Youth Service - 10-31-2025 - Tag Team Preaching

I want to thank my pastor and my youth pastor

for having the trust in me to bring God's word

to his people. It's a serious thing, and I don't

want to overstep my bounds. But if you want to

turn to Genesis chapter two, verse sixteen says and the

Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of

the garden, thou mayst freely eat. But of the tree

of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not

eat of it, For in the day that thou eatst

thereof thou shalt surely die. But if brother Nathaniel could pray, God.

Would you come by yours to play for your people? God,

would you give me any nothing more or not than less.

God, I'd like to preach a message titled life or Death.

And in this passage of scripture, where Adam and Eve

were given a simple instruction, they were given a simple role.

Eat everything else, just don't touch this one tree. And

it's so often humans have that desire to disobey, to

go against authority. And I'd like to point out that

with disobedience comes death, with obedience comes life. And we

also see that in chapter three of Genesis, in verse

number six, it says, and the and when the woman

saw that the tree was good for food, and that

it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to

be desired to make one wise, she took of the

fruit thereof and did eat, and gave also into her

husband with her, and he did eat. That was the fall,

that was the mistake. Right there, they disobeyed God. And

before that the devil came to her. It seemed so

often with dith'sobedience, there's always another being involved. There's always

someone that puts a stumbling block in the way.

And if we.

Turned to First Kings, chapter thirteen and verse nine, this

is a man of God that was sent on a

mission to witness to Bethel. I think, but it says,

for so it was charged me by the word of

the Lord, saying eat no bread, nor drink water, nor

turn again by the same way that thou comest. Those

were his instructions to follow, if you will. He was

to fast while he was ministering to the lost. And

it's sad that even a man of God can be

tripped up. A lot of people think that just because

you're saved, or just because you got the Holy Ghost,

you're exempt from God's judgment, this man of God disobeyed.

In a verse number nineteen, it says, so he went

back with him and did eat bread in his house

and drank water. And it came to pass as they

sat at the table, that the word of the Lord

came under the prophet that brought him back. And he

cried unto the man of God that came from Judas, saying,

thus saith the Lord, forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the

mouth of the Lord, and has not kept the commandment

which the Lord, thy God commanded thee, but came his back,

and has eaten bread and drunk water in the place

of which the Lord did say to thee, eat no

bread and drink no water. Thy carcass shall not come

under the sepulcher of thy fathers. And it came to

pass after he had eaten bread, and after he had drunk,

he saddled for him the ask to wit for the

prophet whom he had brought back. And when he was gone,

a lion met him in the way and slew him,

and his carcass was cast in the way, and the

ass stood by it, and the lion also stood by

the carcass. So he disobeyed God, and it brought death.

Adam and Eve disobeyed God, and it brought death to

all humanity. And I mentioned this to Pasture while back.

I wasn't planning on preaching about it. It was just

something that I saw. Or in Exodus twelve, on the

tenth plague that God put on Egypt. God told the

children of Israel to take blood from a sacrifice and

painted on their doorpost. They obeyed, and it spared their

sons and daughters, the first born. But what I brought,

or what I asked Pastor his thoughts on, is what

if they hadn't it wouldn't have been just the mothers

of Egypt crying the next morning. It would have been

the children of God also. And I've looked up the

definition of sin, and it's an act of commission or

a mission and missing God's perfect standard, or acting against

his will if you will. It's to disobey him. And

I thought, we even have the good side of this.

We've got an example of someone who does or did

obey God. We have a pastor who chose to leave

behind so much and and look look what happened from

simple act of obedience. I dare say, if he did

disobey God, where would we all be. I don't think

we'd be here, and I don't think we would have

made it to heaven. But the most important example of

obedience I believe is Jesus, who willingly obeyed his fathers.

He chose to die for a people who disobeyed. In

that sacrifice alone is what's gonna make up for our

active disobedience and grant us eternal life. And there's so

many examples throughout the Bible. I thought of Elijah and

the widow woman. If she would have disobeyed, it would

have left her and her son to death. But because

she obeyed, her life and her son's life were sustained.

And I'm thankful that God is a God of mercy.

And when you do disobey, sometimes there is a way

out of it. But if you do it before it's

too late.

Amen, Ain't you thankful for the service thus far man,

the way the Lord has helped and worked in our

myt st.

Amen.

I'm thankful, Amen, to be in God's house in such

a aymen wonderful atmosphere, and men, God never disappoints, Amen.

God never disappoints. Amen, he's always Amen. More than enough.

I mean, you can turn with me to the book

of Saint Luke.

Amen.

Saint Luke's Gospel, Amen, the recording the Man of the

Beloved Physician.

We're gonna look. We're gonna look.

At chapter number fifteen to night. I'm so thankful for

this opportunity. Amen, I give honor to my pastor tonight. Amen,

the Man of God. Amen that God has they been

used to mold and show me? Amen, right from wrong? Amen,

Praise God. I'm eternally grateful for that. I mean, the

Lord laid this on my heart and I haven't been

able to get away from it.

Amen. I'm gonna try to, Amen, get through this.

