Psalms 51 " Restoration and The Cost of Renewal"

Right where you are, right where you are, Lift your hands,

Lift your hands. The song said, this is the way

we praise you. But the Lord desires us to worship

him in spirit and in truth. That is the first

thing that he made us. The second thing he gave

is words, so that that is the truth. So if

you don't mind just lifting up your hands, other worship

out of your mouth, tell him how much you love him.

If you don't know how you do it, they say, Lord,

I love you, Lord, I love you.

Lord.

We thank you, we thank you, we thank you for everything. Hallelujah.

Let's hear your worship. Let's hear your worship. Now, let's

do like the song says, let's put your hands together

and give him a praise.

Let's give him a praise. Let's give him a praise.

Don't praise him the way you feel, praise him because

of what he's done. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Before you take your seed,

before you take your seats. I know protocol has been established,

But first and all, I want to give glory to

God first, and not only God, but to this great

apostle or great apostle. I don't know whether to call

him a father or brother. It's both. It's both, you know,

so please put your hands together for this great apostle.

Apostle Kelviny shouts, he's my apostle, he's my bishop, he's

my prophet, he's my evangelist, he's my preacher, and he's

my teacher.

Five fold ministry in one.

And to the lady of this house, a beautiful lady shouts.

Every minister, every bishop, every minister, half of this church.

Everybody weigh your hand. Everybody weigh your hand. Please, everybody.

Half of this church is my family. Everybody's ready to

your hand, is my family. But to the first one

that's in charge of my house, and get on to

my wife to meet the serie, allen, amen. And to

my children. I have a few of them here today.

I'm missing one. I'm missing Wayne hey Man, glory. But

my daughter is holding my nephew. And I got my

three boards here today. And man, if you don't mind,

if you don't mind, look at your neighbor and say, neighbor,

it's time for restoration.

The Lord, the Lord gave me a peace y'all ain't

gonna push me.

I'm I guarantee you were getting out of church earlier today,

I guarantee, but the Lord there wouldn't mean during the Christmas,

during the Christmas program about restoration.

And the restoration, it was over me.

Not because of conviction, but it was on me because

of the people. If you don't mind just standing just

for a few I'm gonna read this scripture and then

we're gonna get out of here.

H I hope I did everything right thus far.

And now if apostle, if I forgot anything, please, if

you don't mind turning your bibles to some fifty one

sums fifty one, some fifty one, I would be wrong

to give honor to the one that gave life to me.

To mother Island, my mom.

We say mommy. We got we got that right to

call her mommy. We still I'm in my faulties, but

I call my mama mommy.

Ain'men go ahead? Hell it do you?

And I have only one aunt, only one left, Virginia Payne.

I don't see you, Okay, okay, hey you God my

wonderful aunt. And I also have brothers that my mother

did not birth, Big Steel. They got him everywhere. Deacon

James Elder is a brother. I think he's gonna get

my new at and T bill because between him and

a couple of my family members there on the line every.

Day of the week. Glory, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Do you have it some fifty one? Minister Howard, do

you mind reading? I can read.

I graduated.

I don't want y'all to think that I can't read.

But what she did during this announcement, glory hallelujah. I

fell fire. If you can read starting that verse.

Number one, I'm not gonna do the geno. I'm on

social media. Lord.

However, me and my brother logan back here, we joke

about stuff. Verse one.

Verse one. Start at verse one.

Please read, have mercy upon me, Oh God, Yes, according

to thy loving kind, according unto the multitude of that

tender mercy.

Uh huh.

Lit out my transgression, Yes, wash me thoroughly, Yes, from

might iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Verse three, For I acknowledge my transgression.

Huh.

And my sin is ever before me.

Verse four against these only have I sin red and

done this evil in thy sight?

Uh huh. That thou imaginest that thou mightest be justified?

Uh huh when thout speakest uh huh.

And be clear when thout judges verse five.

Verse five, behold, I was shaping an iniquity, and in

sin did my mother can behold Thou desire truth in

the inward parts and in the hidden part. Thou shalt

make me to know wisdom.

Now let's get down the verse number ten. Please read

verse too.

Let's create in me a clean heart and renew a

right spirit within me.

Uh huh. Cast me not.

Away from thy presence, and take not thy holy.

Spirit from me.

I'm gonna take verse twelve, restore unto me the joy

of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit.

If you don't mind, Before you take your seats, look

at your neighbor and say, neighbor restoration and the cost

of renewal.

Look at your other neighbor and.

Say, neighbor restoration and the cost of renewal.

You may take your seat now. I'm halfway done. Thank

you so much.

Here there is restoration and the cost of renewal. I

hate to talk about the pandemic because it's been talked

about so much in the pool pick. But in twenty nineteen,

some things happen that shape the demographic of what we

know as today.

