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A Relentless Church

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  1. I'm gonna invite you to stand if you can if you can

  2. And open your Bibles with me to the book of Hebrews chapter 10 and we're gonna read verse 35 to 39

    Hebrews 10 chapter mention

  3. You with me

  4. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 35 to 39 if your neighbor doesn't have a Bible, please share it with him

    Hebrews 10:35–39

  5. Let them see it

  6. If you got it on your iPad on your phone if you got anything like that

  7. Go ahead and share it so they can go ahead and and read it now if you don't have a Bible if you don't have

  8. A phone if your neighbor's being stingy. It's okay. Just go ahead and listen, you know, I

  9. I think we could we can get through this. Are you ready? The Bible says

  10. Cast not away there for your confidence

  11. Which has great recompense of reward

  12. For ye have need of patience

  13. That after ye have done the will of God you might receive

  14. the promise

  15. for yet a little while everyone say a little while and

  16. He that shall come will come and will not tarry

  17. Now the just shall live by faith

  18. But if any man draw back

  19. My soul shall have no pleasure in him

  20. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition

  21. But of them that believe to the saving of the soul

  22. Let us pray father

  23. Once again, we come before you at this moment. We have praised you. We have sang we have danced

  24. We have honored you Lord. Hallelujah. And right now we ask you Lord that as your mouthpiece you

  25. Anoint my lips of clay and allow me to speak your word with power with liberty my God that this word can flow in

  26. this house

  27. every hearer and every heart Lord can be touched and

  28. Transform the mindsets and that hell and the gates of hell can be terrified in Jesus mighty name

  29. Amen, and amen you may be seated magnifying and glorifying the good name of Jesus

  30. Hallelujah, I'd like to preach to you today for a quick moment on the subject a relentless

  31. church a

  32. relentless

  33. Church, can you tell your neighbor a relentless church?

  34. The readers were found here to be tempted to pull away from Christ as

  35. Will some attribute this this letter be written by Paul others by Apollo's but anyway

  36. Whoever the author was as he was writing this he found himself in this need

  37. they also needed to

  38. Consider how to stimulate one another to good works by even meeting together

  39. It almost seems like the writer of Hebrews was looking at our church and writing to us today

  40. Verse 35 and I'd like to just again break it down for a quick moment cast not away there for your confidence

  41. which has great recompense of reward the church is

  42. Under pressure to fold and fall in line with the agenda of the world

  43. Everywhere you look the pressure is on

  44. But we must be relentless and pursuing the will of God and not give in to this demonic pressure

  45. This pressure will come through anyway, and it's always always always

  46. Stronger every time you turn

  47. Every time you look and you look back and you look again and it looks like it's getting worse and it looks like it's getting stronger

  48. But you see in verse 35. He says cast not away thou

  49. confidence

  50. And how many times have we walked into the house of God without any confidence?

  51. You see he was trying to encourage them to see that their confidence wasn't in what they were looking around them

  52. But their eyes had to be set on the actual reward that was promised to them

  53. Time and time again we come in and and and when we have an issue and when we don't praise and and when we struggle

  54. To give God our everything it's because of something that you're going through right now

  55. Not not it has nothing to do with the promise has nothing to do with rapture had none of no no no it's just well

  56. It's because right now and that's the word

  57. And that's the word

  58. But you see verse 36. He tells him for ye have need of patience

  59. my god

  60. That after ye have done the will of God ye might receive

  61. The promise the mistakes of the past that were holding us back from a constant pursuit is the enemy's victory

  62. You see we think that just because we come to church and we jump a little that we are good and that we're saved

  63. And that we're right and that we're okay

  64. But the reality is that the enemy will still win even though you come to church and you jump and you shout

  65. It don't matter if you give your tithe and your offering it

  66. Don't matter if you come and you set up and tear down it don't matter if you sing in church

  67. It don't matter what you do. The enemy can still win

  68. Because we'll come and we'll get stuck here

  69. And part of what god was showing me was the church you got the right place you got the right people you got the right thing

