But God

I'm of the belief that something happens when the saints of God begin to worship.

And there is a sound of worship that's in this room that is shaking the atmosphere.

So can we just take another 30 seconds and begin to just lift your hands and open up your mouth?

Fill this room.

Fill the room.

Come on, come on.

We exalt you.

We lift you up, God.

You are worthy.

You are holy.

You are lifted up high.

There's none like you.

Oh God, you're worthy of every praise, every song, every hallelujah.

Come on, fill the room.

Fill the room.

Hold the music for just a second.

Let me hear the saints of God.

Just hold that music.

Let me hear you open up your mouth.

Don't rely on the praise theme.

Don't rely on the song.

Don't rely on the instruments.

But open up your mouth.

Hallelujah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Come on, fill the room.

Fill the room.

Let your praise fill the room.

Furnish this place with your hallelujah.

We exalt you, God.

We lift you up high.

There's none like you.

There's none like you in all of the earth.

Hallelujah.

We praise your name.

We glorify you.

Father God, in the name of Jesus, we come exalting and magnifying your name, asking you to get the glory out of this moment and out of this morning.

Father, we lift you up high above every other circumstance and everything around us.

And Lord, we just pray that you send your anointing that makes preaching easy.

We pray that you would send forth healing, deliverance, and salvation.

Let someone's heart be changed and transformed.

May they faith their faith go to another level.

We pray for a fresh anointing, a double anointing for this service.

Oh God, may we never be the same as we look into your word in Jesus' name.

Would you clap your hands thunderously in the room?

Hallelujah.

The Lord is good.

Hallelujah.

If you need a Bible, the ushers are walking the aisles.

If you need a Bible, we got one for you.

Amen.

I'm grateful to be with you all, excited to share with you on the word of the Lord this morning.

Amen.

I'm excited about what God has to say.

How about you?

The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever.

And I am grateful for his goodness unto us.

Let's make this declaration over our Bibles ready, set, go.

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.

Amen.

Let's go this morning.

We're going to the 34th Psalm, Psalm 34, and beginning at verse number 17.

I'll give you a second to go there and get there.

We're continuing with the series of lions, giants, and bears, but God.

So this morning I'm just going to be continuing in that series.

Once you have the 34th Psalm and you're at verse 17, just let me know by saying, Got it.

Alright, let's we're gonna read it, uh, read it to you.

It says, The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles.

The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart and save such as have a contrite spirit.

And here's my key verse, verse number 19.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them.

Thank you.

Let's read that one more time.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers them out of them all.

And this morning, that's all I'm gonna talk about this morning, just simply but God.

That's what I want to talk about this morning.

You can take your seat.

We're gonna talk about but God.

We are currently in the midst of a series, as we've already known, called lions, giants, and bears, but God.

Uh, those of you that are younger than a certain age, you'll be a little confused as to where in the world did we get that from, right?

Where does that come from?

It is actually a line from The Wizard of Oz, or it's based on a song from The Wizard of Oz.

Um, and so now I must be honest with you, I didn't grow up watching The Wizard of Oz in my house.

We grew up watching The Wiz.

Anybody know?

All right, all right, I got some witnesses here.

Alright, we grew up watching The Wiz.

If you don't know what that is, Dinah Ross, Michael Jackson, you know, all that good stuff.

All right, if you haven't seen it yet, go on Netflix, it's still up there.

Go check it out.

That's your homework.

And The Wiz is just a different retelling of the same story.

Uh this girl finds herself, her name is Dorothy, she finds herself in another world and is seeking to make it back to where she came from.

And so this requires her to take a journey down the yellow brick road to get to her destination and receive what she's looking for.

But her journey is not a straight shot or without trouble, she faces dangers and detours all along the way.

Now, here's the thing: whether you watch The Wiz or whether you watch The Wizard of Oz, one thing that is common for everybody, no matter where you come from, is that we all know how it feels to face some hardships.

Uh, nobody in this room, as good as you look and as wonderful as you look this morning, and you do look great, nobody in this room has had an easy life or a life without challenges.

We have all faced our own struggles.

