It Was All A Dream // Missing Peace (Part 7) // Pastor Roosevelt Stewart

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God will transform your life through today's message.

We're going to open up our Bibles today to the

book of Isaiah 55 and 11. God, it's going to

be that kind of Sunday. All right, all right. Isaiah 55.

55 and 11. As a customary, I believe that anything

that God exalts above his name, we should stand for.

So can we stand for the word of God today?

Isaiah 55 and 11 says, so shall my word be

that goes forth from my mouth. It shall not return

to me void, but it shall accomplish what I please

and it shall prosper in the things for which I

sent it. Let's jump, because I believe God always confirms

his word in the New Testament. Can we jump to Acts,

the second chapter, and we'll read from the 15th to

the 17th. I'll give about two seconds for those that

use your Bible. I know some of y'all got your phones.

You can get it instantaneously, but I'm going to give

some time for those that's flipping through the pages real quick.

Can we thank God for this worship team as well?

My God. I almost forgot I had to preach today.

I almost forgot. All right. Acts, the second chapter in

the 15th verse says, this is Peter talking to the

people that think they're crazy. He says, he says, for

these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it's only

the third hour of the day. Yeah, we're supposed to

be praying right now, and that's exactly what we're doing.

But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel.

Watch this. Let's go to the next verse. It says,

and it shall come to pass in the last day,

says God, that I will pour out my spirit on

all flesh. Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Your

young men shall see visions and your old men will

dream dreams. Your young men will see visions. Your old

men will see dreams. I want to talk to you

today As a subject, it was all a dream. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was all a dream. If you can just have

a flashback of what God has promised you and some

of you, you're looking so much forward to what God

is going to do in your life. But if you

could just remember back when you didn't know that you

would be here right now, and if you look back

over the course of the path God has taken you through,

and you're saying, I'm actually stepping in things that I

heard from 20 years ago. It was all a dream,

but God brought that thing into reality. If you could

just pause and say, thank God for the one that

gives the dream and walks me through it and presents

me as a living testimony of his power. Can you

just say, it was all a dream. We're going to pray. Father,

thank you for this day. It is a day that

you have made and we will always rejoice and be

glad in it, God. We thank you. We don't take

lightly that you show up. Some places don't know what

it's like for the manifested presence of God, but here

we are lucky enough that you would show up here

in Tulsa, Oklahoma. And God, I'm asking that you would

just continue doing what it is that you're doing. Let

your weight fall in this room in a way that

cannot be denied. I've done the studying that I can do,

but where I am limited, I ask that you would

anoint me beyond my limitations. I pray that I would

have the tongue of a ready writer that would speak

only the words. that you have spoken through me. God,

there's somebody that's looking through the glass of their life

and they feel like they're on empty. They feel like

they don't have hope. They don't have a dream. And God,

I'm asking you that through this word that you would

breathe life back into them, that you would breathe hope

back into your people, that they would know that a

God who has begun the work is able and he

will complete it. We love you. We bless your name.

And as I pray always, Holy Spirit, would you set

me on fire so the whole world can watch me

burn for you? It's in Jesus' name we pray. Everybody said? Amen. Amen. Say,

it was all a dream. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was

all a dream. I want to give you as my

main thought. So if you don't hear me say anything

after this, I want you to leave with this. This

is what I want you to leave with. A dream

is God giving you a memory of a future that

you haven't lived yet. If I don't say anything else,

I preached enough right there. A dream is God giving

you a memory of a future that you haven't lived yet.

It's a memory to God because he does not live

in time. He does not live in time. He is

not bound by time. So when he speaks a thing,

it is automatically happened in eternity. But when it comes

to the earth, it takes some time for that word

to develop. And so the memory that the dream that

God gives you has already happened in the spirit, but

the earth has got to catch up to what he's

already said. Are you following me? And so I want

you to know dreams are a tool of kingdom communication.

Whenever God wants to speak to a person, when he

wants to warn somebody, challenge somebody, correct somebody, redirect somebody,

he will oftentimes use a dream. Now, I want to

help unpack some things. God doesn't just give dreams to

church folks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know sometimes we want

to coddle these things ourselves, but see, God chooses who

he wants to give a dream to. He may give

a dream to people of God. He may even give his,

he may give a dream to people who are enemies

of his plan. The reason why I know that is

in Genesis 20 and three, he says to Abimelech, hey,

you are as good as dead if you put your

hands on Sarah because she has, she's playing a role

in the promise that I'm going to do through Abraham.

So the first time we ever see dream, it's not

God giving a vision to To his people. It's giving

it to somebody that's an enemy. I'll get there in

a second. But I want to talk more about 17

chapters later in Genesis 37 where he gives Joseph a dream. Yeah,

he gives Joseph a dream. Now, in the first half

of that, this Hebrew definition has two sides to it.

The first side of the definition means a nocturnal vision,

meaning it happens at night or a divine message. But

then when we get to Genesis 37, when it comes

to Joseph, God then expands the definition, meaning it means

to become healthy. It means to recover, and it becomes

to be made firm and to be made strong. Now,

if I could just sum all of what I just

said in this moment into one sentence, I want you

to know that God's dream is for you to become

the enemy's worst nightmare. Yeah, because the thought of you

having a future is a nightmare to the enemy. The

thought of you recovering what you lost is a nightmare

to the enemy. The thought of you being better than

where you were before is a nightmare to the enemy.

