A Wireless Faith

I don't know about you, but I'm expecting some rain into my life.

Amen.

I'm expecting outpouring, I'm expecting increase, I'm expecting abundance, I'm expecting overflow.

How many of you are expecting rain in your life?

It's been hot, it's been dry.

Amen.

You planted seed in the ground, and now God's getting ready to water it and bring you into the harvest.

I'm expecting rain.

Somebody say, I'm expecting rain.

I'm expecting rain.

Hallelujah.

The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever.

Amen.

I bless the Lord for being here this morning.

Let us look to the Lord in prayer.

Father, we thank you for your goodness, your kindness, and your mercy.

Thank you for your love and your presence that is in the room.

And Father God, in the name of Jesus, we just pray that your spirit would be present in this place.

Praying that you would do it again, that you would blow our minds with your anointing, your spirit and your power.

Anoint this word that I'm going to preach.

Let someone be saved.

Let someone be healed.

Let somebody be delivered.

Let somebody change their mind.

Let someone repent and turn towards you.

May we all be transformed and renewed by the word of the Lord.

And Father, anoint these lips of clay.

Give me strength to deliver in a way that gives you glory and honor.

In Jesus' name, everyone said, Amen and amen.

Brother Marsh, if I could just get just a little bit more into these monitors.

Those of you that don't have a Bible, you can just raise your hand.

The ushers can give you a Bible.

Amen.

Let's get our Bibles in our hands.

Are you excited about the Word of God this morning?

I'm excited to show you what God has given to me.

Amen.

I'm grateful for God and His goodness.

Let's hold up our Bibles and make our declaration.

One, two, three.

This is my Bible.

It is my primary source of spiritual nourishment.

I will read it every day and become all God wants me to be.

My mind will be renewed.

My life will be transformed.

I will become fully surrendered to Christ.

Therefore, I will hide his word in my heart so I can be all that God has destined me to be.

Everyone said?

Amen.

Would you go with me to the Gospel of Matthew, chapter number eight?

The gospel according to Matthew, chapter number eight.

And I'm going to begin in verse number five.

If you have a digital Bible, virtual Bible, you can change your version to the NIV.

That's the version that I'll be reading from for the sake of today.

But once you have Matthew chapter eight and verse number five, I won't you just say Amen?

Says this.

When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion said to came to him asking for help.

Y'all got it.

And my servant will be healed.

For I myself am a man under authority with soldiers under me.

I tell this one, go and he goes, and that one come and he comes.

I say to my servant, do this, and he does it.

When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.

I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside into the darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then Jesus said to the centurion, Go, let it be done, just as you believed it would.

And his servant was healed at that moment.

And then Jesus said to the centurion, Go, let it be done.

My emphasis is going to be coming from verse number eight, a way says, Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof, but just say the word.

Just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

This morning I'm going to be preaching to you from the subject A Wireless Miracle.

That's what I'm going to be talking about.

A wireless miracle.

You may take your seats in the presence of God.

We thank God for the advent and the creation of modern technology.

No people don't like it, but I'm grateful for it.

We currently have the ability to go online all the time.

We're actually online all of the time.

We can quickly research and look up something.

You can watch your videos, you can research, you can connect with your friends online, you can socialize, you can send messages.

But when I was a kid, uh back in the 1900s, as my students would say, the computer and the internet did not go everywhere with you.

The computer and the internet was in a specific room in the house.

And this image here kind of demonstrates to you a scene that would happen back in those times.

Because before we had wireless internet, we had something called dial-up.

And if some of y'all are getting mad looking at this right now, y'all remember?

Y'all remember this, okay?

You're at AOL, you've got mail, right?

You remember?

You had AOL, we had net zero, right?

And so again, you had to get to the computer, and so what you had to do was, young people, listen, you had to unplug the phone and then plug the phone, plug that wire into the computer so that way you could get online because they share the same line.

And so it used a telephone wire to do it.