And being saved does not exempt you from trouble.

I don't know who told you that getting saved meant you would never have a problem.

You will have some troubles.

As a matter of fact, sometimes being saved brings its own troubles with it.

Glory to God.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

The more promises you have, the more problems you will also have.

That's why this text begins honestly by saying that many are the afflictions of the righteous.

All right?

Now here's the thing problems are a prophecy of the great things that God has in store for us if we continue.

Problems are a prophecy.

Now that sounds funny, that sounds strange to say, but they are.

Problems are a prophecy.

How so?

Whenever you're dealing with opposition, when the enemy is fighting you tooth and nail and throwing everything at you, that lets you know that you've got something worth having, you've got value, and you've got something on the inside of you that the devil wants to attack.

Yes, he is a thief, but a thief never barbers an empty or broke house.

If he's coming after you, it's because you've got something in you that's worth taking.

Come on, somebody.

So every problem is a prophecy.

That is why the Bible says in Joshua chapter number six that when the children of Israel, their lowly selves, these ex-slaves, former slaves are passing through the wilderness minding their business, that when the people of Jericho just heard that they were coming, they didn't say anything, they didn't do anything, but just when they heard they were coming, the Bible says they shut up the city of Jericho and locked it down and started acting crazy because they knew that if they were coming their way, then it was going to be a victory for them.

And I want you to know if you feel like you're facing opposition, facing a brick wall, feel like things have shut down on you and locked down on you, it's because the devil knows you're coming and you're coming with power and you're coming with authority.

Every problem is a prophecy.

So you may have many promises, and you may actually have many problems, but even if you have many problems, you only need one God.

You may have many problems, but you only need the one God.

Somebody say one God.

Deuteronomy chapter number six and verse 23 says a powerful thing.

It teaches us that God brought them out from there, from Egypt, but that he might bring us into the land which he promised our fathers.

So the thing I love about God is that God can deliver you out of trouble, but he can also deliver you into your promise.

He does a twofold deliverance.

He brings you out of something, but if he brings you out, it's because he's bringing you into something.

He's a good deliverer.

And what the enemy does is that he cannot stop your promise, but what he does is he tries to frustrate and exhaust the saints to the point that you forget about the promise, or you're too weary and too tired and too worn out to claim it.

And you feel what's the use and what what what difference does it make?

I don't care anymore.

That's why Paul says in Galatians chapter 6 and verse number nine, he says, Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season you will reap if you just faint not.

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Your responsibility is just don't faint, don't give up, don't fall down.

Keep standing still and keep holding on, and you will see the promise of God.

The running song throughout the whiz is a song that it says, Come on, ease on down, ease on down the road.

Hey, I gotta witness this morning.

Ease on down the road.

It's a good song.

You should listen to it.

But I love the lyrics of that song because it says, Don't you carry nothing that might be a load.

Come on and ease on down the road.

The reason why I'm able to say don't carry anything that might be a load is because you might have problems along your journey and hardships, and sometimes you'll get tempted to get into your feelings.

You'll be tempted to carry baggage from one place to the next or be so tied up in the weight of what's going on in your own issues.

You can get weighed down and carrying problems.

But when you're carrying problems from one place to a next, it will keep you from going forward, it will tie up your hands and weigh you down.

But I need you to understand this morning, you can't give up right now because you've got a full journey ahead of you.

You've got blessings all along the way.

You cannot be tied down, weighed down, or distracted.

That's why the Bible says in Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 1, it says, Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance or patience the race that is marked out for us.

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You've got so much ahead of you.

And what I love about God is that God doesn't just give you a promise or blessing all the way at the end, but God gives you blessings and rewards as you go along, day by day, moment by moment, glory to glory in every season.

That's why it's a marathon and not a relay race.

It's not a race, hallelujah, it's not a sprint necessarily.

It's a marathon, it's not about how fast you can go, but it's about how long can you endure.

And when you've got God, you don't have to be in a rush or in a hurry.

You can ease on down the road because you know you've got God with you to deliver you and escort you into your next season.

To have somebody say it's about to get easy.

