Heal Me That I May See | Pastor Anthony Wilks

Let's give that to the Lord. Come on.

He's worthy. He is worthy.

He is worthy. Hallelujah.

It's good to be in the presence of God.

Amen. Good to be in the presence of

God. It's good to be here with you.

Give great honor to brother and Sister McGee and of course elder

Brother McGee. We honor this family and I tell

you what, if I was as talented as the Mcgee's and Masons, I

wouldn't have to be so good looking.

Easy, easy laughing there and I'm just kidding, but what a

blessing it is. I I want to compliment you on

something the Lord has has blessed me to travel a lot of

places just like your pastor and I want to compliment the

authenticity of your worship, the authenticity of your worship

team. That's not everywhere there.

There may be somewhere that has more instruments or more volume

or whatever, but there was a a sweetness that appointed that

worship today. But I don't think we need to

take lightly. And this is just what we do

here. This is anointed authenticity I

think. We ought to just thank the Lord

for. It thank you, Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. I I'll, I'll get to preach in a

moment, but I do want to say sincerely that I honor brother

and sister McGee so much, and it's interesting to.

Sort of grow. Up in the same district and tend

a lot of functions, but not always get to know each other.

And so we're thankful we got back to our hotel last night.

We're very thankful that we had a few moments with them.

And through the years, brother, me, McGee and I have been teamed

up preaching things. And I always tell people, I said

I don't know if it's the joke's on him or me, but we're we're

two different animals. The Bible says not to hook two

different kind of animals up. I don't know.

I don't know who's the ox and who's the, but we're just.

But I I say that as I'm. Saying it in jest, but truly

that's always challenged me because he's such a student of

the Word and I know you know this and he doesn't need me to

say this, but you have a pastor that is also a great preacher

and that's not always common either.

And I'm thankful for their ministry and Sister McGee and

all that they've done and just appreciative to be here with you

today, brother. Cook, I'm so sorry.

I know we met a few weeks ago in Kentucky.

When I walked in, I looked at you, I thought.

That guy looks like that guy. I met in Kentucky and turns out

it is you. I'm going to preach about.

Vision today you can see I need help with it but Amen Mark

chapter #10 I greet this church family and say thank you to all

of you that are here. I know the Mcgee's feel this

way, I feel this way back home. I don't take it lightly when

anybody walks in the doors, anybody that's got up and made a

choice to be in church with us, it's it's an honor.

And so I'm honored that you're here with us today.

And the good news is it'll be over soon.

Mark, Chapter 10, verse 49. Familiar passage.

Mark 10:49

I wouldn't dare try to be revelatory this morning, not

with the preaching you've heard. I didn't say it, but Elder

Mcgee's no slouch when it comes to preaching either, that's for

sure. Yeah, he preached a meeting in

North Vernon years ago. I'd never heard him preach.

I didn't know what to expect. And about the third or fourth

time he took off running, I didn't know if he's going to

fall over dead or what. But I can, Brother McGee.

I ain't going to do no running today, I can assure you that.

Mark, chapter 10, verse 49, Jesus stood still and commanded

Mark 10:49

him to be called. And they called the blind man,

saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rides he calleth thee.

And he, casting away his garments, rose and came to

Jesus. There's a sermon all and all of

that Jesus answered and said unto him, What will thou that I

should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him,

Lord, that I might receive my sight.

Jesus said unto him, Go thy way, thy faith have made thee whole.

And immediately, somebody say immediately he received his

sight and followed Jesus in the way I.

I want to. Preach for a few moments today

on this thought. Heal me that I may see Heal me

that I may see if I I I went back to try to change my title

but I was afraid it was going to mess with too much stuff.

But I, I went back there and said if we could change it, I

would change it to the restoration of sight.

And, and I truly believe, I truly believe that God wants to

let there be a recovery of sight in this room so that we walk out

of here seeing our God and seeing our world a little

different than when we came in. Could we worship him one more

time together today? Could you lift your voice and

just magnify him? Thank you Jesus.

Thank you. Oh, clap your.

Hands and praise him one more time, man, you can be seated.

Heal me that I may see I, I, I. Don't think that.

There's any of us? Would disagree this morning with

this thought. This carpet's real soft.

That's why I asked him. I said can I go?

Out there it feels good on my foot.

We all understand the importance of sight.

It's been over a decade ago now. I've, I've wore glasses since I

was a kid, but I woke up 1 morning and it felt like, or it

seemed like I had something in my eye.

And so I went to the restroom and begin to wash my eye out And

it was like, like I had sleep or something in my eye and, and

just, I, I couldn't see everything was blurry.

And you know the, the quick way to know that is you, you look at

your phone and I, I couldn't read none of the messages.

And so I went and kept washing my eyes out, never improved.

And over the course of time, I went to a few different

specialist and what what they discovered was somewhere in the

night, a blood vessel had burst in my eye.

