Apostle Annette Ross "Destruction To Restoration"

You may take your seat. If you want to look

at your neighbor, you can, but I know everybody that

sits beside you don't want to talk for whatever reasons.

So I'm gonna try not to worry you're patience about

talking to your neighbor. But if I do, just follow me.

But the subject tonight, the subject tonight is from destruction

to restoration. And you can look at your neighbor and

tell them you don't know my story, but I'm coming

from destruction to restoration. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. That's a

good place to praise him, because don't nobody know what

you've been through, but you now you can get it

because you on your way to your restoration. Halln lujah,

Thank you Jesus. Okay, let me move on because you

all are ready for this. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I found today

as I was preparing off and on all day long

and trying to do so many things, and thank God,

today was an off day for me. I do still work,

bless the Lord, but I was able to get in

the face of God to prepare myself for tonight by

the leading of the Holy ghosts. And when I looked

at jeremih thirty three or nine. I found in the

word this particular word called restoration. And I believe that

there is a powerful truth about waiting in our lives.

And that's where many of us have some hiccups. We

don't want to wait on God. We are this micawave

generation whereas we want things quick, fast and in a hurry.

And if it doesn't happen when we want it to happen,

then we'll go and say, I'm praying and I'm seeking God.

And you know, God is not telling you to do

what you're thinking you wanna do. A lot of us,

a lot of us, I'm getting in trouble already. A

lot of us do a whole lot of things that

God is not saying. And we try to look real

deep about it and convince somebody that we do. Some

of us here from the Lord. Yes you do, but

he's telling you to sit your hips down and be still. Yeah,

you hearing, but it's not what you wanna hear, so

restoration can't come. Sometime we get in trouble with God

because we want our way, and we begin to see

and just like this text, Jeremiah was out of place,

and the Bible says that he was in the courtyard

with the guards. He was locked up. And some of

us now don't understand that we are in a place

where the Lord is ready to restore us, to rebuild us,

to refresh us, to renew us, but we are not

willing to go through the troubles, go through the test,

go through the trials, and let the Lord make us.

Lord have mercy. Will y'all please let Bishop Watkins out, Yes,

please let him out, and just come right on up here,

besides this handsome young man, just come right on. I

looked at I looked at this text, and it says

that God spoke to Jeremiah a second time. How many

times is it that the Lord have to repeat himself

with us. He'll tell us to be still, but we

still want to move. He'll tell us not to go there,

but we still will go. Lord have mercy. And so

we find that in this particular text sometimes God speaks

to us over and over again. It's about the same thing.

Why because many of us don't have an ear that

we can hear what the Lord is saying. Lady Johnson,

I think that God is at a place with us

now where he's about to lift his hand or it's

real quiet in here and he's gonna pour the cover

on some stuff that you thought was hidden. Lord, have

mercy that you've been trying to hide. And God is

saying no, no, no, no, you will not get away

with this sin. This is what the Lord is saying,

because he's sick and tired of our pretense. It's only

my second time being here. I don't have to come back.

But but but but but but but. We got a

lot of stuff going on in the body of Christ

that many of us that are leaders will closing our

eyes and our ears too. We see the sin and

we won't deal with it. Lord, have mercy. We see

the folk cutting up like donkeys and we won't deal

with it. We see the people walking out of order,

and we won't deal with it. We see the sin

and we won't deal with it. Somebody needs to repent.

Good God, a mighty Lord, have mercy help me. Oh.

The truth is waiting to be manifested, and it's waiting

to be manifested in the church. I'm not talking about

the brick and martyr. I'm talking about us. We are

the church and we're supposed to be representing the Lord.

But I hear the book of Psalms one O, seven

and twenty. If y'all pray, y'all get through it says

he's sit his word, and it healed them and delivered

them from all of their destructions. It's sad, but it's

true that some of us have to go through a

season of destruction before the Lord can get our attention.

He wants to do some great and mighty things, but

destruction have to hit some of our houses before we

would give him the attention that he needs. And so

in this particular text, y'all, y'all sit down just watchings

us stand that's good. Destruction is a pretty miserable thing.

Some of us can't handle pain. Some of us can't

go through valley experiences because we'll lose our focus on

who we say we serve. Isn't it funny how the

Saints give up so easy. The ones that's doing a

whole lot of dancing, the ones that's speaking in some

kind of tone. We can't stand no pressure. We can't

stand when the heat get turned up on the Jeremiah

was in a difficult place, but God made him a

promise that he was gonna restore the city. I don't

know about you why, but you might be gone down

the road of destruction. But our cop to tell you

tonight that the light is ready to his star. Unto

you the years that the cake of worms and the

calumnus and the power worms has eating up by somebody

to say restore now. Yah yeah, yah yah yeah. See

the text gives us hope because the Lord is speaking. Now,

he's letting jerum, I know, I'm gonna give you another chance.