Regular life.

With that, things that were the price of wings, the

price of milk, and the price of eggs.

All saw a different flip and change.

Not only that, one of the biggest effect that markets

before it went to Wall Street was real estate. Real

estate saw something that had never seen it and yet

still broke records and unprecedented numbers that it went into.

Banks saw homes that was at a time at ninety

thousand dollars being a praise at four hundred and ninety

thousand dollars, home that started at four hundred thousand dollars

being now eight hundred thousand dollars now, new homes being

built in this same time starting at three hundred and

eighty thousand dollars next week, next month, yet still being

three hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

Now, there's a reason for that. See what restoration.

They understood something that we didn't understand at the time.

As new bills began to be brought up in new neighborhoods,

trees knocked down, foxes and coyotes being in your backyard

now because they just tore forty acres of land down

from you down the street. Now new acres are being done.

Houses are built built up on this land. And at

the same time we have those old houses, as I

would say, built in the sixties and built in the seventies.

And what happened is here you got new houses getting built,

and you have old houses that already been what they

are now. You also have houses that's in the same

neighborhood where the new houses are about to be built.

You have old houses that you already been living in,

and you also have that dilapidated house on the corner.

It's an eye sore to everybody. The neighbors don't cut

the grass. They live there, but you don't even know

if they really live there. Windows are busted, this roof

is dug in, the door is dinged, the painting is

peeling off. It also has a place where, even if

it's all brick, you got.

Chippings and you got cracks.

But I wanted to understand, how is it that when

you get a mailer for the house that got the roof,

the holy in the roof, the chip painted, and everything

wrong with it.

As you can see with.

The eye, the value of that home it's greater than

the new neighborhood down the street. Don't worry about it.

You can check it when you leave here. Don't take

my word of anything that I say. Check it af

you want to Now at the same token, I asked myself,

I said, how I'm gonna get back to my text?

How can a home.

That I don't even like to see on a daily

basis have so much value? Twenty twenty two, the Lord

drove us down a different path, me and my wife.

We hadn't gotten into something. The Lord blessed us with

a property, and in that property, it had been there.

It wasn't It didn't pop up overnight. It wasn't as

if it came and everything else came with it, and

then everything was already around there. I lived, I saw

this place and lived right. It was right beside me.

I moved into my home in twenty sixteen. This home

was already there before I was moved in. It was

so bad that when we moved in in March February.

February twenty ninth, if I'm correct, that grass was still

high from the previous summer. It was so bad to

the eye that we had to deal with certain things

as far as like critters, slithery ones, the ones that

got cast down to the ground. I'm not gonna say it. Mommy,

I got you. I don't worry about it. I can't

say that word in our house. Okay, I'm not.

Gonna say it.

But there was the slithery things. They got different colors.

They was in the grass and they would come.

Now, me and my.

Wife found ourself protecting our surrounding by creating a barrier

for what we could not change at the moment. Twenty

twenty two comes in and now six years past, now,

the lord allowed us to be actually purchased this very

property that we saw. It was our sore. It was,

matter of fact, it was so bad. The neighbors in

front of our home, they would get glory when.

We cut just a piece of the yard.

They would saying, how much do we have to pay

you to continue to do that? I said, I'm just

doing it to keep the perimeter to hey, you know,

thank you on well, But anyway, we purchased it.

The lord allowed us to purchase it.

So we bought the home and on in purchasing the home,

we found that it was a hole in the roof.

Anybody that understands now, we've been there for six years.

This is what we purchased six years in and we

see this.

We've had hurricanes, tornadoes, rainstorms, snow hole in the roof,

sheet rock in the inside.

What happened was the moisture.

From the from the actual rain and snow got into

the walls.

They had black mold on the inside of the walls.

The foundation what they call lbls, the ones that hold

your roof up, was not even connected. There was, if

any vibration, as far as me stumping my foot at

any point in time making too much noise, the roof.

Could have cave in at any point in time. Here

it is now.

We purchased it, We knew what we was were closing

twenty days and we walked in the house now understanding

they made a clear description of this property. They said,

now this is what you're getting. This is as is

no warranty. So when I walked in, we found, first

of all, this was around that covid end slash middle

slash N whatever you want to call it, twenty twenty two.

So therefore there was a whole lot of N forty five,

ninety five or whatever.

In the store.

We got the whites, we got everything. We put everything

in there, and we called ourselves, Okay, what we're gonna do.

We're gonna go in here, the two of us, and

we're gonna clean this thing out.

You know, that's what we said.

Little did we know as soon as we open up

the door.

No, soon as we opened up the door, you had crates, books,

no critters. That's what we thought we was gonna see.

We thought we was going to see a cat or

something that's creeping, crawling on the floor.