The problem is, Brother McGee, it was in the the only good I

had and that blood had pulled behind my retina.

And I'll never forget when the specialist said to us, he said

there's nothing we can do about that.

Maybe in time it'll clear up, maybe it won't and we can go in

here and do a surgery and, and, and prevent further bleeding,

but there's nothing we can do about the damage that's done.

And so boy, that started me on a journey.

I should have turned my license in.

Not my preaching license, my driving license.

You might think I should turn them in when I get done today,

but it's early. Give me a chance.

But I, I couldn't hardly see and, and, but you can, you can

drive without seeing on this, on this side.

They got bumps to let you know you're getting too far.

There's the reflectors in the middle, you know, But my, our

assistant pastor, I grew up with him and he'd come to church

early and I would tell him, I'd say, I think over there in, in

Leviticus, there's a scripture about such and such.

That's what. I want to preach on tonight.

You're going to have to read it to him.

This was. This was right around the.

The time that iPads and digital Bibles were getting popular, but

there was really no way at that time to manipulate the text.

And so I I never preach at a Leviticus.

I just was trying to see what your face would say when I said

that. But but but.

That went on for some time and thank God through surge a couple

different things with my eyes, my vision has improved.

So you you could ride with me after church and you'd pretty

well. Be safe, but vision and sight is

very important. But I I don't believe today that

there's any sight more important than the vision of the soul.

And and I want to deal today if the Lord will help me with three

or four areas of sight that I believe God wants to let this

church experience a recovering of sight to.

So if you'll help me with the first couple, I don't want to

insult you in any way. So just just act like it's the

first time you're hearing some of this.

But I think that number one, there needs to be the recovering

of how we see God. They they, they set me up to get

excited when they ended worship with who is like the Lord,

because I'll tell you today, there's nobody like the Lord.

Unto him be all glory and honor and power.

He's worthy of it. And I, I will tell you that

there's nothing the enemy of your soul and mine would like

more than for us to dumb down God, to be like one of us.

I believe you're great people, but nobody's like God.

I believe you're faithful people, but nobody's as faithful

as God. There is no body like God.

In Deuteronomy there's a scripture and I won't read it

all, but he can. Expose you to it today.

It simply ends with this. It says he will not fail thee.

Can I tell you there's not another human?

And he's not a human, but, but there's not another person on

the planet. To which you can say, He will

not fail thee. You've you've got a good pastor,

but you can't say it's impossible for him to fail you

because there's error in all of us humans.

But when it comes to God, he cannot fail you.

He cannot disappoint you. He can't let you down.

He can't walk away from you. He can't give up on you.

He can't give in on you. There's nobody like God.

See the problem? The problem often is this.

Is that if you don't know God, you'll make him like the people

you do know. And we can't have you going

around making God like your mother-in-law.

We can't have you going around making God like the guy on the

job that's done your wrong 50 times.

We can't make God like the people.

We do know that there is nobody. Like him?

There's no one that that that moves and operate.

Listen to me. Every one of us is subject to

time. It's about 10:50.

Your your hostage situation will be over shortly.

We're we're all stuck right here about 10:50.

But God's not stuck there. He stands outside of time.

He moves outside of time. He sees the past, the present.

And the future in one glance. There ain't nobody else can do

that. The good news of that is, is

when you're in a struggle, God's not in the struggle with you.

He stands on the outside of it. And while you're in pain, they

mentioned it singing today, while you're in the middle of

your pain, God is standing at the day of your deliverance.

Oh, somebody magnify him with me.

There's, there's a, a principle or a law, if you could say it

that way of first mention in the Bible, and I love that.

And, and that has disproved a few sermons of mine through the

years. But but if you, if you want to

think about the law first mention, let's talk about where

do we first see God in the in the beginning, God created the

heavens and the earth. The earth was dark and void

without form and darkness is upon the face of the, the spirit

of the Lord moved. What, what, what's the point of

you reading Genesis to his preacher?

It's to tell you that before there was anything, there was

the faithfulness of God. That means you can't go through

anything that the faithful of faithfulness of God will not

stand true if you're sick in the hospital.

The faithfulness of. God is there.

If you're being blessed, the faithfulness of God is there.

It does not matter it heads or tails, the faithfulness of God

is there. And it's important that you know

that because the devil would love for you and I to see our

God through the lens of our struggle.

But I'm telling you, God is greater than my struggle.

He's greater than my pain. He's greater than my difficulty.

He's greater than what I go through.

He's greater than my disease. He's greater than my injury.

He's greater than my family trouble.

He's greater than my There's nobody like my God.

Oh, clap your hands and love him with me.

You come by. Too late to tell me God will

fail you. I'm not going to go into.

Details. But about a year ago I had a

accident. That's why I strut the way I do

when I saw you watching me walk. It's a strut, not a limp.

Don't go telling people that Preacher had a limp.

