Anniversary Conference 2017 (Friday PM) - Bishop Tony Kemp (September 29, 2017) | Life Bible Church

Turn to 2 Peter chapter 3 and we should take

2 Peter 3 · chapter mention

off. In 2 Peter 3 verse 18, the Holy Spirit speaks

2 Peter 3:18

to us through this wonderful man of God, this

apostle. And here's the word that's given to

us. Grow in the grace and the knowledge of our

Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory.

Everybody say now and forever. Grace. That presence

of God. That divine influence. That power of

God. Knowledge, not information. Everybody say

intimate knowledge of God. Oh, in case you didn't

know, I'm African American and we talk in church.

And all of you are going to be people of color

tonight. And I'm going to talk to you. You're

going to talk to me. We're going to talk to God.

And you're going to talk to each other. Are you

with me now? And as I'm teaching the word, if

you hear a word and you got your neighbor beside

you and you know that's a word from the Lord

for them, just say, girl, you know that's for

you. Are you with me? And even if you want to

have a little fun, you can go, ooh, that's a

good word for me. I take that right now. Now,

how many of y 'all going to talk to me while

I'm talking to you? Now I'm going to hold you

to it now. In fact, what am I doing up there?

See, this, you know, I asked pastor, I said,

now, you know, because, you know, we're here

to help. So I said, what you been preaching on?

He said, reach. Look at somebody say, you could

use some of that. And, you know, I think it's

Philippians 3 .13 where the Apostle Paul says,

it's one thing I do. Right? I think the Greek

word they're forgetting is epilentano, I think,

which means, you know, to, it's interesting.

It's an interesting word because it actually

means to deliberately ignore what's in your past.

To intentionally leave your past behind. To purposefully,

thank you, now there you go. Follow his example.

To purposefully consider your past as over with.

And really, when you look at this Greek word,

it means that your past, whatever it happens

to be back there, it's now obsolete. This is

interesting. Paul says, this one thing I do.

So he was very focused on it. Look at somebody

say, he's talking about growing up. So if I.

You know, okay, I'm starting to, okay, it's already

begun, okay. The man who's always looking at

his past cannot see his future. And the enemy

wants you to stay in your past. Because he knows

he can't keep up with you if you reach for what

is before you. You know, I find things interesting.

You know, you ever heard anybody say, I'm fixing

to go on a consecration? Raise your hands if

you, you know. Is that language that they use

over here? I'm not from around here. Do they

ever say, I'm fixing to go on a dedication or

consecration? If they use that language, you

ever heard it, raise your hands. Okay, they don't,

not many of y 'all heard that. Okay, when they

talk about, I'm fixing to go on a consecration,

I'm fixing to make a dedication. You know, I'm

fixing, it's kind of like, it's kind of like

to sanctify or to set yourself apart. Y 'all

use that language over here. Raise your hands.

Okay. Look at somebody said, this is an interactive

service. So it's funny because I think about

stuff because see, if I'm, if I'm gonna, if I'm

gonna. go on a consecration, if I'm gonna go

on a dedication, if I'm gonna go on to a time

of being set apart, I wonder if that means I'm

gonna go off of it. Because anything you go on,

You're going to get off. If you, John 8, if you

continue in my word. Everybody say reach. If

you continue in my word, you're my disciples

in reality and you will know the truth and the

truth will make you. The Greek word for free

means exempt. Does anybody need to reach and

continue in the word until what is affecting

other people you are exempt from? Look at somebody

say, reach your way into an exemption. Look at

somebody say, he's talking about growing now.

I just wonder, I wonder if sometimes we can't

sleep or our sleep is disturbed not because of

insomnia, but what if I was to say to you that

maybe the reason your sleep is disturbed is because

the Lord is seeking you. Maybe it's not insomnia.

Maybe you're being awakened for a revelation

that will bring an awakening. Has anybody had

their sleep disturbed lately? Wave your hands

and wave them. Oh, looks like we're talking awakening

here. I just wonder. See, when I teach, I prophesy

while I'm teaching. You know what I mean? And

I like to do it with style. Look at somebody

and say, it's a black thing. It's a black thing.

You know, you got to prophesy with finesse. I

wonder if, I wonder if, When the Holy Spirit

comes upon you and you begin to feel the need

to fast, if it is a signal that a previous season

is coming to an end, and you're being called

by the Spirit into a fast to get a new instruction

that will bring you into a new season. I wonder

if anybody has been feeling. I'm feeling like,

you know, I need to push the plate back. Y 'all

supposed to be talking to me. What happened to

y 'all? Anybody been feeling that? Wave your

hand unless you got a condition. We having a

miracle service. Sunday night. Get somebody else

to raise a hand for you, you know. How do I know

I'm coming into the end of a season? I will exhaust

the resources of that season. I keep a previous

instruction for an old season until a new instruction

comes that will usher me into a new season. Look

at somebody and say, grow in the grace. Grow

in the intimate knowledge of God. Well, wait

a minute now. Wait a minute. Let me see if I

got this right. So, you got saved. By Jesus Christ,

because you had some kind of a God encounter.