  70. You got the wrong attitude and there is no substitute for the right attitude

  71. Because you have it all praise god here. Yeah, you need that throughout the week

  72. You shouldn't have to come to church to get hyped up and to get ready and to get motivated

  73. You should come to celebrate the power that god has been doing in your life throughout the week

  74. in your life throughout the week

  75. But if you've been walking with the enemy if you've been walking too close to the world

  76. If you've been doing your own thing and you forgot about god because you didn't have a prayer meeting because pastor didn't call you

  77. Because somebody didn't do something because of whatever the case may have been then the enemy is winning. Let me clarify

  78. Oh, but I come to church well, no, no that just means there's hope

  79. Because while there's life, there's hope it doesn't mean we're in victory

  80. You see god touching you

  81. Doesn't mean you're right

  82. That's just his grace and his love over your life. Don't mistake a miracle for salvation

  83. I've prayed for many people instantly healed tumors gone cancer gone

  84. All these crazy people have gotten up out of a wheelchair. They're handing me canes and they leave it. You never see them again

  85. I prayed for a man. They told him you got three days to live. That's what they told his mama

  86. And she called me and he said they told him that yesterday tomorrow. He's dead. Can you come to the hospital?

  87. I said, sir, I show up. I had never seen a man that way never seen tubes in places like that

  88. Never seen a man faced like that. I just said a simple prayer. I left about a week two weeks later

  89. He called me, you know who this is. No, I don't know who this is. This is rayman. I said well rayman

  90. What do you want? He said you prayed for me and i'm out of the house

  91. Well, you better get to the house of god as soon as you can

  92. Guess what?

  93. The devil still won

  94. Because three years later he died but he never stepped into church not even to thank god

  95. Let's continue because you're getting me upset here

  96. For yet a little while a little while a little while and and and he that shall come and will not tarry verse 37

  97. And will not tarry verse 37 but today I declare that this relentless church rises up to take back its place in the race

  98. Of eternal life my gosh. I'm a higher you see time and time again the church

  99. Hallelujah forgets that we're in a race and we want to sit it out and we want to get we want to start straight

  100. It's not your time to stretch. It's not your time to train. It's your time to run

  101. It's your time to get into the race. The whole point is about not stopping

  102. It's not about starting. It's about finishing

  103. Oh, well, I want a soul, you know pastor like four years ago

  104. Well, that's just one soul, you know that the rest of the world is going to hell in a basket

  105. You need to get out there and get more souls fast quick and in a hurry

  106. We're in a battle we're in a race and it is constant it's not every once in a while it's constant

  107. We're in a race and it's constant

  108. But where's our mind we're focused on on what we see only we're focused on this and we're focused on that

  109. What about the stuff that you can't see? What about the promises that were made to you?

  110. Did you know that that's what you need faith for?

  111. Because he said i'll come back for you. Oh, okay. You just got to believe

  112. I said you just got to believe

  113. again

  114. for yet a little while longer

  115. No longer

  116. When we we are we grow so impatient so quickly

  117. You know

  118. We we will start working on prayer and and all of a sudden two three minutes into it

  119. We're like, well, i'm not feeling it. Who said prayer had anything to do with feeling?

  120. Who said praising god had anything to do with feeling?

  121. Who said tearing for revival had anything to do with feeling?

  122. You see when you open your mouth and you pray which is the biggest

  123. Battle the enemy will have against the church you can dance you can shout you can sing

  124. You can give you can do and all that is good

  125. But it is prayer that he will fight because when you open your mouth

  126. The heavens open up and listen and when we begin to speak angels begin to get dispatched

  127. Demons begin to flee and sick people begin to get healed the dead begin to rise because you have power

  128. in your mouth

  129. That's why that's why we like the the i'll have pastor pray for you. No you pray

  130. We want pastor to do no pastor will pray and first lady will pray and how about you pray?

  131. How about you give the bible study? How about you evangelize?

  132. How how about you?

  133. It's because you think you think prayer is about you prayer has nothing to do with you prayer has to do with who he is

