June 25 (AM) Join Me in the Valley Part 1

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I do feel like today the Lord is trying to get people their fight

back. I know that's about five people

everybody else got fight but to those five people that need

fight today is your day to get your fight back.

What a privilege it is to be back in the house of God.

To worship Him in Freedom to hear his word in Freedom.

Lord. We thank you that we have ears

to hear and we have eyes to see Holy Spirit.

I ask that you just rock our world.

This morning may the hungry be filled May the Thirsty have

their thirst Quest? I declare over myself that I am

good ground and every word spoken.

Today, the Richmond family will produce, no, not some 30, not

some 60, but 100-fold Lord, we promised to hang onto every word

that you speak. Today, we thank you.

That shackles will be broken in this service that Mine's will be

regulated in this service that strongholds will be broken in

this service. That today we make a decision

that my comfort zone is not the Zone.

I want to live in, but your will is where I want to be, for

wherever your spirit is, there is freedom.

I declare some people today, let go of control, Lord and enter

true trust and faith in you. And I just put the devil on

notice right now and declare he has no access.

He has no access over my mind. He has no access into my

thoughts. He has no access into my praise.

He has no access into my being and my doing I declare today

that I walk in full authority of who I am.

So I take authority over my hearing today, I take authority

over my speech today I take authority over my family today.

I take authority over my finances today, I take authority

over this this atmosphere today and I declare that the kingdom

of the Lord is here. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus. Amen.

Before you get seated, I want you to grab your neighbor by the

hand and check their pulse and say, I just wondering if you

alive. Hallelujah, like really alive

light like really alive. Like no demon in hell can stop

me alive. Oh, today is about to be a great

day for those that want it to be.

I mean, people know that a great day is a choice, right?

30 people. Amen, 30 people.

Amen. Amen.

You know, I hear from a lot of successful people.

It's good to hang around successful people.

Not just successful people, but people with successful mindset,

right? And we got five people agree,

can I just get five people? Amen.

All right. Also, also carry that principle

over. It's also good to sit next to

people in church that have joy, like, expresso Joy, you know

what I'm saying? Like, I don't need to your joy

should enjoy. Should not be a secret.

Victoria is amen. Hallelujah.

Amen. Come on, give our first-time

attendees. One more round of applause.

Yes. Now look, I will tell you

everybody that came here last week.

This week will not be one hour service K.

Amen? See y'all named it like that.

So what I don't really care. Amen but there is a word in the

house for for you. This word today is for 100

percent of the people in here, including people that are

serving, including people that are online, including people

that are Alive in Christ and people that are dead and Christ.

Now you might say that's not biblical to say someone is dead

in Christ. Absolutely.

If you don't have the joy of Christ but you are in Christ

that's dead. If you're not living off of the

Salvation that he died for you to have the nest dead.

We're live in Christ. We not barely making it in

Christ. Hallelujah, that just hit my

right side. I just hit my right side.

Side. We not barely making it in

Christ, you know. I'm not depressed in Christ.

I'm not anxious in Christ. I'm not poor in Christ, there's

nothing in Christ, that is of Darkness.

So if I'm in Christ, then everything he's done for me,

can't be a secret. All right.

Today, if you choose, they choose.

If you choose to God is going to make clear?

About the place that you are in one hundred percent of the

people in this room. Is in a valley.

I know this without a shadow of a doubt.

That everyone is in a valley. Now, some might think they're

not in one and that's based on your perspective, but when you

really look at scripture, God, love bringing people to the

valley. And true maturity in Christ,

will not look at a valley as a painful place.

H place of drought. It is when you understand why

God brings us into the valley. You will see there is no way to

the promise except through a valley.

You will see that there is no maturing except through a

valley. No.

No you are not going to get your heavenly helicopter and get

dropped off on the mountain top. And the challenge with Believers

in this room, forget your auntie who you wish was here.

Forget your wife sitting next to you.

You wish that, you hope they hear it.

You are in a valley and as you unless you learn how to live in

the valley, you can't help your partner, get out the valley to

complain and people in the valley going to be what to

complain and people in the valley stuck.

Two people on E, in the valley going to be two people only, we

must learn, we must learn how to win in the Valley.

Can I just start this real quick?

We must learn how to live or to win in the valley.

If we are going to live on the mountain top, I'm a read it

again. I'm going to read it again now.

We can get out of service. Super quick, if you can get it,

super quick. But if you don't want to be good

students today and you want to be stubborn and I got to pull

your teeth, how many people know extracting teeth?

Take some time. Alright, so I don't mind

extracting teeth today, but if you ready to, like really

receive and be honest in your chair, that's your life ain't

together. You let me say something.

Your money might be together, but you're so lame together.

And I wish you people in here, stop looking at your Money as

your Marcus success. Yo job let me help all you

people. Your job is not true security.

Health. Go wrong, go.

What you going to do the business closed down?

What you going to do? Which going do when they come

for you. That was so cheesy.

But I knew some people would laugh, so I just don't even joke

like that, but I knew some people like cheesy joke, so I'm

just gonna say it easy Joe. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you. All right, now, what that just

did was open your mouth wider. You know what?

The dentist say? Open your mouth, so I can get

the tooth. I'm just trying.

That's what that's why we cracked a joke.

So you got so we get all right. Now, let's go in this.

Get this tooth. Hello communication Secrets.

Right there. We must learn how to win in the

valley. Before they just saying written

up here. Before we ask God to get us out

the valley. Do you know God puts you in the

valley to teach you how to fight?

He like God get me out of here and let me help you out a lot of

your anxiety and stress is because you're trying to abandon

where God called you to. it's so you're looking at your battle as

the devil and what if I was here to tell you that your battle is

the Lord Right. I used to kind of be hesitant to

talk about because there's a lot of pressure that to tell you.

No, no God put you in this. Now I want to be very clear.

God doesn't put anything bad on you but God works everything

together for good. So if he works everything

together for good, he allowed the baking soda in the bowl.

So he doesn't put it on you but he allows it to come through.

Okay, he gave trouble permission.

To trouble you. We must learn how to win in the

valley if we are going to live on the Mountaintop, how many

people understand that winning in the valley has everything to

do with knowing how to stay on the Mountaintop.