We saw some of everything here it is. Now we're

at a place where now we really like, Lord, did

you give us this.

Now?

The bank said it's only worth a little bit of money.

So I said, you know what, I think it might

be best. Lord, let's pray warm on again. Let's pray

yes one more time. I understand that. I said, let's

pray one more again, because I said, we might have

missed God. I have a construction friend. I said, hey, look, buddy,

we work together. He just worked on our home. He

came out. I said, look, we just want to tear

this down and use the land in the future, because

if I tore it down, it was more valuable as land.

My contractor came over there. He came over there. He

told me.

He said, listen, I want to tell you this. The

roof is bad. You need lbls. It's black mold. But

the reason why I will not tear this house down

because of what they call foundation. When the house was built,

instead of it being built on concrete slab, every inch

of the twenty three hundred square feet living space was

poured concrete that has not been seen in modern day

time since the sixties. Why hasn't been seen that because

number one, to have a concrete truck to pour in

a four x four.

Space, it's unheard of.

But yet not only go to a four x four

but actually reach up at a two feet high place

where you can crawl up under it gave a different

kind of sturdiness.

Here it is. It's sitting on what we would call

a rock.

Glory, hallelujah, it's sitting on a rock now here it

is now with this restoration, we understood. Okay, he said,

don't tear it down. It's gonna cost this something. But

I don't need you to tear this down. He begged us, Please.

Do not tear this down.

And as see as I said to myself, I said,

you know what we're gonna make the conscious decision, and

we're not gonna do it.

We gonna work the process.

So what we decided to do, I said, you know what,

we're gonna start here. It got so ugly, It got

so ugly first what we had to do before we

actually I'm gonna promise you I'm gonna get to my text.

She did half of the preaching. I appreciate it. Thank

you so much.

Thank you, thank you what they got, good instructions.

Thank you.

What we had to do, we first had to understand

the purpose. Now that we decided what we have, I

had to understand the purpose of what we actually had.

What I needed to know the purpose.

I understood the structure, but I need to understand the purpose.

And I said, well, baby, how can we go understand

the purpose?

Well, see downtown, for Sith County has a place where

not only thank you appreciate it, not only do you

have a place where it's gonna make sense in a

few minutes.

Not only do you have not only do you have.

The property value, the tax value, but you have what

they call blueprints. Now with these blueprints, this home was

built in nineteen nineteen twenty one, nineteen twenty one and

they still had the blueprints. Now, the blueprints told me

one thing. The blueprint said that the purpose of the house.

It gave me purpose of why it was here, thank you,

the use of the property. And not only did it

tell me the purpose of the use, but it also

gave example of why.

They built it the way they built it.

Now, it also gave us descriptions of that the it

was poured concrete. It was amage home built. It was

cedar wood. Cedar would all across lost the home nineteen

twenty one. Not one piece of ceedar wood between twenty

one and to today's date has been replaced. That's one

hundred if my mouth surgerday, right, that's one hundred and

four years countants today.

So here it is. Now we understand the purpose.

We understand that this home was built not for a

quick move. This home wasn't built for us to say,

you know what, today, we're going to take up. We've

been here for ten years. I think it's time for

us to better ourselves. No, no, no, This very household

twelve people in it at the time, and when it

was first built it was a little under twelve hundred

square feet.

Expanded over the years, they had to space it span.

But this house had a place, and it was in

its own rightful place. And in this rightful place, it

had everyone being able to fit in it, not for

a quick move, not for an easy move, not for.

Us to get out and a lot of us.

And I'm saying this because I'm talking to myself as well.

We can start something so good, have the right intentions,

cover who we need to cover, thank you.

But what we ended up doing is aborting it.

We abort it because we don't want to deal with

the process.

Now, that's what the blueprint gave me.

With the blueprint, I understood exactly why it was there,

what it needed to be done. And then secondly I

had to consider the conditions of the foundation. In the structure,

we saw that it wasn't any cracks in it.

Thirdly, was one of the most hardest things that we

had to do.

We had to count the costs of the cleanup, the

demolition and excuse me, we had to count the costs

of the clean out before we could do anything.

Lord have mercy. From wall to wall was stuffed.

It costed us couple of thousand dollars just to take

the junk out. Oh glory. We build glorier hallelujah. So

all the junk had to come out here. It is

not only did the junk come out, we had to

knock down walls.

As I stayed it before windows.

When the lbs was shown here, they wasn't halfway connecting.

We knocked down the walls. And then once it was

all done, we had to clear up. What does that

have to do with the tests that we have here today?

Here It is in Psalms fifty one. It talks about David.

Now at this state of mind, David was in a

place where he had came off of fasting.

He had fasted.