The strut. You're too young for this.

But it ain't quite the George Jefferson Walk.

But it is a strut. I would tell you, I have people

come, well, many people come to me after that accident and say,

I know, I know your faith is tested and it's weary and, and

and you're wondering why is God letting all this happen to you?

And I thought, I want to say to him, well, I wasn't wondering

about none of that to you said it to me.

And thank you for helping me go into a trial of my faith.

I never one time thought that. When I was stuck laying up under

that machine in my field begging for help, I knew God was with

me. When I walked into or when I was

wheeled in off a helicopter into U of L hospital, I knew God was

with me. When I was trying to recover, I

knew God was with me. When I got infection and got

sick again, I knew God was with me.

When I got a third infection and had another surgery, I knew God

was with me. You come by too late to tell me

my God will not fail you. My God will not disappoint you.

My. God, he was faithful in Genesis

and he will be faithful now. Oh, clap your hands and praise

Him tonight. So I'm not going to let the

devil change my view of God. I say there ought to be a

recovering of sight to the body of Christ right now if there was

ever an hour. We understood the answer to all

of the world's problems is Jesus.

It is the answer to it all. And I'm not going to see my God

less than I'm going to lift him up as high as I can lift him up.

Oh, let's praise him together. Well, how should we see him?

I'll tell you how Prophet Isaiah told us.

He said in the year that King Isaiah died, I saw the Lord.

How did he seem? Hi.

And lifted up, He said. I saw him high and lifted up.

And his train filled the temple, He said, He said when I got a

new view of God, he said when something died, I got a new view

of God and I realized he was high and lifted up.

I don't know this region very well, but I can tell you the

highest thing in Mount Carmel is God.

The greatest thing in Mount Carmel is.

God. Come on, you come by too late to

tell me that God's not high and lifted up.

Do you believe today that your God is greater?

He's greater, He's greater, He's greater.

Hallelujah, I wasn't planning on even mentioning any of this

today, but when I was going through all this mess with my

foot, I couldn't hardly sleep at night.

And there would be moments, Sister McGee, where it was like

somebody opened the door of my home.

I was sleeping in a recliner right by the door.

I made a move, my recliner. It was freaking me out a little

bit. I'm going to be honest with you.

But I could feel a presence walk in my house and and Elder McGee,

I would feel a fear come over me.

And I would feel a darkness come over me, and I was so feeble of

body at that time. I couldn't get up and stomp and

praise God. But I'd lift my feeble hands and

all I could get out was God, I love you.

And I would feel that presence immediately.

Leave my home. Don't let anything stop your

praise because praise invites the presence.

And if you can get the presence of God there, it's.

Greater than anything else. Why don't we praise Him right

now? Why don't you clap your hands

and magnify him? I'd be embarrassed elder, I'd be

embarrassed if y'all would have saw me in that condition and all

I could do was lift him feeble hands and and through a broken

spirit and for whatever reason I felt like a broken heart, I'd

say God I love you. Oh God, I love you.

And immediately, a few days later, I got to thinking about

that and God put it in my spirit.

He said, don't you realize the greatest attack even on the body

of Christ right now is fear and anxiety?

But you learn just a simple mention of my name causes that

to flee and causes that to leave.

Somebody ought to shout Jesus over Mount Carmel.

Somebody ought to shout Jesus at first Apostolic.

Somebody ought to believe that if I praise him, the enemy will

be driven out. Oh, let's love the Lord

together. So I hope, I hope to the body of

Christ there comes a recovering of sight to how we see our God.

If there's not, we're going to die in life's dilemmas.

And so as we move this morning, I say let there be a recovering

of our sight about God. The next dimension of sight I'd

like to talk about for a moment is this.

It's how we see ourselves. Now don't worry, I'm not going

to preach into a narcissistic fit of any kind, but I want to

tell you today that if we don't get an image of ourselves that

we are children of the resurrection, we are going to be

stuck living a life. In the very chains that God has

broken off of us, somebody said Amen.

Uzziah said in the year king Uziah, he said I saw or Isaiah

said I saw the Lord high and lifted up when he got a good

vision of God. Then he describes what he saw in

himself. He said, woe is me from I'm a

man of unclean lips, I'm undone. He says I'm done, I'm undone.

He said, well, preacher, why would I want to recovering of a

sight to see myself that way? Well, you got to keep reading

because if you keep reading, he started seeing angels, he

started seeing the Seraphim, he started seeing them having

getting getting hot coals off the altar.

And if you read on a little further, he said.

And then my iniquity was purged. You see, the devil don't want

you to see yourself in the light of who God is in your life.

Listen, if if we don't see ourselves in the light of what

God has done for us through His name, through His blood, through

the infilling of His Spirit, if we don't see that we are going

to be stuck living a life that is based upon our DNA.

And you may come from a good family, but I'm telling you, in

every family there is some dysfunction in that family.