Now it would be not be a loving God to rush you to the

Mountaintop knowing you're gonna for that's a far fall to just

drop your kid off on the Mountaintop.

And just be like you blessed, and then the wind blow on the

Mountaintop sometime, the valley, protects you from the

wind. So you and we really look at the

valley. We look at the valley.

We look at the valley. Way wrong divine, valleys is the

questions. There's a question.

There's a difference between Divine valleys and developed

valleys or for develop valleys. I would say volunteer.

Valleys are volatile to our faith, really?

You wait for this, wait up. People that love drama live in

the valley and never come out. Hey, I'm trying to help you out

Divine. Valleys, are those that God

says, this is the way to go. Develop.

Valleys are dealt with your insecurities, your fears, your

perspective, you'll control. You develop the valley, you in.

Oh, you chose to marry that person that's a developed

Valley. That ain't God.

Why did you give them to me? When you don't wait on the Lord,

you develop valleys and here's God's faithfulness.

He is committed to get you through Divine.

Valleys and develop valleys, but develop, valleys are extremely

hard to get through because you got there on your own.

So it's going to take a little extra work because develop,

valleys prove, you wasn't listening in the first place.

So now you gotta learn in the valley, how to hear from God.

Instead of, when you hear from God and he sends you into a

valley, it's different when you ignore God, now you try.

Pick up his frequency. So so so before we move forward,

let's stop blaming the devil. How many valleys did you

voluntarily walk in? Oh, I walked in a few if I'm

honest, heck a few more than a few.

See what happens? Is when we get saved, we think

having faith means forgetting instead of understanding where

God has brought us from it. I have been in some, some very

telling the men. This morning we don't understand

why prison is a good place for God.

To allow people to get to. So the it's some of the most

creative people Our birth in prison.

Understand what prison is prison?

You get there because you didn't Stuart Freedom.

So so he doesn't have to be a real like prison but within your

soul there's a prison you can't get out of Sheila.

How can I get out of this? Oh my God.

Why did I make this mistake? You're living in regret.

You're just a prison. But God doesn't mind, putting us

allowing us to get in valleys and wildernesses in prisons

because he's committed to his promise.

So weird what is prison and Wilderness have to do what get

me to his promise? Do you notice when there is a

catastrophe in the world, how we all come together?

Why we didn't come together before?

Why we ain't been marching. Why does bad things?

Bring us together? Why do we gotta wait to lose a?

Loved one to make God our loved one?

Why don't we gotta get divorced before we start saying, okay.

Gotta listen, why do we? Why does bad things have to be

the route? To the promise. so, we

understand that the valley is actually, Beneficial.

Bible says that that's what this whole thing is about to show you

what God says about it. But how can I mature, stop

putting myself in valleys that God didn't create for me to be

in? How do you get in their choices?

Ignoring the Lord having control.

Do what you want to do exiting things, when you want to exit

them closing things, when you want to close them, ending

things when you want to not understanding when the going

begins to get tough. That's when development truly

begins. And how many times have you

gotten out of something? Cuz it's tough.

And then you wonder three years later?

Why you not developed? And the whole goal is not for

you to develop what you think needs to be developed.

It is for you to go through and develop what God knows.

You need to develop God made it made you, he knows how you take,

he knows the diet, you need to be on.

He knows the pills you need to take and he knows the sickness,

you got. It's so many of us are at the

door transformation, but because it's hard because we don't hear,

we're at the door transformation, but because God

won't open the door. We go to the next house.

We like salesman. We just keep going to the house

till somebody a buyer crap. Not saying whatever you sell is

crap. Kay I got to make up some

ground, this Valley is a broad depression between two Hills.

Can I talk to anybody today? Hey a broad depression.

A valley is a broad. What?

Depression? It is a it is a low place.

It's a place of where we find humility is birth.

It's a dark place. It's an obscure place.

It's a place where I can't find my way.

See my way. I don't know if I want to keep

going. Anyway, I want to sit down.

I am depressed. I am down.

I am tired. I am weary.

I don't want to keep going forward.

Forget it. I rather go.

Go back. The valley could be a clear

place but a stagnant place. It can be a blessed place but a

lonely Place, Valley could also be a season of movement while

still remaining Steel. Valley can be a place of

extended waiting. We see Isaiah here.

The Lord says arise from the valley.

He's calling us out of the valley where prostration, in

which circumstances have kept you rise to a new life shine.

I love how he calls us to arise in the valley.

Shine in the valley, keep it real.

The entire world is a Wilderness.

That's why we are the light of the valley.

So when you see that you're the light of the valley, you ain't

trying to run out the valley. I might be ahead of myself but

you don't understand. The valley is a calling The

valley is a calling when you understand the valley is a

calling you will stop looking at it as a place of the ended.

But the death, the death of you are place of paying, you will

see purpose in your pain, purpose in your Valley purpose

in your suffering, purpose in your waiting /.

Miss in your weariness. We need more people in the

valley, is lonely in the valley because everybody running out of

it. I'm going to see myself.

You ready for this? You ready for this?

I must see myself as an anointed for the valley.

More than I am for the stage. Oh, God anointed me for my

career. God anointed me to speak.

God anointed me to do. Do, do, do, do, do do do.

Do do. But I don't understand

understand the anointing is the valley destroying or sorry, the

Yoke destroying the valley removing or the burden.

Remove, if I don't want to be in a valley, I don't need an

anointing. Oh man.

I want my anointing to increase. Oh, I want that person's

anointing. You let me tell you how.

If you see anybody, that's anointed guess where they got it

from the valley. There's a lot of people love

hanging out in the city, but guess where God called luck with

the valley. so I have made this as well as Bishop Paul said,

I've learned to rejoice in my suffering because I realized

when I Nykeya strong. So he says, man, I don't want to

remove the thorn because the thorn is what's keeping the oil

and it's keeping the oil in its keeping the oil Rich, this is

why God only shoes has a few people and the rest hate on the

anointed ones. Don't be mad at me because I

don't mind staying in the valley.

You want to be all out the valley on the Mountaintop

critiquing people. I want dial.

So today's message will be called join me in the valley.

I was like God this is this is abnormal right here.

Do inviting people to a valley. I'm telling you the word is so

alive. If you just keep looking at it

going, oh God, the god of turn on you like this one day and

then he'll turn back on you like this one day.