Second Samuel tells us in the chapter twelve, It tells

us completely that first Nathan had visit. He said, well, listen,

I got something for you, sir. I want to run

something past you. What if I had a man that

had hurts and he gave him a parable and the

story appreciated Jackson, Thank you so much, sir. He said, look,

what if I had a parable here and we got

a parable here in that? And I want to tell

you something. And Nathan had cloud. David was going to

hear him, not only because he was a prophet, but

he says, advisor. So operated in a couple of roles.

So here he is.

He said, now there's a man coming through town. He

has a rich man. He has hurts, and he has

quite a few, and he has plenty of hers. And

then we have this poor man who only has one

and he has children, and he feeds, he cultivates it,

he rubs it, he strums it. He don't treat this

his herd as if it's going to be lunch meat tomorrow,

but he treats it as one of his own children.

Thank you so much. And now at the time, what

if the rich man. The rich man said, you know what,

and he had a guest come in town, and he said,

what I'll do is.

Take the poor man's one calf that he worshiped.

And what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna take it and

I'm gonna feed it to my guests. Nathan asked, David,

what should you do to such a man that would

do these things? Quickly he came with his mouth. He

didn't even think twice. He said, kill him, kill him.

Why should you kill And then he said, wait a minute,

wait one moment, one second, sir, the very man that

I'm talking about. Is you the very man? Now know

what you did? Thank you so much. Now what you

did was here it is. You went out the way.

You had a man, a husband killed on the front line.

A husband. Hear me, well, a husband killed on the

front line. This is the leader. That's what's wrong with

a lot of people. Now, you gotta have the right

leader in your house. Glory, I'm gonna leave that alone.

Now here it is here he is, you got, you

got your husband, You had your husband killed, and you

had your husband killed for greed and what we would

call perversion. I said, check perversion, because what he saw

is what he wanted to get. He saw a desire.

He saw m I like that, and I want it

to be mine. And so what he did, he said,

I got to move out my distraction, which is a husband.

I'm gonna send him to the front line.

Now.

At the same time, David understood that Nathan said, you know,

he had he had the gift the prophecy. Not only

did he have to give the prophecy, he was advisor,

so he divised a gift of prophecy. He understood that

his word carried weight. So here it is, he said,

now what now, what this brings? He said, Lord, I'm sorry.

He went and.

David went in a place of Lord, forgive me.

I'm sorry.

Nathan proceeded and said, now that you've done these things,

I'm still in sack of Samuel. Now that you've done

these things, the Lord will not leave your house for

one reason only because she had no business going after

somebody else stuff.

So here it is. And then he also gave me.

He said, now listen, what you produced out of your

room will surely die.

I didn't say it.

The sad thing about it. It was a child, hear me. Well, y'all, it.

Was a child.

Out of that child, out of that baby was born,

knowing that there was a prophecy already that it would

die already.

Here it is now.

At this point he told David that what David did,

you said?

You know what?

I understand God because I know him.

As a child.

I went into the hills. They called me crazy, but

I danced. I danced so back them my clothes. I

had an utterance where I can live and have a

direct communication with who He is. I wasn't told who

God is. Matter of fact, at the time, there was

no Tarra, so there was nothing that he can read

to say what was to be. So at that time,

the only way that he knew God was out of

an experience that he had with hisself touching him and said,

you got to have an experience.

So here it is. He's at a place where he

got along.

Day one, David said, I'm gonna fast, I'm gonna pray.

I ain't gonna wash, I ain't gonna clean myself. I

don't want to be seen by nobody. Here is day two.

I don't want to be seen by number. I ain't ad,

I'm fast, and I'm away. I understand what's coming because

I know God is true and he's not a man

that he should lie.

Neither he's either son or man that he would have

to repeat. So here it is.

I know God is gonna say and do what he said,

So what he does? Day three, still praying, They four

still praying. Somewhere around between day three and day six,

the child died.

Now what we didn't want to do.

And then the ones that was with him in the kingdom,

he said, you know what, I don't know whether I

should go get him to tell him that the child

is gone. David showed his face in day seven. Here

it is the day of completion. Today he comes up

here and says, you know what, my son, my child

is gone.

They let him know, you know.

What, instead of David being in a place of satning

and crime, because what I believe, what I believe and

the revelation that I receive. If you understand who God

is and you know whatever is coming, all you got

to do is pray for God's perfect will, perfect will.

If it is for him to change it, let it be.

If it ain't for him to change it, let it be.

I'm not in the mood for changing God and what

God said about me or minds. So here it is

day seven, he's out, he's done fasting, and we come

up here, and instead of saddiness, instead of being lord,

the first thing he said is have mercy. Oh God,

he's loving on them. This is what you call true worship.