God is such a gangster. He will give a vision

to the devil and say, hey, you remember that person

you stole and killed and thought you destroyed? They're still alive.

And not only that, they're going to be better after this.

It's a nightmare. to the enemy. I just need somebody

to say, I'm the devil's worst nightmare. Yeah, yeah. That's

why God brought me here on the earth, not to

make friends with people, not to be negotiating with the devil,

but when I come in the room, it's the devil's

worst nightmare. Not because of me, but because who lives

on the inside of me. And if you know that

the devil tried to do everything that he could to

stop your dream from becoming a reality, but you're still

here right now, can you holler back at me? and

let me know that you know that you are the

devil's worst nightmare. If he couldn't deal with me before, then... Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

If he thought I was dead back then, then he

has no idea because I haven't even seen yet what

God's about to do in me. So if you're scared

of me now, then you... Okay. All right. So God's

intention of the dream... is to reveal to the enemy

that you are his worst nightmare. The prophecy was given

in the book of Joel, and it shows up in

Acts 2 and 17. It says, your sons and your

daughters shall prophesy, your young men will see visions, and

your old men shall dream dreams. I want to unpack

the word old here, because some of my saints get

on me when I be saying my old saints, they

don't like it. But I want you to know old

is a blessing. Amen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Old is a blessing. And I want to also point

out in this moment, this word old doesn't just pertain

to age. No, this word old means to spiritual leadership. Yeah,

this word old goes to spiritual authority. Watch this, the

spiritually mature. And so I got to be honest for

a second. You know me. I got to ruffle some

feathers because that's what the word is supposed to do.

It's supposed to convict us. I'm a little frustrated with

the old that the scripture is talking about because the

scripture says it's been prophesied that the old shall dream dreams.

And the reason why we are in the situation that

we're in right now is because the church has stopped dreaming. Yeah,

the reason why the government is in chaos is because

the church has stopped dreaming. The reason why the communities

are at war with each other is because the church

has stopped dreaming. Okay. It's going to be that kind

of Sunday. It's going to be that kind of Sunday.

The reason why we see and we are blindsided by

natural disasters and things happening in the earth and we're

caught by surprise is because the church has stopped dreaming.

so I want to give you an opportunity to make

yourself aware that up to this moment it's been it's

been on me that I I haven't spoke on behalf

of the kingdom But today is the day that I

make a decision to be the mouthpiece that God has

called me to be. Now, I'm not talking about, if

you're talking about a dream for your new car, I'm

not talking to you right now. It says spiritually mature.

If you believe in God for a house, that's awesome.

But I'm not talking about that dream. If you believe

in God for a bay and a boo and a spouse,

that's beautiful. I'm not talking to you right now. But

for those that want a dream that says, God, I

want to be in alignment with what's happening in the

heavenly realm. I want to see it in the earth.

If that's your heart's cry, then somebody shout at me, God,

give me a dream. God, I want a dream that

when you speak it, it causes things to realign in

my family. God, give me a dream. Give me a

dream that'll save my whole bloodline. God, give me a dream.

Give me a dream that will cause redemption to happen

in Tulsa. God, give me. God, give me. God, give me.

Can you just wave your hands in the room and say, God,

give me a dream. I don't want to just come

to church and thank you for blessings. I need a

dream that scares the devil. I want a dream that

scares me. I want a dream that says, God, are

you sure you want me to do this? I want

a dream that makes me scared because I got to

be dependent on the one that gave me the dream. Ooh,

I feel God right here. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. God says,

I'm about to pour out my spirit. If for those

who want it, you can receive it. I'm about to

give you a dream that scares you because it don't

look like who you are right now. You think God

has been done with you for the old saints. You

think God has done with you, but God says, your

old men, and that's not men, that's also mankind, shall

dream dreams. God says, I'm giving you permission to dream again.

Forget your disappointment. I'm giving you permission to dream again.

Forget about what the bank says. We don't have the

amount to cover for. I'm giving you permission to dream again.

All right. Now, I got to keep going. I want

you to understand dreams are destinations, meaning dreams are not

meant to stay in your mind.

Yeah.

I'm about to get on some people who like to dream.

I'll get there in a minute. But dreams are not

meant to just stay in your mind. If a dream

stays a dream in your mind, then it becomes delusion.

And sometimes, if I could be honest, sometimes we come

to church and we live in Delululand because we know

what God has told us, but we put it on

hold and we're living in what he promised us and

not willing to help walk it out. And so I

want you to understand any dream that remains a dream

in the invisible world, but you still acting like it's

happening right now and you haven't done the necessary actions

to see it come to reality, then I tell you

it is delusion. But it don't have to stay that way.

I want to give you, there's a root. There's a

root to reality. Somebody say, there's a root to reality.

And I want to help escort you to getting out

of just falling in love with the dream, but I

want to escort you to what is reality. That means

whatever God has spoken, it is not just in the

invisible realm. It's just not in the internal realm, but

it's now showing up in the earthly realm. If you

are looking for God to do some things that he

has promised you, but you want to see it in

the land of the living, holler back at me. Because

David said, I would have fainted except I seen the

goodness of the Lord while I was yet in the

land of the living. I want you to know you

don't have to die to see some of the promises

that God has promised you. God says, I'm going to

bring heaven to you right here. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay.

So I want to walk you through the route to reality.

Number one. Number one. You ready? If you're from my

note takers, the first thing you've got to do is

you've got to receive the dream. Somebody say receive the dream.

