Dependency | Elder Terence Atkinson

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Praise the Lord. I have a word for you this morning,

and as usual, the word comes when I go for

my morning walks. You know, so I shared with you

on mercy the last time I was here, and so

I say, Okay, God, now that they know what a

mercyful God you are, what do I share with them next?

Because the turnaround is pretty fast. Usually I get to

be on a message for about four weeks or five

weeks as I go to the different plants. But this

time I'm with a word in less than less than

two weeks. I needed to prepare a new word, and

so God, what am I to share? And he said,

and it came very quickly, dependency. Dependency, And I understood.

So I kept it fresh in my heart for all

these two weeks, praying and talking to the Lord about

it and asking what do I share about dependency? Well,

let's first start with the world. You and I both

know we live in perilous times. I've said this before.

Why is it that we pray for the peace of Jerusalem? Why?

Because in doing so, we are praying for our peace

We are praying for a god to look after us,

because when that nation is not in peace, the world

is in trouble. Are you aware that yesterday, I believe

it was yesterday Russia said this, He said it is

overkilled for Israel to bomb the nuclear plants of Iran.

Did any of you read that? Okay? One they said

this yesterday. The scripture says that Gog and Magog will

come against God's people. Who is God? God? Guess Russia?

Did you know that when the scripture was written, Russia

was not called Russia? Okay, it's called Gog. You know

who is Magog? Mcgog is the Persians. They're the Persians.

Guess who the Persians are? Iran? So when scripture was

saying that these people will come against God's people, this

was prophets many many many years ago, thousands of years ago,

and we see it coming to pass now. Oh, it's

it's really a dangerous time. Do you think that little

nation that the whole world is against is going to

allow Iran to build a nuclear plant? Do you think

that's going to happen? It will not happen, because if

they were to do that, I don't think that that

nuclear power would be used just to make electricityal So

I don't think they're going to allow it. So am

I telling you this to be afraid? No? You see,

you and I we've got our own problems. We've got

our own issues here that keep us awake at night. Crag. Now,

Oh when's that? When's that bill? Where's the money for

that bill going to come from? I've got this bill

hanging on my head and I don't have money in

the bank. Oh lord, I'm not well. How am I

going to get? You know well? Again? How am I

gonna get my health? We have more than enough problems

to keep us going. How about the floods that are

taking place in Militia, A lot of floods all over

the place right, you know, our floods are nothing compared

to what just happened in North Carolina, in Florida, in

all these places. I mean, have you seen the videos

where the houses are just floating down the river, houses

in the whole house is just floating away the wind

the power of the storms have come. And where is

our dependence? I want to read to you something that

the law put in my heart to share with you,

And I don't know how I was going to find it,

but he helped me find it so easily. This is amazing.

And even as I ready, just now I started to tear.

I couldn't. I couldn't hold my tears back. Let me

read to you, and you know what I mean. A

seven year old boy called out to Jesus to save

him before Hurricane Helene flood waters carried him away. Earlier

this week, Michael Dry's lifeless body was laid afar about

a quarter a mile away from his home in Asheville,

North Carolina, but his mother thinks he was saved. Nonetheless,

you know, I'm so proud of my son because in

his last moments, he wasn't screaming for me. He was

screaming Jesus, Jesus, save me. And then the mother heard

him say, Jesus, I hear you, Jesus, I'm calling upon you,

the boy's mother said in an interview. And instead, she

said he was my hero because he reached for something

past flesh, past human, passed anything that even grown adults

I think would ever reach for. My My son called

out to the One God Almighty, and I think at

that moment he was rescued. The seven year old boy

didn't call out for his mother or his father. He

called out Jesus, Jesus, save me. And then the mother

heard him say, Jesus, I hear you calling out to me. Dependency.

Who do you and I depend on? Who do you

and I do? We depend on the money? I read

recently that Steve Jobs said, better to be a pauper

than a billionaire in a cemetery. Guess where he ended up.

He was a billionaire in a cemetery. Where is money

couldn't do anything? You see, money can't. There is one

thing that money will never be able to sort out,

and that's life. When my sister had cancer, she spent

two hundred and seventy thousand dollars on supposed chaos. Did

it help her? No? But at the very end she said, Terence,

I do not know what else to do. And I

told her, you have done the only thing that matters.