Come on. But when we see ourselves in the

light of Jesus Christ, we can understand we're not a beat down

body. We're not less than.

You. See, that's what the enemy wants

you to do. He wants to see yourself so

inferior that you never step into your purpose.

But I'm telling this church, you're about to move from just

meeting on this end of town, having services to affecting

this community in a way that maybe you never have.

God has prepared a great foundation under you, but there

are seeds of revival that are ready to spring forth.

But God does not need a body with a bowed head and a bent

spirit. He needs God's wealthy walk in

warriors to understand. God has redeemed me.

God has saved me. God has made me whole.

I was a Sinner, but I'm not now. I was.

Rejected, but I'm not. Now God has done something.

In my life, we ought to take a praise break right here.

Are you thankful for the blood? Are you thankful for his name?

Are you thankful for His washing power?

Hallelujah, we I'll tell you what we don't need.

We don't need a Gideon spirit hitting our churches.

Says who? Me, I'll never forget back in

2006, we had a Sunday night service that would arrive on any

camp meeting. I mean, God was moving.

It was powerful. That was Sunday night.

Tuesday I was at work and my mom rang my phone.

She was crying. She said can you come to the

house? And so I got with my bosses and

left and and went to the house by Wednesday or by Thursday.

We had church on Thursdays that at that time, by Thursday night,

I was the pastor. And it sent our church into a

confluence of calamities that to this day I don't understand.

But there was a man in our church who I trusted and loved

and cared for and, and, and I had leaned on him.

My, my father was my pastor. And this guy, this guy and I

both served in ministry together.

And he said to me, the day I became pastor, he said, you are

not the man for the job. And, and, and I've lived my life

saying sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will

never hurt me. But it wounded me.

And I'll never forget every Sunday when it was time to walk

out to that office, I would hear that voice.

You're not the man for the job. You let me tell you what I did.

Again, you're not going to fully understand this.

You're not old enough. I put my Bible up under my arm

and I did my best George Jefferson out there and I got up

and preached. Anyways, can I tell you I'm not

going to let no devil in hell or out of hell tell me God is not

going to work in my life. Greater is he that's in me than

He that's in the world. We need a recovering of sight.

That sees ourselves in the. Light of Jesus Christ, somebody

ought to help me worship right here.

Come on, lift up your eyes and see what the Lord has for you.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. You know why?

Sis, when I let the Lord peel back the layers of revelation

over my eyes and I know what all God's done for me, that old song

rings true to me today. You don't know like I know what

the Lord has done for me. I was a Sinner and He saved me.

I was broken and He made me whole.

I fell down and he picked me up. You don't know like I know what

the Lord has done for me. And He didn't bring me this far

to be done with me. Yet He didn't bring you this far

to be done with you. Yeah, open up your eyes and see

what the lie Will somebody help me praise him?

Somebody. Help me praise him.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. I'm not talking about I'm not

talking about being arrogant. I'm not talking about being

cocky within. Ourselves, can I tell you, I

believe God wants to put his church on parade.

I believe he wants everybody in Mount Carmel to know where first

Apostolic Church he is. Somebody said, well, they do

know preacher. Well, I'm going to talk about it

at the end, but what happens when God changes their view of

how they see the church? Somebody said Amen.

I feel like making the devil mad in here.

There are gifts and callings on the people of this church that

the enemy wants to water down and make you feel like you're

the people across the track somewhere that nobody cares

about. I come to jerk the cover off the

devil's lie and tell you that God wants to open up your eyes

so you can see how mighty He is in you, how strong He is in you,

how powerful He is. Come on, I know there's nobody

like God. But you got that God living on

the inside of you. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. I'm not I'm not just saying this

for response since I know you're in grandma mode.

They said you're the best grandma here.

But I'm going to tell you something.

When I when the Holy Ghost filled people, when our.

Feet hit the. Floor in the morning we become

instantly the devil's worst nightmare I'm sick and tired of

the church being depressed I'm sick and tired of the church

having nightmares it's. Time we rain on the devil's

parade. It's time we give hell some

nightmares. It's time he realizes, Oh,

they're up again. Their feet hit the floor.

They're going to pray again. They're going to worship again.

They're going to believe again. I I want to move on to the next

thing but I feel something in the Holy Ghost right here.

I feel a war cry coming to this church.

I I may be missing it by 1,000,000 miles.

Don't ever tell me I'm very insecure but I feel the Holy

Ghost even off your first family ripping insecurity off the top

of them and getting them to realize there is a calling in

you. There is a.

Power in you. God wants to invest a harvest in

this child. I need somebody that will

receive that right now. I was watching I was watching

Mariah almost messed her name up that would proved I wasn't in

the spirit. I was watching her up there

singing and I was going to tell her this after the church.

Do you know the angels of the Lord are watching you?

Do you know they're watching over you?

Can I tell you why do you want to say that to her?