  134. For yet a little while and he that shall come will come we forgot about that

  135. We hardly preach on rapture

  136. We hardly preach on the coming of god and I believe that the reason why the church is the way it is today

  137. Is because the preachers we no longer preach it. We hardly even believe it

  138. I'm old school man. I still talk about the heaven splitter because that's still my desire

  139. I'm still believing god at any moment

  140. I know I can hear the last trumpet and that sky is gonna split and wait

  141. In a blink of an eye, we're gonna be transformed to get in red christ shall rise first

  142. And then you and I that are still here will be transformed and then we're going up baby

  143. We're not staying here

  144. I really am not of this world, but we get too comfortable here

  145. We get too comfortable here when I was younger

  146. Man, if my mom and then my dad would not at home when I'd show up. I started getting worried after about 10 minutes

  147. I was like, um

  148. Let me call let me call my sister. Hey, is mom dad there?

  149. You know because my sister was yeah, I was like, she'd probably stay I call my brother. Hey, you know

  150. Uh, I ended up calling the pastor. I was like, hey is my mom and I was even down in the past

  151. Maybe the pastor might even stay but my mom and dad I know they're right. Where are they?

  152. And nowadays

  153. You come home nobody home you forget about it and then people don't come home for two three days

  154. You're like, huh?

  155. I didn't even notice you're too busy on your iphone on your android

  156. You're too busy on skype and you're too busy on all these social media platforms. All that is virtual reality

  157. And the enemy's picking up distractions here and there and that's why you don't pray and that's why you don't fast

  158. That's why you don't read that's what

  159. You didn't want me to preach to you today

  160. You want him to give you a patty cake message and pray for the sick and say god is good

  161. No, no, no god is always good, but he wants you to get into heaven

  162. He wants you to get active. He wants you to get right

  163. Right my god a rental a relentless church taking back their purpose

  164. Is what we need to be a relentless church

  165. Taking back their power their apostolic roots and their rightful place in the world as a holy nation a royal priest to the peculiar people

  166. We have to fight till the end

  167. Till the end

  168. Not just not just till you feel good

  169. Not just till they give you a title

  170. Let me get out of there

  171. Verse 38 and 39 listen listen another just shall live by faith

  172. But if any man draw back

  173. My soul shall have no pleasure in him, but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition

  174. But unto them that believe into the saving of the soul

  175. We shall live by faith

  176. Not easing not slacking not maintaining speed. No, no, no. We're talking about full speed ahead

  177. Full speed ahead

  178. How can we do this?

  179. What do you mean? How how is this possible? Look what he's saying?

  180. How are we gonna live by faith if we don't see it? How are we gonna believe it?

  181. We don't see it. How are we gonna believe it?

  182. We're really good we like illusions

  183. We we become the greatest illusion is this not it wasn't david copperfield

  184. I don't even know that guy's still alive or not, but it's us. It's the church

  185. We have the best pretenders out there

  186. Pay me a selfie and then get out of here

  187. You're gonna

  188. Holy ghost

  189. What happened there?

  190. Checking in the city light

  191. But then you ain't living like that all week

  192. Holy ghost

  193. Praise the lord everybody

  194. You see you see my point here is this

  195. You need to get so uncomfortable

  196. To the point to where it brings you to do something different

  197. You see because I just saw everybody having great church, but you like having church here

  198. You don't have church anywhere else

  199. You see this is where you come you this i'm prophetically speaking i'm not asking you i'm telling you what I see

  200. You come to have church here, but you don't have that all week

  201. You prepare this is this is the moment

  202. That altar that altar is kind of covered with other stuff

  203. The one at home

  204. the one you carry

  205. You know that that that you're supposed to be a porter of the glory where you're carrying a whole bunch of other stuff

  206. You know, you're like one of those tote bags and oh we're gonna go this then you empty it out and put just what you need

