How Bad Do You Want It?

I believe I have a word from the Lord for you this morning, one church, and I want you to join me in 1 Samuel chapter number 18.

1 Samuel chapter number 18.

I believe that God has a word for us there.

When Pastor Greg reached out to me about uh these three hot weeks, I uh I wanted to bring up the rear.

You know, typically I would have chosen to go first, right?

That way, if Pastor Shane comes and preached an unbelievable message last week, he wouldn't have to come up after that.

But uh I felt like God wanted me to uh go last, and uh I believe the message that he's given to me is appropriate.

1 Samuel chapter number 18, and we're gonna read into your hearing, only gonna read two verses, starting at verse number 17.

And the Bible said, One day Saul said to David, I am ready to give you my older daughter, Mirab, as your wife.

But first, somebody say, But first, you must prove yourself to be a real warrior by fighting the Lord's battles.

For Saul thought, I'll send him out against the Philistines and let them kill him rather than doing it myself.

Let's skip down to verse number 25.

Uh, verse number 25 says, He, speaking of King Saul, he's now talking to his men and he's telling his men what to go tell David.

It says, And he told them, Tell David that all I want for the bride price is a hundred Philistine foreskins.

Vengeance on my enemies is all I really want.

But what Saul had in mind was that David would be killed in the fight.

One church family, those who are in the building and those who are online, the visitors and the friends that are with us this morning.

I want to talk to you, I want to minister to you, maybe even preach to you.

From a message titled This Morning, How bad do you want it?

Somebody look at your neighbor.

Help me announce my message.

Say, neighbor, how bad do you want it?

Let us pray.

Father, in Jesus' name, as we come before your presence this morning, we give you thanks, God, for this day.

For this is the day that you have made, and we're already glad and we're rejoicing in it.

Now, Father, we pray for an anointing that makes preaching easy and hearing your word a sweet delight.

I pray that you allow me to convey your heart to these your people the way you conveyed it to me.

When it's all said and done, God, our prayer is that you'll be glorified, that these your people will be edified, and that the enemy will be terrified.

Father, we ask this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen and amen.

Family, if I was to take a survey this morning and I was to pose the question or the questions, who has dreams and who has visions, who has desires or aspirations for more in their life, or for better in their life, or for greater in their life, or maybe even just for different in their life.

If I was to pose the question, who who is believing God to shift them in some area of their life?

Who is believing that God is going to elevate them and God is going to bless them, and God is going to open doors for them.

If I was to pose that survey this morning, I'm pretty confident, Pastor Shane.

I'm pretty confident that uh 100% of the people in the sanctuary this morning would raise their hand in the affirmative and say, Yes, Pastor Mike, I'm believing God for something.

Yes, Pastor Mike, I have dreams.

Yes, Pastor Mike, I have visions.

I have desires and aspirations.

I don't believe it's just true for us in the sanctuary.

I believe it's true for those who are tuning in online.

I don't believe it's just true for those who are online, but if we were to survey our teens, I believe our teens would tell us, yeah, I got dreams too.

I got aspirations too.

I'm believing God for something too.

I believe we moseied on down to one kid.

I believe even our babies would tell us.

They would say, hey, hey, I got dreams too.

And I have aspirations too, and I'm believing for something too, right?

So I don't believe the appropriate question this morning is, do we want it?

I I don't believe that's the appropriate question because I believe all of us want it.

All of us are believing God for something.

Whether it's for God to give you more in a personal relationship or for God to give you more in your career, or maybe it's that you have aspirations in your finances or in your family or in your fitness.

Maybe there's somebody in the house of God this morning that says, you know what, Pastor Mike?

I really want a deeper walk with the Lord.

I really, I really want to grow in my relationship with Christ, and I want to have a more intimate relationship with Him.

I don't care who you are, I don't care if you're young or old, I don't care if you're black or white, I don't care if you're tall or short.

I believe all of us are desiring something from God.

I believe all of us in our quiet time, our secret thoughts, our prayers, I believe all of us are asking or believing God for something.

So I don't believe, Sister Diana, the appropriate question this morning is do we want something from God?

Because all of us want what we want, and all of us desire what we desire.

I believe the more appropriate question for us this morning is not do we want it, but the more appropriate question is, is how bad do you want it?

Right.

I believe the more appropriate question is not do we want it, but but the more appropriate question is is is how bad do you want that relationship with the Lord?