Through all this problems and trials and situations. The name

of Jesus has not left from your lips. But you

are constantly speaking the name of Jesus, say in that

you are a winner. You see you and I think

we have this absurd view that if we fail in sickness.

The God has failed. I tell you why. It's absurd

Because when the devil tried to come against Job and

took everything from him, his wife and his child, I

don't know, not in his wife, his children, his economy,

his business, his money, his home, everything, but not the

name of God from his lips. And in that it

pleased God so much that God gave back to him.

You and I we miss it. We get so caught

up in Look, if you ask me direct, do you

believe in healing? Yes? I do, because scripture says that

everyone who came to Jesus and asks for healing, Jesus

healed them all that's in scripture. Am I to stop

believing that? No, because scripture says that this is true.

So why doesn't a person get healed? Well, I am

not God, so you're asking the wrong person, and I

don't have the answer. But I do have one answer

to sickness. Don't let it rob you from the name

of Jesus being on your lips, because you can suffer

in illness for five years, for ten years, for fifteen years,

for twenty years, but eternity in heaven has no comparison.

Because I will tell you that there are many healthy

people on this earth today who just might not make

it to heaven. So you tell me which is better. Dependency.

We have to be dependent on what and on whom?

And the notes are they coming out? Okay? Praise the Lord? Yes,

what ends with whom? Obviously Jesus right. In Isaiah forty

thirty one, it says, but they, but those who wait

on the Lord shall what renew their strength. They shall

mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and

not be weary. They shall walk and not fail. I

have said this before several times, and I wish to

remind you. Do not believe in this world, the world's

promotion of this term burn out. Don't believe it. Don't

believe this term burnout in your own life. I am

burnt out. No have the honesty to say instead, I

have cocked out because it is a cop out. It

is a cop out. You see. If you and I fail,

if you and I do not succeed, if you and

I get tired, scripture is saying there's a reason for that.

And I'm here not to tell you fluff. I'm here

not to tickle your fancy with things that don't work.

I'm just here to tell you the word. What is

the word? Say? It says those who wait in the

Lord children you their strength. So are you meaning to

tell me that if you're weak, if you're tired, any

of your failing, it just could be because you're not

depending on God for your strength. If I have to

believe scripture or believe you and you I can see,

but scripture is written in the world. Who do you

think I will go for I'll go for scripture. Hey,

how easy it is to trust in your intelligence and intelligence?

And I can tell you I'm surrounded by so many

intelligent people here. Trust me. All you guys go to university.

You got this degree, that degree, Masters here, masters there,

great GPA of four three point five three points. They're

all sitting in this room, all sitting in this room.

Intelligence to the end degree. I'm not like you. I

don't have that kind of intelligence. Praise the Lord. You

know why, because in my weakness and in my failings,

in my lack of understanding, I can depend on God

to help me. Because I'm not all that smart. You

find that the smartest people in the world are the

ones who generally take the longest time to give their

lives to the Lord. Why because they have to come

to the point first that their intelligence means absolutely nothing

before the Lord God. There are so many intelligent people

in the world today who do not know Jesus. Why

is that because they trust in their intelligence. They depend

upon their intelligence. What about those people who depend on

your money. It's okay to depend on your money. Hey, look,

if you've got it, you but you might as well

use it. Nah, because at seventy or eighty years you

have that money, that's all you're going to get. If

you don't have Jesus. I'm being real here, I'm being direct.