  207. Then you take off and then you come back and you empty it out same thing

  208. It's the same thing. That's what we come and do here

  209. It's not that you don't have a good church you have the right church you are the right church

  210. I'm I this there's no question about it. There's no doubt about it. You got the right people

  211. You got the right leader. The problem is the attitude. It's the mindset

  212. It's all going to make sense when I give you that that prophetic word that god gave me

  213. But i'm prophetically already speaking to you. I need you to understand that because of what god wants to do here

  214. You with me

  215. You mad?

  216. It's all right if you would

  217. I would have been good with it. Anyway

  218. If you'll notice i'm not looking that way because if he's probably like, oh stop and i'm just like I didn't see anything pastor

  219. You see but this is the problem

  220. We're willing to live without the holy ghost. We're willing to live without that one thing that has kept us that one thing that will

  221. Has promised us to make it

  222. That's that's what I don't understand as how could we say that we're a church we should

  223. We struggle to speak in tongues

  224. We if we struggle to speak in tongues, how are you living in the spirit?

  225. The problem is that we're not living in the spirit. We're we're being we're being led by our emotions

  226. That's why you get mad and you're like i'm not giving anymore than i'm not going don't go leave get out of here

  227. You think god needs you? It is your privilege to be in the house of god

  228. It is your privilege to show in the kingdom

  229. You think you're going to stand here and threaten the man of god the one that he died for and called?

  230. And sealed and said i'm going to send you there and i'm going to surround you with people and i'm going to give those people

  231. The opportunity to be a part of the blessing

  232. And if you don't want it he'll bring them from somewhere else

  233. I tell my church all the time pastor. I'm sorry i'm going there but the real I tell my church you don't sustain me

  234. God is using you right now to pay me

  235. I said, but if you want to shut your hand and shut your wallet do it because till now god has opened doors and

  236. Somebody from another state came by and said hey remember I asked you to pray for this blessing

  237. Yeah, he's like here's the check seven thousand dollars. That's for you brother. I said for the church. No, no, no, that's for you

  238. I promised god that when I got that blessing I was gonna give you I said praise god

  239. I told my wife here go pay all the bills. We paid bills. We paid credit. We got out of there

  240. I said, I don't need you. I need him

  241. But now that the church has understood now they're like no no no here I want to bless you because somebody this is what happened

  242. I had a brother a brother when I was like, oh, let me he always wanted to give me some

  243. And I was like brother, you don't have to be giving me. He's like, no, no, no

  244. He's like it's because every time I give you something they give me

  245. And he said he goes one day after a sunday service

  246. He said pastor I want to buy your lunch here and I was like, thank you brother lord bless you gave me fifty dollars

  247. I was like I can eat with less right, you know, but then I looked at my family

  248. I was like, I'm gonna need more right. So anyway

  249. Don't go there. Anyway, so we're leaving we get to the restaurant. He calls me. He's like pastor

  250. I told you and I said what he goes my sister from Arizona. Just call me

  251. She said I'm gonna need more

  252. That's the god that we serve I said, that's the god that we serve not I we

  253. All right, all right, that's not even part of the sermon just just listen

  254. So the problem is that we get so used to living with all the but but we we're okay with living without the holy ghost

  255. And that's not good church

  256. And that's not good church

  257. Because when we get used to living without the holy ghost we get used to living without miracles without prophecy without the gifts of the spirit

  258. We get we get used to living and just with emotions and when how I feel with them

  259. It has nothing to do with I don't feel like coming to church every day

  260. I don't feel like getting up at three in the morning and praying. I don't feel like traveling all the time

  261. I don't feel like doing this or doing that. I don't feel like praying for people sometimes. I'm tired

  262. Sometimes I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of it

  263. Sometimes I'm tired. Sometimes I'm sick. Sometimes I got pain in my body

  264. But god says I called you and I'm like, okay, and there you go to do it

  265. Why because it has nothing to do with how you feel but about being spirit led

  266. And I say that I say that because the holy ghost will make you do the craziest of things

  267. The holy I promise you if you had an experience with the holy it'll make you do the crazy

  268. I would never do that. No, and you'll do it. I've never loved that and you'll love it

  269. I'll never pray that much and you'll pray it

  270. I'll never give that bible and you give it and all of a sudden you start falling in love with the things that the holy ghost