And when there's a divine God encounter, there

is a divine impact. when there's a divine encounter,

there is the revelation and the impartation of

a Holy Ghost treasure. Everybody say God encounter.

Supernatural impact. A God -given treasure. Everybody

say grace. But after the encounter, where I get

this treasure, I find myself at some point in

a trial. Look at somebody and say, he's warming

up now. I have this encounter with God and then

I find myself in a process. Everybody say process.

I really love the encounter. Not so crazy about

the process. The encounter is wonderful. It's

glorious. The problem with it is it's too brief.

But the process, the problem with it is it's

too long. If you're like me, you read the Bible,

but you don't pay attention sometimes to what

you read. Everybody say treasure, trial, encounter,

process. You know, we read Psalm 23, the Lord

is my shepherd, like it's the beginning of the

psalm, not understanding that it's a conclusion

written during the Feast of Tabernacles, representing

the presence and the glory. The Lord is my shepherd,

I shall not lie. He makes me to lie down in green

pastures. He leads me beside the still waters.

He be restoring, black English, he be restoring

my soul. It pops out on me, sometimes I can't

control it. He leads me in the path of righteousness.

For his namesake. Yay. Everybody say yay. Yay?

Really? About what comes next? Yay? Yes? Yes?

Not yay. Because though I walk through the valley

of the shadow of death, man, I want to run through

that valley. Look at somebody and say, it's a

valley you can't even run through. Yea, though

I walk, everybody say, through the valley. You

know, I can get so caught up in what I'm going

through that I leave sight of who and where I'm

going to. And when I lose sight of who and where

I'm going to, and I get caught up and too focused

on what I'm going through, I never get through.

I stay someplace that I was destined to leave.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow.

You ever been out and you saw a shadow and it

kind of scared you a little bit? The shadow of

death. I will fear no evil. Now that's very interesting.

You with me? You're Roger Staff. protection,

your correction. Your word, your spirit is with

me. You set a table of communion before me in

the presence of my enemies. Not just my enemy,

but my enemies. Then you anoint my head with

oil. Then my cup runs over. Okay, I want y 'all

to, okay. I know what to do. I know how to handle

this. Everybody say, survey says. Survey says.

How many of y 'all been praying for a greater

anointing? Raise your hands. Raise your hands.

That's why you got enemies. You set a table before

me in the presence of my enemies, and then you

anoint me. Look at somebody and say, in the trial,

you get a brand new anointing. Look at somebody

and say, a brand new intimacy with God. A new

knowledge of God. A new grace of God that you

didn't have before. You're gnawing my head with

it or my cup runs over. Surely, goodness and

mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.

I'm going to be in the presence. Hmm. Everybody

say treasure. Treasure. Trial. Trial. Everybody

say encounter. Encounter. Process. Process. You

know, what I do is I look in the Bible and I

see these patterns. Let me see if you can relate

to this. So Joseph is about 17 and he has a revelation

of visitation and encounter. And he sees his

future. Everybody say birth of a vision. Everybody

say faith. And as soon as he declares what he

sees. Everybody say, the process begins. The

process begins. His brothers throw him into a

pit. Because this brother, you know, Joseph talking

about the sun, my daddy, the moon, my mama, the

11 stars, all you, my brothers, y 'all going

to be bowed down to me. He goes from that to

the pit. Everybody go from the treasure into

the trial. From the encounter into the process.

Hmm. Y 'all gonna all bow down to me. Me, me,

me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. Then they

Jewish. We can't make no money just throwing

him in the pit. Let's sell this brother and make

some money. Now, you got to understand, my pastor

is Jewish, believer in Jesus. I work with Jewish

people. I like how they think. I mean, they like

2 % of the population and got like 40 % of the

wealth. Look at somebody and say, you could use

some Jewishness. Just saying. Ain't trying to

start no trouble. Just saying. So let's tell

this brother to make some money. The Bible, the

narrative says this. Then Joseph was brought

down to Egypt. Everybody say trial. Process.

Wait a minute. Everybody say birth of a vision.

By revelation and visitation. And encounter.

Everybody say death of a vision. Now you in the

process. Encounters brief. He spends, I don't

know, 10, 12, 13 years, whatever it was. It's

interesting that the Lord puts him in Potiphar's

house and makes him a servant. And so he's got

to be bowing down. Isn't that interesting? The

Lord wanted him to know what it felt like before

everybody was bowing down to him. Look at somebody

and say, you really bowed down in the process.

Look at somebody and say, the process of pain

is not the place of your presentation. Growing

the grace. Intimate knowledge of God. I'm persuaded

that when Joseph went through this process, He

was growing in the presence of God and the power

of God and the intimate knowledge of God and

that he was losing me. Everybody say birth of

a vision. Faith. Everybody say death of a vision.

Frustration. I wonder if he ever passed through

the place of fear where he feared this will be

my life forever. Hmm. I remember when I was pastoring

in Illinois, there was a woman, her name was

Catherine, and she was really going through.

