What Does Your "Yes" Say? Luke 9-57-62

To surrender, which requires active submission, not passive agreement. And

even the song that I just sang, and the one

that you sang before then, and the ones that we

continue to sing, it's not as much as us singing yes,

as it is with us living yes.

And so on.

Today I will be coming from Luke nine fifty seven

and sixty fifty seven through sixty two, and again it

is my prayer that as I bring forth the word

that I believe the Lord has given to me to

share with you all, that this word would be.

Life changing for us. Amen, and so for all.

Of those that would and could if you could stand

for the reading of the word.

Amen, Amen. And the Word of God.

Says according to Luke nine and fifty seven. And it

came to pass that as they went in the way,

a certain man said, unto him, Lord, I will follow

thee whithersoever thou goest. And Jesus said, unto him, foxes

have holes, and birds of the.

Air have nest.

But the son of Man hath not where to lay

his head. And he said, unto another, follow me. But

he said, Lord suffers me first to go and bury

my father.

Jesus said unto him, let the dead.

Bury their dead, but go thou and preach the Kingdom

of God. And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee,

but let me first go bid them farewell, which are.

At home at my house.

And Jesus said, unto him, no man, having put his

hand to the plow and looking back, is fit for

the Kingdom of God. May God ad a blessing to

the reading, hearing, and understanding of his word. Again, my

theme is, and you can be seated in the presence

of the Lord. Amen is what does your yes say?

And because that's a question, that's a question.

For each and every last one of us, it's an

opportunity to self examine the yes is that we tend

to put out there. Again, I think sometimes we forget

the power that we have in our language. For the

Bible says the power of death and life is in

our tongue. And sometimes we speak without thinking, we speak

without realizing that what I'm saying could be bringing life

or death to something. And so again, a simple yes,

a simple yes is what some people call it because

it's one of little words yes, and it's either yes

or no.

Yeah.

But when I ask you a question, you don't have

to give me a long drawn out situation about it.

If it's a yes or no question, you just answer

yes or no. But that little small word carries a

lot of weight because once I've said yes to something,

then that means I'm accountable to what I said yes to,

and whoever I said yes to.

It's gonna be holding me accountable.

If I say that I'm gonna help you, you'll be

waiting on.

Me to come help you.

If I say that I'm gonna comb your hair, you're

gonna be waiting on me to comb your hair. Because

I said yes. I didn't say no, and I did

not say maybe.

I said yes. Yes.

It is an active submission word. It's intentional, it's energetic.

It has a behavior where the individual who has engaged

in that word should be a responsive individual. We're not

just passively complying to direct orders when we say yes,

because if we were passively complying to direct orders, whatever

they said we would do it, we wouldn't have the

opportunity to say yes or no. But we've just had

the opportunity to say yes. So when we say yes,

I thought about overseer.

More, how y'all always say up here, look at me,

look at me, and we be laughing about that. We

think that's cute. Look at look at me, look at me.

So when he say look at me, the majority of

the time we do what we look at him.

But we have an we can have an opportunity or

we have an option to say yes or no, but

we comply with it.

So that's that's passive.

But active means that I can say yes or no.

So when I say yes to something, I'm actively saying yes,

I'm gonna do this, and it's gonna take actions for

me to hold myself accountable.

To that yes that I said. And so again, the

song that I.

Started out with was Shirley Caesar's song because I like

that song. But you think about what Shirley is saying

in this song. She said, I'll say yes, Lord, yes to.

Yo will, now mine to God's will.

Not only is she gonna say yes to God's will,

but she's gonna say yes to the It's way, which

means that's not my way, that's his way.

I'll say, I will trust you and obey. So she's

saying yes to all of these things which has nothing

to do with her.

So when we say yes, Lord, God, is saying on today,

what does your yes really say? Does my yes say

I'm really gonna follow you? And again I came with

the action before, because if I'm saying yes, then that

means I'm gonna have to put action to that Yes.

If I say yes, I'm coming into work today, then

I get up out of my bed, I take my bath,

I do what I gotta do, but I make sure

I get to work. So if I said yes when

the Lord called me, I had a conversation with my

grandbaby this morning and she's fifteen fifteen, sixteen years old,

newly saved, and she say, now, I just feel like

God ain't there no more. I'm talking to him and

He's not listening to me. And so what do I do?

And I find a book to help me get closer

to God?

What do I do?

And so I explained, time spend with him. God is

a relationship God. He wants to spend quality time with you,

just like you want to hear him. And so what

I was after I explained that to her, what I

was telling us that we've already said yes, we said.

Yes when God called us, we didn't call God.

None of us got saved because Hey, I'm just ready

to get saved.

There was a drawing, and God.

Was drawing us not to him, and so when he

drew us not to him, we had the opportunity.

To say yes.

So if we've already said yes and committed to God,

I'm gonna be with you, then now.

The rest of our yes is have to line up

with that. We said yes, I no longer belonged to me.

I now belonged to you.

We said yes, I've been paid for with a price.

No longer on myself. We said yes to your will,

his will and his way. And then doing that, we

have put ourself in a place where there has to

be some actions behind that yes. So one of those

actions is taking time spending time with God in the word, praying,

talking to him. It doesn't have to be that you

have to always be on your knees to be praying.

We can walk and pray. We can walk in commune

with God. Surely put outline what she was saying and

said that she meant to do what she said?

How many of us? And today is the day not.

For you to ask your neighbor, but to ask yourself,

how am I committed to doing what I said I

was gonna do, and I committed to my yes, not

my yes to what I wanted to do, but my

yes to God. When God called me in and then

started giving me in on what to do, how to live,

how to grow, how to nurture, how to mature. So

many times, the reason that we can't grow and the

reason that we can't move forward is because we're not

adhering to the yes that we gave to God, but

we're adhering to the yes that we.

Gave to ourself.

Because with God's yes, there's always gonna come some difficulties.

There's always gonna come some crooked roads that you don't

want to go down, because God ain't just this straight

and narrow God, or you're gonna get it the way

that you want it. A man, Abraham was seventy five

when God called him out seventy five, and then he

called him away from his family. Where was you at

when God called you? What were you doing when God

called you? Seecause when he called us, he called us

out of something, and he called us out of it,

not because he was trying to take us away from something,

but because he was trying to give us.

