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"God Is Releasing His Transformative Power" Genesis 48

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  1. I'm going to go ahead and preach, because when I teach,

  2. it takes longer for y'all to get saved.

  3. In Jesus' name a man.

  4. But today Genesis chapter forty eight, in the reece like this,

  5. And it came to pass after these things that one

  6. told Joseph, behold, thy.

  7. Father is sick.

  8. And he took with him his two sons, Vanessa and Ephraim.

  9. And one told Jacob and said, behold, thy son, Joseph

  10. coming unto THEE, and Israel strengthens himself and sat upon

  11. the bed.

  12. And Jacob said.

  13. Unto Joseph, God already appeared unto me at laws in

  14. the land of Cana and blessed me, and said unto me, behold,

  15. I will make THEE fruitful. What did he say? I

  16. will make THEE fruitful, and I will multipy THEE.

  17. I will make THEE fruitful.

  18. One. I will multiply THEE, and I will make up

  19. THEE a great multitude of people, and.

  20. Will give this land to thy seed.

  21. It's going to be passed down through generations and for

  22. an everlasting possession. And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manessa,

  23. which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt.

  24. Before I came unto thee into Egypt. Are mine and

  25. Reuben and Simeon, and they shall be mine. And thy issue,

  26. which thou be Goddess, after them will be thine, and

  27. she'll be called the name of their brother. And I

  28. know this is real worthy, But we'll get there in

  29. a second. Verse seven says and that's for me. When

  30. I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the

  31. land of Canaan. In the way, yet there was a

  32. little way to come unto Ephra, and I buried her there.

  33. At the way of Ephra, the same as Bethlehem and

  34. Israel beheld Joseph's son and says, who are these? Joseph said,

  35. unto the Father, they are my sons, whom God hath

  36. given me in this place.

  37. And he said, bring them, I pray thee unto.

  38. Me, and I will bless them. What did it say,

  39. I will bless them? I will bless them. I need

  40. you to get that in your spirit. I will bless them.

  41. Now the eyes of Israel were them for age, so

  42. that he could not see it. And he brought them

  43. near unto him, and he kissed them and embraced them,

  44. and Israel said, unto Joseph, I'm not thought to see

  45. thy face.

  46. And lo, God has showed me also thy seat.

  47. And Joseph brought out from between his knees, and he

  48. bound himself with his face to there. And Joseph took

  49. them both Ephron and his right hand towards Israel's left hand,

  50. and Manessa in the left hand towards Israel's right hand,

  51. and brought them unto him. And Israel stretched out his

  52. hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger,

  53. and his left hand upon Manessa's head, guiding his hand

  54. wittingly for manessas was the first born. I know that's

  55. real deep. Some of you all lost already and say,

  56. oh Lord, what is he talking about? But I promise

  57. you will put it together.

  58. And he blessed Joseph and said, God before whom my.

  59. Father's Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed

  60. me all of my life long unto this day, the

  61. Angel which redeemed me from all evil. Bless the lads,

  62. and let my name be on them, and the name

  63. of my father's Abraham Isaac, and let them grow in

  64. the multitude in the midst of the earth. You can

  65. close your Bibles because I promise you I put it together,

  66. and look at the neighbors and neighbor, God is releasing

  67. his transformative power.

  68. Look at one more person beside your hell neighbor.

  69. God is, Oh, I wanted to see if you gonna

  70. say it like I said it, Say God is.

  71. You gotta say it with your prophetic voice.

  72. Say he's releasing transformative power less time. Find one neighbor

  73. and tell him He's about to do.

  74. It for you.

  75. This is an interesting scripture, and I find it fitting

  76. for a day like today, which we call Father's Day,

  77. because some of us have had to face the challenges

  78. of life.

  79. Most of us, because of the time.

  80. In which we live, are having to deal with all

  81. kinds of things that have been sent to cause us

  82. to miss the voice of God and what he's doing

  83. in this hour. This is an hour when you're not careful,

  84. you'll miss what he's doing.