I'm almost done, y'all. He's letting jeral I know there's

a season of restoration coming. You've been in the valley,

You've been down, but I'm gonna raise you up. By

everything around you was destroyed because of sin. My late

pastor preached the message, they're sin in the camp and

when we get rid of sin, did we'll have restoration.

Come on that. Clap your hands right now. Yes, God,

let me move. So you gotta understand when you look

at the body of Christ. Now we're hearing things that

we've never heard before. Preachers coming out of the closet,

men marrying men and calling themselves pastors, and some of

us have the goal to follow sin. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

And we look at it and hear about it. We

turn a deaf ear to it. But when you back

up to that thirty second chapter, it was sin that

caused the destruction of the cities. It was sin that

tore down the walls. I don't know about you, but

God is setting up his church now that he's on

his way back. He's sending his son so we can

get rid of sin. Because they're sin in the camp.

No wonder, we can't see nobody heal, no wonder. There's

a struggle when it comes to doing the right thing.

It's because sin is in the camp. We sing on

the quiet, but we're sleeping with Peter, Paul and everybody else.

We pray and have inacessory prayer, but we still lying,

and we tell lies like it's nothing over here to

tell you. We cannot get restarted. I kill destruction time.

The Lord have to tear down before he can build up. Sometime,

the Lord, we'll shake your foundation now so you can understand, Baby,

you are not in control. He's the one that's in control,

and he will shake you. He will shake you to

the degree that you realize, Wait a minute, there's somebody

that's greater than I am.

So here we are shouts in this hour in the

season where we have in church, but nobody's getting saved.

We coming together, we dress up and we go through

a little dance or so. But you know how, why

is it that the saint's got to be so pumped up?

Now?

Why is it that the saints have to be begged

to praise the Lord? What? What's going on with you?

And you living in your big house and you driving

your fine car? What's wrong with you? Have you forgotten

who bless you? This is what the Lord is saying.

He's reminding him that the only way restoration is gonna come,

you got to call on me. You got to go

back to your first love. You gotta get down on

your knees and cry out unto the Lord. The only

way the restoration can come is we got to go

back to our first love. That was a day, y'all.

Don't get upset, you get upset that the word hits you.

Just keep saying Amen, and won't nobody know it hit you.

But that was a day when we couldn't come to

the House of God looking any kind of way. Them

zign mothers, they would tasks up, all your stuff falling

out from here yonder everywhere. God, Ay, please the men

weak enough, the few that we got Lord have mercy

pants too tight. I don't mean no harm, but church

don't look like church. Saints don't look like saints. We

that like it, but we don't have the pilot. How

you doing? I'm blessed and highly favored knowing that you're

in a destructive place. You can't tell nobody anything because

you don't even know where you're coming from or where

you're going. Disrespect in the house of God or some

folk don't God so bold now They tell the preacher

I put on my pa it's just like you, and

they refuse to obey what the leader is saying. They

murmur and they complain. They're grinning your face, But as

soon as they leave you, they're talking about what you said.

I'm not gonna work the vision. I don't want to

be a part of it. Why are you coming then?

Why don't you just stretch out and go to Hell

instead of playing well? God, why don't you get your

act together? Because you are confused about who you are.

You can't stay there. You can't stay here, You can't

stay over yonder. As soon as the word hits you,

then you're running somewhere and talking about the Lord said. Yes,

he did say something. He said, get saved for real.

He's talking. Yeah, you're talking. You think it's okay for

you the church hop just because the pastor preach the

word that hits your house and you get angry and

you go somewhere else, sining in the camp. Look at

somebody telling sin in the camp. We can't get restoration

until we get it right. I'm gonna tell you again,

bish up. We got to go on our knees. We

got to get in the face of God. It's very

people now, I want to pray. Everybody don't want to pray.

Folk want the blessing, but they don't want to pay

for the blessing. Lord, have mercy. I didn't know it

was gonna turn out like this. But while Jeremiah, y'all

sit down, please just a few more minutes. I got

a few more minutes. Was shut up in prison. He was,

he was God was trying to get his attention. It

was a terrible time for Jeremiah. And that third verse

of the text said call to me and I will answer.

I'll answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things.

I will answer you and tell you mighty things. I

will answer you and bring as to why you are

where you are. Some of us are walking contrary to

the will of God. You are in a destructive place.

But you are so confused about your identity you cannot

get to restoration. I want you to look at somebody

and looking straight in the eyeball and tell them you

better get it together. Because time, oh time, time is

winding up. It's getting lady the evening, and the side

is going out. I don't know about you, but Jesus

Side is on his way for his church with out

s father rickar. Somebody said, can't help me shut be

read with your car law, help me to get my

head on lawn. When when he say call h, he's

not talking about your helophone. Let me help some of y'all.