If you don't intend to be in Jesus's heaven, then

by all means, have a life filled with your money,

because that's all the enjoyment you're going to have. But

I want you to know the Bible is saying that

anyone who waits upon the Lord, and I like the

amplified Bible gives you a little bit clearer which is

the next life. But those who wait for the Lord,

And what does this word wait? It means those who expect,

look for, and hope in Him will gain new strength

and renew their power. They will lift up their wings

and rise up close to God like eagles rising towards

the sun. They will run and not become weary. They

will walk and not faint. So I wanted to see

what the context of this was. Hey, look, I've told

you so many testimonies about depending upon God and how

God gave me ideas that caused me to do a

lot of stuff. You want to know what it means

to depend on God. To depend on God means that

when things are not going well, you just got to

leave it in his hands. I don't know whether I

told you this test money. We were about to go

for a We were about to This was Saturday night,

and I'd gone to sleep early so that I could

get up early to pray for Sunday before I come

to church and deliver the Word that night. This was

about eleven PM on Saturday. I had just probably just

gone to sleep about ten o'clock and I was waking

up and the Spirit Lord says, go downstairs, go downstairs,

go down stairs. And I thought, I'm so tired of

going to get out of bed. Man, I mean, I

got to get up early, Go downstairs, go down kept

telling me that, so find me. I said, Okay, Okay,

I'm going to go downstairs. You know, we don't get

it right the first time, right, and keep on coming

in the year. Praise the Lord, you know. I thank

God that the Holy Spirit sometimes in nexus, because if

he doesn't magas, we'll miss a lot of things. So

he told me go. So I got up to go down,

says And when I got up, el the Mabel also

was not asleep, and she says, the alarm, that alarm

light is, you know, showing the door is not opened.

I was a little bit concerned and a little bit

afraid because it's showing the door is not open, you know.

So I didn't know what to do. I'm glad you're

going down to check. I went down to check opened

the light. You see. What we did was we extended

our porch. Let me, we extended our hall. We took

away the driveway and we turned the driveway into a hall.

So it was raining very heavily. When I opened the door.

It was raining in my hall. Water was flowing from everywhere.

It was just pouring. The the floor was flooded, my

sofa was wet. You know. It was it was like

what you say, an unmitigated disaster. Eleven o'clock. The temptation

was get the house in order, call up and say

something has happened, emergency. You won't be able to make it.

That's the desire, right Then Fake kicks in and says,

my I'm God. I have to do what God says

I gotta do. And Sunday is not negotiable. Pray and

praise and worship is not negotiable. So what I did?

I just took the furniture from the outside, stuffed it

inside the house, cleaned it as much as I could,

and then left it alone and say, God, please take

care of it. You know what happens when a sofa

gets wet. Usually you have to throw it away, Usually

not if the Lord is involved. So I just left

it pouring this. You can't do what you can't do,

So what could I do? I just took the furniture,

put it inside, cleaned it as much as I can.

Eld the mable in myself say let's go to bit,

let's trust the Lord. Next morning, when we get up

we see the furniture. Our heart is quite heartsick because

you know it's still soaking wet. But it's all right.

We just left it. We went to church. We came back.

We trusted the Lord. Today it's not raining in that

hall anymore. It's all taken care of and nothing, absolutely

nothing was damaged, isn't that God? I told you before

that I had this big fish tank. Big fish tank,

really huge. It's the size of a window. Okay, you

know what is the size of the window. Four feet

by three feet, right, that's the average window. So when

we renovated the house, I kept the window there, pushed

it out of the back, and built a fish tank

in that window. In that room it now became a

dining room. Put a fish tank, the big one. When

I got up morning, coming for service, I heard the

sound of rushing water. Then I said, oh, no, the

fish tank is gone. I could hear it was like

it was like, you know, it was like a real

So I went to the back and absolutely the fish

tank was just the water was just gushing out. It

mustn't just happened. The water was just gushing out. And

we all dressed already ready to go to service, have

to live not to be late. So I just laid

a hand and said, God, I have got no time

for this. Look after this, Lord, keep it going in

Jesus name, and we went to church. When we came back,

the water stopped two inches from the bottom. I didn't

lose a fish. They were all a life. And you

know what happened where the water was concerned. It's amazing.

The water traveled from the fish tank just out the

back door. So the rest of my house is not damaged.

God took care. You know what I did after that,

I gave the fish away, okay, and then I built

a showcase in that fish tank. So the thing is this,

God is able to take care of your city situation.

So I decided I wanted to know a little bit

more about this. So I went before In Isaiah forty

twenty eight says have you not known? Have you not heard?

The Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends

of the earth, never faints, noise weary. His understanding is unsearchable,

which is why you can afford to do something for

the glory of God, not worrying about whether your issue

is taken care of or not. Seriously, if I the

wrong decision would have been for me in both those circumstances,

to stay back and not honor the Lord. I can

tell you what might have happened. If I had stayed

back and not gone to church the next day, probably

the sofa would have been damaged beyond repair. It would

have cost me about seven thousand dollars, you see. But

that's not the way we do things. So how many

of you are put in situations where you have to

decide do I trust the Lord or do I handle

the situation? What is your dependency on in this world today?