Because I know the enemy loves to take young people that want

to dedicate their life to God. And girl, this is not going to

make sense, but I'll explain it to you later.

Don't worry that you don't fit in anywhere, because God's going

to make your calling fit in everywhere.

Come on, can I tell you God doesn't answer inferior

expectations, but he wants a church that'll rise up and say I

see who I am through the Lord. Come on, clap your hands and

praise He. Come on, would you help me

worship right here? The Holy Ghost is in this room.

Let's see what the Lord wouldn't say to us right now.

I believe that's a principle, Brother McGee.

I believe that's a principle of separation.

We've never tapped into that part of separation is not just

about what we see necessarily. It's God doesn't want us.

Fitting into a. World that he's called us to be

greater than. We're not better than people,

but we got something on the inside of us that's greater.

I refuse to let Mariah suffer with depression.

I refuse to let her suffer with anxiety.

I refuse to let her ever suffer with the things of this world.

There's a calling of God on her. There's a calling of God on you.

Greater, greater, greater. Greater, greater is He that's in

me. Somebody praise Him with me.

Come on, you want to praise Him right now?

Let God magnify the call of God in you.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Go ahead, go ahead, try it out till you feel it break.

I said, I said pray till you feel it break.

Pray till you feel the chain loosen.

Pray till you know God is moving in your spirit.

Pray till you feel the enemy run.

Pray till you feel the feathers break.

Pray till you know God has liberated you.

I'm. Going to tell you what what's

happening. In the Holy Ghost right now.

My dad couldn't sing worth a lick, but he didn't care.

He'd get a mic, sing anyways. He definitely couldn't write

songs, but he'd try to write them anyways.

But we get to having a Holy Ghost time around there and he'd

get the mic. I'm not definitely going to sing

in front of the Masons and I. Learned today your pastor can

sing too but I will tell you here's what my dad would get to

singing we got the Devil on the run church look at the devil run

I know it's a Sunday morning and I know there's a lot more day to

live but I'm telling you I think we got the devil on the run in

this house right now and I don't know what the.

The devil's been bothering in your world.

I don't know what the enemy's been telling you, but somebody

better open the back door because I feel the devil getting

ready to run up out of this house.

I feel a releasing, I feel a power.

I feel an overflow of God's Spirit.

Somebody help me, shout. Somebody help me.

Rejoice. Somebody help me.

Pray. I really cook.

I'll tell you why. We better see ourselves in the

light of how God sees us, because if not my brother, we're

going to be subject to live according to what they say.

It don't matter what they say about you, it's what does God

say about you? I, I, I don't want to embarrass

Brother Cook, but I felt the Holy Ghost right there.

I'm telling you, it doesn't matter what the whole world says

about us if we're walking with Jesus.

I say keep on walking, keep on believing.

She done got lost in the Holy Ghost.

You're going to have to tell her.

All this stuff, I said. But you know why I want to get a

hold of young people and let God, I felt God tell me to tell

her that. You know why?

Because if she. Can get something way down in

her soul. Her critics will become

promoters. Slander will become advertising.

Because we'll know who we are, I said.

We'll know who we. Are we'll know?

Come on 1st Apostolic, do you know who you are?

Do you know who you are? And God, do you know who you

are? Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

I don't know why I feel to say this, and I don't want to put

none of you ladies into fear. So hear out what?

Hear me out what I'm saying. There are some of the ladies in

this church in this room right now.

When you get up tomorrow, you're going to feel a heaviness and

the enemy is going to want you to own what you discerned.

That heaviness is meeting you in the morning specifically because

it does not want you to receive what God is trying to put into

you right now. When you feel that heaviness in

the morning, you ought to shout because that's a sign that the

devil knows that God is up to something in your world.

This end in my message, I wasn't planning to say, but I want to

just tell you something. We're when we're spirit filled

people, we can discern things. Stop owning everything you

discern. Stop owning every feeling you

have. I walked this morning down into

the lobby of that hotel and that it was crowded in there,

thought, man, what in the world's going on?

But it didn't take me very long to pick up on my radar that

whatever they were involved in last night.

I have wanted no part of. But I didn't walk out of there

saying, man, I'm struggling wanting to go get a beer.

I'm struggling with lust. I'm I'm struggling with

perversion. You can't own everything you

feel. Excuse me for being a little

caustic with my language right here, but that the enemy of our

soul wants to create Apostolic bipolar Christians that were

subject to every wind that blows and we're subject to every

feeling that comes in. Fear would come in my house, but

I told it to go. Depression would come in my

house, but I would tell it to go.

You know why? Because I got the power.

Of the resurrected Christ on the inside of.

I've spent too long there. I'm going to move through this

next one quick because I want to get to the end of this.

There's how we see God, There's how we see ourselves in the

light of God. And then there's how we see our

brothers and sisters in the Lord.