  85. Because of all of the noise that you're hearing.

  86. It's easy to miss God because God now is doing

  87. things he did not do before. He's allowing things to change,

  88. and he's switching things, and he's using unusual situations most

  89. of us don't even understand it. But God is calling

  90. us to a place of prayer, because the Saint of

  91. God in this hour cannot be moved in their emotions

  92. and their feelings. Feelings will get you into trouble. Feelings

  93. are sometimes out of work. Feelings sometimes have you desiring

  94. what you cannot have. Feelings sometimes have you on an

  95. emotional high, looking for love in all the wrong places.

  96. Shut.

  97. But God, in this season that we live, is beginning

  98. to do things, and sometimes he does not do things

  99. by ordinary meetings.

  100. Or most of us.

  101. Become disturbed because you're praying for him to come through

  102. a window. When he's coming through the door that you're

  103. praying for him to bust open the ceiling and to

  104. do something that sings so phenomenal that every eye should

  105. see him. It is the same thing that Elijah the

  106. prophet goes through. Because what do you do when you

  107. have sought after God. You've look for him to give

  108. you an answer. You prayed for him to make a way,

  109. and you're looking for a sign that well, I've come

  110. to remind you that Jesus said, it's the foolest generation

  111. that's looking for a sign. Because in this day and hour.

  112. God may not do it like you think he's going

  113. to do it. But can you just look at a

  114. neighbor and tell him, but he's still going to to it.

  115. That God may not make the way through who you

  116. thought he was going to use.

  117. God may not use.

  118. The methods by which we are secured and thought he did.

  119. In other words, He's not going to do today what

  120. he did yesterday. I hear you, and you're right, Jesus

  121. ear is Lord. I feel a preacher the same today,

  122. yesterday and forevermore. But he says to the Church of God.

  123. What he says to Israel, Behold, I'm going to do

  124. a new thing. You cannot expect it that you used

  125. to get it. You don't have to look for the

  126. folks that you used to have to look for. You

  127. don't have to depend on the folks that you used

  128. to have to depend on. Some folks, God is canceling

  129. our of your life. Some folks, God is giving them

  130. an early exit. Some folks, God is saying you got

  131. to move to the.

  132. Right, because behold, I am a.

  133. God, and I want you to understand you can trust

  134. me even when you cannot trace me.

  135. So it is interesting here.

  136. Because as we look at this biblical narrative, this narrative

  137. begins to give to us shutter the display of a father. Now,

  138. I must warn you that the Bible does not have

  139. a lot of examples of good father shut, because one

  140. only has to look at David. You've heard about David before,

  141. haven't you. His sons wanted to kill him. They would

  142. jeal shut of what he had in his life. Fucking

  143. they got drunk off of the authority and the power

  144. that their father had. They wanted what he had without

  145. going through suffering. That sounds like us such esser neighbor saying, neighbor,

  146. is he talking about you? Because this is the generation

  147. that should be seeking after God. Not this is the

  148. generation that should understand not nothing comes easy. This should

  149. be the generation nothing that forgets about the whiz and

  150. the wizard of ours. Because Selan is not going to

  151. allow you to ease on down.

  152. Not he's on down the road. Ah, I better give

  153. you a scripture to help you. The Bible sayers, and

  154. I frank him for the world, they who live godly

  155. are gonna have to suffer persecution. Not I need you

  156. to touch at least three folks and Damn, you're gonna

  157. have to go through something.

  158. Oh, you gotta touch at least three, but then touch

  159. one more person and tell them neighbor. But God told

  160. me to tell you you're not going through fhing. I've

  161. come to tell you that's soul now.

  162. Oh lady, it's going to work cut in your favor. God,

  163. Lord help me today to turning it around for you.

  164. So you must understand what the text now begins to

  165. display to us.

  166. Shutting because there are a lot of folks.

  167. Shutter who want something for nothing.

  168. There are a lot of faults sucker who want to

  169. rise to acclaim. I told the church, and I think

  170. it comes and hand it right here. One day I

  171. asked the Lord to anoint me while I was in

  172. church on my knees.

  173. I look for God to come and put his hands

  174. on me.

  175. But instead the Lord determined that the car place Sating

  176. needed to come and pick up my car. I said, Lord,

  177. wait a minute, I don't ask you to anoyt me.