And so the problem became, though, that if you could miss a call at that time.

So I remember my mother vividly saying, Hey, don't get off that internet.

I'm expecting a call, right?

I'm expecting somebody to call me because you could not get calls and be online at the same time.

So it was only wire to do one thing at a time.

And this was Terra.

It was Terra.

Wires can be helpful at times, but here's the first thing they limit your access.

You could only be on the phone or online, but you could not be on both at the same time.

Wires also limit your speed because if you remember dial-up, you remember that dial-up was the slowest possible internet possible.

And if the webpage had a lot of images on it, it would take forever to load.

I was telling them before, I said if you wanted to watch a video that was longer, I remember having to pause the video and let it load for a while and so that gray gets further on, and then you could press play so you could watch it without it stopping.

It was it was torture.

Amen.

Not only that, but it limits your movement.

You had to be wherever the wire was.

You there was no traveling or moving around.

You had to stay in one place to use the internet.

And then the same thing in the case of the telephone.

If your telephone, if you didn't have the extra long wire, the wire would limit your privacy and your freedom.

And unless that phone had a very long wire, if you got a phone call, you had to stay in the living room.

Y'all know what I'm talking about, and answer that phone in front of everybody.

Everybody knew what you were saying, everybody knew what you were talking about, everybody knew your business.

It was terrible.

No privacy.

All right.

Uh, but thank God, one day, God gave us something called Wi-Fi.

Hallelujah.

Wi-Fi freed us all because then we were able to talk to people and be online.

I remember the first time that happened, I was amazed.

I said, Oh my god, you can do two things at once.

We can move at a much faster pace to get what you needed.

Uh, we could access it from anywhere at any time because the wires had been cut.

If I was to make an analogy, I would say that the Old Testament was a lot like dial-up.

There were a lot of wires and rules and threads that there were.

There were a lot of wires that restricted our engagement to the presence of God.

As I said before, you had to go to the temple to access God.

You had to go there to worship and to sacrifice.

And there were countless rules and regulations and wires and cords that were attached to a relationship with God.

You had the Sabbath laws where uh they told you what you could and could not do on a Saturday.

All that shopping and spinning you do on Saturdays, that wasn't happening in those times.

Not only that, but the tradition also went that you couldn't even heal a person on the Sabbath because that was considered working.

Amen.

Praise God.

So anything you did, you had to do Monday through or Sunday through Friday.

You had laws that said that if you touched an unclean person, a leper, or someone that was deemed unclean, you are also considered unclean.

You also had the sacrificial laws where you had to bring a sacrifice according to the sin that you had done.

There was the sin offering, there was the trespass offering, one for if you sinned unintentionally, and the other for if you sinned on purpose, which means that if somebody paid attention, they could tell what kind of sin you did that week, depending on the sacrifice you brought in.

You with me?

All right.

It was like being on the telephone in the living room.

Glory to God.

Everybody knew what was going on.

So it was a lot, and not only that, but if you were not an Israelite, you could not receive the same blessing and favor that the Jewish people could.

And so it was a very restrictive environment.

Everybody knew what it was.

There were wires of law, there were wires of restriction, wires of tradition, ethnic wires, familial wires, all kinds of wires.

But then came Jesus, and Jesus cut the cord.

Glory to God.

Hallelujah.

Jesus cut the cord, hallelujah.

He declared in Luke chapter 4 and verse 18, he said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.

Luke 4 · chapter mention

He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

And one thing I thank God about is that the spirit does not discriminate based on your situation, class, or positioning.

No matter how high you are or how low you are, Jesus came to reach you by his spirit and set you free from every cord, every wire, and every limitation the devil tried to put on your life.

Somebody say amen.

Jesus cut the cord and he moved the dial up, he moved the middleman out of the way because we did not need another man once we had Jesus.

For he declared we didn't need anybody else to show us the way or to give us the way.