I'm going to need production to help me a little

bit because when you're about to receive a dream, you

got to set the right environment. So can we do

that real quick? Can we just set the environment for

receiving a dream? You know when you're about to shut

down everything and you go into night mode on your

phone and things get nice and dark because you want

to prepare. You want to set the table. You want

to set the environment because the environment matters when you're

about to go into rest. I'm preaching, but you're missing it. See,

some of you don't even realize God designed sleep for

you to understand how he talks to you. Okay, you

need help. Okay, so in the natural realm, when it

comes to sleep, there's four stages of sleep. Yeah, there's

four stages. The first stage is called light sleep. Light

sleep is the ability where you close your eyes, basically,

and you begin to start to tune out the actual

world around you. But you are not deep enough in

the sleep to receive a dream. Yeah, you can easily

be interrupted, whether it be a sound on the phone

or the TV just a little bit too loud, or

even you have the ability to wake yourself up. So

the first stage is a light sleep, but it's not

deep enough for a dream. The second level is a

part where your heart rate and your temperature begins to

go down. Typically, people spend 45% of their sleep in

this area, but it's not deep enough for a dream.

The third one, the third one is called stage three.

Stage three is where you go into a deep slumber.

Deep slumber. Now, what happens in this one, and this

gets preached to me, because in this area in stage three,

the tissues that have been torn are being rebuilt. Rebuilt. Oh, God.

And the muscles that have been stretched, they are now

being developed. So you're getting stronger and you're healing through

this stage. But then there's not enough to get a dream.

You're not easily interrupted in the third, but you got

to go a little bit deeper. Somebody says go a

little deeper. You got to go to what is called

REM sleep. Oh, yeah. REM sleep is stage four where

you go to sleep and your eyes begin to open

from the inside and they blink so fast that they

begin to create vivid visions on their own. So it's

almost like the body is creating its own reality even

though you're asleep. That's in the natural and so it

is in the spiritual. See, your body needs sleep but

your spirit needs rest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. To get

a dream, the body needs REM sleep. But to get

a dream from the Lord, your spirit needs rest. You

need rest. That's why the scripture says, come unto me,

all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I

will give you rest. The word rest in that text

means spiritual refreshment. If you need spiritual refreshment, holler back

at me for a moment. Let me know I'm not

talking to myself. See, spiritual refreshment. Now, see, this is

why the enemy tries to attack you. He ain't trying

to steal your joy. He's trying to keep you busy.

Because he knows if you get to that level of

rest where God can talk to you, then all the

answers that you need are in that depth of rest.

And some of you haven't received a dream because you

haven't gone deep enough in rest. You haven't gotten deep

enough in peace. You got to be so deep in

this thing that people talking about you can't interrupt your

rest in the presence of God. You don't care about

the bills. You don't care about what people have said.

You don't care about your past failures or your shame

because you're so deep enough in your peace, so deep

enough in your dream state, so deep enough in the

peace of God that things that are around you don't

bother you. And I just need to prophesy to some

people who've been having trouble sleeping. Yeah, the enemy's been

antagonizing you with anxiety. He's been antagonizing you with worry

and depression and thoughts of suicide. He's been keeping you

up all night. But God says after tonight, it's going

to be the best sleep you ever had because you're

about to find that rest is in the presence of God.

Rest for your soul. It's coming. Yeah. Rest for your mind.

It's coming. Rest for your family. Rest for your marriage.

Rest for your vision and your dream. God says, I'm

about to set the table. I want you to go. Listen, listen.

God says, I'm about to let you go to sleep

because when you go to sleep, it gives me permission

to work. If you look throughout the Bible, a lot

of times God will put the people into sleep so

that he can do what he really wants to do.

And so some of you trying to stay awake, you're

getting in the way of the hand of God. God says,

I'm not going to do this until you lay down

because I don't want it to be twisted. Who did this?

God says, I want you to look at your neighbor

and say, go to sleep. Go to sleep. Stop staying up. Stop.

You up more than anybody in the world. And you

forgot if he dresses the lilies, then how much does

he care about you? If he watches the sparrow, how

much is his mind on you? And you over here

getting in the way of what God wants to do

in your life because you're trying to assist him in

something you have no power in. So in the natural,

it requires you to go to sleep. In order for

you to get to REM sleep, your body has to

go to a passive state. You have to go to

a place where you're still, where you're not moving. That's

why fasting is important. You got to get to a

place where you're not moving. You got to stay still

and let God do what he's going to do. And

so some of you, you're going to go to sleep

and God's going to give you the dream. And he says,

when you wake up, what you went to sleep on

ain't going to look the same okay yeah yeah yeah

yeah Adam went to sleep and woke up with a

wife now I'm telling you you won't He just woke

up and God was like, while you were sleeping, this

is what I've been doing. I'm talking about Adam, but

I'm really talking about you because you think God can't

do it. And God going to say, while you were sleeping,

I got rid of that tumor. While you were sleeping,

while you were sleeping, all those bills have been covered.

While you were sleeping, I was working. God is a

God that slumbers no sleep. He says, I don't sleep,

so you can't. But I just need about 30 people

who've been struggling with sleep and you feel the presence

of God just beginning to rest on you. And you say,

I'm going to hand this thing over to God because

the battle ain't mine. The battle is the Lord's. So

he's going to do it while you were sleeping. That's

number one. Number two is you've got to speak the dream.