We're gonna look at verse number eight Saint Luke's Gospel,

Champian number fifteen, verse number eight, and we'll read eight

and nine. The Bible said, either, what woman, having ten

pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not

light a candle and sweep the house and seek diligently

till she find it. And when she found it, she

calleth her friends and her neighbors together, saying, rejoice with me,

for I have found the peace which I had lost. Amen,

you can mark that spot there in your Bible and

just flip briefly over to Acts chapter number seventeen. There,

in verse number Amen twenty seven, the Bible said that

they should seek the Lord if happy, they might feel

after him and find him, though he be not far

from every one of us. And and you know God's

in close proximity to us. Amen, Amen, stretch her hands

toward Heaven. Ask God to help us. Amen here tonight

in this service, Lord, thank you for your minister's God,

the word of God. Thank you, Lord for all that

you've done in this service. Lord God, We thank you

for your word.

Lord. It is a sure foundation that we can stand on.

We ask God that your anainting would come Lord by

tonight and break the yokes God that would bind. Lord,

that your word would go forth and we would have

ears to hear God, and we would have tender heart

Art's good ground. Lord, that that seed would take root

in God, where you might water at God and give

the increase. We ask even tonight, Lord said to God

about my mouth, and let me say nothing more and

nothing less than you would have me.

God.

And for this will be forever grateful and give you

the glory, the honor, and the praise in Jesus Holy Name.

And the church said, Amen, praise God.

Amen. I'm so happy to be in God's house. Amen.

On October thirty first. Amen, I loved what that Amen.

That reminder Pastor gave us all. Amen of the importance

of what we get to celebrate on such an occasion.

Amen.

And we get to celebrate truth and righteousness Amen.

In dark days Amen.

The Bible said that, Amen, when it's gonna get dark, Amen,

some things Amen, the things of God are gonna start

getting brighter.

They're gonna start abounding. Amen. So I thank the Lord Amen,

that we're in God's house.

And we look here Chap in chapter number fifteen of

this Here in this chapter what is known as the

Chapter of Lost Things Luke chapter number fifteen, you find

Amen Jesus talking a little bit here. This is penned

by the hand of Luke, and Jesus Christ, the Messiah,

our Lord and Savior, begins to tell this parable among others,

and he puts great emphasis in one of them, Amen

on on a lost sheep. And then in another one

he begins to put great emphasis on a lost person.

And then also in our golden texts, we find the

parable of the lost coin.

Amen.

There's something that stands out to me as I look

at the these depictions of our ability to find ourselves

in relatable situations.

Amen.

And you Amen, you must possess something to lose it you.

It must be it must belong to you, Amen, for

you to have lost it. And Jesus says clearly, here Amen,

this woman had ten pieces of silver.

Amen.

It was her possession. It was something she knew. She

knew what it felt like in her hand.

Amen.

She knew where she kept it. Amen, maybe a piggy

bank or a jar.

Amen.

When I was growing up by Amen, got in the

habit of picking up coins out of the Walmart parking lot.

And I had a gatorade bottle on my dresser, and

all of my coins went in that gatorade body. It

wasn't the big when it was the small one. No

doubt she knew where she was putting things.

Amen.

But eventually she realizes there used to be ten there,

and now I've only been left with nine.

Amen. And she began to see the necessity of it.

And now we know that there are things that we

can possess physically, Amen, things that you can hold in

your hand. And then there are things that you amen,

will never hold in your hand. They're not tangible. Amen,

you'll never amen begin to amen, feel the substance of them. Amen,

with your with your five senses, so to speak. But Amen,

you can feel them in your heart, and you can

feel them in your life. And Amen. You may never

hold peace in your hand, Amen, but you can possess peace.

And you may never amen seemingly hold love in your hand,

but you can possess love.

Amen. So there's so much here.

Amen, that God has gifted the bethro hole in his church,

and Amen, the youth that the bethrol hole.

In his church. We've been given so much. Amen.

You may not be able to amen seemingly put it

in the bag and take it home with you, Amen,

But it goes home within your heart.

Amen. It goes home within your life. Amen. And it

is beyond price. It is most valuable.

And many times though we seem to lose these things

that we cannot Amen. See, we seem to lose them,

and then we don't. We fail to realize the necessity,

and then we fail, amen, to feel the need to

try to recover them, Amen, because we're not Amen as

aware as if Amen, our piggy bank had been a

robbed and raided and we missing one hundred dollars. A mean,

I know some young men Deny that would get beside

themselves and say, where's my hundred dollars?

What I do with it? Did I spend it? To? Somebody?

Come in my room? A Remember, we lived with things

in our lives that are missing.

We know we once had them, we once possessed them, Amen,

But we wake up one day and they're missing.

He amember, what of the necessity? Amen?

Up the woman Amen, And she began to realize her

current situation in her state, and she began to prioritize

the recovery of that which she had lost. She began

to take it seriously, and she began to do something

about it.

Amen.

Now Amen, the Lord leaves me to do this. And Amen,

this is something Amen, I learned from my pastor. I'll

be completely transparent. I love this, and you even hear

him still today. Do this, amen, and he'll.

Give us a mental outline.

And the Lord gave me a mental outline for this sermon,

and I found it just in verse number eight Amen,

you find Amen, this mental outline will follow the night.

Shine sweep seek Amen, Shine sweep seek Amen. There are

people in their lives, brother Wood, and then we can

look at their lives and we know when they pray,

God answers them. But it's so easy to just say

that's pastor. It's so easy just to say that's sister,

how young ladies. Amen, that is able to get a

prayer through. But there is always a method. And God

is not a respector of persons, Amen, He's a respector

of responses.

