Genesis 1 - "God Will Finish Everything He Starts"

Why your goodness, Why your goodness, Why your goodness?

M h, come on over your mouth fit this place.

Offer him praise, Come on, come on, die, offer him praise, praise, praise.

Praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, praise, pray.

Die, take your seats.

We certainly honor the leadership of this house, all of

our mothers, to all of our deacons, come on, celebrate them,

To all of our trustees, certainly, to this fine quorum.

Of music ministry, come on, we salute you.

We're growing as a church, but we're growing as a

media ministry.

To look back and see new faces. Come on, y'all

can celebrate better than that, transcending generations.

The sons.

Are former sons, have become the sons of the ministry,

and I want to salute them.

For a fine job. You guys are seen it this way,

so you can't.

See all of the changes and the updates. But we

celebrate all of these great minstrels and technicians and media

ministry and social.

Instagram, all that stuff. I don't know to call.

And we certainly salute our ministerial staff. To Minister Howard,

to Pastor Smith, Pastor Carolina Evangelists to pastor, to bishop,

to pastor to pastor.

Come on, y'all can do better than that.

I saw some other minister seated somewhere, Minister.

Let better and to the late lady of.

This house, to Minister Isaac. It's just good to be here.

I told Smith why the praise was going on.

I said, I don't have to stop this.

I'm not at the place where I have to preach

every time I walk in the house.

Sometimes Flake, I just want to give him praise.

Because he's been just that good.

I was, I was looking, I was looking looking, I

was looking.

At the live and at.

One minute, I don't know if she's still on.

Our granddaughter Zion and Charlotte was on and she was

testifying about She said, I thank God for six months.

And sometimes you don't know what people are going through.

I think you ought to thank God for what they

were going through.

Then I looked down, and I looked down and saw

that Jeremy was on here, and.

I began to thank God because he continues to be

a wheeler. Time to be away, Maker.

I am certainly ecstatic. I am ecstatic at your response.

He has received. We've received baskets and.

Fruit and itable fruit and edible this and buckets are

kill and all kinds of stuff, and we.

Are grateful because you don't have to be so nice.

And then Bishop McNeil and I have been on a

two weeks bless We got out of convocation right into

TV cards convocation. So we've been in church almost every night,

with the exception of one night that I took off.

We've driven through the storm where the rain was so

heavy that you could not see. We drove up to

the church and a quarter of the parking lot was flooded.

We've driven back to high Point only for the deers

to jump out right in front of the car, but

the Lord didn't allow us to hit.

One of them, and for that I'm grateful.

We were in our.

Gala on Friday night Friday night, and then in South

Carolina rockyhilled hour forty nine minutes away, and I am

grateful because when I looked up, I had sons and daughters.

Pastor Flake, Pastor.

Smith been to call you past Shell Shell, and our

daughter came up the road. So I preached last night

to a beautiful crowd because Sister Monique and her two

sisters and other people from the area did not want

me in Rocky Hill, South Carolina by myself, and I

appreciate you. Y'all got home probably about what time y'all

get home.

How y'all get home at twelve?

Y'all left wait before us? Oh okay, I ain't gonna

mess with Joe was Hongrace.

We got home about ten minutes and always blaming on Joe.

We got home at twelve twelve oh one.

Because when I.

Got finished preaching, apostole went the propheside and propheside and

I said, Lord, I thank you for traveling murder sees

and traveling graces. But the Lord met us and he

has given us the strength. I want to salute the

praise team and the choir. Come on, y'all can do

better than that.

Because God is blessing us to do everything we need

to do that get you get your Bibles.

I don't know how much preaching I just I just

wanted us to keep dance.

Because every once in a while there ought to be.

A praise party, because praise is about to promote you

to your next level. Praise is about to make the

enemy behave. Praise is about to silence your critics. Praise

is about to move your boss.

Man, you would be surprised.

What a little bit.

Of praise praise you.

I certainly salute brother Rot Brother Ratina says.

With us this morning, we salute you and thank God

for you.

For those of you who have not heard, and you

may remember, but for a large portion of our church.

When we were together, Evangelist Kenyon I had a daughter.

But her daughter went home to be with the Lord,

and we're certainly praying for her and her family, and

certainly lamenting and remembering a sister Victory, Victoria, and she

called me not too long ago to say to me,

Pastor Shaws, I have myself together. I've accepted the Lord.

I'm going to be baptized after years of challenge. But

she went home to be with the Lord, and we're

certainly praying not only for her but her family as

well as those.

That are bereaving.