Praise the Lord.

So, we got to talk about some enemies this morning, talking about the things that we face, and the first enemy we must talk about is the lion.

The lion.

And I want to deal with this lion from a particular instance in Judges chapter number 14 and verse 5 through 14.

Right?

In this text here, Samson, the Bible says that he's going down, he's easing on down the road, and he's going into a place called Timnah.

And Timnah is a place where the Philistines dwelt, where other women dwelt.

And Samson's going down into Timnah because he has found a woman on his tender that he likes and desires to marry.

So he decided to swipe left.

He met somebody online, he wants to go meet her.

But the problem is that God told him you cannot marry people outside of the Israelite race, you cannot marry other nations.

Now he did that not because of racism, but God forbade them from marrying other races or outside of Israel, Israelite, excuse me, out of the Israelite religion, because their gods would cause you to follow other gods.

Amen.

And so God says, I don't want you to follow what they have.

Now they get converted and they can say, You can marry who you want.

Praise the Lord, but you cannot marry other nations.

Now the problem was that Samson, though, he was a bad boy, and so he decided, I want to be with this girl, and the more they told him, Samson, you can't do that, the more you know how you acted, you know how you are, the more he wanted to be with her.

And the Bible says the crazy thing is that God allows him to do it.

Because the Bible says in Judges chapter 14 and verse number six that God wanted a desire, he had a he was looking for an opportunity to overthrow the Philistines.

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And the reason why I'm interested by this is because technically Samson is doing the wrong thing.

But God has this ability to turn his wrong and make it work out for his good.

Glory to God.

He took Samson's mistake and made it work for a greater purpose.

He took Samson's detour and still rerouted Samson to the same destination.

I'm glad this morning because our God knows how to reroute me.

Glory to God.

He knows how to reroute us.

Anybody know what I'm talking about this morning?

If you don't know what a reroute is when you're driving in a GPS and you start thinking that you know where you're going, and so you start ignoring it like I do, like most men do.

And you go the wrong way, and then the voice changes.

You know you go the wrong way because the voice in the GPS changes, and it's a whoa from being a lady to a man, you're like, wait, wait a minute.

But then it'll say on the screen, it'll say rerouting.

And what that means is now I'm taking you, even though you've made a wrong turn, I'm gonna figure out a way to get you back on the path and still get you to your destination.

Hallelujah.

God knows how to reroute you.

I don't care how messed up you've been, I don't care how many mistakes you are, God is a master.

He knows how to turn your bad turns and your wrong turns and still get you to the destination and get you where you got to go.

Verse 5 Samson's on his way, he's on his way somewhere, he has no business, and then he runs into trouble.

The Bible says that a lion begins to roar and come against him.

Now, if you've never snuck out the house, you can't understand the fear that's probably in this moment.

Yeah, yeah, that's okay.

That's alright, that's alright, that's all right.

Young people, the young youth section got so quiet over there.

I'm messing with y'all, I know y'all say it.

Amen.

But he's on his way doing something, he has no business, and he runs into trouble.

A lion comes, and the lion comes roaring at him.

But the Bible says something powerful happens.

The spirit of God comes on Samson and he takes that lion and begins to rip the lion apart, and he begins to overcome that lion.

Now, here's the thing lions are a peculiar type of animal.

And the reason why I say that is because, really and truly, if you watch Animal Planet, you know that lions are really like an overrated predator.

Yeah, he's a king of the jungle, but why?

Because here's the truth.

Lions are not the biggest animal in the jungle, lions are not the fastest animal in the jungle, lions are not even the strongest animal in the jungle.

But here's the thing lions are probably the loudest in the jungle.

The lion's greatest asset is the lion's mouth.

That is why in 1 Peter 5 and 8, when he talks about the devil, he says the devil prowls about like a roaring lion.

The emphasis is on his roar.

The worst part of the lion is his mouth, and the worst part of Satan is his mouth.

The thing with the devil is he just don't know how to shut up.

I wish I had a witness this morning.

He can't kill you, he can't harm you if you're in Christ.

He but he will lie to you and try to get in your head and get you to believe it.