He didn't ask, He told God who he is. I

understand that you can only You're the only one that

can give mercy. Have mercy on me, oh God, according

to that loving kindness and our tender mercies, watch me

thoroughly from my iniquities. That means something didn't equal right

I did it my way, and then equal cleanse me

from my sins. David had a point of acknowledgement. We

can get quiet on ourself, but we live with ourself.

We know what our self do. And when you can

acknowledge your sin before God, don't hide from God. That's

the last one. You can hide from whoever you want to.

You can hide from people.

In the church.

You can hide from your mama, you can hide from

your daddy.

Ain't but so long.

But I can tell you one person that you ain't

gonna hide from is God. That's a guarantee. I promise it.

I promise it. Here, he says, for I acknowledge my

transparent aggressions, and my sin is ever before me. So

every time I think about what I did, it's I

can't forget it. Against the only have I sinned? He

understands that against THEE have I sinned and done this evil?

In thy sight? Behold, I was shaping into iniquity. He

lets us know how he was, how he was done.

This is something that he couldn't control. Oh Glory, Hallelujah,

And sin didn't my mother conceive me? Behold thou desirest

the truth in the dual parts and the healing part

that thou shalt make me know to no wisdom, purge

me with hissap. So what's so special about his soup?

What's so special? I know we're coming off of fast.

We're coming off fast glory, I honor, hey man, I

know we're coming off of fast glory hallelujah.

So what what glory? Hallelujah? So listen.

One thing that a fast does, whether you know it

or not, it cleanses the body. It will make you

at a place where it cleanses your digestive system.

It folds over because you're fast. It folds on the

outward side.

Now, some people use it as a technique to what

they call lose weight. But if you really want to

fast for the right reason, there are some things that

happen on the inside. As a con secondary consequence, you

lose weight on the outside.

There are some things.

When you sacrifice the right thing for the right reason,

it comes out of you, and everybody was here. You

ain't got to put it on display. You ain't got

to say I fast. You ain't gotta say I cheated

on day three. You ain't gotta say I cheated on

day sixteen. It will show purge me with hiss, the

very same thing that goes in as hips hop. If

you drink it, if you touch it on your skin,

it cleanses the skin. So not only did David understand

the power of his he's bringing to knowledge about God

and who God is because he understands the only one

that can clean me from the inside out. There's no

other kind of way to be clean. The biggest thing

here that makes me think about it, he said, blot

out my transgressions. If I had some water here, blot says,

not like the one in the American gangst that it

would do. But blot, y'all get where I'm going to

glory hallelujah. If I spill something here and now wipe it,

I guarantee you you'll see a remnant. If I therefore

apply pressure, turn it over, apply pressure. When I lift

it up, you would not even know it's there, he says,

blot out my transgressions. So I want you to erase

it to where not only people can't see it, but

even I can't see it no more. There's a place

where the hits of the blinding all this happens. But

the greatest thing to me. When David said that he

had the conversation, he said, create in me a clean heart,

and renewing me the right spirit. Now, understanding that we

have created a spirit, given a soul, and assigned the body,

you would think that he said, create in me the

right spirit, because that's the way the right order would be.

He said, creating me.

A clean heart and then renew the right spirit in it.

Why is it important that our heart is clean? Yeah,

a good man out of good treasures of his heart,

bringing forth that which is good, and an evil man

out of evil treasures out of his heart, bringing forth

that which is evil.

For of the abundance of the heart his mouth.

Therefore, he understood his first problem was his mouth.

Knew it was gonna get right on doubt what he said.

I got to clean my heart first by changing what

I say.

If I say a thing, it shall be.

Not only is that with what I say, I create

what they.

Called spirits around me.

If I have a dirty mouth, I'm a only attract

dirty spirits. If I have a foul mouth, I'm only

gonna attract foul spirits. If I have on the pure mouth,

I'm only gonna attract unpure spirits. So he understood, understood

that in creating me the clean heart, I need to

change my mouth and renew in me.

The right spirit.

He said, I need to get back to where I

first was created. That goes back to the blueprint. I

need to understand God, give me your quick download. I

need to know your first intention for me. I need

to know what you gifted me for. I need to

understand why you gave it to me. I need to

know clear instructions that where when you're proud, you ain't asking,

but you're actually in communication with him, and he downloads

to you. Here it is now. He understands that the

heart is dirty. He said to me a clean heart,

and renewed me, cast me not away from thy presence.

Were talking about a king. Last time I checked. He

got a few wives, he had children, He was a king.

He didn't have to pay, he was he reigned, he

was over. So at this same token, you didn't say, Lord,

don't take my money, Lord, don't take my children. He

just experienced that, don't take my houses. Lord, don't don't

take my physical possessions. He said, whatever you do.

Don't take your spirit.