  178. And all of a sudden things are going topsy turvy.

  179. I said, Lord, you miss me, you don't understand anoint

  180. me hapter, and everything in my life went to turmoil.

  181. Work got crazy, happy folks start acting funny folk who

  182. I used to be able to depend on I couldn't

  183. depend on anymore. I need you to look at a

  184. neighbor and help the preacher preach, say neighbor, be careful

  185. what you ask for, because sometimes we expected to come

  186. one way, but God has a totally different plan. And

  187. I've come this morning to tell this house shutter Lord

  188. as I hastened to my escape, because I feel the

  189. Holy Ghost in here happening. Some things about your lifetter

  190. about to say haupter, some situations that you wrestled with,

  191. and it seems like they're not going to move. God

  192. told me to tell this house of Zion. God's getting

  193. ready to do something new in your life, and He's

  194. getting ready to switch shut what you thought was permanent happening.

  195. God's getting ready now to change this plan happy. And

  196. I don't know who I came to PTU today, but

  197. I came to tell you that God reserves the right

  198. to change his mind. And I need you to grab

  199. a neighbor and shake them up by the hand. I

  200. need you to shake that hand like you're literally going

  201. to shake it off, and say name God sad to

  202. tell you he reserves the right to change his mind.

  203. You ain't have the right person, so you might have

  204. to get out of your seat and go across the

  205. room and take that.

  206. Name by the hand.

  207. Lord, I feel a preacher. Somebody pray for this black man.

  208. Say name. God told me to tell you he changed

  209. his mind. Don't expect what you've been getty. Don't look

  210. for things to be useful happy, don't get comfortable where

  211. you are. Don't give up on God. He won't give

  212. up on you. I came to tell this house that

  213. God has transformative power. Somebody needs to ask me what

  214. you're talking about. I'm glad to ask shut. God knows

  215. how to take ship what was meant to hurt you

  216. to bless your life. God knows how to take the

  217. life happy and push you into your purpose. God knows

  218. how to take what shill have killed you and help

  219. it to give you life. God knows how to take

  220. your line self and save you into your next mention.

  221. And I came this morning to tell you that we

  222. got to dispel the myth. Smith. Just because you are

  223. a man, don't make you a daddy. There's a whole

  224. lot of folks that are wasting seed I'm trying to

  225. preach like I got the holygo. So there's a whole

  226. lot of folks. They're spreading their wild looks. There's a

  227. whole lot of folks. They're spilling their spurs on the bed.

  228. And I'm come to tell you this is the season

  229. for real fathers to arrive. This is the season for

  230. the real men the step of this is the season.

  231. You ain't got to go more importents, you need to

  232. know who your daddy is. The Disciples learn early in

  233. the stage how to pray and summer. Y'all, don't hell

  234. anything different in your life, but you don't know how

  235. to pray. The Disciples prayed our Father, who aren't in heaven,

  236. Holy is Honame my Kingdom. Come that will be good

  237. in her as it is in Heaven. Give us this

  238. day our daily pray, and forgive us our trust passes

  239. as we forgive those who trust past against us. Lead

  240. us not into temptation. I need about thirty folks for

  241. your hands off. Say, deliver me from the will of

  242. my enemies, Deliver me from myself, Deliver me from my attitude,

  243. Deliver me from my DISPOSI. For that is the kingdom,

  244. the power and the glory and forever is your name?

  245. What are you.

  246. Saying, pastor, I'm glad asked. God told me to tell

  247. you prophetically, there have been some hurt help in your life,

  248. but I need you help. Shake hands with a neighbor.

  249. Shake that hand like you're gonna shake off. Say name.

  250. God told me to tell you. You're getting ready here

  251. to get some blessings because of rule your father is.

  252. He can you shake hands with at least three folks?

  253. Say my daddy gave it, my daddy did it, my

  254. dad they fix it. And my daddy he is your daddy.

  255. Help.

  256. My daddy got great supply my daddy God, blessing sir,

  257. and well the channel on a thousand heels, flansome my

  258. daddy to the earth is the laws and the fullness

  259. thereof the world. And they they're twelve there is. I'm

  260. about to be blessed because of who my daddy is.