When everything can go up in smoke in a minute,

where does our dependency lie? Two weeks ago, a neighbor's

house caught fire house just behind mine, and the best

part was, I wouldn't call it the best part, but

the most frightening part was it caught fire in a

place where there's no electricity wires and no access to

anything that should cause it to burn. It's you know,

the house has got like a you know, kind of

a roof extension that comes out like that. There is

no electricity wires there, there's nothing in there. It's just

a harmless little roof. And that's the place that caught fire.

So now when you drive by, you see that whole

place is gone. I tell you it's frightening. We have

to trust the Lord to look after our home because

we can't be there all the time. Can you what

about your children? Do you think you'll be able to

look after your children better than God? Can? Elder Mabel

came back to church one week after delivering. Back in church.

Why is that we I'm not talking about all of you.

I'm just talking Elder Bible in myself. Okay, Elder mable

in myself. Do not believe in this confinement thing. Sorry,

we don't believe in that. For us. We believe, both

of us believe that we humans, we people, are redeemed

from the curse. So all the issues that permeated during

our childbirth as a result of the fall of man

has now been reworked. Verse. That is our belief, That

is our faith, that is our trust, That is our belief.

The doctor said, Alana's in distress. This is my first child.

Alana's in distress. We have to do a c section

in our heart. That was not to be no, we prayed.

Guess what she was delivered a normal, normal, no issue.

Our second child, Ashley, Elder Mahble was so quiet. The

person in the next door bed did not know that

she was in labor. And here I'm telling the nurse,

go and get the doctor. It's happening now. You know

what the nurse told me, I never forget. No, she's

not yet ready because she's not screaming. I said, you

do not know my wife, trust me, go and get

the doctor now. She said no, no, no, no, no,

that's time. So you know what I told elder neighbor.

Let's do it ourself. Don't worry, we'll handle it. Ashley

was born in the bed at eleven twenty three pm.

The nurse came one minute later after she had been born. Shocked,

she turned pa. She ran in to call the doctor.

Needless to say, the doctor was very upset because he

could not charge me his doctor's feast. I had a

huge discount because I was only charged you know, no

no room room fish, there was no doctor's feast. Had

a huge discount. The next morning, the ladies what there

was a delivery, n me. I don't believe you. Then

I say, this lady delivered a baby yesterday here, but

I didn't hear anything. Your dependence on God changes situations,

and I tell mothers to be this day. I'm a man, Okay,

So you say, what do you know? I know what

the word of God says that you, as a mother

to be, are redeemed from the curse. What was the curse?

You shall greatly? You shall bead children in great pain?

But didn't the scriptures say we are redeemed from the curse.

So why must you go through that pain? Go and

take it to God and talk to him about it,

because when you do that, you're gonna find an answer.

In Isaiah forty twenty nine says he gives power to

the weak and to those who have no might. He

increases strength. Hey, guys, so you feel you're not spiritually strong?

What the scripture says say he gives power to the weak?

Does scripture say he gives power to the strong? Does

it say that? Scripture says he gives power to the week.

I can't do it, but praise the Lord you're in

or a miracle in your life. Lord, I am weak.

I can't do it. Do you know? That is my

prayer every morning when I pray to come and deliver

God's word. I say this prayer. I say, God, I'm weak.

I can't do it. I don't have what it takes

to deliver your word. But God comes through. Every time

you see because it's not me. I count for nothing.

It's God. I can't take any glory for it. For

every amazing thing that I've ever accomplished or worked out

or solved in my life, I cannot take credit. It

is God all the time. I know it. And you know,

because I know it, miracles like this keep happening again

and again and again and again because there's nothing stopping it.

There's no my my intelligence stopping it. There's no my

strength stopping it. There's none of those things. Because I

come before the Lord and I say, God, I just

don't know how to do it, and he helps me.

You know, I wanted to put a smart lock on

my glass door. So God's already given me the idea

of what to do and how to do it. But

elder men will say, you will not touch my glass door.

I don't want anything to happen to this glass door.

So I asked the Lord, Lord, how you know that

God gave me an idea? So I've got the paths.

I will tell you when I've done it. The last

part is about to arrive in my house today. The

last part, the last piece of the puzzle. But you

want to know something, God is true. And you know

I can see it in my head, you know, when

he gives me the idea, I can see all this

how the wiring, you know. And this is so I

can tell you don't worry. You won't see where the

wires are coming from. It'll all be hidden. Is it. No,

it's not me, It is God, he says. And to

those who have no Mighty increases strength. The most tiring

thing I ever did was go for this X Men

devotion outing we had a few years ago, and we

had to go up this hill. I don't know which

hel it was, and there was a stream of water

by the side, and you gotta go all the way

up the hill, going up the hill anyway you attend

go to that X Men devotion outing. The hill was

about two kilometers up. Seriously, I thought that one was one.