  271. loves like souls

  272. Like submission

  273. Yeah, I figured you know, but that's the problem because all the way you you want me

  274. We're about the same age brother

  275. So you're going to do it

  276. Why do you gotta do it why do I gotta

  277. But when the holy ghost begins to take over

  278. All of a sudden it's not about how you look it's not about you

  279. No, no, no, it has everything to do with him what he's doing what he's trying to get to and all of a sudden

  280. You start finding out. Oh, I get it

  281. Really? It's not me. I'm just a piece of the puzzle

  282. Essential piece, but i'm not the whole puzzle. You see i'm just a part and I can take part or I cannot take part

  283. But i'm not hurting anybody but myself first and then all those others and when I do that that is going to fall on

  284. Me

  285. And we're okay with that no brother i'm not yes you are when you're okay living without the holy ghost that's the way you are

  286. You're okay with that

  287. Because we the holy ghost you got to remember this the holy ghost is god living and dwelling in

  288. inside of you

  289. you're trying to hide from the pastor and the holy ghost is there like

  290. You don't want nobody else to hear and he's like, you know, i'm still here, right?

  291. You know that one two three o'clock in the morning that

  292. Yeah, yeah because because half of you are doing things online that you shouldn't be doing posting pictures that you shouldn't be posting

  293. Some of you want me to go there some of you I heard you you said do it say it

  294. But it's because it's true

  295. I i'm trying to get you uncomfortable to see that there's nothing you can hide from the lord

  296. I don't want to call people out because that's not the holy ghost isn't here to embarrass people

  297. That's not what the holy ghost does the holy ghost is here to correct you and realign you so that you can enter into his will

  298. And you can continue going forward. It's not about the drawback. It's not about the fall. It's not about the mistake

  299. No, no, no, the holy ghost says if you just allow me

  300. I can dust you off and get you back on the road

  301. But you need to get going you need to stop wallowing in the mud

  302. You need to stop holding back

  303. It's because they did this to me. It's all right. I still love you. I still killed you. I still cleansed you

  304. I called you I raised you now go forward

  305. No, no, no, no, you see

  306. We got to be like david david was not an emotional man. He was a spirit-led man

  307. When david fell best best with basheba and I believe it was psalm 51

  308. He said lord you can have it all he goes just don't take your holy spirit for me

  309. That is when you understand that the person knows what they're talking about

  310. Because some some of us don't even think about that lord. Just don't take the job. Don't take the house

  311. Don't take this and don't take that man. Take it all just don't take your spirit because without your spirit. I won't make it

  312. You can lose the house god will give you another one. You can lose the car god will give you another one

  313. You guys have a car

  314. You can lose the car god will give you another one you guys have a kinder. Yeah, you can lose things that god will give

  315. But don't take your spirit

  316. Some of us are dying and making way because I need the crown who cares about the crown if you don't got the spirit

  317. You need the spirit don't lose the spirit

  318. Spirit perverted man cry out, please. Oh, please. Oh god. Don't take the money. Don't take the credential

  319. Don't take the title take the job. Don't take the car. We don't even think about the holy ghost

  320. We don't even talk about it

  321. We don't even ask about it

  322. But I hear a group of apostolic people raising their voices shouting that you can have anything lord

  323. You can have anything just don't take your holy spirit from me

  324. Because you see as a relentless church, uh, we can do without a lot of things

  325. We can do without the money we can do without the friends. We can do without the title, but I can't do it without the holy ghost

  326. We got to be willing we got to be determined we got to be relentless

  327. I will not slow down. I will not back down. I will not vote to the president. I will be relentless

  328. What kind of church are we going to be are we going to be a relentless church?

  329. Are we going to be the kind that go hide and the kind that well it depends and and who's around and what are they doing?

