7 June 2026 - ISAIAH 54 - Pastor Phil Pringle

Yes, well it's good to see you all again.

How many of us have never met?

Just put your hand up if.

No?

Yeah.

Everybody knows.

Everybody.

This lady here.

What is your name?

Jess Beer.

Jess Beer?

What a beautiful name.

I've never met a Jess Beer before.

Is this your first time here?

No, but you've just been coming since I was here the last time.

Do you like this church?

Why do you keep coming?

That's your mother?

Your mother.

So you had to come here.

That's your grandmother.

Wow.

She's got the whole family here.

How many children do you have?

Not yet.

How long have you been married?

Two months.

What's wrong with you?

You should have five children by now.

Amen.

Congratulations.

Just two months.

Did the pastor Clarence do the wedding?

He did.

Was it a good wedding?

Sounds like everybody went.

Did they give you lots of gifts?

Do they give you money or gifts here?

Both.

Mostly money.

I was pastoring our first church.

We got a lot of young couples coming to church.

Every weekend there were weddings.

Just got so expensive for everybody.

I said, hey guys, calm down on the big wedding lists.

Their wedding list started with a toaster that was$200.

And ended with a Rolls-Royce that was worth, you know, like it was every weekend.

I said, guys, so I uh I said to Chris, look, we're going broke with weddings.

Uh so I saw a special on candles, big candles.

So I went and bought like 50 of them.

And so the joke around the church was, are the Pringles coming?

Yeah, well, your gift will be a candle.

Great idea.

Thank you, Jesus.

I gave up doing weddings after a while.

Thank you, Lord, because we had too many and we had a lot of young men and women.

How many of you here are not yet married?

The big tall guy.

Every time I'm here, everybody's trying to marry off the tall guy.

Yeah.

Yeah, the poor guy.

He's getting complex, you know.

So is everybody married?

No, but they're too afraid to put their hands up.

How many girls are here who would like to get married?

They're just not gonna put their hands up.

Okay, how many men are here who want to get married?

Yeah, yeah.

Boy, you guys are shy.

I I mean, I mean, I don't hold out a lot of hope for you getting married.

I mean, I was gonna let you see each other and you could make some choices right here.

We could we could get about three marriages going this morning, I reckon.

Amen.

Thank you, Lord, for the power of the Holy Ghost in this meeting today.

It's such a joy to be here.

What a privilege to be in the mighty C3 Destiny Church with Pastor Clarence and Deb Sashi, two of my most favorite people in all the world.

Uh, not because he's a male model as well, but because pastor slash male model.

It used to be my male model slash pastor, but some of you believe me, and that's all right.

Amen.

And it's great.

Uh and uh when I've seen him, like you know, his torso and that, I don't know how he stole my body, but it was uh he looks a lot better than me, believe that.

I'm thankful to God that uh I'm here with you.

At my age, I'm thankful to be anywhere, and uh especially in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Malaysians are they they can they can be a fun crowd to be hanging out with.

Like the Singaporeans are very serious.

I love the Singaporeans, um, but they don't laugh as much as Malaysians.

Malaysians are like there's a bit of competition going on here, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You know, there's a bit of history, I do understand.

I've read about it, and uh and uh God bless the Singaporeans.

It's a good thing they managed to get some water, and uh but let's not talk about the water.

Thank you, Jesus.

It's uh it's amazing how many Malaysians work down in Singapore but don't want to live down there, so they just drive down and come back every day.

I've met a lot of those people.

God bless them, and uh, thankfully they come to this church.

Uh smart people join C3 Destiny.

Uh yeah, amen.

So people, uh I know you've already been here.

How long have they been here?

Three hours?

No, less than an hour.

Deb's not talking to me.

How long have they been here, Deb?

Like an hour, right?

And uh an hour.

That's great.

Isn't Pastor Deb one of the finest preachers you've ever heard?

She is she's a whip.

She's on fire.

And uh whenever we're having a gathering, and Deb Sasha's gonna be there, I say, make sure she's doing something.

Uh, because she gets up, the Holy Ghost comes into a room, and it's very powerful.

So you're blessed and privileged to have this couple leading you into the future.

I want to talk to you.

Yeah, thank you.

You took the top off.