How bad do you want to get to the next level in your career?

How bad do you want to get that summer body that you've been working on?

Come on now, right, right?

How bad do you want the thing that you say you want?

Right, right.

It's not a question of do you want it?

Of course you want it.

We all want it.

The more appropriate question is, is how bad do you want it?

The reason why, Brother Keyshawn, this is the more appropriate question, is is of course we want it.

But the reason why the more appropriate question is, is how bad do we want it?

Because the question that we have to put on the table is, is are you willing to do what it takes to get what you say that you want?

Right, right.

The more appropriate question is how bad do you want it?

Because if you truly want to see God manifest the things that you're believing him for, if you truly want to see God shift you in those areas that you've been praying about, can I tell you something, family?

It's gonna require a certain level of sacrifice, it's gonna require a certain level of commitment, right?

It's gonna require a certain level of courage and perseverance to see God move in those areas that you've believed been believing him for.

So the question that I posed to you this morning, the the question that's being laid out for all of us this morning is not do you want more from God, but how bad do you want it?

How bad do you want that blessing?

How bad do you want that breakthrough?

I know you say you want to be delivered, but how bad do you want to be delivered?

Right?

I know you say that you don't want to have that addiction anymore, but but but how bad do you want to be set free?

Right?

The question for us this morning, One Church Family, is how bad do we want it?

As we look at the text here in 1 Samuel chapter number 18, we find ourselves in the story of David.

Uh, David is one of my absolute favorite characters in all of the Bible.

Reason why I love David and I love his story is because it's so authentic, right?

God God doesn't hide anything about David.

God tells us about David's successes and he tells us about David's failures.

He he doesn't present David as if he's this all hero, but he lets us see the fact that David is also human, right?

This is God's man.

This is this is David.

This is the one whom the Bible tells us the prophet Samuel took the horn of oil and he anointed David's head and he declared him to be the next king of Israel, right?

This this is David that we're talking about.

I love David's story because it's so authentic and it's so relatable for you and I.

Well, here in 1 Samuel chapter number 18, we actually find a portion of David's story that is often overlooked, it's often glanced over, and it's often neglected, not just by readers of the Bible, but even by us preachers of the Bible, right?

This this is a portion of David's story that no one typically talks about.

Uh, when we look at 1 Samuel chapter number 18, what we find, brother Mo is is we find that King Saul, the king of Israel, has put a proposal on the table for David.

Right?

He's he he said, David, let me let me make you an offer here.

He said, let me let me let me tell you what what the deal is that I want to make with you, David.

He he said, What I want to do for you, David, is I want to give you my oldest daughter's hand in marriage.

Right?

I want to give Mirab to you as your wife.

However, David, before I can do that, he he says, you must first prove yourself to be a warrior by fighting the Lord's battles.

In other words, what Saul wanted David to do is Saul wanted David to go out and fight against the Philistines who were Israel's arch nemesis, and more importantly, Saul's arch nemesis.

Right?

Saul wanted David to do his dirty work.

I wonder if you ever had somebody that tried to manipulate you, come on now, into doing their dirty work.

Right, right.

He he puts the offer on the table and he's saying, if you want Mirab's hand in marriage, I need you to go fight against the Philistines.

In other words, what Saul was saying is that Saul was saying, if you want this, you gotta be willing to do that.

And family, can I tell you that whatever your this is, your this is attached to a that?

Right?

Whatever it is that you're believing God for, whatever it is that you say that you want God to do in your life, you keep praying about this, but your this is attached to you doing a that.

Right?

There is a that that's attached to all of our destiny and all of our purpose.

It's not going to just be given to us, right?

It ain't gonna be that God just opens up the windows of heaven and he pours us out what it is that we're believing for.

God is putting a proposal on the table for you and I this morning, and he's saying, if you want this, you're gonna have to be willing to do that.

Right, right, right.

That's the crux here.

And what happens many times is many times we we find ourselves not understanding, right?

We want this, but the real question is not just about this, the real question is about that.

Because when we focus on the that, what we find out is is how bad do you really want this?

See, if you're willing to do that, it's an indication that I ain't just praying and I ain't just professing, but I'm willing to practice what it is that I've been praying about and I've been and I've been professing.

Come on, somebody.

Right, so so so he he tells David, he says, David, man, look here.

I I want to elevate you.

I I want to take you from poverty to the palace.