Then other days show you the other side here.

Like oh God, oh God, that's why they holy holy holy, they can't,

he keep showing them all kind of sides.

Join me in the valley. Join me in the valley.

Who want to go to the valley? But he said, I am preparing a

table. In the valley.

So, if you want to Feast the most food, is in the valley, you

digest on the Mountaintop. Ain't too many people up there.

By the time you get to the Mountaintop did that?

That's a place where you get to. So even when even when I get out

the valley, it's not because I'm on the Mountaintop, it's because

he raised the floor. My Valley maturity and

perspective doesn't get me out the valley, it just raises the

floor. So I can be in the valley with a

better View. And that's what you find them.

Praying, Lord don't get me out the valley just annoy me to keep

preaching the gospel while I'm being persecuted.

Just give me a better view in the valley is what Moses said.

If you don't go with me, I'm not going nowhere.

He's being called to the valley and he's saying, God, I will go

to the valley if you go with me talking about you want to know

God. Better.

Join him in the valley. Samuel second, Samuel, five,

when the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king,

what David had been? What annoying?

That what he was anointed, what? One more time he had done.

He was anointed what? They all went up.

They all went where they all went, where one more time?

They all went where everybody in the valley.

I mean, attend everybody? In the tent?

They all went where they went up to, what find him but he heard

of it and he went down. I know, I don't know.

I just get excited when I just see where he went down.

He went, he went down to the stronghold.

They went up to look for him. But Soldier, David went down,

the Philistines also came and spread themselves where in the

valley Everything, David inquired of the Lord, this where

we get in trouble in the valley, we do our own thing.

David went into the valley and he start talking to God.

What you want me to do. See the valley is meant to

produce dependency. Some of us stay in the valley

too long because we too independent.

All right? This ain't one of the messages.

I see for some people, some people want.

Don't do, don't like this right here.

They don't want to like this right here, but I don't care.

I got an assignment and I'm gonna give it to you, okay?

Shall I go up against the Philistines?

Will you deliver you? See this.

Will you deliver them to me? No.

Not. Can I go?

And Brian. Can I take it by myself?

No. God.

You must deliver them to me. You must get rid of this

stronghold. You must fight for me.

I shop, but you gotta fight. And the Lord said to David what

go up for. I will surely deliver them into

your hand. See the valley requires you to

have a word, the moment you take your eyes off, the word is the

moment. You start taking yourself out

the valley. David came to bellperre azim and

he smoked him there. And he said, the Lord has broken

through my enemies before me like the bursting out of great

water. So he called the name of that

place. That is he God will change the

name of your Valley. See you just got to be willing

to fight. You gotta be willing to fight a

place, that was a stronghold, a place.

That was a dry place, a place that was a Place a place of

death in balls. Now became his place of

breakthrough. So now I have faced my giant

now, I know how to break through in my Valley.

So now God has renamed and repurposed a place that was hell

for me. Now, I know how to get stuff out

of it. Hallelujah, my joy is in the

valley. Are y'all gotta hear what I'm

telling you? My joy is in the Valley.

Come on, say that when we, my joy is in the valley.

I know that sounds crazy to some folks.

That's where my, now, some for my, my joy is in, my paycheck.

My joy is in that booty. My joy is in that bottle.

My joy is in my joy is in me moving.

With my joy is in America, my joy is in Hawaii, right?

Our joy is always everywhere else but in Christ I wish you

was here Wednesday. You would have found out what

kind of follower you are of Jesus.

Not everyone is following Jesus, for Jesus, there following Jesus

for what Jesus can do. Some people follow Jesus to

critique Jesus, and his body. Not everyone is following Jesus

to lay their life down for Jesus.

My fellow Believers when it seems as though, you are facing

nothing but deserts. See it as an invaluable

opportunity. What the valley is an

opportunity. What?

Let me tell you some, all doctors would be broke if nobody

was injured or sick. We come in sick.

They look at his opportunity. Trying to make it a practical

for you, some folks, lot of people making a living off of

your Valley. I need to go to the therapist

and they going to listen to you, describe your Valley, ain't none

of them, helping you get out the valley.

You just all of a sudden better because somebody listening to

you So, they just got $125 our for your Valley.

The world runs off of that. Folks is valleys, we ain't got

no water Valley, gotta get him some water, and got no oxygen,

folks walking around with oxygen tanks, Valley.

We make money off of people's valleys.

All I'm bringing that up for is because when you learn, this is

where wealthy people get wealthy.

They see a problem. And that's just what a valley

is. It's a gap. and if you're

willing to go in the valley, you'll see opportunity, instead

of looking everybody on social media who seem to be on the

mountain top, All right, opportunity to experience the

great way. The great.

The greatest joy is in difficulties.

That's where it can be found found.

The greatest joy that you can't look for, you know, that when

your faith is tested where in the valley, it stirs up in you

the power of endurance. If I want endurance, I must go

through the valley to get it. And when I come out the valley,

I should be stronger. Wiser better so much better and

when I look back, not of that, go see, Marvin Sapp right now,

they ain't even though it is a, even though anyway, didn't even

know any way, they even those can hold Canada.

All right II, listen, listen. Can I talk to some of y'all?

Some of you are where you are right now because you have no

endurance, depression comes faster.

When endurance Runs Out, endurance is meant to hold off,

depression anger, rage saying, stuff out of you, you can't

endure so that pressure comes and you break.

But what if I told you to develop endurance, it does not

come because you don't endure because you feel like it.

You endure because you've developed, you've been tried.

You've walked in love to your enemies to people that mistreat

you, you've walked in love. not until God, change your circle

but until you saw your circle different until you stop

pointing the finger at them and one day you and the valley and

you like, oh my God, I'm the issue because they shouldn't be

controlling my emotions like that.

Why am I so disappointed? They rejected me.

But why, why why am I so upset? They won't pay attention to me.

Why am I feeling abandoned? Because they didn't answer the

phone. When I forfeit Valley, I never

grow up. Think I'm lying.

And then as your endurance grows even stronger, it will release

Perfection or maturity into every part of your being until

there is nothing. Missing nothing broken.

You need endurance to get to wholeness You need endurance

holding this. Don't come from kale and

treadmills. Hold, this comes from enduring,

valleys, keeping character Walking In Love worshipping.