Don't fall in love with the dream so much that

you forget to wake up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got

to receive the dream, but that ain't it. Because see,

we shout over receiving the dream. We receive the vision

God has for us. We receive the promise, the prophecy,

whatever that is. But then we fall so in love

with that about what God's going to do. And God says,

when are you going to get up? My alarm clock

done went off already. It's 2026. You're supposed to do

this in 2024. When are you going to wake up?

You keep saying, yeah, God is leading me to do this.

God is calling me to do this. God has been

unctioning me to do this. And here we are in

another year, and you're about to write the same thing

down for 2027 because you haven't waken up yet. I

just need you to upset your neighbor next to you

and say, baby, it's time to wake up. It's time.

It's time to wake up. Lives are depending on you.

It's time to wake up. Time for you to wake up.

Time for you to wake up. Time for you to

wake up. It's time for you to wake up. Wake church,

wake up. TC, wake up. It's not enough to keep

prophesying what the church is. It's time to wake up.

So you got to speak the dream. And when it

comes to receiving a dream, if you need scripture, in Job,

if you remember, there was a moment where Job was

going through everything that he lost. I just want to

park and give you scripture. I don't want you to

think I'm making stuff up. In Job, on the first one,

if you remember in Job 33, 14 through 16, it says,

For God may speak in one way or in another,

yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in

a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon

men while slumbering on their beds. Then he opens their

ears and seals their instruction. I just want you to

know that I didn't make that up. That was actually scripture.

God waits for some of y'all to go to sleep

so he can tell you what he's been waiting to

tell you. Y'all got it.

All right.

Now we got to speak the dream. We got to

speak the dream because nothing happens until something is spoken.

Yeah.

Yeah. I know you wish God would be your butler.

I knew it. I know. I know it would be

so much simpler if Jesus was Santa Claus, but he's not.

And so because of that, when he gives you a dream,

he expects you to speak what he said to you

back to him. Because you know why? Because to say

it back to him means that you are in agreement

with the thing God said. You need scripture. I got you.

Genesis 37 and 5 says, now Joseph had a dream

and he told. Let's just stop right there. Joseph had

a dream and he told. You don't tell unless you

actually believe what you were told. Now, the other part

of the scripture, I got to prepare you. I got

to prepare you. Speaking the dream causes you to now

know the individuals in your life, what role they're going

to play in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

When you speak the dream, everybody ain't going to shout

about it.

No.

And I'm not just talking about the devil. He never

shouts about it. I'm talking about people that you grew

up with, that you thought would be excited that what

God spoke to you, you would be excited about. But

I need you to be prepared because, see, when God

speaks a thing, the earth begins to obey and begins

to take form. So your allies are going to be

in agreement with what God has said. But your adversaries

are going to be against you. Now, this is the

part that gets me happy because although they're against me,

they can only be in alignment to what God has said. No,

because see, some of you think your enemies can stop

the dream from, okay. Some of y'all think because of

who is against you that the dream won't come to pass.

I'm telling you through scripture and the revealing of Joseph's story,

it does not matter who's against you. They can't be

against the promise. Amen. The best thing they can do

is get in alignment to what God has said. I'm

about to get ahead of myself. So even if they

throw me in the pit, it's all right because it's

in alignment with the path that God has said. So

if you need scripture, you know, for we say this

all the time, for we know that all things work

together for the good. So that means all things is

inclusive of everything, exclusive of nothing. That means that the

good things and the bad things work together to get

me to what God has promised. I want you to

visualize that there's a conference call. And on the one

side of the table is good, and on the other

side of the table is bad. And they are figuring

out what they're going to do with you. And then

there's somebody at the middle of the table saying, whatever

y'all do, it's got to be for the good. So

your allies is on one side saying, we got to

do this for them and we got to do this

for them. And then the adversaries on the other side say, well,

we don't want to do that. We want to do

it this way and we want to prevent them from

doing that. And I think we can hinder them here.

And God is at the top of the table saying,

no matter what y'all do. If you ever been in

a meeting, this ought to get happy for you because

that means that God said, nothing can happen to you.

Without God knowing, it's going to work out for your good.

So sometimes when you're praying, sometimes you just need to

call bad on the other side and say, hey, I

just want to remind you, you still work for me. Hey,

I just called to let you know, I just got

word from God. I know what you're planning. I know

what you're plotting. I know what you're doing. But I

need to remind you, at the end of this, it's

got to work for my good. Ha ha ha. I

just got myself happy because I remember what the hater

said about me. But I just got to remind you,

you still work for me. I remember the heartbreak, but

I reminded it, you still work for me. I remember

the pain, but I reminded it, you still work for me. Hey,

oh yeah, you work for me. Somebody say, it's working

for you. You crying and it's working. You frustrated and

it's working. That's why I go to, nothing can stop. Listen,

my wife will tell you, I might be narcoleptic because

nothing get in the way of my sleep. But once

I realize who God was in my life, I just

fall asleep on anything. Hey, Roosevelt, I just want you

to know this is going on in your body. You laughing,

but I'm preaching. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You laughing, but I'm preaching.

God is looking for some of y'all like he was

on the boat. Do you care that we perish? I'm

sleeping because I know what the end result is going

to be. And I believe, God, that when I wake up,

it won't look the same. Okay. All right. I said

I would get us out of here in the time

I'm going to do it. Now we get to, oh, God.

Somebody's got to hold on to that word. It's working

for you. It's working. That lie, it's working for you.