So she started praying. Look at somebody and

say, when you're going through, you're going

to really pray. So she said, Lord, get me out

of this. Lord, get me out of this. One night,

the Lord comes to her in a dream, calls her by

name and says, I am not going to take you out

of this. I'm going to walk you through it. What's

the Lord been walking you through? Pastor Brad,

you know, some people don't think I'm anointed.

Can I tell you why they don't think I'm anointed?

Ask me why. Because they want me to pray them

out of their process. I can't pray you out of

your process. Look at somebody and say, you better

pray your way through your process. If Jesus

had an encounter with the living Father and the

Holy Ghost, heaven opens, the Holy Ghost falls,

and he's given a treasure, you're the son of

my love, in whom I'm well pleased, and he gets,

there's a divine impact of the Father, and he

receives the Spirit, he's full of the Spirit,

Luke 1, he's led by the Spirit, Luke 1. And he

goes immediately into a trap. And he's the pattern's

son. And he couldn't escape it. Look at what

somebody said. And he said, follow me. You know

what? At this point, I think I'll mess with you

just a little bit because I can. And because

y 'all not entertaining me enough. So I have

to entertain myself. And I'm going to give you

a scripture just for my own personal entertainment.

Look at somebody say pray for him. He's just

not right. First Peter chapter two. Verse 21.

For to you. To this you have been called because

the Messiah, the Hamashiach, suffered for you,

leaving you an example that you should follow

in his steps. Everybody say example. This is

an interesting Greek word. Hupo gramos. Everybody

say hupo gramos. Let me give you the word picture

in the Greek. The word picture in the Greek is

of a series of students, we'll call them disciples,

and a teacher who is writing Hebrews. 22 words,

right to left. And he's writing the letters of

the alphabet. And each disciple is watching the

teacher write the letters of the alphabet. Look

at somebody that said, the disciples are watching

what the teacher is doing. As the teacher writes

the word. Hupo gramos means that each student,

each disciple painstakingly tries to replicate

and duplicate each letter of the alphabet and

tries to make it exactly like his teacher. Look

at somebody and say, you're called to replicate

Jesus. When I put application to revelation,

I replicate Jesus. And I have a Jesus life and

in some way I have a Jesus. It's interesting

that when Jesus receives the Spirit, he's full

of the Spirit. And he's led by the Spirit. He

goes immediately into process. It's very interesting

what Jesus does. The first thing Jesus does is

he uses his faith on his own flesh to obey the

word of the Father. Not to heal the sick. Not

to cast out devils. not to do wonder works. Look

at somebody and say, follow in his steps. And

he thinks, Joshua 1 and 8, it is written, he

speaks, it is written, he sees to it that he

does, it is written. James 1 .22, be a doer of

the word, poetes, creative flair. Whatever you

hear the word, think of creative ways to put

the word of God into practice. This is what Jesus

does. Jesus uses his faith on his flesh to obey

the word of the Father. Jesus receives the Spirit.

He's full of the Spirit. He's led by the Spirit.

But Luke 4, 14 says Jesus, after that, returns

into, everybody say, the power of the Spirit.

Everybody say, receive the Spirit. Full of the

Spirit. Led by the Spirit. Hupo gramos. Everybody

say, the power of the Spirit. Now, isn't it interesting

that Mark 1 says, Jesus fasted for 40 days and

40 nights and angels attended him. And Matthew

says that angels attended. As if there's a relationship

between angelic ministry and the power of the

Spirit. So Jesus uses his faith on his flesh

to obey the word of the Father. After that, you

see Jesus using his faith to get answers to prayer.

You see Jesus uses faith to move in the gifts

of the Spirit. You see Jesus uses faith to manifest

the glory. Look at somebody and say, he's the

pattern son. Look at somebody and say, follow

his steps. What's going on in the process? Nothing

can be trusted until it's first tested. Look

at somebody and say, whatever can be tested can

be trusted. Now here's what Paul knew in his

day when he talked about saved by fire and every

man's work will be tried by fire. One of the

things Paul knew is, everybody say tried by fire.

When they had ceramic, the designer would put

a design in it. Look at somebody and say, the

ceramic piece had an encounter. But the more

valuable the piece, the more often they would

put it in fire so that the temporary design,

when it got fired up, would become a permanent

imprint. So when I have this encounter with the

living God, there's an impact. But when I walk

through the process successfully, thinking the

word, speaking the word, doing the word, the

impact becomes an imprint. With the Father's

thought in mind that I am to manifest Jesus in

the earth. If I get far enough in this process,

when I speak the word, there is no delay. Just

like the angel said and said, there'll be no

more delay. In the Greek, it means time will

be no longer. Look at somebody and say, when

you speak the word, heaven opens and kisses earth.

Everybody say, birth of a vision, faith. Death

of a vision, frustration. I got saved in 72,

start preaching in 74. I was a new pastor, five

-year associate pastor, 20 years, been a senior

pastor. I passed a pastor. It's got a network.

I've been a pastor. No, no, no, I've been a leader.