  261. I'm about to get to come because I'm who my

  262. daddy is. I'm about to get to raise because of

  263. who my daddy is. I'm about to have me because

  264. I'm who my daddy is. I'm about to walk in

  265. goodness because I'm who my daddy is. Goodness and mercy.

  266. I'm about the follow me because of who my daddy is.

  267. My father is rich s. Get you ready to give

  268. me because it's my father's good pleasure husband said to

  269. give to me.

  270. Change him.

  271. Look at a neighbor, say name, Look at me right now,

  272. because this me that you see the next time you

  273. see me the next side, you lay your eyes on me.

  274. You go see that the blessing of the law making

  275. a rich and add no sorrow. You gonna see if

  276. dog be fer he's more than the world is against you.

  277. Go my daddy. Don't play about me. You don't see her.

  278. He's been waiting this law to bless me. Surely our blessing.

  279. Blesser your ega in the city. Bless sell your feeg

  280. on the roofs. Bless show your coming in going out

  281. such a name, shay name. If you're jealous about what

  282. you see that you might as well go ahead and

  283. lose it. Because my father, skinny more ready to take

  284. me into transformity. Power, the power to rest on my

  285. daddy is arresting her on me. Feel anoyty that's on

  286. my daddy. He is arresting on me the power that

  287. he has. It's arresting on me and why I've been

  288. growing up. I've been trying to be like shut my

  289. daddy here. I've been trying to talk like my daddy.

  290. I've been trying to look like my daddy here. This

  291. is the year that I'm gonna look like what I

  292. came from. Waving your hands all the neighbors here, surname.

  293. I see you somewhere in the you and you look

  294. much better. You're dressing much better, you're living much better,

  295. you're driving much better. Look at three falls and Saint Naden.

  296. This is my daddy's heart. This is my daddy's house.

  297. So I'm spending my daddy's money. I'm walking her in

  298. my daddy's tower. I'm doing it in my daddes's day.

  299. I'm living according to my father, and he's wee. So

  300. now I've come to ta but such a siety in

  301. the last few minutes. That's getting ready here to be

  302. a divine reversal. Y'all didn't hear me sign the name

  303. help the same name? Did you hear help me? From

  304. what he said? He said? He that's getting we're at

  305. he to be a divine reversal. The text now because

  306. of good free sh ah Way Ghost back to his text,

  307. We got Monessa, whose name he means God has not forgotten.

  308. We got it from heaven, whose name means fruitful, fertile,

  309. and predict taper name happen same name. You don't know

  310. your name, but same name. Help be careful. We're your

  311. soul your because your name it's fruitful. Your name it's fertile.

  312. Your name is productive. You liable to come up with kids.

  313. You didn't know your hay because God say you're fruitful,

  314. you're feral, your productive. There ain't nothing you can't do that,

  315. ain't nothing you can't hand that, ain't no house up

  316. you can't get, ain't no car you can't drive. Such

  317. at least three folks and say fruitful, furdle productive. God

  318. told me to tell her, somebody in this house get

  319. up off your seat of do nothing and do something.

  320. Help, get up out of you're hurt, Get up out

  321. of your pain, get up out of frustration.

  322. God say fruitful product. It annoyed it in his name.

  323. So the text says, Oh, of the sudden, Gaddy, it's

  324. on his way getting ready to die, and it brings

  325. his two glands into the room to get him blessed.

  326. Can you for the last time, sake a name by

  327. the hand shaken, look about stop take it off same God,

  328. Say he's getting were ady to bless you one more time.

  329. He's getting were ady to heal you one more time.

  330. He's getting word to deliver you. He's getting We're at

  331. here to make the way. So they bring him in

  332. the house. When they bring them in the room, SU's

  333. one more person. Sayname. We're in the room now, but

  334. tell him name the blessing.

  335. In the room.

  336. Tell him the problem.

  337. It's in the room.

  338. Tell them the annoying to him, it's in the room.

  339. Help tell them victory talks in the room. Tell them breakthrough.

  340. It's in the room.

  341. Tell them deliver it's it's in the rooms. I close,

  342. I close.

  343. I close, I close because I don't want to preach

  344. myself crazy.