The people making fun of you, it's working for you.

The job saying that they can't fund you no more,

it's working for you. The job letting you go after

all the years you put in, it's working for you.

It's working for you. So how would you sleep knowing?

I'm going to sleep like Elon Musk. It ain't my

job to figure out this stuff. Ain't that what I

paid you to do? Didn't God say that this is

going to end for my good? Then why am I

losing sleep over something? One, I got the God, the

CEO of all of this. He neither slumbers nor sleeps.

So why am I trying to compete with the God

that don't sleep? It's working for you. So some of

you are going to have to call some people and say, hey,

you tried to cut me off. But I want to

thank you. Yeah, I know you thought you was going

to break my heart, and I thought I would never

find love together, but I want to thank you. Because

you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.

All right, I got to move. I got to move.

So God reminds the good and the bad that they

have to work for you. Number three is now we

live the dream. Closing. Kind of. So God gives us

the promise. We're excited about it. We're so excited about

it that we don't keep it on the inside. We've

got to speak this thing. Now it's time to live it. Now,

I want to go back to our key text today

of Isaiah 55. If we could pull that up on

the screen, I want to kind of tell you and

explain through illustration what this looks like. It says, so

shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth.

This is God. it shall not return to be void.

Let's park here. The God that you worship does not

live in the same restrictions that you do. So although

you're going through something that requires time, when God says it,

it's already done. He says, literally, God speaks a thing

from eternity. and automatically it shows up on the other

side as done. So God gives a promise on one

end and immediately what he promised on the other side

of eternity is presented. So you got the God of

the promise and you got the God of the presentation.

The God of the promise and the God of the presentation.

Now because our world can't handle Every single eternal word

that comes from God, he creates a process. Because the

earth cannot handle every word from God at one time.

I would venture to say that God could have created

everything in one day, but he had to teach us

the potency of process. The God that you serve, he

speaks a thing. This is why he had to even

say Lazarus come forth because his word's so powerful. If

he had just said come forth, probably everything in there

would have came out. And so you got to understand

that when God speaks, and we probably would have been running.

We probably wouldn't have been no more scripture because we

all would have left. All right. But I want you

to understand God is not confined to time. When he

speaks a promise, it is automatically presented. So you got

God of the promise and you got God of the presentation.

So the moment he says a thing in eternity, it's

already done. But because we live in the earth, you

don't believe what I'm saying. Thy kingdom come, thy will

be done on earth as it is in heaven. That

means when God says a thing from heaven, it already is.

Not that with things that might happen. No, let the

kingdom come on earth as it already is. So when

God speaks a thing in heaven, it is already done.

But because it's got to show up on earth and

the earth cannot withstand the power that is in your

father's mouth, we've got to go through what's called a process.

This is where we are. Now, typically, if I showed

you the path, when I think of the path from

promise to process to presentation, you would think it's a

straight line. God gives me a word. I'm going to

walk down to my process. It's going to be nice

and pretty. And then I'm going to end up here

at presentation. I know we all wish that a promise

of God looked exactly like that. But according to the

story of Joseph, that's not exactly how it goes. How

it goes with the story of Joseph is, is there's

a promise, God is speaking from eternity and it's already

done in the presentation and then Joseph's got to go

through the process. I wanna show you what the process

looks like. Process looks like, I see the word God's

promised me over there but everything around me is just dark.

And I've got to hold on to the word that

God gave me because his word is a light unto

my path and a lamp unto my feet. So here

we are. We're going to just kind of take this

moment to show you what walking by faith really looks like.

All right. His word is a light to my path.

and a lamp to my feet. I remember what he

promised me, and I think I'm going to follow this

light to get me to the presentation. On the count

of three, I'm ready. Let's go. Here we go. One, two, three, go. Wait. Wait,

the presentation is over there, Holy Spirit. Can't we just

go this way? Why are you going that way? Now,

you got a decision to make, people of God. Would

you rather risk walking in the dark not knowing how

to get there? Although you think you know how you

need to get there. Or are you going to let

the word of God be a light unto your path

and a limper to your feet? And so step by step,

I'm following the light. I don't know where this light's

going to take me. But with each step, now God,

I got to be honest. I feel like I'm getting

further away from the promise you gave me. Why are

we going this way? Can't we just go the other way?

It would be more advantage. I got people waiting. I

posted about it. Can't we just go that way? I

feel God right here. Some of you been arguing with

God and you're saying, God, what you promised me don't

look nothing like what I'm at right now. But you

got to understand God wants you to pick up some things.

On the way to what you're about to become, you've

got to understand God's not going to present you until

he's proven you. And so he stops me here at

the pit stop called peace. The peace I receive right

here is to say, I believe what God is saying

and I'm going to trust him on this path. Now,

let me help you before we start moving again. The

peace you have right now has got to last you

for the whole journey.

Oh, God.

The peace you're receiving when he gave you the promise,

it's got to be strong enough to carry you because

you have no idea where you're about to go. And

the Holy Spirit starts leading you yet again. And so

here we are moving again. And God, I feel like

things are getting a little down. Things are moving up.

a little slow to moving at a pace where I

feel like I could be doing this better on my own,

but I got to lean on him. I got to

trust and depend on him. I got to trust in

the Lord with all my heart and lean not to

my own understanding. And when the light's starting to move

a little too fast, I got to try to catch

up with the light because the light is my only

way to make it through. If I don't stay with

the light, then I'm going to get lost. If I

don't stay with the light, I'm going to be in

the dark. If I don't stay in the light, I'm

going to be lost. I got to stay with the light.