Let me tell you the test of leadership. It's

how much frustration can you tolerate and still

love God and still love people? Oh, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no. I want to make some things real

clear to you. Look at somebody and say, he's

getting ready to make it clear. See, some trials

you were born into. Some trials you related to.

Some trials you married. Some trials you gave

birth to. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh, put on your seatbelt.

Come on, just play with me. Put on your seatbelt.

Okay. Do you know the child that you have the

most trouble with is the one most like you? The

parent you had the most trouble with is the one

that you most like? Look at somebody and say,

you got to pray it out of you to pray it out

of them. saying nothing to me. And everybody's

smart enough to go, you know that was a word

for you. You didn't have to do that. They just

know. The brother ends up in prison, accused

of a crime he didn't commit. And a butler and

a baker have a dream. Everybody goes resurrection

of a vision. Everybody go fulfillment. Everybody

say birth of a vision. Death of a vision. Resurrection

of a vision. Everybody say faith. Frustration

and even fear. And fulfillment. know what I'm

really doing is I'm trying to get you to see

where you are. And I'm also trying to get you

to see that even if you're in the death of the

vision, ain't nothing wrong with you. Because

you can be doing everything right and be frustrated.

And frustration is the birthplace for resurrection.

Everybody say process. Process. Now, you could

also say it this way. Birth of a vision, faith.

Death of a vision, hope. If you could see your

way, hope that's seen ain't hope. When God brings

Joseph out and he's second in command of Egypt,

he has love. He has forgiven his brothers. Wait.

He did it in the process. When he comes out and

Pharaoh says, I hear you can give me revelation,

his response when you go back and read the negative

is, he says, the answer is not in me but God.

Before he said, y 'all gonna bow down to me.

Then he says, the answer is not in me but God

will give you. Still with me? Now you say, why

do you make us repeat? Because the father of

all learning is repetition. And if I can get

you to preach this message with me and I repeat

it, you're going to remember it. It isn't because

I don't have anything else to say. I got more

to say than what we got time for. I really do.

I mean, trust me. Just trust me on that. Moses

is 40. He has the birth of a vision that he's

called by God to be a deliverer, and he tries

it on his own and fails. Look at somebody and

say, failure ain't no big deal. Now, I want you

to be African -American. Look at your neighbor

and say, quit tripping over your failures. Now,

look at your other neighbor and say, what's the

big deal? Now, look at him and say, is it like

it hasn't happened to you before? I need to fail

so that when success comes, I know it's God.

And I'm gaining wisdom by my mistakes and God

is turning my mistakes into his miracles. So

Moses has the birth of a vision and he had self

-confidence because the Bible says in the book

of Acts, he was mighty in words and acts. And

then he goes into a death of a vision. Everybody

say 40 years. And then he has a bush on fire.

Look at somebody and say, my bush is on fire.

He has the resurrection of a vision and he becomes

a deliverer. Isn't it interesting? The first

40 years of his life, he's a somebody. The next

40 years, he's a nobody. The last 40 years, he's

a yielded body. Isn't it interesting that God

meets him on Mount Horeb, which is the place

of desolation? Look at somebody and say, emptiness

comes before fullness. Isn't it interesting that

the trial has a way of making room for fullness?

I don't know how far I should go. Ah, okay, you

sure? Are any of you sure about this? Remember

I told you about visitations? So Jesus appears

to me. This is about 97, 98. Face to face, he

tells me that he is going to take me through

something. I could tell by the tone it wasn't

going to be good. So I said no. No. I let him

know in the clearest possible terms he communicated

to me, I'm not for this. Because I know it's

going to hurt. And I really like me. Everybody

say God encounter. Process. Everybody say impact.

Impact. Imprint. Everybody say treasure. Treasure.

Trial. So I told him, no, no. I let him know.

No. This is why he looks at me like this. He

goes face to face. He goes by my ear and says,

I quote, I'm going to do it anyway. Stands back,

looks at me, and disappears. This is when I discovered

that God is the Godfather. And the Holy Ghost

is a hitman. And there was a contract put out

on my carnality. And look at somebody saying,

you can run, but you can't hide from the Holy

Ghost hitman. know what I'm really saying because

I shared a little bit about my background. 1%.

1 % club. I've worked with some colorful characters

that you don't want to meet during the day or

the night. Look at somebody and say, criminals,

gangsters, killers. So, you know, anyway, this

is what I heard. The Holy Ghost is a hit man.

Now, I'd like to be able to tell y 'all that

I said, oh, to Jesus, I surrender. I'd be lying.

I'm a Gentile. I squealed like a pig all the

way through to my death. This is what I found

out. God does MMA. This is what I found out.

God is like a sumo wrestler. He will pin you

down until you say, Okay. Now I'm in the ministry,

y 'all. When this happened. When I got whipped.

Into submission. Because Joseph, look, Jacob

didn't wrestle with the angel. The angel was

wrestling with Joseph. And see, when God was

done with that brother through the angel, he

walked with a limp. When I got to the end of

it, I was like really happy. I was full of joy.

Look at somebody and say, when you get through

this process, you're going to be really happy.