Don't make me preach on it long. It'd be a good Wednesday night

series on Unity. Your pastor could do a much

better job breaking down Scripture.

But can I tell you, if you study, you study the life of

Isaac. And when his eyes were dimmed,

he was willing to give his birthright to one of his

children. In a move of deception, Jacob

slid in and he stole Esau's birthright.

And so the story goes, Jacob flees, Jacob leaves.

He goes to work on a farm to get a girl.

There's your good idea. I'm learning back home though,

buddy. You don't have to actually have

to work on the farm back home. They just dress like they work

on a farm. Two of my three boys, they walk

in, look like Cowboys sometimes. Ain't got a horse, ain't got a

cow, barely take care of a dog. I'm like, I'm like, what in the

world's going on here? Boy, that that derailed me right

there. So Jacob, he flees, he leaves.

He doesn't care what he's done to his brother, doesn't bother.

He wanted that birthright. He was interested in what he

wanted. He had no desire for

reconciliation until God says I'm going to bless.

You. But the only way I'm going to

bless you. Is if you go back home and it

and it. Would seem like, Jacob said.

Oh man, finally I'm going to go back home and reconcile with my

brother. No, he wanted the blessing and

so he's he's willing to send messengers to say, hey, tell my

brother my big day's coming and I'm coming back home.

I want him to know, but I'm coming back to get my blessing.

Those guys come back and tell Jacob.

They said, hey, he's not only coming, but he's got 400 men

with him. It ain't looking good.

And Jacob some somewhere in between all that he has a

wrestling. Match with God and walks away

with a strut. See how I helped you there

again? He walks away with a limp,

walking different, thinking different, and here comes his

brother. He's scared to death to see Esau

face to face. But when they finally meet, and

they finally embrace and reconciliation happens, there's

this. Powerful scriptures.

It's in one of those I gave you where he literally says to his

brother, when I saw you, it's though I saw the face of God.

Come on, there's sometimes the only God you're going to see is

through the eyes of a brother. It's through the eye.

That's why Brother McGee and I know you're the same way.

That's why when I go to camps, I I don't mark time and say I

wonder when we'll get to fellowship afterwards.

I want to be preached to. I want to see the glory of God

on somebody's face. I know I need my brother.

I know I've got the power of God inside of me, but want to put

1000 to a put 10,000. It's more than multiplication

when we let God bring unity to the body of Christ.

If you'll clap. Real good.

I'll move on through that one pretty quick.

You see, because what a what a damaging thing you could be for

us to see God high and lifted up and let's see him powerful

within us, but we can't stand one another.

Somebody said to me one time said so and so thanks.

You don't like him? I said, well, he's pretty smart.

That's exactly right. I said that not to make myself

look bad, but you can't live life without getting some

issues. You can't go to church and do

life with people without there being something you don't agree

with, something that rubs you. Oh, I promise I'm still

preaching good and I'll make it palatable to you.

But can I tell you, we cannot let the devil stop revival, and

we can't let strife win within us.

Stop revival. Brother, Brother Mason, you are

not been studying enough, so I'm going to give you.

I'm talking to you, Alex. I wouldn't, I wouldn't rebuke

the elder Mason. You know I've been studying.

If I'm going to give you something to study, go study.

Why when Gideon we got ready to harvest, why every time he did,

the Midianites would rise up and take the harvest?

Go study Why the Amalekites would take the harvest?

I don't have time to preach at all.

Midian literally means strife. I, I wish I could go into this

further. He's going to study it.

You'll, you'll be impressed with what all he knows.

But listen to me. It's not just strife.

It wasn't just strife. It wasn't just trouble.

It was to it was to damage their sight of the harvest.

Go study where it would. Happen at it had to do with the

eye of trembling. It's about sight, and when we

can learn to see God through our brother and sister, there'll be

a recovering of sight that comes to the Church of God.

Clap your hands and love him. What you'll find out is there's

people you might not like. Maybe your personalities don't

click, but if you start to see the hand of God on them.

Some of the some preachers messages that have changed my

life, I don't even know if I'd want to have dinner with them,

but I've seen the glory of God on them.

I felt the power of God on them. Can I tell you when God goes

into the harvest field of this church in the next few months

and years, what God wants to do around here, it's got to become

more than one or two or three or four.

It's got to take all hands in the harvest and listen.

We may not agree with each other on everything, but we can agree

on the glory of God. We can agree on the power of God

on their life. I'm saying God don't just use

me, but use my brother, use my sister, use the church across

town. We need a revival of unity.

I know none of you would ever fall prey to this, but I'm just

using an example for the sake of the sermon.

Talk about losing your vision. That same man sis that told me I

wouldn't cut out for the job he stayed around for for a few

weeks in our church few months. Wounded me at every chance he

could. Finally he went about a mile

down the road started his own church and and and and that that

come to naughty. But that's not the story.

That's not the principle of of the story.