Excuse me.

Uh I want to talk to you out of Isaiah 54.

If I've got half a chance to help a church grow, I will do it.

Uh, because too many churches get to this kind of size and they can get comfortable and plateau.

And uh you don't ever want to do that because God says there's still more people out there than in here.

And that's his motivation for this particular passage.

In Isaiah 54, verse 1, it says, Sing, O barren, you who have not born, break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not labored with child, for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman.

Isaiah 54:1

The married woman is the church.

And God is saying the desolate has more children, though.

Like out there in the darkness.

Now, heaven is a big place, people.

It's 1,500 miles long.

This is the new city of Jerusalem coming down from heaven, from God, that is going to be your eternal dwelling place.

It's an eternal city.

It means it just goes on forever.

To live there, you need an eternal body, which you haven't got yet.

Thankfully.

Because if it looked like this, you know, you'd be wondering, Lord, you made a mistake.

But your new body is going to be beautiful, absolutely incredible.

And it's only because you've got an eternal spirit that you get an eternal body.

You can't get the new body if you haven't got a new spirit.

That's why the Bible says you must be born again.

So the destiny of every human being ever born on this earth is to be born again so that they receive eternal life.

Eternal life isn't a concept, it isn't a thought.

It's a reality where you never die.

Jesus has already got his new body.

When he rose from the dead, his body became an eternal body.

And he could disappear and appear.

He could walk through walls with that body and then materialize.

When he it says all the doors were shut when the disciples were in the room talking about Jesus died, and he appeared.

He came through the wall.

And they said, Whoa, how'd you get in?

He said, You got any food?

So he could eat food.

I don't know how that works.

Because then he left them and he had fish.

He'd had fish for lunch.

I don't know if a fish was sliding down the wall when he walked out.

But that's, and he's got holes in his hand.

So the marks of a sacrifice remain.

And that person, the resurrected Jesus, ascended off planet earth into heaven.

And that's where he is now.

Praying for you and me at the right hand of the throne of God.

As an intercessor, Lord of everything, Lord of the universe.

So he is in that place in heaven from which the entire universe runs.

The city is 1,500 miles long.

This eternal city made out of a transparent gold.

That means it's a like a four and a half-hour plane flight to go along one wall of heaven, of the whole the heavenly city.

Then it's 1,500 miles deep the other way.

So it's another four and a half hour flight.

It's like going across Australia and then up the coast of Australia.

It's that far.

That's just one level.

It's got 1,500 miles of levels going up.

So that's another four and a half hour flight.

Just to get that far.

The International Space Station is 250 miles off planet Earth.

This is 1,500 miles high.

I mean, you can fit a lot of people in there.

Like billions.

And there are going to be billions of people there.

But at this point, he is saying there's more out there than in here.

And so as long as that is the case, we must be committed to growing his kingdom, reaching and getting people born again so that they can receive this eternal life.

You see, the change is incredible.

A caterpillar walks along the branch, and one day the force of nature overwhelms it.

And so it forms a chrysalis and hangs on the branch for two weeks.

After two weeks, it rustles and out comes a completely different creature.

A butterfly.

It can fly.

It's never going to go back to that old nature.

That is exactly what being born again is.

You're born into becoming a new creation.

But with the caterpillar, it's got no choice.

The force of nature makes it do that.

You and I have a choice.

That's the difference.

God has given no free will to the caterpillar, no free will to a horse, no free will to a zebra, or to a crocodile, or to a watermelon.

Nothing in all creation has the ability to make choices.

They are driven by their appetites and by their drives, by their DNA.

You and I have one defining feature that makes us like the image of God, we can choose.

And so we really need to make that one choice in our life, if we have not made it, that we would be born again.

Jesus said, You must be born again.

And you say, Why do you always say you must be born again?

Because you must be born again.

Otherwise, you can't get that eternal life.

And some of us are going to be there pretty soon.

I'm going to beat some of you.

I don't know when, I'm shuffling off, but I'm looking forward to it.

But not that much that I want to go right now.

I like to kick around a bit, you know, for a little and see churches like this become 10,000 people.

Give me no more joy, greater joy than to see our churches exploding all over the world.

I mean, I want to put a zero on the end of everything that Pastor Clarence said.