For he declared in John chapter 14 and verse 6 when they asked him, they said, Lord, show us the way.

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He said, I can't show you the way because I am the way.

Glory to God.

I am the truth and I am the life.

He says, No man comes to the Father except by me.

If you want to get connected to the internet, if you want to get to God, if you want to get to the spirit world, you've got to come through me.

Verse number 20, he says, On that day you will realize I am in my father, and you are in me, and I am in you.

So again, he is establishing that there is a wireless connection here that exists between me and you.

Then in John chapter 15 and verse 5, Jesus continues this theme.

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He says, I am the true vine, and you are the branches.

If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.

In other words, Jesus does not want you to disconnect.

He does not want you to unplug.

He does not want you to shut down.

He wants you to stay connected to his network.

He doesn't want you just to dial up and just come to church just to plug in for once in a while and then leave him the rest of the week.

He said, I want you to abide in me.

The word abide means to remain.

I want you to abide in me, and I want my words to abide in you.

And just like how we remain connected to the internet all the time with our iPhones, and if you have an Android, I'm praying you get saved today.

Amen.

Glory.

You knew it was coming.

Come on, you knew it was coming.

You knew it was coming.

You knew it was coming.

I had to, I had to put one in.

I'm playing, I'm playing.

It's okay.

You're saved.

But Jesus wants us to remain in connection to him.

And the Bible says when we commit to our connection, in verse number 16, and verse number 16, he says this.

He says, Whatever you ask the Father in my name, glory to God, whatever you ask the Father for in my name, I will do it.

There's no wires, there's no strings, no cords, no data limitations on this.

Nothing is too big and nothing is too hard.

As a matter of fact, all things are possible to them that believe.

And not only did Jesus say, whatever you ask, but he also said, Whosoever shall say to this mountain, whoever shall ask.

That means you don't need a title, you don't need a great last name.

You don't have to be connected to a particular family.

You don't need a lot of followers, as long as you're a whoever, glory to God.

No matter how much money you got, how what class you're in, where you live, as long as you're a whoever.

Somebody shout whoever.

I'm a whoever, whatever, no matter who I am, no matter what my title is, when it comes to God, I'm still just a whoever.

And whoever can receive an answer by faith.

Then he cut another chord in John chapter 4.

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When they said some people worship on this mountain, and some people worship on that mountain.

But Jesus said, Who cares about the mountain?

They that worship God must worship him in spirit and in truth.

So when he said that, that means wherever.

Glory to God.

So when we put it all together, it means whoever can ask whatever, whenever, wherever, and God can bring it to pass.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Can I say it one more time?

Whoever can ask whatever, whenever, and wherever, and God's gonna bring it to pass.

Hallelujah.

I feel that in the spirit of God.

I don't care who you are, whoever can ask whatever, and God will bring it to pass in your life.

And all of this is brought to pass by something called faith.

Hebrews 11 and 1 declares, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Now faith is not the end result, faith brings you to the result.

Praise the Lord.

It is the substance of what you're hoping for, and it is the evidence of things not seen.

Faith is like Wi-Fi, it is unseen.

You've never seen a Wi-Fi signal.

I hope if you have seen Wi-Fi signals, come out, pray for you after service.

You're hallucinating.

Glory to God.

We've never seen a Wi-Fi signal, but we know the Wi-Fi works because we get connected to what we get and we can see things on our phone.

It brings things into sight.

And so praise the Lord.

Faith is like Wi-Fi, even though it is unseen, it brings things into being that we see.

It gives us access to God's network.

It is your divine data plan.

It is your 5G.

It is through your faith that you receive everything from God.

It's not just about crying, it's not just about jumping.

But do you believe when it's all over?

And without faith, it is impossible to please the Lord.

When it's all over, the question is, what do you believe?

And according to your faith, be it unto you.

God does not have favorites, He doesn't have preferences for people.

Praise God.

It's according to the strength of your faith and your connection with God.

And so this brings us to our text.