And God stops me again. He stops me here because

I need some faith right here. I need some faith

right here because when God spoke it, I feel like

I'm nowhere near what he said. And I got to

have faith to fuel me to say the same God

that gave me the promise is the same God that

he will not let me die until I get to

what he said. And so I say, God, I trust you.

You are dependent. You always show up. You never let

me fall. Foundation, I build my life on you. I

remember you never fail. And we start walking again. And

the light starts leading me. The light starts leading me.

And I'm taking the steps. I'm taking the steps. And

my friends stop calling me, but I got to keep

taking the steps. And And people have forgotten about me.

I feel like I got distant relatives now. I feel

like my friends have turned to enemies, but I got

to keep stepping. And I find myself in the middle

of a pit. Oh, God. I got myself stuck right

here in the middle of a pit. And so some

of you, you don't know what you need to pick

up here because you find yourself at the lowest point.

Yeah.

I'm talking about this, but I'm really preaching about my

own story. And when you find yourself in a pit,

something you got to hold on to is your prayer.

Some of you won't learn how to pray until you

get to a pit. So God, even though he gave

you the promise up there, you've got to trust him

in the middle of this pit. And so some of

you didn't become the intercessor that you are right now

had it not been for the pit. Some of you

ought to give God glory because you learned how to

pray in the pit. I learned how to praise in

the pit. I learned how to worship in the pit.

You know why I'm praying in the pit? Because I

know God won't let me die here. Whose word is this?

I'm talking to you. God's not going to let you

die in this pit. I know it's low right now,

but he who has begun the work, he's able to

complete it. You will live and not die. You will

live and testify the goodness of the Lord. While you're

yet in the land of the living. So I learned

how to pray in the pit. Ooh, God. God taught

me how to pray. It wasn't no now I lay

me down to sleep praise. No, I learned how to

pray in the Holy Ghost in the pit. I learned

how to speak a language that the devil don't understand.

I learned it in the pit. I learned how to

speak the word of God over my family life in

the pit. I learned how to trust in God with

all of my life and I learned it in the pit.

Who's right here right now? Holler at me. I says,

you will not die because if you die, then he's alive.

He says, my word is banking on this. He says,

when I give a word, it cannot return back to

me void. Now, this is the thing. If the dream dies,

then I will submit to you. It's not something God

promised you. Because, see, I thought football was going to

be my promise. I thought making millions and playing and

taking care of my family and playing every Sunday for

a professional football team, I thought that was going to

be my promise. And so only in the pit, the

only thing that's going to survive is the real promise

of God. So I had to have a funeral service

for everything I thought was me. I had to have

a eulogy for my own plans. I had to have

a eulogy for my own vision. I had to have

a eulogy for my own promise that I made over myself.

I know you feel like quitting, but trust him through

the pit and he's going to guide you out. And

so now we're walking yet again and God's leading. It's

leading God. And so what happens is now I start

to feel like I'm starting to come into the proximity

of the promise. I feel like I'm getting a little

closer with every step. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't

like the route God took me, but I now understand

if it wasn't for what he took me through, I

wouldn't be able to live this thing out. I would

have been like a seed that was thrown on the concrete.

I would have grew quickly, but I would have died

when the heat came on. And he stops you again.

And the next stop is you develop patience. Patience is

to say, God, I'm not where you promised me, but

I thank you for where you brought me. The only

reason why it's okay to look back, we're in the

year of four. The only time it's okay to look

back is when you're thanking God for how far he

brought you from.

Amen.

Because I really thought I was going to die in

that pit over there, but he brought me out. And

so I learned how to wait on God. Wait, I say,

on the Lord. They that wait on the Lord shall

renew their strength. I learned how to wait on him

at this stop. And God says, when you develop enough patience,

I want you to go a little further. He takes

you a little further. And you're following the light. It's

still dark. You see the promise. It feels like you

can almost touch it. You can almost touch the presentation.

You can almost touch the thing that God says, but

he's like, not yet. No, because I got to give

you some more things before you get there. And so

he makes you stop just a few more times, just

a few more times. He takes you to where you've

got to learn integrity. Yeah, a lot of people skip

right here. Because they see the promise real close. And

they say, oh, I could just skip God right here

because I see the path now. And then what happens

is you get to the position, but you can't stay

long because you ain't got no integrity. God says, I'm

taking you through this route. So when you're in the

position that I anoint you for, no one can move you.

Not the lives of people. not even the truth of

people can move you because of the integrity I've developed

on the inside of you. And so you stay with

God and he builds your character. He makes sure you're

the right person on and off the platform. He makes

sure that you're living a life that is holy and

pleasing unto him, that you present your body as a

living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto him, which is your

reasonable service. You learn how to be integrous And then

God leads you just a little bit further. And just

when you think you're about to approach the thing that

God has anointed you to walk into, he stops you

one more time. And you're like, Lord, why are we

stopping here? Slow down, Holy Spirit. It's right there. And

he wants you to grab one more thing. He wants

you to grab forgiveness. Because some of you are still

bitter in your heart for who decided to be an

adversary in your life. Some of you are mad at

the people who didn't call you when you was in

the pit. Some of you are going to want to

use when God elevates you as a time to step

on people that you thought forgot about you. And God says,

I can't trust you with the position until I know

that you know the only reason why I'm giving you

this position is to save lives. So to the person

that hurt me, I'm not even mad at you. To

the person that lied on me, I'm not even mad

at you. To the person that wrote me off and

said I was doing wrong and I know I wasn't

doing wrong, I'm not even mad at you. The person

that burnt my reputation, I'm not mad at you. Because

God is using this so that he can get the glory.