  345. I close.

  346. But something peculiar happens. My brother come in past. Some

  347. peculiar happens. They bring the two grandsons and place them

  348. in place. They have determined who they want to see blessed,

  349. so they have positioned them like they should be positioned.

  350. When I come to kind of prophesied about telling y'all,

  351. God told me to day.

  352. You don't worry about what's in place. I'm gonna ready

  353. break all of that up.

  354. Texas, the Texas.

  355. Other folks that wanted things to go a certain way.

  356. Put folks in proper position. According to Hebrew custom.

  357. It is right to blea. That's the elder first. I

  358. don't have time to deal with that, y'all. Y'all should

  359. know that from Leo Rachel. But all of a sudden,

  360. father's laying on his deathbed where he should have reached

  361. a certain way, he crossed.

  362. His hands. Can you quietly say to a neighbor he's

  363. crossing his hands.

  364. It's called the criss cross blessing. It's when you get

  365. what you shouldn't have got, and don't get what you

  366. should have deserved. I wish I had, I wish I had.

  367. The right church. It's when God should have killed you,

  368. but he lets you live. That's when God shall knocked

  369. the taste out of your mouth.

  370. It's the Chris cross. Five minutes to finish criss cross blessing.

  371. Somebody might want to warn the kitchen five minutes, I

  372. promise you don't trust me, trust me.

  373. So instead of putting his hands where they thought his

  374. hands should be. He crosses things, uh, and he lays.

  375. Hands on the younger, signifying that the first.

  376. Shall be last.

  377. And the last I'm gonna be first, signifying just because

  378. you've been here for a long time, don't you think

  379. God ain't gonna bless me? Signifying God really has no picks, chooses,

  380. or favors.

  381. This is this is my ending. This is my ending.

  382. This is my ending. I don't need you to get

  383. it because I watched y'all. Most of y'all got happy

  384. off the first being last last. Most of y'all got

  385. happy because I.

  386. Said, who, Lord, that's who?

  387. Pester me faster?

  388. The Lord's crossing it up.

  389. But I had you read the text with me, because

  390. you missed something about four versus up in the text.

  391. If I had time, I'd make us turn back to it,

  392. because although that grandfather switched the hands up and we

  393. get happy about the cross blessing, what we really should

  394. be getting happy.

  395. About is both of them God blessed.

  396. Stop walking around here, mad folks, because they got blessed

  397. before you need.

  398. It's coming. I walk around here. Get a sat with folk.

  399. Can I help you? I'm totally finished, three minutes to finish.

  400. If you drive up in a new Pento, how days

  401. the right? I'm a second.

  402. If you drive up in a new seven forty BMW

  403. with rems lights around the bottom, two smoke stacks in

  404. the back, I know they had the right term anologize.

  405. When you drive up, they say pass the Lord, bless

  406. the new conversation. If you come to church, say pastor,

  407. I need to pride them. So what's your needing for it?

  408. Say come to my house? I said, where's your house? Said?

  409. You give me any addresses. I walk in.

  410. And it's bedrooms, coppet, a kitchen, and a bathroom.

  411. You know what I'm a do.

  412. If you call me's a pastor, I need your Friday

  413. to bless my house. I look at your house and

  414. the seven bedrooms, six bathrooms, a dead a study, coppet

  415. laying all the way through the top of a kitchen upstairs,

  416. a kitchen downstairs.

  417. You don't have me, do, God said? Some of y'all

  418. been crazy because you've been looking.

  419. Over a small blessing, not realizing that if God bless you,

  420. it doesn't matter. This is the house God bless me with.

  421. This is a car, God bless me to dry. Might

  422. not be new, might be smoking for two or three miles.

  423. But God, I want to thank you because.

  424. You keep on.

  425. Blessing me. This is the ending.

  426. So I need you to understand the transformative blessing. Because

  427. the text says in two places.

  428. And the Father.

  429. Bless them both. I want to see see see that

  430. you know the old sis you had to read scripture,

  431. the Father bless them both. In other words, I'm just

  432. as happy about your blessings you need to.

  433. Be about mine.

  434. Or I've heard somebody, I'm just happy about your miracle

  435. as you need to be about mine.

  436. I want God to bring you out just like he

  437. brought me out.