Matthew chapter 8, Jesus comes into the region, and when he gets there, he meets a leprous man.

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Now, lepers and leprosy at that time, we may not, we're not as familiar with it, but it was big in that time.

They were not allowed to be in the presence of society, they were considered unclean, and in some cases, they were considered contagious.

And so again, they they were not considered to be pure, they're not good to be around.

And so we can say that they were disconnected from the network.

Can I have that image up on the screen to show them what I mean?

He was disconnected from the network.

Now, this is the most frustrating thing you could ever see on your phone.

Y'all seen this before?

Because this is frustrating because you got the password, you got the network, but you just don't have access.

You got all the stuff checked off, right?

You know what to say, when to say it.

You you got this in order, you know what network to come to, you know what church to plug into, you know where to go, but you still don't have access to the connection.

And this is what that man is about.

He was a Jewish man.

Hallelujah.

He was ethnically connected, he he knew where to go, he knew the password, but he was not allowed to enjoy the connection or to be connected to the community because he was considered unclean and infectious.

It's a terrible feeling to feel disconnected or not have access when you can't seem to plug in and get online.

And some of you may have come here this morning, and maybe you come Sunday after Sunday and attend service, but you still feel just like this.

You feel like there's no connection.

Maybe you feel like I'm not worthy to make a connection.

I'm not good enough.

I didn't die all my eyes this week.

I don't know enough as all of you are.

I don't know what y'all are talking about.

I don't know all the lyrics to the songs, I'm not connected.

Or maybe you see everybody else lifting their hands and jumping and crying, and you just say, I don't know what they feel.

I want to feel what they feel, but I don't feel connected.

You know what I'm talking about?

I hear Pastor Cation up there yelling all the time, but I don't know.

I don't know what he's yelling about.

I don't feel connected.

I need to know what's going on.

And Jesus shows us what to do.

He don't just talk to the man from across the room and say, Hey, God bless you.

But the Bible says he reaches out his hand and he touches that unclean man.

And instead of Jesus catching what he had, he caught what Jesus had.

Glory to God.

And maybe you're in church and you're feeling disconnected, and maybe you feel like you want to know, you want to know what it's like, and you want to know what we feel and what we've got going on.

I want you to know Jesus knows how to connect with you.

And if you simply raise your hands and ask him, he'll make a connection to your heart, he'll pull you into his network.

You're not too dirty, you're not too messed up, you don't have too much of a past.

And when Jesus touches you, you'll catch what he has, you'll catch his joy, you'll catch his righteousness, you'll catch his holiness, you'll catch.

Anybody caught what Jesus had?

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

One day he reached down and he touched me, and I caught what he had.

So it makes him holy.

Glory to God.

So he heals this man, beautiful, and then comes a centurion.

Now, a centurion is a Roman soldier that has 100 soldiers underneath him.

He is like a captain, he has 100 soldiers underneath him, and so he is a leader.

And Luke suggests that even though he does not always go to church, he doesn't always go all the time, he loves the Lord, he loves God's people, and he built a synagogue.

He's a good man, but he's not in the network.

He's a good man, but he's out of range.

Now that is the worst possible thing to see on your phone.

Have you ever been somewhere that's so rural?

And then you pull up and you know you're driving or whatever, and then your phone is completely lose service.

First time I went up to, I think it was Sherman, I think we drove up to Sherman, and my phone is completed.

He said, eh, no bars.

I said, What a what?

And God help you if you need the GPS, and then you lose a signal, and now you're driving by faith.

You don't know where you're going.

Like, Lord Jesus, just show me the way.

God, okay, I think I turn right here, turn left.

That looks like the right way.

You just going by faith.

It is the worst thing to have a phone or to even have a problem in that case, but not have a network, not be connected.

And this centurion is out of his network.

He is a Gentile, and that's what we would all be considered.

Gentiles were considered unclean, unsaved, they were disqualified from the blessings that belong to the Jewish people.