Direction.

I'm gonna follow that way, and I'm gonna allow you

to leave me. And one of the things I was

telling my granddaughter this morning, I think the greatest thing

that God could have ever done was send his spirit,

because He never meant for us to do this alone.

Amen. Amen, I heard the word on last Sunday.

He send us some help, because that's some stuff that

we need some help in. But we also have help

inside of us. We have God's spirit that lives, moves,

and abides within us that not only helps us to

get to the destination that God.

Has called us to get to. But if I mess up,

Lady love More, He'll correct me. He'll get he'll check me,

he'll pour my shirt.

Tail, He'll help me get back in alignment with what

God has called me to do.

So.

But does my yes saying it's okay? Does my yes

to God say it's okay for you to check me today,

It's okay for you not to let me walk in sin.

It's okay for you not to let me walk in ignorance.

But it should When I say yes Lord, I'm saying

yes Lord, here I am.

We always say when you say yes, Lord, raise your hand.

What does that mean? That's a sign of surrenderings. When

you surrender. If you was in the army and y'all

was fighting and the enemy it came, and you surrender,

you just lost yourself.

You don't belong to you no more. You now belong

to them. We're looking at the war that's going on

right now.

After so many of them get taken over and and

say that, the U United States go in and they

kill a whole bunch of the Iranians, and then there's

something left behind and they say, okay, we surrender. Y'all

already got everybody else, and they say surrender.

They get up out of their space and they go

with the enemy.

Well, it's not for us to get up out of

our space and go with the enemy. But it's for

us to get up out of our space and go

with God, who can lead us away from the enemy.

And so what I'm saying, yes, what does my yessay?

My yes will be seen by my actions. I say

all the time. Actions speak loud of the words.

And a lot of people don't want to believe that.

But you are who you are. The Bible says, whatever's

in a man's heart, so is he. So what's coming

out of you is normally what's in you. So it's

important that when we say yes Lord, that we know

what we're saying yes to.

We need to remember them.

Our yes has to be an active yes, not a

passive one. Because we know how to sing yes, we

know how to shout yes. We even know how to

lift our hands up and say yes. But the question

today is that I'm asking you this morning, that God

is asking us this day, what does your yest say?

Is it easy to say yes when the music is playing,

when the atmosphere is good, when the blessings are rolling in,

and when everything is going your way, But as soon

as something happens, when Jesus asked you to follow him

into an uncomfortable place, is yo, yes?

Still yes?

I don't want to do that one. I don't want

to go over there. I know they asked me to

do it, but the biggest contrast worked smartlest word, but the.

Biggest contrast word.

But I know God said it, not even just because

I heard God say it, because you know, everybody hear

God nowadays. So sometimes we have to be careful with

that one. If it don't line up with the word,

it ain't God.

Yeah. So and that's even for you, because sometimes we

don't hear.

And I can always be honest about me. I have

to check myself sometimes.

I was going through a little thing last week and

I said, I thank God. I think it was ten

because I was.

Telling her, I say, Man, for every little thing that

popped up, God gave me a scripture to show me

that it was him, because sometimes it can be us,

and sometimes because it's us.

We think we know everything. So it's right.

You know, I got three bachelor's degrees and or whatever

the case may be. I haven't been to college four times,

so I know I got this one right now. You're

wrong because that ain't what God said. If it don't

line up with the word, it's not God. And so,

and we want to make sure that we're not so

comfortable with being and doing what we want that every

time God does say something, it feels uncomfortable because if

I know God, then I know God gonna put.

Me in some uncomfortable situations.

If I know God, like I said, Abraham seventy five,

come from among your family. He's taking him somewhere, and

he don't know where he's going. He just know that

God has called him to go, so he follows.

Isn't that what the majority of us do when we

get saved? Here, I am.

Lord, and then we start singing those songs, even if

we're wording them.

Have your way in me, use me for your glory.

I know. I'm good with that.

And then when something bad happen, I'll be like Lord,

but I ask him to use me. I'm reminded because

using him for your glory might not feel good. That

might mean you're gonna be broken disgusted for a little while.

God will use you while you broken, disgusted, and then

when he blessed.

You with more than enough, now you can say, hey, God, this.

He just used you for his glory.

You sink down in your body, but you trusting and

believing in God the whole time. You see it, the

whole time you're going through you telling them my arm

by Jesus strife from hell.

Now God got me, No, God that went before me.

But you still sick, and you real real ugly, and God,

I don't feel good. But this is how He's using

you so that he can get some glory out of

your life for him. Then he picked you up and

he bring you out and you shouting hallelujah. Look what

God did. You just brought some glory to him.

But sometimes we don't want to do that.

You put yourself in a mess, and God say I'm

to leave you here for right now. You know, he

said he gonna leave you there, But you don't want

to be there. You're fighting that. You're fighting against it.

He saying, wait on me, be patient. But you said, yes, Lord,

yes to your will and to your way. But the

whole time you there, you're kicking against the prick. You're

fighting against what God is saying. You're fighting against what

he's doing.

He said, just pray, be patient, just wait upon me.

You can't even wait.

You steady trying to fix the situation and work it

out for yourself. What is that telling you about your

yes to God? What does that say when you won't

even wait on him patiently wait on him? And so

when we do, when we say yes, it's important that

we remember what that yes is gonna cause or call

us to do. Loop nine gives this text describes what

nine we're gonna Fifty seven. This text describes a few

encounters that Jesus had with some.

Would be followers. Would be He had his twelve. They

don't win.

And they done fed with the fish and the two

loaves of bread. And now they got some more followers,

and and he's sending them out his trying to train him.

And he gets here to verse fifty seven, and here's

some more would be followers. And so they made a

show of wanting to be his disciples. That's what we

should be doing. But we should be being his disciples.

Amen.

That's part of getting saved, that's part of coming in.

So if he's gonna use us, we got to have

a yes. If he asked us to go to the

outermost or to.

The outermost, we got to have a yes.

He's using us where his disciples.