Everybody gotta sell a phone holder up mm hmm. Don't

get scared because if you using it right, you are

not to be nervous. I call them helophones. And if

you're not put in or saying the right thing on

these phones, these phones can get you in trouble. But

the Lord is saying Call me while I am near,

Call me while I can't be fine. Call me in

the morning, Call me in the midnight hour. I'm never

to a busy shad. I cannot out messer. Y'all call

when I said win, say to get on your track.

You better call on Jesus. Tell your name, Call on

the Lord. Call on the Lord. If you see call him.

If you're broke, call him. If you need of touch,

call him. If your marriage and trouble, call him. Come Jesus,

Call Jesus, the one who died and got up on

a Thursday morning.

Call him.

I'm finding I'm about dubbing God, finding out that if

we don't acknowledge our own faults and hang ups and

stop pointing our finger at somebody else, because you know

what's happening. One of the things that's happening in the

body of Christ. Now we're playing the blame game. It's

my pastor fault that I'm like this, it's my deacon's fault,

my friends fault. You want to blame everybody for your

situation instead of you owning up to your own issues. See,

one of the things that I'm observing is that truth

and trust has left the sanctuary. Folks rather lie than

to tell the truth. Please forgive me, mama. They don't

want to tell the truth no more. They don't care

nothing about truth. But they forget that there's a heaven

or shot and there is. Hell's not a mystery because

hell was created for folk that don't want to go

to heaven. Hell was created for folk that don't want

to live right. You might be in a destructive done

right now, But I hear the Lord say, restoration is

on this way to your house. All you gotta do

is repent, shell five people repent. Come on to tell.

Five people repent. Repent, repent, repent.

God has already fixed him, moya, Lord, yes he has,

say that there's nothing but a counterfeits. He come seeking

whom he made the vow. You better know the difference

in the Lord with all the power, and say that

with no power. You better understand who you're serving, because

if you want a full restoration, you gotta get your

house in order. Somebody say yes, yes, but God in

all of your troubles, But God, in all of your trial,

he will, he will, He will come and see about you.

He will restore. He will be a difid He will

give you double. Somebody said double double is we're so

often saying he'll give you double for your trouble. Revelation,

it's not double for your trouble. Double means in the

Greek a contempuable flow. So when need to start blessing,

if something stops your blessing, you got to check and

see what it is. And somebody says, sin, man, we'll

stop the floor. Oh y'all, don't hear me. It's not

your foot on the line. It's sining in the camera

where folk are no longer deliver. You make an altar

call and they don't want to come to the altar.

We act like we're perfect and we are not sinning.

But I heard the word when it said we all

have sin and come short of the glory of Gord.

It doesn't matter how thick your calling is. Sin say

now we'll walk you down and cause you. It's a

miss God. Somebody says, get sin out of the camp.

You must become sick and tied of the destruction. We're

in a destruction zone because it's so much sin.

In the church.

Sin. We don't reverence the Lord like we should. We

don't honor him like we should we give him a

petticake praise And we think that's okay, But why don't

we struggle when the God that we serve puts food

on the table, close on our back, heals our children,

covers our marriages, blesses our people in the church. Why

is it so hard for us to give him a

sincere prayer. No, you're still sitting on this side and

rolling your eyes at.

Her over here.

You still sucking your teeth and angry about something that

happened last year. You still mad because your pastor didn't

come to the hospital to visit you, that that marinate

pastor didn't come and see me. I'm not gonna pay

anymore times. I'm not gonna give another offer. All this

stuff out undone and they can't even come and visit

me in the hospital. Well, if they send a representative,

don't you know ignorant that that's them, We will run

the pastor. I'm not gonna won't pay a diamond anniversary.

Some of us won't even show up. But as soon

as your life's are about to get cut off, you

run into the pastor. As soon as your mortgage, your

house is about to go in foreclosure, you run into

the pastor you hide in that car in that garage. Listen,

I'm done. I'm over my time. Two minutes. I'm over

my time two minutes. The Lord is letting us know

if we call on him restoration, we'll return, and it

will return completely, not in partials, but completely. But the Church,

the body of Christ, for real. Y'all need to get

back on the all time, for real. Honey, if your

dress is too nice for you to get on the floor,

don't worry. See we don't want to kneel no more.

We Well, Lord, here I am. I come to you

as humble as I know. No, no, no, no, no, not

standing up that being grown and boastful, he said, humble

yourself under the mighty hand of God. And every now

and then we need to get lower instead of always

trying to get high. We Lord, have mercy. We got

too many for chasing a collar. They want a collar,

but they saying they we got too many and mature

preach us. We'll collars own and they don't even know

how to treat their wives. And I'm trying to snap

my promise.

You I am.

Destruction, destruction. You want a collar on and you won't

even pay your bills, bro, because a skunk, but won't

do nothing. I hope you're praying for me. Don't know

what sanctification is because some of you don't know what's saved. Men,

I'm saved, but you need to be sanctified because if

you get sanctified, you'll keep Johnny in the pants. If

you get sanctified, you will keep your skirt down. If

you get sanctified, you will start doing right.

God have the shot.