They did not have the right password to connect to this blessed network of blessings of the children of Abraham.

And so, to make it even more complicated, he's not there for himself, he's there for someone else.

His servant is sick, he's paralyzed, and is at the point of death, and the servant can't get to Jesus.

So he's bedridden, he's at home, praise the Lord, and this man is in need.

I want to tell you something this morning.

If you want to know the secret to answered prayer, amen, pray for somebody other than yourself.

Okay, it's quiet in here.

I know you want a lot.

I know you got a laundry list, I know you, you know, you want you got a Santa Claus thing going on with God.

Praise the Lord.

But if you learn to pray for somebody else and put somebody else's knees before yours, it moves the heart of God.

When you say, God bless this brother, they're in need, they need help.

Oh, glory to God.

You need to learn how to pray for somebody else.

This man is compassionate, he's caring, and he knows he needs Jesus.

And here brings me to my first point faith seeks Jesus.

And the reason why I must clarify that, first of all, is because in this day and time the world has gotten hold of faith, but they have twisted it and they use faith to seek things.

But you don't use faith to seek things, faith seeks Jesus, and Jesus will give you the thing that you need.

See, the world calls it manifesting, but there's a difference between faith and manifesting.

Manifesting means I'm claiming it for myself and I'm getting it with or without God.

But you have to understand we don't manifest because some things are not for you to have.

You done manifested a man that's crazy and you can't get rid of him.

You done manifested a woman that's nuts and you can't get rid of them because you thought you could bypass God and tell God what you want.

You done manifested this and manifested that, and it's not what you want, and you're miserable and you're upset and you're looking crazy.

You've been declaring and claiming stuff on your own and thinking you don't need God to get it, and now you're out here looking crazy.

Stop manifesting and lean on God.

You have to seek the Lord first, and God will say, You say, God, is this what you want me to have?

Is this who you want me with?

Is this where you want me to go?

God, what do you want for my life?

Faith seeks God.

This man takes a risk by leaving his house.

Because while he was gone, the servant could have died, could have gotten worse, and he would have missed it.

But he prioritized getting in the presence of God.

Hallelujah.

More than he prioritized staying by the person's side.

He said, I know there's a risk here, but I need to get in the presence of God.

If I can get to God's house, if I could get to God's presence, he will take care of what's in my house.

Glory to God.

He said, I need to experience Jesus for myself.

I need to get amongst that crowd that's believing God.

And many of you here this morning, I need you to know maybe something happens when you get in the crowd.

Get in the house, come into the building.

I know some of you may be watching online and God bless you.

I'm glad you are, but you just might need to get in the house.

Glory to God.

You might need to come here and sit in this room and get around this faith because faith is contagious.

It's pressed from one person to another.

Get in the house and get in the atmosphere and watch what God does.

Faith seeks Jesus.

He comes to him.

He seeks him.

And the Bible says the next thing he says, this, Jesus says, okay, he's sick.

You want me to come and heal him?

And he says, No, I'm not worthy.

I'm not worthy of you to come into my house.

I'm not worthy of you to come into my house.

Here's the second point.

Faith is not entitlement.

Faith is not entitlement.

He tells Jesus, he recognizes unworthiness.

And sometimes the reason why we're not singing prayers answered or singing in miracles is because we're moving in entitlement and calling it faith.

You feel like I deserve this, God.

I done did this and did that.

I didn't hurt this person, and I could have did this and I should have done that.

And when I was five, I got confirmed.

And when I was 10, I did this one time for a good person.

We act like God owes us everything.

But the moment you realize I really don't deserve your goodness, I don't deserve all that you give me, and I'm grateful for what I have.

God begins to shift this thing, and it goes from faith to grace.

And when you put grace and faith together, glory to God, something starts stirring, something starts happening.

When you lean on the grace of God and say, God, I know I ain't no good.

I know I messed up, but God, I need you to touch me one more time.