If you can hold on to forgiveness, God will trust

you with the presentation. The presentation is when God visibly

approves of you. Oh, God. This is the moment where

God says, this is my son and whom I'm well pleased.

This is my daughter and whom I'm well pleased. And

so now I'm in a place of presentation. Get this,

you know, I got to thinking about, I kind of

wanted to walk out the story of Joseph. And I

got to thinking to myself, I said, Holy Spirit, do

you know that we never know if the woman ever

came clean about Joseph? Y'all remember he was working at

Potiphar's house. Potiphar's wife was acting crazy. I ain't going

to get too much into it because I know we

got some kids in here. And because of this lie,

he goes to jail. And we don't ever know at

the end of the story was Joseph ever pardoned for

the lies that was told on him. I want to

give you this note before I close. Vindication from God

is weightier than exoneration from man. Listen, it don't matter

who was wrong about you as long as you know

God was right I don't care who was wrong about me.

I don't care the rumors they said about me. I'm

not even trying to defend the lies anymore. I don't

care who was wrong. I know God was right. So

I want to pray for you today. I kept my word.

I want to pray for you today. There's some of

you that have been having trouble sleeping You've tried all

the peels, all the thrills, all that stuff. And you've

been living in this place of anxiety. You've been listening

to me preach. And you say, Roosevelt, it makes sense now.

I got friends over at my house and I still

feel alone. I got money in the bank and I

still feel broke. I got friends and I still feel

lonely and I don't know what's going on. I can't

sleep at night. So I'm always up scrolling on TikTok.

I just don't, I don't have peace. I want you

to understand you will not have peace unless you know Jesus.

And Jesus is enough, because I know we create this

culture where it's like Jesus and sage, Jesus and Zodiac. No,

the scripture says that he says that I am the way,

the truth, and the life. No man comes to the

Father except by me. So every head bowed and every

eye closed. If you're in this room and you now

realize you've been living a restless life because you don't

have Jesus, and you're saying, I need Jesus in my life.

On the count of three, I want you to raise

your hand. One, two, three. I see your hand. I

see your hand. Wow, I see your hand. I see

your hand. I see your hand. Yeah, I see your hand.

I see your hand in the back. You know, Scripture

says that heaven rejoices over one soul. I just saw

six people raise their hands. When is the party going

to happen in the earth like it is in here?

You can put your hands down. God bless you. The

next person I want to pray for is, you know Jesus.

And you haven't been in a position because you've been

letting work get in the way. You've been letting people

get in the way. You've been letting doubt and fear

get in the way. And you haven't been able to

receive a dream from God. And you're saying, God, I'm

ready for that dream. The dream that's bigger than me.

I'm ready for that dream. If that's your heart's cry,

I want you to raise your hands on the count

of three. One, two, three. I see your hand. I

see your hand. I see your hand. I see your hand.

I see your hand. So hands are going up. You

can put your hand down. Last prayer call is I'm

going to pray for the one that's going through the

process of living the dream. And you are just about

this close to giving up on God because you're frustrated

that this looks nothing like what he promised me. I

don't know why I'm in Tulsa. It don't even make sense.

And every time I try to leave, it seemed like

every door just keep closing on me. And you in

that pit right now and you're saying, God, I just

need you to talk to me, to walk me through

this time in the pit while I'm on my way

to the platform of you presenting me. The scripture says,

humble yourself under the mighty hand of God so that

he may elevate you in due season. That's the word

of God. He's going to elevate you in due season.

But if that's your heart's prayer, you feel like you're

about to give up, I want you to raise your

hand on the count of three. One, two, three. See

your hand. See your hand. If you raise your hand

for any of those prayer calls, could you raise your

hand right there? Everybody. I want you to all lift

your head up and look around you and see how

not alone you are. Because that's what the enemy wants

you to believe. He wants you to believe that you'll

never recover. He wants you to believe that you'll never

be anything. He wants you to believe that you're in

this pit by yourself. But I want you to be

reminded that God is with you always. Even when the

Sunday service closes, God is with you always. So I

want to do one thing. I want us to all stand.

If we raised our hands, if we could stand together.

And even if you didn't, let's stand together. We want

to pray this prayer of salvation. Nobody prays alone. Can

we all lift our hands toward heaven? This is a

sign of surrender. This is a sign saying, God, I

give up my way for yours. I give up my

plan for yours. I was devastated when I thought football

wasn't going to be it because I was like, Lord,

there's no other way. I grew up in the hood.

There's no other way we can provide for a family

unless I play football. unless I'm a rapper, and I'm

not going to be a rapper. This is not going

to happen. This is not going to happen. Not going

to happen. I'll sing, but I'm not rapping. And God

told me, I'll never forget this. He said, remember my house, Roosevelt,

and I'll remember you. I didn't know what that meant.

I didn't know what that looked like, because you're thinking, oh,

become a pastor. No, I waited for when God would,

Give me those unctions to help out at the church.

And so wherever there was a need at a church,

I just showed up. And so I remember watching my

granddad cut the grass. And I was like, Lord, I

know you ain't telling me to open the lawn service.