He's a respector of.

Someone that takes him out his word, Amen, and will

do just what he said. And we find here a

woman that realized she needed something, a woman that realized

she needed God, Amen to move in her life. If

you could put it this way, Amen, to bring it

Amen into your perspective here and man, you've got things

you need God to do.

Amen. You know you're missing things. You know you don't.

Possess, things that some others do. You know you don't,

but that things maybe that you once did. And there

is a method to get God way up there in heaven.

Man, to listen down.

To little o you Amen, in answer you and move

heaven and earth on your behalf. But you've had to

follow Amen, God's failing and his word. And I know

this may be different, that's all right. I mean I

fought Hell all day to day. Amen, I Praise God.

I don't know that I've ever Amen in recent Amen,

Praise God. Years struggle, Amen so much.

Amen. As I prayed, I felt like Aymen. It was Amen.

The heavens were brass, and no doubt you could say, Amen,

that's the onslaughts of Hell. Well it probably wise a

man considering everything that's going on. Amen, But I believe

God is speaking to somebody. Toned and Acts seventeen to

twenty seven said that they should seek the Lord. If happy,

they might feel after him and find him, though he

be not far from every one of us. So it

gives us a remedy that they should seek the Lord.

And men.

Now, God's proximity to all of us is not have

been measured in large sums or great distances, but rather

he is close enough Amen, that someone blindly feeling after him.

This word can mean growth. Amen.

Someone stumbling along in the dark with the intent of

finding God a man, we'll make contact with him.

The Bible said if you draw nigh to him, he

will draw nigh to you.

Aymen, you wonder why people get a prayer through and

it seems like they get responses from God and their

life is different than yours, and their prayer life seems

to be different than yours, and God answers and moves.

Amen.

It's not because God has put a crown on their

head and said, this is the only person I'm gonna

move for. He's just waiting on you to follow their

example and the examples he's given us in his that

they be to you.

If you're looking for something.

And needing something, you can find it, just like any

other person can.

It's up to you.

It's up to your desire, up to your willingness to

seek the Lord.

Amen.

In our Golden Text, we began to look at this

woman as she begins to try to figure out how do.

I find the coin.

I've been there, and i feel like I've got a

long ways to go, and then before I get where

I want to go, when I talk to God, I

mean and I see AM in my pastor's life and

the way God moves in his life, and I may

slow down and talk to you a little bit tonight.

I mean, we.

How why those questions? They they need to be asked.

A lot of people don't ask needed questions. Why in

your life, as God not lose for you, Why have.

You not received that that He's promised you?

Why have you not, amen, taken into your bosom and

in the possessions that He has already gifted you.

Amen?

And so I looked at Birs number eight, and I

began the woman a man, begin to realize this woman

here hath ten pieces.

Amen. But the first thing she does is she lights

a candle. Amen.

And you need light, you need illumination, you need understanding,

you need acceptance of where you're at here.

Amen.

Submission to God's word will always bring the blessing. Why

am I tying this to God's word? Because the Bible said,

thy word is a lamp under my feet and a

light unto my path. And we know God illuminated for

Abraham brother Jesse, the promise He illuminated under him the

way he should walk. He said, get up out of

her the coldies and begin to follow God praying. But

then you've got a person like King Saul, who seemingly

began to possess a little bit a man of the future,

a little bit of the promise, a little bit of

that thing that seemed like it was gonna last.

Forever, from generation to generation.

I remember one deviation from God's will, and He's playing

left him without her. Theymen the Abrahamic comny. Why did

Abraham they been received such a blessing and saw such

a cursing? They mean, because your actions, just as Adam

and Eva, they could have lived blessing the garden, they man,

they could have lived. They made a fruitful life, a

long life filled with prosperity. They remember one of them,

he was God seeking there and them not seeking God.

Too many times we got God seeking the young people here,

trying to get ahold of them and get their attention.

But you never hear what I'm saying. I've been bashing

her and desiring her. They been the heavenly things I've

been wanting God. Yeah, and I don't speak of the

ministers here, so to speak. Illumination. The illumination we need

and receive for our situation is by the revelation of

God's word rather Amen, whether it be written or heralded.

Amen.

The illumination God will talk to you. He will make

it clear. You say, Brother Nathaniel, God ain't talked to me. Friend,

you just ain't been listening. Probably a year, maybe more

or so ago. Amen, we know the undercurrent thema Bethel,

and maybe for the youth, has been what seek seek.

Every couple of months, the hold of.

Ghost comes around and he says, not knock anybody home, seek, Amen,

I've been looking.

Amen.

If that they should seek the Lord. If happly, they

might feel after him. He don't even take a whole

lot of effort. And man, all you're doing is feeling.

He don't say chase him. He don't say saddle horses

and ride in the distant countries to find him.

It just says, in your local, amen, area.

He's right there. And if you just feel after him

and seek him, you're gonna find him. You're gonna find

the answer to all of life's questions. Ephesians five and thirteen.

The latter part we're gonna read the context here. But

Ephesians five and thirteen said, for whatsoever doeth, for whatsoever

doth make manifest is light. And I want us to

understand the context. The Bible did say faith cometh by hearing,

hearing by the word of God and in the light

beginning to illuminate and make manifest. It makes it visible

for you to see. And in that thing that you

need to do, and that maybe that obstacle you need

to move. Amen, God speaks to you. Now Here is

how He speaks to us. Sometimes, and have no fellowship

with the unfruitful works of dokness, going back up to verses,

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.