So the disciples come to an end and they weren't

willing to make the commitment. Yes, says I'm committed. If

you tell me yes, I'm gonna believe that you're gonna

do it.

And I believe it until you showed me that you're not.

And then if you show me that you're not for me,

that's a hard one for me because it starts to

bring mistrust to me. I don't know if I can

trust that individual. Because they said they would and they didn't.

But I thank God for God because he knows the future.

So sometimes he'll just keep pushing and tugging at you

and pulling at you. But God's go here was not

to just give them salvation, but it's also about their discipleship.

He doesn't just want you to show up for church

on Sunday, but he wants you to show up and

be visible throughout the rest of the week.

That's discipleship.

So if I said yes, Lord, to your willing, to

your way, then I should always be doing something according

to what God has called me to do. I should

be witnessing, I should be sharing, I should be loving people.

I should be helping people. There's so much for us

to do that holds up to our yes. Your yes

wasn't just hey, Lord, save me, send me to heaven.

Now You're yes was here. I am do with me

what you see fit. Remember, we don't even belong to

ourselves anymore. If you don't belong to you and you

belong to Him, why you doing what you want to

do with you? This body is the temple of the

Holy Ghost. He lives within us, So wherever we go,

we're taking him. Whatever we do. He knows it. He

sees it. God sees it beforehand. But now we got

the Holy Spirit and we're taking him into these situations

and circumstances with us. And thank God again, the Holy

Spirit will bring forth conviction. So when you're not walking

according to what God has taught you to walk to,

you gonna get a tub. Hey remember what you said? Yeah,

you told him that you would Remember you told God

you would go.

Why didn't you go?

They all just went yeah, because I heard people all

the time. Uh, I ain't going, not me. They got enough,

They don't need me. It was two of them. They

don't need a third leg. No, we need that third leg.

So but Luke.

Gives us the account of three examples of people who

talked the good game but were unwilling to get up

off the bench. I promise you I'm not a good

best player. So if you're on my team, please don't

sit on the bench. We need you, and that's in

our honesty.

We need you.

How can we have a team and everybody want to

sit on the bench.

Do nobody want to get up and play?

And eventually those that are in the game gonna get tired.

We're not immortal. Somebody has the substitute.

If you said yes, Lord, you told him when you

come into the kingdom, you got me, that gave him

high fire. Here you go, Lord, you got me. I'm

in this thing. What you need me to do, where

you need me to go? And then as soon as

somebody asked you to go or to do something, it's

completely different.

Why because you see that as a man.

You don't see that as a man that God will use,

you know, the God that the people of God said,

don't talk to us no more, No speak to us.

To Moses. Oh you too much for us. We can't

handle that. Speak to us Moses.

So he's still speaking to us today through man. So

our leader, because I'm talking to VIP, our leader asked

us to do something and we can't do it. Because

our leader asked us to do it, he still got

two legs.

Won't he do it?

He still know how to drive, won't he do it?

I know he know how to sweep. Won't he do it?

Because that's what he's saying. What is your yes?

Say? It's your yes to him, but it's also your

yes to.

The kingdom, to kingdom work, to kingdom duties. What did

Jesus tell him.

It was about the kingdom, had nothing to do with

with just Jesus. They wanted to follow Jesus just to

follow Jesus. Jesus was a popular god at.

This time, so we want to follow you because more

than likely you can bring us some popularity. But Jesus said,

this ain't about me. This is kingdom work. I ain't

even here to be popular. I'm here to do what

my father called me to do, and what my father

called me to do. If y'all don't see it, it's uncomfortable.

So he told the first.

Man, he said, I'll follow you wherever you go. And

Jesus wanted him to.

Know that foxes don't have holes, birds don't have nests,

and neither does the son of man have anywhere to live. Hey,

you want to follow me. I don't even have a house.

You think I'm popular. People want to kill me, but

you want to follow me. You living to lose your

life for following me? You sure you want to follow me?

And I like the way that Jesus put that out there,

because he puts that out there for us, because some

of us gonna be crucified for Christ. Some are gonna

be martyred for Christ. Some are gonna be really cruel

christ I see Christians to get mad because people talking

about them. Come on, now, make that makes sense. Somebody

said something about you, and you mad because I'm a

Christian and they said they were talking about me.

Your skin ain't.

Tougher than that you wanted Jesus disciples, I'm just saying,

you got power and authority from heaven, and you hurt

because somebody said something about you.

Come on, so Jesus, Jesus wanted them to know.

I mean, you want to follow me, but I ain't

even got no where to lay my head. Yeah, second tim,

it's I'm sorry, I'm going ahead of myself. What Jesus

was telling them is that his yes to discipleship would

sometimes come with uncertainties and even have.

Some hard times. Y'all have any hard.

Times, thanks of God, raise your hand and saying this

is for us this morning, you got any certainties in

your life?

Yeah? So I'm just saying why we won't go?

Then when we told to go, we already getting uncertainties

and uncomfortability.

At least if we get it with.

Jesus holding ourselves accountable to tie, Yes, we got some help. Yeah,

you got, you got help, you got a backup system.

You got angels behind your angels going before you. You

got the Holy Spirit, you got God's anaty that is strong,

that lifts up yolks. And then when you really get

in trouble, he say, you got his name. His name

is a strong tower for the righteous where we can

run in and find safety.

Come on, now, you might as well hanging over Jesus, you.

Might have Well, if you're gonna say yes, you might

as well keep going, going all the way. At least

you got some help while you're going all the way,

for when things get tough, for when things don't turn

out your way.

I got some help. So what does your yes say?

Does my yes say? I trust in God.

For many of the afflictions of the righteous, but only

God can deliver them out of them. All you gonna

go through some stuff. Quit acting like it's supposed to

be hunky dory on this side. We got an enemy

and a battlem and we didn't have been called to

be soldiers.

In the army.

How many soldiers back off when it's time to fight.

It's a lot?

Oh what in this army? Oh yeah, okay, help us

out there, Lady Love, Lady love, most say it's a

lot of them, and it more than likely us because

a lot of people have said yes, but have not

helped theirself accountable.

To that yes.