  438. I want God to make him wait for you.

  439. But this is the kicker.

  440. This is the kicker.

  441. God bless God, bless God, bless them.

  442. Both.

  443. So if I cross up and bless you. The right

  444. hand signifies authority. It is why the priest, the pope

  445. wears his episcopal ring. The right hand decrees.

  446. Authority, power, anointing.

  447. It is when he puts his right hand out that

  448. he's asking God, he's extending a blessing.

  449. His right hand is an extension of who he is

  450. and what he possesses. God said, I don't want you

  451. to get caught up on that. I want you to

  452. get caught.

  453. Up on I'm blessing them both, and now that I

  454. have blessed you both, you now have power.

  455. To bless somebody else. I'm not so selfish that I

  456. bless you.

  457. God is only blessing you so you can be a blessing.

  458. To somebody else.

  459. God is only raising you up because now he wants

  460. you to go back and remember when you were down.

  461. And lift up somebody else.

  462. God is healing you so you can get off your

  463. lazy dusty rusty, go pray for somebody else and watch

  464. God bring the healing. I'm closing, but church folk can

  465. be crazy. I've never seen passing hang on to the

  466. generation like this, where everybody wants to be blessed, but

  467. they don't want to be a blessing to somebody else.

  468. I thank you, thank you.

  469. I want to close like this. I want I want

  470. God to bless me with so much money that whenever

  471. somebody else needs something, I can be a blessing to

  472. you without even thinking about it, without even thinking twice,

  473. without even shaking, without even shuddering, without even worrying, I

  474. just say, what you need, you need?

  475. What no here this you what here? What hell?

  476. What here? What?

  477. What? What? Here?

  478. And this is what the Lord said to me when

  479. I was my my wife? You know I love her?

  480. This past Wednesday Thursday hangs, I got in trouble because

  481. said how long have we been together?

  482. I said all our life?

  483. She said, no, said I want a number. I said,

  484. that is a number, all our life. You don't know

  485. how wise are I? She said, I can't believe you.

  486. I you can't believe me? What because when I was

  487. in my mind, I said thirty thirty seven, thirty twenty

  488. twenty twenty one.

  489. I spent a long time.

  490. She spent a long time. Girl, Get over it?

  491. I can't.

  492. She said, I can't believe you. I can't believe you

  493. don't even know the number. I said, Well, for five

  494. years before we got married, were hanging strong?

  495. Do I I'm trying to fix it? You know? Do

  496. I count them five years?

  497. I said?

  498. Do I count? Though, mama?

  499. And I'm trying to do I count them five years

  500. plus plus all these years we've been married?

  501. I said, do I count?

  502. Do I count the years that you used to get

  503. on my nerves? I was trying to get out spill well,

  504. she said something to me, she said last night, because

  505. you know she she watches me all week long write

  506. sermons and stuff like that, and passing Hanglinson.

  507. I was writing. She said, how many more pages you

  508. gonna write? She said? Folk want to get out of

  509. church and may be with their fathers for Father's days.

  510. See, you been right for the last two hours, she said, Lord,

  511. did I've been praising your right? She said, I've been

  512. watching you said you just keep turning turn I told her,

  513. I got a lot to say, you said she if

  514. I looked at me and she said it. She said

  515. it with the Holy ghost, because I told her this

  516. morning it makes tennis, she said with the holist. She said,

  517. don't write no more. She just don't just don't write

  518. no more. She's just not don't write nothing else. I said,

  519. I just don't know what the Lord wants me to

  520. say when I stand up, But this is what the

  521. Lord wants me to say, God.

  522. About You know what I'm telling me truth?

  523. You know that you know Gods getting ready to I'm

  524. be in trouble. Somebody gonna have to take us to

  525. deal off. Who gonna who want to take the passing

  526. first lady of the deal And I prefer you have

  527. a gun with you.

  528. Jack.

  529. If I come up missing, there's no quessons. But this

  530. is what the Lord said. The Lord said to tell

  531. the people who would come to this place today. I'm

  532. about to bless you because i'm your father. It's such

  533. a good way you gonna be able to be a

  534. blessing to everybody you meet. I'm setting you up, I'm

  535. setting you in place the right handed notes. I'm setting

  536. you apart because I've watched