Despite what's going on, showing up week after week.

Day after day, loving loving, praising praising, giving giving

giving, and giving, and giving That's why he's saying if you be

not weary in well-doing, if you faint not you shall reap.

You can't just show up. You gotta show up until you

tried and you got to stay there until you go through the trying.

That's why folks, I want to join the church and I found a church

home and then I want to serve and then the moment you get

tried the moment. It gets tough in the moment, the

enemy. Begins to surround you with

travel and pressure. No, not knowing learning how I

love going to the gym sometime. And you see those people pushing

In Waves, a little tired behind that is so much heavy weight.

But you don't you don't get strong off of one push.

You gotta get your muscle into a state of fatigue.

You're not growing until you're fatigued.

I gotta trainers here. Am I right?

Right? Right.

You like the shakes is where you trying to get?

This is why resistance exercise is almost better than just

carrying a bunch of weight because it's in the resisting,

it's in the keeping it all for me and how long is but the

moment someone feels a shake. They like put those ain't never

been in the gym. That's when you do the way back

on the bar, Instead of here you guys I love I hear your voice

now, I hear you boys. What?

A trainer will tell you to do is when you are challenged, he will

say, breathe through it. You will be amazed how much pain

you can endure, when you learn how to breathe through it,

because the moment your breathing pattern changes and

the breasts are quick and you are telling your body is under

attack. So your body immediately goes to

flight instead of trade why we do the cold plunge is because

the moment you jump in that water your body says, get out.

But when you breathe through it, you train your body, how to be

peaceful Under Pressure? Therefore, you can go from a

cold plunge of two minutes to 10 minutes.

You see the endurance in the coal?

Because I told my body, we ain't going nowhere.

This is freezing is normal. Pressure is normal.

So Paul says, I practice pressure.

I practice broken this. I put my body under.

So when real pressure comes my witness remain strong.

Remember playing basketball in college and when we practice, we

will simulate the team we're playing.

Can you imagine a team facing a press in a game?

Never practicing how to get out of press.

Can you imagine players facing 7-foot guys having to shoot over

7 foot guys? If they they're coached in put a

broom in front of them and this is where we fell in church.

We're too afraid to practice pressure.

So when we faced pressure, we buckle and we blame the devil.

The truth is you got to blame yourself for not developing

endurance, developing endurance for you is on you, it's not on

your spouse, it's not on your children, it's not on the

pastor, it's not on the church, you have to grow up on your own

and then the T joins you a gym is a community people like going

to gyms, because they're in an atmosphere where everybody's

working out and it encourages them Chaka Khan.

And if anybody longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will

give it, he won't see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to

scold you over the your failures.

Here it is. See on.

He says he will overwhelm your failures kind of the top knee.

There we go. He will overwhelm your failures

with Grace. You notice when context, he

said, ask for wisdom in the valley, he'll give it to you.

Let's keep pushing. Let's keep, pushing faith is not

meant for us to ignore the valley.

But to help us see from The Mountaintop.

So I'm not ignoring that, I'm not that I'm going through

something but with faith, does it gives me a greatest

opportunity to see my Valley differently to see my enemies

differently to see waiting differently faith.

There we go. Faith is not meant to get us out

the valley, but it's meant to keep us through the valley.

We don't get to the Mountaintop through quick Valley exits.

Where's the exit? I don't know if I'll get it to

it today, but I'll get to it tonight.

But there are several Valley phases that super vital for us

to know there's phases of the Val, just like there's phases of

grieving, there's phases in the valley.

On our Ascent to the Mountaintop, every level you go

to has valleys, that's why it's to your benefit to conquer the

valley you're in. Only through maturity.

Do we find vacations in valleys, And drinks in dry places.

I will say, I will say this again, every level has valleys

only through maturity and they mature mature site.

Do we find vacations in valleys and drinks and dry places.

I liken this to like playing in a very fast pace ball game, a

very smart ball. Player knows how to find rest

without coming off the floor. They know where to slow down.

They know where to Sprint. They know how to find moments

and pockets of rest. So they can stay on the floor

and it can I tell you guys, I need you to stop fainting so you

can stay on the floor. It is too many Believers

willingly. Ready to sit on the bench and

even go sit in the stands. Why are so many Christians not

willing to stay on the floor, but they want a ring.

They want to be in the championship photo.

They wanna pop champagne in the locker room and write the backs

of the ones willing to carry the gospel.

How could you love yourself and be merely satisfied?

You saved. I'm saved.

And all you live on is the Lord for giving you and blessing you

that's all you want from God. You don't want to know the one

who died for you. You don't want to say, hey, I'm

a lift this up. I'm gonna say that's what I'm

gonna go. Get my life, right?

So it's a witness. I want to be the light of the

world. I don't want to be a damn, like,

I don't want to be confusing. Stop sign.

I want to be a clear route to you.

The destination Jesus. So then I got to get around

people that's like wedding. All right?

I'm Tom all dogs in the faith, the valley symbolizes fertility

and life. Can I talk to you, the valley,

symbolizes fertility and life. The valley is a place of the

pregnant. Pause, it's the place of the

anchored awesomeness meet me. I'm I'm not moving, but it's

awesome. I find awesome in Steel.

All you, you gotta get this people because the world is

telling you move, move, move, move, move move, move move,

move, move grind, grind, grind, grind, grind money, money,

money, money, keep going. Keep going grind.

If you don't grind, if you don't keep moving, you don't keep

doing it. If you don't move It, shake it

up. You ain't gonna make it.

That's what the world telling you to do every single day and

we have a world that do not know how to sit in the valley.

The valley is the place of mundane movements not just

moments. There's movement in the again,

there's movement in the mundane. The valley is the irritating

irrigation system of the Kingdom of Heaven.

It is so irritating to be in the valley but when you have site

that's the place where God Waters, you and nurtures you and

develops, you It is an irrigation system that the world

does not understand. You think the promise is in Bali

somewhere. It's in Fiji on the water.

You can see the bottom of the ocean.

Big, cantaloupes and watermelons and pineapples, that's Jesus.

No, I'm not gonna get to it today, but there's this

parallel, that God brought me to this morning between mana and

Jesus and between the promise and the Holy Ghost.