I want to I want to shift you from rags to royalty.

But before I can, I'm asking you for this.

Are you willing to do that?

Let me tell you what David did.

David wasn't no chump.

David said, Bring on all comers.

Right?

And David, because he wanted this, he was willing to go fight the Philistines, or he was willing to do that.

But can I tell you what happened?

Because King Saul was not a man of integrity, because King Saul was not a man of his word.

He told him if if if he was willing to do that, he could have this.

David went and did that, and King Saul changed the deal.

He he he reneged on the offer.

Right now, now, what state of mind, what do you think David felt like when he went and did this?

He put his life on the line for this, and he came back and Saul pulled it from the table.

Right?

How do you think David felt?

I would argue that David was extremely upset, but more importantly, he was incredibly disappointed.

And one of the tests on how bad you want it is are you willing to overcome disappointments in your life?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

See, see, see, many times what we want is we want it to come easy to us, right?

Right?

And the first sign of trouble, the first time something doesn't work out, the first time somebody lets us down or something lets us down, right?

We give up on the dream, we give up on the vision, and we give up on what it is we feel like God called us to do.

Right?

But what happened with David is, is David said, Hey, I ain't tripping off of this disappointment because my desire, watch this now, is stronger than any disappointment I could encounter.

And the question that you have to ask yourself this morning is, is my desire strong enough to overcome whatever disappointment may come into my life?

Yes, people are flawed, and yes, people will do you wrong, right?

And sometimes the same people who you were trusting will be the same people who will let you down.

And what you gotta do is you gotta say, regardless what they did to me, or regardless what the job did to me, or regardless what the economy did to me, I still serve a God who's able, come on now, to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond whatever I ask or even think.

Somebody look at your neighbor and say, How bad do you want it?

David wanted it so bad that he was willing to come back to the table and talk about another deal with Saul.

Right.

Saul said, Hey David, I know I didn't come through last time, but but let me tell you something.

Uh, I got a younger daughter.

Her name is Michael, and uh, David, if I could be honest, she's she's kind of feeling you.

Right, she kind of likes your swag, David.

She likes your charisma, she likes your style, she likes the way you walk, she likes the way you talk, right?

She she she she feels like you got riz, David.

She feels like you got gang.

Come on, somebody.

Right, right, right.

She feels like, David, you're the kind of guy that she wants to connect with.

He he said, Let me make you another deal.

He said, I'll give you Michael's hand in marriage.

However, my requirement for Michael's hand in marriage is he said, I need uh you to go get me a hundred Philistines foreskins.

In other words, I need you to go kill 100 Philistines for me.

There's that principle again, family.

If you want this, you have to be willing to do that.

Right, right.

I don't I don't care who you are, I don't care what it is that you're longing for, you cannot escape this principle.

If you want a this, it's gonna be attached to a that.

Whatever your this is, it's always gonna be attached to a that.

And what the Bible shows us here about David is, is it shows us the type of man that David was.

Because the Bible said that when Saul put the offer on the table a second time, David said, You know what, I'm taking all comers.

What it shows us about David is, is it shows us that David wasn't looking for the easy route to his purpose.

He wasn't looking for the easy route to his promotion, he wasn't looking for the easy route to what it is that God had for him.

And can I tell you something, family?

There ain't nothing easy about purpose.

There's nothing easy about fulfilling the assignment that God has placed upon your life, right?

It's nothing easy about you walking in the dreams and walking in the visions and walking in the destiny that God has attached to your life.

See, what happens is it's too many times we think because it's our relationship with God that's gonna bring these manifestations in our life, and God's gonna answer this prayer.

We we think that it alleviates us from all responsibility.

I see this side, I didn't like it.

Let me talk to this side over here.

See, see, because it's God, right?

And and and he's omnipotent, which means he has all power, right?

And he's a God who loves us.

And again, the Bible said he has cattle on a thousand heels, he is the king of kings and he is the lord of lords.

And you know what?

If God said that this is his desire for me, we think that that alleviates us from responsibility.

But can I tell you what the Bible said?

The Bible said faith without come on now, talk back to me.

Faith without works is dead.

In other words, what the Bible lays out is this principle.

If you believe it, then there should be some behaviors that are attached to what you say you believe.

If you believe that God has more in store for you, then your behavior should line up with what you say you believe.

Come on, somebody.

