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  1. It's a prayer. It's a prayer.

  2. Release Wall, release.

  3. Time.

  4. When Wall realy you re read is.

  5. Get your bibles. Jesus, you're the center. Oh my joy,

  6. what key is there?

  7. All that's good and perfect comes from you.

  8. Get your Bibles, Joe, chapter two. You're the High, a

  9. mad contentment.

  10. Who for all I do.

  11. Jesus, You're the center of.

  12. My joy.

  13. M h.

  14. Chapter two of joy.

  15. When I lost my direction, you're the compass for my way.

  16. You're the fiveing lights when nice alone and cold sadness.

  17. You are the laughter.

  18. That shatters all matieus when I'm all alone. Your handness, Yeah,

  19. it's a ho.

  20. Jeeves the sator.

  21. Like your.

  22. Oh that's good and perfect come from you. You're a

  23. the High, a back continue.

  24. Wall everything you want, not.

  25. You lie, Joe chapter two Versus twelve.

  26. It should be familiar.

  27. It is where we left off last Sunday, even now

  28. declares the Lord, return to me with your whole heart,

  29. with fasting and weeping and morning rein your hearts and

  30. not your garments.

  31. Return to the Lord, your God, for he.

  32. Is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, and abounding in love.

  33. And he relents from sending calamity, who knows he may

  34. turn and relent, and leave behind the blessing, grain offerings,

  35. drink offerings for the Lord your God. Blow the trumpet

  36. in Zion, and declare a holy fast, call a sacred assembly.

  37. Gather the people, consecrate the assembly, bring together the elders,

  38. and gather the children, those nursing at the breast.

  39. And let the brag room leave his room and the

  40. bride her chamber.

  41. And let the priests who minister before the Lord week

  42. between the porch and the altar.

  43. You can take your seats.

  44. I want to say to you, I didn't finish this

  45. last Sunday, and I did not expect to come back

  46. to it.

  47. But you only have to have that four point forty

  48. four in the morning call that tells you there's something

  49. I need you to say.

  50. We live in an apostolic and prophetic times, and most

  51. of us are missing it because a Satanic agenda has

  52. been loose in the earth.

  53. Satan has determined that this is the.

  54. Time that he wants to destroy us and to get

  55. us to a place where most of us are so

  56. captivated by that which we feel that we automatically become

  57. physically minded instead of being spiritually minded. But Paul reminds

  58. us to be carnally minded is death, but to be

  59. spiritually minded is life. Ever More, while there may be

  60. things happening around us, some of which we understand and

  61. some that we don't understand, we must understand that God

  62. is simply a mystery.

  63. He is not easily revealed.

  64. To those who do not know him, but to them

  65. that know him and receive him, he gives power to become.

  66. Look at the person beside you, tell him, I have

  67. the power to become. Some may even ask you, what

  68. are you going to become? I've come to tell you.

  69. In the midst of chaos, and in the midst of turmoil,

  70. God is releasing the people of God to come to

  71. a new platitude. These are not ordinary times. Neither can

  72. we become comfortable, for the Bible decrees that in the

  73. last days before Jesus returns, that many will be like

  74. they were during the days of Noah.

  75. Noah was simply.

  76. Building and busy at obeying God, but everybody thought that

  77. he was foolish. Folks laughed at him because what he

  78. was doing sing superfluous.

  79. What he was doing seemed crazy, and most folks.

  80. Thought that Noah was out of his mind.

  81. But those of us who named the name of Christ

  82. must understand the spiritual platitude that we live in now.

  83. These are not normal times.

  84. We cannot become comfortable with what's happening around us. But

  85. the Scripture declares in Second Chronicle, chapter seven and verse fourteen,

  86. if I allow the case worms, and if I allow

  87. the caterpillars to be loose in the earth, the sace

  88. of God only have to seek his face up and

  89. turn from their wicked ways. I've come this morning as

  90. a reminder to help you to remember God is already

  91. working behind the scenes. Two flags stand in God's presence

  92. because God never gets caught off base. He is not

  93. moved by confusion. He is not moved by what any

  94. man could do. Because God understands the season in which

  95. we live. These are trying times when you wake up

  96. and cannot even desern the time in which you live.