Now to me, that gives revelation to how powerful the

Holy Spirit is. That means you can't live without him,

can't read with it, you can't walk without it, you

can't talk without it, you can't do what you think

you can do without it.

You can go on all you want to.

All you are is just standing all showt It doesn't matter.

You're standing tall dirt.

And when God says he wants to cut off, that

dirt is gone. But when I understand that I need

more than what I was created as, but I need

the Spirit of God, that's when God says, you know what,

I understand that he desives me in another place, not

from what he can give, what I what access really

what he can ask for and what I can give.

But he want to know me. He want to know me.

When my when I say this one thing and I'm

gonna put my daughter out there here, I'm gonna talk

about you. At one point in time, I would have

calls like say, Daddy, I won't daddy, can you get daddy?

I need this?

And when cash out came cash out came out, I

couldn't say, well, you know, I don't have cash on

me because what she would say, well, what you can

do now they got this thing called cash app. You

can send it to me. Glory, hallelujah, Thank you Jesus.

But it did me some good. At the age of nineteen,

she said to me, she called me one day. I said, oh,

I know how much? She said, No, I ain't calling

because I want no money. I said, what's wrong? I

ain't calling because I'm nothing wrong? She said, Daddy, I

want you to know I heard you. And instead of

me making the move that I was about to make,

I changed my mind.

Now my prayers was heard as a father.

When your prayers can be heard as a father, as

a mother, when you understand where they come to you from,

what you're done for your child, what you've done from

throughout the years, there's a different gratification in that glory.

I was cited. I said, you know what I see you? Now,

you got my heart I don't have. You don't have

to ask me for nothing. You need your call?

Watch? Is it all change? What? How much do you need?

Because what at that point?

Now you don't have to come to me and ask me,

because I'm gonna be there regardless, because I understand the

condition of your heart.

Say, the condition of your heart there's a new place.

And the second part of the title of the message

is the cost of renewal, restoration and the cost of renewal.

And I'm so sorry, I'm way over my time. Please

forgive me. But here it is the cost of renewal.

Now I know you guys are sitting up here.

In the youth.

I appreciate you. Thank you so much. I had them

to bring the tithes. One of the greatest things about

restoration is when you realize what brought you down, when

you can recognize, oh, that's what it was. I could

it was there. Yep, yep, it was right there. When

you can recognize it, when you can recognize I shouldn't

have went there. It was my decision. I went to

a place where I didn't need to go. I said

something that I didn't need to say in the process

of a clean heart and being restored. Hebrews said something

that I really like. It said something that relates to

the process of restoration. Hebrews twelve and one said, wherefro sin,

we also are compassed about with such a great cloud

of witnesses, let us lay aside every way, and doth sin.

I want to make sure I read that right, and

the sin with.

Those so easily beset us. I purchased these ties. These

are all my These are all my ties. I love ties.

I purchased every last one of them. I put the

money into buying these tithes. I chose these tithes. I

went and chose in whatever store I picked them out.

As restoration, there are some things that we pick out.

Nobody put it on us. Stop blaming people. We chose it,

we bought it, we paid for it twice, three times,

four times. Don't allow people to say cash to blame. Well,

it was her, it was them, and that shouldn't need

you that way. But the Bible says, I got to

lay aside ever since that's so easily beset me, and

let us run the race with patience, greed, haughty spirit,

nasty mouth, perverted mind, Facebook in the wrong way.

The dating game that you don't need.

To play, the lifestyle that don't agrees with God, not Jerry,

not a possible what God said, stinging holding money, greed. Now,

I say it's lay aside every way that so easily

if it set us. Now, this is a good part

of restoration. I got it done. I understand who restored me.

I gave honor and praise. I laid aside. I'm empty

now I do as a man have desire. But the

Bible tells us one thing. It tells us so good.

It says, seek ye first. That's something that comes up

on my agenda. First January one one. It doesn't matter

what year, time of the day. Seek ye first, the

Kingdom of God. That means there is a place. That

means there is a place that I must go. And

now not only must go, but I must tread now

that I'm clean. Now while I'm walking past or letting

my light so shine. When I walk, my light is shining.

Seek ye first, the Kingdom of God. That's good and

his righteousness. Righteousness says I can't come to God any

kind of way. Sometimes that what that says is I

got to be clean and I got to stay clean.

Righteousness says that I'm gonna live right. Not according to

what I think, not what my mama thinks. She right,

Glory Hallelujah. Ain't saying you're wrong, But not according to

what my mama think of anybody else think, It's according

to what God says.

Seek key first.

Now, as I'm seeking, I notice that I gotta.

Go through the same stuff. Where is.

I got to go to the through the same stuff?

It ain't gonna fit on my head to get to

where I want to be. Seek ye first, the Kingdom

of God and his righteousness. I can't go by myself.