Would rather reprove them.

And for it is shame even to speak of those

things which you're done, of them in secret. Now Here

is the verse. But all things that are reproved are

made manifest by the light. For whatsoever does make manifest

is light. What am I saying tonight, reproof is a

measure God will take to illuminate the situation, Amen.

That you might find him.

It's gonna take, Amen, the light, the shining of God's

word in your life, and you come into the knowledge

of the truth and accepting what you must do in

order for you to begin to make progress down.

Amen, this path. And I a simple title here.

Amen, I want to tell you seek steal your solution, Amen,

Seek and steal Why you haven't possessed it.

Amen.

This small word here been that's been emphasized so much,

and that probably has not been taken Amen, as.

Seriously as it should. God's still telling somebody.

It may come by reproof, it may come by my word,

but we will illuminate your path and tell you clearly

when you have gone in the wrong direction. And if

he see ceases to do so, he no longer loves

you or cares about you.

Amen.

So you better hear, You better listen, and you better hear.

You better look the man a look at what God's

telling you and make the adjustment's needed.

He that cometh to God must believe that he is.

He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

In context, as I've said, I'm gonna reiterate some things. Amen,

It's all right tonight. Imen, it's gonna be slow. I guess.

In context, reproof can be a form or myth that

God uses to bring clarity to you, that you might

understand that that that is required of you. Jesus told

us in John nine and five. He said, I am

the light of the world.

Amen.

So when God speaks to us through tongueen interpretation and

through our pastor.

Amen, my God.

Amen, it's a simplas and this gets said so much,

But why why did God heal of cancer? There's a

thousand charismatic churches that would like to know that question,

but they don't like the method it took to receive it.

Because when God shined his light and said, Amen, go

to the back door and cast it out, I'm telling

you it could me a simple ass pastor telling you

to do something. Amen, and missus Wright walked through the door.

Because God sauw am in your heart. God saw your response,

He saw you take him seriously. He saw you on

bens and needles, waiting on the illumination of God in

your life.

Amen. That made you realize I need to do this.

I'm telling you it could be a simple attitude adjustment. Amen,

the pastor, and he said it before. Amen, what about

that attitude? You wonder why God?

And my God?

Amen, you wonder why a man it hain't happened? Friend,

and God will tell you. God, my God speaks in short,

simple sentences, but it's life altering, a direction that must

be heeded, that must be yielded to, that submitted to.

He is the light of the world. He's the light

in my.

Life and brother Jesse's liva, and in our pastor's liva,

and he will be the light that shines in your life.

It tells you what to do. He just word in

his heart that he might not sin against God. But

God's word is water illuminates the path. It is a laugher,

and it is a light. It shows in the area.

The lamp shines broadly, and then the light shows him

the next step where he goes. From there, they met

friend God's Beth, telling you seek them now, I be honest,

I don't know what to tell you. I know God

talked to a Sunday. I mean, I thank the Lord

for the wonderful service and the way he moves in

every service Wednesday and all of the above. And then

I don't know what to tell you. But you see

it there just like I do. And I didn't conjure

something up.

Either.

What woman having pieces of silver, if she lose one,

doth not light a kindle and sweep the house and

sweep the house begins to sanctify man. I tell you this,

I am forever affected because I know what it is

to have a father and a pastor. Amen that when

he feels like God's trying to talk and move, Amen,

he will slow down and say, what do I gotta do?

Amen? What do we need to change? Amen?

Friend, I've been benefited. I remember those my God, I

got four kids. Now that's simply because I went home

and swept the house. If you want me to be transparent, amen,

I wasn't a gamer, and be truthful with you. It

was under my bed. It was under my bed for

probably six months. I think the only time I got

it out and maybe one of the great regrets. So

I'll go ahead and tell you in case you're struggling

because this happened, Amen. But one of the only times

I got it out is we had a little a

fun time there before one convention and some of the

young people showed up and we played it, and that

might have been the only time. And I don't believe

it's all sin and in all regards, Amen, But I

can tell you Amen. For me, God knew where I

was going, and when God illuminated, I had to sweep, Amen,

and I took that.

I took that.

Little dumb game system outside and then with all the

games and all of that trash and eye burning and

we had a good burn barrel.

Amen.

I still remember, Amen, it wasn't even a burn barrel,

to be honest, its this pila, Amen, in the backyard,

the back left corner, back there, and I lit that

little PlayStation on fire. And I didn't feel nothing special.

I didn't feel tingly an, I didn't feel nothing. And

Pastor said, all right, after you clean out the house,

then you're going to go around and annoying the doors.

We hadn't know on the doors we had on the.

Windows door jams man, we hadn't know on any cars.

We an on it.

Everything probably but the kitchen sink. Amen, why I've got

four kids. It went from us not being able to

by the doctor saying so Amen, that everything is fixed

and fine. God done a work, Amen that I don't

even we don't even know what he done. The doctors

don't know what he done. But I went home and

swept the house when God shined the light, I went

home and cleaned up my life and said, Lord, Amen,

I felt that little nudge and I need to go

burn that thing. I ain't been on that thing in

six months. God, we're still burded. I ain't dug that

game out six months, Lord was still burded. My god, Amen,

I ain't got them comic but my god, Amen, I

shoot aymen.