He just keeps talking and talking and talking.

That's why Jesus calls him the father.

He says he's a liar and the father of lies.

Because most liars don't ever stop talking.

Don't look around the room.

Look at me, look at me, look at me.

I can always tell somebody lying because they always got an answer for something, always got something to say, and you never stop talking.

You know everybody and everything all the time, you're lying.

The devil just never stops talking.

So the main way to defeat the enemy is to shut his mouth.

Peter told us when he told us to be sober and vigilant, he wasn't telling us just to later to be lying prey because he was coming around to devour you.

He's trying to teach you how to deal with that lion.

God sent in his spirit to help you to fight that lion.

And Samson showed us how to deal with the lion.

He went straight for his mouth.

And once he had done that, the Bible says he tore him apart as one tears a goat.

I want to declare over you this morning that the Holy Ghost will enable you to fight things that were once hard for you.

What was once hard is about to become easy in your hands.

You got the power to shut the lion up.

You got the power to stop that lion because the lion be lying, but he ain't gonna be lying no more.

Glory to God.

You got the power to shut them lies up.

Don't let that lion lie to you no more.

Hallelujah.

He told you you're gonna be sick and die, he's lying.

He told you you weren't gonna live, he's lying.

He told you he wasn't gonna be nothing, he's lying.

The lion be lying, but I got the spirit of a living God on me.

I got the truth and who you got the power to shut the lion up.

And when you live the life that you sing about, that's how you shut him up.

When you praise God with all your mouth, that's how you shut him up.

When you deny your flesh and follow God, that's how you shut him up.

But that's not even the best part of this text.

Verse number eight is the best part in the text.

The Bible says, When Samson returned, he found honey in the lion's carcass.

He found something sweet and what was supposed to kill him.

Glory to God.

He didn't have to go hunting or chasing honey, he didn't have to fight bees to get the honey.

When he came back, that honey was sitting there waiting for him to come and claim it.

And the Bible says in verse number 14 that he writes a little song, or as we would say, he spits a bar.

He says, Out of the eater comes something to eat.

Out of the strong came something sweet.

Out of the eater came something to eat.

Out of the strong came something sweet.

He declares that he speaks it over himself.

In other words, what was supposed to devour me is now being devoured.

What was supposed to overpower me is now my comfort food.

I eat the line for breakfast.

Glory to God.

I want to encourage you this morning.

If you face that line, if you face that loud thing, that hard thing, God will give you a sweet reward.

I come and declare over you this summer 2026 is about to get real sweet.

I don't care how bitter your winter was, I don't care how bitter the spring was, it's about to get real sweet.

Life now is sweet and my joy is complete.

I'm saved, I'm saved.

It's about to get real sweet.

So we face the lion.

Well, we got another enemy on our hands.

We got the giants.

What are we gonna say about the giants?

They're giants all throughout the Old Testament.

I wasn't sure which one to pick.

You had the Lephilim, you had the Anakim, you had Goliath, you had the Hittites and Gittites and Goliath's brothers, you had the Amorites and the and all the other Iights and Og the king of Bashan, and you had Sion the king of the Amorites, you had all these giants.

These are big guys.

But I want to share a lesson with you that my dad told me when I was growing up in middle school, going through all kinds of things with bullies and everything like that.

He told me, just because somebody is big don't mean they can fight.

It's quite a bit here.

I know you used to fight.

Don't look at me like that.

Don't, don't, don't, and don't.

You ain't been saying that long.

Just because they're big, don't mean they know how to fight.

And sometimes, in fact, sometimes some big people rely on their size and not their skill.

Some people don't know how to fight at all because they just rely on being big and they think people are just gonna be intimidated and walk away.

I believe that was the case with Goliath.

I believe Goliath wasn't a real warrior.

Because Goliath, how you gonna let this little boy run upon you and throw these stones at you and you can't even get to your sword?

You can't fight, giant.

You can't fight, Goliath.

You're lost, you're talking too much.

Squash him already.

No, you can't fight.

See, and giants and bullies think that you will shy away and run just because it's bigger than you.