That's why he's on the bread of life.

John 4:4 says, there's a whale that's water.

John 4:4

Getting to you. Holy Ghost.

When you live in the promise, water comes out, you and your

life is not all about you. There's healing, when water can

get the Living Water can get through you.

Some of you are sick, because you got what's that River?

What could be up guys, stagnant water, God can't get his life

through you all. All you want to do is have

salvation for yourself. All you want to do is be saved

but there's no water flowing through you there for you got

Stillwater. That's why you stank.

Your attitude stinks. If we was a crack, open your

mind. It stinks.

The negativity stinks, the complaining stinks.

How are you stuck there? It's because God is trying to

get life through you and you're trying to get life from someone

else. And you have made your spouse,

your job, you'll Savior, and God loves you so much.

He will not allow them to give you what you ask him for until

you turn the him and make him. You'll Supply His house was

never made to be Jesus, and God is like, go ahead.

Make them Jesus. Let's see how much he brings joy

to you. She brings joy to you.

Nah, some of us get sick because God can't move through us.

My oil is in the valley. Isaiah 61 says the oil of Joy

instead of mourning. You see the trade.

Hey, meet me in the valley, he gives me morning for he gives me

and he gives me dancing or joy for my morning dancing for my

morning, right? There's this Exchange.

Psalm 23, all Chaka. Come, that's why we need to

services, or you got to service. We don't finish this tonight.

We don't finish this tonight and tonight you're going to get

them. Seven phases of the valley, it's

going really bless your socks, the Lord is my shepherd.

My wife. Ain't my shepherd as much as I

am a man Under Shepherd. I am not the shepherd.

I shall not or to feed me to guide me into Shield me, right.

Lot of us, looking for a spouse to do that.

The Lord is your shepherd. I shall not lack.

He makes me he met. He loves you so much.

He makes me lie down in fresh tender, Green Pastures.

He leads me beside the steel and restful Waters.

He refreshes Has and restores my life.

He leads me. This is super.

So crucial, he leads me in the paths of righteousness

uprightness and right standing with him, not for my earning it,

but look for his namesake. Understand what namesake is it

is for the purpose of or interest in having the same

name? He's he's going to keep me to

protect his name. The tation on the line so he got

to show up in my life and as good a man.

So that's why no matter how I'm acting God has a name on the

line that even when I act a fool, I wonder why bless him

still coming. Even when I tried to destroy my

family, I wonder why he keeps it together.

It's before his namesake. Why he going to bless this

church because his namesake, why he gonna get you out your pit

because of his name's sake. Yea though I walk through the

walkthrough I love, this is good news right here.

This is good news right here. Walk through this sick this

tells me the valley ain't for me to stay.

Here's a place for me to what walk through and when you know

you just walking through you ain't gonna mind you don't mind

going through you ever uh you ever catch a bus where got a few

stops. You can't catch a bus without

going through some, right? You don't ever get on the bus

and the Battelle, the bus driver, take me to my stop.

Right? When you fly overseas, you fly

through places. When you got layovers, you go

through places. If you don't get to the promise,

I'm sorry to tell you, but you gonna go through places The

Valleys meant to go through. Not around.

He says I will fear or dread. No evil.

Did he perspective for your with me?

Your Rod and staff. In other words, your Authority.

They comfort me. If I'm walking through the

valley, it must mean. If long as I stay on my path,

I'm heading out. I want you to see this in the

valley. You prepare a table before me in

the presence of my enemies. Why you want any other table?

Why you want your degrees table? Are you want your jobs table,

why you want the world's table, God's right there?

Preparing you a luscious table a garden with all kind of trees.

He just like, don't touch that one.

Don't touch that one. You can have the 99.

Don't touch one. You anoint my head with oil.

And I'm anointed. A my cup runs over.

I'm anointed for the valley. I have been equipped before the

valley. I have been anointed in the

valley and I am empowered for the Mountaintop.

In the valley, David finds this in his belly.

Surely goodness and mercy. Unfailing love, shall follow me.

Now, I wish you can get the imagination of mercy and

goodness following you. No matter where you go, you you

ready, go to go go go go in the crack house goodness and mercy

going to follow. You be divorce goodness and

mercy gonna follow you be sick goodness and mercy it's going to

follow you. It is say you're taking goodness

and mercy. It just says goodness and mercy

is To follow you. Everywhere you go all the days

of your life. That's good news right there.

So when I'm in the Valley, if my mind is not on goodness, and

mercy is in the valley with me. I'm freaked out.

And through the length of my days, the house of the Lord, the

house of the Lord, the house of the Lord.

Not the club, the house of the Lord, the house of the Lord

shall be my Dwelling Place. We're on a lan and Matthew War.

Well, that's a good place. That's a good place.

That's a good place. Okay, so I'm going to end

looking at Jesus in the valley to save.

You guess what? Jesus had to do, go through the

valley. To get back to Heaven.

Guess what? He had to do, go through the

valley. But I want you to see something

of how he responded in the valley.

I want you to see that Jesus was full of power going into the

valley and then the Bible says he was full of power when he

came out the valley, but in the midst of the valley, all he had

was the word. Afterward the Holy Spirit Led

Jesus, who let Jesus into the valley.

This is a Divine Valley. This is not a Jonah Valley.

No Jonah LED himself to the well.

Get what you see the difference. So I don't want people to think

that God just be throwing people in about no, no, and I don't

want you to be like, oh, when you see he was tested, it's not

he was tested. It was he was proven.

God does not test you, he proves you and he only proves you just

like when someone makes a car it has to be proven before it can

be put out on the market, right? So Jesus is being proven because

prior to he was he was baptized and he was affirmed.

So before you get your platform before you get your promotion,

before you get to your necks, you should love yourself enough

to not. Ask God to open a door when you

have not fulfilled the Cycles in this season.

If you love yourself, you won't be asking God for a husband,

when you ain't did the things to develop to be a wife.

And if you ain't a man, I'm a man, not a male.

You shouldn't be asking for a wife.

If you haven't done the things to take to be a husband.

Because you're asking God to open a door for me that I am not

ready to stay in hate. Getting you, there is the easy

part, keeping you married keeping you on the Mountaintop,

keeping you with that Lottery money, all all the lotto ticket

buyers, amen. Your chances better tithe and

alot of with can I help you out? Okay, get that Lottery demon up

out of here right now in Jesus name is not wasting your money.

