gonna graduate my faith,

and now he's graduating you the bare faith, then lime faith. Then

he's gonna let you face Goliath. And he's gonna let you face it in

front of people who doubt you. And it's not about the doubter. It

says about the declaration of who God is in your life. Don't you focus

on the doubter. It's focused on the declaration. So today, anybody want

to grow with me, because I've just decided this is my summer to grow.

Come on, prayer partners, begin to move, Begin to move,

begin to move, Come on, Holy Spirit, have your way. Just

bow your heads with me. Jesus right now. I thank you for the

people that are in this room. That are areas in your life. First,

if you've not received Christ as the Lord of your life, today is

the best day to do it. Today is the day of salvation. Now

is the expected time. He said, that's me, Pastor. Today,

I want to surrender my life to God. I just want you, as

people are in this bowing their head, just raise your hand. Just raise

your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand, raise your hand,

raise your hand. Thank you, you say, Pastor. There's areas in

my life that I know that I'm walking in disobedience. There's opportunities that I'm

looking for and God's sending them to me, and I'm just afraid. Let

me tell you something. Do it anyways, with your knees knocking, do

it with your hand shaking. But faith gives you the power to overcome your

fears. Whatever it is. In the name of Jesus, I'm just gonna

ask you again to step out of your seat right now. Come on,

begin to move, Begin to move, Begin to move. This may be

your bold step. Come on, bold steps, Come on, come on,

come on, come on, thank you Jesus. Come on, whatever

it is, starting a business. Come on, whatever it is. It

could be in relationships, whatever you gotta start, whatever you gotta obey God.

And could be in your finances, could be in your family, come

on. Could be sin, addiction. Come on. You need somebody in

your life that'll make you accountable. Come on, come on, come on.

It could be things that are in secret. Come on, Jesus right

now. He's a good God. He loves you. It's not just about

forgiveness, it's about deliverance. Come on, Jesus, thank you, thank

your Lord. Just begin to step out and begin to step out. Come

on, begin to worship the Lord. Come on with your hands rags,

come on and says class, oh a great shut Cris