  330. How are you looking at me?

  331. Well, what do you mean pastor? I think I think we got a good church, you know

  332. I didn't say you have you don't have a good church again

  333. You're not hearing things that i'm saying you're hearing things that i'm not saying

  334. I'm asking you to be relentless in your praise in your purpose in your passion in your preaching in your service in your worship

  335. And you're giving in your faith. I need you to be a relentless church

  336. You a relentless person says i'm not giving up and i'm not letting you give up either

  337. That's somebody relentless

  338. Somebody relentless doesn't just think of themselves and look out for themselves and my ministry and my calling. No, no, no, i'm not giving up and no

  339. No, no, brother david. No, no, you're coming with me and don't you dare stay back and you're gonna come and don't start putting up

  340. A fight i'll get you too

  341. So you better start coming up here and we gotta praise together and we're gonna give together and we're gonna pray together and we're gonna

  342. But you're not staying in that rut and you're not staying back

  343. And I don't care how many mistakes you make and i'm gonna pull you up because when i'm down

  344. You need to pull me up because we gotta be relentless

  345. Somebody who's not relentless what happened to so-and-so? Uh, they just stopped coming. What do you mean?

  346. They stopped. Did you go look for him? Did you go find him? Did you go fast for him?

  347. Did you pray for him? Did you deliver them? Did you do something?

  348. Uh, uh city light

  349. You need to be relentless church

  350. From today forward our churches will be known as known as empowered churches those with apostolic roots and not afraid to say it

  351. What are you christian it's okay to say apostolic ain't nothing wrong with it ain't gonna bite you

  352. Well, maybe a little but not all the time

  353. What's an empowered church acts one eight? We know that

  354. And you shall receive power when the holy ghost has come upon you, right? But it's a church without limits

  355. I said it's a church without limits

  356. The primitive church used the persecution to grow you use the the persecution as an excuse not to do anything

  357. Not to pray not to go not to do not to not to say no. No, we need to use it

  358. the way they used it

  359. An empowered church is a prospered church a prospered church. I said a prospered church

  360. It's okay to be prospered y'all. It's okay to have a little bit of money. It's okay to do your thing. It's okay

  361. I want you to that's a good thing. That's a blessing. It's not a bad thing

  362. He said money. That's okay

  363. It's the love of money. That's the root of all the pain

  364. It's the love of money. That's the root of all evil not money

  365. And if you don't like it, give it to me. I'll help you with it

  366. We'll help you out, but that's the reality an empowered church is a prospered church

  367. Tell your neighbor. It's okay

  368. Throughout the bible you'll see it the hebrews when they left egypt. They didn't just leave

  369. No, no, they gave him riches when jacob left his son, uh with his uncle

  370. Uh laban laban tried tried to do him wrong and what happened at the end he ended up blessing him

  371. The primitive church had everything in common and they were very blessed. They sold everything and they they were just blessed

  372. An empowered church is a church in action a church that produces fruit and fruit that last

  373. Not just smoke that only lasts for two hours on sunday

  374. Uh an empowered church careful son, man, you can turn it off. I got myself

  375. It's a church with a burden I says it's a church with a burden

  376. The bible says that this same feeling being you like it was in christ

  377. And we think oh, it's the feeling to love the souls. No, it's a feeling to die for them

  378. The feeling to die for them. Are you willing to die for somebody?

  379. Maybe that's the problem because you're you're willing to love them, but are you willing to die for them?

  380. You're willing to tell them about jesus, but are you willing to die in other words to kill your saturday with all your friends?

  381. In your outing. I don't know anything better. I don't even know the area, but I heard milpeda's the milpeda

  382. Are you willing to kill that saturday to go to milpeda's mall to go fast for that person to go give them a bible study?