Like we reached 34,000 people last year.

I'd like to say we reached 340,000 people last year.

We say we got 600 churches, I'd like to say we got 6,000 churches.

And, you know, I that we've got just this huge rolling move of God.

Well, once upon a time, I was on I only had one church, and this would have been unthinkable.

Now we've got 600.

Let's think the unthinkable about the future.

Let's dream the impossible.

What we don't think could ever happen.

It's going to happen.

Because God is with us.

He's on our side.

He's not against us.

He's for us.

We've got a devil who's against us.

We've got apathy that's against us.

We've got complacent Christians who are against us.

We've got religious spirits that are against us.

But we will win.

We need people who are going to fight the fight and move into turning this world to Jesus Christ.

There's some very big demons out there, but our God is bigger.

When the devil tries to tell you how big your problem is, you tell him how big your your God is.

He's bigger than anything.

And this God is speaking to you and me right now.

And so I'll talk about that shortly, about enlarging, but the first step that this prophet tells the barren woman is to sing.

Because this barren woman in the Middle East, at best, she's going to be the second wife.

The husband's going to go and get a wife who can give him a son or a daughter.

So she's going to be relegated.

That's the best that can happen.

The most normal thing that would happen is she gets divorced.

She becomes alone, vulnerable, unsupported, no home.

And she's barren.

She can't fix it.

She can't make herself have a child.

And the prophet comes to her and says, Sing! That's cruel.

What have I got to sing about?

Look at Hannah crying in front of the prophet because she just couldn't have a child.

And all the other women are mocking and provoking her.

And the prophet comes, he says, sing.

Sing today like you've got the prayer answered.

How would you sing when you're holding a baby in your arms?

Sing like that, even though you aren't now.

Because your present spiritual condition determines your future physical condition.

And that's why it says breakthrough into singing.

Because the breakthrough that you want in your circumstances begins with a breakthrough in your spirit.

And you might be saying, God, God, do something.

He's saying, No, you do something.

You start exercising your faith.

Start seeing today yourself with that little child.

Start seeing that child grow up, go through school, graduate from school, get married, have children.

See that.

And start to sing today like that has already happened.

Because it has.

It has happened in your future.

And only faith is going to connect you with your future destiny.

Only faith is going to help you collide with a miracle.

If you get into doubt, you'll start walking backwards and you don't get anything that way.

The book of Hebrews says we are not those who shrink back to destruction.

When they saw the giants in the land of Canaan, it made them feel small.

So they shrunk in their own estimation.

So faith is essential in your atmosphere for God to move.

Organize the atmosphere of your personal life.

Most people spend their life complaining or criticizing.

They are the two elements of most of the culture of the conversation in the world today.

And it's very difficult to talk to some people without them just going there.

You say, oh, I wasn't church wonderful this morning.

Yeah, yeah, it was.

But you know, the music just a bit loud, and you know, I don't know if I like that long-head preacher.

You know, I just and instantly you you you're going to the negative.

Why?

Why not just say, yeah, it was awesome.

It was great.

And you make, you bolt the law of positivity into your mouth.

And if you're going to go and say something that complains, you hold your mouth.

Complaining makes you a victim.

It's the language of victims.

It's like, I can't do anything about it, so I'm just going to moan and whine.

It's amazing when you hear a 50-year-old whining like a two-year-old.

You know when your child turns two?

They were beautiful up until then.

But then they get that nasal twang.

I know one thing in the man.

They go like that.

Drives you nuts.

I mean, you're smart though, you know what to do.

You have another one.

And now you got two of these things.

And they're fighting.

And you keep on having more.

Imagine the whole earth, how it sounds to God.

It's no wonder he says, I will meet with him who rejoices.

The culture of people's conversation, when you are whining, you are killing your spirit.

And for some reason, people think a positive person isn't being real.

They think negativity is being real.

Or get real.

Life's not that good.

Yes, it is.

Why don't you get real and see a different reality?

Where you're not living under your circumstances, but you're living on top of them.

If you let your circumstances dictate to you your attitude, you're always going to be miserable.

This woman was miserable, but the prophets did sing.

Get above your circumstances.

Be seated with Christ in heavenly places, and let your situation be under your feet.