Get your Bibles real quick, I promise you, I'm not

going to be long. I am extremely tired, not by

my own volition. Sometimes you go places you're not in charge.

You just have to go with the flow. And we

bless God, certainly, thank God for many of you being

backed COVID is in case you don't know it. Covid

is trying to take over the earth again. But I'm

grateful to God for being a healer and for having

so many of you back with us on this morning,

and those that are watching we are praying for you.

Get your bibles. Genesis twelve. I don't want to do

a whole lot. I just want to do just enough.

Genesis chapter twelve. It is familiar past the scriptures to

those of us who are in Kingddom, and it is

a word for us as a people of God.

Just this Chapter twelve versus one.

I really need to read verses one through twenty, but

I won't. I'll read just enough for you to get

the gist of the message. It says, now the Lord

has said to Abram, get out of your country and

from your family, and from your father's house, to a

land that I will show you.

That I will show you, that, I will show you.

I will make you a great nation, and I will

bless you and make your name great, and you shall

be a blessing. And I will bless whoever blesses you,

and I will curse whomever curses you, and in you,

all the families of the earth shall be blessed.

So Abram departed as the Lord.

Had spoken to him, and Lot went with him, and

Abram was seventy five years old as he departed from

heron that's enough to get the gist of our text.

If it was close your bible, shit down your electronics.

Look at the neighbors, and neighbor, I've got a word

for you.

Tell him.

God will finish everything he starts. Come I look at

another neighbor, Say neighbor, God's going to finish it.

Last person, look at him, say neighbor. Just in case

you don't know, he is.

The author and the finisher, I'm gonna talk about it.

We are living in a time where you must be

aware of the things that are happening around us.

Many of us go through world.

With blinders on, never figuring and never paying attention to

the things that are happening around us. But three years ago,

COVID was released in the earth as a demonic distraction

for the people of God. Satan wanted us to dwell

more richly on the fact that we were losing more

people than we were saving. He wanted us to panic

because at the onset of COVID, there was no type

of treatment or healing. He wanted us to be so

disturbed that what the innimate did was he detracted from

us and allowed us to separate ourselves because that we

don't understand.

We don't know how to handle.

He not only did that, it calls such an epidemic,

that the epidemic spilled over into our food, causing what

the Bible calls famine.

He took from us. And when he allowed.

The food to become scariest, the medicines and stuff to

get caught out on ships in transit to the people

of God, he expected to receive panic. He expected to

plant disorder and to disrupt our lives. He's always trying

to do something because he hates the peace. And if

it was not enough, we've had to go through all

kinds of injustices that are greater than the pandemic that

was released. He wanted us to abandon our hope, to

abandon our faith, to dismiss ourselves from the things.

That was happening around us.

And the last thing he expected to hear is our

God is great and great let to be praised. So

what he does is he has to come in the

child of God's life, causing such a disruption that when

he sows up everybody gets nervous, such as the case

of the will of God.

I come to submit to you that the will of.

God can sometimes disrupt your life.

The will of God. As much as we like to dance.

About it and shout about it and yet excited about

what God is doing, sometimes when God releases or reveals

his wiel, that his wheel souls up to the point

that it makes you nervous. Just ask the little girl

who's minding her own business and at twelve years old,

the angel Gabriel appears to her and says, God has

need of you. She unexpectedly accepts the fact that she

is in the presence of angels, because the scripture declares

He will give his angels charge over you to keep

you up in all of your ways less you dash

your foot against the stone. She hears the proclamation coming

from Gabriel, God's messaging angel, who speaks into her presence

but disrupts her future. Who speaks in her ear, but

the word is so tremendous that when it is released,

it changes her life.

I've come to.

Tell somebody this morning, God is about to change your life.

You better get ready to become uncomfortable, get ready to

become unsettled. Not because sometimes obeying the will of God

is like caragami. Sometimes you have to wrestle lucky with

what God has said. I must submit to you. The

will of God is sometimes stunning. The children of Israel

here from Moses, the mouthpiece of God. God is about

to take us to the Promised Land. But they find

themselves up in such turmoil. Ask to what God is saying.

He does not always reveal his plan.

Shut.

He does not let you look at the GPS your map.

You can't pull it out and unfold it. Some of

y'all that are old enough.

To remember, because we used to have maps, shut and

you have to put it on the top of your

car and look from one destination to another and thicker

how you're going to get there. I don't know who

I came to, Minister two, because I really feel like

dancing right there. But I've come to tell you what.

Sometimes the way of God is not clear. Sometimes how

He's going to do it does not make any sense.

Shut. Sometimes what he says.