That's the mistake the children of Israel made in Numbers chapter number 13 and verse 33.

They begin to cry out when they came back and saw that.

They said, We are little grasshoppers in their sight.

We are like grasshoppers to them.

Now the giants never said that, but the Israelites let their own insecurities get to them.

I have to ask you, are you letting your insecurities stop your blessing?

Are you getting in your own way?

Are you getting in your own head?

Are you speaking over your own self what you're not and what you cannot do?

I need you to understand this morning.

You are not a grasshopper, you are not the little guy, you are not the underdog, you are not beneath, you are not the tail.

A grasshopper can't have what you can have, a grasshopper can't survive what you survive.

You can handle what you're going through.

You've got the greater one in you.

So, I don't need big stature to defeat a giant, I just need big faith.

You just need the confidence to fight a giant.

Yes, they are big, but your God is bigger.

And all you've got to do is start magnifying God, like we were doing a few minutes ago.

Just start exalting and magnifying God.

And the bigger you make God, the smaller your problem will seem.

I learned something when I was studying for this message that some of the best boxers, Brother Jesse, some of the best boxes and most powerful boxes are actually smaller men.

Floyd Mayweather is smaller than me.

Mike Tyson is a smaller man.

He's about 5'10.

Rocky Marciano, I had to say Rocky because of Pastor Frank.

I know, I know.

You know, Italian style, you gotta say Rocky Marciano.

Anyway, powerful boxers, and they're smaller in statue, but they know how to fight, they know where to hit.

And to quote one boxer, his name was Bob Fitzsimmons, and they asked him, they said, Bob, are you afraid you're about to fight this giant opponent?

He's bigger than you, he's heavier than you, he's stronger than you.

And they said, Are you afraid?

He said, No, I'm not afraid.

The bigger they are, the harder they that's what I'm talking about.

The bigger that giant is, the harder they fall.

And let me push it further.

When giants fall down, it shakes everything around it.

It causes everything to move and be loosened and come up from where it is.

When giants fall, it causes other things to fall down.

I want to let you know that if you face your giant and cookies, looking in the face, praise God, it will cause a ricochet effect, and things that were tied up will get loose.

Hallelujah.

Things that were in the way will begin to move out of the way.

Just knock that giant down.

Your size is to your advantage.

The devil don't see you coming.

The devil doesn't expect you to stand up, the bully doesn't expect you to stand up, the system doesn't expect you to stand up, but don't get in your feelings and don't get in your pride.

Do like David did in 1 Samuel chapter 17 and verse 45.

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He said, The life I'm not coming to you is sticks and stones.

I'm coming in the name of the Lord.

If you come in the name of Jesus, the devil can't stop you.

Step out of your last name and step in Jesus' name.

Step out of your feelings and step in Jesus' name and watch the strongholds come down.

Watch every imagination be dismantled.

Watch the arguments be silent.

Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

You are greater than your biggest problem.

If you believe that, clap your hands and give God some praise.

Alright.

We talked about the lion.

We talked about the giant.

Well, there's another one we gotta talk about.

The bear.

What are we gonna do about this bear?

And I wasn't sure how to take this, and the Lord took me to Daniel chapter 7.

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In verse 5, and I was dealing with bears, and there's a bear in the second, it says this, and suddenly another beast, a second, like a bear.

It was raised up on one side and had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth.

And they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh.

If we continue reading in Daniel's prophecy, we learn that the bear is a representation of a political system.

Oh boy.

It's a political system.

The bear and is one of four.

In total, Daniel sees four beasts, each one of them representing political kingdoms of the world.

And each one comes and devours the other.

And then one is in control for a little bit of time.

And then another one comes and devours that one.

And then another one comes and it devours that one.

There are four beasts that come along.

There's a leopard, there's a bear, there's another beast that comes along and it just keeps devouring each other, one after the other.

A political system devouring the other, one after the other, until we get to verse number 13.

When Daniel says, Behold, and there before me was one like a son of man coming with the clouds of heaven.

He approached the ancient of days and was led into his presence.

Hallelujah.

He was given authority, glory, and sovereign power.