And if we say yes, we got to hold ourself

accountable to the yest. Because I can tell you this,

because of this message, God is holding us accountable because

many of us say things and when our mouth we

say one thing, but our hearts be far from it.

And God is trying to get our hearts to line

up our mouth to line up.

With our hearts.

Yeah, we can't just keep speaking and saying stuff just

to say something. Yeah, we're not babblers. Tewod Timothy three

and twelve says, yay, and all that live a godly

life in Christ, Jesus shall suffer persecution. You're gonna go

through something. You're gonna go through something. It's no way.

Out of it.

But like I said, at least if you with Jesus,

you're going through it, and you got a backup system.

When I was in the world, I didn't have a

backup system when things went bad.

I didn't pray. When times got heard, I didn't pray.

I didn't have that.

Backup system them. If I was broke, I got an

extra job. Then I was tired and I couldn't get

no rest. I'm just saying, we have to look at

the situation. So I do I stay on this side

and say yes and know that I have helped Satan

don't help his people.

Satan uses his people.

He manipulates his people, and the same way that he

trying to torture the Saints, he's still torture his people.

Satan ain't got no love for nobody. Satan is not love.

But when you come to this side, you got a

father that loves you.

Not only do he love you, he loves you unconditionally.

He'll be with you from now and to the end.

He won't ever leave you. Neither will he forsake you.

We don't have that on the other side. So what

does my yes say? What am I actively doing to

the with that yes that I said to God? Am

I actively working and moving in the kingdom? Am I

keeping my word? Holding myself accountable the things that I

don't know, saying Lord, teach me, Lord, show me the way,

and not always being so quick to say no to

the man, because I think that the man can't be got.

God couldn't have told him to ask me that. I

know God didn't. I'm gonna go and pray about it.

Can you pick up that trash? Let me go pray

about that, because I don't know?

Can you? Can you motor yard? If there? I got

to pray about that one? I don't know. So what

your yes, it's not active, Your yes is passed.

If you just sitting there waiting on somebody to tell

you what to do, and then as soon as they

tell you what to do, now you mad because I

know he didn't say that to me.

I know he didn't talk to me like that.

You know, it's hard to bring forth correction in the

church because again, if somebody is mature in a certain area,

then they feel like you can't tell them nothing. But

they'll go to work and they vous for discipline them,

and they'll let the bouce discipline them about what they did.

But when they come to church, the man of God

or the woman of God can't discipline them about what

they did. You can't correct me about what I did either,

because I know that I know that. I know that

I know, but.

You don't know.

And so that's one of the areas in the church

and in the body of Christ where sometimes you really

have to make sure of what your yes was, because

my yes says I'm teachable, My YT says I can

be corrected by the Man of God. And then especially

if I know the word. Now, if you don't know

the word, maybe you think what the Man.

Of God is saying is wrong.

Get to know the word, because if God has put

you under a leader, it's for that leader to lead you.

And if that leader ain't leading you right and you

know the word, then maybe you do need to find

you a different leader. But if that leader is leading

you right and you know the word, then you know

that that's God using the leader to speak to you.

Don't be like the children of Visrael and have to

wander in the same wilderness for forty years.

Just because you won't listen.

Because God told the Man of God to ask you

to do something and you won't do it. You stayed,

oh no, no, that don't saund right. And so now

you're still there. God trying to get you to move

in a different place, trying to get you to do

something different, something unfamiliar to you, because He trying to

bring you out of your comfort zone. But you don't

want to listen to him because you think he trying

to make you do something you don't want to do.

So now you still stuck because where God was trying

to get you to move to the next to the

second role, Move up, come up, come up to the

first row, and you won't come up to the first

role because you think he trying to get you to

the first row so that he can say something to

you that ain't this side.

Of line, so you won't come up the whole time.

It ain't him, it's God saying, come up, baby, I'm

tired of you sitting.

In the back. I'm tired of you being where you are.

I got blessings for you, I got more for you,

but you take.

Heed, so then you stay in that place.

The second man, when he was asked to follow Jesus,

that man said that he needed to go bury his father.

He said, Lord, suffer me first to go bury my father.

Notice what he said, first first? How many of us

put us first? Let me do this first. I hear

what you said, Lord, but let me do this first.

I gotta go over here. Wait a minute, Lord, wait

a minute, because this was already here. So if I

do this first, then I'll be able to do this

what you what you asked me to do, steady trying

to put stuff in order, or at least make sure

you get.

Your stuff done first.

Because if I can get mine done first, then I

got plenty.

Of time for God. You y'all know that. But if

I get mine done, I know the church need cleaning,

but I gotta clean my house first.

Yeah, I know that they need finances, but I gotta

do mine first. How I'm gonna pay your bills and

I ain't paid mine because you ain't got no trust

in God? Because if the Lord say do it, I

suggest you do it. But no, he wanted to do

his first what he needed to do first. I'll obey,

but first let me see how this works out. Lord,

I'll go, but first let me handle this one. If

Yo yes to Jesus must come first, then yr yes,

Saint to Jesus. Because Matthew six and thirty three says

he key first the kingdom. The kingdom will and then

when you seek that first, look at what he gonna do.

He gonna add all all that you need, all the

stuff that you don't have. See he was doing it backwards.

He wanted him first, put Jesus second. That's like many

of us, and we have to be honest with ourselves.

How many times do you put Jesus first?

What is yo yes? Say?

Because if I say yes to your will, it ain't

what I want, it's what you say. And sometimes again

it's hard to hear him. It's hard to hear somebody

you don't spend time with. That's why it's important to

read the word. He not trying to get you to

like get into a book reading club with the Bible,

a book club for this one. This really is basic

constructions before leaving earth. And when you not only adhere

to him, but when you put these scriptures to.

Work, then the word will start becoming life.

You and so not me first, God first, and so

after I them put Jesus first. Jesus was saying that

it wasn't that he wasn't the family wasn't important. That's

not what he was saying to the man. But we

have to get an understanding that even sometimes for our family,

we got to put God first. Said, I'm still waiting

on two of my kids to come in.

Well, if I take all.

My time and effort and put it into making them

come in, making them be saved.

Making man, you can't we.

Can't save them, and we can't make them stay saved.