Is unsettling, and how he does it. Because God has

the tendency of removing from you every crutch that you've

been depending on, or he knows how to cancel and

get rid of your favorite friends shut, or he knows

how to make folk walk out of your life happy

at what seems like the worst time. Sometimes you're going

to be like Jacob for the scripts of declared and

Jacob was left alone. But I've come to tell you

that it is the trick of the enemy happy, because

sometimes when he's isolating you happy, he's simply not trying

to get you away from everybody else sucking, but he's

trying to get you by yourself. Can you just hunt

your neighbor and say, neighbor, God wants to talk to you.

You've been too busy talking to everybody else shutting. You've

been too busy calling on your prayer warrior. Nothing, You've

been too busy asking folk for their opinion.

Nothing. There is a way that seeming right to a man.

Nothing about the end thereof is dis trust happy.

I've come to tell the church you gotta be.

Careful, Hockey, because there is safety in the multitude of

counsel happy. But you have many teachers shutting, but you

don't have many follows shutting.

So sometimes you gotta be.

Careful of who you're talking to concerning.

What God says. Shut.

You can't ask everybody's opinion nothing.

You can't ask how other folks feel.

You must understand at this point of your life, sucking,

and that not everybody goes through the same ping. We're

on our way to the same place, shut, but our

destinies are different.

God knows how to.

Allow the things in that are happening in your life.

Happy to bring you to a place shut and that

you've never been before. But you've gotta be like Abraham.

For the Bible declare that Abraham nothing he believed God

and was counted unto him, nothing as righteous nest Shut.

And I must be honest with you, Hucky, sometimes I

don't believe everything that God is saying.

Happy.

You're sitting here looking real deep. You want life Shutter.

You always like what he says Shut. You wanna act

like shutting. You always act like what he does.

Shut.

You wanna act like you agree with everything that He

tells you to do. But there are strange times in

God happen when God tells you to do stuff fucking

and that you start to really wonder if God meant

what he says shutting. How in the world is this

going to world? You're telling me to do stuff fucking

that really don't make any saying shut. I've been taught

in the world h that the easiest way to the

top uppy is you gotta step on everybody. But then

God you come and tell me hut, and that you

got to be umbleuck humble yourself fucking under the the

hand of God. And didn't do season Lord Jesus, that

felt good right there, and didn't do season help Lord

Hammer said I'm better have church by myself.

And didn't do season nothing. He will exalts huckey.

Sometimes what God says shucking really don't make no sin sucking.

He has a way of confusing change sucking. He has

a way of up setting king something. He has a

way of using stuff and using people hockey. And I

gotta be honest with you.

If I had.

My own way, there are some folks I wouldn't have included, heppy,

and there are some folks shucking I would have excluded.

Or there are some child sucking I would have went through.

And some test I want to send back some stuff

fucking I'm wanna reject it, and some stuff fuck that

I wouldn't agree to.

But the old saints have a saying.

God has a way, and it's mighty sweet.

You can lay your.

Burners shut down at his feet.

So see now, Lord, have mercy. I'm having too much fun.

See now, God speaks to Abraham. He says, Abrah, Hail,

I got something else for you to do. Can you

just talk to your neighbor. I ain't gonna worry y'all

this morning.

But say name God, and y'all gonna say like I said, y'all.

Say God, God got something for you to do. So

I've come. I'm gonna tell you that the plan of God,

it wrecks you. But look at what God says.

Shut.

He says, Abraham, I'm getting ready to promote you. But

in order to promote you, I got the first reduce you.

That don't make no sense. Shut.

How you're gonna promote me when you first reduce me.

How you're gonna promote.

Me by taking stuff away? How you're gonna promote me

by moving saults? Shut out of my life, shucking, But

look at the plan of God, Abraham. I'm getting ready

to take you well where you're gonna take me. God,

I'm taking you there. Somebody say there there makes no sense?

Where is your there? You're there can be to a

place of holk Yo. There can be to a new city, Yo.

There might be a new yaw Yo. There might be

to a new family, abra hand. I'm getting ready to

raise you up. But you gota parsissipates.

And what I'm doing? What do you all fucking from me?

Long?

We're getting up.

Fuck and get away from everything that you've been used to.

Canna fuck gett away from every thing that's for millions.

Canna fucking get away from everything that has become c

I won't let you lean on anybody else.

Shut but our hands up a rice a bright fusey

and I've come.

To town, not sying, shildren toutch down a place shuck

that you've never been before. It's a place sucking a

peace and continue me. It's a place I'm.

Saw help and laughed.

I'm getting married to take you to a place shuck

that you've never been before. Soul.

What I need you to do?