Because some things don't go away.

Some situations you've got are not going to be solved.

They are unresolved.

And and you you want it to solve, but I've got situations in my life that we'll never get a solution to.

Paul tried to get rid of a problem he had three times.

Cried out to God, God, get rid of this thorn in my flesh.

Three fasting campaigns to get God to move.

God said, No, I'm not answering it.

Because this is good for you.

It's not good for me, God.

He says, Yes, it is.

You can't see it right now.

But you're going to have power on your life because you're depending on me.

My grace is sufficient for you.

And you're going to grow and be stronger through having a problem that won't solve, but you're living above.

That's what faith is.

We would like faith to bring a solution all the time.

And in this case, the prophet is telling her how to get a solution.

Because if you start breaking through in your spirit, you'll break through in your circumstances.

Your circumstances will reflect your inside life.

That's why John in 1 John 3, 3 John 1, says, Beloved, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health as your soul prospers.

If your soul is bright and shiny, strong and healthy, happy and blessed, that's how your world around you is going to be.

But if you are miserable down in here, your world's going to reflect it.

When I was young, my dad and I would collect rubbish at the weekend around the house, put it in the trailer, and would drive off to the rubbish tub.

And there's a lot of inexpensive land nearby.

And the government bought it to build houses for people on welfare, people who didn't have jobs.

Some of them didn't want to work.

Some of them couldn't work.

And they were just on bad times.

But the government wanted to look after them, built them all these beautiful houses.

My dad was very upset about it.

Because he says, these people don't work, you know.

I pay my taxes.

I'm building these houses for them.

They build me anything.

You know, it's like I'm listening to my dad, you know, it's like, okay.

Three months later, we go past beautiful houses.

Now got graffiti on them, broken windows, the grass is all growing up around, there's old cars on the front lawn.

They're a mess.

That's because before, when they're brand new and tidy and neat, these people felt uncomfortable in there.

The inside didn't match their outside.

So they made sure the outside was downgraded to match their inside.

And now they feel comfortable.

Some people who win the lottery, most people, like 95% or something of the people who win the lottery are broke within six months.

Because it feels uncomfortable.

The inside is poor.

Even though they've got all this cash, they will say, Oh, you know, I lost it all.

But they feel a lot happier.

Because now the inside matches their outside.

So you have to go to work on your inside and turn it into a king.

Turn your inside into a wealthy, prosperous person.

Turn your inside into a happy, joyful soul.

Some people like getting sympathy, so they stay sick.

Because if they got healed, nobody'd say, Oh, how are you?

You know, and but we've got to grow up and say, I'm healthy.

I'm strong on the inside.

Even when I'm sick, and people ask me, I say, no, I'm fine.

I'm not gonna go no, I'm sick, yeah.

Bring it on, sympathy.

That's never gonna do me any good.

Makes me a victim.

I want to be a conqueror in this life.

I want to be an overcomer, a victor.

And that is me changing my mindset, changing my inside.

And here, this this prophet says, sing, O Baron! Oh, I mean, it's a faith, it's a faith life that you have to today begin to believe that you are something that you're not, but you're gonna be that person in the future.

She's not a mother, but she's starting to believe she is.

So she's gonna start singing like a mother.

I'm so happy I got a child.

When God came to Abraham, he said, No longer is your name Abraham, your name is now Abraham.

Abraham means mighty man, mighty chieftain, king, but Abraham means father of a multitude.

So he, and his and his wife Sarah, was named Sarah from Sarai to Sarah from princess to mother of a multitude.

And so he goes, Sarah, she goes, Abraham, time for dinner.

The neighbors are listening and say, Oh, that poor old couple.

They've gone mad, they haven't had a child, and they've named each other father of a multitude.

So he's going, mother of a multitude, and she says, Yes, father of a multitude.

So not only were they accepting that name on themselves, they were accepting it about each other.

So when anybody drives here in the latest Porsche, don't be looking down your nose at them and saying, Oh, how'd you get that?

Say, congratulations, it looks good on you.

Celebrate others' faith in their life and believe in each other.

Tell each other you're a champion, you mighty man.

Give people an image to live up to, not one to live down to.

Some people find a take a lot of pleasure saying, Oh, you're a hopeless idiot, aren't you?