I was going to be carried out in a stretcher.

I had no more strength. Were you in that one?

I don't know where is this place. I know it's

Umpang or near Umpong or some weird place. There's a

you know, I know there's some shellys there and then

you gotta go up and then yeah, something like that,

and then there's places where you pull the rope and

go up. And my word, when I went up to

the top, I was gone. You know, I really was gone.

And I did something you guys would never do, which

I drank the water, because you can get leaptos pyrosis

if you drink from the streams. I drank from the stream.

Trust me. It was the coolest, sweetest water I had

ever tasted. I mean it really tasted good. Praise the Lord.

I did not get laptose pyrosis because God was giving

me the strength, and I made it back downstairs down okay,

on my own. I wasn't carried in a stretcher. I

wanted to pay attention to the next one. Isaiah forty

verse thirty. It says even the youth, even the youths,

shall faint and be weary, and the young man shall

utterly fall. We are living in a time where it

is so common to see people aged twenty five, twenty six,

thirty years old dying of heart attacks. It is no

longer unheard of. It is so common. Just last week,

less than ten days ago, I saw a Facebook post

o a handsome young men maybe around the age of thirty.

What did he die? Heart attack? Come on? Let's prophesy

in another scripture which says men's hearts failing them for fear.

This is what happens in the last days. So don't

rely on the strength of your youth. We are all now,

what's our target? Still reach out, still share, Still tell

somebody about Jesus. Because it is not the strength of

our youth that brought us this far. It was dependence

on God. We are some of the oldest people here now.

I think sixties. We're in the sixties. Alist I'm in

my sixties. Okay, I'm not going to ask who's in

their sixties, but I think there are few of us

in our sixties. How do we come this far? Do

you think it was because of our intelligence? Do you

think it was because of our money? Do you think

it was because of our health? I can tell you

if you talk to us and hear our stories. We

went through some really tough stuff, difficulties. Right. Who brought

us through? Dependence on God? You want to get there.

You're in your twenties, you're in your thirties, you're in

your forties. You want to reach sixties and have these

testimonies dependency on God. I'll read thirty one again. For

those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.

They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They should

run and not be weary. They shall walk and not famed.

But those you know what, But those means any pody,

anyone that's the next light, but those that wait. So

anyone that does this qualifies. So you are young in

your profession, you're young in your vocation. Trust in the Lord.

Depend on him and he will make it amazing. I

know at least one teacher. Yeah, you know what is

the mark of the success of the teacher, all those

students that are going to grow up and conquer the world. Yeah,

I felt that too. This like the whole building shook

a bit. Yeah, Hey, you and I we're going to

live life knowing that our only dependence is upon the Lord. Anyone.

So this scripture is saying that anyone, you don't have

to be a pastor or an elder. You just have

to be someone that depends on God. Like that seven

year old boy who dependent on God. Jesus, Jesus saved me.

Then to hear these words Jesus, I I hear you

calling me. Wow, So he died, right, you say, what's

the testimony in that Shadrack, Mayshake and the ben they

goo went into the fire. What did they say before

they went into the fire. They said that a god

will help us, and even if he doesn't help us,

he is still gone. Isn't that dependence? A seven year

old boy has taught us how to live? You know,

how do we live? Willing to die with the name

of Jesus on our lips, That's how we live. He

lost his life, but my friend saved, was saved because

when he was dying on the water in his yacht,

he called Jesus, help me, Jesus, save me. He said.

Jesus came on the water, came up to him and

helped him. What did he do? Immediately went to the shore,

left his lord, left his humanously rich life and became

a disciple and servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. And

now to today he is a pastor serving the Lord.

So one went to meet Jesus, one was serving Jesus.

What's the common factor Jesus wait? So anyone who waits?

What does wait mean? Wait comes from this word cover,

which means that eagerly waits. It expects, it's expected, it's hope.

It's hope for those that hope upon the Lord, those

that expect upon the Lord, those who wait eagerly, those

that wait patiently. That's what this word means. This word

weight means all these things. So you see the idea

of a waiter, right, What is a way to do? Weight,

hand and foot. That's what a weaight is supposed to do.