I don't know. Dad, just hit my spirit a lot.

Old a lot o. Amen.

Hallelujah. Folks be trying to get bless.

Amen. Let me if you play the lotto,

you gonna spend all that money, people, people that don't even

know how to manage money. Play the lotto whole family

going to take everybody. We bless your name is no, tell

her testimony. Amen, amen.

Alright, back to the back to the valley.

Afterward the Holy Spirit Led Jesus Into the Wilderness who

led Jesus Into the Wilderness. Huh.

Holy Spirit. Not the holy devil.

The Holy Spirit. Okay?

Just make sure you straight. Who let them the Lord.

LED Jesus Into the Wilderness. You ready?

You see this off? Neil?

What did he lead him into the stew to the valley?

What he what he lead them? What did to do?

What to stop? Pause to have an experience.

right, you know thrill junkies let me tell you some, it's

nothing cool about jumping out of a plane and hoping the

parachute opens Okay, you throw yourself into a valley.

Right? Bungee jumping just throwing

yourself to the ground and hoping that thing just beam.

No, no, that's a valley k for me.

That's a valley. Understand, but people do it.

Although it's scary and risky, they want the experience.

And when you can find thrill in Valley, you won't mind staying.

And some of y'all will jump out a plane in a minute and struggle

trusting. God. all you faithless, bungee

jumpers all the, all you Come on, bastard.

Come on. Surfing the Sharks.

Don't buy sharks and you just don't understand sharks.

No, you don't understand. Jesus.

That's why you don't trust Jesus but you trust sharks.

That's crazy. It wouldn't mind like it so it's

an it's like an honor if they arm get bitten off.

What won't you just trust God, right?

Let it be an honor you got some Faith scars right?

You lost some friends, I rather lose friends then no.

And then limbs Didn't you feel me?

Not again. Didn't take Danielle, no, no,

give me my arms. I do all my friends can leave.

Get my arms. Alright, the Holy Spirit Led

Jesus Into the Wilderness to experience the ordeal of

testing. Here's the difference.

Divine is God is obligated to be with you when he takes you in

the valley. And this is why you shouldn't be

trying to have extra Valley moments, you're gonna have some,

okay? And after fasting, for 40 days,

Jesus was extremely hungry. Then.

The tempter came to him and said, how can you possibly be

see this, be the Son of God and go hungry.

Number one, The valley is mint. To bring you to a place of

starvation. It means it's a means of

birthing desperation in God. Number two of Valley is there to

test your test and develop sonship first thing, Jesus is

tested on is how could you possibly be the son of God?

And not have what you should have.

And how many people are here are are antsy because you thought

you should have been further in life.

Are you thought you should have this or this opportunity or this

or this or that? And that's the Enemy talking in

your head because you hungry, you thirsty, for something and

more. And next, and the moment you get

hungry and thirsty and more for next.

Then, guess what? The enemy's going to do now, you

don't need here, you need there. You don't need her.

You need her. You don't need that.

You need that, because you're hungry.

And instead of being still and letting the Lord feed you you

start trying to feed yourself. He said just command these

stones to be turned into love to loaves of bread.

The little Nook down there is when you go in the valley, you

better know the truth. He answered the scriptures.

Say what did, how did Jesus answer in the valley?

Yeah, that the scripture say bread alone will not satisfy me.

We take that. As with the Lord, the bread of

the, the just their logos. We could also take it, just just

flesh, feed me. It would not satisfy me.

But true life is found in every word when you go through the

valley, you better learn how to keep listening.

True life is found in every word then the accuser transported G,

who transported, Jesus the Temptation, the weakness, the

vulnerability, took him to the holy city of Jerusalem and

perched him at the highest point of the Temple.

Look, the devil will take you to the Mountaintop, he answered.

Or and said to him, if you really godson jump, what's being

tested again, sonship trusting God and the angels are catch

you. I want you to know this is some

people don't know this but the devil just threw a scripture out

at them. It's Psalm 91 for the devil to

tempt you. Do you notice when people say

they hear from God, they always going to come with a word or The

God said or scripture you can find a scripture to back up

anything. So just because you like, I got

a word and here's the scripture I'm standing on, you can stand

on it, all you want to, let's see when the rain coming, the

wind blow, if it's really the word.

For it is written in the scriptures, he will command his

angels to protect you. They will lift you up so that

you won't even bruise your foot on a rock.

Once again Jesus said to him once again, you see it again

because it starts off declaring the word, but the enemy is

Relentless, your flesh is Relentless and eventually you

will begin to reason. You must never put the word, the

Lord, your God to attest and the Lord.

And the third time, the accuser lifted Jesus up on to a very

high mountain. You see how the enemy keeps

taking them higher? Let me help you.

The enemy got places to take you that same high but they're meant

to make you fall far, we see it all the time in the media.

He showed him all the kingdoms of the world and all the

Splendor that goes with it. Can I help you today?

He showed him. He tempted.

Jesus. With what Jesus came to do.

True Temptation will always enter the areas of your

interests. I want to be this so it looks

like it's a better opportunity for me to do that over there.

I want to be developed that. The enemy is going to test you

where your thirst is. Your desires are your hungers

are your purpose? Is your interests are or

wouldn't be tempting. Jesus came.

To get the keys to the kingdom. The devil says, here's the

shortcut to your purpose. And all the Splendor here it is.

What comes with the enemy's temptation is flattery.

The Lord rarely tells you the benefits.

Did you hear me? He never tells you.

If you do this, you're going to get this, you're going to get

that, it's going to be better, it's going to be smarter.

It's going to be more people that like you.

You're gonna get more time doing this.

God never delivers it. God, normally says go and leaves

it at that, but when you start getting flattered by the enemy,

this is what is what he says? He says, he says, what, what do

you mean, God's? Trying to keep something from

you, man, if you eat from that tree, you'll become more.

Right. His flattery and you see what he

says. Oh, get all the kingdoms of the

world and all Splendor that goes with it.

Watch the flattery and the sales pitches God needs no sales

pitch, he's confident in his purpose.

The devil needs sell pitches. All of these kingdoms I will

give to you if only you kneel down before me and worship me.