That cannot. There's no way that my friend is going

to watch me thinking I'm going to play football and

think I'm going to just open a lawn service. That

is not happening. Holy Spirit said, I want you to

help him. And I walked to my granddad and said,

God told me that I need to help you. So

I said, okay. If you need me to do anything,

I'll help. He said, thank you, son. Can you cut

this grass for me? And I'm cutting the grass mad

in an unseen place like a pit. God, this don't

look nothing like what you promised. I'm cutting the grass

and there's a man across the street. He works for Pepsi. Pepsi.

And he has these case of Faygo's. If you're from

the hood, you know what a Faygo is. Hallelujah. Oh, glory.

And for no reason, anytime he saw me cutting that grass,

he'd call me to his house, and he'd give me

two cases to walk home to the projects to my mom. Now,

that didn't mean nothing to him, but he didn't know

that we didn't have no food. Remember my house. I'll

remember you. The drummer is not showing up to church.

And so for some reason, we don't have no drummer.

And God just keeps whispering, remember my house. I'll remember you.

And I started playing drums for the church and the

keyboard player left. And so God says, remember my house.

I don't know how to play keyboard, God. Remember my house.

I'll remember you. And so in three months, I teach

myself how to play the keyboard. Sitting with God with

a keyboard with double nine-volt batteries with no electricity in

the house. I'm telling you what I lived through. I'm

telling you what I went through in a hood with

no lights, a hood with no water. And all I

got is this keyboard with nine-volt batteries on the inside.

And I'm like, God, I don't even know what I

need this for. I don't know what I need this

keyboard for. It don't make sense. I need to provide

for my family. Remember my house. I'll remember you. I'll

never forget the first time I got my first check

playing keyboard for the church. It was $ 50. And they

took out the tie. Yeah. Yeah, they did. Because if

you're faithful over the little things... Because y'all think I

just showed up on the scene. I need you to

know that this has been years of trusting God when

it didn't look lucrative, when it didn't make sense, when

I didn't have water, when I didn't have lights. I'm

living the dream God promised me. And this dream is

so much before me. My mom wasn't supposed to have kids.

And the prophet came to her before she had her

first child and said, hey, I see your son. And

he's standing in front of thousands of people. He says,

he's standing in front of thousands of people. I can't

tell if he's singing or if he just did a

touchdown or if he's preaching, but the room is in

a riot. And she sat there and smiled and said,

She don't know I can't have kids. But she held

on to the dream. She had a first child. First

child is a woman. Girl. Had a second child. Second

child is a girl. And most people would just be

happy that they got a baby. But she said, I

know what I saw. I don't know who this is for.

But don't forget what you saw. December 31st, 1989, on

a Sunday, in the middle of a watch night service,

my mama water breaks. And she's leading the praise and worship.

The waters break. The preacher telling, hey, you need to

go call the doctor. You need to go ahead and

head out. But she won't stop singing and clapping. She said,

I'm not going nowhere until the paramedics get here because

I'm going to pray this promise out of me. The

doctors get me to the hospital and they say, ma'am,

we're so sorry because of complications. We don't know if

Roosevelt's going to make it. If he does somehow survive,

he won't ever be able to grow. He'll never be

able to speak. Isn't that crazy? But look what God

has done. I said all of that to say, and

we're closing, I promise you. Because I said I was

going to get you out. But I want you to know,

the promise had nothing to do with me. This was

long before I got here. I had no choice but

to be before you today, you know. And the only

way I got here was serving the Lord's house. I

remembered the Lord's house and he never forgot me. So

I just want to challenge you. Some of you guys

calling you to serve in a ministry, serve in a conference.

I want you to make the challenge to say, God,

I don't know what it is you need, but whatever

it is you need, I will meet that need. And

don't make it some drawn-out thing. Ask around, hey, how

can I help the church? How can I serve the church?

I'm telling you, remember God's house. I am living and

standing before you today, and I'm telling you, he'll remember you.

Let's lift our hands. I know I had your hands

up for a long time. I'm sorry. Repeat this prayer

after me. Father, I've heard your word. I receive it. Father,

I feel your presence. I embrace it. Thank you for Jesus.

Thank you for making him who knew no sin all

of mine. I admit I've fallen short. I've made some mistakes.

I've sinned, but I believe in my heart. that Jesus,

the son of a virgin, lived a sinless life and

died on the cross for me. But when he got up,

when he was raised from the dead, strong and victorious,

because he lives in me, And because I live in him,

I'm getting up too. I'm getting up with authority. I'm

getting up with promise. I'm getting up with power. Satan,

take your hands off my future. What God has spoken

cannot be reversed. Holy Spirit, Lead me. Guide me. Change me.

Transform me. My life is yours. In Jesus' name, somebody

shout amen. If you know hell lost another one, somebody

shout in this house today. Hallelujah. Welcome to the family.

If you made that declaration here or online, I want

to challenge you to text SAVE to 828282. And also,

for those that are making that decision with Jesus, I

want you to meet us in the back. As you leave,

look for the GOT SAVE signs in the lobby. and

stop by the Salvation Station. Our team would love to

celebrate with you. And if you need prayer, the altar

is open. Meet us down here as we pray and worship.

Transformation TC Nation, I'm about to meet you in the back.

I want to pray with you. I want to talk

with you. Until next time, I'll see y'all at homecoming.

Go out and live a transformed life. We love you.

See you next week.