Never say that to anybody.

A person's self-image is so sacred that Jesus says, if you call anybody a fool, you're in danger of going to hell.

A person's self-image is formed by the words that are put into them.

And so it is a sacred area that we boost each other and see each other.

You're kings and queens, princes and princesses.

You're sitting next to a prince or a princess today.

I don't know if you realize that.

You're called a royal priesthood.

You could turn around right now and say, hey, king, whoever you are, and hi, prince, whoever you are.

Yeah.

Turn to your other person, the person you didn't say that to, and say, You're so intelligent.

Turn to the other person and say, You're beautiful.

If it's a man, tell him he's handsome.

Turn to your neighbor now and say, You look rich.

Turn to the other person and say, You're so good looking.

You know, you know, let me let me say this to you.

Fathers, it's so important that your son hears those kind of words from you.

The the words a son aches for is I'm proud of you.

And if you haven't said it to the to your boy, sometime today, text him, ring him up, or if he's around in person, say it.

And it can be awkward because fathers you know, they go like that.

I know I had a father like that.

I say, hey dad, it's good to see you.

Come on.

And he was just all blocked up like that, and he didn't want to follow Jesus until one day in 1995, he came to our home for Christmas and he came to church, and I was preaching.

He said, Anybody want to receive Jesus?

Come down the front.

My proud old dad, tears streaming down his face in his suit and tie, walk down the front.

Out of it.

And he received Jesus.

Amen.

Yeah.

It's good news.

This is a sensitive area because there's often not a lot of emotional bonding between fathers and sons.

Women and daughters and women with women, they all bond easily because they have nails.

Your hair looks good, yeah.

But fathers and sons are that's about it.

And so getting bonds going, and it's a thing sons ache for.

Bonding.

We need to take time out to fill that gap with something that nobody else can.

Fathers.

I know it's not Father's Day, but I just wanted to throw that in.

Okay, sing O'Baron, you who have not born.

Break forth into singing, breakthrough.

If you see her circumstances had blocked her up.

So her circumstances had blocked her spirit, which means if I can break through in my spirit, I'll break through in my circumstances.

Breakthroughs don't happen in a moment.

Breakthroughs happen because for a long time you've been pounding that wall.

You got your sledgehammer, bang, nothing.

Bang, nothing, bang, nothing.

Might be 20 times, might be a hundred times before bang and the whole wall falls down.

That's called a breakthrough.

But it depended on the 99 blows before to get it weak and at the point where a breakthrough would happen.

So don't give up just because your first prayer doesn't work.

Pray it again.

Pray it again.

Pray it again.

Failure is part of the journey of faith.

Don't think that just because you believed a thing once that it's all going to happen.

Faith is getting up again when you failed.

And that's called emotional resilience.

Something that not a lot of young people get these days.

They fail and go, oh, I'm done, and they throw all the toys out of the cart.

It's like, don't give up.

The reason you failed is God wanted you to develop emotional resilience and strength.

Because when you go out into the salesman's job and you're trying to sell cars or houses or whatever, you're going to get no more than you get yes.

And to be able to come back from rejection and failure takes strong emotions.

Takes the ability to get up again.

I'm going to do this again.

So this woman is being invited into an emotionally strong position where she sings in spite of her circumstance.

Break forth into singing and cry aloud for more of this.

Okay, so verse two, enlarge the place of your tent.

Every one of us needs to get bigger.

Not a person in this room could say, no, I want to get smaller.

I mean, I'm not talking physical size or anything like that.

I'm talking spiritual.

I want to get bigger.

I want to be a bigger person.

Your father in heaven is very big.

Not in terms of his size, but in thinking and what he can do.

On this earth, I don't know how many beaches there are or how much sand there is.

But there's a lot, right?

Anyone admit?

From Hawaii to Australia to Spain to Europe, the beaches are.

For every one grain of sand on this planet, there are one billion planets out there.

I can't fathom that.

My head's too small.

I can't.

But that's how big God is.

I mean the distance that light travels, 180,000 miles a second.

So in two seconds, 360,000 miles a second.

Four seconds, 720,000 miles per second.

And I've run out of math.

Okay, so four seconds, you got nearly a million miles of travel in four seconds.