But Jesus said, go away for the scriptures.

Say kneel before the Lord, your God and worship.

Only him. I'm not worship in my flesh, the

season. When your flesh is revving up,

do not go. Find a scripture.

What I mean by that is I have been in my flesh and said, God,

I know you calling them in this and you start feeding your

flesh. And before, you know, it God

said for years later, if you humble enough like The Prodigal

Son, you going to return because there's a route.

He says the temptation of opportunity.

Some of us worship opportunity. Opportunity, can't be my guide

or my God. So we see Jesus at once the

accuser left him. This is super crucial for you

guys to get as you go home tonight.

After Jesus was tried three times, the accuser had to end

it. The good news is if you resist,

the enemy has to flee. It says an angel suddenly

gathered around Angels didn't gather the three times.

The Angels did run and strengthen him on first test and

second test. It came after third tests, they

surrounded. Jesus and ministered, his needs

after he resisted. Fulfillment did not arrive until

the full cycle of the trying of his faith was finished.

You see when the devil had finished every Temptation, Luke

forces, same, same passage, but Luke says it the temperature

when the devil had finished every Temptation, you see it,

the devil will run out of tries. Can you withstand all his

attempts? He is not infinite, he is not

Eternal, he is not all knowing he is not omniscient.

He is not, I'm not present. He is limited left him until a

more opportune. You see this, he's coming back.

This is why you need to strengthen yourself because he's

coming back. Can you withstand the full cycle

is? The question first for that was

verse verse 13. He says, and when the devil had

ended every when he can The complete cycle of Temptation, he

is tempting has Cycles. That's what we're going to deal

with. Tonight is these Valley Cycles,

he temporarily left him. That is he stood off from him

and watched and studied him and listen to their complaining and

their inconsistencies in their flesh?

Fleshiness waiting for a more opportune favorable time to get

right back and it's why it's very dangerous.

When you think that devil let you alone you think you free the

devil leaving you alone. Does not is not as sign you've

renewed your mind. No.

He had to leave you alone and in the time of breaks, you should

be transforming. There's a season to fight and

there's a season to transform. The valley is the place where

scientists tested and sharpen. Can you keep your eyes on God's

now word? Not trying to find God's next

word. How's your focus?

These are questions. You going to go home with.

How's your focus in the belly of the Valley?

Now that you may not have the passion, you had at the lips of

the valley? I know that's hard to understand

the belly of the valley, the middle of the valley, the meat

of the valley because everybody was excited when they first got

saved everybody was excited when they first got that new job.

Everybody was excited when they found love quests or whatever

Church everybody was excited when they started they new job

but that's at the lips of the valley but now you and the meat

of it and Trouble Comes, everybody was excited at the

altar at a marriage. and then you got in the belly of your

marriage, you like whom How's your focus in the belly of the

Valley? Now that you may not have the

same passion, you had at the lips of the valley?

Is your focus fueled by Passion or faith in the word passion.

Will not keep you in the valley faith will I want you to take a

picture of these two scriptures K.

Pull out your phone. I'm not going to see some of you

tonight. Look for Jesus went in the

valley full of the Holy Ghost. Verse 14.

He came out of the valley full of the Holy Ghost.

You see this you should go in excited and full.

You should come out even more full.

You see this? You should not transition

seasons on empty. Now, take a picture And

remember, the only power Jesus had in the middle of the valley

was the word. Take a picture of Luke 22 41

through 44. And I want you to see in the

valley, he pulled away from the crowd, when you're in the

valley, you can't stay busy. When you're in the valley, you

got to pull away from negativity.

Are some people you live with that's - guess what?

Be smart enough? Not to start certain

conversations. because, you know, when you asked him that

one question, That's that. You got to be there for our No

seriously, sometimes you got to be wise enough to not start a

certain conversation. You know, when that person call

your phone and you see who it is, you like, I gotta answer

that one. I got some energy.

He pulled away. And talk to the Lord.

And he said, Lord I want to get out of this Valley but not my

will, I want you to see this. It was after he surrendered to

God's will once again, I want you to see that his ministry

started in the valley and his life ended in the valley.

His ministry started and continued with angels

strengthening him after he surrendered.

Third. And then in the Garden of

Gethsemane Valley, Angel strengthened him.

After he surrendered in both places Jesus, his ministry

started in the valley and his life ended in the valley.

And the way, his life ended was still his ministry.

The cross was his ministry. And he did not get strength or

anointing to finish until he surrendered to the cross.

Some of y'all want anointing without the cross.

And the Bible tells you, if you want a Resurrection Life, you

gotta also walk in the cross. The valley is where we agonize

over, God's will not ours. There's always help in the

valley to get through the valley when we stop rushing trying to

get out the valley. I don't know who you are.

But there's refreshing in the valley.

There's peace in the valley. There's joy in the valley,

there's love in the valley. There's Hope in the valley.

The valley is not a bad place. You just got to be willing to

fight in the valley. And not fight for your own

desires. Some of you are worried because

you're fighting for someone to change, that's not a good fight

because that's not in your control.

What is in your control? Is you changing Today is the

day. You take your joy out of

somebody else's hands. Today.

Today, I told y'all my mama, my mama here.

I told y'all she raised me with. Oh well.

There's some people in here today need to make the decision.

I don't hear how married you are, how close you are.

They don't want to change, they don't want to follow Jesus like

you oh well. But I'm not going to my casket.

Not experiencing salvation. I am not about to put my

salvation in your hands after Jesus.

No, no, no, no. It's a bit.

But you are a decision away from having Joy.

No, they ain't hay. Waiting for them to change.

That's too long, not to have joy.

I'll come get this table out of here, please that didn't waiting

for them to chase. I don't care if you got to drive

separate cars, guard your joy. Like me.

But sometimes my wife like, no, I need to be by myself.

Did I just need some time alone, because guess what?

Sometime, I can steal our joy sometime.

Because I can eat I'm saying like when I used to smoke a lot

of weed like some of you. Somebody you know, I'm saying

something like when I smoke a lot of weed, right?

Right. You you get around people who

mess your high up. Right, and what do you do?

You don't want to hang out with them because they they miss your

higher but you steadily hang around people that Miss you're

hot. You're Joya.