  383. To go win them over to go stand in the corner and say this is where city light gets together

  384. And this is where you can get your house in order and this is where you can get saved

  385. And this is where you can get a miracle and this is where god will speak to you and this is the answer

  386. Oh pastor, you mean you want me to come on the weekend too you want no no

  387. No, I need you to kill your sleep. I need you to be willing to wake up when everybody else is asleep and intercede

  388. I need you to be willing to do what not everybody's willing to do so that you can get what not everybody gets

  389. Everybody sees the gifts everybody sees oh, I want that. Are you sure you want that?

  390. Once they find out the processes they're like, oh well, well, maybe I don't want it all or maybe I don't want it like that

  391. But we are an empowered church

  392. Or we want to be

  393. Well, that's who we're supposed to be church

  394. It's a church in

  395. revival

  396. A church in revival is not one that says they're in revival. It's a church that has results

  397. It's a church that's under the power of the holy spirit

  398. Holy spirit and experiences miracle signs and wonders

  399. Constantly and i'm not talking about that just the sick get healed but they get saved and i'm not talking about that

  400. The captive get delivered, but they get converted

  401. I'm getting ready to close don't get mad

  402. A church an empowered church

  403. Is a church that uses its keys uses its tools

  404. Yes, you got the worship and yes, you got the praise

  405. It's also generosity and knowing how to use the altar and knowing how to use prayer knowing how to use fasting

  406. And knowing how to evangelize and knowing how to preach and knowing how to be under submission and knowing how to how to serve

  407. Without a title you see I got a concept that house of hope and it's real simple

  408. If you can't do it without the title, then you don't deserve the title

  409. So are you after the title or are you after pleasing god

  410. Because then I also know those people that with the title they want everybody to do it

  411. But as soon as they don't have it they sit down they want everybody else to do it. I already did my part

  412. That's not what god wants

  413. Oh brother, this is weird. Yeah, it's a training session because of where you're going

  414. I need I need to get it all out because because

  415. In a bid you're gonna be like oh

  416. That's why because the problem is this that a lot of the times we get the blessing because look you're gonna get the blessing

  417. You're gonna get it

  418. But if you're not ready, you're it's gonna go like water through your hands

  419. Mostly you have a little bottle water

  420. Next to you if god says i'm gonna give you a gallon of blessings. He's gonna give it to you

  421. But if you can only capture eight ounces 12 ounces 16, that's all you're gonna say. Oh look

  422. It's all here and it's all gonna go away

  423. And then you're gonna get bitter and upset. Well, how come this and how come that it's because you didn't prepare

  424. That's why god is here. That's what god is doing. He's molding you. He's preparing you. He's breaking you. He's expanding you

  425. He's stretching you he's doing things

  426. That you didn't expect

  427. You know why

  428. Because a lot of the times we just think we think that the church thing is oh it's because I thought I mean

  429. How many of you know your pastor preach is good?

  430. Let's not act

  431. You thought he was gonna get the mic and man we were gonna get this place filled and we're gonna tell them

  432. Hey, we need your spot too. And we're gonna that's what we thought because that's the way we think but the reality is god says

  433. Yeah, i'll give it to you

  434. But I need you to tear you and it's gonna cost you some I can't just every blessing you got to work at it

  435. Every blessing even if he give you a million dollars. Guess what? You got to work at it and now you're gonna lose it