So we don't measure things in light seconds, not even in light weeks, not even in light months.

We talk that light in one year goes like traveling through space, that's called a light year.

Made up of 186,000 miles a second.

That's a long way.

But nothing is one light year away from us.

Stars are a million light years away from us.

This is not a small universe we're in.

I don't know what the plan is when we go out of this world.

But I would imagine there's going to be a Pringle Galaxy.

You can come over to my galaxy for a party.

We'll zip around the stars.

But there's billions of stars out there, millions and billions and billions.

There's a plan that God has in mind.

And he says the people I want there are going to get born again here.

They'll go through a bunch of trials, they'll get purified.

I'll bring them up here and they'll have a new heart, new body, new everything, and then we'll get underway with this program I've got in mind.

The program he's got in mind way exceeds anything you've got got going on here.

This year is a little 6,000-year jawn.

I'm a young earth creationist.

You know, so anyway, I'm just out there.

Might as well be.

The other, it's like all the other stuff is just as crazy.

It takes a lot more faith to believe in evolution than it does in the Bible.

And if you're going to go through evolution, you've got to accept that Jesus Christ is an advanced form of an ape.

And that his mother, Mary, is the descendant of monkeys.

I can't do that.

Human form is too sacred.

There's a dignity within us that demands eternity.

Adam was created as a finished unit.

He was like a superbeing.

We have fallen.

We haven't risen.

He was clothed with light.

He could command anything on the earth.

Just with the words of his mouth.

Then when he fell with his wife, the light disappeared off them.

They were afraid and they were naked.

They were ashamed.

All this stuff came into the human race.

I don't know what the lion in front of Adam's gonna be like when we get to heaven.

It'll be long, though.

Slap.

What were you thinking?

Oh, I think we'll be full of grace.

Okay, so enlarge the place of your dead.

Get bigger in your thinking.

Yeah, I mean, you go and buy a bicycle.

God wants you to buy the bicycle store.

You book a room in a hotel.

God wants you to buy the hotel.

You buy a car, He'd like you to buy the company.

Think about yourself larger than you have been.

Think I could do that.

You might say it's impossible, but it was impossible for this woman to have children.

And the prophet said, start thinking you can.

Start believing you can.

And some of us speak ourselves into negative into destruction.

Say, I'll never be able to do that.

I couldn't do that.

Do you know some scientists did an experiment with glasses of water?

One glass here and one glass there.

And they said, To this glass, you're ugly.

You're awful.

You're evil.

You're dark and sinister and bad.

And then they said to this glass, you're beautiful water.

You're lovely water, you're very attractive water.

Then they froze them.

And the crystals of this glass were all chaotic and ugly and deformed.

Crystals in this glass were beautiful.

Then they tried this.

They put labels, just labels, ugly, evil.

Didn't say anything.

Just wrote on the and then sit on this one.

Beautiful.

Same thing.

Then they thought, let's just try this.

Think about that glass.

Same thing.

Guys.

Guys, guys, guys.

Listen to me.

Your body?

85% water.

What are you thinking about yourself?

What are you labeling yourself?

What are you speaking into your life?

Because your body's responding to you.

It doesn't know where what's true or not.

It just responds like you tell it.

And when you start to say you are royalty, you're a king on the earth, you're prosperous, you're blessed with every spiritual blessing.

The Bible is full of comments about you, which are in an incredible book by Phil Pringle called Who You Are and What You Have.

And another amazing book, all-time classic, by the same guy called Faith.

You should get those.

And reprogram your brain so that you get a breakthrough in your whole life.

If you break through inside, you break through outside.

Okay, very quickly.

Let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings.

Listen, guys, don't be asking Clarence and Deb about the growth of the church.

Let them ask you about it.

Let them grow your church.

I worked on sheep farms when I was a kid.

I never saw a shepherd lying on the ground going, oh, and giving birth to a little lamb.

Never happened.

Amazingly, it was the sheep who gave birth to sheep and they fed them, looked after them.

And the shepherds looked after the sheep, kept them healthy, gathered them together.

Let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings.

Do not spare.

Don't hold back.

Be big people, be big givers.

Give everything you got.

Nothing comes to the complacent.

Nothing happens for the lazy.