That's a high. So I don't know who you are

today but you need to make a decision.

No, we're not going to have an altar call up.

Here we come up here and lay down and do all of that note.

Make a decision. Yeah, we do altar calls.

Hey hey if crying change people getting their everybody to be

changed? Not a God says, get a get past

the tears and make a decision. Right.

Because God, I will tell you God is not moved by our tears

because our tears are tears reflecting desperation for God

or desperation for God to do something.

Because peace is in Christ, not the change of circumstances.

So today make a choice. We're not waiting again, play,

something like real groovy, you know, I mean like just plate not

groovy because your groovy is you know saying but everybody's

like like what I don't want to do right now, is this to be an

emotional moment now? No, make a decision.

Right? You make a decision and

sometimes you got to make a decision and have very tough

conversations with people. You got to have it.

You said that real loud, strong honey.

You said that? Right?

Sometimes you got to have a tough conversation and say, hey

this is how I'm feeling. This is what I see and you gotta

draw the line. Hey, you ready?

You gotta be okay with the results of demanding.

What you deserve? All right, I will not compromise

what I deserve for what I'm afraid to lose.

So if me drawing the line is saying, no, no, no, you ain't

gonna talk to me like that? No, no.

You ain't gonna keep abandon me like that.

No, no. You ain't gonna put your hands

on me like that. No, no you can't keep cussing at

me like that. No, no, you're not go keep

looking at me. Like I'm a piece of crap.

Like that. No.

No. At some point if you want to

keep treating me that way talking to me that way, whatever

you are. I will not be.

There's too many people out here.

You can mistreat. I was not saved to be

mistreated. And then what if they say?

Okay well bye. Then guess what you gonna say?

Oh well, right. Because thereby made me in your

joy. Can I say that again?

Thereby May mean your joy, so if you leave and I got joy, guess

what? I'm gonna have joy.

Keep it, push it. I'm gonna miss you right now.

The police Ops, how can I help some people?

Good sex is not worth your joy. Some of y'all shut your mouth

because you got to sleep in with partner, ain't no booty.

Worse. Your joy.

Some of you take abuse for sex. Stop prostituting your joy.

I'm talking to some people in here right now.

You are taking emotional abuse and you're compromising your

joy. It is not you ready?

It's not their fault. I'll see you don't look down.

Look straight. I'm trying to help some people.

Thank God. You go to a church.

And here here here, too, real. You don't, if you don't diss,

you don't dishonor your family for some tail.

Especially when it ain't your spouse.

I'm talking to somebody, we gonna get emotional, we gonna

get free. I think that's church right

there we done. Can you give God a hand today?

Hallelujah. Come on.

You can do better than that. Hallelujah.

Amen. Amen.

Amen. I think that's it.

Grace. You did an amazing job.

You did an amazing job. Now we are going to eat only

when I will even do it. This is like no, I want people

to make a decision. Stand to your feet, stand to

your feet. Hey, you got an opportunity to

give in the back we appreciate. Can I can I can you give you an

update? I promise you love questions,

doing everything they're supposed to do when it comes to

our building next door. Okay.

Got an email the other day, man. These people, they playing I'm

you know me, they plan. I wish I was a part of the mafia

was just for one day I just go up in there and just right.

But anyways so we We adjusted the blueprints that they asked

us to adjust for one parking spot.

Okay? So now we're dealing with

parking variance stuff, right? And then, and then we rushed and

turn that in. And then now they want, they

want us to get a what-do-you-call-it.

Oh, my Jesus. What do you want to call it?

What do you? What do you want me to call it?

The civil engineer? To do some blueprints for the

sidewalk. And so they're going to present

our case June 10th. With, if we get everything in

which we, which we will July 10th, July 10, and then he sent

back an email and he says, just to give you a heads up,

everything should be good, but just in case we don't get the

response from the neighbors, because they got to send out.

They give the neighbors two weeks to send any comments or

anything about us having a church here or any business.

So we we don't want you to be alarmed but just to let you know

if it just so happened, we don't.

Get this part of it to the to the council by the 24th of July.

We're not having the council meeting in August, so we won't

be able to get back to you till September.

So I said, so you're getting ready to just tell me right now

prepare for September. He said no, that's not what

we're saying. Everything should be good.

I like. All right, I'm just letting

y'all know. I may bring some emails so you

should know you know your pastor going in and we're doing all the

time trying to say everything. Love.

But I sometimes you got to show a little frustration and I did

and he said he understands, but some of this stuff in my mind,

it's just a little political because I know they're

Expediting some people's permits and processes and all that.

But I also know God has his timing and I'm not trying to

rush into something, I want God to have his way.

So be praying for us, be praying for me.

As we are patients is tried Please.

But I just want to update you guys.

I know it's frustrating, but it's even more frustrating for

me because I have to go back and forth with these people and if,

you know, people in the city, we've contacted the mayor, we've

done all those things and they're just taking the time.

I'm hoping that they have integrity and they're doing what

they say they're doing. But at this point and I'm not

sure how much of this is being held up because this bigger

project here, that's right here and construction going on at the

same Time. I don't know how it works.

It's love quest as first-time. So forgive us for any delays,

but I am saying it. Ain't our fault.

I takes no responsibility for the delay.

We are doing everything we're supposed to but anyways, God is

good. Happy birthday Pastor, Julia.

Hey man. All right, father, we thank you

for your word. I thank you for that.

I thank you for the valley. I thank you for the valley.

I thank you that goodness and mercy follows us all the Days of

Our Lives. Lord, I just speak

encouragement. The every single person around

and I just declare you can make it through.

I declare, you do have joy, you do have peace.

I declare, you are strong enough.

I declare you are wise enough, you are bold enough, you are

courageous enough and I just declare that what God has meant

to. Get to you.

And through you, it shall come to pass and what the enemy has

meant for evil. God is turning it around for

good. We declare it as.

So we receive it, we believe it. And Lord, we will forever, give

you the praise glory and the honor in Jesus name.

Amen, on your way out. Give three people high five and

say, join me in the valley. All the time.

But not out of paid. In Jesus name, get your love

fix, man, walking around. Listen, thank you so much for

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You know, the motto. We had a time but we ain't out

of Jesus. So till next time, get your love

fixed, man.