There's not a place where I'm gonna be with God

where I can't be seeking His kingdom and the right

righteousness is simply the right way to live by God,

not by man, but by God. Not what we think.

And a lot of what people think. Now, that's where

we go wrong. Thought goes into the way God says

you're supposed to live. That is not what we're supposed

to do. We don't challenge God off of what he said.

We challenge God where we see ourself in what he said.

Where we see ourself in what he said. God, show

me myself in this, Show me where I need to

be in this, Show me my way if that means

I have to change my lifestyle. At the end of

the day, I don't care what I built up. That's

where the demolition part comes. Every wall that I kicked up,

I gotta knock down every hammer that I need to

tear wall down In the LBL wall.

I need to tear it down.

It doesn't make your wrong knowing that you need to change,

but it makes you wrong when you know that you

need to change and you don't do nothing. It's not

for man to judge man, It's for God to judge man.

So when we get ourselves right before God. But good

Bible says, be ye Holy, not because I'm halfway right,

because I am Holy.

Tear away from these things.

I got the word, I got the kingdom.

There is a.

Way that seemeth right unto man, and that way, if

you don't believe me, I promise you Probverbs fourteen and twelve.

There's a way that seemeth right unto man, and those

ways lead to what death and destruction. There's no way

that I'm gonna go on my own, and I think

that I'm gonna make it. I don't want to die.

That's look I'm telling you right now. When I gave

God my life and I said God, I'm turning my

life over to you, that was my first death, of

my only death. I shall live again in Christ. We

will not die. This body is gonna do what it's

gonna do. But in my in my Holy Body. I'm

gonna live with Christ. So I'm not gonna continue to

die to the same sin that keeps me down. Neither

will I be subject to it. There's a time and

a place to everything. That's a way where we got

to get our heart right. We got to have our

heart condition. There has to be a time where we say,

I'm not gonna do it anymore. We have to understand

where we are in God. It's not what we think

where we are in God. But there comes a time

where we have to understand where God is and where

He's gonna be.

For that, the greatest thing for me is when I can.

Sit up and think about all what God has done here.

It is in twenty twenty two we started two twenty three,

we was done, and the value of what we started. Glory, hallelujah.

Think of Jesus in the right place at the right time.

There's always good value in what you do for God.

Only what you do for Christ will last. It's not

what we think where we are. It's not what we

think we can do. The greatest thing also is understanding

where we should be and going towards the thing that

we should be. Non we ain't perfect guess what I

got the mic. I ain't perfect. One of the greatest

things that I understand about people and how I can

always anybody that knows me, I'm gonna talk your head

off about Jesus.

I'm gonna talk your head off about Christ.

And my challenge is is to talk to you first.

I'm gonna show kindness and loveness.

I'm gonna show my heart before I say Jesus, Before

I say God. You're gonna ask the question, what do

you do where you're being? And if you know me,

you're gonna say, Lord, Jesus, you donna change. Well, I

know this about you. Yeah, I can tell you about it.

Wh I'm gonna tell you how I got over. I'm

gonna tell you how it came out. I'm gonna tell

you whether they need to get get myself right because

I made.

A conscious decision.

And when I think about all the goodness, I can't

understand people apostles that can think and do a lot

of thinking, and the first thing that they do is

post on Facebook. The first thing I do when I think,

I think, I say God, thank you for what you're doing,

thank you what you continue to do, thank you where

you brought me from Thank you where you're going, Thank

you where you're taking me?

Because it could have been mean.

Dolls with no food and no clothes, all lost without

a friend. But I found a friend. Glory hallelujh. Is

there to mean his love is soever true? I love

to tell how he rescued me and what his grace

can do for you? Who am I that you are mindfuler?

I mean that you hear me when not call it

the truth that you are thinking of mean or how

you love me?

It's amazing. It was love. Yes, he died, I gotta

go baptist.

He died, albody didn't steam down because living.

He loved me. Die. He saved me.

Pard he carry mine befo since far wading John Rising,

He justified me, free me forever. My pray is, I

don't know about you, for Lord, kill me day by

day in the ki and perfect wading. I want to live.

I want to live in a building. Not mean my hand,

but say turn on glory, glory, hallelujah. If I had

to tell my testimony my Lord about the house. God,

how you bless me, how you lifting me? How you

bless me? God? Every once in a while, when I

get lost, I go baptist. I said, God, I kne

old dow great your whole them, kill them through this

barren land. I get weak and I get tired.

Hold me with your powerful hand.

My favorite verse says, bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven,

be me. Shall I want no more? Hallelujah? Yes, Lord,

I had to teeve me, shall I want no more?

Bloy hallelujah. Look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, I

got to be restored. I got to be renewed.

Yes, sir. Look at the other neighbor and say.