  97. One day is hot, another day is cold. One day

  98. they're saying yes to this, and one day they're saying

  99. no to this. One day we're happy, why another day

  100. we are saying. One day we're moving into advantages sut

  101. while the next day there are cuts shut. But I

  102. come to tell you, in the midst of everything that's

  103. happening around us, that you must understand that God is

  104. not the author of confusion. He is in the middle

  105. of everything that's going on, but He is not the

  106. controller of things that are happening.

  107. I know the earth is the.

  108. Lord's and the fullness thereof.

  109. But you must understand that at the middle of everything

  110. that's happening, there can never be placed an explanation point,

  111. because God is at work behind the scenes, and he

  112. declares we cannot be moved. Behold, he that keepeth Israel,

  113. neither slumpers nor sleep, nor is he moved by the trouble,

  114. because He has always promised.

  115. Us that trouble that cane lays all ways.

  116. So I come this morning to declare what the prophet

  117. Joel declares. Here in the second chapter of Joel, God

  118. calls us to a place of weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  119. He wants us to understand.

  120. That despite what's happening around us, I'm getting ready to

  121. get in trouble, that we must live right and.

  122. We must leave holy.

  123. He wants us to understand that in order to receive

  124. the promises of God, We've got to understand nothing that

  125. his promises come with conditions. He wants us to understand nothing,

  126. that no matter what's happening around us.

  127. Something he that keep it the Israel will not allow

  128. it to come.

  129. Ny thy dwelling, I need you to look at a

  130. neighbor and help me preach and say, neighbor, that God

  131. wants you to know you have nothing to be nervous about.

  132. Happy. God wants you to know that He's a God

  133. of comfort.

  134. He's a God that does not cause the confusion, but

  135. he sees the confusion. He's a God that does not

  136. create the confusion. But he's the God that's going to

  137. take care of you. So I come this morning to

  138. say to this August body that God is saying to us.

  139. He's willing and ready to help you.

  140. He is, according to the Psalms, a very pressing help

  141. in the time of trouble. So this is the time

  142. of the Church of God must not just be normal.

  143. But this is a prophetic hour. What do you mean

  144. creature about a prophetic hour?

  145. You need to pray prophetic, You need to sout pathetic,

  146. you need to live profetic, you need to speak out

  147. of your mouth prophetic.

  148. It's not a crazy thing. It's not a spooky thing,

  149. it's not a pathetic thing. But I've come this morning

  150. to declare in this house. What you say out of

  151. your mouth, you're getting ready.

  152. To see it.

  153. So now I've got to be careful even who I say,

  154. bless you behind when you sneeze, baby, I can't say

  155. bless you to everybody because what's coming out of my

  156. mouth is going to create life in your mouth.

  157. What I say is going to cannot pull you to

  158. the next place.

  159. And I've come this morning to.

  160. Tell this house of Zion, and I'm halfway finished. I

  161. promise you must understand nothing the power that you could

  162. say sucking.

  163. You must understand the hour in what you leave.

  164. Not only is this a prophetic hour, but this is

  165. an apostolic hour.

  166. This is the hour of God walks you, honey, to

  167. understand who you are and who you belong to.

  168. I've come to tell you happy, God wants you to

  169. understand that he's not making in it, but you're living

  170. in this hour because God's about to show you something.

  171. I need you to reach over to a neighbor hat

  172. unsame name.

  173. God wants you to know.

  174. Ah, Happy He's getting ready to call some stuff to

  175. come in your life. I know that's a lot to say,

  176. but say, nave, God's getting ready to cause some.

  177. Blessings to fall in your life.

  178. He sees your struggle, that he sees your pain, not

  179. he sees your tears shat.

  180. But this is a prophetic hour.

  181. It's an apostolic hour where the folks that know their

  182. God shall do great exploits.

  183. Lord have mercy. And I came. I came.

  184. I came to tail somebody who's in this house Hut.

  185. Get ready because the blessing are getting ready to find you.

  186. Ain't looking at look around you because you don't know

  187. who your next blessingty is coming through.

  188. You don't know who God it's going to you the blessing.

  189. But you better look around you and be careful now

  190. how you treat the folks around you.

  191. I think I said that there Sunday hat.

  192. Be careful how you treat the folks Hut that you

  193. think don't have nothing.

  194. I need you to look at a naghor and same neighbor.

  195. I've been through enough stuff. Fuck, I got the power

  196. to bless you now. I don't had too many diagnoses

  197. that wasn't in my favor, and I know he's a healer.