I need you to do something in my life.

When you step out of that entitlement and step into grace, God moves on your behalf.

But we first have to humble ourselves.

Humble ourselves.

I know I'm real deep because I got the age of it.

Humble.

You're going to lose age.

But you humble yourself to Jesus.

And because the man humbles himself before Jesus, he is blown away.

Number three, here's the next point.

And praise to be I could come up because I'm almost finished.

Faith is centered on Jesus' authority.

Faith is centered on Jesus' authority.

I am amazed by this point that this man takes the time to call Jesus Lord.

And here's why that's significant.

Because he's a Roman centurion.

The Romans believe they were above everybody else.

The Romans believe they were a master class, a master race.

They believe they were above the Jews.

But this man humbles himself and he looks at Jesus.

Now he was probably in his uniform with the cape and the sandals and all that.

And Jesus is standing there probably wearing the flip-flops and the you know the Jesus sandals and the and the tunic.

You know, you see them in the pictures and stuff like that.

He probably wasn't dressed apart, but he looked at how Jesus was dressed and recognized, you are still Lord.

Glory to God.

And you may not have a crown on, but I know power when I see it.

Hallelujah.

You may not have all the pretenses, but I know authority when I see it.

I feel the anointing in this place.

And he recognized that this man has more that I cannot see than I can see.

Glory to God.

Martin Luther said like this: He said, There is more of God that we haven't even seen yet than what we do see.

Hallelujah.

And this man said, I'm a man of authority.

I'll tell one to go and he goes and all that, but he recognizes I only have authority over a hundred people.

But Jesus Christ, you got authority over everybody.

Woo! You got service in places I can't imagine.

You get service in places I can't even imagine.

Psalm 103 and verse 20 says, Praise the Lord, you angels, you mighty ones who carry out his plans, listening for each of his commands.

Jesus has an authority unlike any other power we've seen.

And not only does he have angels, he's not just Lord over angels, he is Lord of all.

That means he can talk to angels, he can talk to mountains, he could talk to storms, he can talk to seas, he can talk to cancer, he could talk to fire, he could talk to death, he can talk to life, he can talk to your money, he can talk to your mind.

Jesus Christ is Lord.

I feel the Holy Ghost in this place.

Jesus Christ is Lord.

Somebody shout, Jesus is Lord.

One more time, shout Jesus is Lord.

Clap your hands and give God the glory in this place.

And bring me to my last point.

Faith pleases God.

Jesus says when he hears this man say this, he says to him, He says, I have never seen such faith like this in all of Israel.

Now Jesus only marvels two times.

He marvels here, and the other time he marvels is at unbelief.

That means that faith either has the power to move God or to upset him.

Faith has power either to move God or to just let him down.

And Jesus says to him, He says, I'm amazed that you feel like this because the man said, You don't have to come where I am, you don't even have to pull up, just speak the word.

And you got enough power in your word to bring to pass whatever it is I need.

And Jesus says, I've never seen faith like this.

That means this man's faith was greater than the woman with the issue of blood.

How?

Because she said, I gotta touch him of his garment, and then I'll be made whole.

That means this faith is greater than that blind man because the blind man had to get a mud pie.

He had to spit on the ground and put the mud on his eyes, and then he was healed.

This man's faith is greater than those friends because they had to rip the roof off and lower the man down to Jesus to touch him.

But this man said, I don't even need a touch.

All I need is a word.

Hallelujah.

I don't need nothing dramatic, I don't need nothing extra.

Just give me a word.

In other words, you're so powerful, you don't have to show up, you don't have to do a demonstration.

All you can do is just send me an eye message.

Just drop me a message real quick.

Just send me a message.

Anybody gotta know about I message for a second?

Let me let me break it down.

Because if you have eye message, you understand, even if you don't have phone service, as long as you're connected to the network, you can still get a message.

Glory to God.

Even if you're out of service, as long as you're connected wirelessly, you can still receive the message.