Can I serve you with? You know? Can I get

you anything? Not? In Malaysia? In Malaysia, what is the

way to do? He practices the art of not seeing.

You put up the hand that hit is always the

other way, and then you feel it's going to turn

and look at you, and Jesus he's about to learn

you look up so you never see your hand. Tell

her they're practicing the art of not seeing. I'm just

your king here a little bit, not a lot. They

that wait upon whom the Lord. You know what this

word lord means. It literally means the proper name for

the God of Israel, proper name, the actual name this Lord,

God God three hundred and fourteen times in scripture, the

Lord six three hundred and ninety nine times in scripture.

And the lords, you and I we are the lords

one hundred or we belong to the Lord one hundred

and eleven times, the proper name for God. So when

you are waiting, you're not waiting on an idea of God.

There are lots of people who think they're waiting on God,

but maybe they are not. They that wait upon the

Lord of Lords, the King of kings. Those who expect

from God, remember when you now, when you when you

when you look at the Word, you understand those that

expect you want to see God work for you. Do

you expect from God? I mean when you come on

a Sunday, do you expect to hear from God? Do

you expect to find answers to your problems? Do you

see if you do that? If you expect, if you hope,

it'll be granted to you. So those that come and say, oh,

I didn't get anything from the service, there is no

way you can go to any service where they're preaching

the word of the Lord and you walk out saying

I didn't gain anything. If you walk out saying you

did not gain anything, it's not the preacher's fault. Is

your fault. You did not expect, you did not hope,

Because how can God's word be something you choose. How

can some of God's words excite you and some of

it don't? How can It's not possible? You see, for me,

it's very easy to tell whether something or is right

or wrong. You just measure it against the world and

you can tell. So those people who say, yeah, come

to church, I don't get anything from this service. They

tell me that. You know what, I'll say, I'm not surprised.

Don't be lazy. If you put in the effort, you'll

gain something. You put in no effort, so you got

what you put in. You put in no effort for belief,

you put in no effort for expectation, and you got

back nothing. So tap yourself on the back. You got

exactly what you wanted. I don't mince my words because

I'm very clear they shall renew their strength. You'll be

surprised what this word strength means. This is very interesting

because it comes from the word quark quark, which means

a small reptile. Yeah, probably a kind of a lizard.

It's in the list of creepy, crawley, unclean things. So

what is scripture saying about our strength? You think you're strong, right,

you know what is your strength? That of a creeping lizard.

That's what it means. Your strength is the strength of

an unclean, creeping house lizard. Let me make it clear,

we're not talking about a crocodile. We're talking about a gecko.

So what is your strength? Absolutely nothing, one little lizard

on the wall. That is your strength. What is scripture saying.

Scripture is saying that when you depend on God, that

lizard's strength is going to be something else. It's not

your strength that you want, It's God's strength. Another word,

another word for this strength is human strength. But let's

look at it now. Now when God renews this strength,

it is a human strength, but now it has grown

to the strength of Samson. You know this? This what

the scripture means, right? Our ability and efficiency? Wow, we

want to be efficient people? How does this happen? The

power of people are a king, the power conferred by God.

So now when you mount up, when your strength is renewed,

it's now being renewed with that kind of strength. Let's

go a little bit further. What this word strength means.

It also means the strength of angels. So now God

is imbuing upon you supernatural strength, the power of God.

Now you may say, what about the power of animals? Well,

to give you an idea, A horse is usually depicted

in the Bible for its majesty. The lion is usually

a symbol of strength, authority, kingship. The eagle, which we're

going to talk about in a while, or the eagle

is quite fascinating bird. I'll get to that in about

so that kind of strength, and the strength of soil

and produce what even soil and producer, the strength of

the land to be productive. This is what God is saying.

You throw a seed in there and it becomes a

tree that produces. This is exciting. It should be exciting

to us. It's our economy. The Bible says that He

will renew our strength, and we shall mount up, mount up,

we will ascend, we will climb. It literally means that

somebody who's gone down, who has fallen, who is descendant,

will now rise, rise and shine, for the light has come.

It's time to lift the name of Jesus high. It's

so we have fallen without it. Then the scripture says,

when we mount up, when we rise, when we ascend,

it is with wings like eagles. This is what I

want to get to birds. Okay, eagles. Do you know

that eagles? You know they are quite large birds, right.