  436. He's gonna give you a marriage, but you got to work at it

  437. You're gonna lose it he's gonna give you kids and they're a blessing some of you well all of them

  438. They're kids. They're blessed and you got to work at it

  439. You with me

  440. You with me

  441. All right

  442. That's enough of that now, let me give you what god has given me are you okay?

  443. Mind you

  444. I don't talk to your pastor about your church

  445. Never have

  446. The only thing is praying for you and I told them here and there god's gonna do this in your church

  447. God's gonna bless y'all god's gonna do this brother do that whatever, you know minor things because

  448. I I don't I don't believe like that if it's gonna be the holy ghost. It can be the holy ghost

  449. But this is what god gave me

  450. You ready pastor? This is this is for you in your congregation

  451. David therefore departed thens and escaped to the cave of adulam

  452. And when his brethren and his father's house heard it they went down thither to him

  453. And everyone that was in distress and everyone that was in debt and everyone that was discontented

  454. Gathered themselves unto him

  455. And he became a captain over them and there were with him about 400 men

  456. and

  457. David went

  458. Thence to misp of moab and said unto the king of moab let my father my mother I prayed he come forth and

  459. Be with you till I know what god will do for me

  460. And he brought them before the king of moab and they dwelt with him all the while that david was in the hole

  461. And the prophet god said unto david abide not in the hole

  462. Depart and get thee into the land of juda then david departed and came into the forest of hareth

  463. Verse 6 when saw heard that david was discovered and the men that were with him

  464. Now saw the boat and gave me a under a tree in rama

  465. Having his spear in his hand and all his servants were standing about him

  466. Then saw said unto his servants that stood about him here now ye benjamites

  467. Will the son of jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds?

  468. That all of you have conspired against me and there is none that showeth me that my son has made a league

  469. With the son of jesse and there is none of you that is sorry for me

  470. Or showeth unto me that my son has stirred up my servant against me to lie in wait

  471. as it this day

  472. Last night I went into prayer and I saw your church

  473. And the lord says I want you to go and I want you to put order in the house. That's what he told me

  474. And as I kept praying I was trying to ask god for clarity what it is that he wanted and what it is that he needed

  475. And what I told you earlier that it's the right church and you're the right leader is from the lord

  476. The prophetic word came from here and I began to realize and I began to understand

  477. A few things number one

  478. Is the people that came to david?

  479. We're not always the perfect people is what we think but the problem with the church is that you still think you're that same person

  480. I don't care where you come from. I don't care who you are and your past doesn't matter to me

  481. What i'm trying to tell you is you need to let it go and let your leader lead you

  482. Brother as a leader you need to rise and stop being hidden in that moment

  483. People are going to rise against you and they're going to rise against your church and the saints are going to be true

  484. Oh, oh, they're going to start to come and they're going to start to say he can't give you this and he can't give you that

  485. And don't worry about what you can't give them because you can't give it to him

  486. But that doesn't mean that god can't give it to them and as long as you preach

  487. And you believe as long as you lead and you follow

  488. I'm telling you hallelujah city light will be the church that everybody's going to be

  489. Not just talking about but thinking about and saying man, I don't know what happened and I don't know what they did

  490. But I believe my soprande rebekaya. I see the hand of god on you

  491. I see the hand of god on silly like mountain view doesn't even know what happened to it

  492. But when you came into this place, it was god ordered and he

  493. Rebekaya I see the angels of the lord making way and chopping them down and saying my kids

  494. Are about to take over the city city light. It is time to rise

  495. And relentlessly take it over

  496. Receive it in the name of jesus receive it in the name of jesus

  497. As I was as I was looking at the hearts

  498. I was looking at hearts doubting and how the heart's still holding back to the past. You can sing, but you're still holding on to the past

  499. You can jump but you're still holding on to the past

  500. You can take pictures, but you're still holding on to the past

  501. You can drive up here

  502. But you're still holding on to you need to let it go and you need to start hearing what they're preaching to you

  503. You need to start hearing where they're leading you

  504. and

  505. You need to start following

  506. they're leading you and he's saying get up and get out of there you're too

  507. comfortable you're too comfortable where you're at you're comfortable having

  508. church on Sunday my man God didn't bring you here and you see because let me tell

  509. you this God doesn't make mistakes because the whisper has been and maybe I

  510. shouldn't have done it maybe it was a bad move because things haven't turned

  511. out the way you want it to but when you follow God halfway you're gonna get the

  512. answer you're getting you see but when you say all right I'm done because

  513. you're still holding on to up but it's cuz what no no no don't let God do it

  514. the way he wants the way he wants because the way he wants is not the nice

  515. way the way he wants is gonna make you come up with some egg on your face but

  516. guess what he's gonna make you come out