Look at somebody and say, you're going to be

full of the joy of the Lord. Look at somebody

and say, squeal on. The Lord has no problem with

you squealing. Look at somebody. Sooner or later,

you're going to resign. Because he's got no problem

saying to you, I'm going to do it anyway. Look

at somebody and say, he's faithful. Everybody

say birth of a vision. Death of a vision. Resurrection

of a vision. You don't have to repeat now. Faith.

Frustration. Fulfillment. Everybody say encounter.

Everybody say process. Everybody say treasure.

Trial. When you get to the end of the trial,

there's a greater treasure. Why are you being

processed? Because this generation is going to

need to see more of God than any generation before

to be converted. Jesus comes, birth of a vision.

Jesus is crucified, death of a vision. Jesus

is resurrected, comes back to life, the fulfillment

of a vision. See, I'm thinking about this. And

I'm thinking, now there are trials that God could

stop, but he don't. See, there's a scripture

that I have yet to live up to. I'm just honest.

Like, you know, James had a brother, Jesus. He's

talking this stuff. Like, count it all joy when

you fall into different temptations. Look at

somebody and say, you need to pray for him because

he ain't there. When? Now I may have joy after,

but during? Look at somebody say, you think he's

talking about himself only? I can say this with

great confidence, I am not alone. Count it all

joy, not if you fall into different trials, but

when you fall into different trials, knowing

this, the trying of your faith, not your patience.

People say, you're trying to patience. Look at

somebody saying, ain't you patience? Look at

somebody saying, it's your faith. Trying of your

faith works patience. Patience have its full

effect that you may be complete and mature, lacking

nothing, which means prior to the trial, there's

something I'm lacking. If any man lack wisdom.

So Joseph got a wisdom through his trial that

he needed. to save Egypt and the sons of Israel.

Look at somebody and say, you're getting some

wisdom in this trial that's going to save others.

Okay. How, now listen to me, how do I get through

the trial? I get through the trial by waiting.

How do you overcome sin? Waiting. Every trial

has a time limit. All I have to do is wait. Every

temptation has a time limit. All I got to do

is wait. Time is the poison to the trial. Temptation

isn't always there. It comes and it goes. All

I got to do is wait. They that wait upon the

Lord. Previous to that, it says the Lord isn't

weary. He doesn't faint. And then you wait and

you exchange your weakness for his strength.

And then it says you're going to mount up like

with wings like an eagle. You're going to run

and not be weary. You're going to walk. So while

I'm waiting, I'm. getting an imprint. As many

as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the

mature sons of God. What is Jesus like? Well,

he's like me. Because I'm like him. And then

in the ministry of Jesus, there was no delay.

Isn't this interesting? He waits to get to the

place of no delay. Here's the thing. The Lord

always gives you a butler, a baker, and a pharaoh

to help you get into destiny because people are

your escorts into destiny. A butler is somebody

that God gives you to open up the door for you.

It may be a door of foresight. a door of insight.

It may be a door of knowledge, wisdom, and understanding.

It may be a door of revelation. It may be a door

of motivation. Say, Father, I thank you for my

butler. Then the Lord always gives you a cupbearer.

He always gives you a baker, somebody to care

for you. to protect you, to save you from hurt,

harm, and danger. Somebody who helps put things

together for you. Look at somebody that's kind

of humbling. And then he always gives you a Pharaoh,

somebody in a position of power to help you step

into what the Father always destined for you.

So what's going on here? First of all, I have

this problem. So now, why do I have this problem?

Because I'm supposed to grow in the grace and

the intimate knowledge of God. So how can I know

the Father and Jesus more intimately? Oh, the

problem. Look at somebody and say, the problem

is design. So you know Jesus more intimately.

Okay, let me say it to you another way. When

they discovered there was oil in the ocean, somebody

said, how can we mine the wealth? Somebody said,

let's build a platform. Say it, let's build a

platform. That's how they got the treasure out

of the darkness. The problem or problems you

are facing, are the platform that enables you,

by your intimate knowledge of God, walking through

the problem to be able to reach people. Because

if you never had a problem, I won't even let

you talk to me. No, no, no. You platform your

ministry based upon the problems that Jesus has

brought you through. Successfully, you platform

your ministry based upon where God has brought

you from. You platform your ministry based upon

what Jesus has saved you from, healed you from,

delivered you from. You platform your ministry

based upon where Jesus has been in your life

more than a conqueror and an overcomer. Still

with me? Are you all right? You're not overwhelmed,

are you? Okay, good, good, good, good, because

that means I can go on. Okay, let me ask this

question. How many of you used to drink alcohol,

but because of Jesus, you don't drink alcohol

anymore? Stand to your feet. Stand to your feet.

Stand to your feet. You've been sitting for a

while anyway. Stand to your feet. Because of

Jesus, you don't drink no more. Let's give these

folks a big hand clap. Look around the room.

Every day you don't drink, you're a walking miracle.

How many of y 'all used to get high, but because

of Jesus, you don't get high no more? Stand to

your feet. Stand to your feet. Jesus, the miracle

worker. How many of y 'all used to smoke cigarettes?