Abraham at seventy five, it's get out fucking and get ready. Fuck,

we've got to move fuck and I've come to town.

Nothing shut some sign. We're on our way and we're

out of here. But see now what Abraham do.

Shut.

He's seventy five and for six to nine chapters. Shut,

God is dealing with Abraham.

Can you use up your last time talking to her?

Your name up?

Shake that neighbor by the hand, shake that.

Hand like a rod, Paul, say it off, Say neighbor,

you don't need God to take your hurt too quick.

Shut. You don't.

You got to get you there too, fan Shut, say

name this. It's going to take you a little time.

And God told me to tell you her that our

times h God change her soul, says he knows.

The way that I take her.

But after he's said it, I stalled, come forth, that's

pure gold. He never said that the way would be easy.

But I don't believe her.

He's brought us this founder, shaft, the leader, something.

Su fuss in the horses.

The fuss. It's silly, Shut. But we know the name

of the Lord.

In a foul time.

So so I'm saying something, So you saying, I'm still

going to trust it. So I see Abraham packing his

bad I see abrahad leaving his family. I see Abraham

leaving out a Hebrew on his way to a place

that God never said, He asked God, what is this place?

And what do you call it?

God simply called the place there? Can you just tru

free neighbors shut?

Let's say nay? God is moving us shut? Where is

he moving I shut? The Where is he taking us something?

Claire?

Where is he leading us something there? I don't know

we're very shut, but I know in whom I believe, and.

I am persuading that he's able to keep us sucking

from sony and present.

Us sud with its seeding. God. I came to tell her,

I don't know, we're very is shut.

But when we get there, it's gonna be toad when.

We get there.

Don't be pieces when we get there. The way it's

going to be made, it's seventy five. Chapter seventeen. God

gives Abraham a world It takes twenty for years shut before.

It comes to pashion it said.

Chapter seventeen, the God reminds him about chapter number twelve.

I ain't gonna preach myself crazy.

When I've come to remind them. Coming to turn, God

told me to tell you.

Everything that's connected to you already bless. Every way that's

you need already been made. Every dollar that's you open

already been over yearing, he has already taken place. Victory

has already been this man, so sure has already happened.

General release shut.

So I've come to Siah, my.

Brother, Live, live, leave in the function. We wait, we will,

we will understand that chapter.

Better, look at the chap. I'm only finished. Chapter twelve.

God says to Abraham, Abraham, Isaiah, if you be willing.

And obedient, you will eat the good.

Of the labor.

Chapter twelve, seventy five.

Chapter seventeen.

Ninety nine, twenty four years in the making, God says

to Abraham, I need you to get this. Abraham, I'm

gonna bless.

You'll see get the text.

I love it. I love it when God wakes me

up because I woke up about five twenty four and

the Lord said, tell sister Shell, I'm gonna bless Braylan.

And the Lord said, tell her that I'm going to

bless her because nobody thought she was going to make it.

The Lord says, I'm gonna use her situation in her mouth.

As a testimony that whatever God starts.

He finishes.

Then the Lord said to me, I was trying to

go back to sleep, and the Lord said, no, no, no, Lord,

you gotta you gotta tell Smith that Jalen doesn't realize it,

but the Lord keeps rescuing him because the hand of

God is on it.

Now he ain't here.

He's scared to come to church because he said every

time he come to church, I prophesy to him. But

the Lord said to tell him that the hand of

God is on his life.

That's why the accident couldn't take him.

That's why death could not have him. That's why twice

the enemy tried to take his life, but he could

not sleup it out.

But the Lord told me to tell y'all because then

then the Lord told me, he said, tell tell Pastor

and Lady hon.

That I put my hand on their family and on

their son. But he says what most of the church.

Does not realize.

If I made a promise to Abraham that I was

home bless his see. David says it like this, and

I'm I'm trying to slow down and not dam David says.

I have been young, but now I'm old.

I've seen one, I've seen pooling that crazy. I've seen

the other man run for president and.

Mess things up. I've seen the first black president. I'm

about to see the.

Second black, first woman president. I've seen a whole lot

of things, but I ain't never seen the righteous forsaken,

nor here seeds pegging for grave. If your children are here,

I need you to run and just touch your children.

Real fast and say nay, I'm prob.

To tell you this is what God promise Abraham. He

told Abraham, I'm a bless you, and I'm a bless

your seed. I'm a bless your children and your children, children,

your children.

I'm going to be blessed your children.

I'm going to be prosperous your business God to succeed.

Your house gotta be your house. God, say to tell

this house there's a blessing and it's generational. Wave your

hands over your hands and say, I'm living under a generational,

generational blessing.