I found some Long Ranger comic Man. I don't know.

I'm going nuts this to night. I passed the Long

Ranger comic books when I was young, and my god, Amen,

I took him home. I put him in the dress.

I'll be honest. I didn't even look through him, Amen.

I just liked the Lone Ranger, them old old time

radio stories.

Amen.

And then I was in revival and I got to

stirred up about them long Angel comic books.

Amen.

There were some old ones that they were perfectly fine,

and I come to this listless new one Amen, And

it had the man the most ungodly ads. You want

to know what's wrong with comic books, Amen. You ain't

even gotta read the nasty ones to see them.

Amen.

You can collect some of that filth and hold on

to it, Amen, because you want to.

Pay day in the long run.

And the only thing you're gonna be doing is losing

your soul is gonna cost you so much more.

Amen.

There was filtering there and I didn't even know it, Amen,

But I was down praying at an altar, and God

began to nudge me.

Theymen, And I went home and burnt that nasty stuff. Aymen.

Actually what I did was shredded some of.

It and futch it down the toilet, because I had

a death that told me when he was younger. God

then with him about some little old playing guards, and

I shredded what I could get to flash. And then

when that old amen the commode stuffed up, I said,

I ain't done with this field, and I would have

shredded it in the trash can.

They've been a god, they man.

It still working in my life, as old as I

let him shine the light of his love in my

heart and I cleaned my act of I let God

clean me up. I let God make a new creature

out of me as Christ Jesus. Why let God show

me the air of my ways sweeping his sanctification.

A e. Jacob.

I'm going to Bethel. This ain't biblical, Okay, I'm going

to Bethel. God's met me there. Why did he meet

me there?

What was I doing? What kind of life was I living? Friend?

If God's met you in the past and you're needing

him to move for you again, it's gonna take him

in the same life you were living back then. It's

gonna take you doing the same thing you were doing

back then. And old Jacob said, that's a holy place.

You ain't be bringing that pagan filter. They men to

where I know God meets with me. Imagine if he

had a polluted Bethel? What about you? Have you polluted

the holy place? Have you polluted Amen? Your bedside? They men?

Would God even want to come? Amen? Who in your bedroom? Pastor?

Priests a message? They man have talked about her. They mean,

why do you smell like that?

Mayben?

It's a since God in Aroma? What you've been doing

on your fada? They meant two feet from where you

talk to God? They been, why would he come down

and you feel the Holy Grocer? When just two minutes

ago you were watching people cussing on you. To my God,

I know I'm off in left fielder. You want to

know why don't talk to you? They mean, why don't

that tower you when you pray? You don't feel the

Holy grocer. You've done polluted Bethel, You done polluted the

holy place.

You need to go home and sleep. Wait minute, plan

your locked up.

Shoe. I don't know where any of this is coming

from for the most part. And then I got a

hurry I do and left my clock.

Amen. I know it's crazy, and this this is a

youth service. Amen.

I about titled this thing a needle in the haystack.

I mean, I'm gonna get ahead of myself here, Amen.

But the needle's awful little. Now, I'll be honest with

you all. Was walking around. I was walking around praying

two sundays ago in here, Amen, and I found I

found these two bobby pins. I mean one was up

here and one was back there in the corner.

Amen.

And now I done, and man cut them up. So

I mean I owe y'all one sin or whatever they're worth,

whoever they were. You lost them, you didn't find them,

probably didn't even know you lost them.

Amen.

And we've lost some things. We're missing some things, and

we may not even realize it. But God's trying to

tell us tonight.

Amen.

It takes the word of God, you being honest with

yourself and your situation and then begins to take amen

a sanctification process. She began to amen by realizing she

was missing something. She saw its value and wanted to

recover it, and there's some that don't even just don't

even want to recover it.

Amen.

We could go off Amen for thirty minutes and Amen,

and preach about David and him Amen, pursuing those that

burnt Zick lagging.

Amen.

He wanted to recover that that he had lost, and

God said go for it, and David did.

Amen.

After he consulted God, she saw the value. She knew

she needed in her life to live a better life.

And she understood a man seeking was her solution. And man,

she understood that she had to do something. I know,

I know this is different. I can only deliver this

in the method God's letting me. I'm telling you. I'm

preaching to me too. Pastor would tell you he's not

an anomaly. God would like to God would like to

bless you all and in the way he does.

And I look at Pastor just like all you do.

So I'm standing here in shoeleather like you, saying God,

what makes that happen?

How do I get there? What do I do? You

realize that that's what?

At least a person when with some sense says okay,

that person got somewhere.

I'd like to be Now, how they do it. What

were the stepping stones?

Amen, friend, Amen, sacrifice and sanctification, and then we all

know Amen as one way.

Amen.

Pastor has taught us you get the God when God

tells you something.

Sacrifices the key. Amen.

When God tells you something, sanctification Amen is another key.

Amen.

Looking at the setting year, it could have been possibly

a man was night.

Amen, she felt like it was. Amen. It was necessary

to light a candle. Amen.

It isn't convenient to seek the Holy ghost. It isn't

convenient to seek a wife or a husband. It isn't

convenient to draw nigh to God and amen, and him

and petition him that he might give you the desires

of your heart.

Amen. I'm not up here amen pretending. Amen.

Pastor being up for three and four hours of the night, Amen,

it is uh. Is it just something Amen? That happens

and all he wakes up feeling like a spring chicken.