But if I put God first, and I'm praying, and

I'm adhering to God and I'm listening to God, God

himself would start drawing them in, just like he drew

me in. I promise you, I'm gonna pastor. Somebody were

praying for me. Somebody was praying for me because I

didn't know no whole bunch of saves folks. Somebody was

just praying, Lord, softening somebody's hard open up. They blinded eyes, God,

drive them from afar off. And while they were praying.

God was looking at me, hallelujah.

But that person put God first. They was praying for sinners.

They was praying for souls to come in. Yet sometimes

even in our prayer life, we'll put our prayers.

Before everything else.

That song, it's miss miss me, oh Lord, standing in

the need of prayer, and I am. But he just

told me that if I seek you first, the kingdom garden,

all his righteousness, then all those things he would add

unto me. So whoever sudden, that song was right.

But we don't want to get to the point where

we only praying for us. We saved.

I just heard Minister Whimpley say it this morning. If

you don't do another thing, you've done enough for me.

If I don't get another blessing, meaning even the error

that I breathe, that's a blessing. I think we look

at blessings and stuff. If I don't get another thing,

he's done enough for me. He saved my soul.

I have an opportunity to not spend eternal after life

in hell.

I'll be able to spend it in heaven. So he's

done enough. So when it comes to putting first, we

need to always make sure that I yes, says I'm.

Putting Jesus first. When Jesus calls.

Us, he don't want to be added to our list

of priorities. Okay, I just got to say, I gotta

go to work, I gotta be a wife, I gotta

be a mother. Well, I do gotta go buy groceries,

and I need to clean up. Okay, So I'm gonna

put Jesus right in here, right here at Jesus.

And it's midway. But I got you there.

That's not what he's looking for because if you put

him at the top.

Your priority list, he got all the rest of that.

Yeah, he gonna take all the rest of that, take

her all the rest of that.

Yeah.

What you couldn't do now you can do with him

because he at the top. Now I got extra strength, Amen,

I got strengthened. I don't even know where the strength.

Come from, Lady Love.

Yesterday's walk was truly a blessed But I got home,

and oh my goodness, my knees was talking to me

in all kinds of languages, and I didn't understand that.

I said, Jesus, I hadn't heard nothing from them in

a long time. But because I put God first, not

only was I able to go out and do God's work, but.

Even after I did God's work, I.

Was able to do my work. And after I did

my work, I was even able to fix a little

something for the husband to eat. I was able to

go in there and clean, y'all. I had so much

strength I didn't go to bed two one o'clock this morning,

and then got up at six o'clock this morning and put.

On Sunday dinner, cleaned up the kitchen.

I'm just saying when we put him first, he's top

of the priority.

Then God would do the rest.

So then you don't have to listen to the enemy

tell you you don't.

Have time to read.

You know that, right Yn, You don't have time to pray.

You busy. You see, all this stuff you got to

do causes us to get in a place that's outside

of God. We become procrastinators. Now we not just procrastinators,

but now we're lazy.

I'm tired, I can't do this. Ooh.

But that's what happens when we don't set our priority

lis stuff right. Jesus should always come first. I always

come first, because if I allow him to come first,

then he'll help me with the rest of them.

He's my strength when I am weak. Hallylujah.

It's only because a him that I'm awakening in the morning.

He's my wisdom when I don't know what to do.

He's my words when I don't know what to say.

Put him at the top, let him have his way,

and I'm just saying, what does my yes say? Because

my yes is gonna always speak loud, I won't be

able to tell you yes, I'm a good Christian, Yes,

I'm a lovely lady. Yes, I'm an awesome person. I

am the best wife, I'm the best friend. No, my

actions will always show that. Yeah, because if I ain't

being the best friend of my friend need like by

showing my best friend. If I ain't there when you

need me, if you can't call me every time you

call my phone on dm ME I think that's what

they call it, or every time you come by my house,

I want to open my door. What kind of that

shows what kind of friend I am.

Mother. It's gonna take care of her kids.

She gonna make sure they fast, she's gonna make sure

they bathed, she's gonna make sure they have clothes on

their back.

That's your action to being a good mother.

I'm not just gonna believe you know good mother because

you told me you was a good mother.

So a lot of people say they are a lot

of things that they not.

So thank God, the actions have to line up.

With that one.

Your yes says it won't keep looking back. That's our

third point, because I'm moving fast. It's said that we

won't keep looking back. There was another man that came

to Jesus. He say, Lord, I'll follow them, but let

me bid them farewell.

Which are at my house.

You gotta go all the way back home because you

have met Jesus on the street.

Now you want to go all the way back home.

You're taking quality time away from the Savior to go

back somewhere, and.

No telling how far back it is.

And even with studying this, I thought maybe it had

something to do with like a backslaughter. Yeah, they're not

talking about the backslaughter. They just talking about people like

Lot's wife that were told not to look back, and

she kept looking back, so she turned into a pillow

of sack.

He talking about the.

People to keep looking back. And because you looking back

when you're going forward with you're making mistakes. That's why

he compared it to plan on the field. How can you?

I don't. I can't see what I'm doing in the front,

So how I don't even know where I'm going? I'm

off track?

First off, because I'm still looking back. He in front

of me, because the Lord goes before me. That's been

my prayer tell that is the Lord goes before me.

So if God is in front of me, why am

I looking back? I'm losing space. I'm making all kinds

of mistakes.

And then I'm a visionary.

So I've seen the person with the plow.

Yeah, now your pastor is crookd uh, not at all

got out Yours got out somebody else's.

And then when he got out of the us because

you steady looking back, you don't have to go back.

God got you.

And if your family come and God and bring them.

I'm a witness to that. I got two in the

church now.

At God's time, at their daytiming, really, because He's not

gonna force him.

But you keep praying for him. You don't stop praying

for him.

You don't never stop praying for your unsaved level, and

you don't never stop praying for unsaved people. Salvation is beautiful,

is it not. I'm saved. I'm grateful that I am saved.

Salvation brings me happiness, It brings me joy, So why

would I.

Not want that for somebody else.

We'll always be praying for the center man to come

down to God and to know him and the fellowship

that we know him in.

But I can't do that if I'm looking back.