Nothing happens for the apathetic.

Lazy people love God because they think He's going to do everything for them.

Make their decisions, answer their prayer.

No, He's going to stop doing stuff so that you get to do stuff.

And so when you start to get active, God acts with you.

Sometimes He's waiting for us to take the first step.

Don't hold back with the giving, with the building fund, with offerings.

Bring your tithes into the house of God and make sure the windows of heaven stay open over this church.

When we stop tithing, blockages come into our world personally and the world of the church.

They were heavy about it in the Old Testament and in the New.

It was the fear of God stuff around offerings.

So you made sure you didn't bring a shabby offering to the most high God.

You brought your best, not leftovers.

You gave him the tithe.

The first of the money comes into my pocket.

And if you've been, you know, not tithing, come back to it.

If you've never started, start it.

It's the only time in the Bible where God says, put me to the test.

You can put God to the test on this one.

He said, put me to the test if you will not have an overflowing abundance in your storehouse when you tithe.

And you'll find that incredible blessing comes in your world.

Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.

Have a longer relationship with Pastor Clarence and them as the church grows.

Used to be able to talk with them and hang out with them, but now the church is growing, you don't get to do that so much.

I've met people in my church who I thought were new visitors.

I said, Hi, you're new.

What's your name?

Oh, Pastor, I'm not new.

I've been here 15 years, you know.

I said, Oh, it's so good to meet you.

She says, Oh, it's so nice to meet you, too.

Good spirited people, not going, yeah, well, you never said alone to me.

You don't want to be that.

You want to be a strong, self-maintaining, high-producing, low-maintenance Christian.

Not a needy Christian, but a strong, self-sustaining believer.

In Jesus' name.

And then deepen your stakes or strengthen your stakes.

You make a commitment, I'm here, Pastor.

When the wind blows and the ropes are getting taut and the tent is blown around, you can trust.

You can rely on me.

I'm in the ground.

I'm committed.

I'm not a pot plant Christian.

I've got my roots down in the soil.

I'm here to build this place.

We're going to build it together in Jesus' name.

Everybody said.

Amen.

Thank you, Jesus.

So before I finish, it's twelve past twelve.

By twelve thirty.

Does he mean tonight or now?

Did this help you?

There's another part of this message.

I'll share it next year.

Come back.

Somebody marry that guy.

Thank you, Jesus.

You know, uh, I'm gonna do a couple things.

Firstly, I wanna I wanna ask this question if there's anybody here who doesn't know Jesus, or you used to, but you've been away from the Lord for a while.

I want you to come back.

Or maybe you're just not sure you're going to heaven.

Like when I was talking about heaven before you, you know, oh, I don't know, I hope I am.

You can make sure here today.

Some people think, oh, I'm a good person.

I go to church.

That's great.

If you've got no assurance that you're going to heaven, God can put that inside of you.

So in a couple of moments, I'm gonna ask those people to raise their hands.

Can you close your eyes right across this auditorium?

And if that's you, my friend, you've never asked Jesus Christ to come into your life.

You've been away from God and you want to come back.

Or you just want to make sure you're going to heaven.

Right now, wherever you are, raise your hand.

Say that's me.

I want to meet Jesus for the first time.

Thank you.

I see your hand.

I want to make sure I'm going to heaven.

Anyone else?

Raise your hand right now.

Say that's me.

I want Christ to come into my life.

I want to be born again.

I want the power of God pouring out over me.

Thank you, Jesus.

I want us all to stand.

Thank you.

I see your hand over there.

Yeah, just stand.

Some of you raise your hand, and I want you to pray a prayer after me that invites Jesus to come into your life.

If you didn't raise your hand, but you still need to do that, I want you to especially make sure that you pray this prayer.

Let's all pray it together.

Dear God in heaven, I receive Jesus as my Savior.

Thank you, God, for saving me.

Amen.

Can everybody lift their hands right across this auditorium?

Heavenly Father, I pray for your spirit to pour out over hearts and lives here today.

If you're feeling like I really want a breakthrough, like that woman was told she'd have when she sings, I really want that spirit of faith on me.

I find it a struggle to get to believe, to stay in that place, to overcome.

If you're in that place, I want you to step out of your seat and come and stand at the front.