  198. Tell that neighbor, same neighbors, our neighbor, I got the

  199. power to bless you. I've been through too many trials

  200. not to know that the Lord will make away somehow.

  201. Tell your neighbor, say neighbor, I got the power to

  202. bless you. So now here this pathetic hour, it means

  203. there happy. I'm not luky at my present situation because

  204. my presence and situation may not look good.

  205. But have a neighbor.

  206. Sake that neighbor by the hay, sake that head, your goal,

  207. sake it all. Tell your name, said neighbor. God told

  208. me to tell you. It'll be all right in the morning.

  209. You ain't had the right neighbor. You better turn to

  210. somebody else. Shake that a head like your goal, seing

  211. it off. Say name, did you here what I said?

  212. It'll be all over in the morning. We we we weep, weep, weep,

  213. weeping me in door. But it's all in one night.

  214. Shay got to sew up. Shay got to knock on

  215. your nose. Shay got to invade your promise. Shoy has

  216. to come with your diagnosis. Ah has got to come

  217. in the morning. Wave your hands all the neighbors. Hey, say, neighbor, God.

  218. Just heal to y'all, wait to hear and turn me

  219. up in the house.

  220. Turn me up in the mons, say neighbor. I don't

  221. care what the doctor says. Tell him, neighbor. God told

  222. me to tell you that he was loaded for your transgressions,

  223. proves for your iniquity, chestisement of your peace. What upon

  224. the hell, say, neighbor. Watch him heal.

  225. Your cancer, Watch him heal your high blood, Watch him

  226. heal your sickness.

  227. Watch him say not your lips. We serve and our

  228. some God.

  229. So my present situation, it's not gonna get me help

  230. getting me down?

  231. Tap three, force that same neighbor.

  232. God told me to tell you you might have a

  233. present situation, but you have a future future promise.

  234. And I've come to tell somebody here. God is God

  235. is God is God.

  236. Is moving you into your promise. God is moving you

  237. into your blessing. God is moving you into your delivery.

  238. So I need six minutes.

  239. So y'all SI.

  240. So if God is moving me into my future promise,

  241. he can't move me as long as I'm stagnant. I

  242. need you to look at the name and say, neighbor.

  243. I don't know if you've ever heard this before, but

  244. tell him faith without works, it's dead.

  245. Sometimes you gotta praise him on a promise. Sometimes you

  246. gotta praise him just because he's said it her. Sometimes

  247. you gotta praise him. Cut your watch, what y'all? But

  248. now I'm older her, But I ain't never seen the

  249. rights or something? God, psychn can't you touch six?

  250. Folks.

  251. I know there's a whole lot, but such a league

  252. six and say name. God told me to remind you

  253. he's not slasher concerning his promises. But he's faithful, faithful, her, faithful, sakeful,

  254. Her faithful, sakeful, sakeful. Her is our God. And I'm

  255. reaping the promises he gave me. I'm taking back what

  256. me hit of me, stole for me. I'm gonna see it.

  257. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna see him the blessings

  258. of the Lord make him rich and add oh soul.

  259. Class.

  260. Shall I be in the city, class, sell be in

  261. the field, lass, shut up, be on the rooftop. Tell him, neighbor,

  262. say neighbor. If you can't stand me, now tell them neighbor.

  263. This is where you might won't to get off because

  264. God getting.

  265. Ready to bless me.

  266. God's getting already because to open the door. God's getting already.

  267. Because to turn it around, it won't always be like this. God, God, God,

  268. God shall perfect.

  269. See one more time, see see see see soon or later.

  270. It's gonna work in.

  271. My table because God's turning again around. Gosh, switch it up,

  272. Gosh flipping the switch.

  273. Sid said, I'm closing. I'm closing, but you gotta be careful.

  274. Because sin separates, Sin divides.

  275. M hm, Sin severs, Sin pays a wage, Sin takes

  276. babies from their mothers, husbands from their wives. Sin, when

  277. it is conceived, has at least one of these elements,

  278. the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh.

  279. Y'all don't like this kind of preaching and the pride

  280. of life. Sin is cold, it's hard, it's callous. Sin

  281. breaks up parties, it breaks up families, It wrecks bodies.