I either got the keep turning that you're gonna have

to cooking your neck eventually. Are you just gonna mess

up everything in front of you. Yeah, how you gonna

keep driving? But looking in the rearview mirror, it's impossible.

I can't drive and talk, sister lady Moore, I can't,

And I ain't shamed. People tell me all the time.

I was just waving at you and just blowing.

Man.

If I don't stay forward, yeah, I got to.

I be in the store.

I can't push a basket and text on the I

have to stop.

I can't text and talk. And I'm okay with that. Yep,

that's me. Yeah, uh huh. But I ain't turned back here.

I ain't turning back. Yeah.

So I'm still still and focused. And that's how we

have to be with God, still and focused, and sometimes

we get We put so much in our basket.

You got so much going on.

That's why you study looking back, you steady, looking back

by what you just picked up while ago, what you

picked up yesterday, instead of looking forward and allow on.

God to lead you.

If God leads you, you ain't got to keep picking

up stuff, cause he gonna tell you what to do.

He gonna tell you how to do it. He gonna

tell you which connor to turn. So we have to

my yes, has to say that I'm gonna you all

the way and the way I'm gonna show that by

action for that is that I'm not gonna be looking

behind me. I'm not gonna be looking to myself, no offense, Mother,

Elder Johnson. I can't be looking at you. I can't

be looking to Minister Whimley. I can't be looking at you,

lady a little more. I love all of y'all. And

if the Lord send me to you, I'm coming because

I know he got something for me through you. But

if I take my focus out for God and put

my focus on all y'all.

I'm gonna be messed up, messed up a man.

So this third man had to realize, you can't take

your eyes off of Jesus. And studying this text, I

found that Jesus was considering this man to be double minded,

not Baxley and double minded. You got so much going

on up here, because you got so much going on

back there, and you looking at it. Man, ain't that terrible.

We've been there, We was at four. We got saved.

Thank God, he opened our eyes up. Now understand why

he have to remove the scales from blinded eyes, cause

we needed to see that Halley lu Yak and so

brought us out. Don't go back. Stay focused if you

have said yes, Lord, stay.

Focused God, what would you have me to do? God?

Which way do you want me to go? Quit doing

stuff in our own I don't know what tomorrow hoes.

I can just guess on it.

And even with guessing on it, I can make the

biggest wrong guess. But when I'm focused on Jesus, when

I'm listening to what God says, the author and the

finisher of my faith, the one who will.

Lead and guide me into our righteousness. Yeah, I'm not

looking back. I'm staying forward ahead. Amen.

It says he is comparing him to someone in the

field because while planned, he's looking behind himself, which would

cause him not to have.

A straight feel, but a crooked feel. Your yes requires

forward movement. Your yes requires forward movement.

I can't tell y'all how many times. And like I say,

I'm always honest about me. That's why I say today

is a check yourself. I'm not telling you tell your neighbor. No,

I'm telling you tell you. God wants you to check

you because sometimes we won't check us because we think

we got it. All together. I'm all that in a

bag of chips. I make sure my daily prayers. Lord

exposed me to me, because if you expose me to me,

you give me an opportunity to get.

With you and then me and you can get this

right so that you.

Don't expose me to them, because if they see my

flyer now the people of God see your flowers, they

gonna start talking about you and putting you down.

God see your flowers. God gonna help you out. Amen.

So Lord, don't expose me to them. People that won't

help me.

Expose me to me, and then I can come to

you and say, ooh, Lord, man, you need.

To help me with that one I still got.

I still need some help in this area because none

of us are finished work.

That's why he.

Could look back. It was something that wasn't finished. Whenber

he had to go back and tell his family. It

wasn't just saying good bye, but why I'm there, Hey,

how y'all doing?

And this is what I'm gonna do. You ain't got

to tell everybody where you going. Just go. If Jesus

said go, let's go.

Yeah, everybody don't need to know where I'm going because

everybody ain't qualified to go with you anyway, and sometimes

you ain't qualified to go with you. You need to get

you out the way because you still limiting yourself up

because you're looking back and saying, remember when I messed up,

Remember I couldn't I can't do that.

God.

Yeah, remember I'm I'm I don't know how to hold

onto that the right way. We start seeing the little

bitty things about us and we turn them into a

moat or a mohill.

And God is looking.

At that little bitty thing that's bad about you, where

you can't remember, where you don't sweep right, or you

don't clean right, and he's saying, man, I can take

her and get some glory out of her, because as

I move her forward, then I can grow her and

I can mature her.

She may think she ain't qualified.

But I see something in there that qualifies her. But

because you looking back then when you felt like you

wasn't qualified or you did something that made you unqualified,

now you won't.

Go forward with the Lord. Yo. Yes, could be holding

up God's plan.

Yo, yes, could be holding up things for somebody else.

Remember we wasn't called for ourself. God is using us.

He's using us to bring others in. He's using us

to disciple. I love our vision to reach those of

the loss, equip those of the faun, and then send

those that the chosen. But if I don't never go

after nobody, if I don't never tell nobody, if I

won't never help nobody. But I said yes, that's part

of the great commission to go out. So I'm not

just saying yes to the vision for VP. I'm saying

yes to the Lord. And we just got through singing that,

didn't we. I say yes, Lord, yes to your willing,

to your way. I say yes, Lord, Yes, I will

trust you and obey, And when your spirit.

Speaks to me and.

My whole heart, I'll agree and the answer will be yes, Lord, Yes, y'all.

We have to be more careful about what we're saying,

because the Lord say, we'll get caught up in these

songs and it's just that a song.

But it's not just a song.

Those are words that we are given to God, words

that we should honor.

And how do we honor them with our actions? With

our actions?

Sometimes God is calling us forward, but we're still looking backwards,

looking back at old relationships, old habits, oh, disappointments, old failures,

what we used to have and what we used to be,

We're not there no more. Let it go, Let it go.

You have to let it go. You can't bring the

old into the new, or it's never new. You just

to move the couple of steps. But I'm not trying

to move a couple of steps for me. I'm trying

to go to high heights and deeper.

Depths in God. How you gonna get the high heights.