I want to talk to those of you that feel like you're out of network, out of money, out of time, out of connections, out of options.

God can still send you a message.

Glory to God.

God can still send you a message.

Hallelujah.

And some people's messages, they don't get delivered, they bounce back, they don't pay their bill, you know.

Turn green, you know, it turned green.

Or you get the red mark next to it.

Some people's messages bound back or they don't go forward.

But Isaiah 55 and 11 says, His word shall never, shall never return to him void or empty, but it shall accomplish everything it has been sent to do.

I believe if you ask God right now, he can send a word, he can send a message to wherever there needs to be a word.

He can send a word to sickness, he can send a word to cancer, he can send a word to depression, he can send a word to anxiety, he can send a word to your loved ones, he can send a word, hallelujah, to your cousin, he can send a word to your spouse.

Somebody shall speak a word, Lord.

Somebody shall speak a word, Lord.

And the verse tells him the word that Jesus spoke.

Jesus says one word.

Go.

Glory to God.

He says, Go.

Now that you've prayed, now that you've asked and cried and told me your sob story, it's time for you to go forward and expect your miracle.

Glory to God.

Hallelujah.

And here's the thing: it takes faith to come to God, but it also takes faith to go from God.

Hallelujah.

It takes faith to get on your knees and pray, but it takes just as much faith to get up and say, I know I got it.

Hallelujah.

Woo! I feel the Holy Ghost.

It takes faith to get on your face and cry, but it takes faith to get up and dry your eyes and say, I'm expecting a change.

Lord, it takes faith to raise your hands, but it takes faith to go back to that house and say, Things are about to change and get different.

Things about to be different in this.

Hallelujah.

Just push the person next to you and say, Go, go, go, go, go.

Stop burying your head in the sand, but stand up.

Get yourself together.

Wipe your eyes.

Stop being stagnant and go and get your blessing.

Go and get your breakthrough.

Go and claim your victory.

Go and get your miracle.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

I feel the anointing.

Go for your breakthrough.

Go for your victory.

Go for the anointing.

Go for power.

Go for peace.

Go for salvation.

Go, go, go, go.

A whole lot of us, what we call prayer and stagnation.

I'm closing here.

You can stand on your feet.

A whole lot of what we call prayer and stagnation.

A whole lot of what we call worship.

It is an excuse for being scared.

But I'm pushing some of y'all this week to stop praying about the same thing over and over and over again.

Stop asking God to be sure and straighten up and stand up straight.

Get a backbone and say, I'm expecting a miracle.

I'm expecting a chance.

I'm expecting a breakthrough.

My testimony is being written.

I'm expecting God to show up in my house.

Show up in my dorm.

Show up on my job.

God is sending a word to my coworker.

God is sending a word to my supervisor.

God is sitting a word.

My loved ones in jail.

God is sitting a word.

My loved one is long distance.

God is sitting a word.

Woo.

I'm finished.

Woo! Somebody was hollering in the back.

Praise to him, come out.

Don't be scared.

Come on, praise to him, come out.

But it's time to stop being stuck and crying.

This man that looked at Jesus said, Jesus, you sure?

You sure about that?

Can you do it again?

Just make sure.

Just double sure.

Just give me a cloth real quick.

Let me just take it to you.

I'm just a little scared.

But this man said, When soon as Jesus said, Go, let it be done, he straightened himself up and went on about his way.

And the Bible says that same hour.

This ain't gonna take long.

This ain't no dial of miracle, baby.

This ain't net zero.

This ain't AOL.

The same hour.

I believe in God for a quick turnaround.

I believe in God for an SOS.

I believe in God for a same hour turnaround.

A same hour, the same, the same.

I gotta stop.

Just tell somebody next to you and say, Turn your faith loose.

Turn your faith loose.

Tell somebody, turn your faith loose.

Woo! I'm finished.

I have to stop.

I gotta preach again after this.