  282. But God hates sin. He doesn't hate the sinner. He

  283. loves the sinner, but he hates sin. I heard somebody

  284. in the back say, oh, say, he was preaching good.

  285. We've entered.

  286. The season called let that's not the stuff you find

  287. on your clothes.

  288. The season of let is the preparation in order to

  289. get ready for Jesus's return.

  290. It is where you have to make up in your

  291. mind to lay aside every weight and every sin.

  292. That does so easily beset you, because some things that

  293. you may be doing, they're not sins, but they are weights.

  294. Every time I try to get close to God and

  295. close enough to grab my blessing, I ain't always sinning.

  296. Sometimes I'm dealing with the weights. Some of you have

  297. found yourself not being able to bench press the weight

  298. that the enemy has sent you at this season. But

  299. I come to tell you that the only reason why

  300. he puts weights down is because he's trying to slow

  301. you from receiving.

  302. What's getting ready to happen.

  303. If I was mc himmer, I have you slap a

  304. nape and tell him you can't stop this, because God sent.

  305. Me to tell you that you're simply.

  306. Got to get rid of the stuff that's been in

  307. the way because you're moving in a new direction. So

  308. I got to send news. I got to send stuff.

  309. If I got to let stuff come your way, I

  310. got to save folk from your past to show up.

  311. I got to let you find those old numbers I got.

  312. I got to let you come across those old pictures.

  313. I got to let you smell that perfume that makes

  314. you remember side offfects in the back. I got to

  315. sin that cologne so that you all most scat to

  316. the place where.

  317. You feel like.

  318. It ain't worth it, God says to remind the church.

  319. I don't like this kind of preaching, y'all. Y'all was

  320. up a minute ago. You gotta lay a side.

  321. Every week. I gotta get rid of.

  322. The distractions, because it's dangerous to be attracted.

  323. To a distraction.

  324. I gotta real eyes that just because it's green don't

  325. mean it's better. Sometimes I'm looking for green or grass,

  326. but it's artificial turk. Sometimes I got to realize that

  327. that what I think I need, I really don't need it.

  328. Sometimes I gotta make up in my mind that if

  329. I want the blessing of God, I got to pursue

  330. him and leave some stuff behind.

  331. Come to tell you as I close, God told me

  332. to tell you if you pursue him, it's gonna be

  333. worth it.

  334. All. Y'all, Lord, I know you're tired of talking to

  335. your neighbor. But I need you to look at somebody.

  336. Tell if you.

  337. Pursue him, it's gonna be worth it all.

  338. I need you to look at another neighbor.

  339. Tell me tell him.

  340. You got to run up behind it and grab it

  341. like it's your last. Same shut. You got to get

  342. ahold of it, and you gotta let him get a

  343. hold of you. You got to pull on them.

  344. So I heard, show the class, let the priest leave

  345. with the new let them stand between the parts and

  346. the altar.

  347. I come to tell you that the reason why I'm

  348. still here is because somebody praying for me.

  349. Hand me o them my so the times to pray

  350. for me. I'm so glad, tak dear, and I'm.

  351. Standing in the knee of a blessing.

  352. But I heard, I heard, I heard the diggin's a

  353. clas that if you pray, God will as a prayer.

  354. The I streights my hands and to thee no other

  355. help I know. And now withdrawal thou sup from me.

  356. Don't leave me. I've been crazy, but don't leave me.

  357. I mess up, what creates in me a clean heart

  358. and renew the right spirits?

  359. Oh God, I mess up, But I'm here now.

  360. Save me, save me, save me, save me, Save me

  361. from myself.

  362. I'm closing.

  363. Save my attitude, save my appetite, save my desire. Teach

  364. me how to put back when I need to push back. Lord,

  365. give me strength.

  366. To deny what I want, but I know it ain't

  367. good for me. Lord, give me enough.

  368. Sense to know that shipwreck is ahead. And if you

  369. don't get ahold of me the sin, it's gonna take

  370. me out. Y'all sit, I'm closing.

  371. I only got one parano. Sit, so I gotta lay aside.

  372. The way.

  373. So God says to them, We're in your hearts, not

  374. your garments. In other words, I'm tired of an outward

  375. display of what needs to happen inwardly. Oh y'all ain't

  376. like that, so I gotta sit in the way. In

  377. other words, I'm tired of the sonanigans. I'm tired of

  378. fooling folk. I'm tired of faking the funk. I can't

  379. I don't have my glasses. I can't see if that's

  380. right with my young people. I'm tired of acting like

  381. I got it when I'm about to fall apart. I'm

  382. tired of being strong for everybody when nobody's being strong

  383. for me. I'm trying to stand it up in the

  384. middle of the gap when I need somebody to stand

  385. in the.