Don't smoke cigarettes no more because of Jesus.

Stand to your feet. Stand up, stand up. Have

a sit down. How many of you, you ain't dealt

no drugs, you ain't sold no drugs since Jesus

come in your life? Stand to your feet. Come on,

give God a praise. Now, let me really take you

somewhere. How many of y 'all ain't robbed nobody

since you came to Jesus? Let me stand up on that

one. Let's give them a big hand clap. How many

of you have been tempted to do any of those things,

but because you waited, you overcame it? Raise

your hands. Okay. Everybody say problem. So you

get a promise from God. You can be exempt. You

can be free. The power of your testimony because

of what Jesus has done. Everybody say, problem.

Promise. Everybody say, provision. Everybody

say, prosperity. Now I'm moving toward my close.

Have you ever noticed that preacher's minutes

are always longer than regular minutes? Whenever

the Lord is getting ready to provide, there's

always one or more of five things that happen.

He gives you a person. There's a place. There's

a revelation or an idea. There's a thing and

there's an act. Everybody say a person. A place.

A revelation. A thing. Or an act. Now, the reason

the Lord walks us through this. It's because

in this, we are growing in the grace and the

intimate knowledge of Jesus. And he's teaching

me how he's going to work in and actually through

me so I can minister his grace, his presence

and his power to others and bring them into this

intimate knowledge of Jesus. Let me show you

this. This will make you think. You know, Adam

hasn't even sinned yet, and the Lord says to

him, it ain't good for the brother to be alone.

I want a woman to look at a man and say, even

before sin, you needed help. Now look at him

and smile and say, heaven knows you need help

now. The brother had a problem. God had a promise.

Let us make man a helpmeet for him. Provision.

Watch this. The Lord puts the man to sleep and

has the answer inside of him and brings it out

and presents it to him. Look at somebody and

say, the revelation's already in you. Christ

in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1 .27,

Galatians 2 .20, Christ lives in me. Interesting.

Everybody say provision. Prosperity. Interesting.

When Moses in Exodus 3 is getting ready to be

the deliverer of the sons of Israel, he gets

called by God and the Lord says, what's in your

hand? He didn't know that what was in his hand

was going to destroy demonic thrones, dominions,

principalities, and powers. Look at somebody

and say, it takes a revelation and a visitation

for you to find out what's already in you and

God has already put in your hand. The sons of

the prophets, one of them died and had a wife

and she was left in debt. And she goes to the

senior prophet and says, you know, they get ready

to take away my sons. I'm getting ready to be

destitute. Here was the prophet's question. What

do you have in your house? Her first response

is, I have nothing in my house. And then she

thinks for a minute and says, wait a minute,

I have a pot of oil. Look at somebody and say,

what's in you? What's in your hand? What's already

in your house? She didn't even know. All she

was waiting for was a revelation and an instruction

that she followed. So whenever God's getting

ready to do the miraculous, he gives you an instruction.

And when you follow that instruction, you see

the manifestation of the miraculous. 5 ,000 men

plus women and children, 4 ,000 men plus women

and children. Where are we going to get bread

to feed all these people? Wrong question. Jesus

says, what is here already? Look at somebody

and say, the miracle answer is close by. It wasn't

a lad. It wasn't a boy. Person, place. Turn eastward

back to antiquity, 1 Kings 17. Go to the brook

Cherith. I commanded the ravens to feed you there.

It's interesting. God will always meet you in

the place he told you to be. Jeremiah, I don't

care if you're a prophet. I'm not talking to

you anymore until you get to the potter's house.

I will speak to you there. Ezekiel, I know you

saw the Merkaba. I know you saw the moving throne

of God, the four living creatures and the glory

of God and the man on fire from his loins down

and up. But you better get to the plain because

the glory of God, you're going to experience

it there. Place. Elijah, get to Zarephath. I've

commanded a widow woman to sustain you. Everybody

say. their place. Idea. Open up the windows of

heaven. Bring the tithes and the offerings into

the house. See if I will not open up the windows

of heaven. What's a window? It's something you

see your way out of and into. See, what we do

is you know, this is what we think. We think

I pay my tithes and my offerings, I should prosper.