The Bible tells us in Psalms chapter number one the Bible said that God will prosper whatever the blessed man does.

Can I tell you something?

God can't bless what you don't do.

So David understood.

Hey, I got a destiny, but you know what?

My destiny is gonna require me to fight.

And I wonder, is there about 15 people in the house of God this morning that say, I believe God has some dreams out there for me.

I believe God has some visions for me.

I want to start this business, I want to do this in ministry, and you know what?

I'm willing to fight for it.

Do we have any fighters in the house of God this morning?

David, he wasn't afraid to take the hard road because David had an understanding.

He understood that if he was going to experience the extraordinary of God, he could not be the rule, but he had to be the exception.

You catch that?

If you're gonna walk in the extraordinary, you can't be the rule, but you have to be the exception.

I need three volunteers.

Quick, I need three volunteers.

It don't matter who it is, where you are, I need three volunteers to come on stage and help me out.

We got one.

God bless you, man.

Thank you.

All right, my brother.

God bless you, sir.

Thank you.

All right, sir, thank you.

God bless you, God bless you.

I need y'all to line up over here for me.

I want to show you something here.

So I want you to just line right here, face me.

I want you to line up right next to her, face me.

I want you to line up right next to him, face me.

As I was praying and studying, uh, what the Lord told me is his Lord told me, if you're going to walk in what it is that God has called you to, he said you got to be like a trout.

Well, I'm not really the most savvy as it relates to fishing.

Right?

So I'm like, Lord, what do you mean?

How many how many fishermen or fisherwomen do we have?

It ain't too many in 11 o'clock service, you know, or 10:30 service.

One church is not a fishing church.

Let me tell you that right now.

He said you gotta be like a trout.

I said, Lord, what do you mean?

And I began to study a trout.

And you know the difference between a trout and a bass or a bluegill or a crappie is the bass and the bluegill and the crappie, they all swim with the current or they all swim downstream.

Right?

The difference with the trout is is the trout actually swims upstream or against the current.

Right?

So what the trout has wired in its DNA is it's gonna be the exception and not the rule.

Right?

So what the trout is doing in its daily life, as everyone else is swimming this direction, the trout finds itself taking the hard way, going this direction.

And when everyone else is caught up in the current of convenience and being comfortable, the trout believes that there is something on the hard side, right, that has its name attached to it.

And I wonder, is there somebody in the house of God this morning that there is just something inside of you that will not allow you to settle for average?

There is something inside of you that will not allow you to settle for less than what it is that God showed you in that dream.

God spoke to you in his word, and God began to wake you up in the middle of the night.

I know it's cool and it's comfortable and it's convenient for them, but you know what?

I can't do what everyone else does because I'm believing God for something that's grand and great.

Who in the house of God this morning says, you know what, I'm willing to go against the current so I can fulfill my calling?

Thank you, beautiful people.

You you got to understand I can't just go with the current of convenience.

I can't just go with the current of what's comfortable.

But I got to be willing to swim the hard way.

And I got to be willing to pray the hard way, and I got to be willing to work the hard way.

Come on now, right, right.

It ain't nothing easy about purpose.

It ain't it ain't nothing easy about destiny.

So as we look at this now and we focus on the desire part, uh, I want you to see that within this text, there is a there is a warning, if you will.

There's there's a word of caution that the Lord gives to us.

Because what the Bible says is, the Bible says that the reason why Saul put these proposals on the table is he says, I'm gonna use this to kill David.

You see that?

He said, Hey, hey, David, you wanna you wanna marry my oldest daughter?

He said, go go fight the Philistines.

And secretly he was saying, you know what, he's gonna go fight the Philistines, and you know what, they're gonna kill him, and I'm gonna get rid of him.

Didn't kill him the first time, it comes back.

He said, Hey, hey, you want my younger daughter?

I need a hundred foreskin from the Philistines, right?

Right?

Saul had the expectation that it was gonna kill him.

Look what he tried to use.

Saul tried to use David's desire for David's destruction.

And family, I want to give you a warning this morning.

You need to be careful not to allow your desire to lead to your destruction.

Right, right.

Because what happens is many times we have desires, and because we become so focused on our desires, it begins to lead to our destruction in other areas of our life.

Right?

You you may be so career oriented that you end up losing your family.

Come on, somebody, right, right, you.

You may find yourself so caught up with your desire that it causes you to find yourself leading to your own destruction.

Right?