And deeper depths in God? And you got this big

old load your back heavy. He done sent the annoyingting

to lift up the yolk, and you won't let the

yoke go, you holding on to it, keeping it on

your neck, because you won't let go. In order for

us to be successful in life, we have to let

go of some things.

And that's not even just spiritually, that's in the world.

I can't never be promoted if I keep saying now

I work right here, and they said, now come up here,

you've been doing good. Not only that, I want to

give you a raise. God said, I want to give

you a raise, Come on up here. We won't even

go up there with God to get the raise. We

study holding onto the past, holding onto stuff, and won't

let go.

God is saying, let it go. That's part of your yes.

Set yourself free from the things that are holding you

bound again.

This is a personal.

God is saying, I call you to come forward, each

and every let that's one of us. He never called

us for us to stay where we were. Our God

is a moving god. Our God is a productive god.

If you steal where you was when you first got saved,

check yourself, and.

Then go to the Lord.

And Lord, I repent, I wasn't listening, maybe I didn't

do this, whatever the case may be, I repent.

This is our own repentance. And quit thinking you don't

have to repent no more because you saved.

It's still some stuff that we need to turn away from.

And I'm just saying.

Because I say repenting, people like, oh, that's what you

do to get saved.

Now, that's what you do to keep moving.

If I know I'm messed up and I'm in the wrong, God,

I repent, help me to turn away from that thing, never.

To go back to it again. Lady love more.

If I tell you that the class that we did

on good Stewardship, if that wasn't life changing to me? Man,

Thank God that it was life changing. No, But I

had to repent because I was being misuseful of the

finances you was giving us. God, I was wasting. I

was being selfish in some areas. I was being very,

very man. I was bad with finances. But I repented.

And because I repented, now God is helping me. My

whole financial aspect, my whole financial outlook has changed.

And somebody said, well, why are you repenting. That's not

like a saying why come in? That's his.

And he gave it to me, and he told me

to be a good steward over.

And I wasn't a good steward over. Forgive me, Father.

Yeah, but we think it stops with salvation, like you

just walking perfect like you, Jesus, you got it all together.

You ain't never made no mistakes. We not Jesus, honey. Yeah,

we're pressing towards it in along the way as we

mess up. Repent. If you sin, ask for forgiveness. Don't

stay in sin. If you sin, ask for forgiveness, don't

let nobody tell you that's okay.

Church folks do that, because we ain't church folks. We

follows of Christ. Amen. So there's a certain type of

lifestyle that we live.

We can't continue to plow forward while constantly looking backwards.

Yo, yes should say I'm leaving what.

I need to leave, and I'm moving where God is

calling me to move.

What does your yest say?

That's the question for each one of us to ask

ourselves on today, and it's according to the text that

I just read. The first one would be, does your

yest say that I'll follow Christ? Does your yes really

say that? And again, sometimes it's okay to check yourself.

I do, and I'm not saying that y'all are me,

But I just understand that I'm human. I make mistakes,

and I know I can't be the only one to

make a mistake. I know Jesus didn't just come die

for me, just what old me by myself? Okay, I

didn't think he did. I thought he put a bunch

of us in there. Your second one would be does

Jesus come before everything?

And he should? And if he's not, right now, that's okay,

repent and that's in our honesty.

Change that, because that's what repentance heals.

Repentance is changing it.

Asking for forgiveness of saying, Lord, forgive me because I've

done that wrong and I know I shouldn't do that.

But once you repent, now you're gonna change your whole

Outlook about that a change.

So if I hadn't been putting God Jesus.

Top and first repent and then and I'm telling you this,

this is just I believe the Lord does it with

everybody because he does it with me, and he's not

a respectful person. I can say, God, help me.

Because I don't know what to do. Sometimes we just

don't know what to do.

Help me, Lord, help me to be intentional with put

in Jesus first, it's okay. Help me to live this life.

Help me to walk this out. I can't walk this

by myself. I ain't never been saved before. Besides the

instructions that you have given me in this Bible. Again,

he gave us a spirit. He gave us a spirit

for a reason. The Holy Spirit leads us, He brings

forth conviction. He gives us what God gives him to

tell us, and it's the truth. So we have help

receive that help. The third one is don't turn back

whatever you was and whatever you was doing before now

leave it there, even on yesterday, yesterday gone. We can't

go back and change it. We can't even go back

and fix it.

Now.

If there's something that I can do, Lord, show me

what I can do. If I messed up with an individual,

I can go back and apologize as for forgiveness. Yeah,

but if I didn't pay that bill it was due yesterday,

pay it today. But you can't go back and fix

that you laid on it because it was yesterday.

So we when we do.

That, then we're saying, Lord, I'm saying yes to your

yet to my yes.

If I'm saying yes, I really mean that.

Again, we sung the song Lord, yes, yes to your

will and yes to your Way. We've even sung yes

by Chicao Glory, and I mean that's a deep yes.

That yes makes me cry because she said, deep down

in her soul, we have to take those songs and

not just let them be songs. But when we saying yes,

we have to take that and allow that to become

a part of us.

To God, the Son.

This song that Chicao Glory sings, if you notice, it's

not even them singing to God. But what she's saying is,

this is what God is saying to them, and God

is saying, will your heart and your soul say yes?

It's completely different. So the other ones they're saying yes

to him, God is asking them, will you say yes?

So even today, as we prepare to close out cannot

Will our hearts say yes to God? Will our minds,

with everything within us say yes to God? Because God

is not just deserving of our yes, but He's worthy

of our yes.

Yeah.

We did not find God and then get saved, but

God found us and then saved us, and he paid

the ultimate price for it, his son's life. And I'm

just saying, if I lived like I lived for the

world and y'all, I wasn't no real big bad mamma

jam or none of that.

I was still quiet coming because I was just a drunk.

I mean, I didn't do a lot of stuff, but

I gave the world one hundred percent of me, one

hundred percent of me, and for me, I just refused

to come on this side and not.

Give God a hundred percent.

I don't care what nobody say, I don't care what

nobody think. I'm gonna do what I know God has

wanted me to do. That's praying that's fasting, that's reading,

that's spending time with him.

I'm in this church.