Y'all gotta, but I feel a goal in my spirit.

Hallelujah! I feel a goal in a place.

Somebody's going into another season.

Woo! Somebody's house is being turned around right now.

I feel a the atmosphere is being changed.

And listen, can I tell you what I heard the Holy Ghost say?

He said, when I was preparing, he said, some of y'all are so close that God can do an airdrop in your spirit.

You're close enough to the hem of God, He can airdrop what you need in your spirit.

Some of you may be the one that needs a miracle, but I want to let you know you're close enough to receive everything you need from God.

It's time to receive my drop.

I'm receiving what I need, I'm receiving grace, I'm receiving deliverance, I'm receiving breakthrough, I'm receiving change.

It's my time.

I have to stop.

Everyone standing, I have to stop.

Glory to God.

But the key word for this week is not stop, it's not stay.

You've been still long enough.

God said, I feel something.

I don't know what was wrong with y'all.

Somebody really getting ready to walk into something great.

Glory to God.

But the mosha, time I hire you.

Glory, glory, glory.

I feel the anointing.

Somebody, the mosha.

I feel like running.

I don't I feel like running in this place.

I can't, I can't.

I wish I could run.

I wish I could run.

These shoes I'll be on my face.

But I feel a go in my spirit.

Hallelujah.

I feel a go in my spirit.

I feel a go in my spirit.

I'm not.

No.

No.

No.

Y'all.

Glory to God.

Is anybody expecting something?

I'll give you 30 seconds.

I'll give them 30 seconds.

I'll give you 30 seconds.

You can praise God.

Jump, run, leap, move, jump, run, leap.

Hallelujah.

Let me tell you something.

Stay right there, stay right there.

Stay right there.

Stay right there.

I gotta stop.

But I gotta tell y'all this testimony.

Last week, I told y'all we were praying for that baby in Atlanta.

Y'all remember that?

It's a baby in Atlanta having seizures.

And the grandmother reached out to me the other day and said the surgery was successful.

The baby is out.

She made it out.

So now we'll believe in God for complete work.

No hindrances, no more seizures.

No growth hindrances.

We send the power of gold.

All the way to Atlanta, Georgia.

One time for that baby.

Everybody, let's shout.

Go! Go! Go! Go!

Hallelujah!

Alright.

Alright.

That's alright, you praise him.

Ain't nobody gonna stop you.

Go ahead and praise him.

You gotta praise him by yourself.

You go ahead and praise him.

You don't know what God is doing on his behalf.

And what doors God is opening for him, glory to God.

And what bills God is paying for him.

So let him praise him by himself.

Matter of fact, I feel a breakthrough for students right now.

I feel a breakthrough those you that getting ready for college or senior year.

I feel God get ready to do something on your behalf.

I dare you just to clap your hands and jump up and down and just praise God.

I feel God working for students in this place.

Yeah, my shots of the higher.

Blow it, glow it, glow it, blow it, blow it, blow it, blow it, blow it.

Praise it, praise him, praise him.

Praise him.

Alright.

Alright, please.

Let's pray.

The praise team is gonna sing a slow song.

As slow as possible.

Cut the track off.

We gotta get out of here.

Cause 11 a.m.

is crazy.

We see God do crazy things in our life.

I'm trying to tell you.

But I wanna pray for those of you that are here that maybe you have a loved one that needs a breakthrough, that need God to do something.

Maybe you know somebody long distance, and you can't get to them, you can't reach them.

And I am I spoke and I I'll declare here too that maybe you have somebody that's incarcerated behind bars, and you need God to visit them.

You need God to do something in their life, you need God to protect them.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

The person is gonna sing this song.

We're gonna worship, and then I'm gonna tell you what we're gonna do next, alright?

Let's sing this song.

Come on, brother.

Let's sing it for the Lord.

We're gonna worship for a second.

And then we're gonna steal other people's needs over our own, and we're gonna worship in this one.

Let's worship.