So, what so what had to happen in the text here is Saul tried to use the offer for an opportunity to kill David.

And we need to be careful, family.

We need to be careful.

I can't let my desire so consume me that it leads to my destruction.

Right here.

He gives us a word of warning here.

So so this is how I mitigate or I manage my desire not leading to my destruction.

It's right there in the text.

He said, David, this is what your assignment is.

I need you to go get a hundred foreskin from the Philistines.

Now, uh, I know that's King James language, but uh, do we know what a foreskin is, right?

We all know what the foreskin is.

But it's mature audience, mature audience here.

Right.

If I could, if I could describe it maybe in the most simplistic way possible, uh what foreskin is, is foreskin is excess or unwanted or unnecessary flesh.

Foreskin is, thank you, sir.

Excess is is for foreskin is excess, unwanted, or unnecessary flesh.

Right?

I want you to see this here.

I want you to see this.

Saul says, you know what, this is this is how you can fulfill your assignment.

Bring me back 10 foreskin.

Now, as I'm reading the text here, I'm pretty sure, I'm pretty sure, right?

I'm not it didn't say it explicitly, but I'm pretty sure that those Philistines, they weren't gonna just let David mosey on up.

Okay, you with me?

It seems like you agree with my interpretation of the Bible, okay.

Which means David was gonna have to kill those 100 Philistines before he could get their foreskin.

Right?

What's the principle here?

Right?

If you are gonna find yourself not allowing your desire to lead to your destruction, it's gonna require you to do two things.

You're gonna have to kill some stuff, and you're gonna have to cut some stuff off.

Let me say here.

If you're gonna fulfill your assignment and you're not gonna allow your desire to lead to your destruction, family, I want to challenge you.

I want you to understand here, it's gonna be some stuff that you're gonna have to kill, and it's gonna be some other stuff that you're gonna have to cut off.

Right?

You you're gonna have to kill some of them habits.

Come on now.

You're gonna have to kill that temper and kill some of those paradigms and kill some of those negative uh mindsets and some of that stinking thinking.

You you're gonna have to kill some of that.

But when you get done killing some stuff, it still may be some stuff that you're gonna have to cut off.

Come on, somebody.

You may have to cut off that toxic relationship.

I can't get no help in the house today.

Right, right.

You you may have to cut off that previous season of your life.

The reason why sometimes you gotta close the door on your past is because many times when you don't close the door on your past, it's hard to open the door to your future.

Right, right.

So you gotta be willing, watch this now, to cut off that season or that version of you because many times you can't take this version of you into what it is that God has in your next.

So so what David had to do is he had to number one kill some stuff.

And number two, David had to cut some stuff off.

When I look at this text, my real point of praise though is David accepted two assignments to go amongst the Philistines to fight.

Right?

He went the first time to fight what Saul said were the battles of the Lord.

And Saul expected the Philistines to kill David.

David went a second time to fight against the Philistines to get a hundred four skin.

If you read the rest of the text, he actually came back with 204 skin.

Right?

Now I know David is a bad man and all, but but but when I look at the circumstances that David found himself in, I'm of the belief that those circumstances should have killed David.

In other words, David had gotten himself into a situation that should have killed him.

And I wonder, is there anybody in the house of God this morning besides me that has ever got yourself into a situation that should have killed you?

Right?

Right?

And if it didn't kill you physically, it should have killed some stuff in your life.

Right, right.

Have you ever got yourself into a situation?

Watch this now, that God had to cover you while you were in it until He can it call come on now, until He can pull you out of it.

Right, right.

Some of us, if we're being honest this morning, this is one church, we're just keeping it real this morning.

Some of us, we got ourselves into some mess that should have taken us out, it should have killed our destiny, it should have killed our purpose, it should have killed our reputation.

But while we were in the midst of it, God through his grace and God through his mercy, come on, somebody, covered us in the midst of our menace until he was able to get us out of it.

I met about 15 people in the house of God this morning to give God glory and to give God praise for the stuff he got you out.

Come on now, for the stuff he got you out of.

It's a menace that God covered us in it until he could get us out of it.

Right, it was some stuff that I was in, that God covered me while I was in it until he could pull me out of it.

The Bible said about the prodigal son.

When he was in the hog's pen.

The Bible said that he had to come to himself, right?

The him that God created him to be had to come to the him that he was currently being and tap him on the shoulder and say, Man, you were created for better than this.