Okay. But there's a word, there's an idea, there's

a revelation that's coming out of heaven where

God's going to tell you what to do. I was telling

the pastor, the meeting I wish I would have been

in. Look at somebody saying, water is supposed

to be free. The meeting I... wanted to be in

was when these guys got together and said, I

know what we should do. We should sell what's

free. Everybody say, sell water. I know what

we'll call it. Smart water. Spring water. Look

at somebody. Somebody made millions. and maybe

billions off of water? Really? You are one idea,

revelation away. See, let me tell you what our

problem is. Look at somebody say, that good looking

preacher says you got a problem. Here's what

we do. We make noise and we go home. Oh, no,

no, no, no, no. I want to worship God through

my worship, inventions, ideas, come out of heaven

into the atmosphere of the earth, and I want

to catch them. Because when they come out of

heaven, they're in the earth, and anybody who

pays attention to what's in the spiritual realm,

saint or sinner, can't pick it up. Oh, let me

help you. George Washington Carver. I don't know

if you knew this. He was saved. Did you know

he would read the Bible, bring up a notebook,

pray in the spirit, and God would... George Washington

Carver said, Lord, show me the secrets of the

universe. God says, little man, you're too small

for the secrets of the universe. I'm going to

show you 72 to 100 ways. I can't remember if

it was 72 or 100, of how you can utilize the

peanut. He came up with a tire for Ford. God

gave him revelation about plastic, oil. They

invited him to the White House. They talked with

him about agriculture. They invited him to Congress

to talk about tariffs. A black man in that day,

look at somebody saying, it don't matter what

color you are when you got the Holy Ghost. In

England, they gave him a rarity for anybody.

God would talk to this man. Idea. Okay. Thing.

Act. God can tell you to do something. I'll share

this and then I'm going to come to a close because

somebody said we got barbecue. doing this church

service. And this woman dies. It was a husband

and wife pastor, Richard. He's since gone on

to be with Jesus. And Donzella, she's been saved

by 60 years. The woman is clinically dead. No

breath, no pulse. Now most folk would call, you

know, initiate CPR, call 911. Not Donzella. She's

been saved 60 years. Call them for what? We have

a church. So she calls the whole church to pray.

I'm there to do a revival. I'm just innocent.

So they prayed for her. Sister girl dead. Look

at somebody that said dead. So Don Zeller walks

up to me and says, will you pray for my sister?

Like I got something else to do right about now.

So I want to see if she's really dead. Y 'all

think I'm playing. I am serious as eternal life.

So yeah, ain't no pulse. Yeah, ain't no breath.

She dead. You know, I'm qualified to know if

they dead. That's for sure. Yeah, she dead. So

anyway, so I'm wondering. Look at somebody and

say, when you don't know what to do, ask Jesus.

So I figured, here I am. So I said, what do I

do? He said, stand over the body. So I stood

over the body. He says, say, Satan, the Lord

God rebuke you. So I obeyed. Then he said, put

your hand on her body so that whatever calls

her to die is healed. So I did that. Then the

Lord says this to me, because, you know, I'm

a little prophetic, so we have, you know. Prophetic

people are not normal. So the Lord actually says

this to me. He says, you don't even know the

woman's name. Find out what her name is. God

didn't know the woman. So I said, what's this

woman's name? They said, Ida. The Lord says,

tell Ida to get up. So I says, Ida, get up. When

I say, Ida, get up, her stomach goes. Look at

somebody and say, this is a good sign. So, then

she started breathing. Then she gets up. I think

we started in the morning. I think we got done

in that service about what, Deborah, was that

five or six? And I think the next service started

at seven. This is when I learned. One of the

patterns for miracles is. Somebody or some people

cry out to God. Exodus 2, Exodus 3, somebody

hears God. Exodus 3 and following, somebody obeys

God. Exodus 3 and following, the miracle happens.

Look at somebody and say, you don't need the

power until you need it. And for me, you know,

that's like number five. I've seen five people

raised to life. Every single time was a different

way. Because look at somebody and say, because

you got to hear and obey. Okay, closing. Problem.

Promise. Provision and prosperity. Okay, let's

review. Everybody saying counter. Process. Treasure.

Trial. Impact. Imprint. Birth of a vision. Death

of a vision. Resurrection of a vision. Faith.

Fear and frustration. Fulfillment. Everybody

say, now abides three things. Faith. Hope. Love.

Yeah, give Jesus a big hand clap. So now I'm

looking at this thing. And I'm looking at it

and I'm going, okay, I've got to be processed.

Because here's what I have learned. I have learned

if I can wait and walk with Jesus through the

process, When I come out the other side, to some

degree more, I will grow in the grace and the

intimate knowledge of my Lord and Savior, Jesus

Christ. If I can wait and walk with Jesus through

the process, when I come out, I will move in

some power of the Spirit I had not known. moved

in before. If I can wait and walk with Jesus

through the process, I will see God manifest

himself in the now. And I'm not just talking

about in church. I'm talking about in the restaurant.

I'm talking about in the mall. I'm talking about

in the street. I'm talking about in the drug

treatment facility. I'm talking about with the

criminals. Some of the most exciting miracles

I've seen are with people who have been shot.

I'm like excited if somebody's got a bullet.

I remember one guy, he'd been shot in the leg,

had it for 30 years, and the bullet dissolved.

Bullet in the knee dissolves. Bullet in the ankle

dissolves. I remember a guy from Mexico. He worked

for one of the cartels, and his job was to bury

the bodies that they had killed. Law enforcement

comes on him, charges him with mercy. He was

not a killer. They throw him in jail forever.