Neighbor, I need to be restored, and I need to

be renewed. If you don't mind standing, If you don't

mind standing, there's a place in God where he wants

to see us with him, not because of what he

can do for us, but what we have signed up

as Christians to do for him.

We are obligated to serve the Lord.

To love him, to worship, and we was created to

worship him.

Sometimes.

The good thing I like about this text it says

it shows us as people where we need to be restored.

There as some.

Places as things that we picked up along the way, and.

We feel like we can be everything to that you cannot.

And I want to say this, if you didn't hear anything,

you can't change yourself. There's nothing that you can do

alone that can make you right. The power of the

Holy Goals will change your life. But it's a choice.

It's a choice. So if there's anybody here that understands

where you need to be restored. I picked up something

along the way and I can't shake it. Every time

I start out right, I end up going off to

the left. I try to align myself, and every time

I align myself here it is I find.

Myself back in the same place.

It doesn't matter what age you are, because I know

a lot of sixty and seven year seventy year olds

still drinking milk. And at that point in your life,

you should be past milk. You should be past bread.

You should be on the meat of the word. If

you are here and you see that being you, wherever

you are, wherever you are, come to this altar. I'm

just saying, as you won't leave here like you caing

in Jesus' name.

While I'm singing, you can have the opportunity to come

down sick, afflicted, or lame.

Of ministers your mind for the power of the Lord.

It's still the same. You won't leave here like you

came in Jesus' name.

I sing it again. You won't leave here like you

came in Jesus' name. Come on, put your hands together,

somebody's coming. Bown sick, afflicted on, lame for the power

of the Lord. It's still the same. You won't leave him.

Like you came in Jesus' name. I'm singing again. You

won't leave here like you can't in Jesus' name. Oh, bown.

Sick, afflicted on, lame for the power of the Lord.

It's still the same. You won't leave him.

Like you came. We won't leave here like we came.

Want your finger to yourself and say, I won't leave

here like you came in Jesus' name.

If you don't mind lifting your hands right where you are,

right where you are, we gonna pray the prayer that's

gonna deliver you from wherever you are. Once should delivered,

you'll be fully restored. You will see that there's lack

for serving the Lord. We're gonna pray the power of

the Lord and simplify himself. He walked strong in your life.

If you don't mind apostle, do you mind leading us

in prayer? Come on, let every heart pray.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we acknowledge our transgressions.

But God, we say, like David, we're sorry.

Create within us a clean hawk and renew the right

spirit of God. God, go into the hidden places of

our hearts. Go into the places that we've held in reserve.

Go into the places that we think are hid. Go

into the habits God that are not like you, and

pull us out once again. Lord, we thank you for restoration,

We thank you for renewal. Help us to walk in

the newness of life.

Knowing that you have forgiven us of air.

For sin, an affray, thing that besets us, we take

it off in.

The name of jee We release it in the day

of Jesus.

Do I kid that David created us a clean horse

and renew the right spirit.

Oh God, Now put your hands together. Know that you're

releases on your hands. Know that the power of the

Lord is in your hands. Clap them like you love him.

Clap your hands like you love the Lord. I try

to tell myself, Yeah, I don't need I.

Don't need I don't need.

I don't need nobody else. I'm glad to know that

he's real. He is real in my soul. Some people

may down but I know, yeah, I know too much

about him, but that is why I love him. So

he's real. Oh he's real.

I know, I know, I know he's real.

Yeah, I don't know yet. I don't know how you

can look at meya and understanding that the Lord did

something for you that I don't know about her, that

only you know about her.

If he'd done everything for you, if he was.

Your food when you was hungry, and now he was

clothed on my back, I don't know about you, but

it gave me the antivities.

Of my mind. I want to live right. I want

to live right.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Oh Lord, Yeah, yes.

Yeah, yeah yeah ah Lord Lord.

Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord Lord.

Yes. I said we were getting out of here. But

look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, you don't know

how good.

The Lord that's been.

Yeah, he brought me from a mighty lord way.

He Now somebody here up. Now, you wasn't there. You

might have not been there, I said him.

You might not have done you probably did everything right,

but I can live more hands and see I ain't.

Did everything right.

And for me to be here today says enough about

any Oh Lord, yeah, hallelujah. Yeah, your testimony should be

if anyone should.

Write my life story for whatever reason there may be, Yeah,

you should write now that Jesus one day I was

lost and Jesus found me.

Look at your nigh.

And say, Jesus is the best thing that ever happened

to me.

Put your hands together, Put your hands together.

Yeah, that should never be a time.

That should never be a time. Yeah, we're praise. Is

at his rightful place and you don't give him what

he's doing. That should never be a time we're praise.

Is that his rightful place.

And you don't give him what he's doing? Gloria, hallelujah.

I want to thank you all.