I was in our sanctuary praying one day because that's what good

preachers do. Oh Jesus bless these people.

He's bless these carnal people. God, I'm embellishing.

I got about right over here where my wife sitting in our

sanctuary and the and the Lord spoke to me if I ever heard him,

I heard him. Then he said, if that man died,

you'd want him to be lost. And I said, at least, you know,

not really. I didn't say that to God.

I'm going to tell you what I did.

I fell on that Pew and said, God, get this mess out of me.

God, I hate him. It's over words, but God, it's,

it's, it's messing with me. When I see him out, I want to

lash out. I want to tell people what he's

done. God, get this mess out of me.

You know why? Because it wasn't Him.

What I felt wasn't hurting him, but I was losing my vision of

the harvest it was getting. This I'm not saying you've got

an issue with. Anybody.

But why don't we lift our hands all over this house and say,

God, give me clean hands, give me a pure heart.

Let me not lift my voice against anybody, God.

Hallelujah. Here's where I want to end.

There's recovering of sight, how we see God.

There's how we see ourselves in the light of God.

There's how we see our brothers and sisters.

Then lastly, there's how we see the harvest.

I told somebody the other day, I said.

Evidently I don't love myself because why would you?

First of all, I never miss 2 Sundays in a row back home.

Not not because they'll miss me because I'm afraid they'll fire

me, but but I I said why would you preach for Brother Vasquez

one Sunday and Brother McGee the next, two of the greatest

preachers in our movement. Evidently I don't love myself.

I was driving here yesterday and, and it's seriously how my

mom was thinking. I was like, hey man, what am I

going on? I'm going to have to go watch

their webcast for the last two years and try to find something

he ain't preached on in a little familiar voice.

Got in that Bronco with me. And he said, tell the Mcgees and

tell FAC their season's about to change.

I. Put that on the back burner in

my mind when I got up this morning said, God, I know what

you I feel to preach, but I don't see where it fits.

And then I got up here on this front row this and God said,

tell them I want to change their lens of how they see the harvest

to which I have placed them in. So you can think I'm crazy and I

hope I'm not making you feel spooky, but I'm just going to

tell you what I know. In the Holy Ghost, Elder McGee,

I saw 20 years as I stood up there, I saw 20 years of you

throwing seed out of you throwing seed out.

Then I watched and I could see brother and sister McGee and the

Holy Ghost. And and I maybe because we

talked about the trailer last night, but I saw them Criss

crossing this country. They're going to be in Idaho

this week, but I saw them from Michigan to Florida and from

east to West and they were sowing seeds.

All over this country and the enemy at times has made them

think what about Mount Carmel? What about FAC.

But I come to tell them the seasons are about to change, the

clouds about to break and the rain's about to fall.

And the seed that's in the ground is about to spring forth

with the mighty revival, with the mighty harvest.

I need you to get a hold of this.

I'm not got no other preaching today but to tell you it's about

to change. Come on, let's take a praise

break right here. Pastor and Sister McGee, I tell

you in the Holy Ghost today, you've not seen your greatest

revival in the city. You've not seen your greatest

outpouring. You've not seen your greatest

breakthrough. God has seen your labor.

He's seen you. Toil he see you try to remain

faithful and God's about to open the door God's about to change

the season. There's a dawning of a new day.

There's about to be a break forth.

There's about to be a bringing forth.

There's about to be seed that come up out of the ground.

Come on. It's not falling on Stony

ground. It's not went by the way of the

wayside. It's been in the soil.

It's been waiting on the rain. It's been waiting on a

breakthrough. It's been waiting on the moment.

Hear me, hear me, hear me today, FAC.

You guys call yourself that if okay well really I was saying

1st and I thought, I hope it ain't faith, hear me?

And the Holy Ghost right here. There's enemies you've had in

generations, gone before that. God has silenced them.

God has muted them. He has bound them with 1000

chains. There's a new day and a new.

Breakthrough that's coming to you.

He has cleared the way. He has made a door that's about

to be open to you. It's a great and effectual door

that no man's going to be able to shut.

I say run through it. I say run through it knowing who

he is, knowing who you are in him, knowing what he can do with

your brother and sister. I say walk home through the

door. Let every devil be bound.

Let revival be loosed. Let there be miracles, signs and

wonders. Come on.

See. See Elder, if the devil could

have stopped this church, he would have a long time ago.

So his only hope is to distort your vision so that you buy into

the lie. That maybe this is all God has

for me. I come to tell you the Reaper

can overtake the planter. I'm come to tell you, blinded

eyes can be open. Deaf ears can be unstopped.

The lane could walk. The dead could rise.

It's still all possible. Come on.

Do you believe it's possible here?

I feel a release in the Holy Ghost right here.

I said. I feel a release in the Holy

Ghost right here. God's ready to do something in

this house right now. God said come on, come on

somebody will you let God use you.