Are you aware that in order for eagles to fly

as high as they do, they have to have powerful

wings and the muscles on the eagles wings are almost

half the weight of its entire body. God wants to

flex your spiritual muscles. I cannot imagine myself with muscles

half the weight of my entire body, because right now

it's one muscle the midriff. But you know, can you

imagine if my arms now had this weight that was

down here, Now they're on my arms. I look fantastic.

This is what scripture is saying. Scripture is saying that

you are going to be now supernatural, extraordinary. Scripture says

that you will run. You will run. You know, running

here means carried speedily, run like a courier runs. Those

days they had no male men. Okay, so when they

wanted to get a letter, this guy will run. He'll

pass the letter to the next guy, and the guy

will run and pass the letter. They were great. Marathonis

with great speed. I know some people can complete forty

kilometers in between five to eight hours. And the real

marathonists can do it in two I'm do it in

about ten or twelve half a day. You know that's

how long it will take me. But the scripture says

you will run like horses. Do you know that run

like horses? And then it says and not you should

run and not be What the word says and not

means that you cannot be. Most assuredly, you will never be.

You will unable to be tired. You will be incapable

of being tired. And this word that men don't like impotent.

What this word means, get married and we will tell

you about it. Men do not like to be impotent.

Scripture says that you're condition of running and you will

not be these things. You will not be incapable. You

will not be. You know you will never be. You

will be incapable of being what weary, becoming tired, labored, toiled, worn.

Now you understand why I say those people that say

I'm burnt out should change their language and say I

have coped out. I have decided not to I don't

want to anymore. There's more truth in that than to

say I'm burnt out, Because how can you burn out

when the God of your faith. The Lord of Lords,

in the King of Kings, is providing you with all

the supernatural strength and ability you need. And all it

takes is for you to expect, trust and hope in Him,

depend on him. You know what, The least amount of

things that you will do, the very least is walking,

because the first thing you're doing is flying in God.

That is your normal stance, your normal position, your normal

action when you depend on God is you will be flying.

And in cases where maybe you need a little bit

of understanding, you might be running. And in those cases

where you need a little bit more understanding, at the

very least you will be war king. But in no

power out of the scripture does it say you will

be standing. Bible says you will become greater. This is

what the word means. When you walk, you become greater,

You become brighter. You will be continually moving, you will

be glowing. You will be getting away from your past.

You will be growing continually. You will be marching. You

will be strutting. You know what is strutting. Strutting is

Saturday night fever. You know Saturday night fever. Have you

seen John Trobalta when he walks and you can't tell

by the way. Okay, that's strutting. You will be strutting.

You will be going on continually, you will be traveling

places you like to travel. Depend on the lot because

scripture says that's what this word walk means. So we

just thought. We just thought walk is walk, right, That's

all we taught. But you know, there's much more strength

behind the scripture, and we will not faint. So those

who faint, those who shy away, those who pull away

from scripture. Ask yourself, why become exhausted, become weary, become

you know, become weary, becomes weary, extremely grow weary. You

and I, we have no longer any excuse. Depend on

the Lord. That's what we have to do. We have

to depend on the Lord. In Proverbs six three, and

I think I'm ending with this. I'm going to end

with a few scripture right. In Proverbs sixteen three, it says,

commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will

be established. Why do you think I get all those

ideas because I commit my works to the Lord. Lord

gives me those thoughts. It's in scripture, casting all your

care upon him, for he cares for you depending on

the Lord. Is you know what saying God, it's all yours.

I give it to you. It's gonna be okay. And

the Lord says, I care for you. I'll take care

of it, no worries. In Psalms thirty seven five, it says,

commit your way to the Lord. Trust also in him,

and he shall bring it to pass. Bring what to

pass your way. Philippians four six to seven says, being

anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayers application with thanksgiving,

let your request be made known to God and the

peace of God, which passes all understanding. Will God your

hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Depend on the Lord.

Matthew six thirty three. He says, but seek first, seeky

first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all

these things shall be added to you. All these scriptures

speak of one thing. Don't do it alone. You can't

remember anything you've heard today. Just remember this. Don't do

it alone. Depend on Jesus for everything. And if the

only thing you know is to say, Jesus, save me,

Jesus save me. Like that seven year old boy, you

know what you will hear Jesus calling out your name

and you'll be able to say Jesus, I hear you.

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