That is not the case. Amen, But my God, and

I'm get ahead of myself again.

Amen. Some of us can get out.

Of church and ayman, if the right person says the word,

we drive the waffle house. We just didn't want to

pray for five minutes after a pastor preached his heart

out and talked to us, and we know it was

a message, Amen, that could have changed our lives.

But we're willing to seek. Waffle. How you understand what

I'm saying.

We're willing to seek a forty five minute drive there,

a thirty minute fellowship, and a forty five minute drive back.

But we all know we're needing things spiritually. We're needing

God to do something.

Amen. So what's it gonna take? Is it gonna my God?

I mean, you gotta listen when he says, Amen to

do these things, you gotta take him seriously. Amen.

You gotta take the word of God through the prophet seriously. Amen.

Praise God.

But this woman here, her honesty and her current situation,

it pushed her into this state of seeking.

Amen.

Now what if your self awareness? You ever met them people? Amen?

They don't even know their breath stinks? Amen.

I'm sorry, why do you smell like that? She was

self aware. She realized I need this. I'm not pushing somebody. Man,

Brother Jeremiad sister Hannah both got her. Sister Hannah wasn't

super late, but some of them got married later in life.

And man but I can tell you there was a

lot of seeking involved. See I'm not pushing somebody to

premature marriage, but my God, I mean some of you

can can be on the cell phone till two and

two or three in the morning, you know, and then

how much prayer did you do? Do you really want it?

Are you really? Do you actually desire where your treasure

is there, where your heart be? Also, my God, because

of her honesty, it pushed her into a state of seeking.

She lights a kindle, Amen for some light, and she

begins to clean up her act. God will Now I

want to say this pastor preaches to me and Amen.

Now I'm just going to throw it out there and

hope it's just anying to Amen.

Was when he said it to me.

But God will not give you pure, a pure and

holy bride when you have nasty hands. You don't know

how many times I heard fast and say that to

me when I was looking for a wife, My God, Amen,

And every time it just it hit me. And I

want to tell you something else he told me. The

Bible says give not that which is holy to the dogs.

Now God is the author of her story, young man.

And God is the author of his story, young lady.

He is the one that is beginning her story. He

is the one that is ending her story. And man,

don't expect him to run her through the mud for

you when you got about attitude. Don't expect him to

run her through the mud when you got your feelings

on your shoulders. And God knows good and well him. Man,

just the right thing sends you packing. You're out of

the will of God. And who do you drag? You

drag his beloved child, his beloved daughter that he loved

so much he died for. I mean, if you ain't

got clean hands, God ain't gonna give you, Amen, something

that's holy. If you ain't living like you need to

be Amen. The first thing you need to do, Amen,

is start seeking God.

Hey, she come hold every buddy I know.

But yes, said O, my God, I beseech you there

for brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present

your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God. Which

is your reasonable service? It's it's your acceptable service. A

question I asked myself, and you should too, is amen?

Is it reasonable?

Amen? It isn't fair?

But then I ask myself, Lord, is it acceptable? It's

what I'm giving you acceptable if I would rather hang

out and waffle house that pray through to the good

old fashioned sweet Holy Ghost and I spin on her.

May bet the third person of the true God ahead

and act like I can't pray for five minutes for

the Holy Ghost. Maybe don't you wonder why God ain't

moving for you and making it easy?

Then?

Because you've got to let God, they ben becoming.

The priority in your life.

This coin was priority. It took precedents over sleep. But

when will the desires of your heart take precedents over

they been a nafa take precedence over laying in your.

Bed on your phone.

When my God's word really stir you to the pointer,

you hunger and thirst after His righteousness. But then you'll

be felled. Then't you'll find her and then you'll receive

what have you been offering God? If you be honest,

I know you'll about out of this. I'm about done, Luke,

chapter number twelve. And you could look there verse thirty one.

But rather seek ye the Kingdom of God, and all

these things shall be added unto you, Luke twelve thirty one.

But rather seek you the Kingdom of God and all

these things shall be added.

Unto you, I feel like I'm preaching to a brick wall.

To be honest, she has lost something and then a

man praise God. There are others that are trying to

find something, but both seeking God and man have the

same solution. Both needing God to move have the same solution.

Some seek for.

Wealth and they spend their live. Brother, Philip Man, you

remember that young man Amen. At work, we had a

hurricane ride out team. I hope you see yourself, because

we all do it in different ways. We had a

hurricane rideout team and I ain't never seen anything like this.

And this young man had a stock at pastor and I.

Ain't kidding you.

Every fifteen minutes from probably midnight to five in the morning.

Every fifteen minutes.

That man worked eight hours a day, showed up sometimes

five minutes late max, but most of the time was early.

And he would be up from from midnight to five

in the morning, every fifteen minutes trading penny stocks. He

chased wealth, he pursued, he sought after it, he was

after it.

He was getting up and getting going.

And you've been given one of them, one of the

great You've been given the greatest privilege humanity could ever

have been given, salvation, sanctification, the Holy Goost, baptism, and

then you get to go on. We don't have to stop. Amen,

we get to go on unto Amen. The gifts of

the spirit. The Bible said that we get to covet

those better things. We get to covet those greater gifts. Amen,

we don't have to stop, we get to move it

keep moving up. But this young man, man, I don't know.