Welcome evening to my house. Prosperity is coming to our house. Shut.

I'm end of the place.

Why I can't be stopped Because God will, he will finish,

He will minisher, he will minisher when he's starting.

And I'm compliding of this very thing. He who has me. God,

Oh what he doing? You will he will? You will,

you will.

You will, you'll bringing what break?

God said.

To remind this house. I'm not just the author. I'm

gonna finish.

Tap somebody come, he'll finish what he's started.

When I close, y'all sit, I close like I'm in

a Baptist search.

Close.

It's like I'm a close like I'm in a Baptist seer.

When the art, when the artist.

It's creating work.

The don't look.

Like nothing, but the artist m h keeps on working

on a picture that only he can see what the

results are going to be at the end.

Sometimes, if you're not quite careful, you got to keep

folk out of your business because folks will discourage you

why the work is in process.

Excuse me, it's just just I just need a minute

and a half.

God said, don't let the folks around you that think

you need to be further discourage you. I need you

to tell at least five folk around you I'm a

work in progress.

But y'all ain't talking. They used to.

Say this, heel to let better.

They don't say this the more. But they said, please

be patient with me. God is not finished with me.

Yet some of y'all are dealing with the work in process,

and you don't know how to appreciate the outer street

of part. Sometimes He's had to put the pieces together.

Sometimes you can't let folks see what God is working on.

And can I tell you something it does not yet appear.

I told Tom, y'all should have just left me, dare.

I didn't have to breeze. Too many people are expecting.

The Finnish corner.

But look at somebody up there. It ain't time yet.

Wait on the lawn.

And the uh good grubbish m hm hew.

Heway, hellhap.

I go back?

Hell well, sat of your arm?

Hey that wait.

On the lawn, hell y well, renew your strength.

I feel like but Russia or shuck something. There's a

mount up were the wings.

Like eagles? Run not be weary?

Lean on?

A neighbor, said avel.

God told me to tell you he ain't Finnish good win.

When wedd woen Wait wait wait when when.

God gets finish, he's going to reveal what looked.

Like it was a mess. It looked like him it

would shuck.

But when God tell him get finish, you're gonna have

a man pie on your hands shut. How much do

you out you can't afford it? I'm persons in my blood.

It's more in this listen by saying, and.

I know it's was a blood, and I know it's

was a blood, and I know it was a blos

for me one day I.

Was lost shirt, but Jesus side on the croup and

I know it's what's a blad. I'm beautiful her, I'm

wonderful her. I've been fearfully hurt, made in his heavy shut.

And now I hear God her saying, come first, club, faster,

come fun. We are.

We are, We are the workmanship.

Of a master artist, and as good as your life.

Maybe right now, I've come to tell you God is not.

Finished, but he is fully able to complete whenever he started.

I just heard the Holy go say the healing is begune,

but he's going to complete it. I just heard the

Holy go say.

The miracle has begun, but he's going to complete it.

I just heard the Lord say, your happiness has only begun.

But before the month is over, tap at least three

folks time. Get ready to laugh. Sarah laughed at what

God says.

But God says, you getting ready to laugh, God says

you getting ready to be hilarious.

Sir Sarah says, what my Lord? You won't wait until

I'm over? But I come to ask you, is.

There in it saying?

Come too hard for God?

I come to assles.

If I was in Florida, I'll.

Say, won't he won't he wann he wanned?

Won'ty doing it? If I was Darious, listen, I'll tell

you to take an neighbor shaken and rock them.

And rock them and Sachel, but tell your neighbor Thought's

about to give you.

Or complete work.

If I was no old Sir, I say, sing a

name by the hand, shake that hand like if i'll

singing it off.

If I was TV Takes, I'll say.

Get ready and get ready.

You're ready, and you're ready, get ready.

If I was empty pouncers and fasting all Winston sail,

I tell you God's going to do it before you

know him. If I was hound Ivory Williams, I say

to God, be the blows for.

The great things he has done. What said I'm just south.

I'm gonna tell you that be fall for years old,

big fall, the clock fight seawol happen, big fall, the

shoe falls, big fall, God, capt Whinny something.

He's gonna flow.

But the night of your episis he's gonna shut up happy,

every critic.

He's gonna stop every crest.

Look at, look at, look at help, what the Lord happened.

Has done for us? And up your hands, everybody, I'm through.

I'm stopping, I'm stopping.

He has done, he has done marvelous when our enemy,

when your enemy.

Thought they had the upper hand, right when your enemies

Wrote out your eulogy, had the minister on the stand

back