And you know what?

Some of us have found ourselves in some circumstances to where you know what, God through his grace had to come tap us on the shoulder and say, son, daughter, you were created for better than this.

Somebody look at your neighbor and say, How bad do you want it?

But as I look at the totality, not of just this story, I look at the totality of the Bible overall.

There's one story about how bad somebody wanted something that that really, really is the crux of the message.

It ain't how bad Noah wanted to build the ark.

It's not how bad Abraham wanted a child.

Right?

It's not how bad Isaac wanted to give birth to his promised son.

It's not how bad Joseph wanted to be the prime minister over Egypt.

It's not how bad Moses wanted to deliver Israel out of the hand of Egypt.

It's not how bad Elijah wanted Jezebel to be dead, or Elisha wanted Jezebel to be dead.

It's not about uh the major prophets or the minor prophets.

It's not about Matthew, about Mark, about Luke, or about John.

Family.

It's not about uh uh the Apostle Peter or the Apostle Paul.

The one that I love the most is about Jesus the Christ.

The Bible tells us that that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity in the Council of Heaven.

They came up with a plan for redemption.

Right?

Now I'm sure as they were sitting there in the council of heaven, I'm sure the plan of redemption sounded real good.

And I'm sure Jesus said, Oh yeah, I want that.

Right?

And then Jesus comes to the earth and Jesus begins to work miracles.

He begins to open the eyes of the blind, he begins to unstop the ears of the deaf.

He takes two fish and five loaves of bread, and he feeds thousands.

There's a woman with the issue of blood who touches the hem of his garment and she's instantaneously healed.

Jesus stands outside the tomb of a man named Lazarus who had been in there dead for four days and says, Lazarus, come forth, and Lazarus with the gravecloths on comes stumbling out.

Right, right.

I'm sure in the midst of that, Jesus was like, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I want redemption for my people.

I want a church.

I want to redeem those who are lost.

I'm sure in those moments it was very easy for Jesus to say, Yeah, I want it.

But we really didn't know how bad Jesus wanted it until we saw the manifestation of the Eagleite prophet Isaiah 53, when the Bible said he was wounded for our transgressions.

He was bruised for our iniquities.

The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed.

He was mocked and he was spit on.

He was crowned with a crown of thorns.

He was whipped with the catenine tail, which is a whip that is laced with pieces of bone and metal, to the point when the Roman soldiers whipped him on his back, it would lodge into his flesh, and when they pulled away, it would literally tear the flesh off his back.

Right.

Then they required our Jesus, our Lord, our Savior, to carry his cross through the streets of Jerusalem.

Right?

And the Bible says that he carried it to a hill called Calvary.

Now sometimes we make Calvary sound so majestic.

We make it sound like it's a beautiful hill.

Can I tell you something?

It was nothing beautiful about it.

It was the trash heap.

When they got him to a hill called Calvary, the Bible said that they took stakes and they drove him through his wrist to the point where it severed the nerves in his arms and shot fire up his arms.

The Bible said that they took his feet and put stakes through his feet to where it severed the nerves in his feet and it shot fire up his legs.

And Jesus was hanging there, suffering, and bleeding, and dying.

And at that moment, family, can I tell you something?

The question for Jesus wasn't, do you want it?

The question for Jesus at that moment is how bad do you want it?

How bad do you want to redeem them?

How bad do you want to forgive them of their sins?

How bad do you want to shed your blood so now they don't have to walk, my God, in the wrath of God?

Right?

He he was hanging there in agony, suffering and suffocating.

But can I tell you something?

Jesus didn't just want it.

Jesus was willing to answer the question of how bad he wanted it.

And family, I dare somebody in the house of God this morning to give our Savior praise and to give our Savior glory for the fact that he wanted it bad enough to suffer and to bleed and to die for you and I.

So, family, the question is on the table this morning.

As we call the prayer team up, the question is on the table this morning for you and for me.

Yes, you're believing God for more.

Yes, you know God is calling you to another level in your walk with Him.

Yes, God is challenging you to a deeper relationship.

Yes, God is giving you dreams and God is giving you visions.

Yes, yes, God is tugging on your heart.

And yes, you would acknowledge, yes, I want it.

That ain't the question.

The question this morning, one church, is how bad do you want it?

How bad do you want to be set free?

How bad do you want to be delivered?

How bad do you want to see that change in your life?