He gets saved. Somebody says to him, if you ask

the Lord, he'll get you out. Whoever the president

of Mexico has three names come before him, this

is one of the guys. So he comes to San Antonio

to work with a Pastor Luis who, you know, works

with people like this. The guy's got part of

his stomach is rubber. A number of people in

pastor's church had metal. And the metal disappears

and dissolves. I mean, I've seen God do some

stuff like, there was a guy, he was shot in the

chest, had fragments. They thought they were

going to have to amputate his arm. His last two

fingers were artificial. The fragments in his

chest disappeared, been in pain 10 years. His

last two fingers that were artificial become

real fingers and he can move them. I mean, we,

this is when you know it's crazy. When you go

through security because of the metal and it

goes off, God dissolves the metal and you go

through security and it don't go off. Look at

somebody say, it speaks for itself. So I'll share

this part. Now I'm going to, I'm trying to close.

This is what's crazy. Sometimes God will dissolve

the metal, turn it into bone. Sometimes God will

make the metal act like bone. So I'm doing this

meeting. And this woman had metal from here to

here, so she couldn't do this. And she's in pain.

The pain disappears. She still feels the metal,

but it don't hurt. She does this. Don't hurt.

Guy comes out of the congregation. He says, that's

a miracle. I said, really? Yeah. I said, how

do you know? Because he says, I'm a doctor. That's

my patient. And it's impossible for her to do

this. So I'm in Arkansas. A woman has an arm

four inches short. It grows out. She has metal

from here to here. This arm is a different color.

African -American, and the arm changes color.

Her metal disappears, becomes bone. In that same

set of meetings, a woman who had cancer. This

is the only time I've ever seen God this. He

left the growth but took the cancer out for the

doctor. They both had the same doctor. When the

doctor examines this woman, the metal's gone,

and it's bone. The doctor comes to see me. Oh,

no, no, no, no, no, no. You ain't heard the best

part. So we're doing a healing service. So I

have her examine people before I pray. like to

mess with the doctors. Because I've had doctors

examine people, pray for them, and then God does

a miracle, and now what you going to do? This

doctor said, you have made a believer out of

me. That's what she said to the pastor. I wonder

if it had anything to do with that trial that

I went through. Now, so I can take you some places

that will make your head spin. I ministered to

a woman in Branson who had a glass eye that God

turned it into a real eye and she saw out of

it. Look at somebody and say, God, he can do

what he want to do. And see, I ain't got nothing

to do with it. I was ministering in New York.

There was a radiologist. He had a neck fusion.

But it didn't hurt. And I said, I'm only going

to pray for people with metal if it hurts. He

says, it don't hurt. So I says to him, I ain't

praying for you. As soon as I said that, God

healed him. He had full mobility. Look at somebody

and say, God don't even listen to the preacher.

No, no, no. I'm praying for a woman. She got

a growth on her leg. How many of you ever had

those days where your faith, you misplaced it

and you can't find it? Let me be the first to

raise my hand. I was having one of them days.

She got growth. This big. I gave her a courtesy

prayer. That means I don't believe nothing's

going to happen. Oh, I trust me. I know I'm not

by myself. So I pray for this woman and she starts

yelling and her growth explodes and disappears

and she's healed. Well, I remember when I wasn't

saved. You know, I had something called acid.

And you can have flashbacks. I thought I was

having a flashback, y 'all. Because that growth

exploded and just went nowhere. Gone. Look at

somebody say he's God. If he wants to do it,

he will. See, some people, well, what if they

don't get healed? Jesus said to his apostles,

I sent you to reap where others have sowed. You've

entered into their labors. When you pray for

somebody, they don't get healed. You just sowed

for their healing. Prayers don't have a shelf

life. Look at somebody say they stayed before

the throne. So you can get prayed for by ten

people. Nine of them, it looks like nothing happened,

but the tenth, look at somebody and say, they

reap where others have sown. Look at somebody

and say, just love people. Pray for them. You

may be the one who sows. You may be the one this

time who reaps. I'm making sense to you. But

let me say this to you. As We get closer to the

end of the age and we're getting there. You're

going to see more and more miracles now. Look

at somebody and say, I'm looking for miracles

right now. Stand to your feet. I want you To

know this, the Lord is faithful. He's just not

taking you through a process for you. He's taking

you through a process to those he's going to

send you to. And you're going to be able to say,

listen, let me tell you what I've been through.

And they're going to connect with you. And you

will have grown in certain areas of the grace

and the intimate knowledge of God. Where you're

going to be able to release the kingdom, the

power, and the glory. Here and now. Look at somebody

and say, it's yours. And let me say this, because

I have to say this. My ego is not attached to

this. If somebody gets healed, I don't take the

credit. If they don't get healed, I don't take

the blame. It's not my success or my failure.

My job is to love God and love people. Look at

somebody and say, get over yourself. We're going

to spend a few minutes in prayer. Here's what

I want you to know. The Lord has confidence in

you. even if you don't have confidence in yourself.

And some of us are getting ready to find out

just how much confidence God actually has in

you. Look at somebody and say, he chose you.

So that means he saw something. Simon, Greek,

unstable as water, sinks towards lower level.

can get hot, angry, vaporize, can be cold as

ice. And Jesus says to him, they call you Simon

now, but you're going to be as strong and as

solid as a rock. You just keep watching. If you

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