I wouldn't. Amen.

Shoot, I wouldn't if if I knew in two years

i'd be a millionaire.

I don't think i'd be up like that young man was.

But man, I tell you what a fifteen minutes since

Syria Alder service, Amen, to make you a whole lot

wealthier than that young man spending his life chasing stuff

like that.

We chase degrees.

They chase degrees, they chase learning, they chase new abilities

and rare collectibles.

They chase knowledge. I mean hours and hours have spent.

And if they offer that to the God of their desire,

I mean, what do we offer God when we're desiring

something of him? What are we actually giving him?

Amen? I donet lost one of them. I had two

of them.

Now there it is, Amen, I'd like to I started

to grab a I started to grab some hay from

pastors and hide these. And see just how long it

took some of us to find it, Amen, because I

know some of us would. Some of us would get

in there and look for it. Aneda win a haystack.

Artists then spent eighteen hours to manually locate one singular

needle in a haystack.

Now it don't stop there.

And man, this man named Jim moron, and I had

called him a moron, it might have been Jim Amen

spent eighty two hours searching fifty tons of hay for

one little old needle.

It did.

He didn't get to sell it for millions. It was

probably just an experiment. Man, You ought to experiment on God,

so to speak. He said, Try me prove me herewith

saith the Lord, and see will I not open up

the windows of heaven?

What be wrong with you saying? Let me say this week.

I'm on a fast, two meals, and I'm gonna make

sure I spend amen at least one hour in prayer. Friend,

If you spent one hour in prayer, Amen, and you

made sure that you spent one hour in prayer even

to measure up to mister Jim, Amen, seeking some stupid

old little needle. Amen, It take you eighty two days

to meet his effort. It take you almost three months

to match that man in prayer. Amen, searching for something

so insignificant. But we want God to pour out the

blessings of God on us.

Amen.

And we won't even put in the effort some man

put in for some little old amen meaningless nothing.

Amen. What about you? Where are your priorities in reality? Amen?

Are you actually willing to search for that? And I'm

getting somewhere here? And Amen, I'll be honest, this is

where it started for me. And you can look at

Proverbs thirty one and ten, and man, how you gonna

pray over this?

I don't know, Amen.

I just can preach to you, Amen, the things that amen,

pastor Amen, God used pastor amen to tell me to

change my life.

And hope that you're listening.

The Bible said in Proverbs thirty one and verse number ten,

who can find a virtuous woman for her price is

far above rubies? Who can find her? Who could find it?

Tonight? If I threw it out there and it was

the promises of God.

Who would even attempt if it took you eighty two hours?

Who would even try? Man, I guarantee you, Amen. Ten

hours in somebody saying Pastor, I've got to work tomorrow.

I know I need a husband and I need a wife,

but man, I've got to work. But Pastor's given you

some simple instructions some of us, and he gave some

of us. Say, man, that if we reaped the benefits

of God some simple instructions and we followed them.

Amen.

I'm not telling you tonight you got to spend eighty

two hours in here, amen, and try to find Amen.

But I'm telling you at your home, on your bed

at night, Amen, and down by your bedside, you can

get a prayer through when you can get serious with God.

Amen. And God can make something happen.

He Man, God can make you cross past with people

you wasn't expecting to aymen, he said, here, who can

find a virtuous woman? Now he also said he couldn't

find He said he found some young men. But if

I read that ride, but he said he couldn't find

one among a thousand. Now the context for this, and

I found this. I found this crazy. He had he

had what most believed to be seven hundred wives and

three hundred concubines. And then he literally had one thousand

women plus in his life. And Solomon wrote to us

and said, one among a thousand, I could not find.

What was he telling us?

Well, where'd he look? He married Pharro's daughter, He ran

around with the queen of Sheba. He married women from Moab,

he married women from from from Edom. He married so

many women. From where are you looking? You know, there's

a lot of people and men looking in the wrong

places for God's willing, God's word. That's why the Bible

said seek me first. What about it, Solomon? What if

you to actually buckle down and prayed? What if you

to actually buckle down and salt God? What if you'd

have took it? I know I sing it, but I

love to be right here, and I know I get

down there sometimes when I feel God stirby. I'm not

above saying that was my message. I'm gonna pray. Somebody

else is singing this morning. You realize the opportunity you

have to take God and his word. Amen, and kneel

down and say, well, Pastor said, I've got to do this.

And because the word of God said so, and Amen,

God forewarned me, or foretold me. They man of how

I get around this, or get above this, or receive

this or retain this even Amen, But we never find

ourselves at the altar. We never find ourselves Amen, at

the foot of our bed that night, we never find

ourselves in our prayer closet. That next day, we never

think about it and reminisce on it. They mean, why

we eat lunch the next day? They man, we never

really spend time. They been really contemplating what God said,

the promises of the Lord or yeah.

And they are a man God.

Really wants to move and worker. God really wants to

give you that wad blessing. Amen, But you're gonna have

to pursue it and search for it. They been like

you actually wanted her. They met some of you wouldn't

convince her. Amen, Praise God God.

Amen.

In the McDonald's drive through, that you wanted a double cheeseburger,

the way you talk to him about her, your promises.

I'll say it again, if.

God worked the double cheeseburger line in McDonald's, the way

you come through there apathetically been without any desire or Emosida.

He wouldn't know if you wanted to mc chicken up

or a mcdonbell.