All nations and peoples of every language worshiped him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away.

And his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

The word of God just preached itself.

I don't praise team.

Y'all can come on up.

The word of God just preached itself.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away.

The Son of Man here is Jesus Christ.

And he is being compared with the kingdoms of this world.

If you read this seventh chapter of Daniel, the bear is just one of four beasts that consume up one another, each one being more corrupt and more terrifying than the other.

These beasts are intimidating people that making people fearful.

Each one oppressing one and oppressing another.

And praise God.

I don't know if you realize it, but we're watching this unfold in our world right now.

Glory to God.

The political system is consuming itself.

Each one, every few years, somebody else comes along, more consuming than the other, and one consumes the other.

Every time you turn the news on, something else is happening, something else is going on.

Our nation seems to be at the point of combustion.

Nation is rising against nation, and people against people roars and rumors of wars as the word of God prophesied.

And like the beast and the text, one system just consumes another every few years.

That's why the Bible warns us in Psalm 146 and 3.

It says, Don't put your confidence in powerful people.

There is no help for you there.

You can't put your confidence in them.

You may like them, you may enjoy them, they may be entertaining, but don't you put your trust in them.

Psalm 27 says it like this some trust in horses, some trust in chariots, but we will trust in the name of the Lord.

Some people lean on military power and physical power and those things, but we've got to trust in the name of the Lord.

You can't put your faith in people, you can't put your faith in men or politicians because politicians will let you down every single time.

You can't put your trust in any man because men will embarrass you.

They'll let you down, they'll leave you looking crazy, but our confidence is not in a man.

We must remember the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I'm almost there.

Hold on, I'm coming, I'm coming.

I'm almost there, I'm coming.

Jesus is not a bear or a leopard.

Jesus is not a donkey or an elephant.

He's the Lamb of God.

Glory to God.

And hear me in the Holy Ghost.

We do Jesus a disservice when we try to force the Lamb to have the appetite of a bear.

When we insult his power when we're trying to make the Lamb of God act like a beast and a bear.

When we're trying to force Jesus into a political corner or debate as if he can be voted in and voted out every few years.

When my Bible tells me he is the king of kings, has been given an everlasting dominion.

Glory to God.

I feel the Holy Ghost.

He can't be voted in or voted out because he don't need your permission to rule.

When he died on Calvary and got up from the grave, he stood up and said, All power has been given unto me in heaven and in earth.

All power has been given to me in heaven and in earth.

Then turn around and said, Whosoever will, let him come.

He doesn't play favorites.

He's got people from every nation, every color, every race, every tongue, and every tribe.

His kingdom has no boundaries or limitations because he's the king of kings and he's the Lord of lords.

Don't let that bear scare you.

Don't let politics scare you.

Don't let laws and policies scare you.

The name of the Lord is above every name.

He will be exalted, he will be lifted, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess.

Just like somebody at Father tell them, Jesus is Lord.

Glory to God, hallelujah.

So we've gotten dealt, we've dealt with the lion, the giant, and the bear.

But now I want to talk about my God.

Can I talk about Jesus for a second?

Can we talk about but God?

Glory to God.

Somebody say, but God.

Say it one more time, say but God.

David says, Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivers out of them all.

And praise God, we face three different types of enemies in this message, and surely there may be more types of enemies, but we only need one God.

You see, the pagans of that time, they were polytheists.

They had a God for this and a God for that.

They had a God for fire and a God for water.

They had a God for war and a God for peace.

A God for fertility and a God for sickness, a God for this disease and a God for that disease.

Because their gods were just not strong enough to do more than one thing at a time.

Oh, God, I feel the Holy Ghost in this place.

Their God wasn't big enough to do more than one thing.

The God that could bring rain couldn't bring fire.

The God that could make a lie could not get do with another one.

Their gods could only do one thing, but our one God can do anything.

Glory.

I feel like having church this morning.

Hallelujah.

I said their gods could only do one thing, but our God, our one God can do anything.

Is there anything too hard for the Lord?

Somebody say no.

Somebody say no.