Right now there is a release in the Holy Ghost.

Hallelujah, I'm not trying to be corny or cliche, I'm just

telling you what I feel in the Holy Ghost.

And I'm sorry, it's an old song too.

But Satan, your Kingdom must come.

Down. It must come down.

God's words not going to return void.

Come on, Brother McGee, I'm not just trying to preach because

you're my friend. I've always loved your spirit.

But you got 20 years of His word not being able to return void.

Brother Mcgee's got all of his years where that word cannot

return void. I'm going to tell you it's time

to preach faith like you've never preached.

Preach miracles like you've never really.

Come on. You know why this church, I feel

it in the Holy Ghost. I hope I'm not messing nothing

up, but God is shifting you from belief to demonstration.

He is moving you from belief to demonstration.

It's time for the outpouring of the Holy Ghost.

I say let the river flow. Let the power flow.

Let there be a demonstration of God's spirit and power.

Why don't you lift up your voice?

Why don't you lift up your hands and release yourself into the

supernatural power? Of God.

I promise you, I promise you by the Mason or somebody can come

to the keys. I'm trying to get out of the

way, but I want you to hear me. I'm not saying this on accident.

Here's what God wants me to tell you and don't just stare at me,

but let's operate together in the Holy Ghost.

Can we do that? Here's what God is saying.

I'm about to change their season.

Tell them I'm going to change their season.

But when seasons change, there are things you cannot take into

the next season. I, I believe it was Mariah.

If it wasn't, I'm sorry, but Mariah said to my wife when

she'd come in, something about her outfit, she said it looks

very fall. And the reason is, is because my

wife has been ready for fall for three months.

Somebody said, hey man, can I tell you there are hurts you

can't take into a new season. I'm not talking about holiness

or a tire. That's not my job.

But there's garments that's got to be changed.

Just like that man, the blind man that Jesus healed, the Bible

said he cast his garments aside. There's some things you can't

take into this revival. There's some things you can't

take into this delivers. But I've got good news for you.

God will heal you today. God will deliver you today.

God will set you free today. Go ahead, Sister Mason, help me

shout. Help me rejoice.

See, there's a reason Sister McGee, that that the McGee fan,

the Masons that have had the toil so long, because what God

wants to give you, I feel this in the Holy Ghost, what God

wants to give you, if it is not grounded with a good foundation,

it moves into sensationalism and goofiness.

I feel a release in the Holy Ghost of visions and dreams to

this church. But if we are not grounded with

truth and a foundation, we'll get silly.

We'll start painting the walls colors to match the dreams.

That's not what God's doing. But I'm telling you, there are

open doors in this community you've never seen before.

It's not because you're carnal. It wasn't time yet.

But God's about to open the door.

God's about to breakthrough for you.

God's about somebody ought to help me preach right now.

Do you believe in revival? Do you believe it can happen

here? Would you stand with me all over

this house and let there be a praise in your spirit?

Come on, lift up your voice. See when God opens your eyes to

the harvest. I know you're not a real, real

large town, and I'm not saying that derogatory.

We're even smaller. But there's going to be

businesses, Brother McGee. When you drive by, something's

going to say go in there today because harvest don't have to.

Nothing to do with extrovert or introvert.

It's about can you see where God's at you?

You say, why are you staying in that vein?

I'm telling you, I feel open doors for this church.

I'm telling you, there's a reason God blessed you to move

from pews to chairs. It's not not just for the look.

They look good. I'm not saying that, but you can

put more seats in, You can put more people in.

Come on, we're not going to let God.

We're not going to let the devil limit what we think God can do.

It's time for breakthrough. Can I tell you where it starts?

Often. Once we've got our eyes on God

again, once we see who we are, once we see the gift of God on

our brother, can I tell you what happens?

It's those closest to us because what God spoke to me that I

tried to get my my title changed, but it was too late.

No fault to them. It was me.

It was that there's a recovering of sight.

There are people that aren't at church today.

There are people who've walked away from God in this region and

they've lost their sight. But I'm telling you, when the

church. Starts driving the Midianites

off. There's a recovering of sight

that comes. You better get ready for

prodigals. Maybe not even prodigals out of

this church, but prodigals that come looking for sight.

Something that they finally see again.

Come on. From front to back, sooner to

circumference. Could we just praise him all

over this house? Come on.

Praise Him, Praise Him. Hallelujah.

Who? This I don't want this to come

off in any way disrespectful but but some men live so that they

leave. A large inheritance or.

Then they spend their latter years so concerned with legacy

that often times they tarnish it themselves in an attempt to

preserve it. Elder McGee, God's going to let

you live and see inheritance and legacy being poured out in a

fashion that you've dreamed of, that you've believed for, that

you hoped. For come on, we need to receive

what God is putting into this church.

Come on, these altars are open. Would you come receive with us

today? Let there be a cry.

Come out of the womb of this church today.