My God, do you want a woman from me to her?

Do your want Fro's daughter? Or do you want a

virtuous woman? Ay man? Who can find her? God knows

where she's at her.

God knows just where the needle we is a in

the haystacker, in that old messing, mixed up world. He remember,

do you actually desire it?

He who about?

Don't be discouraged, be diligent, don't be discouraged, be diligent.

We seek God first? What a putting God at the

top of the list Jamia twenty nine and thirteen. And

ye shall seek me and find me? Hey, maen brother

Jesse she I don't know what you're gonna sing, AmAm,

but if you got a song on your heart, you

can play and sing. If not, and then we can

come around here and pretend while some pray. And ye

shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search

for me with all your heart, hicu who but of

us you tell me it will take nothing less than

all of your heart. That's not my words, that is

God's words. And he told us, if you're going to

find me, and I Am going to be fond of you.

It is going to take every bit of your heart,

your desires, your passions. You're going to get serious about

it and really think about it. Amen, and let God know. Amen,

I'm interested in what you have for me. Aymen, some

of you will find that out your church, and some

of you might naughtymen. But I don't know how long

it'll take you. I don't even know if you can

see him flying. And ye shall seek me and find me,

when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

I mean, let's stand to night. If seeking was a guarantee,

would you seek him? If seeking was a guarantee that

you would see the desires of your heart, would you

seek him. God's already promised us through tongues and interpretations

many times that he is going to be fond of

us if we seek him, covet desire, seek the best gifts.

He said.

I mean, I've tried slightly and just to talk to

you about the method and simple the method. Seeking is

your solution. God will illuminate what you need to do.

He will shine into your life and tell you at

times it requires sanctification and sweeping at times it requires

self sacrifice.

Aman, I did it takes diligence. Seek him a man.

Don't forget about it next week, don't forget about got

it tomorrow when you wake up. I know my pastor,

and I've seen the life that man lives when he's

after God for something.

The volleyball filled tomorrow.

Wouldn't tear his concentration away.

I admire that more than I can ever put into words.

I want to ben to get a prayer through. I

want to have Heaven stop and listen. We have a

wonderful church, a strong youth group, a youth group that

is full of the Holy Ghost and.

Power of God.

And we have promises available to us and an atmosphere

to find it, like primed with the power of God,

that he would open up his windows a man like

I dare you to find somewhere else.

I say, you couldn't.

So slow down and realize you're missing something, Identify what

you need, Let God's words show you what you need

to do, take action and sweep or self sacrifice, and

then let God's a man word began to stir in

your heart and you will find him after that you

have sault him with all of your heart. A man,

Let's pray tonight. If you feel like praying, you feel

like God's.

Talking to you. Amen.

Again, let me read our cotext. As you begin to pray,

praise God, the Bible said.

Amen.

The Bible said here that they should seek the Lord,

if happy, they might feel after him and find him,

though he be not far from every one of us.

I'm talking to some of you lasadaisical young men and

young ladies.

God will give you the Holy Ghost.

He'll give you the desires of your heart, just as

sure as I'm standing here, because I saw God do

it for any many another one.

Amen.

But God's just reminding you again tonight. Seek me first,

and I'll add the resting to you. Seek me with

all your heart. Make it your top priority.

Amen. Let's pray tonight.

And I'll go down seven time a tree. I'll even climb,

I'll leave and tear the roof of Lord just to

get to. And I'll get down on my knee at

the food of cavalry and declares so openly.

This time, Lord, I'll.

Serve you honestly.

A tree, how even climb, and now even tear the

roof off just to get to.

I'll get down on my knees at the food of calvary,

and declared so openly this time, Lord, I'll serve you

on honestly, and I'll go.

Down seven times a tree.

I'll even climb. I'll leave and tear the roof off, Lord,

just to get to you. And now get down on

my knees at the food of cavalry, and declared so

openly this time, Lord, I'll serve you on honestly.

Must trying to hide it from you, And there's no

need anywhere a disguise, for you see a.

Lot of fair us.

And now I'm trying to be as honest as I.

Kid, and I'll go down seven time a tree. I'll

even climb, I'll leave and tear the roof off, Lord,

just to get to you.

And I'll get down on my.

Knees at the food of cavalry, and declare so openly Lord,

this time, Lord, I'll serve you all honestly, and I'll

go down seven time a tree. I'll even climb, I'll

leave and tear the roof off, Lord, just to get

to Now get down on my knees at the food

of cavalry.

And de Claire so openly.

Lord.

This time Lord, I'll serve you.

Honestly, and I'll go down seven times hit a tree.

I'll even climb, I'll even to the roof off Lord.

Just to get to.

And I'll go down on my knees at the food

and cavalry handy Claire. So openly Lord, this time on

serve yously. I've always lived a life of just pretend

a flastic card inside and no peace within. But now

I've stepped out from the door. Dear Lord, You've opened.

Up my home.

Hand.

Now go down.

Seventy time a tree. I'll even climb, I'll leave and

tear the roof of Lord, just to get to you.

Now go down on my knees at the food of

Calvary and declares, soo open me Lord this time load,

I'll serve you only, and I'll go down seven times

a tree.

I'll leave and climb.

I'll leave and tear the roof off Lord, just to

get to you. Aloud, get down on my knee at

the Food of Calvary and declare so openly

This time Load, I'll serve you on holy