Is there anything too hard for the Lord?

So God is the God of the conjunction.

If you remember the commercials, conjunction, junction, what's your function?

Glory to God.

Conjunctions are the connector word between one thing or another.

And the Bible says that God holds all things together by the word of his power.

Conjunctions are for, and, if, or but.

And one thing I love about God, He knows just what conjunction we need at the right time.

He's a good author, and He knows what word we need at the right time.

He knows when to use if.

Hallelujah.

As if as in if God be for us, who can be against us?

Glory to God.

He knows when to use and.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God and have a call according to his purpose.

He's the God of and.

You see, the false gods can only do one thing forever.

But our God can do one thing and another.

Our God can bless you going out and bless you coming in.

Glory to God.

Well, I feel the Holy God.

He can bless you in the city and he can bless you in the field.

He can forgive your sin and heal all your diseases.

He can comfort you and whoop the devil at the same time.

Glory to God.

He can restore your soul and supply your needs.

Hallelujah.

He can deal with cancer and with your troubled mind.

Hallelujah.

He can save you and your loved ones.

Somebody say this and that.

Somebody say this and that.

Come on, praise him.

Don't be scared.

He's the God of this and that.

He's able to do this and that.

I don't care how long your list is and what you have need of.

I don't care what the issue is or what the problem is.

He's a sufficient part.

He's able to do exceeding abundantly.

Above all, we can ask or think.

He's the God of and, and, and, and, and, and, and.

So sometimes, you gotta get a little attitude with the devil.

And when he's trying to talk to you crazy and say, are you gonna be able to do this and you got this going on?

I just say, Anne, go to God.

You can't survive this, you can't go through, you can't crash away, you can't finish, you can't afford it.

I just say, Anne, what you talking about?

My car shall supply all my needs according to his riches.

And somebody shout, An, somebody shout and it's about to be an blessing in here.

Some of y'all, you ain't gonna have to choose between your soul and your body, between your spiritual health and your physical health.

God's about to give you this and that.

God's about to give you this and that.

I don't know who that's for.

This and that, this and that, this.

More than enough, more than enough, more than enough.

Let's clap our hands and give God the praise of him this morning.

So you might be surrounded all around you.

You may feel overwhelmed.

So much stuff is going wrong at the same time.

And the enemy tells you you need to do this and do that and try this.

And but why are you doing this?

You only need one God.

And God is more than enough to handle whatever problem you got going on in your world.

I don't care if it's mental, I don't care if it's emotional, I don't care if it's physical, I don't care if it's spiritual, whatever it is that you're going through, there's nothing too hard for the Lord.

But with God, nothing shall be impossible.

He's the God of the end.

And I want to declare with you this morning, some of you have may have many needs, but I want you to know God is a God of the end, He's a God of the conjunction, but He also knows, hallelujah, praise the Lord, when to throw in a butt, a butt clause.

He knows when to interrupt your trouble with a butt guard.

And maybe you have been having a bad year or whatever is going on.

I want you to know affliction will not have the last word.

Trouble will not have the last word.

You are supposed to be lost, but God will find you.

You're supposed to be dead, but God revived you.

You were supposed to be down, but God lifted you.

Should have been depressed, but God take your joy.

Should have been sick, but God was Jehovah Rapha.

Hallelujah.

Supposed to be confused, but God is Jehovah's Shalom, but God of your peace.

Supposed to be broken, but God held you together.

And so you're not gonna lose your mind.

You're not gonna go crazy.

But God, but God, but God, but God, but God, but God, but God.

And when you use that term, that conjunction, in particular, when you put butt in a sentence, whatever follows it is gonna make the difference.

And sometimes, if you're depending on what's going on, you can say but in this person and that person, or some you could use it as a negative sense, but when you put God in the middle of the sentence, it changes everything before it.

And I want you to know God is in the midst of whatever you're going through, He's with you, and you're not gonna walk in defeat, you're not gonna hold your head up and look for your redemption to come.

We're gonna worship the Lord in song.

Hallelujah.

Y'all crazy.

I'm not messing with y'all.

So we're gonna sing.

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