One of the things that we say when people join

the church is whatever you find your hand to do,

let yourself be doing that, y'all.

I'll good.

This is a part of my kingdom work. So whatever

it is I need to do in here, I do it.

If it means we need to go and walk the

streets and pray, then we're gonna do that.

I'm gonna do that personal.

If it means we need to go to the nursing

homes and pray, I'm gonna do that. If it means

that we're going out and feeding, I'm gonna do that.

If it mean I have to give, even when I

don't have to give, I'm gonna do that. Because my

yes was yes, whatever you say. That's why I say,

be careful about saying that. And then somebody asks.

You to do something and you wonna do it. Somebody

asked you for five dollars, all you.

Got is ten, and you saying I can't give that,

and I'm in our honesty, I'm gonna close.

This, ane' Let's say something real quick.

This text reminds us that God is not simply listening

to the word yes that's coming out of our mouth.

But he's looking at the life that comes with the

word yes. It's good that you said it. Now let

me see if you're gonna do it. God is an

action God. He's waiting on us to be action people.

So again, on today, what is your yes say? Does

it say you will follow Jesus even when you don't

feel it, when it's not comfortable, when you see things,

but the things that you see.

Don't feel right, don't really look like Jesus, But you

know that that's Jesus saying let's go. Will you still

say yes?

Does it say that Jesus comes before everything else? Does

your yes say, regardless of how I feel, regardless of

the plans that I made, I'm gonna still allow Jesus

to be the most important aspect of my life. Does

your yes say that I'm not going back even after today,

after you commune with God and you say God, okay,

I'm gonna start being more accountable. I'm gonna hold myself accountable.

That's one of the things that I have the prayer

warriors to do. And we still need some growth in

that area. But I ask them to not just define it,

but to write it down, because if we're health accountable

to something, we need to understand the importance of doing

what we've been health accountable to do. And I just

know from a world aspect, you don't see a lot

of people being laid for their jobs. Why because they're

gonna get paid. But even with God, there's payment at

the end, there's payment. Now, you keep your commitments to

God and watch and see what God won't do in

your life.

So many people wear of.

It about where they at situations as bad things. It's

going on, y'all, But how many of y'all committed to

the word, committed to keep the word, committed to.

Do what God?

And I'm not saying that you have to do in

order for God to give, because God will bless you

even when you don't. But I'm just telling you there's

some principles in here. But if I want this, I

have to make sure that I adhere to those principles.

They're here to tell me how to get to where.

I'm going to.

And I'm gonna say this and I'm closing, I Uh,

really extra excited.

About about this word.

And my husband was laughing at me this morning because

he said, you've been working on that.

For about a week.

But uh, if you know how God is, you get

into the word and here man, you be everywhere you Man.

I'm just saying, the.

Two three Bibles out, two three books out look, and

I got like notes that I put on my little notebooks.

And I was telling.

Tenko, I said, wonder if I could just take.

All my notes up there one time and preach.

Off the notes because I have to take all the

notes and put them on one paper. But it gives

you an opportunity to spend time with the Lord. Yeah,

it's it's and it's more intense than when you just

study and studying. So anyway, I said, I was talking

to somebody the other day. God is gonna bless and

I keep saying that, and and I professed.

That this is prophetic.

Because I keep saying it and I keep hearing in it.

God is looking for a people of people that would

adhere to being a better steward over the little.

That they have.

He said, if you be faithful over the little, I'll

make you rule over much.

There are so many people in the Body of Christ

that are struggling right now.

So the Lord just keeps showing me this, and I

think I keep telling all those that I can will

listen to it.

I keep telling them that. But if you start being

a better steward.

Over your finances, God is in positioning a lot of

us to be able to receive financially, and not for us,

even though it's going.

To be for you.

There's much kingdom work that needs to be done, but

it has to be somebody that he can trust, somebody

that can be dependable if a couple of hundred thousand

dollars dropped off in their hand, not that you get

all happy and I'm gonna go shopping and I'm finna

buy this again, and he's not showing me that it.

I all go to them, But it has to be

somebody that understands kingdom and that it's already taking care

of the little that they have. So I don't know

who I was talking to, because that's all I talk about,

is the word. But anyway, as I'm talking about this

with an individual, the Lord brought me back one of

my favorite scriptures.

And I told him, I said, I always tell Lady

Love more of that one.

But what the Lord told me was quit leaving off

the back end of it. God says that if we give,

it shall be giving back unto us good measure pressed down,

shaking together and running over, shall.

Men pour in to your bosom.

And the part that I had been leaving out was

in the measure that you give, shall it be given back.

So God is calling some of us to sacrifice who

may not even be able to do it. But he's

not looking at what you have. He's looking at the

intention of your heart. Because God, in this hour, I

think for so long, so many of us have waited,

and I don't know if all of y'all have the

scripture that says the wealth of the wicked has been

stored up for the righteous, and their beauty is big

transfer and possibly so. But right now God is using

his principles to get finances to people that would help

in the kingdom, that would take it, and like I say,

run with it for them. But the way that God

is gonna know that he can trust you is because

you're gonna be taking care.

Of the little that you have right now. Amen.

And again I say that standing here today believing that

that is a prophetic word from God. So as we

adhere to I Yes, and that may be us because

you don't have to be there now, but you can

get in alignment with it.

That's why he gave it to you.

Line up with God here, I am, Lord, teach me

to be a better steward over that, which is what

I have. Help me to not be dependent up on

my money, but be dependent upon you because you are

the God of all things. But we need finances. Don't

let the world or the devil either tell you the

money is the wicked, because that's a lie.

We need money. We need money in the kingdom.

The Kingdom, thank you, needs to be advanced, and it

can't get advanced by our looks as cute as well

is y'all, So we need finances. We got some land

over here that that that that ground need to be

broken up, A foundation need to be laid on that

land over there. That ain't gonna come because we're cute.

So not just praying and asking God to send those

that have finances. But God, you can trust me here

I am, so that I can help with the vision

that you've given our visionary, so that we can put

our hands to the.

Plow and not look back. Amen. Amen. So again on

today I'm just closing with ask.

Yourself, what does my yes say, Amen, yay, let's come on. Jeez,