  386. Gap for me.

  387. God, I'm tired.

  388. Acting like everything is all right.

  389. Then when I get home, I'm in my bedroom by myself, crying, Lord,

  390. what must I do? So I got to lay side

  391. every weight, lay side every cent. I'm closing, but it's

  392. not possible unless there is the shedding of blood. I

  393. don't know whether you feel Christmas is more important or

  394. whether you feel the Resurrection is more important, but I

  395. come to tell you both are essentual and necessary for

  396. our survival. Come to tell you as I close it.

  397. There was a system that was in place priest. The

  398. priest had to offer sacrifice. He had to come into

  399. the temple, and the priest couldn't stand in his presence

  400. until he was right, unless he loses his life.

  401. So the priest had to go to the level or

  402. and he had to wash.

  403. He had to confess before God, God, I'm saying I've

  404. come short of your glory. The priest then had to

  405. come to the autumn. Before he could go in the

  406. holy place, he had to make a sacrifice. Can you

  407. imagine the priest pulling with him a two hundred pound heifer.

  408. He's got to make sacrifice. And that's a difference.

  409. In the heifer that the priest pulled in this heifer,

  410. because this heifer right here is dead. But can you

  411. imagine wrestling with something that's wrestling with you grabbing something

  412. and you trying to grab a hole all of it,

  413. and it's trying to grab a hole of Can you

  414. imagine having to pull a two hundred pound.

  415. Heifer just so.

  416. You can get the blood of the heifer to wash

  417. away your sinds?

  418. What can wash.

  419. Away by sins?

  420. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. What can't make behold

  421. again the old I'm closing the old system.

  422. Was flawed.

  423. But he who knew not saying becomes sin for us.

  424. It comes to forty and two generations. He passes by Abraham, Isaac,

  425. Jay Moses more just to make the sacrifice for us,

  426. even though he had done no sin.

  427. John declared that for good, so loved the world.

  428. Then he gave It's only begotten something whosoever believing in

  429. him should not perish. This is your last time looking

  430. at your neighbor saying, neighbor, I don't care what the

  431. doctor says. I don't care what you say. Tell him

  432. I'm not being disrespectful, but I don't care what your

  433. mama said. Tell them I'm not worried about what they

  434. say and what they think. Tell them the blood.

  435. Done sign my name.

  436. Tell them the blood got my healing. The blood got

  437. my victory. The blood got my deliverers. Because I heard

  438. Hebrews the clad without the shutting our blood, there's no

  439. remission of saying I wish I had help one more, neighbor.

  440. I look at them and tell them I ain't worried

  441. about what I did.

  442. You got the record, you know.

  443. The story, but it's covered in its blood. I've been

  444. washed in the blood all the lad There is a

  445. fountain field were blood drawn from in now your face, sinners,

  446. clothes beneath the flood.

  447. Lose all, lose all, lose all.

  448. I want to make sure you hear these words.

  449. Lose all.

  450. Their guilt, their guilt, their guilt, and stand last time.

  451. Look at somebody across the room, say neighbor, I did it.

  452. I'm sorry for it. But tell him, neighbor, you can't

  453. bring it back up again because tell him, neighbor, why

  454. I was busy doing it. He was erasing everything in

  455. my past because he's about to give me a bright future.

  456. You ain't had the right neighbor, say neighbor. God is

  457. giving me a bright fuser. The car is coming, the

  458. house is coming.

  459. The money is coming.

  460. Their naughty it's coming.

  461. Watch God bless me and a bad economy, Watch God

  462. bless me with a crazy president. Watch God bless me

  463. when Eli Musky, watch God bless me.

  464. He will happen, He will, he will. He's gonna bless

  465. me before before this year is out, Before.

  466. Before this year is out, before this year is out,

  467. You're going to receive some of your greatest blessings.

  468. I got one last thing for you, Keith living.

  469. Keep living, keep living, keep living.

  470. Don't die now, keep living because the best.

  471. Is sure to come.

  472. In chains